"A duellist and his second stand together, both trembling, in a sandy space among trees. In the middle distance (right) his antagonist marches up aggressively, arm-in-arm with an obese, truculent second. On the left a fat surgeon waits, holding a basket of instruments. In the background is a waiting coach (right)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Sending a challenge, requesting a timid friend to attend you to the field ...
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., Text below image: Sending a challenge, requesting a timid friend to attend you to the field, who you think will not fail to acquaint the magistrate of it, going with honor to the appointed spot ..., and Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A parson in front of a house-door, rides facing the tail, which he holds. His wig is back to front and his hat flies off. A barking dog leaps at the horse. Four men are grouped by and on the steps: a fat man holds out a lantern and a pipe, another waves a punch-bowl. All are amused. A fifth man, apparently a parson, turns his back. The house is old-fashioned with mullioned window and arched doorway."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
In the country, going to a party to dinner, getting very tipsy ...
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., Text below image: In the country, going to a party to dinner, getting very tipsy, quitting the house in a dark night, and getting upon your horse with your face towards the tail ..., and Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"An ox pins a fat 'cit' to a door-step (right), its horns enclosing the man's neck. Men with bludgeons chase the ox, filling the broad street. Two dogs leap savagely at it, one against the body of an old woman who falls violently to the ground. Other passers-by flee across the street. They include a fat woman with a (falling) basket on her head, a Jew with a sack on his back, and a man on crutches. The ox is beside the curved shop-window of a 'Chemist'; across the road is a 'China Warehouse', A coach with outside passengers turns down a side street (left). In the middle of the street is an obelisk supporting three lamps."--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., Text below image: Being pinned up to a door, round the neck, by the horns of an enraged over-driven ox., and Title etched above image; page number etched above upper right corner of image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned grocer's shop. A plump woman stands on the ground behind the shafts, naked between waist and stockings, the hole in the floor of the gig having scraped up her petticoats. A scene of violent action: one man holds the head of the restive horse. Men (l.) rush to look at the unfortunate woman who screams with upraised arms, as does her husband who stands with his back to his shop. A woman furiously clutches the hair of a too-eager spectator (r.); a barking dog leaps towards Mrs. Figg. Over the shop-door hangs a conical sign: 'Old Sugar loaf.' A board over the door is inscribed 'Grocery Sweetmeats Hams Tongues Starch Plumbs Figs Vermicelli Tripe Barley Pickles Mustard Soap Hogs Puddings &c Sold here by Peter Figg.' In a bow window are many jars, &c, two inscribed 'Mustard' and 'Virgin Honey'. Above it are two large pot-plants. An agitated woman screams from a casement window over the door. On the house is a placard: 'Cattle Life Insurance Cow Lane Smithfield.'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Printmaker and date from Grego. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents. , Carriages & coaches., City & town life., Dogs., Grocers., Spectators., Spouses. , Stores & shops., and Window displays.
"A Lapp settlement fills one end of an oblong hall, lit from the roof. Ice or water is bordered by snow-covered mountains or ice-pinnacles painted on the walls. In front of the water are two tents or huts, partly hidden by spectators. In the foreground is a Lapp family, a child holds a cord attached to a high-stepping reindeer decked with ribbons which draws a sledge in which sits a little English boy, holding the reins and held up by a lady. On the left behind a railing are reindeer; spectators are crowded between them and the wall. A woman holds one by the antlers, and raises two fingers towards an elderly husband. Spectators stare, ogle, and flirt. On the walls are reindeer antlers, Lapp garments of fur, &c, low boots with up-turned toes."--British Museum online catalogue.
"A fat 'cit' on an ill-bred horse leans back in the saddle with legs thrust forward; the angle of his seat is shown by a dotted half-circle above his head on which 90 degrees are marked, above his point of contact with the horse. An absurd dog barks at the horse's heels. In the background two riders are being flung from their horses. Behind them is St. Paul's and adjacent houses. On the right is a windmill. Illustration to an account of a grotesque City subscription hunt, whose rule is never to go out of sight of St. Paul's."--British Museum catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Mathematical horsemanship ; plate 1
Description:
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image; series title etched above image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Illegible letter or monogram, possibly part of a former publisher's statement, precedes R. Ackermann's name in imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second digit, probably a "3," in day of publication in imprint is lightly printed and barely legible., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee, The ambassador of Morocco on a special embassy., and The ambassador of Morrocco on a special embassy.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"Below the title: 'The Woman who shews General Guise collection of Pictures at Oxford'. She stands directed to the left., holding a pointer with which she slyly points to a picture of Suzanna and the Elders. She is old and grotesquely ugly, wearing a hat over a frilled cap, an apron, and bunched-up skirt. Her left hand is on her hip, a large key dangling from the fourth finger. A corner of the room is shown, the pictures fitted closely together; three rows are depicted, hung above a dado; a fourth is indicated. The pictures are very freely drawn, and one at least is burlesqued."--British Museum online catalogue, description of alternate state.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Initials burnished from plate: JN (John Nixon)., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Nixon, John, -1818, artist.