"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Title etched below image., Publication date 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.
Title from caption below image., Imprint statement flanks both sides of title., Two lines of text below title: I really had that little man's queue in my mouth, Sir your hat is in my eye, my roses are gone!!!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"The clowns Kirby and Chatterley, one dressed in female costume, dancing."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., The one character is identified as William Simmons Chatterley., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on laid paper backing.
Publisher:
Pub. 5th of Jany. 1812 by T. Palser, Bridge Road, Lambeth
Subject (Name):
Chatterley, William Simmons, 1787-1822. and Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Clowns, Dance, and Theatrical productions
Advertisement for making and printing copper plates after drawings by ladies and gentlemen, including necessary tools and materials and instruction in intaglio processes, on printer's premises or at home. Also framing services. Old and modern drawings and prints bought at full value
Description:
Title from item., Publication line included in body of advertisement., Initial letters of publisher's name in publication line form a monogram., Publication date from that of the volume in which this advertisement was originally placed., Engraved page advertising Darly's caricatures, probably following the title-page in: 24 caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists &c. London : Pubd. by MDarly ... Novr. 1, 1771., and Sheet 244 x 153 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, engraver & printseller at No. 39 near York Buildings, Strand, London
Advertisement for making and printing copper plates after drawings by ladies and gentlemen, including necessary tools and materials and instruction in intaglio processes, on printer's premises or at home. Also framing services. Old and modern drawings and prints bought at full value
Description:
Title from item., Publication line included in body of advertisement., Initial letters of publisher's name in publication line form a monogram., Publication date from that of the volume in which this advertisement was originally placed., Engraved page advertising Darly's caricatures, probably following the title-page in: 24 caricatures by several ladies, gentlemen, artists &c. London : Pubd. by MDarly ... Novr. 1, 1771., and Stained on verso with counterprint of: The dog barber, which is plate 1 in v.1 of Darly's 24 caricatures.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, engraver & printseller at No. 39 near York Buildings, Strand, London
"A companion print to BMSat 8279. An elderly man, obese and grotesque, stands on a rostrum (right), reading through a single eye-glass held in his right hand. His audience (of men and women, with one small boy who eats an apple) sit and stand: a bench stretches across the foreground on which three persons (left) sit in back view, the other seven, full-face, turn their backs on the reader. Two elderly men, much amused, sit with their backs against the rostrum; the other listeners are standing. The design is crowded, with thirty-seven figures, nearly all fully characterized, some slightly caricatured. On the back wall is a print of John Gilpin losing his hat and wig, cf. BMSat 6886, &c. On the rostrum is a placard: 'Select Poems from | Peter Pindar | Don Quixote & | Tristam [sic] Shandy.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Companion print to: Tragic readings., and Added in later hand above title: June 1[8]10.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 25, 1791, by C. Knight, Brumpton [sic], and W. Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street