The scene is the interior of a gothic church, with a view of part of a lateral gallery, the tower arch, and west door (on the right). The foreground and the gallery are filled with couples, in general elderly, ugly, and fashionably dressed, in conversation or bowing to each other. An unicorn on a monument holding an escutcheon is conspicuous. On the right the congregation is crowding towards the open door
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 80' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Year in imprint erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Clothing & dress, Couples, Interiors, and Monuments
"A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner., Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 82' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: thatched overhang -- Old Maiden Head -- Elizabeth I.
Title from item., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., An engraved letter in form of rebus, addressed to the Duke of Bedford on his appointment as Ambassador to France in 1762., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to land tax -- Reference to Lord Bute., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '48' in upper right corner of design., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Gibbets., and Munted to 17 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title etched above image., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., Plate numbered: 49., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.', and Mounted to 31 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-4 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Furnishings: bed curtain -- Emblems: Scotch bonnet for Lord Bute -- Wall mirror -- Female dress: stays., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record and based upon other plates from the series., Plate from book: Joe Lisle's play upon words, pub by Thomas McLean, 1828., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"View of the Thames, with the Adelphi at far left on opposite shore, St Paul's in mid-distance, Blackfriars Bridge to its right and the steam engine at the York Buildings waterworks on the far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 89., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 279.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Blackfriars Bridge (London, England), Thames River (England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), and York-Buildings Company,
Subject (Topic):
Waterfronts, Buildings, Bridges, Rivers, Sailboats, and Rowboats