Seated at a table before a fireplace, a fat woman with a mountainous headress faces an ugly man as they play a game of push-pin. On the right is a sofa, while on the wall behind them 2 portraits (male on left and female on right) hang in oval frames, and a scene depicting a dancing bear and two dancing couples hangs above the fireplace
Description:
Title from item., Signed in plate: R.S. [i.e. Richard Sneer] artist and J.L. [i.e. John Lockington?] engraver., and Inlaid to 27 x 37 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Games, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.01.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An enormously fat man holds a walking stick in his right hand as he stands before a lake or river. He wears a tricorne hat and gloves, together with the huge buttons and shoe buckles popular around 1777. Possibly a caricature of Sir Watkin Lewes
Alternative Title:
Sir William Waddle
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Numbered 30 in ms. on mount., and Inlaid to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd April 1. 1777 by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821,
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Staffs (Sticks)
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
Alternative Title:
Coup de bouton
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible., and In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Page 141. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In outdoor setting a lady with large hat and flowered dress walks towards the left of the print looking downward, while in the foreground an older stooped man of much larger proportions, wearing tricorne hat, coat and sword, looks on. Possibly the figures represent Mrs. Lessingham and Justice Addington
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with volume and plate numbers added. For an earlier state without this numbering, see Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1777 - Amorous counsellor (A size) [P&P]., Numbered "V. 2" in upper left and "93" in upper right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with roulette and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 17.7 cm., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., Mounted on page 141 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]., and Note in ink below image, on mounting page: St. James Park, 1780.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1777, by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Addington, William, Sir, -1811. and Lessingham, Jane, 1739?-1783.
Page 141. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In outdoor setting a lady with large hat and flowered dress walks towards the left of the print looking downward, while in the foreground an older stooped man of much larger proportions, wearing tricorne hat, coat and sword, looks on. Possibly the figures represent Mrs. Lessingham and Justice Addington
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with volume and plate numbers added. For an earlier state without this numbering, see Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1777 - Amorous counsellor (A size) [P&P]., Numbered "V. 2" in upper left and "93" in upper right., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1777, by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Addington, William, Sir, -1811. and Lessingham, Jane, 1739?-1783.
Rear view of seven individuals seated on a bench, two of them men, one with a clerical wig and the other a pigtail queue, perhaps a caricature of the artist. The women exhibit elaborate hairstyles, pinched waists and cork bustles of the period
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan, identified as artist in British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Depicts an enormously obese gentleman transporting his protruding stomach by means of a wheelbarrow and mopping his brow with a handkerchief, while behind him in an extreme contrast, an emaciated and ragged porter follows carrying on his shoulder a large basket containing turtle, hare, bottles and other delicacies, as well as several more bottles under his arm. The gentleman is headed towards a wineshop on the right, over which a sign advertises "Good eating & cool rooms", while across the street stand a row of tenements, the closest bearing several signs; "I. Nabbem Taylor", "Shafe & cut hear" and "Dinners & shirt wash'd for 2 pence."
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 12, V.2.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death
Illustration to The Diabo-lady, probably by William Combe. Simon Luttrell Lord Irnham, shown with a tail and cloven hooves as successor to the Devil, leads his newly selected wife to their thrones on the left. Behind her are 5 unsuccessful contenders for this position, 3 holding papers which identify them as Mrs. Rudd, Lady Ligonier, and the Duchess of Kingston. Demons and imps fly overhead, one bearing crowns for the happy couple
Alternative Title:
Diabolady
Description:
Title from item., In plate above image: Lond. Mag. April 1777., An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46, p. 208., Companion print to: The Diaboliad. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, no. 5424., and Quotation from Milton in plate below image beginning "O Fairest of creation, last and best of all Gods works ..."
Publisher:
pulblisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Carhampton, Simon Luttrell, Earl of, 1713-1787., Rudd, Margaret Caroline, b. 1744 or 5., Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788., and Ligonier, Penelope (Pitt) Ligonier, Countess, fl. 1766-1784.
Illustration to William Combe's satirical poem of the same title. An elderly Devil crowns his successor (Simon Luttrell, Lord Irnham) who mounts the throne on the left. Behind Irnham are 5 unsuccessful contenders for the Devil's office, including at far right, Charles Fox as Volpone with the head of a fox. In the background stands a distraught man in chains, while dragons and demons fly overhead and to the side
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed into plate mark., In plate above image, upper right: Lond. Mag. March 1777., Quotation from Milton in plate below image: "To reign is worth ambition, tho' in Hell.", An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46 p. 152., and Mounted to 23 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Carhampton, Simon Luttrell, Earl of, 1713-1787.