"A companion print to British Museum Satires nos. 6700, 6701, 6703. An enormous balloon not completely inflated rests on a platform suspended between two masts; it is exploding, flames and thick clouds of smoke pour from a crease in its contour, a number of men with faggots on their backs run from the balloon, others are on the platform, which is covered by a large cloth or net which hangs in folds. In the air (left), as if having sprung from the exploding part of the balloon, is a small balloon in the form of a head, identical with that in British Museum Satires No. 6704, with the same inscription and passenger. From it streams, in place of a rope, the tail of a kite. This evidently represents the bursting of Keegan's balloon in the garden of Foley House. A circle of posts with a rope keeps the spectators, who are fashionably dressed, from the balloon. Two men inside the barrier (right), probably Blanchard and Sheldon, who was to be pilot (see British Museum Satires No. 6703) run towards the balloon shouting directions through speaking-trumpets. In the foreground is one of the small balloons which were commonly sent up on the occasion of an ascent, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6668. In the background are trees. A number of spectators watch from the top of the high garden-wall (left). [Foley House was noted for its extremely high wall. 'Town and Country Magazine' xvi, 625] Behind are houses, evidently those in or near Portland Place. Sheldon's projected ascent ended in disaster on 25 Sept. 1784. He attempted to fill a balloon more than three times the size of Lunardi's by heated or rarefied air produced by a furnace suspended below the balloon. The balloon was supported on two masts and on a platform; it burst while it was being filled. See 'London Chronicle', Sept. 24, 28, 29. Except for the contour of the balloon which appears to burlesque human posteriors, and for the little balloon in the shape of a fool's head, this is probably a realistic rendering of the scene, see British Museum Satires No. 6703."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Sheldon, John, 1752-1808., and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Aircraft accidents, Fires, and Spectators
"A woman carrying a basket of spoons on her arm, while a man bangs the bottom of a pan with a stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cuillaires de metal. Avez vous de vieux cuivre, ou de vieux etain a trocquer?
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Eleventh plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., and Plate numbered "11" beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Topic):
Street vendors, Baskets, Spoons, Pots & pans, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from item., Printmaker tentatively identified in British Museum catalogue as Paul Sandby., Tentatively identified on an unverified card catalog record as P. Stevenart., Artist's name in lower left below image burnished from plate., Publication statement appears to be burnished from plate. Probably published by Darlington along with the companion print., Companion print: French beggar woman., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: French beggar -- Signs: French beggar's sign.
Title from item., Printmaker tentatively identified by Stephens as Paul Sandby. Possibly by P. Stevenart, based on comparison with his prints in the collection. See The lemonade seller., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For companion print: French beggar., Temporary local subject terms: Beggars -- Rosaries., and Mounted to 26 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Dec. 10, 1770, by William Darling, Great Newport Street, London
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre., and Description in an unidentified hand added below image on mounting sheet; window mounted to 38 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two staves of music below image., Temporary local subject terms: Advertisements: 'Buzaglo' on wooden cases -- Stoves: Buzaglo's patent -- Dances: ballet arthritique -- Quacks: Buzaglo -- Exercises for cure of gout -- Medical: wooden cases for treatment of gout -- Bootikins -- Literature: quotation from A treatise on the gout, by Abraham William Buzaglo, ca. 1716-1788, 3rd ed., p. 58-59., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, Jany. 1, 1783 by P. Sandby, St. George's Row, Oxford Turnpike
"A vendor of sticks, with in the background a wife holding her husband's nose, while another man beats his wife."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Achetter mes petites baguettes a demi sols et a un sol la pièce ... and My pretty little Gimy Tarters, for a halfpenny a stick ...
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Second plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Plate numbered "2" beneath lower right corner of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Stick peddler -- Signs: Scissors.
publish'd according to act of Parliamet [sic] 1753-4.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Pug's graces etched from his original daubing
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby., The number '3' in the imprint is etched backwards., Eleven lines of verse in two columns separated by a vignette below title: Behold a wretch who nature form'd in spight ..., Without letterpress on verso., Later state, with the key at the bottom containing eleven items. Cf. No. 3242 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 289 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 23.1 x 22.7 cm.
publish'd according to act of Parliamet [sic] 1753-4.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 76K(a) Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on Hogarth's 'Analysis of Beauty'; an impression with letterpress on the verso with a parody proposal to the public to publish an analysis of the sun
Alternative Title:
Pug's graces etched from his original daubing
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on Hogarth by Paul Sandby., The number '3' in the imprint statement is etched backwards., Eleven lines of verse in two columns separated by a vignette below title: Behold a wretch who nature form'd in spight ..., Earlier state, with the key at the bottom containing seven items., and Letterpress on verso of image: To the Public: I propose to publish by subscription, an Analysis of the Sun ... [signed] W.H.