A smiling school master in a wig applies the switch to a boy whose rear has a painted face on it. The boy being switched is lifted onto the back of another boy. On the left, two boys holding open books look on, one snickering behind his hand. The classroom includes a map on the wall and a shelf with books and quill pens in ink stands
Alternative Title:
Two heads are better than one
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Number '136' appears in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Child discipline, Classrooms, Students, and Teachers
Title from item., Date derived from style., Below image: Caution: Drugs that blow your mind can blow your brain... permanently!, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Poster Prints, Plymouth Square Center
Subject (Topic):
Recreational drug use, Psychopharmacology, LSD (Drug), Amphetamines, Barbiturates, Psilocybin, Peyote, Cocaine, Opium, Heroin, Cannabis, and Brains
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hideous profile, her mouth wide open; her attitude is theatrical. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable (see BMSat 7099, &c). He looks up at her with a yearning smile. Both are grotesquely caricatured."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched above 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 short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hideous profile, her mouth wide open; her attitude is theatrical. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable (see BMSat 7099, &c). He looks up at her with a yearning smile. Both are grotesquely caricatured."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Trades: pastry cooks -- Vanhangen, Thomas, 'Captain Rolling-pin.', and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Two women stand on a balcony, mouths open in song and eyes cast downward at their music sheet. They wear corsetted dresses and feathered head wear. A satire of the duet performed by Harriet Abrams (1758-1821), the English soprano and composer, and her sister Theodosia (ca. 1770-1849), a contralto, on 9 May 1788 at Hanover Square Rooms. The piece performed was 'Gia che mia sposa sei' by Antonio Sacchini, and the occasion was the annual benefit concert for the tenor Samuel Harrison
Alternative Title:
Duet at the Hanover Square concert
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by John Nixon, now in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London. The artist's "JN" monogram and "1788" date are etched within center left portion of image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Laid down onto album paper, with a cropped portrait of an unidentified man on the verso: I. Hiresman pinx. ; M. Vdr. Guchta sculp.
A party of two well-dressed couples, the women holding umbrellas, are caught in a wind and rain storm as they travel in a open carriage. A coachman and footman attend the party
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published August 8th, 1826 by T. Gillard, 40 Strand
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., Three lines of verse after title: He that is robb'd not wanting ..., Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth, Mary Anne, (Hanson), Countess of (afterwards Mrs. Alder), fl. 1823 -- Whips., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Manuscript "262" above the center of the plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Alder, Daniel, fl. 1823-1824. and Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, Earl of, 1767-1853.
Copy presented to Yale college by Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse, through Benjamin Colman; with manuscript note on fly-leaf and manuscript corrections on the title page and in the text by Jonathan Edwards.
Description:
The error on the title page is due to the confusion of Hampshire county in Massachusetts with New Hampshire province.
Publisher:
Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-market
"A realistic view of the House receding in perspective to the Throne, above which is inset an oval bust portrait of Bartolomo Bergami, wearing a cluster of five decorations, see British Museum Satires no. 13810. Eighteen figures and objects are numbered referring to the key in the lower margin. Counsel are in a line across the foreground on each side of the centre figures, who are Gurney the short-hand writer and Majocchi facing the interpreter. The Queen is inconspicuously seated behind Brougham, next a smaller lady who must be the tall Lady Anne Hamilton. Eldon is at the Table in front of the Woolsack. On the Table is 13 Green Bag [see British Museum Satires no. 13735]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron,, Gurney, William Brodie, 1777-1855., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868., Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Subject (Topic):
Scandals, Trials (Adultery), Government officials, Judicial proceedings, Queens, and British