A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attend the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the girdle as the arrows fall from the quiver on his back. Behind him, the altar of Venus has tipped over, the fire still burning. A copy of Ovid's Art of love protrudes from the old woman's pocket.
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
A satire on the 'pads' which became fashionable in 1793., Early state, with printmaker's name present., Subtitle transposed from below lines of verse., Three lines of quoted verse below title: "Upon her fragrant breast the zone was brac'd ..., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A two-storey stone building at left, an inn sign above the door with a picture of a man, half-length with a hat and whip; a maid standing in the doorway and holding out a shallow tray to a horse, a woman standing by another horse nearby; at left, in front of an adjoining building, two horses with empty pack saddles, a man standing looking at them with his arm around a woman's shoulders; in foreground right, a child pursuing a sow and litter with a stick, a woman on a horse behind following three cattle, hills in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
"View of a substantial house with a stone wall and gate, set at right in parkland; in the foreground, travelling to left, a group carrying sacks and bundles of sticks, including a woman on a horse and several children, others following from the wood at right; two riders approaching the house in the mid-distance from left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Devon (England)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
"View of the Thames at Richmond, the river at right, a man standing up in a barge in the foreground, other smaller boats in the water beyond; in foreground left on the bank, a man in a smock standing by three horses, an elegant party of three behind, looking across the water; beyond, a pavilion among verdant trees, a dark sky."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
"A very obese man with very short legs stands on a mound in profile to the right. He has short jagged hair, wears a round hat and a coat, which though not long in cut reaches to his boots He has an expression of concentrated calculation; he holds a pencil and a card inscribed '2/I on Th . . . '. In the distance four horses are racing, followed by a crowd of spectators on horseback and on foot with one coach and pair."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A tall thin man on a well-bred hone gallops (l. to r.) close to the sea. He bends forward, his flying coat-tails making his back a concave line. The cliff and curving pier of Scarborough, with a low coastal fortification, are on the extreme left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
View of the peer of Scarborough
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image; the first 'e' in 'peer' is scored through and an 'i' inserted above using a caret.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Mulgrave, Henry Phipps,--Earl of,--1755-1831--Caricatures and cartoons.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"A coastal scene with a storm coming on; two men hauling in a rowing boat at centre foreground, another carrying off some oars, a woman standing on a hillock by a tree behind, looking out to the sea at left, where a sailing boat is foundering; cottages behind at right, low hills beyond the water at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
CtY-BR, Date of publication based on impression (different state?) in the Metropolitan Museum signed "T. Rowlandson 1784" and bearing the imprint "Pubd. 1st Octr. 1785 by T. Cornell, Brunton St." Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 56.567.33., Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with partial loss of printmaker's signature, and sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Possibly described in Grego as "A sea-coast scene. Cottages by the sea-shore: a storm coming on" and dated to 1787., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Sussex (England)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"An ugly decrepit old doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, stands with his back to the fire (right) receiving a pair of country-bumpkins, shown in by a servant out of livery, who stands at the door (left), grinning delightedly. The man, a burly fellow, is followed by his plainly-dressed and anxious wife. He says: "Do you see Doctor my Dame and I become [sic] to ax your advice--we both of us eat well, and drink well, and sleep well--yet still we be somehow queerish". The doctor, holding his cane to his nose, answers: "You eat well--you drink well and you sleep well--very good-- You was perfectly right in coming to me, for depend upon it I will give you something that shall do away all these things". On the chimney-piece are jars and bottles with a bust of 'Galen', Against the wall is a heavy book-case with glass doors containing large volumes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also issued separately., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue; Grego suggests a date of 1812., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "208" in upper right corner., Probably a reissue; first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Physician's office -- Books -- Statues: Bust of Claudius Galen -- Fireplace -- Male domestic servant., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port' and 'Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on which are long bills: 'Poulterers Bill . . . unpaid, Butcher's Bill . . . unpaid, Baker's Bill . . . unpaid', and (on the ground) 'Doctors Bill'. In the foreground (right) lie a dice-box and dice with three books: 'Debts of Honor Unpaid', 'Newmarket List', and 'Faro Partnership Account Self Archer Hobart & Co.' On a shelf behind the Prince (right) is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, among which is a small pot: 'For the Piles', and a bottle: 'Drops for a Stinking Breath'. Beside it are a box of 'Leakes Pills', and a bottle of 'Velnos Vegetable Syrup' (see BMSat 7592). On the wall above is a candle-sconce with a burlesque coat of arms for the Prince: a plate with a crossed knife and fork, with his motto, coronet, and feathers; one candle is stuck in a wine-bottle, the other in a wine-glass. Above the Prince's head is a round picture in an elaborate frame inscribed 'L. Comoro, Ætat. 199 [sic]': a half length portrait of a man with a long beard drinking from a glass inscribed 'Aqua'. (Luigi Cornaro of Padua, 1467-1566, published 'Discorri della vita sobria . . .', a treatise on the means of living to extreme old age, describing the ascetic diet by which he had recovered health and vitality when in danger of death at the age of forty. Portrait by Tintoretto, Pitti Palace.) A carpet covers the floor. Through the window is seen the (unfinished) colonnade of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: "Temperance enjoying a frugal meal." and Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.