Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
Alternative Title:
Coup de bouton
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible., and In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
A campanion piece to print of the same title which ridicules women's dress. This print shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Verses below title: That such things are we must allow, But such things never were till now., Design attributed to Captain Mercer. According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Formerly mounted with the original print, now housed separately: Drawings M553 no. 1., and Watermark: GR with fleur de lys and crown.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 2, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
A campanion piece to print of the same title which ridicules women's dress. This print shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Verses below title: That such things are we must allow, But such things never were till now., Design attributed to Captain Mercer. According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Curteis & Sons.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 2, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Four figures of ladies caricaturing the dress of the period. The upper pair face each other in profile, one with feathers in her much puffed-out hair, the other with a wide hat tied under her chin (a Werter hat, cf. BMSat 7054). Below, one (left) stands full-face, the other stands in profile to the left with her head in back view, showing the arrangement of her hair. The fashions satirized are the puffed-out breasts, see BMSat 7099, &c, the false 'derrières', see BMSat 6874, &c., hairdressing and large muffs, see BMSat 7244, &c. The hair is much extended on each side of the head and divided at the back by a queue reaching below the waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Mercer from the British Museum catalogue: According to Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermakr: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Publishd April 2nd, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Women
"Four figures of ladies caricaturing the dress of the period. The upper pair face each other in profile, one with feathers in her much puffed-out hair, the other with a wide hat tied under her chin (a Werter hat, cf. British Museum Satires No. 7054). Below, one (left) stands full-face, the other stands in profile to the left with her head in back view, showing the arrangement of her hair. The fashions satirized are the puffed-out breasts, see BMSat 7099, &c, the false 'derrières', see BMSat 6874, &c., hairdressing and large muffs, see BMSat 7244, &c. The hair is much extended on each side of the head and divided at the back by a queue reaching below the waist."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Mercer: According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, v. 1, page 328., Variant (probably earlier) state, lacking the verse beneath title that appears in the later state. See no. 7252 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Mounted to 40 x 33 cm., and Watermark: W.
Publisher:
Pub'd 2d Aprill 1787 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Women
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., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octor., 20th, 1823 by John Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill
Copy: an expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Copy of: No. 2563 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: Copy., and On page 105 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
"An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 259., and On page 105 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 20.9 x 27.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs