Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple in profile, half-length, both the woman on the left and the man on the right smile at each other. Their hair is piled high on their heads in an elaborate style
Alternative Title:
Two insignificants
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd accord. to act, Feby. 1, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
"A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and manner corresponding with its owner. Two appropriate pictures are on the wall: Bank of England (left) and Seige of Acre (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Second state, with title added above image. For an earlier state before title, see no. 14596 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. For a reissue with Thomas McLean's imprint, published in Cruikshankiana (London : Thomas M'Lean, [1835]), see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.247., and Four lines of quoted dialogue below image: "Had I heart for falshood [sic] fram'd, I ne'er could injure you - For tho' your tongue no promise claim'd, your charms would make me true! &c. &c. &c."
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 10, 1823 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Dogs, Couples, and Courtship
A pretty young woman sits on the knee of an officer (left) wearing a gorget and cocked hat. She looks over her shoulder to speak to her elderly husband who leaves the room (right) supported on crutches: "Pray my Dear go and speak to Sir John in the mean while the Captain & I will push the point in this Quarter." He answers: "I'll go this momment. now is the Golden instant so dont be Idle but exert yourselves to have the affair well done & quickly." Over the doorway is a stag's head with antlers. The captain says: "Thanks, Sir. I trust your good Lady will Succeed in her Undertaking
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., State with street address '20 Strand' burnished from plate., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 24, 1802 by T. Williamson, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Horns (Anatomy), Military uniforms, British, Sofas, and Spouses
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander, and are making for the Point
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
A man and a woman are shown in profile, half-length; their facial features fit together likes pieces of a puzzle
Description:
Signed in ink lower left: GCk., Original drawing, basis for a publish print: Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by Nature!!! See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13131., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement below image in lower right: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of eight pairs of figures in two rows, with lines of dialogue etched above each pair., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 12., For other prints in the set, see the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8925, Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1796 -- Male costume, 1796., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jaunary [sic] 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Couples, Marriage, Military uniforms, and British
A young woman on horseback is talking to a soldier who is leaning on her knees. In the background are two tents, one of which is open and inside are three women seated a table. One of the women is sitting on the lap of a soldier. There is a cannon in the left foreground opposite the horseback rider. A drum can be seen on its side in the right corner of the open tent
Description:
Title from item. and Number '211' in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Novr. by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Couples, Courtship, Military camps, Military uniform, British, and Tents
Young lady in a riding dress and ornate hat descends a rope ladder from her bedroom window in a mansion and into the arms of a soldier. A carriage, with her luggage propped against it, is waiting to take them to a Scottish border town
Alternative Title:
Tripp to Scotland and Trip to Scotland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Elopements, Carriages & coaches, Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, and Dwellings
A fashionably dressed young couple embrace. From the man's waistcoat hangs a small pomander
Description:
Title printed below image., Plate numbered '211' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Containers: pomander.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London