An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man plays an enormous 'cello. To his left a middle-aged man, seated in profile singing, plays a low harpsichord; he wears open ruffled shirt and breeches, with bare legs. Beside him on the extreme left a little boy dressed in a shirt plays the violin. On the extreme right a pretty young woman sits over the fire with an infant on her knee; she holds out a cloth to dry, looking over her shoulder to sing. Her score ('Affetuoso') is pinned to the chimney-piece, on which stands a crucifix with a tankard, &c. A lean greyhound howls up the chimney. All but the old man have fashionably dressed hair, and a certain elegance. The room is lit from an open casement window (left); there are dark cast shadows and the bare room has no ceiling. On the wall are a print of 'Vestris' dancing, a sword, a play-bill: 'l'Avaro Deluso' (opera by Paisiello, libretto by Vulpius), and a bunch of farthing dips; on the window ledge a cracked mirror, cocked hat, bottles, &c. Beneath the harpsichord is a large bowl labeled 'Macaroni'; and in the foreground lie a violin, music-books, earthenware pots, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[13 January 1803]
Call Number:
803.01.13.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: Velno's Vegetable Syrup -- Vegetable cordial -- Restorative pills -- Animals: Dog -- Female costume: Muff -- Advertisements., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13, 1803, by W. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street
"Five elderly men dressed in the fashion of youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '196' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Morning Herald -- Literature: reference to Ovid's Art of Love -- Magnifying glasses -- Pince-nez -- Walking staves -- Duelling: crossed foils -- Placards., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Published 22nd August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Older people, Newspapers, Reading, Staffs (Sticks), Signs (Notices), Hand lenses, and Mirrors
Title from caption below image., Temporary local subject terms: Adultery., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1820.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 25, 1820 by John Marshall Junr. 24 Little St. Martins Lane
Subject (Name):
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Pratt, John Jeffreys, Marquis of Camden, 1759-1840, and Salisbury, James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of, 1791-1868
A medley of engraved representations of several prints laid on top of others. The largest print, at the bottom of the pile, and so partially obscured, is a portrait of "Sir Samuel Shamke, Kt. and High Churchman of [the] city of London." He is surrounded by the four knaves from a set of playing cards and a picture of an ass. Four other prints on top of the portrait are: "Tory Tom and his mistress a carouseing", "A blind Tory leading his blind brother", "Jack Highchurch in the stocks", and "A Tory's sneaking submission to a Whig". The title of this print comes from the fifth print in lower left
Alternative Title:
Answer to the Whigs medley
Description:
Title from image of engraved print in lower left corner., A response to "The Whigs Medley, by G.B." published in 1711., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 46 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse below image begins: In an---t days Sr Robt Carr ..., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to William Pitt the Elder -- Executioner's axe -- Emblems: Thistle (Scotland) -- Emblems: Jack boot (Lord Bute) -- Ghosts., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Printed & sold at Darly's in Cranbourn Ally, as the act directs Js. P.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, d. 1645
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse below image begins: In an---t days Sr Robt Carr ..., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to William Pitt the Elder -- Executioner's axe -- Emblems: Thistle (Scotland) -- Emblems: Jack boot (Lord Bute) -- Ghosts., 1 print : etching ; sheet 20 x 25 cm., and On laid paper, sheet trimmed within plate mark, mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Printed & sold at Darly's in Cranbourn Ally, as the act directs Js. P.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, d. 1645