Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1771]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 34.8 x 24.2 cm, folded to 31 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 49 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:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
"View in an oval frame, showing the school building, part of Christ's Hospital on Newgate Street, London; a school master with a group of boys in coats in foreground, a church steeple in the background; below a paragraph on the history of the building, from a separate plate; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London
Description:
Title etched within lower border of oval image., Heading to nine lines of engraved text on a separate plate (7.4 x 17.4 cm), printed beneath plate with image: Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London., Citation at bottom of text on separate plate: See Pennants London, 3 edition., Plate from: Smith, J.T. Antiquities of London and its environs. London : Pubd. by J. Sewell [etc.], 1791[-1800]., and Bound in opposite page 206 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1 - 1793 by N. Smith, Gt. Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
"View of the tavern and tea house, known as Hornsey Wood House, in Harringay, north London; a family walking past in foreground, two pigs to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Fifth 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 "5" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 50 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published 12th Septemr. 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and "Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a Greek inscription and mock coat-of-arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Charles Christian the engraver and Humphrey Skelton the upholsterer, notorious for their bad tempers lived, perhaps together, in the house, which acquired the name Bear's Den Hall by virtue of their eccentricities., and Titled 'W. prospect of Bears Den Hall, in the county of Surrey.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Putney.
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a mock coat-of-arms at the bottom.--From variant state in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Early state, before Greek motto added at bottom of image. For a later state with this added text, see no. 1695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Approximate date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "This cottage was the country residence on Putney Heath of C. C. Reisen, seal engraver and painter, and Skelton, upholsterer, and kept at their joint expense"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1847,0713.15)., and "The print is not a satire, but rather a jokey plate made for private distribution to friends"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1866,1110.1468).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
Caption title., First line: On Friday night 24th ult. a murder was committed at a place about 6 miles from the town of Watford, Herts. ..., Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem with the heading "A copy of verses": A horrid deed I will relate, but newly brought to light, a deed so foul and barbarous, you've seldom heard the like ..., The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder. The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Ct., 7 Dials, London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Hertfordshire., and England.
Subject (Name):
Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: A poor soul sat sighing beneath a tall tree ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, No. 14, Great Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title page in red and black., With a half-title., In this edition the last line of the Dunciad is correctly numbered 620., Horizontal chain lines., Signatures: [A]², B-E⁸, F⁴ (F4 blank), ²A-H⁸, I²., and One of ten volumes rebound in mottled calf by Riviere for Sir William Fraser (1826-1898), three of which are added volumes not Horace Walpole's. With Horace Walpole's bookplate 1 and press-mark K.5.22 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763 (marked 9 vols. but only 7 were sold); moved to the Glass Closet. Also with bookplates of Sir William Fraser, Beverly Chew, and James Wyckoff.
A satire on a 6 May 1791 scene between Fox and Burke in the House of Commons which resulted in their permanent estangement. Fox stands weeping as a boy kneels at his feet filling a bucket, the tears are so copious. Burke, turns back to look at him, clenching in his one hand "French Constitution and in the other "treason conspiracy, poor old England" as he trodes on a piece of paper "Canada Bill." Other Members of the House cluster on either side of the Speaker's chair shouting support for one or the other
Alternative Title:
Opposition in disorder
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in lower right corner with artist John Nixon's "JN" monogram., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of text from Burke's speech below title: I think myself justified in saying this, because I do know that there are people in this country avowedly endeavouring to disorder its constitution, its government & that in a very bold manner - vide Burk's [sic] speech., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.9 x 37.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 470 (leaf numbered '76' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publd. May 10, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764-1845
Subject (Topic):
France, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Debates, Books, Ceremonial maces, Crying, Handkerchiefs, Buckets, Constitutions, Legislation, Documents, Demons, and Bellows
