In a fashionable parlor, two well-dressed couples entertain each other. On the right a gentleman plays the violin as his companion sings; she holds sheet music in her hand as she faces the fireplace, her back to the viewer. The violinist stands on a sheet of paper on which is written "The downfall of Paris." Above the fireplace, over a mantel with piles of books, including a volume with Code Napoleon written on its spine, is a portrait of "Napoleon le-Grand" and on either side, landscape views of Elba and St. Helena. On the left an effeminate soldier with a medal that reads "Jena" (a reference to the 1806 victory?) offers a young lady plates of fruit and cookies. The side table beside them is laiddened with fruit, flowers, liquor, and cookies. A fluffy, white dog barks at her feet. Pairs of Cupids with arrows and with laurel wreaths decorate the wallpaper
Alternative Title:
French fireside
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from unverified data in 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., and Manuscript "8" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Le Petit, 20 Capel St., Dublin
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dogs, Fireplaces, Floor coverings, Mantels, Parlors, Singing, and Violins
Copy of the print after a self-portrait after the painting in the Tate Gallery (London); the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette. Lettered, on the palette 'The Line of Beauty', and below image, Gulielmus Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Alternative form of title
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print on secondary mount: An Irish copy of the first print in the first volume of this [col?]lection., and On page 234 in volume 3.
"Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, whole length, standing to right, looking to front, his right hand on his hip, holding plumed hat in the left, over a chair; wearing Garter robes and chain with George; sword and mace on cloth embroidered with coat of arms at left, fluted column and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower left corner of plate., Dedication etched beneath title: To His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. this engraving is humbly dedicated by His Majesty's faithful and devoted subject, Andrew Robertson., and Bound in opposite page 634 (leaf numbered '78' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published 1st Feby. 1827, by Messrs. Colnaghi Son & Co., Pall Mall East, London; R. Milliken & J. Allen, Dublin
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,
Subject (Topic):
Governors, British, Politicians, Robes, and Ceremonial maces
Three-quarter length portrait of John Bellingham, assassin of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, standing in profile to the left, holding an open letter in his right hand and his left hand on the rail
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably an Irish copy in reverse of: John Bellingham taken at the Sessions House, Old Bailey ... / drawn & etc'd by Dennes [sic] Dighton. [London] : Pubd. as the act directs by Dighton, Spring Gardens, May 16, 1812. Cf. No. 11882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 164.
Publisher:
Pub. by McCleary, 32 Nassau St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bellingham, John, 1770-1812
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Murder), Assassinations, Criminals, and Judicial proceedings
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Henrietta Grosvenor and her lover, an unidentified man of fortune
Description:
Titles engraved below images., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., and Probably from the Hibernian Magazine, 1778; a variant of no. 5507 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires; originally published in Town and country magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Love, honour and justice presenting to the Right Worshipful Grand Master of Ireland ...
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece from: The sentimental and Masonic magazine., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Freemasonry -- Freemasons: Grand Master -- Emblems of freemasonry -- Justice (Symbolic character) -- Cupid.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Donoughmore, Richard Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of, 1756-1825,
A strip design showing eight couples who contemplate marriage as the captions engraved above each couple explain
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate originally published by T. Walker in Hibernian magazine, ii, p. 193., Removed from extra-illustrated copy of History of the Fleet marriages., and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
T. Walker
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, Obesity, and Pregnant women
"Officers promenade, swaggering selfconsciously; three couples are arm-in-arm. One pair, one of whom is a lancer with a moustache, arrogantly stare at a taller and more dignified Life Guards officer wearing a huge curling plume on the crest of his helmet. All have small high waists with belts or sashes, bulging breasts, high collars, and stocks, narrow and sometimes tiny coat-tails, tight sleeves, high padded shoulders; usually a bush of hair projects from a fantastic shako or helmet. The two Life Guards officers have boots, wide at the top, reaching to the thigh. Two officers wear fantastically large plumed shakos. An officer in back view, (?) the Duke of York, wears the plumed hat of a field-marshal, and is arm-in-arm with a very tall thin officer"--British Museum online catalogue, description of S.W. Fores copy
Alternative Title:
Heroes of 1819
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Possible reissue of print published by S.W. Fores., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. No. 13059 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Le Petit 20 Capel St.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Military uniforms
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, no. 5505, originally published in Town and country magazine., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Subject (Name):
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Colman, the daughter of an officer, and her lover, possibly Lord Villiers. (cf. Burford for the woman's identity).
Alternative Title:
Artful lover
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 404; T. (Thomas) Walker, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, was located at Dame Street Dublin from 1770-1786., Probably from the Hibernian magazine, 1778., and A variant of no. 5500, originally published in Town and country magazine. Cf. No 5550 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by T. Walker, No. 79 Dame Street
Subject (Name):
Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805,