"Two timorous duellists face each other at close quarters in a saw-pit, trembling and dropping their weapons, namely pistol and blunderbuss; each has a heap of weapons at his feet: sabres, rapier, pistol, more blunderbusses. The hair of both rises on their heads. One (left) is in uniform, the other (right), who is smaller, wears fashionable civilian dress with tasselled Hessian boots. A scroll extends above their heads inscribed: 'Did you mean to Offend me? indeed Sir not I.--indeed Sir I'm very glad on't!!!' A spectator (right) looks over the edge of the pit, holding a bowl from which he blows soap bubbles, which float over the head of the civilian. The bubble in the pipe is inscribed 'Puff', suggesting a publicity campaign."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Direful courage of Dolla Lolla
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Portal & Bridges 1802.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1810 by S.W. Fores, Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Fear, Guns, Military uniforms, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Portrait after a drawing by Hogarth; head and shoulders of a man with a prominent forehead and hooked chin, to left looking down, wearing a wide-brimmed hat set at a tilt and cravat; with another head in profile to left wearing a plumed cocked hat, behind; after plate reduced and inscription curtailed and re-engraved."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, with line break after the word 'engravers',, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For another state published by W. Dickinson see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3099.
Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length figure running forwards. He is grinning; in his right hand he holds up a short shovel, in his left is a brush. His clothes are ragged; his toes appear through remnants of buckled shoes. He wears a laced hat, a cravat, and a ruffled shirt. In place of a wig is what appears to be a tightly-curled lamb's fleece resting on his shoulders; two pieces of crossed wood imitate a sword. A miniature figure in ragged clothes and a long thin queue faces him astride a tasselled cane. He is a chimney sweeper dressed for the first of May celebrations which were usual in London. The small figure may represent a child-apprentice or climbing boy, though there is nothing juvenile in its appearance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Second of three plates on leaf 106., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accord. to act Oct. 30, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length figure running forwards. He is grinning; in his right hand he holds up a short shovel, in his left is a brush. His clothes are ragged; his toes appear through remnants of buckled shoes. He wears a laced hat, a cravat, and a ruffled shirt. In place of a wig is what appears to be a tightly-curled lamb's fleece resting on his shoulders; two pieces of crossed wood imitate a sword. A miniature figure in ragged clothes and a long thin queue faces him astride a tasselled cane. He is a chimney sweeper dressed for the first of May celebrations which were usual in London. The small figure may represent a child-apprentice or climbing boy, though there is nothing juvenile in its appearance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772.
Publisher:
Pubd. accord. to act Oct. 30, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
Drawing of Sir Nathaniel Bacon's based on his self-portrait in oil, circa 1618-20.
Alternative Title:
Sir Nathaniel Bacon
Description:
Title from item., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v.1, opp. p. 163., Drawing attributed to Vertue., and Thomas Chambars (1724-1789), English artist.
"Dundas, tall and elegant, stands directed to the left, right hand on a cane, left on his scabbard. He wears a cocked hat with side-peaks, with loop, cockade, and small plume, double-breasted uniform, coat with star, boots of Hessian pattern, a sword-belt under, and a sash over his coat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir David Dundas, KB, Commander in Chief
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 74 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820
Subject (Topic):
Generals, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords
"Portrait of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a tall hat and ruff; in an ornamental oval with curtain beyond; below a putto holding a sceptre; books and scrolls in lower left; lettered state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans Lord Chancellor
Description:
Title from text in image., Engraved after a painting by John Vanderbank. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1927,1126.1.7.5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the Possession of Martin Foulkes Esqr."--Below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 375 (leaf numbered '192' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Name):
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
Subject (Topic):
Philosophers, Statesmen, British, Putti, and Scepters
"Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer, wearing long wig; in an architectural oval on a pedestal with allegorical scene in a roundel; below scientific instruments and a scroll."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Isaac Newton
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,8.223., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "In the possession of John Conduit Esqr."--Below image., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 714 (leaf numbered '167' 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:
John and Paul Knapton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, and Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Half-length portrait of Sir James Thornhill, slightly turned to the right
Alternative Title:
Sir James Thornhill
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... 1794, vol. i, p. 86., and On page 207 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: