"Boswell and his wife in the kitchen prepare a dinner for Johnson, who is seen in back view through an open street-door on the extreme left. They face each other smiling across a small, ramshackle table; Boswell is cutting off the neck of a grouse (which resembles a duck or goose). He wears the Scots cap and the pen behind the ear of BMSat 7031, &c., with an apron. From his pocket project 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031) and the 'Journal'. Mrs. Boswell holds a rolling-pin. Behind (right) is a slatternly maidservant in back view looking to the left with a smile. On the ground are two piles of large birds intended for grouse, and an enormous lobster. Behind is a primitive kitchen fireplace; two large pots are suspended over the fire. The spit rests horizontally above the fireplace."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "We gave him as good a dinner as we could. Our Scotch muir-fowl, or growse, were then abundant ..." Vide Journal p. 123., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Scots cap -- Grouse -- Ogden -- Lobster -- Fireplace with hanging pots -- Servants., and In mss. in lower left corner: E -149.
Publisher:
Pubd. 15 May 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Mary-bone Street. Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobling voters and abject canvassers
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, House, Samuel, -1785, and Great Britain. Parliament
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"Frontispiece from Wolcot's 'Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban alias Master John Nichols, Printer, . . . 1790'. Nichols (left) has just risen in anger from his chair and looks to the left, resting his clenched fists on two large volumes placed on a small roughly made table, on which is also an ink-pot with pens. These are 'Q. Eliz: Prog:' and 'Anecdotes of Mr B.' [Bowyer]. In the background is Parnassus, with the Temple of Fame, on which is poised a figure of Fame blowing a trumpet. Against the mountain rests a tall ladder up which a dog has scrambled, but is still far from the summit. A man on stilts advances towards the mountain, an 'Essay on Old Maids' projects from his pocket, showing that he is William Hayley; a paper inscribed 'Eudora' falls from him. On the ground are: a letter 'ToMr.N--c--ll'; a book: 'Gentlemans Magazine', and papers; 'Charade', 'Conundrum Riddle', 'Rebus', 'Mr Badcocks Letters'. Beneath the design is engraved:'With anger foaming and of vengeance full, Why belloweth John Nichols like a bull?'"--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: A benevolent epistle to Sylvanus Urban, alias Master John Nichols ... / by Peter Pindar. London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1790., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to The Gentleman's magazine -- Mythology: Parnassus -- Figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame., and Mounted to 33 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
G. Kearsley
Subject (Name):
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819., Hayley, William, 1745-1820, and Nichols, John, 1745-1826
Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
Alternative Title:
Dr. Gall's lecture
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
Alternative Title:
Dr. Gall's lecture
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 241 x 195 mm., and Ink annotation in lower right margin: H.C. from A.C.K. Feb. 1915.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
"The King (right), standing in profile to the left, holds out to Peter a rolled document inscribed 'Pension'. Peter, a thin elderly man, turns away, holding out both hands to ward off the gift. From his pocket projects a paper inscribed 'Odes'. Both wear bag-wigs, and old-fashioned dress with flapped waistcoats; the King wears a sword."-- British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ah! let me Sire refuse it, I implore, ought not to be rich whilst you are poor
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue, Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's pension. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Wolcot, John, 1738-1819
Leaf 17. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6495 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 124., and On leaf 17 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th, 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Monro, John, 1715-1791
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Physicians, Physical restraints, and Quizzing glasses
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 250 x 305 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses