"Children on the sea-shore, with a background of cliffs and bathing-machines suggesting Brighton. In dress and manners they are tiny adults. Three couples walk arm-in-arm, a little boy sits on the ground. Two girls and two boys wear vast broad-brimmed hats as in BM Satires 15183. 24th January 1826"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication year erased partially and modified with ms. to present as '1826'
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Kitchen of a French post house ; Playing billiards
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with a separate title and signature., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Reduced copies of two designs by Bunbury. Cf. No. 4764 in v. 4 and no. 5913 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Restrike, with added titles and borders. For the earlier state without titles, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession nos.: 59.533.1749 ; 59.533.1747., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1803; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Inconvenience of wigs and Inconvenient des perruques
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: riding habit.
Publisher:
Pub. April 7th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash is helping her getting dressed; above them, Cupid flying with arrow in his hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See no. 2211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 72 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: Quadrille. Evening fashions. Dedicated to the heads of the nation., Two lines of verse on both sides of title: "Nature, I thought, perform'd too mean a parte, Forming her movements to the rules of art, And Vex'd I found the dandy barbers hand, Had o'er the dancers heads too great command. Prior"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Beards, Couples, Dandies, and Dance
"Copy of a French print. Two fantastically dressed couples dance, but in different manners. One pair (left) dance side by side, the man's right arm on his partner's waist, her left arm on his shoulder. The other couple face each other, the lady leaning outwards, hands on her partner's shoulders, while his left hand touches the back of her shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon genre, 1810
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Dépose à la Bibliot. Nat., Rue Montmartre, No. 132, et à Londres, chéz H. Humphrey, St. James Street, No. 27
"Eight three-quarter length figures of women in ovals, arranged in two rows on a dark background. Each has put on a new wig, ranging from heavy ringlets in confused profusion to a shock of lank hair. Some are old and ugly, others passable. Their words are engraved beneath the oval; some are horrified, others complacent."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below images., Publisher's advertisement below title: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design divided into eight compartments, each individually captioned., and Watermark: A. Stace 1798.
Publisher:
Pub. June 12, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St
Leaf 73. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A large woman who holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig which she is diligently powdering from a sprinkler."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., and First of three plates on leaf 73.
A large, ugly woman, shown in full-length in profile looking left, holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig that she is diligently powdering with a flour dredger
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., State wiithout vol. number. Cf. No. 4647 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.6 x 12.3 cm, on sheet 24.5 x 15.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Cooking utensils, Dandies, British, and Wigs
A large, ugly woman, shown in full-length in profile looking left, holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig that she is diligently powdering with a flour dredger
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., State wiithout vol. number. Cf. No. 4647 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark, partially cut off: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Cooking utensils, Dandies, British, and Wigs