Title from item., Date supplied by cataloger based on subject., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint. Cf. Undated impression in the Library of Congress., Above title motto of Hanover arms: Nec aspera terrent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Guards -- Military uniforms: Guards' bearskin -- Weapons: bayoneted musket -- Street scenes -- Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Mythology: allusion to Mars., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Window mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of Peter [?], son of a glazier from Wells who made fortune during the war, and his cook-maid, Miss G.
Alternative Title:
Commissary
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 5 (1773), page 289.
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The batchelor by William Congreve., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Basins (Containers)., Bedrooms, Chairs, Clothes chests, Gout, Interiors, Medical equipment & supplies, Men, Older people, Pitchers, and Women domestics
An elderly man reclining on a settee, with his gouty leg supported on a foot stool, looks at two women in capes and hats and a darkish man behind them, probably his servant, who gathered expecting his imminent demise. A stout doctor is taking his pulse
Description:
Title from item., Probably published by Darly. Cf. Companion print: The pleasures of matrimony., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Diseases: gout -- Trades: physicians -- Crutches.
Title from item., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 May 1773., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London, v. 42 (1773), p. 160., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Spain as bear-leader -- France as a fiddler -- Britain as a dancing bear -- Alliances.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Guines, Adrien Louis de Bonnières de Souastre, Duc de, 1735-1806