"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and approximate date of publication from smaller version in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.344., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., A depiction of a scene from a performance of High life below stairs (1759), the popular Georgian comedy by James Townley., For a related drawing, attributed to Francis Grose, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawings G877 no. 1., and Laid down on stiff sheet.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quality dinner hour
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ..., Companion print to: High life at noon., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 32.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 60 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
"View looking across a lawn towards the house; a pond on the left with a dog drinking and ducks swimming, an elegantly dressed family with a dog and small girl in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Second in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 47 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Highbury (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Social & civic facilities, Dogs, Lakes & ponds, and Ducks
Hudibras with his hat in hand approaches a lawyer who sits in an elaborately carved chair on a rise. In front of the lawyer are his two clerks at a low table, at his side, shelves of books and papers. On the right in the foreground is a carved figure of Justice holding scales. In the background on the left two women stand in the doorway. In the left foreground are two dogs, one of whom watches the action attentively while the other lies with its head turned away
Description:
Title engraved above image., From a series of twelve prints after Hogarth and issued by Robert Sayer. Publisher name from first print in series., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement on the first plate in this series. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '12' in upper left corner., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns, below image: To this brave man the Knight repairs For counsel in this law affairs; ... As heart can wish, and need not shame The proudest man alive to claim., Copy of no. 515 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 93., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Clerks, Dogs, Justice, Law offices, Lawyers, and Women
"Dock scene, a sign on the wall reads 'Bell Wharf': a man in a black coat and hat stands writing, resting the paper on a crate, looking to right at a young man with a neck-tie, who stands beside a man carrying a sack, giving an account, hat in hand, while gesturing to another man who brings a barrel up the steps and talks to a man in a rowing boat, alongside to right, with wife and two children to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: These are the cares that give a zest to life, source of no social, no domestic trife ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Piers & wharves, Barrels, Rowboats, and Dogs
"Dock scene, a sign on the wall reads 'Bell Wharf': a man in a black coat and hat stands writing, resting the paper on a crate, looking to right at a young man with a neck-tie, who stands beside a man carrying a sack, giving an account, hat in hand, while gesturing to another man who brings a barrel up the steps and talks to a man in a rowing boat, alongside to right, with wife and two children to left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Alternative Title:
Industry and economy
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse beneath image, four on either side of title: These are the cares that give a zest to life, source of no social, no domestic trife ..., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching ; sheet 67.8 x 53.5 cm., and Trimmed within plate mark. Printed on wove paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Piers & wharves, Barrels, Rowboats, and Dogs
Leaf 12. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Gilpin gallops (right to left) past the 'Bell' at Edmonton. His wife and family watch from the balcony; an inn-servant from the door. Dogs bark and spectators are amused."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
'Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house!' they all at once did cry ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Four lines of verse below image: 'Stop, stop, John Gilpin! here's the house!' they all at once did cry; the dinner waits, and we are tir'd! said Gilpin 'So am I!'., Third plate in a series of six, each with a plate number in the upper right and verses at bottom. All plates have the same publication line and date; plate 1 has the longer title "Six prints, from the renowned History of John Gilpin" as well as "Book 110" etched in upper left corner. See British Museum catalgoue., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., and Bound in as leaf 12 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Fowler, J. Poems, explaining the seven cartons painted by Raphael Urbin. [London?], [1707?].
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Taverns (Inns), Servants, Family members, Balconies, Spectators, and Dogs
"View of the house with two men on horseback in the right foreground with their dog approaching to the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Kendal House, the property of Sir James Smith, near Uxbridge, Middlesex
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eighth in a series of twelve plates showing country seats outside London; the first plate bears the series title: Twelve views of gentlemens seats, in the environs of London., Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner., Mounted to 23 x 38 cm., and Leaf 55 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
"Satire on the French and on fashion ...: a postillion with a long queue drives a cabriolet to the right in which is a macaroni and footman, both with elaborate hairstyle; the macaroni bows to another, behind, who carries a parasol; a dog runs beside the horses."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Later state, with publisher's name and address burnished from plate. For an earlier state with "MDarly No. 39 Strand" present after publication date, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1861,1012.341., Attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., Four lines of verse in French below title: Barbares Anglois! qui du memê couteau ..., Mounted on page 81 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17.6 x 20.6 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Vehicles, Coach drivers, Servants, Umbrellas, and Dogs