- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist.
- Published / Created:
- 1802 February 15
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clothing & dress--England--1800-1810., Parlors., Tea tables (Tables), and Tea.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & ft.
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1812 May 12
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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:
- Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, attributed name., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clocks & watches., Ducks., Dwellings., Fireplaces., Floods., Interiors., Rabbits., Rats. , and Swine.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic] / etched by T. Rowlandson.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1782 April 24
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Lady Cecilia Johnston, facing right, seated at the organ upon which two cats are reading from a hymnal and yowling accompaniment. A parody of Reynold's painting of Mrs. Sheridan as St. Cecilia.
- Alternative Title:
- Saint Cecilia
- Description:
- CtY-LW, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Cecilia,--Saint., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790., and Organs.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > St. Cecilia [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1806 November 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A 'cit', ugly and elderly, sits full face at right angles to the fire (right). He has been suddenly awakened by two squalling cats behind him (left) and registers surprise and terror, with staring eyes and gaping, distorted mouth. Both hands are raised, and he has flung back the bandanna which covered his face. The room suggests prosperity: carved marble chimney-piece surmounted by mirror or picture, carpet, hearth-rug, low-backed arm-chair of modern shape."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Companion print to: "Fast-asleep.", Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clothing & dress--England--1800-1810., and Parlors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wide-awake [graphic].