A companion print to British Museum satire no. 5169. Fourteen caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn in 1773. Most appear to be portraits: one is evidently a caricature of Lord Chancellor Bathurst, see British Museum satire no. 4888."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '29' in upper left corner. Plate number cited in the British Museum Catalogue: 28., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 12, 1773, by M Darly, 39 Strand
"Half-length young woman, looking three-quarter to right, wearing a hat; her hands concealed in a large muff in front of her chest; after F. Wheatley."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Caption below title: Bless my heart how cold it is. Oh mon dieu, qu'il fait froid., One in a series of the four seasons., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cold, Hats, Clothing & dress, Women, and Young adults
Three clergymen, one wearing mortarboard and another with clerical bands are seated around a table, each holding a young woman on his lap. Two of the women, who appear to be prostitutes, are bare-breasted, and all wear their hair in the high heart-shaped style with side curls and ribbons, and each holds a wine glass. A bottle and joint of meat occupy the table and two pictures hang on the wall behind the couples, one depicting the Three Graces, the other Apollo and Daphne
Alternative Title:
Wolves in sheeps clothing
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. 23 May, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergymen, Courtesans, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Five pairs of implacable enemies are shown in the act of reconciliation. Britannia and America clasp hands on the left; behind them the Duke of Richmond takes the hand of Parson Bate ; in the center foreground Fox (with a fox's head) brings together Shelburne and Lord Denbigh, the latter having the body of a dog; behind them are Sir Hugh Palliser and Admiral Keppel, and on the far right John Wilkes and George III shake hands
Alternative Title:
Wonders wonders wonders and wonders
Description:
Title from item. and See no. 6162 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5 for another print with the same title, on a similar theme.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 9, 1782 by I. Langham print coulerer No. 84 Dorset Street Salisbury Court Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Denbigh, Basil Fielding, Earl of, 1719-1800, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824 (Henry Bate),, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Shaking hands, and Clothing & dress
Probably an illustration to Sterne's Sentimental Journey. A corpulent gentleman with an equally rotund lady on his arm waits in a line of passengers to board a ship. An invalid is carried up the gangpank in a chair, while a servant carries a side of beef on a platter together with a basket of wine-bottles. Another gentleman descends from a coach. Masts of sailing vessels occupy the background
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, by A. Hamilton ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Dover (England), England, and Dover
A red-faced woman stumbles backwards, her feathered hat falling from her head and her cloak at her feet, causing the contents of her ewer to spill to the ground; she holds a cup in her hand. On the counter behind her are tavern supplies -- wine bottles, glasses, pitchers, kegs, etc
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Capes (Clothing), Hats, and Taverns (Inns)
Leaf 108. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Plate 5 of a series of courtesans, see British Museum Satires No. 5177, the title here implying that the subject is the keeper of a brothel. A woman in profile to the right. of dignified and refined appearance. Her hair is fashionably dressed over a high cushion and ornamented with lace. A black ribbon is tied round her neck. Her dress appears to be loose négligé."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Lady abbess of the first class
Description:
Title from earlier state., Later state, with title burnished from plate. Cf. No. 5184 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "5" in upper left corner., and Second of three plates on leaf 108.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, March 30, 1773, (39) Strand
Page 173. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist's name and date written in ink in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 173 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).