"Five elderly barristers are grouped round an oblong table on which are writing-materials; all wear large tie-wigs. The client sits 'chapeau-bras', hands on knees, in an arm-chair (left), listening with gaping mouth and stupidly eager expression. He appears to be a boorish country gentleman in London dress. The counsel beside him reads from a large document: 'Know all men by these presents'. Another also reads. Two others watch and listen with cynical intentness. The fifth (right), an aged man wearing gauntlet gloves, sits with closed eyes in an arm-chair facing the client. On the wall are pinned legal notices: 'Court of Kings Bench Dn Common Pleas ... [&c.]'. Heavy folios lie open on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Imprint continues: ... where may be had all Rowlandson's works., Reissue of a plate published by W. Hunter on 21 December 1785. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 173., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"Scene within the office; an assortment of colourful figures within office, which is separated into different sections; an open fire at far end."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 82., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 11., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Great Britain.--Magistrates' Court (London : Bow Street), Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hill, John, 1770-1850, printmaker., and Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
"A crowded scene in a bare room giving access to the theatre, which is seen through two open doors (right), each showing two boxes, and a section of gallery above, filled with spectators. Courtesans and ladies are being inspected and addressed by the loungers. The centre figure is George Hanger in profile to the left, his club under his arm, arms folded, staring at a bold and handsome girl who stands with another pretty young woman. A man in deep shadow seizes Hanger's bunch of seals. Two elderly men address a fat bawd who holds a basket of fruit and playbills; a coin is placed in her hand. A misshapen elderly beau (not, as Grego suggests, Sir L. Skeffington, b. 1771), looking through a quizzing-glass, steps on an irate lady's dress (right). On the wall is a large play-bill: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden \ Way of the World \ Who's the Dupe'. The room is lit from bracket lamps high on the right wall, diagonal shadows are thrown across the room, some of the figures are brilliantly lit, others in shadow."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
"Two pugilists, stripped to the waist, face each other with raised fists, each with his second behind him. The bottle-holders sit on the ground (left and right) just inside the ring, which is formed by the front row of seated spectators. A dense (masculine) crowd seated in tiers surrounds the ring, backed by coaches on which stand women as well as men. Below the title: 'The Concourse of people exceeded any thing we have ever wit-nessed. The Spectators were computed at Ten Thousand. At one O'Clock the Champions entered the ring, and Sam had for his second Harry Lee, whilst Joe Ward officiated for Medley, after a severe and bloody contest of 49 Rounds Victory was decided in favour of Sam'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Boxing match for two hundred guineas betwixt Dutch Sam and Medley
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 189-90., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. June 5, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"Mrs. Thrale (Piozzi) and Boswell are in heated argument: she (left) advances upon Boswell with her hands on her hips; he stamps violently and clenches his fists. An elderly man seated in an armchair looks at them in alarm, raising his hand in admonition. He is Sir John Hawkins: the 'rival wits' have agreed to let him 'Declare the prop'rest pen to write Sam's Life.' Beside him a 'cello leans against the wall, emblem perhaps of Sir John's interest in music, perhaps of Mrs. Thrale's marriage to Piozzi. Three shelves of books are above his head; the highest is filled with large volumes covered with a cobweb, one inscribed 'History of Musi[c]' ... Behind the two disputants is a draped sash-window. Beneath each part of the title a quotation from the verses is engraved: '[1] Who, madning with an Anecdotic Itch, Hath said that Johnson call'd his Mother, B-tch?' Boswell taunts Mrs. Thrale with her anecdote of Johnson's answer to his mother when she called him a puppy. '[2] Who, from Macdonald's Rage, to save his snout, Cut twenty lines of defamation, out?' She retorts with the slander which Boswell denied."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Madame Piozzi
Description:
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Bozzy and Piozzi, or, The British biographers. London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1786], Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Boswell, James,--1740-1795--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hawkins, John,--1719-1789--Caricatures and cartoons., and Piozzi, Hester Lynch,--1741-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. A man in hunting-dress stands on the back of his spirited horse to embrace a young woman who leans from a casement window. An elderly gap-toothed man wearing a night-cap peers from the cottage door with an imbecile gape. The hounds are in full cry beside the horse. A fat parson and a huntsman, much amused, turn in their saddles to watch the embrace. They are passing a village church."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 90., Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Published by Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt., Novr. 1, 1808." See British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with changes to copper printing plate; edges of plate have been cut down resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge, a new border has been added in aquatint around design, and a border of etched lines has been added around title. For original issue of the plate before these changes, see no. 11112 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"The patient sits on a stool, averting his head from the surgeon who supports his left. arm, from which the blood spurts into a bowl. The operator wears spurred top-boots, and has a bucolic appearance suggesting a veterinary surgeon. The patient wears a nightcap and buttoned waistcoat over his shirt."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-34a
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"View of a brewery yard with two large dray horses harnessed and standing nose to tail in the foreground, a dog beside them rubbing his face with his left forepaw. Two more dray horses are standing beyond harnessed to a cart; a pulley extends above them from a building from on the left; on the right, a burly man manoeuvres barrels in front of another building with two gables; in the background, the gateway of the yard with pillars on either side topped by globes; further buildings and a church spire beyond."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
CtY-BR, Date of publication from fifth plate in the series., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. A new book of horses and carriages. [London] : Pubd. by E. Jackson ..., [1784]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Third plate in a series of eight etched plates illustrating various carts, carriages, wagons, and horses. See: Yale Center for British Art, call no.: Folio A 2011 80., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
E. Jackson, no. 14 Mary-le-Bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Jackson, Elizabeth, fl. 1785-1797, publisher., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Printmaker from Grego., Seventh plate of 24 from: Rowlandson, T. Hungarian & Highland broad sword. [London] : H. Angelo, 1799., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Angelo, Curzon Street, May Fair
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
"A stout officer sits on a charger in profile to the left, his head turned from the spectator, his right arm outstretched, holding a cane, as if directing manoeuvres."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.