"The Duke of Somerset in military uniform rides in profile to the left. He wears a double-peaked cocked hat with plume. In the background is a camp with tiny soldiers being drilled."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Leaf 69 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, Duke of, 1775-1855
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Military camps, and Horses
"A caricature portrait of the Marquis of Buckingham (George Grenville Nugent Temple) walking in profile to the left. He wears military uniform with cocked hat and spurred Hessians, and is enormously obese, his sword-belt grotesquely clasped across his paunch. His hand is on the hilt of his sword. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bucks. Unlike other caricatures of Buckingham."--British Museum online catalogue and "George identified the subject as George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) but it is, rather, his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), known until 1813 as Earl Temple."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 76 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808., and Figure identified as "Marquess Buckingham" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839 and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813,
"View in Whitehall with the royal carriage departing led by marching foot soldiers, passing the Holbein Gate, the Banqueting House on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de l'hotel royal, pour les Gardes du Corps et a Piè, vis à vis la Salle Blanche a Manger à Londres
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2763., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 40.9 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge and some loss of image from top edge., and Leaf 45 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Ino. Boydell, Engraver, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Horse Guards (London, England : Building), and Whitehall Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Government facilities, Castles & palaces, Gates, Carriages & coaches, Soldiers, and British
"Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
"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
"Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
Alternative Title:
Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
"Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Sheridan, half-length, in profile to left, wearing a jacket open over light waistcoat and black cravat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charles Kinnaird Sheridan
Description:
Title from facsimile signature beneath image., Richard James Lane lithographed the majority (possibly all) of the profile portraits after D'Orsay that were published by J. Mitchelll; see Curator's comments in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1907,1018.99., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page [vii] (leaf numbered '8' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street and C. Graf, lith. to Her Majesty