Inside a wig-maker's shop a bald man sitting on a stool squirms in agony as an elder woman attends to the wound on his forehead. Another man, standing to their right, looks on with visible discomfort. To their left is a table laid with scissors, razors, pliers, basin, small length of cloth and a bottle of 'Jalap.' A cat sits next to the cloth. In the background, on a wide window-sill, are wig-maker's tools and a wig in progress. Several finished wigs hang on pegs above the window. A number of boxes with the customers' names on them stand on a shelf above the door and an almanack hangs on the wall behind it. The door is wide open revealing in the background two men fighting a duel in front of the 'Crown' tavern, surrounded by several onlookers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher's dates from British Museum catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark top center of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 21st, 1784, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 (opposite Salisbury Court) Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: There was a laugh & a craw ... ., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Variant state, with verse below title, of No. 8785 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Nurseries -- Pets -- Furnishings: window curtain tassles., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Pub. Febry. 13, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
A young maid seated by the kitchen table is admiring in a small mirror her coiffure as it is being arranged by a footman. A little girl playing by the window is mimicking his work on her rag doll. In the foreground on rihgt, an old woman is washing clothes in a large tub. On the other side of the kitchen an maid plays a mandolin while singing together with a footman seated by her side. A small shaggy pet dog sits on an open music book by their feet, howling in accompaniment. A kitten plays with the ribbons of a hat left leaning against the table leg on the floor. In the background is a large fireplace with dishes and candlesticks on the mantle and a bird-cage from which a large black bird peeks curiously at the hairdressing in progress
Description:
Title from item., After painting by Collet titled: High taste in low life, exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1765. Cf. Catalogue of the paintings, sculptures ... exhibiting by the Free Society of Artists, 1765, no. 63., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Townhouse kitchen -- Containers: Warming pan.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, publish'd as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Cats, Dogs, Interiors, Irons (Pressing), Kitchens, and Music
A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centerd in the a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (buthcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the other enscribed with a large order for meat: "12 haundres vension, 6 necks do., 8 turtles, 20 brace partridges, 20 pheasants, 20 brace woodcocks, 16 sirloins beef bacon(?) &"". In the foreground lies another sheet which readss "Tripe Soup. Liver & Crow. Fried Tripe. Bill of Fare for 8 Novr." The outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Glyn, who was notoriously spendthrift during his period in office, is seen being kicked out of the Mansion House holding large money bag with the word "Saving" written on it. The two cats on the left and the dog following the butcher are also thin from malnorishment. Two large spiders have spun large webs below the archway on the left below a two cupids holding a heart molded above the archway
Alternative Title:
New tenants at a mansion house
Description:
Title written below image., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner., "Sold by all the printsellers in London, Nov. 9, 1799"--Written in above title., and Original design for a print published 9 November 1799.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Kicking, Poor persons, Interiors, Cats, and Dogs
A caricature of the new Lord Mayor of London: Harvey Combe stands centered in a hall, surrounded by a desperate looking group of people both rich and poor, who kneel and beg. A skeletal man (butcher?) holds a knife in one hand and a scroll in the other inscribed with a large order for meat: "12 haundres venison, 6 necks do., 8 turtles, 20 brace partridges, 20 pheasants, 20 brace woodcocks, 16 sirloins beef". In the foreground lies another sheet which reads "Tripe Soup. Liver & Crow. Fried Tripe. Bill of Fare for 8 Novr." The outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Glyn, who was notoriously spendthrift during his period in office, is seen being kicked out of the Mansion House holding large money bag. The two cats on the left and the dog following the butcher are also thin from malnutrition. Two large spiders have spun large webs below the archway on the left below are two cupids holding a heart molded above the archway
Alternative Title:
New tenants at a mansion house
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after a signed drawing by John Nixon in The Lewis Walpole Library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Also with newspaper clippings mounted on sheet.
Publisher:
Sold by all the printsellers in London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Combe, Harvey Christian, 1752-1818 and Glyn, Richard Carr, Sir, 1755-1838
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, shovel, tongues, poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bees wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., "Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
807.10.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: While deep in study and lost in thought in the complicated profession of a taylor and all on a sudden disturbed by the shrieks of a woman crying cucumbers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J Ruse., and Countermark: 1804.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A woman sits up in bed, holding up a crying infant. Her lank husband stands stiffly beside her holding an infant's commode and lighted taper. Beneath, the incident is related in biblical language: 'And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha the Wife of my Bosom awoke, . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '229' in lower left corner., Four lines of text below title: And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha, the wife of my bosom, awoke and said unto me, Arise Nathaniel speedily ..., and From the Laurie and Whittle series of drolls.
Publisher:
Published 9th April 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9804. An ugly and elderly woman (the old maid of caricature) stands vomiting into a bucket which stands on a stool. She wears night-cap, stays, and petticoat. A kettle boils on the fire (right). A cat prepares to imitate its mistress. The setting is the corner of a neat, bare sitting-room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet mostly trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sitting room -- Women: old maids -- Medicine - Furniture: tea table -- Containers -- Pets., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 312 x 220 mm.