Print shows an ugly and leering elderly man, identified as the London banker Thomas Coutts, embracing the actress Harriet Mellon (later Mrs. Coutts, and subsequently Duchess of St. Albans).
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge
Subject (Name):
Coutts, Thomas, 1735-1822 and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
A night scene under the Piazza of Covent Garden, the center of which is seen through the arch of the arcade. A couple hurry arm-in-arm through a doorway (right) over which is Haddocks (a bagnio). The woman is the Duchess of Devonshire, shown with a bare breast and holding a lantern. She tells the prim young man "Vote for whom you please but kiss before you poll." He answers, "Tis too much neighbor! I could not go through with it." On the left behind the couple is Mrs. Hobart who holds her lantern to see an old Chelsea pensioner and a negro supported on stumps and crutches. She says to them, "D-m the Duchess, she got all the young voters."
Alternative Title:
Dark lantern business, or, Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend and Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 24th, 1784, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Lanterns, Lighting, People with disabilities, Political elections, and Prostitutes
"An obese old doctor sits between Mrs Clarke and a thin elderly officer (right), chapeau-bras, sitting grotesquely expectant on the edge of his Easy Chair. The doctor puts a money-bag inscribed 800 into the dress which Mrs. Clarke holds up to receive it, pointing to the officer, one Captain Tuck. From his pocket hangs a paper Doctor Doneover [Donovan] Agent to Old Nick-Deanery 2000, Commissary 1000, Majority 800 Mrs. Clarke (left) sits in a Ricketty Chair; its seat is Morocco Bottom [an allusion to Taylor, see No. 11218]; under her feet are three papers: My admirable angel My Dear dear pretty little darling; My Love my Life I cannot exist without you; Gazzette. She is one of Rowlandson's pretty meretricious women, and does not resemble Mrs. Clarke. Behind her is a curtained bed, its head inscribed Boudoir; above this hangs a bust profile portrait of Fredirick 2 beneath which a paper is pinned up: List of Candidates for Promotion Sums offered Clav . . . [Clavering, see No. 11247] 2000, Dow. [Dowler, see No 11253]-800, OM [O'Meara, see No. 11258] 300 .. . 200. Beside the bed is an ornate table with decanters and glass, and a paper: Rogues all sing tanta-ra-ra-Blood an Thunder when Whore and Rogue are rent asunder. On the floor is a book, Mrs Clarks Ledger, on which are papers spiked on a file: Promotions paid for. Two quotations from Gay's 'Beggars Opera' complete the design. Above the doctor's head, on a large scroll, are eight lines beginning:"Tis Woman that seduces all mankind, Under Tuck's chair is a paper: If you mention vice or bribe, Tis so pat to all the tribe-each cries that was levelled at me."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Industrious Mrs. Clarke winding up her accounts
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. M. Febry. 15, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all sides., In upper right corner of design: Plate 25., Copy of no. 11686 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Syntax: illustrative material -- Paternoster Row -- Parson.
Publisher:
Pub Apr. 1, 1813 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., In upper right corner of design: Plate 21., Variant state of no. 11682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Syntax: illustrative material -- Dairies.
Publisher:
Publishd Apr. 1, 1813 at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., In upper right corner of design: Plate 5., Variant state, Cf. No. 11511 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Syntax: illustrative material -- Inn yards -- Landladies.
Publisher:
Pubd. Apr. 1. 1813, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., In upper right corner of design: Plate 16., Variant state of no. 11677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Syntax: illustrative material -- Lake Windermere -- Fishermen.
Publisher:
Published Apr. 1. 1813 at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Dr. Syntax, wearing his hat, stands in an inn breakfast-room, his back to the round table which is close to the (empty) grate, facing the window and writing in his note-book. A young man embraces a comely maidservant, and water from her kettle scalds the doctor. A dog seizes a chop from the table. There is an open wall-cupboard (right) containing punch-bowls, glasses, &c. A print of 'Catalani' singing and a picture of a jockey leading a horse are on the wall, and on the chimney-piece a notice headed 'Masonic Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., In upper right corner of design: Plate 6., Variant state of no. 11512 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Syntax: illustrative material -- Inns -- Breakfast room.
Publisher:
Published Apr. 1. 1813, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Catalani, Angelica 1780-1849 and Combe, William, 1742-1823
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on all sides., In upper right corner of design: Plate 28., Variant state of no. 11688 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Dr. Syntax: illustrative material.
Publisher:
Pubc. Apr 1.1813, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Engraved text "W. Holland , No. 50 Oxford Street" following the date "March 10th" crossed out and Humphrey's name supplied in manuscript on right below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Regency crisis -- Thrones -- Crowns -- Pictures amplifying subjects -- Homage.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th 1789 as the act directs H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804