Title from caption below images., Publisher's announcement following imprint: NB. Folios of caricatures lent., Two designs on one plate, each depicting two figures holding an individually-titled print: A tea party; A card party., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Tea services -- Cards: Card parties., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[September 1801]
Call Number:
801.09.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the shop of P. Roberts, publisher, from the street with a crowd on the sidewalk and street looking at the display of prints in the window. An elegant figure Roberts (?) stands in the doorway with a tool of his trade (a burin?) in hand; a customer is seated inside near the window. In the crowd are men, women and children, including a Black man and a man with no legs
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker surmised from subject matter., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mss. note at top of sheet: No. 7.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Sepr. 1801 by P. Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, Printing industry, and People with disabilities
Title from text in image., Artist and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Nine lines of descriptive text located centrally in design: In presenting to your notice these volumes of caricatures, I am desired in the names of the publishers, artists, & also from myself ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Leaf 1. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Caricatures drawn and etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Description:
Title from text in image., Title page to: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Text within speech bubble below title: Gentlemen. In presenting to your notice this volume of caricatures ..., Design copied from plates by Charles Williams after G.M. Woodward that were published in Caricature magazine, with the bottom portion taken from the tailpiece to volume 1 and the top portion taken from the title page to volume 2. Cf. Nos. 10916 and 10917 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and On leaf 1 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
A collection of prints from plates amassed by Andrew White Tuer (1838-1900), author, publisher, and collector, with a title page that imitates the popular Caricature Magazine, designed by Charles Williams
Description:
Engraved illustrated title-page., Date based on the 1868 accession number for another impression in the British Museum., Plates dated 1740-1827 and undated, by Gillray, Bunbury, Rowlandson, and others., and For a discussion of this work see: Young, M. Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press. (Oak Knoll Press, 2010).