- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 November 1786]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 786.11.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Masonic anecdote
- Description:
- Titles in English and French etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1797 on the right side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the left side.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Freemasonry, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, and Candles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anecdote maçonnique [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.03.27.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban (cf. BMSat 8755), which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. (Small copy in Grego.) Behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down. Among the crowd in the background a man arm-in-arm with a military officer in back view (? Lord Moira) resembles Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Politesse du grande monde
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 27th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Crowds, Etiquette, Show windows, and Window displays
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High-change in Bond Street, ou, La politesse du grande monde [graphic]