Five rows with titled dot-and-line figure vignettes engaged in various activities including fencing, duelling, interpersonal actions. Top row from left to right show the stick figures (or "pin men"): "Asking to dance", "Leading out", "Hands round", "Down the middle", "Right & left" and "Setting". Second row from left to right: "Cross hands", "Pousette", "Hornpipe", "Tete à tete", "Fainting", and "Taking home royal". Third row: "Battledore", Tight rope", "Single stick". Fourth row: "Believe me", "O' how lovely", "Don't [illegible] me", "Feeling queer". Fifth row: "Feeling querrer", "Attack", and "Friends arriving too late"
Description:
Title from related published print., Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on the back of the sheet., The first two lines are identical (with the exception for a slight change in the title of the third figure, top row) to a plate entitled "Dottator et lineator loquitur" and published in: Ackermann's Repository of Arts for February 1, 1817, following page 90., An example of the "line and dot" caricature., The genre was perhaps originated by G.M. Woodward who designed two plates of acrobatic feats, &c., entitled 'Multum in Parvo, or Lilliputian Sketches shewing what may be done by lines and dots'. See Curator's note to British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1935,0522.10.220.b, and The published print was accompanied by a satirical poem from the artist's perspecive, scorning the great masters' classical training in figure drawing and sculpture.
"Double portrait of the ladies Yorke after Reynolds (Mannings 1956); as children, whole-length to front, in garden beside sphinx on pedestal; Lady Annabel Grey standing at left with dove perched on her right hand, Lady Mary Jemima running towards her holding another dove, dog at her heels."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Yorke and Two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761
Description:
Title and publisher from British Museum description., Title, imprint, and date from Smith: Ladies Yorke., Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in probable loss of imprint. Bottom corners trimmed at an angle., and With title added in Horace Walpole's hand below image: "The two daughters of Philip Yorke Viscount Royston and the Marchioness of Grey, 1761." Also added in his hand are the names of the two girls below each portrait: "Lady Annabella married Lord Polwarth" and Lady Mary married Lord Grantham."
Publisher:
Publish'd accordg. to act of Parliament by Ed. Fisher in Great Newport Street, Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
Grantham, Mary Jemima Robinson, Lady, 1757-1730, and De Grey, Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess, 1751-1733,
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript identification below plate., Publication date inferred from: A. Pond's Collection of early caricatures engraved from the works of Pietro Leone Chezzi and others., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides and at the bottom except for the area of Walpole's identification of subject., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Title assigned by cataloger., Plate from: Series of original portraits and caricature etchings / by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., and Plate numbered "134" in lower right corner.
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A caricature of Robert Bragge, the art dealer, pushing coins into a large sack (after BM Satires 3647)
Alternative Title:
Doctor Bragge
Description:
Title and artist from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of verse at the bottom of image: The duper is a cunning fool who brags a blue string is a tool., and Annotated on verso in contemporary hand: Dr. Bragg.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1782.
Call Number:
782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly doctor wearing a wig rides a wretched-looking horse. The rider looks fierce; pulling on the reins, he looks ready to use his whip to slash the sorry horse
Alternative Title:
Doctor Dawdle in a hurry
Description:
Title from later state., Title written in pencil beneath image., Early state, before title engraved below image. For the later state bearing title, see no. 6142 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Printed on a single sheet with: Symptoms of running away / Js. Bretherton f. Dated January 9, 1782., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Watercolor drawing depicting a speculum of kennel-coal, in a leather case, that was supposedly used by Dr. Dee the conjurer to deceive the mob in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist not identified., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., Depicted object was formerly owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. For a description of the object, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1966,1001.1., and Mounted on page 189 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Dee, John, 1527-1608. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Dr. Glen, an Edinburgh physician, stands on the left, facing the mad James Robertson who stands with his staff on the right
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from volume., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., and Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.