"Three military men and a dog standing outside a tavern, two at left, one holding up a stick, another in a confused posture at centre; the tavern, with the sign of 'The Crooked billet', at right, a maid standing by the door and a man leaning on the fence, both laughing at the soldiers."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Production of an ale house
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly an illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life; Cf. Rowlandson's print The production of a post house, no. 10859 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.735., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A pedestrian, flimsily dressed in tail-coat, nankeen trousers, and pumps, struggles against driving rain, turning an agonized face to the spectator. He walks (r. to left.) on a muddy track beside a decayed paling. A raven croaks on a rotten tree. In the background is a dilapidated scarecrow, surrounded by birds."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. Two hideous prostitutes stand at the counter of a gin-shop (or vault), each with a glass. A dog sits at their feet. On the left a third and comparatively handsome woman is drinking. An upturned face with a glass to the lips is on the extreme right. On the other side of the counter a stout man fills a glass from a bottle. Behind him are huge casks, one inscribed 'Booths Best Gin'. The place is brightly lit, with heavy shadows. A bunch of metal grapes hangs from the roof, catching the light."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Reeve and Jones, publisher., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
"A stout, elderly, well-dressed man walks along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding, reversed, a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe which runs down the adjacent building a black flood drips and streams across the pavement. From an (invisible) upper window hang ragged garments, dripping down the wall. Broken crockery and refuse lie against the edge of the pavement."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Autumn., City & town life., Rain. , Streets., and Weather.
"A man in neat riding-dress falls head first from a horse which is falling on its head, while a dog springs at it savagely. Another rider (right), whose horse is trotting, slips from the saddle clasping the animal's head. Both are bad riders, and probably 'cits', cf. (e.g.) British Museum Satires no. 7233. A mile-stone (right) is inscribed 'To Rumpford'. Cf. British Museum Satires no. 9465."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Three quarter length portrait of a fop, head in profile to the left, looking through an eyeglass. Under his left arm is a stick."--British Museum catalogue.
Description:
Numbered "1" in upper left corner., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Stevens, George Alexander,--1710-1784.--Lecture on heads., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"Bust portrait of a Spanish don with moustache, feathered hat, ruff, slashed tunic, and cloak."--British Museum catalogue.
Description:
Artist's signature and beginning of imprint statement are lightly printed and illegible. Artist's signature supplied from impression at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.1080(22)., Date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Stevens, George Alexander,--1710-1784.--Lecture on heads., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"A battle scene in a mountain valley. The Spanish forces are on the left, at the base of a precipitous mountain on which are guns firing at the opposite hill, up which French troops, tiny figures, are fleeing in confusion. In the foreground (l.) a monk is pushing a rammer down the mouth of a cannon, while two elaborately dressed and meretricious-looking Spanish ladies hold cannon-balls. One has a bloodstained dagger hanging from her waist. A Spaniard wearing a star is about to put a match to the touch-hole. On the r. a British grenadier, trim, plump, and whiskered composedly bayonets at one thrust two men at the head of a file of terrified and grotesque French soldiers. He tramples on a tricolour flag inscribed 'Invincible Legion'. In the centre nuns advance to the attack with raised daggers- th foremost is about to strike down a terrified French officer, whom she grasps by the hair. One holds up a crucifix. The Spanish forces in the middle distance advance at the base of the mountain, led by a fat monk on horseback blowing a trumpet. Behind him rides a bishop holding a sword and crosier. Other Spanish soldiers, advancing in close formation, have swords and spears. Their banners are (r. to left.) 'La Morte ou la Victoire'; 'Vive le Rot Ferdinand VII'; 'Sainte Vierge' with the Virgin, with a sword in her right. hand and the Child in her left. arm; 'Victoire Espagnol'; 'Vive la Libert[é]'. The troops on the mountain have a large cross and a banner: 'Libert[y] & Loyalt[y]'. The very numerous French soldiers, except for a grotesque group in the foreground (r.) advancing terrified against the single British soldier, are on a tiny scale, and are in headlong flight, uphill. On their banners are the words 'Vive le Roi Joseph' and 'Dupont'. In the foreground on the extreme left. are barrels of British Gunpowder, symbols, like the grenadier, of British aid (see BM Sat 11003, &c.). Clouds of smoke rise from the battle and float to the right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A sailor by the sea-shore sits a horse that refuses to move; a dog snaps at its head. A fat woman (left) raises a broom to beat its hindquarters. On the left is an old-fashioned waterside inn with a notice: 'Neat Chaises and Saddle horses to lett by the Widow Cary'. At the door are sailors and their women, one of whom, flamboyantly dressed, stands with arms akimbo smoking a pipe. On the water are men-of-war at anchor."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Printmaker's signature is etched below lower left corner of image; the year "1808" is etched within lower left corner of image., Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.