"Fantastic scene at a London street corner which abuts on open country, the roadway deep in mud. A coach and pair advances left to right; the coachman has laid down reins and whip to read the Times through spectacles, the footman standing behind is deep in a book. A ragged but monocled street-sweeper on stilts sweeps towards a small child half-submerged in mud, and a lady in a monstrous hat who picks her way through the slough. On the foreground pavement a butcher and a dustman play chess, holding the board between them. One sits on a great joint of beef, the other on a bag; a dog runs off with a bullock's heart. A ragged ballad-singer plays a guitar, screeching operatically; her small child holds up a parasol. Two climbing boys with misshapen legs argue with each other, one uses a handkerchief. Two servants in livery walk arm-in-arm, one smoking a huge pipe (like the footman in BM Satires No. 15779). An apple-woman seated against a lamp-post reads Byron, while a boy sneaks an apple. The lamp-post is topped by a flaming sun, presumably of gas. A dust-cart is drawn by two asses tandem, with a postilion on the leader; the dustman, seated on his load (instead of walking with it) plays a 'cello. On the opposite pavement are three tiny street musicians: a fashionably dressed woman sings from a sheet of music to the accompaniment of a harpist and flautist with music-stand. In the background is steam-traffic: (1) a steam carriage for two with three wheels, a tall smoking funnel, and a pendent coal-scuttle, all but the last much as 'Mr D. Gordon's New Steam Coach, illustrated and described', Observer, 30 Dec, 1827. (2) A large steam lorry on which soldiers with bayoneted muskets sit in rows. A small carriage with a steersman and two passengers is drawn by a kite (a kite-drawn carriage was displayed in Regent's Park, Jan. 1828, described by Pückler-Muskau, Tour in England, 1948, p. 218). Behind is a narrow channel crossed by a suspension bridge linking Dover to Calais; another branch of the Channel is crossed by The . . . Tunnel (oddly drawn), the top of which collapses under the impact of a ship, so that water pours down. An aerial battleship supported by two balloons attacks three ships immediately below; they sink under a rain of flame and cannon-balls. There are also an ordinary balloon, a flying-machine drawn by wild geese, and an aerial vessel which collides with the moon. The foreground buildings are one vast shop-window and the adjacent house; over the window: Business of this Shop on a larger scale than any other house in London. The window is filled with draperies and ladies' huge hats (cf. BM Satires No. 15628). A lady, with a giant hat, pin-point waist, and vast sleeves, stares in. The adjoining house of the same height is three stories high, the principal floor with street-door, bow-windows, balconies, and awning is at the top; passengers are being hauled up to it by a man using a windlass to hoist chairs up a vertical chute from the street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 23 1828 by G. Humphrey St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Steam, Storefronts, and Street vendors
King William drives a chaise with Queen Adelaide at his side. The two horse heads are those of Wellington and Peel, both with bits in their mouths. The King marks: How suprised Brother George would be to see me Drive the bits of Blood wot he could not manage
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., On same sheet, verso: A total eclipse., and Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1829.
Publisher:
Pubd. by O. Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair and Dean & Munday Lithographers, Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[April 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 14 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty, well-dressed girl steps into a hackney coach from the left while the coachman in blue coat doffs his hat. He stands facing left by the door and on the extreme left stands the girl's mother wearing a huge hat and carrying a muff. Ms. inscription below title: "This is the most fashionable coach on the stand says a pretty young lady stepping into me with all the hilarity of soul that distinguishes the cheerful children of prosperity; after whom followed an elderly lady her mother." (Vid. Adventures of a hackney coach).
Description:
Title inscribed below image in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed and dated by the artist around perimeter of the design., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Passengers
An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines's fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; and a vignette at foot of a fly van with driver at front and armed coachman at rear
Alternative Title:
Thomas Haines, Junior, fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard
Description:
Title from first line of text., Engraved text begins: Thomas Haines, Jun., fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard ..., Date of publication from watermark., Watermarked paper: Balston & Co. 1824., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Advertising, and Carriages & coaches
A view of Tyburn Turnpike (now where Marble Arch is located) showing street life in London including a man accepting a toll payment from a man on horse back with another man on horseback, a dog running ahead, approaches the gate from the left. Another man with a basket over his arm and a walking stick, a dog by his side, looks over to the right as his young female companion gestures. On the left a begger leans against the rails. Along the road beyond the gate and to the left are several carriages; a small hut on the right is identified as "illegible Water Works 1812". The gate is shown with lamp posts
Description:
Title etched below image. and "Plate 3. Vol. 9"--Upper right edge above image.
Publisher:
No. 49 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. 1 Jany. 1813, at 101 Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Horseback riding, Lampposts, Pedestrians, Pleading (Begging), and Toll roads
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
Bunbury Drawer 780.00.00.30.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from later state in The Lewis Walpole Library., Early state before title. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: L.V.G., and Each sheet mutilated on lower edge with some loss of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Hunting, and Hunting accidents
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
Bunbury Drawer 780.00.00.30.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from later state in The Lewis Walpole Library., Early state before title. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: L.V.G., and Each sheet mutilated on lower edge with some loss of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Hunting, and Hunting accidents
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1780?]
Call Number:
Bunbury Drawer 780.00.00.30.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from later state in The Lewis Walpole Library., Early state before title. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., Dedication below image on first plate: To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: L.V.G., and Each sheet mutilated on lower edge with some loss of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Dogs, Hunting, and Hunting accidents
A scene in Paris on the Boulevard des Italiens outside a coffee house (or French café) in which fashionable ladies (several wearing large hoop earrings) and gentlemen sit in ladderback chairs or stand about in conversation. One man looks through his quizzing glass at the scene. One woman sits with her two children and a dog. On the left a coachman looks done from his box
Description:
Title and date from contemporary manuscript annotations on a separate piece of paper pasted below the image., Sheet trimmed within plate., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Carriages & coaches, Children, Clothing & dress, Dogs, and Quizzing glasses
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 10th, 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 85. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large Italian vetturino rides a small horse which along with a large horse is pulling a heavy chaise. Inside the chaise sits a tired looking man in a night cap
Alternative Title:
Italian vetturino
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on page 85 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 18.6 x 29.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.