"A street scene at the corner of 'Petticoat Lane' (left) and 'Smock Alley' (right). An ugly and bedizened woman wearing pattens, holding an umbrella and kilting up her skirt, walks painfully over the cobbles, bending forward; her stockings heavily spattered with mud; her breast and arms are bare except for a scarf looped over her shoulders. Heavy slanting rain descends; it pours from the hat of an old woman (left), who stoops over a heavy basket she is carrying. Above her head a woman leans from a window, emptying a chamber-pot. Behind (right), two scavengers shovel mud into a cart. The houses are old and dilapidated, with casement windows. The lantern-sign of a penny-barber (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7605) hangs from a pent-house projection, inscribed 'Shave . . .' There is no pavement, but a solid post (left) protects a large grating let into the cobbles."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Pattens -- Lantern -- Petticoat Lane.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Reissue, with publisher's advertisement added to imprint. Cf. No. 8146 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has again opened his caracature [sic] exhibition room to which he has recently added several hundred new & old subjects., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons; dagger -- Implements of torture -- Literature: Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man -- Virtues -- Vices -- Writing supplies: exciseman's ink bottle -- Quills -- Allusion to Paine's letter to the French Convention.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Dundas in Highland dress, wearing a Scots cap over a legal wig, crouches with his head turned in profile to the right. With his voluminous tartan plaid he covers Pitt, who sits close against him in profile to the left on the pan of a close-stool inscribed 'Extracts from the Treasury', his profile, feet, and ankles alone being visible."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the Proclamation against seditious writings, May 21, 1792 -- Allusion to Courtenay's speech in House, May 25, 1792., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Lord Howe sits full-face in an armchair, reading a 'Gazette' headed 'June Ist 1795'. He wears naval uniform, with a hat, smokes a long pipe and scowls meditatively. A dog with the head of Sir Roger Curtis grovels at his feet, kissing his right toe; he has a collar inscribed 'Black Dick's Dog'. Behind Howe is a row of windows close together, with a view of the sea and ships. Beneath the windows is a broad shelf on which are wine-bottles, a sextant, and a punch-bowl. On a table at Howe's right hand are a glass of wine and a plan of Torbay."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
What a Curtis
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: Done from an original drawing by a British officer & publish'd as a guide to preferment., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: ship cabin -- Newspapers: Gazette -- Glass: wine bottles -- Glass: wine glasses -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Naval instruments: sextants -- Maps: map of Torbay -- Chamber pots -- Pets: dogs -- Smoking: pipes -- Naval uniforms: admiral's uniform -- Furniture: armchair.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Curtis, Roger, Sir, 1746-1816
A large black woman, smiling in her sleep, lies in a bed surrounded by bedcurtains. She wears a cap and earrings, and her large breasts hang out over her nightclothes. A thin old, white man also in nightclothes and a night cap ogles her by the candlelight from the candlestick he holds in his right hand
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Lust, and Sleepwear
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With: I wish you may get it!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two grooms follow behind and a coach drives past in the opposite direction
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
May 1943 -- R.A.F. -- Christmas 1944., Original wrappers. Has author's presentation inscription to Norman Holmes Pearson, dated "for Christmas 1944" but is in original mailing envelope postmarked 23. Oct. 1950., and Poems.
Publisher:
Privately published by The Brendin Publishing Co.
Subject (Name):
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Autograph, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Presentation inscription to N.H. Pearson, and Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975--Presentation inscription from H.D.