Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 22 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An innkeeper uses a bellows to clear heavy dense tobacco smoke from the tavern interior in response to a servant trying to identify his master in the crowd. The innkeeper proclaims "You say you want a little gentlemen in a brown wig. I have really so much smoking business in my parlour that 'till I make use of the bellows I can never distinguish a customer, I believe that is the gentleman you mean." The servant excitedly responds in a Cockney dialect "Yes, Yes, sure enough that be Master, but before he vanishes again, tell him that Missis has sent the street door key."
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Signed by the author's in black ink below image., Future imprint statement for print based on this image inscribed in brown ink: London : Pubd. March 1800 by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Smoking, Tobacco pipes, Bellows, Taverns (Inns), and Servants
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1799 or 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 2 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A trio of servants with hats removed meekly approach a magistrate to register their complaint: '... Mr. Sparemalt and Mr. Doublechalk charge us four pence a pot for porter'. The seated, bespectacled magistrate haughtily challenges their grumbling and proclaims, 'that great men may combine and charge you poor wretches what they please ...'
Description:
Title from heading inscribed in ink above image, in artist's hand., Date based on events depicted. See St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England, January 2, 1800 - January 4, 1800)., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Complaints (Rhetoric), Complaining, Judges, Coach drivers, and Servants
A scene with two men in a sitting room decorated with a rug, curtains, and a wall full of framed sporting prints: The one gentleman sits at a table playing a flute. The other gentleman is practicing fencing moves, a manual on the floor beside him. His lunge at the target on the back of the door has impaled the butler on the other side in the chest causing him to drop the tea service tray
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Fencing, Daggers & swords, Servants, and Flutes
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing., Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 12., and For further information, consult library staff.
A man sits in an armchair next to fireplace frantically ringing for service while boling water pours from the spout of a kettle onto one of his two gouty feet. The other foot is raised from the stool to avoid the hot water but has overturned a table with tray full of dishes which has fallen in front of a maid lingering in the doorway. Embracing the maid from behind is a black footman. A screaming cat stands, back arched, in front of the man's footstool. On the left a pair of crutches are placed against the fireplace; the mantel is lined with medicinal bottles. A map hangs on the wall behind along side a barometer
Description:
Title from dealer's label on verso of the frame., Attributed to Thomas Rowlandson., and Another drawing on this theme with the title: The old batchelor in distress. In the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Ashmolean catalogue, vol IV-1982 #1623.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Interiors, Chimneypieces, Blacks, and Servants
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
The third drawing in a series of twelve on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortune. One brother, Edward, husbands his wealth and on his death, passes on his fortune; whilst the other brother, Charles, squanders his, leaving his family destitute and In this fourth drawing, Charles is partying with friends. Seated at a table with a tray of wine glasses and a platter of fruit, Charles holds a woman on his lap as two other women sit at the table with wine in hand. Another gentleman stands beside the lady in the back looking down at her with affection. A black servant stands with hat in hand and his other hand in his waistcoat. Two paintings on the wall amplify the subject, one of which shows Cupid with a bare breasted woman and the other, Leda and the swan. On the left wall is an ornate mirror
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed "Dodd" in lower left and numbered '4' in ink in the upper right., Date range based on artist's active dates., and For further information, consult library staff.
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
Description:
Title from a copy published by Carington Bowles, July 17th, 1770., Unsigned; attributed to Francis Grose., and Date of production based on exhibition history; this drawing was exhibited at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, and Dogs