"Satire on postillions: an English postilion in breeches and tight-fitting boots, holding a whip stands outside an inn with a sign of "The Old Kings head. T. Golightly from Hounslow" beside a milestone "XIV Miles to London"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., State from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark, trimmed: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 1772 by I. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"A grotesquely dilapidated post-chaise stands outside a ramshackle inn (r.); the driver lashes the horses cruelly, a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, but the wretched animals refuse to move. A barefooted slattern approaches from the r. with a huge red-hot poker. From the post-chaise leans its occupant, who wears a ribbon and star, and a night-cap. His feet have broken through the ruinous chaise; he threatens the driver with his cane; the latter's words are etched after the title: '"------"Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a'nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker \ "just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, 'tis just to make her start your Honour.' The chaise is roofed with thatch on which a cock is pecking; it is held together by rope, the reins and traces are of rope. The wheels are broken. Above the door of the primitive inn is a placard: 'The New Thatched-House Tavern' [the Thatched House was a fashionable London tavern and club]. On the signboard an eagle attacking a naked infant (Ganymede) is depicted; above is a board: 'Nate Post-Chaise and Whiskey \ Nate \ Entertainment for Man & Beast.' From a brick chimney a little sweep looks out waving his brush. On a bench by the door a man with a crutch and wooden leg sits smoking and drinking, not interested in the departing grandee. In the foreground a lean sow eats from a heap of potatoes; a young pig attempts to suck; another, almost a skeleton, tries to eat potatoes. In the coach-house which is part of the inn, is a second and less-ruinous thatched post-chaise. Beside the road is a stone wall and behind it a signpost, pointing (r.) 'to Ballyragger', (l.) 'to Athlone'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Companion print to: "Posting in Scotland."
Publisher:
Publish'd. April 8th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, saying to the unfortunate traveller: '" - Hald your Haund Mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun! e'n gin you na mind \ "yoursel, youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels! - ' The chaise was drawn by a horse and ass; on the latter, which kicks violently, sits a primitive postilion; the traces are of rope. A shepherd (the muckle laird) reclines in the elbow of the road in the foreground; his dog barks at the chaise, which is followed by a man on a donkey. Horned sheep with tattered fleeces and bare rumps are beside the shepherd (r.). All four Scots are bare-footed, and have bare posteriors, the kilt being a mere apron."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Companion print to: "Posting in Ireland."
Publisher:
Publish'd May 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Mounted on page 11 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint with rocker on laid paper ; on sheet 39.0 x 49.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 25th June 1777.
Call Number:
Bunbury 777.06.25.01.2++ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Cambridge academics: scene at a pottery market where a fat don trips over two fighting dogs and grabs the collar of a thin gentleman as he falls towards a table laden with pots for sale; the stall-holder rushes from the left to save him from damaging her stock and two of the don's colleagues stand behind the table laughing. On the right a fat woman bargains with another stall-holder for a chamber pot and tureen; behind them a young student approaches a well-dressed young woman with a cross hanging around her neck; in the foreground, a baby has fallen into a flower pot and a dog who has had a barber's wig-stand tied to his tail runs to right barking; in the background, King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Pot sellers -- Cambridge: King's College Chapel., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1804., and Later printing.
Leaf 73. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes printed on one sheet, the subjects relate to Bunbury's days as a student at Cambridge. "Pot Fair Cambridge": pots are laid out on tables for sale. A fat divine stumbles backward as dogs fight in the foreground. A seller at right is alarmed as he threatens to fall onto her table. "The College Gate": Three men ride off in different directions after coming through a gate with square brick pillars surmounted by stone vases. Behind the left rider walks a fat divine wearing an academic cap. Through the gateway we are shown a short fat man in a clerical wig standing on a mounting block as a groom approaches with his horse."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Alternative Title:
Pot fair Cambridge ; The college gate
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with its own title and statement of responsibility., Restrike. For an earlier issue of the plate, published ca. 1790, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1861., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Top image is a reduced copy of no. 4729 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Bottom image is a reduced copy of no. 5804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 73 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
University of Cambridge, and King's College (University of Cambridge). Chapel,
Subject (Topic):
Pottery, Dogs, Students, Teachers, Gates, Horses, and Clergy
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A fat, jolly city gentleman holds his round belly as he smiles at the viewer. On his left a wretched country man in ragged clothes looks on with downcast eyes, his arms across his body as he covers his hands in his jacket
Alternative Title:
Plenty
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '20' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of mercery goods, as silk grograms, silk and hair camblets, & all sorts of worstead camblets, riding habits ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 110 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.