"A violent disturbance in a luxuriously furnished breakfast parlour. The only lady present has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull. The frantic efforts of five elderly men to stop her have produced a sequence of disasters. An urn overturns and pours boiling water on a fat man who puts a large lump of food speared on his fork into his eye. A man behind him, rushing to seize the bell-rope, spears the former's wig with his knife. Crockery cascades to the floor, the contents of a tea-pot falling on a dog, who bites the knee of a man in regimentals; he leans forward, planting his toe on the gouty foot of a man behind. The latter, about to fall, grasps the officer's pigtail, flourishing a knife, his mouth choked with food. A fifth man stands behind the table with raised hands and shrugged shoulders. The fare is boiled eggs, bread, and muffins. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of a fat Cupid firing his bow; his quiver is reversed, and one leg is transfixed with an arrow. The walls of the room are ornamented by gilt pilasters in the shape of palm-trees (as in BMSat 10472). Between them are empty candle-sconces decorated with palm-branches. The men appear to be the suitors of a rich widow. Cf. BMSat 9822."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Temporary local subject terms: Fireplace -- Sconces -- Cupid -- Eggs: Boiled -- Breakfast -- Urn -- Bell Pull -- Carpet., and Watermark: 1832.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Scene in Assembly Rooms. Three dandies (cf. No. 13029), with the heads respectively of ape, ass, and dog, walk arm-in-arm towards a buffet in a recess (right). The first wears tight evening pantaloons and carries an opera-hat, the others wears hats, trousers (one gathered at the ankle, the other short and wide), and spurred boots, and carry canes. Two pretty and elegant ladies, arm-in-arm (left), watch with amused contempt; one looks through a lorgnette, saying, "What things! non descripts, brought here by the Discovery Ships, Esquimeaux." Below the title: 'Behold ye Dandies, scum of manly race An Ape, an Ass, a Puppy, dress'd like Beaux So in a Glass, Face answers unto Face, That here, each Dandy his own Portrait Shows.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dandy tribe
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist identifiedy by symbol resembling a "phi.", Four lines of text below title: Behold [the] dandies, scum of manly race, an ape, an ass, a puppy, dress'd like beaux ..., "Price 1s.", and Watermark: J. Whatman Tunbridge Wells 1818.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1818 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
Title from text above and below image., Print signed with artist's device below artist's initials: A spur., Reissue of no. 14319 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published June 30, 1821, by G. Humphrey., and Temporary local subject terms: The Grand Tour.
Title from heading near top of sheet., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Posters (advertisements) on walls -- Pills -- Quack medicine -- Wigs -- Rules of the Fleet and Bench -- Prison discipline., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Mounted to 25 x 31 cm.
"A man places a coin in the hat of an old one-eyed beggar who leans on a crutch."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 14' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two lines of text below image: He whose misfortunes can draw two-pence from the purse of a miser, is certainly an object of compassion, & the most capable of giving that passion its full force., and Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Title and date from item., Front cover to sheet music, for a song written and sung by Edward Terry., Below image: Comic song written & sung by Edward Terry, in the burlesque of "The Pilgrim of Love." at the Strand Theatre, with shouts of laughter & rapturously encored five times nightly., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Hopwood & Crew, 42 New Bond St. W, Stannard & Co 7 Poland St., and All rights reserved & entd. Stas. Hall, Septr. 20th 1869, According to Act of Parlnt
Subject (Topic):
Diseases, Humorous songs, Actors, and Sick persons
Ticket to a concert at Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank], with the day and year annotated in manuscript. On the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke; title for 1792 concert printed in a separate printmark at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from engraved text above image; image and text on separate plates., For proof before letters, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 16 in Folio 75 B28 804., The plate with the image was used multiple times for concerts including ones held at at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 and one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797. See impressions in the British Museum online catalogue., "Arnold" annotated below image in brown ink., and Formerly mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments including a violin and other volumes. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Vol. 3 No. 18"., 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:
R. Ackermann's Lithography
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
"A domestic concert with a lady playing the piano, accompanied by male violinist, cellist and flautist, while a man sings behind; a man listening throws up his hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Concert of vocal and instrumental music and Rising generation of Orpheus
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Eleven lines of verse in three columns below title: Orpheus was music master of the woods ..., Plate numbered '84' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: allusion to Orpheus -- Musical scores -- Musical instruments: cello, with head carved at top -- Pianoforte -- Violin -- Flute or recorder -- Amateur musicians -- Songs: God Save the King.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Copy of a concert ticket with a group of eleven musicians playing various instruments in an interior with a Venetian window and curtains behind; with a blank oval at the lower edge of design, presumably intended for a manuscript ticket number. Below image within a single-ruled line, above title: on the left "Mary's Chappel' and on the right "Five at night". After Hogarth
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Illustration for: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth.