"Dundas in Highland dress, wearing a Scots cap over a legal wig, crouches with his head turned in profile to the right. With his voluminous tartan plaid he covers Pitt, who sits close against him in profile to the left on the pan of a close-stool inscribed 'Extracts from the Treasury', his profile, feet, and ankles alone being visible."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the Proclamation against seditious writings, May 21, 1792 -- Allusion to Courtenay's speech in House, May 25, 1792., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Numbered '283' in lower right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. ii., In pencil in lower left corner: 20., and In pencil in lower right corner: Edinburgh Fish Women.
"Lord Howe sits full-face in an armchair, reading a 'Gazette' headed 'June Ist 1795'. He wears naval uniform, with a hat, smokes a long pipe and scowls meditatively. A dog with the head of Sir Roger Curtis grovels at his feet, kissing his right toe; he has a collar inscribed 'Black Dick's Dog'. Behind Howe is a row of windows close together, with a view of the sea and ships. Beneath the windows is a broad shelf on which are wine-bottles, a sextant, and a punch-bowl. On a table at Howe's right hand are a glass of wine and a plan of Torbay."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
What a Curtis
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: Done from an original drawing by a British officer & publish'd as a guide to preferment., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: ship cabin -- Newspapers: Gazette -- Glass: wine bottles -- Glass: wine glasses -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Naval instruments: sextants -- Maps: map of Torbay -- Chamber pots -- Pets: dogs -- Smoking: pipes -- Naval uniforms: admiral's uniform -- Furniture: armchair.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Curtis, Roger, Sir, 1746-1816
A large black woman, smiling in her sleep, lies in a bed surrounded by bedcurtains. She wears a cap and earrings, and her large breasts hang out over her nightclothes. A thin old, white man also in nightclothes and a night cap ogles her by the candlelight from the candlestick he holds in his right hand
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Lust, and Sleepwear
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With: I wish you may get it!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
Title from item., Date derived from subject., Text below title: Subscribing Memberships $2.00 up., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
American Red Cross.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918, War work, Nurses, Supply and demand, Voluntarism, Wounds & injuries, and Soldiers
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two grooms follow behind and a coach drives past in the opposite direction
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street