The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-32c
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"Three scenes, one on top of the other; top: a lying-in visit in a bedroom, the mother sitting wrapped in many clothes beside a fireplace at left, the cradle at her feet, the baby held up by a nurse to kiss a female visitor sitting at right with two other women who look on delightedly; middle: a round dance, a fiddler and drummer playing in a box at left, and a man approaching with a punch bowl; below: ship-building on the shore, a man working on an upturned rowing-boat wit ha hammer, another pausing to talk to a mother and child at right, a man sawing a plank of wood at left, children playing in the sand, ships in the water beyond."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Round dance and Ship-building on the shore
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., CtY-BR, Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with substantial loss of image and text. Description based on impression in The Lewis Walpole Library, call no.: 75 R79 817., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., and Title devised by curator and cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"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:
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's pension. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue, and Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Wolcot, John,--1738-1819--Caricatures and cartoons.
Date based on publication dates of the two similar portrait prints by Gillray after de Loutherbourg drawings., Likely a proof or unfinished state; only sitter's head is depicted., Possibly engraved by Gillray, as he engraved at least two other portraits after drawings by de Loutherbourg. See prints entitled "General Count Clairfayt" and "The Prince of Saxe-Cobourg," registration nos. 1859,0709.1544 and 1851,0901.1335 in the British Museum online catalogue., Probably after a drawing by de Loutherbourg in the British Museum. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.708., and Title devised by cataloger, based on description in the British Museum online catalogue of the probable original drawing.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Congreve, William,--1743-1814--Portraits., Gillray, James, 1756-1815., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-34b
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"Farm scene with potato harvest; at right, outside a barn door, five figures standing around a large tub into which one man is pouring a heavy sack of potatoes, a woman standing behind him helping, a stout man looking on, children playing with a dog in the foreground, a ladder propped against the barn door, dovecote above; behind at left, two men loading sacks onto a horse-drawn cart; pigs at a trough, chickens pecking and a wheelbarrow at foreground left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., CtY-BR, Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in The Lewis Walpole Library, call no.: 75 R79 817., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "16" in upper right corner., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"Rechab, a male nude, rushing into a room from the right and lunging forward as he falls to his knees before David, holding up the severed head of Saul's son Ishbosheth in his right hand and pointing upwards with the other."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Plate from: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ... . London: J. Murray [etc.], 1789-1798., Publication information based on that of the volumes in which the print was issued., and Title devised by cataloger.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-32d
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"Two scenes, one above the other: top: three men standing by a sea chest on a shore, a thin and a stout man at left discussing it, the third bending over and pulling at the cloth inside, water and shipping behind; below: a small gathering outside the 'Plough Inn', a rural tavern, at right, with a man drinking while still on horseback, four riderless horses behind him at left, church tower behind at centre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Small gathering outside the Plough Inn
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., CtY-BR, Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with substantial loss of image and text. Description based on impression in The Lewis Walpole Library, call no.: 75 R79 817., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., and Title devised by curator and cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"Five ugly and elderly members of the Royal Society are seated in arm-chairs at a rectangular dinner-table. A footman (right) is about to place on the table a dish containing an alligator ..."--British Museum catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the print appears., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's prophecy, or, The president and poet ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], and Title from British Museum catalogue.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Banks, Joseph,--1743-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.