Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Ms. notes in pencil along lower edge of sheet.
The Bow Street magistrate and campaigner against gambling, Sampson Wright, is shown seated at a table being assailed by a man who has entered the door on the right. On the left another man (probably meant to be John Bond, Wright's clerk) expresses alarm, and on the right a dismayed youth wipes away a tear
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 44 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Bonde at the Thieftakers Office, Bow Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793 and Bond, John, active 1782
Subject (Topic):
Threats, Judges, Gambling, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
"Portrait of Sarah Duchess of Somerset, whole length; seated to right in front of a curtain on an elevated pedestal, looking to front; wearing pearl earrings, and fur-trimmed cape over low-cut dress with lace collar and jewels; pointing downwards with the index finger of her right hand; her left hand resting on a crown on a table, next to a closed book; pillar on right; after Quinckhard."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text in image: "M.S.P. Sara Illustrissima Nuper Ducissa Somersetensis ... MDCXCII.", and After Jan Maurits Quinckhard.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Somerset, Sarah Alston Seymour, Duchess of, 1631-169,
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below image: News, news, Britons, news is arriv'd by this packet, just brought by a devil in flame colour'd jacket ..., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Excise: Cyder Act -- Mythology: Underworld -- Charon -- Cerberus -- River Styx -- Furies -- Animals: reptiles -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm., mounted again to 38 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
A satire on a Highland soldier's attempts to use a lavatory in London. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board as he urinates onto the floor. Behind and to the right on the stone wall are posted various drawings and broadsides. His sword is to his right
Description:
Title from other copies of this image., Attribution to Hogarth spurious. See The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Steevens collection of Hogarth's plates, p. 231., Imprint and price mostly burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., "[Price] 3d."--Lower right corner., and Mounted to 23 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
To be had [...]
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures, Privies, and Urination
In an open landscape, Harlequin is playing with a child placed in a wheeled pen and dressed like himself. Scaramouche is standing on the side watching them
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Scaramouch. So, Harlequin! you've breech'd yr. boy ... Harlequin. Out, devil, you my child will fright ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them
Alternative Title:
Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,57.124., Plate dated "1783" in lower left corner., and Design includes portraits of the actors John Bannister and William Parsons. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Bannister, John, 1760-1836, and Parsons, William, 1736-1795
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.06.00.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse below image: The genius of the S[cotc]h is mutiny, they scarcely want a guide to move their madnes [sic] ... (Dryden)., Temporary local subject terms: Scottish influence -- Keys of the back stairs -- Allusion to Scotch collops -- Swords: broadsword -- Scottish costume: Highland -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745 -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., 1 print on laid paper : etching ; sheet 19 x 31 cm., mounted to 24 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Titles engraved below each of three images of seals., "Plate 2.", On sheet with another plate: Seal of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk ... [London] : [publisher not identified], [1784?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '1' in manuscript. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.