"A plebeian family of 'cits' drive in a rough two-wheeled cart (aping a fashionable gig) drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing cocked hat and top-boots; his wife, wearing large feathers in her small straw cap, holds up a fan. Both are absurdly complacent. A boy and girl are crammed in. Behind rides a fat and grinning footman, with plodding dog. On the extreme right a newsboy with the 'London Gazette' blows his horn. Behind (left) is an open doorway inscribed 'Mash Brewer'; within are casks. The wall is inscribed 'Puddle Dock', and on it are two bills: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden the Comedy of the Bankrupt with High Life Below Stairs and A House to be let in Grosvenor Square Suitable for a Genteel Family' (they appear to be bound for this house). Houses form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Road to ruin in the east
Description:
Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Vehicles: carts -- Breweries -- Mash-- Newspapers: London Gazette -- Newsboys -- Reference to Theatre Royal, Covent Garden -- Literature: reference to High Life Below Stairs by James Townley (1714-1778) -- Reference to The Bankrupt by Samuel Foote ( 1720-1777) -- Grosvenor Square -- Puddle Dock -- Female dress: plumed hats -- Expressions of speech: 'road to ruin'. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Riviere & Son Binding., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"Two whole length figures. A woman (left) walks away from the man but looks round over her left shoulder. She wears a high conical cap trimmed with lace and ribbons, a hooded cloak over a voluminous skirt ornately embroidered at the hem. The man in profile to the left walks after her. His left hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder, his right is thrust under his waistcoat. He is fashionably dressed with a laced hat, and his coat appears to have epaulettes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Courtesan and friseur
Description:
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "V. 4" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., Suckling; June 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-6-1-49., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd. accorg. to act August 9th by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Darly, M.
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Clothing & dress -- England -- 1770-1780, Courtesans, and Dandies -- British
Cited in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.7, as a companion print to no. 9466., CtY-BR, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: dasher -- Military: cavalry officers -- Placards -- Playbills -- Literature: Reference to Bon Ton by David Garrick (1717-1779) -- Reference to A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger (1583-1640) -- Reference to Bow Street -- Dress: driving dress, 1799 -- Parks: reference to Rotten Row, Hyde Park -- Prisons: reference to King's Bench -- Offices: sheriff's officer's office -- Expressions of speech: 'road to ruin'., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Riviere & Son Binding., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
A miserable, angry-looking tailor stands in the middle of his dilapidated workshop. His wig is turned sideways on his head, his empty pockets turned wrong side out, and his stockings undone. Between his feet on the floor lies a large lottery ticket signed "Blank." The tools of his trade are scattered on the workbench and on the floor, including his trade guild tankard. On the wall to the right hangs an advertisement referring to the bubble lottery of 1698, on the left a broadside ridiculing Mongolfier's hot air balloon ascent earlier in the year. Below it lies a credit note from a baker.
Description:
First of two images etched on the same plate and published as one print., Imperfect: original print includes two images. Publication line trimmed., Mounted to 29 x 19 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly after Ramberg's painting, Bad news., Publication information from a copy in the Peel Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title from caption etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Name):
Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763-1840
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Lotteries, Poverty -- England -- 18th century, Tailor shops, and Tailors
"A lean and elderly virago (three-quarter length) with straggling hair, wearing a handkerchief which scarcely covers her breast, stands in profile to the left, glaring fiercely. Her arms are bare to the elbow; she holds her thumb and second finger together, her left hand is on her hip. Etched below her are her words: "What do you know, you B-? -every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?" Her profile is that of Lady Cecilia Johnston as caricatured by Gillray. She had a bitter tongue ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., Three lines of text below image: What do you know, you B-? Every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?, and Title etched above image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
1810?]
Call Number:
810.00.00.70+
Image Count:
1
Description:
CtY-LW, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Numered "127" in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides., and Title from caption below item.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Later state with additional numbering. For earlier state, see no. 4677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate also published in: Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. [London]: Pubd. by Mary Darly ..., 1776, p. 59., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., Suckling; June 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-6-1-8., Temporary local subject terms: French peasants -- Female costume -- French costume -- Clocks on stockings of French peasant -- Pompons on sabots of French peasant -- Shoes: Sabots -- Fans., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. April 1st, 1770, by MDarly (39) Strand
"Burke (three quarter length) as a showman bends over his magic lantern in profile to the right. In the upper part of the design is a draped sheet on which are the objects thrown by the lantern. These are (left to right): [1] an oddly shaped elephant chained to a stake inscribed 'A Benares Flea'. [2] Three mountains piled one upon the other, inscribed respectively, 'Ossa', 'Pelion', 'Olympus'; the whole is 'A Begum Wart'. [3] Four large eyes dripping tears float half-submerged in the water they have produced, inscribed, 'Begums Tears'. [4] A whale spouting is 'An Ouzle'. From the right side of the magic lantern the end of a slide (or slider, cf. BMSat 6287) emerges; on it is an oriental seated cross-legged and smoking. Next the lantern (right) are the heads and shoulders of two spectators in back view who are applauding; one says "finely imagined"; the other, "poor Ladies they have cried their Eyes out". The 'profil perdu' of Lord Derby appears on the extreme right, saying, "very like an Ouzle [weasel]. "Polonius"" ['Hamlet', III. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-79., Printmaker identified as Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Title from text in bottom part of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 6th May 1788 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834, Harvey, Francis, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Oudh (Princely State), Projectors, and Riviere & Son
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., Text below title: "What gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? ... With Power too great to keep or to resign"; text below verses: "In the Collection of Ralph Willett Esqr.", and Title from caption below image.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Villiers,--Duke of,--1592-1628,--depicted. and Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, artist.