"Fox as Falstaff, enormously fat, with a pleased smile, stands declaiming: "The Laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends; & woe to my Lord Chanr." On the right stands Hanger as Pistol, in a swaggering attitude, legs astride, left hand on his bludgeon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6924), right on his hip. He is in Elizabethan dress, but wears an enormous cocked hat and a large sabre. He says: "Sir John, thy under lambkin now is King Harry the fifth's the man. I speak the truth. When Pistol lies, do thus; and fig me, like the bragging Spaniard." On the left, clasping his hands ecstatically, stands Sheridan as Bardolph, his face bloated with drink. He says, "O joyful day! - I would not take a Knighthood for my fortune." Between and behind Sheridan and Fox stands 'Shallow' (Duke of Norfolk), rather disconsolate, saying, "Sir John, I hope you'll pay me back my Thousand Pounds." In the background is the colonnade of Carlton House, and (left) the back of Fox's travelling-carriage, inscribed, 'From Bologna'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King Henry IV, the last scene and King Henry the Fourth, the last scene
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of centered text., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of text centered below image: "To ride day & night; not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me, but to stand stained with travel & sweating with desire to see him ...", Below image in lower right: Shortly will be published a series of plate [sic] from K. Henry IV., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Horace Walpole, 1717-1797 -- Regency crisis -- Shakespeare's Henry IV: II.V.V -- Buildings: Carlton House -- Vehicles: Travelling carriage., Beneath the design, written in ink: Fox-return'd hastily from the Continent on hearing of the King's illness-1788., and 1 print on laid paper : etching with stipple : plate mark 26.5 x 43 cm, on sheet 31x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 29, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character),, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Carlton House (London, England),
"Erskine stands directed to the right, a sheaf of papers in his right hand, his left held out in a declamatory gesture. He wears a long gown over a black tunic and sash, with a broad white collar. His advocate's wig has a red patch on the crown of his head. His shoes have bunches of tricolour ribbons. He stands on a flagged floor facing a part of the floor paved in black and white, where the judges may be presumed to sit; their presence is indicated by heavy cast shadows. The wall is pilastered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Seventh plate in the series "French habits." First plate in the series has series title "Habits of new French legislators and other public functionaries.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: French costume: Directory lawyer.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Five elderly women of fashion attend an altar of Love in a temple whose walls are wreathed with roses. The fat Mrs. Hobart, in profile to the right, pours incense on the flames of the altar; in her right hand is an open book, 'Ninon'. Behind her (left) Lady Archer, with the nose of a bird of prey, leads a lamb garlanded with roses; she guides the animal with a riding-whip. Miss Jefferies walks beside Lady Archer holding a basket of flowers. On the extreme left Lady Mount-Edgcumb, aged and bent, holds a dove in each hand. On the right of the altar Lady Cecilia Johnstone plays a lyre. The altar is decorated with rams' heads, a heart, arrows, and roses. A sculptured group of the three Graces stands in an alcove in the wall above the altar. In the background (left) is a mountain peak, Parnassus, on which sits a tiny figure of Apollo, playing a fiddle, the sun irradiating his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of quoted text following title: "Here, Love his golden shafts employs; here lights "his constant lamp; and waves his purple wings; "reigns here and revels." Milton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Music -- Literary quotation: Milton -- Mythology: Parnassus -- Three graces -- Elizabeth Jeffries., Watermark: J. Whatman., and The ladies are identified in ink on the back of the print: Ldy. Cecilia Johnson, Mrs. Hobart, Ldy. Archer, Ldy. Edgcumbe.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1787, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807, and Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817
Subject (Topic):
Graces, The, Apollo, Altars, Interiors, Temples, Books, Roses, and Lyres
"A handsome mulatto woman walks from left to right and slightly towards the spectator. Her hair is a mop of carefully arranged curls. She wears a high-waisted, trailing dress, defining her limbs, with a shoulder-scarf, bare arms and neck, and much quasi-barbaric jewellery. On the wall (right) half of a picture of 'Havanna' is visible. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doublure de Madame Tallien
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Blacks: Mulattos -- Female costume: Creole -- Roman costume -- Headdresses -- Mme Tallien, fl. 1796.
Publisher:
Pubd. 25th Feby. 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"The enormously fat Mrs. Hobart sits in profile to the left in a small armchair, her right foot on a stool, her leg exposed. She places round its grotesque girth a ribbon garter, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring. Perched on her hair is a small straw hat with a high silk crown from which a veil hangs down her back. On the wall behind her is a picture: 'Nina', a small thin man kneels before the stout and terrified Nina (who believes him to be the ghost of her lover)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Van-Buchells garters
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Martin Van Butchell, 1735-1812 -- Literature: allusion to Berkeley's Nina, or, The Madness of Love -- Pictures amplifying subject: Nina -- Furniture: armchairs -- Foot stools -- Clothing: garters.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"The Duke of Clarence drags his three children (left to right) in a go-cart. His waistcoat is open, a handkerchief under his hat drapes his head, perspiration pours from his forehead. The boy, an infant replica of his father, holds a pair of reins which are attached to the duke's pocket, and flourishes a whip. Beside him are a little girl hugging a dog, which hides her face except for the eyes, and a crying infant whose features, though infantine, are those of her father. The crest on the cart is a chamber-pot (cf. BMSat 7835, &c.) surmounted by a crown. From the duke's pockets project a toy battleship, a coral and bells, a toy windmill, and a doll. Mrs. Jordan, in a dress of masculine cut, walks beside the cart, intent on the part which she is studying from an open book ('The Spoil'd Child', see BMSat 7835): 'Act IIId enter Little Pickle'. A signpost (right) points (left) 'From Richmond', (right) 'To Bushy'. A sandy bank with trees forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Toys -- Pets: King Charles spaniel -- Literature: Bickerstaff's Farce of the Spoil'd Child.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street's
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842
"A lady, young and handsome, stands in profile to the left holding a closed fan in both hands. She wears one garment only, a quasi-classical tunic, its waist immediately below the breasts which are almost bare. It is slit at the side to show a leg with gartered stocking. Her hair is bound with a ribbon and falls loosely on forehead and shoulders. In it are three ostrich feathers. A panelled wall, with a candle-sconce and showing part of a large mirror (left), forms a background. There is a patterned carpet. Perhaps a portrait of Lady C. Campbell."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Lady Strathmore leans back in an armchair, her legs crossed; in her right hand is a birch-rod, she holds in her left hand the hand of a boy, her (supposed) step-son, whom another woman (right) holds out for chastisement. He is crying, the woman is about to take off his breeches. On the extreme right a dinner-table is partly visible, with a large tureen decorated with coat of arms and coronet. Lady Strathmore's hair is decorated with flowers and feathers, her breasts are much exposed and her appearance is meretricious."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25th, 1786, by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800 and Strathmore, John Bowes, Earl of, 1769-1820