"Miss Farren (left) sits at her dressing-table, contemplating with rapt admiration an earl's coronet on a wig-block which is a caricature of Lord Derby's head. The voluminous draperies of her dress define a thin and angular figure, with a long thin neck. At her feet is an open book: 'Tabby's Farewell to the Green Room'; near it is a torn paper: 'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. How Lov'd how valued once avails thee not To whom Related or by whom Begot.' A pad for inflating the figure (cf. BMSat 8388, &c.) lies across a stool (right). A 'Genealogical Chart of British Nobility' hangs from the dressing-table; the tree issues from the recumbent figure of 'Willm Conqr'; on it lies a small-tooth comb beside which is an insect. Behind Miss Farren are the closed curtains of an ornate bed, whose valance is decorated with the cap of Libertas and the words 'Vive la Egalite'. On the wall hangs a 'Map of the Road from Strolling Lane to Derbyshire Peak'; the places, from S. to N., are: 'Strolling Lane', 'Beggary Corner', 'Servility Place', 'Old Drury Common', 'Affectation Lane', 'Insolence Green', 'Fool-Catching Alley', 'Derbyshire Peak viz Devils Ar.' A jewel-box, bottles, &c, are on the dressing-table, some inscribed: 'Bloom de Ninon', 'For Bad Teeth', 'Cosmetick', 'For the Breath'. On the ground, under the valance of the table, is a large bottle of 'Holland[s]'. After the title: '"A Coronet! - O, bless my sweet little heart! - ah, it must be mine, now there's nobody left to hinder! - and then - hey, for my Lady Nimminney-pimmenney! [see BMSat 8888] - O, Gemmini! - no more Straw-Beds in Barns; - no more scowling Managers! & Curtsying to a dirty Public! - but a Coronet upon my Coach; - Dashing at the Opera! - shining at the Court! - O dear! dear! what I shall come to!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker's signature is repeated, the second signature located below lower right margin of design and in a slightly different form: Js. Gy. inv. & ft., Additional publication line, with slightly earlier date, is etched below lower left margin of design: Pubd. March 20th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street & St. James's Street., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Hat-stands -- Mirrors -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Cosmetics -- Pincussions -- Female dress: cork rumps -- Genealogy: British nobility -- Maps: satiric map of Derbyshire -- Allusion to Derbyshire -- Allusion to the Green Room -- Spirits: Hollands gin -- Boxes: jewelry boxes -- Furniture: stools -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- Elegies.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829 and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from ms. note on first print in series., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Portrait, bust in a feigned oval frame directed to left, looking to left, dark hair loose around the shoulders, wearing a turban with a feather and a loose, low-cut silk gown with an eastern shawl draped around the shoulders, fastened with a brooch and braid at the breast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 24 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm, Ms. notes written in pencil below title in unknown hand., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Septr. 4, 1780 by R. Wilkinson, No. 58, Cornhill
Two country men lean together to look on as a third uncorks a wine bottle, all look pleased with their anticipated pleasure
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '21' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A rotund cobbler leans against a table in his shop, looking down at a cup of tea he stirs with his right hand, a teapot sitting beside the cup and saucer on the table. He holds a knife in his left hand and wears a large coat, an apron, and a looped tricorne with a pipe in it. Behind him on the table is a bucket, with tufts of horse hair beside it that extend onto the floor below, partially obscuring several pairs of shoes in the process of being made
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 106.
"A pugilistic contest between George III (left) and Charles IV of Spain (right), standing waist-deep in the sea. Each wears a crown, but that of Charles falls from his head. George III says, "Another thump in the bread basket will do your business, Whiskerando!" Each has a backer: behind George is Neptune, holding his trident and crowned with sea-weed; he extends his left arm, saying, "Bravo! my Son, make him feel the dominion of the Seas is thine and shall be so for ever." That of Spain is the Pope wearing his robes and triple crown, and holding his crozier to which two keys are attached. Fame emerges from clouds above Neptune, blowing her trumpet and holding a laurel wreath above George III's head. The two kings and Neptune are nude."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to H.W.: possibly either Henry Wigstead or William Holland., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement above the image: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of humorous prints. Admittance one shilling., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with a monogram WC below.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
Neptune, Clergy, Popes, Crowns, Trumpets, Angels, and Fights
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: Sept. 8, 1769., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), page 136., and Temporary local subject terms: Jubilees: Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford upon Avon, 6-8 Sept., 1769 -- Costume: theatrical costume -- Theatres: allusion to the Theatre at Stratford upon Avon -- Literature: quotations from William Shakespeare's plays -- Henry VIII, iii.2 and ii.2 -- Henry III, iii.1 -- Merchant of Venice, iii.3 -- Romeo & Juliet, v.1 ii.3 -- Hamlet.
Title from item., Four lines of text below title: Ah, how do neighbour? -- Why, not very well, I've been married since I saw you last. -- Married! Thats [sic] good news indeed. ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Walking staves -- Conversations.
Title from text engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Controller of the fortunate and miserable Lapis-seekers or searchers for the Philosopher's Stone., Plate numbered '8' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this state., Ten lines of verse below image: Men eyst miljoenen van elk schatryk actionist ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to John Law, 1671-1729., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
A full-length caricature of a fashionably dressed Oxonian in profile walking to the left, with his left foot pointing elegantly as he steps. His gown is looped over his arms and his hair in a looped queue
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., A copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward, One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.