Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below title: Draws the clean vestments o'er the little limbs ..., Suckling; May 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-5-1-69., and Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Infants -- Motherhood.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1793, by A. Molteno, Printseller to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No. 76 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria, 1765-1834 and Molteno, Anthony
"Anne Page standing on the steps of her father's house, one hand on her hip, gesturing with the other as she asks Slender and Shallow if they will step in, with Slender bowing his head coyly and Shallow watching them with his hat in his hands, view of a house among trees in the background to left"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also lettered below image with "Shakspeare" and fourteen lines from scene: "Anne. Will't please your worship to come in, Sir? ... Slen. I had rather walk here, I thank you.", Numbered '10' in lower left., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 24, 1793 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
John and Josiah Boydell (Firm), Shakspeare Gallery, and Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
Engraved dedication leaves, with vignettes, signed by R. Ackermann, the publisher., Engraved title-pages., Plates dated 1808-1810., and Text by W.H. Pyne (v. 1-2) and W. Combe (v. 3) Plates by A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's respository of arts, T. Bensley, printer
Engraved dedication leaves, with vignettes, signed by R. Ackermann, the publisher., Engraved title-pages., Plates dated 1808-1810., and Text by W.H. Pyne (v. 1-2) and W. Combe (v. 3) Plates by A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's respository of arts, T. Bensley, printer
Engraved dedication leaves, with vignettes, signed by R. Ackermann, the publisher., Engraved title-pages., Plates dated 1808-1810., and Text by W.H. Pyne (v. 1-2) and W. Combe (v. 3) Plates by A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's respository of arts, T. Bensley, printer
The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-4-174., Mounted to 37 x 30 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Bowls (Tableware), Couples, Doves, Harvey, Francis, Kissing, Older people, and Riviere & Son
From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Mounted to 42 x 29 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered '208' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs., Two columns of verse printed below title: At a tavern one night, Messrs. More, Strange, and Wright ..., Walter Schatzki ; Jan. 1964 ; Acquisitions no.: 964-1-1-66., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Published 12th February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Three tax-collectors beset a house door, on which is a plate: 'Doctor Humbug', and above: 'Advice Gratis.' An elderly man holds the knocker, a ring in a lion's mouth, and looks up at the window above where two heads peer out: a grotesque aged couple wearing nightcaps. On the lintel stands a pestle and mortar, inscribed 'Hippocrates.' On the house are two bills: 'The Goodwill of this House to be disposed of for Particulars enquire' - and 'The Budget opened or how to raise the Wind for the Year 1805.' The tax-collector holds a large open book: 'Window Tax Income Property House Tax'; under his arm is another book;..'Tax-Servants-Horses.' Papers inscribed 'Tax' and 'Taxes' project from his coat-pocket. Beside him, a man holding a paper points his pen viciously at the open window. A third man stands close behind holding a large book inscribed 'Dog Tax.' On the extreme left a woman carrying an infant begs, looking up at the window; a little boy beside her holds out his hat for alms to the tax-collector. On the right a fat man gapes up at the window while a little boy picks his pocket of a hankerchief. The house is at a corner, and from its wall a lamp with oil, spilling it on the people below. In the background (right) are tall, old-fashioned houses, all the windows, except in the top floor and attics, are 'Block'd Up'; one is 'To Lett.'"--British Museum catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Clamorous tax gatherers
Description:
CtY-LW, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Scotch paradise and View of the Buteifull garden of Edenburg
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-53., Mounted to 31 x 46 cm with Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mount., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The 'i' in Buteiful is an image of an 'eye', a rebus. "Eden" in Edenburg in all capitals., and Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Sold at Sumpters political prints warehouse, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779