"Three strips arranged horizontally as in BMSat 9488. The subjects (with inscriptions) are a 'round-about' or primitive merry-go-round, a couple in a 'Tax'd Cart', a newsboy crying 'The Second Edition', street musicians with hurdy-gurdy, tambourine, and triangle, a Punch and Judy show, parson and clerk, a couple on a horse, a man selling garters, 'Long, and strong Scarlet Garters a penny a pair', a man with a performing bear and dancing dogs, a town crier, a pugilistic encounter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., "No. 8."--Upper left corner., Three horizontal strips between borders., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of plate number. Missing text from impression in the British Museum., and Watermark: Iping.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20th, 1799, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Carts & wagons, Clergy, Clerks, Dogs, Fighting, Musical instruments, Newspaper carriers, Organ grinders, Puppet shows, Puppets, Street musicians, Town criers, Street vendors, and Trained animals
Title assigned based on other prints from the series in the collection., Publication information from the bottom strip. Evidence of text in the border area of the top strip., Three horizontal borders from an unnumbered plate from the series of Borders For Rooms, designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Uncut plate described in Woodward Collection of Prints and Drawings, Derbyshire Record Office and Derbyshire Diocesan Record Office, record no. D5459/2/23/9, as published on July 20, 1799. Rearranged here as follows: row 1 pasted as bottom strip, row 2 as top strip and row 3 as center strip., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Jews -- Dancers -- Aldermen -- Games: cricket -- Lilliputians -- Clergy -- Circus: tumblers -- London cries: "Buy my sand, oh, my lily, lily, lily white sand, oh.", and Mounted together to 33 x 47 cm.
Three horizontal strips in between borders. First image on top left: two men greet each other bowing excessively. The one on the left says: Sir, I am proud to see you. The other replies: Sir, you do me honor
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; captions etched above each image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of publication information., Publication date and attributionsd to Rowlandson and Woodward from mss. notes on verso of print., Possibly a restrike from one of 24 plates of Borders for rooms drawn by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson, and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1821.
A scene of a house burglary: A mother sleeps on a sofa with her child asleep on her lap as one burglar removes her necklace while a second removes items from a trunk. A third man, armed with a pistol peaks out the front door where armed men with a large dog have gathered. A frightened woman looks in the window over the sofa
Description:
Title from ms. annotation below image., Printmaker and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Annotation in pencil along lower edge of print.
A scene of a house burglary: A mother sleeps on a sofa with her child asleep on her lap as one burglar removes her necklace while a second removes items from a trunk. A third man, armed with a pistol peaks out the front door where armed men with a large dog have gathered. A frightened woman looks in the window over the sofa
Description:
Title from ms. annotation below image., Printmaker and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print on wove paper : etching with stipple ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm., and Annotation in pencil along lower edge of print.
"Three highwaymen beset the Doctor, pointing pistols; one seizes his horse. The scene is a rough track between trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax stopt by highwaymen
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally published 1st May, 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. All text trimmed from sheet., Plate from: Combe, W. Tour of Doctor Syntax., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
Four images: 1. An obese man in military uniform sits for his portrait as Alexander the Great. 2. A hopeful actor auditions for a skeptical manager. 3. A militia volunteer is instructed by an officer. 4. An actor and an actress in a scene from Arthur Murphy's Apprentice
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Rowlandson and Woodward on verso of print., Fragment of the bottom strip from one of the Borders plates designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson, and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800., Publication information from manuscript note on verso of the print., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
One image only. A young woman extends her hand with a handkerchief in it over a stretched body of an obese man in an armchair. She says, "I shall never overcome the loss of my poor, dear husband." A young man down on his knee is ardently kissing her other hand. He responds: Pray be comforted, dear Madam
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information from an unverified attribution on verso of mounting sheet., Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series of Borders for tooms, designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800 (cf. British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on one sheet together with: 799.00.00.42.
Publisher:
Published March 30, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 100 Strand
Five images: 1. Two men converse: Man on the left: "If this is not the Tippy I wonder." Man on the right replies, "What pains some people take to make themselves ridicolous! 2. Two elderly couples sit at a game of cards with the man on the right addressing his partner: "I believe, Ma'am, we have two honors." 3. Two women walking with parasols discuss the novelty of their dresses. A short woman on the leftt says, "I believe Ma'am you'll find this the complete thing." The tall woman on rights responds with a haughty look on her face, "I beg your pardon Ma'am this is the true Bond Street." 4. Two elderly men read a letter from Copenhagen. "They write from Copenhagen!" "What do they say?" 5. A watchman brings a man he had accosted to an elderly judge or parson, "Please your Worship, this terrible looking fellow knock'd me down five times." The judge sitting in a chair replies, "A fierce looking countenance indeed, he shall be committed directly."
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series of Borders For Rooms, designed by Woodward and etched by Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Publication information from an unverified attribution on verso of the print., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 10 x 9 cm, mounted to 27 x 22 cm, together with one more image cut out from a Borders plate., and Image 2 only.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 30, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand
Five images: 1. Two men converse: Man on the left: "If this is not the Tippy I wonder." Man on the right replies, "What pains some people take to make themselves ridicolous! 2. Two elderly couples sit at a game of cards with the man on the right addressing his partner: "I believe, Ma'am, we have two honors." 3. Two women walking with parasols discuss the novelty of their dresses. A short woman on the leftt says, "I believe Ma'am you'll find this the complete thing." The tall woman on rights responds with a haughty look on her face, "I beg your pardon Ma'am this is the true Bond Street." 4. Two elderly men read a letter from Copenhagen. "They write from Copenhagen!" "What do they say?" 5. A watchman brings a man he had accosted to an elderly judge or parson, "Please your Worship, this terrible looking fellow knock'd me down five times." The judge sitting in a chair replies, "A fierce looking countenance indeed, he shall be committed directly."
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series of Borders For Rooms, designed by Woodward and etched by Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Publication information from an unverified attribution on verso of the print., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 30, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand