"A tall, thin, elderly military officer, ugly but elegant, stoops to embrace a fat woman, short and hideous. She wears a countrified straw bonnet, apron, and high pattens, but is very decolletee. There is a rustic background with a cottage (right). He says, the words etched across the upper part of the design: My Friends all declare that my time is mispent [sic] While in rural Contentment I rove, I ask no more Wealth than Dame Fortune has sent And the sweet little Girl that I love. The rose on her cheeks my delight She's soft as the down, the down of the dove No Lilly was ever so fair As the sweet little girl that I love!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
"Heading to a song printed in four columns. An old maid's tea-table overturns, owing to a quarrel between her two cats and the dog of her visitor (left), an elderly hunchback. Tea-urn, tea-pot, &c, fall to the ground, scalding the guest. Below the title: 'Being a Companion to that excellent Song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." To the tune of "Away with these Queer Married Fellows", in the "Gay Deceivers"; by Mr Bannister'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from broadside printed on same sheet., Printmaker and imprint data from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of text and four columns of verse following title in letterpress., and Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Tea Urn -- Reference to "Gay Deceivers" -- Pictures amplify subject.
A young couple embracing on an ornate sofa, is discovered by an elderly man in old fashioned wig and striped hose, who opens the door to the room and looks inside. Above the sofa hangs a painting of a Cupid aiming his arrow at a sleeping female figure, the pictures amplifying subject
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom., Series numbers in upper left and right corner of plate, respectively: V.2 20., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. accorg. to act, Novr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 3. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Couples awkwardly dance in a hall, the men wearing tricornes and the women wearing hats or elaborate hairstyles. Two musicians are seen in the background on the right; sconces line the far wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On leaf 3.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dance, Couples, Hats, Hairstyles, and Sconces
"Singerie copy of Hogarth's painting, 'A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen'; a pregnant young woman with the face of a cat standing to right, swearing on a book before a monkey-faced magistrate who sits at a bench to left, that the child is by an old man who raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence; his cat-faced wife shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man with a monkey's face, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to left, two animal-faced children play."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., After William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Courtrooms, Couples, Monkeys, and Pregnancy
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from watermark., and Cf. No. 10488 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. for different state of print with imprint.
"The fat, moustached, Duchess of St. Albans and the slim Duke dance with vigour and agility, each poised on the left toe, arms interlaced, and hands meeting above their heads. From the Duchess's small coronet rise giant ostrich feathers which curve above the heads of both and above which a big ducal coronet is suspended. He sings: My Wife shall dance, And I will sing so merry we'll pass this day. She: For I hold it one of the wisest things to drive dull care away. The musicians are two cynical cupids; one (left) sits on large sacks of sovereigns inscribed Cash; coins pour from a slit in a sack and lie on the carpet with a banker's money-scoop. He fiddles: Money in both pockets. The other (right), seated on the apex of a huge melon from which a slice has been cut, plays bagpipes: And auld Robin Gray [Coutts] was a gued Old Man to me! with variations."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to/within plate mark., and A faint impression on the verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
A young woman in a feathered head-dress leans against a young man who is shown in profile pulling him closer by his beard with an apparent intention of kissing him. Below the title are verses 184-185 from Pope's "The wife of Bath."
Description:
Title from item. and "S.W.F." stamped in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1783, by T. Gaugain, No. 4, Little Compton Street, Soho, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 28 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Family violence, Marriage, Quarreling, and Spouses