"Three men riding in different directions, having come through a large gateway of square brick pillars surmounted by stone vases. The rider in the centre on a clumsy horse wears a clerical wig, broad-brimmed hat, and gaiters. On the right, and riding in profile to the right, is a man on a stout cob, wearing boots and a bob-wig. Behind him is a fat old woman with outstretched arms shouting in alarm. On the left, riding in profile to the left, is a thin man riding a more spirited horse, and dressed like a layman. Behind him walks a fat divine wearing an academic cap, bands, and a long gown. Through the gateway in the distance a short fat man in a clerical wig stands on a mounting block, a groom beside him holding his horse. With him are two men wearing mortar-boards and long gowns. Behind a large rectangular building is indicated and behind it a church steeple."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with additional publisher's street address added to end of imprint statement. Cf. No. 5804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "5" in upper left corner., and Watermark: L.V.G.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 15th, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street & No. 33 Strand
"Three men riding in different directions, having come through a large gateway of square brick pillars surmounted by stone vases. The rider in the centre on a clumsy horse wears a clerical wig, broad-brimmed hat, and gaiters. On the right, and riding in profile to the right, is a man on a stout cob, wearing boots and a bob-wig. Behind him is a fat old woman with outstretched arms shouting in alarm. On the left, riding in profile to the left, is a thin man riding a more spirited horse, and dressed like a layman. Behind him walks a fat divine wearing an academic cap, bands, and a long gown. Through the gateway in the distance a short fat man in a clerical wig stands on a mounting block, a groom beside him holding his horse. With him are two men wearing mortar-boards and long gowns. Behind a large rectangular building is indicated and behind it a church steeple."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with plate reworked in aquatint and with a different imprint statement, of a print originally published 15 November 1780 by Watson & Dickinson. Cf. No. 5804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "5" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume -- Gaiters -- Clerical wig -- Bob-wig -- Reference to Cambridge., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1, 1794, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
"This engraving represents a circular building, with conical roof of tiles, shown in two sections, and partly in perspective. Within the building is a large wheel turned by a horse and giving motion to a considerable number of spindles, to which are attached disks; on each of the disks are several razors, which are thus set in action on the faces of the men who apply their cheeks to openings in the inner wall of the building. Exterior to this inner wall is a gallery where stand the men who are thus expeditiously shaved; their hats hang on pegs, each over the hole to which the owner has applied himself. In the gallery several men are finishing or preparing for their toilettes. The operation of dressing a wig is shown below the wheel, on our right, where many combs are placed on a drum which revolves like a water-wheel before a man's wig, placed on a block near it."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text following title: See the explanation., "Price 6d."--Bottom of plate, centered., For an earlier state published in 1745, see no. 2687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, and English short title catalogue no. T42881., and With watermark of fleur-de-lis. Ms. note on verso in black in ink: Mr. Freeman, Arlington Street.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament Novr. [the] 2, 1749, and sold by J. Dubois at [the] Golden Head [the] corner of Burleigh Street near Exeter Chanc[...]
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Shaving, Razor blades, Machinery, and Wigs
"John Nash, misery personified, sits on the ground, in profile to the left, hands on knees, chin close to his hands; a harrow with huge spikes rests on his shoulders, and is thus tilted up, while a horse, its head cut off by the left margin, drags it along. Only one corner touches the ground, on a heap of papers, some of which it has spiked up; these are: 'Artists' Gallery', 'Marble Job', 'Lath & Plaister Acct', 'Job' (five times), 'Pimlico job' [Buckingham Palace], 'Regent Street Job', 'Brighton Job' [the Pavilion], 'Suffolk Street Job', 'Woods and Forests Job', 'Windsor Job', 'Brick . . .', 'his Mi . . . Job', 'Mosaic Gold Job'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Spiked harrows., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 99.
Title from item., Publisher's statement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel stile [sic] admittance one shilling. NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch Light Horsemen -- Timpani -- Trumpets -- Pulleys -- Smoking: pipes -- Guns: muskets., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. July 24, 1794, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
"View looking across the river towards the grand house fronting the Thames; three horses pull a fishing boat in foreground, a tree to the left"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Doctor Battys house at Twickenham as viewed from the opposite shore of the River Thames and Vüe de la maison de Monsieur le Docteur Batty a Twickenham prise du rivage opposee de la Tamisè
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist attribution from original drawing in The Lewis Walpole Library., Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement. See British Museum online catalogue., Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image., No. 10, "Hon. George Shirley," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., No. 12, "Dr. William Battie," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill & Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), Thames River (England),, England, and Twickenham.
Subject (Name):
Batty, Robert, 1763?-1849
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Houses, Estates, Rivers, Horses, and Boats
"A similar scene to BM Satires 14721, with awkward, exhibitionist, and dandified riders in place of carriages; one pedestrian, a lady, is in the foreground (right). Legs are thrust forward, toes turned out, down, or up. A man gallops holding one rein and an eye-glass with studied negligence, his left hand in his trouser pocket. Beside him is a lady, turning in her saddle to look through an eye-glass; a long green veil streams from her bell-shaped top-hat. A horse falls on its head, the falling man is taking snuff. Two dogs fight in the foreground. There are heavy clouds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A rider has been flung from his horse and lies on his face screaming; the horse races away without him. From one of his pockets spirts the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other a cold chicken is pulled out by two hounds while others approach with fierce intentness. A second rider just behind the fence gate pulls up his horse in alarm
Description:
Title from caption below item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A later copy of a print of the same title by James Gillray, first published April 8, 1800 by H. Humphrey. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9588., and Watermark: 1813?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Hunters, Hunting accidents, and Hunting dogs