A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
New Dunciad done with a view of the fluctuating ideas of taste and New Dunciad done with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste
Description:
Title etched above image. The word "fixing" in the title is deliberately scratched out by the artist; "[the]" represents the brevigraph sometimes mis-transcribed "ye"., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby., and On page 291 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed: 18.6 x 22.3 cm.
New Dunciad done with a view of the fluctuating ideas of taste and New Dunciad done with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste
Description:
Title etched above image. The word "fixing" in the title is deliberately scratched out by the artist; "[the]" represents the brevigraph sometimes mis-transcribed "ye"., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., and A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby.
Title from caption below image., Design consists of eight figures in two rows, each with a line of text etched above., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 2, pl. 2., and Restrike. Watermark: Hall & Taplin 1804.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
A satirical representation of the fraternity shown at the Fête de la Fédération in the Champ de Mars on 14 July 1790. The central figure of Louis XVI embraces a group of five men, four of whom form two couples who are kissing and embracing. Weeping, the King says, "This is what I have long desired: my wish is at length accomplished. The nation & the King from hence foward will be but one." One of the men in his embrace responds, "Point de deux Chambres." One of another couple, in the act of picking the pocket of his friend, says, "Point de République." The other couple weeps, "I'll furnish tears to drown the King" while his friend adds "And I the Dauphin and the Queen." On the right a man wearing spectacles hugs a pillar, saying, "Vive le Roi. Vive la Nation Vive liberté."
Alternative Title:
More cursing & swearig for the Assembly, More cursing & swearing for the Assembly, and More cursing and swearing for the Assembly
Description:
Title from item., Earlier state, with incorrect spelling in title. Cf. No. 7661 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.6., and Watermark: I Taylor.
Publisher:
Pub. July 16, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., State with corrected spelling in title., 'London' written out and publication date transcribed in British Museum catalogue as 1790., Temporary local subject terms: French Revolution -- Fête de la Fédération, 14 July 1790 -- French monarchy: establishement of the constitutional monarchy, 1790 -- French nobility: abolition of hereditary nobility, June 1790 -- Emotions: crying., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Songs listed below title: I. The age of man. II. Te Bonny sailor's voyage to Greenland. III. Philander and Daphne, A new song. IV. A new sailor's song. V. A new song of friendship., Mounted on leaf 70 to right. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Variant state with altered title. Cf. no. 13420 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, vol. 9., and Watermark.
New Irish jaunting car and Tandem, or, Billy in his sulky
Description:
Title from item., Caption title, below image: Tandem, or Billy in his sulky., Reduced copy of a print with the same title by Isaac Cruikshank., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication information inferred from the periodical for which the plate was etched., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1799, v. 3, opp. p. 274., Numbered 'No. IX' in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Unions: reference to the Union of Ireland and Great Britain -- Resolutions: reference to Irish resolutions, 1798 -- Unions: reference to Irish objections to the union -- Slogans: voice of the people -- Vehicles: sulky -- Signs: signposts -- Bulls -- Paddy Bull (Symbolic character) -- Whips.