"A sailor on shore, holding a bottle, with a well-dressed young prostitute on each arm, the one on his [left] arm carries a cauliflower while the other holds up her dress; a boat moored against the quay in the [left] foreground, ships at sea and a fortification in the [left] background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Description:
Title from text below image., Date inferred from that of another print after the same painting, published by C. Knight in 1794, showing the identical scene in reverse. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1881,0409.25., and Companion print to: Scarcity in India.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Social life and customs, Courtesans, British, and Piers & wharves
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Politician introducing an army composed of street men, criminals and Devil to drunk Queen of Spain with Catholic clergy and court."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text below title: Her Most Catholic Majesty Donna Isabella reviewing the first division upon its arrival, under the command of Colonel De Lacy Evans ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "93" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 93.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Spain.
Subject (Name):
Evans, George De Lacy, Sir, 1787-1870
Subject (Topic):
Queens, Intoxication, Clergy, Military officers, Working class, and Hand tools
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 Sepbr. 1755. and [printed 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 34. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
French fairly coopt at Louisbourg and French fairly cooped at Louisbourg
Description:
Title etched above image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 3332 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Explanation of a numerical key engraved below image: 1. Britannia attending to the complaints of her injur'd Americans ..., and On leaf 34 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & Jno. Bowles & Son, in Cornhil [sic] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Cannons, Ships, Lions, and Daggers & swords
publish'd according to act of Parliament, 25 Sepbr. 1755.
Call Number:
755.09.25.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
French fairly coopt at Louisbourg and French fairly cooped at Louisbourg
Description:
Title etched abovce image. and Temporary local subject terms: Blockades: Louisbourg, 1755 -- Coops: Frenchmen imprisoned in a coop -- American Indians -- Mythology: Neptune -- Mars -- Monuments -- British Lion -- Eclipses: eclipse of British arms over French arms -- America: boat falling down Niagara Falls -- Mottoes -- Colonies: America.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Jno. Bowles & Son, in Cornhil [sic]
publish'd according to act of Parliament, 25 Sepbr. 1755.
Call Number:
755.09.25.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
French fairly coopt at Louisbourg and French fairly cooped at Louisbourg
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Blockades: Louisbourg, 1755 -- Coops: Frenchmen imprisoned in a coop -- American Indians -- Mythology: Neptune -- Mars -- Monuments -- British Lion -- Eclipses: eclipse of British arms over French arms -- America: boat falling down Niagara Falls -- Mottoes -- Colonies: America., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Jno. Bowles & Son, in Cornhil [sic]
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of lettering at the end of title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Domestic services: French servants -- English servants.
Social satire; officers in a tent around a table drink red wine, or punch from a bowl, smoke pipes and sing; one on the right has his arm in a sling, another waves his hat. Through the opening of the tent on the right, in the background are mounted soldiers and the British flag, and on the floor is a cannon and shot; below the image is the text of a song
Description:
Publication information from a copy in the British Museum online catalogue. See BM Registration number 2010,7081.860., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of song verse and imprint., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20th, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Glassware, Interiors, Military camps, British, Military life, Soldiers, Tents, and Wine
Title etched above image., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: I Perkin young and bold, my father me has sent here ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Weapons: espontoons -- Military uniforms -- Cardinal -- Playing cards: Nine of Diamonds (Curse of Scotland)., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Tweed River (Scotland and England),
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Neptune, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Bulls, Devil, and Clergy