A grotesque racist caricature of a buxom black woman in a white dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet with ribbons, grinning at the viewer and saying 'Don't you think you Fancy me now Massa'. Probably inspired by the "High Life in Philadelphia'' series by Edward Williams Clay between 1828 and 1830 mocking supposed racial differences and modeled after George and Robert Cruikshank's Life in London
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: An image of a hand, palm facing the viewer., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Pasted on a blue album sheet at corners: 21.5 x 18 cm.
A gentleman, knock-kneed and bespectacled, stands near a table in a print shop or auction gallery. He wears a sword and holds an auction catalog of prints. Possibly a caricature of James Christie, auctioneer
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With offsetting from another print.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, May 14, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
On the right, a lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile and wearing a morning gown, sits at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses, decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. On the left behind the lady, a skeleton stands at a rectangular table grasping with both hands an hour-glass whose sands have run into the lower glass out the bottom onto the table. On the table there is also a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow. On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right (Dr. Wilson).
Alternative Title:
Speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 3, v.2.
Publisher:
Pub May 1, 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
A very fat gentleman on the left paying court to an ugly old lady on the right; both are seated with the gentleman with a small dog beneath his chair and a cat near his feet; the lady is holding a fan and wearing the towering hairstyle of the period. Behind them draperies are pulled aside revealing shelves of books
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication follows publisher's street address., Numbered in lower left of plate: 382., Variant of George 4557, without verses below design, but with imprint date present., and Contemporary pencil ms. notation identifying subjects: Mr. Mason & Mrs. Montague.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Montague, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720-1800. and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Couples, Interiors, Bookcases, Dogs, and Cats
A couple, much caricatured, bow to each other as they meet on a pavement. The man is very tall with exaggerated long legs wears dandy costume with bell-shaped top-hat, and trousers strapped under high-heeled boots with spurs, his very thin cane is his left hand. The much shorter lady is given height by the scoop of an enormously high bonnet. She wears a coat trimmed in ermine and matching large muff. Another couple on the left and two men with their chests puffed out walk from the right are similarly dressed and caricatured
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Price 1s.", See a similar print by G. Cruikshank: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, no. 13090., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Smith & Allnut 1815.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 28th, 1818 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
Caricature of extremely corpulent man facing left wearing large wig and tricorne, his hand in pocket. One of a series of four caricatures, this one is meant to represent "a fat fellow of Brazen-nose College."
Description:
Title from item. and Name of engraver (Torre?) from another plate in series, burnished from lower right of plate leaving traces visible.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Caricature of man facing left wearing a sword, large wig, and tricorne, his left hand on hip and in his right a cane. Flies buzz before his head. One of a series of 4 caricatures, this one is meant to represent "a well-known M.D., the last remaining of the old school."
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe and "Seven figures walk from left to right. First is the (so-called) Duchess of Kingston, short and stout. She is saying "By God and", and holds out her hands with a gesture of affirmation. Behind her walk three young women, her 'maids of honour', who are tall and slim in contrast with their mistress. One carries a large square bottle inscribed "cordial". All four ladies are dressed alike in the fashion of the day with low bodices and high coiffures decorated with feathers and flowers. Next comes a fat clergyman, his mouth open as of shouting. He is followed by the physician wearing a big-wig and sword. Last walks the apothecary, lean and bent, also wearing a sword, and carrying an enormous and ornately decorated syringe which rests on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She was tried and convicted for bigamy in 1776, the surgeon Caesar Hawkins having testified to the birth of her son by Hervey. She left England immediately and lived thereafter in Paris, St Petersburg and Rome., Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with text added below image. For an earlier state lacking this text, see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D32146., Date of publication based on date of newspaper citation below image., Text below image: Then the Duchess was brought into court attended by her chaplain, physician, apothecary, & three maids of honor. Morning post, May 16, 1776., "Price 1 sh."--Lower right, below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Syringe -- Apothecary -- Medows, Philip, 1708-1781., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Clyster., 1 print : etching, on laid paper ; sheet 30.4 x 37.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy