Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '208' in lower right corner., Seven lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Hence from the busy joy resounding fields ... Vide Thomsons Seasons., Companion print to three other prints representing seasons: Spring, Summer, and Winter, published on the same day by the same publisher., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: The seasons by James Thomson, 1700-1748 -- Hunting -- Fruit.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A young gentleman with a riding crop, a macaroni, stands before a money-lender leaning on a table, his hands on a bag of gold coins. The young man offers a packet of papers wrapped with a ribbon to the older man as he glances up from his task of counting up his wealth, his feather pen in his mouth
Alternative Title:
Avarice and dissipation
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '4' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: gaming room -- Manners: gaming room manners -- Gambling: card playing -- Lighting: chandeliers -- Drunkards -- Window curtains -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom and top., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Young Cupid of all makes a prize ..., One from the series of eleven plates "Love in Caricature.", One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Vices: avarice -- Furniture: chairs -- Money: guineas -- Scales: balances.
Publisher:
Pubd Augst 1, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead ; Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
A view of a church at Avening from the town road, including the churchyard with gravestones
Description:
Title engraved below image., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Monument of Bruges in Avening. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [178-?]., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '23' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Caption title., First line: In the county of Norfolk, lived one Mr. Matthew Grey, a gentleman about 39 years of age, possessed of a very good estate., Printed in three columns. With three woodcut illustrations at top: one depicting a man about to hurl an infant; one depicting a man and a woman hanging from nooses; and one depicting a woman burning an infant's corpse in a fireplace while being watched through a window. With "A copy of verses" printed in lower right: Give ear to this most horrid tale, this dismal tragedy, so foul and deep it cannot fail to moisten every eye. ..., Matthew Grey, apparently insane, decided his wife was unfaithful and that he was not the father of his three children. Enraged, he murdered his entire family. The gruesome sounds of the murders attracted the attention of his neighbors, who rushed to the scene and apprehended Grey. Susan Smith, a girl of 17, was pregnant with an unwanted child. Unable to abort the pregnancy, she murdered the baby shortly after it was born. Her crime was discovered when a neighbor saw her attempting to burn the baby's corpse in a fireplace., Printer's advertisement following imprint: -- Cards and handbills printed very neat and cheap., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England, Norfolk., and England.
Subject (Name):
Grey, Matthew, -approximately 1830. and Smith, Susan, -approximately 1830.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Infanticide, Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A series of six scenes arranged in two rows in which a French dancing master attempts to instruct his clumsy English students in the art of dance
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "87" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 30 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A series of six scenes arranged in two rows in which a French dancing master attempts to instruct his clumsy English students in the art of dance
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "87" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Number "111" written in ink at top center of sheet.
A portly, bald gentleman with a churchwarden pipe looks over his shoulder towards the viewer
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Numbered '21' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.