A man lies on his back in bed, his face set in grim resignation, as his wife leans over him lecturing him, "Yes you base man --you dont you eat drink and sleep comfortably at home and still you must be jaunting abroad every nigth. I'll find out your intrigues-- you may depend upon it." A small dog sits at the foot of the bed yelping at the couple while a larger dog sleeps on the floor, his eyes squeezed shut
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Earlier state, with date in publication line. Cf. No. 9627 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state of print described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 16.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, 101 Strand
A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above print., Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 May 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on volunteers: an officer and another man sit at a table while a soldier presents two potential - but unprepossessing - recruits, the second man shabbily dressed; behind them a large dog menaces a smaller one; on the wall a map and a portrait of a general."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 2 January 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. No. 4759 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge leaving thread margin., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1795., and Embossed stamp of publisher in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing large wooden shoes stuffed with wool who holds out a menu; beside the innkeeper a positllion holding a whip climbs out of his large boots On the right, a fat servant carries two bottles of wine and four books; behind him another postillion drives the coach with two horses towards the right. In the background, a woman can be seen through the archway of the inn standing on a bench and reaching up to clip the wings of a cockerel; a door beside the arch, lettered, "Bon Chere icy chez La Grenouille / Traiteur", is open to reveal a ladder up which a cook has climbed in order to catch three cats running along a wall; he holds a knife in his hand. An image of a young Bacchus seated on a barrel has been chalked on the wall; a dog jumps up towards it. Beyond the wall is the roof of a cottage, a church tower and a cottage with a niche with a statue of a saint."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print previously published 11 March 1778. Cf. No. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Temporary local subject terms: Tutor -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Literature: Chesterfield's letters -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on the back of his coat is a large ribbon bow or cockade to which a key is attached. A number of spectators stand round watching intently: of two behind the player, one resembles a footman. Two others stand behind the corner of the table, one wearing a hat like that of a coachman; two others stand on the right behind the table. They are probably all men-servants. The wall behind is papered or stencilled in a pattern of horizontal lines and spots. On it are a rack of cues, the "[Rules of the Ga]me [of Billia]rds", three framed pictures: (a horse-race, a duel, and an oval portrait) and what appears to be a satirical print."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and lacking printmaker's signature, of a print originally published 27 January 1781. Cf. No. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One corner of a billiard-table is visible, the rest being cut off by the right, margin of the print. A player, in profile to the right, holds up with exaggerated care a cue in front of a ball lying near the corner. He wears a long pigtail queue, on the back of his coat is a large ribbon bow or cockade to which a key is attached. A number of spectators stand round watching intently: of two behind the player, one resembles a footman. Two others stand behind the corner of the table, one wearing a hat like that of a coachman; two others stand on the right behind the table. They are probably all men-servants. The wall behind is papered or stencilled in a pattern of horizontal lines and spots. On it are a rack of cues, the "[Rules of the Ga]me [of Billia]rds", three framed pictures: (a horse-race, a duel, and an oval portrait) and what appears to be a satirical print."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and lacking printmaker's signature, of a print originally published 27 January 1781. Cf. No. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 294 x 387 mm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges and artist's signature erased from sheet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.14.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with imprint statement added, of a print originally published circa 1779. Cf. No. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Edmeads & Pine.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feb. 14, 1799, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures let out., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- St. Anne's Hill -- Emblems: tree of liberty as cake decoration -- Twelfth Night -- Furniture: dining table -- Armchairs -- Food: cake -- Bonnets rouges -- Pictures amplifying subject: placard with "Rules to be observed at this meeting.", Watermark: Strasburg lily dated below 1797., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Byng, George, 1764-1847
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 Feb. 1782. Cf. no. 4185 in v. 4 and see p. 658 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Cabriolet -- Trades: Hairdresser -- Domestic service: Footman -- Frenchmen -- French tailors -- The Grand Tour., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.14.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 June 1774. Cf. no. 4720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: 1804.
Publisher:
Publishd. Feb. 14, 1799, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill