"Twelve single figures arranged in two rows, their complacent soliloquies etched above their heads, e.g. [3] An ugly woman dressed in a travesty of the fashion, with one large feather in her hair, large ear-rings, and an enormous oval miniature slung from her neck, holds up a small parasol, projecting at an angle from its clumsy stick. She says: "True happiness undoubtedly consists in an elegant taste for the Bon Ton." [4] A stout ugly woman says: "Though I am none of your flan dan Ladies I believe I can buy one half of them." One of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 15., and Restrike. Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Jewelry, Military uniforms, and British
"Mrs. Clarke and four other women stoop down and directs blasts from large posteriors, defined by tight dresses, against the sails of a windmill (right) which pivot upon the head of the Duke of York. The four sails are inscribed respectively, Army, State, Navy, Church. The mill, on a low hill to which a winding path ascends, is Commission Warehouse. The names of the five meretricious-looking women are inscribed on their posteriors. One clutching a tree, on the extreme left, and advantageously placed on a hillock, is Carey. She says: If this wont raise the Wind, I do not know what will, This is not the first time I have employed my bottom to raise the Wind. The other four are close together: Cressaid, Sutherland, Cook, and Clarke, who says: Aye and no bad way to raise an Army-also. Between the women and the mill stands a dismayed little man with arms extended; he says: O ho this will not bring Grist to my Mill I must put a stop to this; and remove this Mill to Charing Cross."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified In British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Watermarks: Budgen 1805.
Publisher:
Published by S. W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.9 x 14.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.12.20.02 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., 1 print on laid paper : etching with drypoint ; plate mark 20.6 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 21 x 14.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.12.20.02 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a tailor hurrying along with his hands in a muff and an umbrella under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher inferred to be James Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip anglois., Temporary local subject terms: French tailors., 1 print on laid paper : etching with drypoint ; plate mark 20.6 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 21 x 14.7 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street No. 134
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Third in a series of three companion prints; the two others: "The happy escape, or arch-runaways" and The vain pursuit.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Harriet Archer Clive, fl. 1788 -- Anne Archer Musgrave, fli. 1788 -- Maria Elizabeth Archer Howard, d. 1789 -- Sarah Archer Windsor Amherst, Countess of Amherst, 1762-1838.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1788, by S.W. Fores, saterist [sic], No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Plymouth, Other Hickman Windsor, Earl of, 1751-1799 and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 12th, 1745.
Call Number:
745.09.12.01+
Collection Title:
Opposite page 1. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashion showing a crowd of people in St James's Park in front of Buckingham House. In the centre is a short, fat women wearing a large hooped skirt and saque, a lace cap and black lace mittens, and carrying a closed fan. On the left a young country gentleman, wearing a quilted waistcoat and holding a riding whip, is arm in arm with fashionably dressed man who seems to be showing him the promenade, they both wear breeches that end above the knee and high-heeled shoes with large tongues; the latter leers at a young woman, apparently a prostitute, wearing a straw hat with a soft brim who lifts her huge hooped skirt to reveal her ankle. She is walking with another young woman wearing a dark cloak with a hood; she wears a small cap and her hair is dressed in ringlets. In the centre, behind the fat woman, two men embrace, one of whom wears an eye patch. Another young woman, dressed in a similar fashion to the fat woman, stands to her right; behind her is another young woman wearing a hat with a very large brim. Next are two more young men,wearing large tricorne hats, tight coats the skirts of which open out in pleats below the waist, and high-heeled shoes one apparently pointing out matters of interest to the other who is possibly a young officer as he wears a sword and a cockade in his hat; his hair or wig is dressed in a large bag-wig. On the far right, a soldeir wearing large riding boots, walks away with a young woman wearing a laced hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably a later state, with printseller's statement burnished from plate. For a variant state with "Sold by C. Moseley, engraver & printseller in Round Court in the Strand" following price statement, see No. 2774 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor scenes., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Saint James's Park (London, England), and England
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Military uniforms, and British
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 12th, 1745.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 1. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashion showing a crowd of people in St James's Park in front of Buckingham House. In the centre is a short, fat women wearing a large hooped skirt and saque, a lace cap and black lace mittens, and carrying a closed fan. On the left a young country gentleman, wearing a quilted waistcoat and holding a riding whip, is arm in arm with fashionably dressed man who seems to be showing him the promenade, they both wear breeches that end above the knee and high-heeled shoes with large tongues; the latter leers at a young woman, apparently a prostitute, wearing a straw hat with a soft brim who lifts her huge hooped skirt to reveal her ankle. She is walking with another young woman wearing a dark cloak with a hood; she wears a small cap and her hair is dressed in ringlets. In the centre, behind the fat woman, two men embrace, one of whom wears an eye patch. Another young woman, dressed in a similar fashion to the fat woman, stands to her right; behind her is another young woman wearing a hat with a very large brim. Next are two more young men,wearing large tricorne hats, tight coats the skirts of which open out in pleats below the waist, and high-heeled shoes one apparently pointing out matters of interest to the other who is possibly a young officer as he wears a sword and a cockade in his hat; his hair or wig is dressed in a large bag-wig. On the far right, a soldeir wearing large riding boots, walks away with a young woman wearing a laced hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably a later state, with printseller's statement burnished from plate. For a variant state with "Sold by C. Moseley, engraver & printseller in Round Court in the Strand" following price statement, see No. 2774 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., 1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 22.6 x 31.6 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., On laid paper and mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted opposite page 1 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 (Geographic):
Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Crowds, Fans (Accessories), Military uniforms, British, and Parks