Title from time., Publication date based on the Gentleman's magazine's account of a chess match played by Philidor in the presence of the Turkish ambassador, February 23, 1794., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Turkish ambassador -- Clubs: Parsloe's Chess Club-- Furniture: chairs -- Furnishings: framed pictures -- Picture frames -- Male costume, ca. 1794.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Philidor, F. D. 1726-1795. (François Danican),
Subject (Topic):
Blindfolds, Chess, Clubs, Dogs, Fire screens, and Fireplaces
"Satire: a group of four fashionably dressed men drinking milk supplied by a fat lady from her ass, with a man pointing and laughing behind her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to a dialog: The city macaronies drinking asses milk, at the Lacteum, in St. George's Fields., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 177., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Donkeys, Milk, and Signs (Notices)
"Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who takes his left hand and points with his right to other brokers on the right who watch the entry, some with dismay, others with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stock-brokers outwitted, Stockbrokers outwitted, and Chevalier D'Eon returned
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Date in British Museum catalogue as: 1 September 1771., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 56., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
Title from item., Publication place inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1768)?, Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: tables., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808,
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 24 cm
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and Mounted to 21 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress Clara Hayward and Philip Medows
Alternative Title:
Clara Hayward and Philip Medows Esqr
Description:
Title from item., T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., and Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1776. Cf. No. 5347 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5. Originally published in Town and country magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress Clara Hayward numbered 4 and of Philip Medows numbered 5.
Alternative Title:
Clara Hayward and Philip Medows Esqr
Description:
Titles from text below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, page 65., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. near St. Johns Gate