A woman sits on the lap of a man as they embrass and kiss as the chair that he sits on topples over. They sit in a parlor with ornately designed rug
Alternative Title:
View of Cardigan and Pastime in York Street
Description:
Title and imprint from caption written in ms. below image., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1821.
Publisher:
Pub. by Keys, 23 Upper Mary-le bone St., Portland Place, for the proprietor
Subject (Name):
Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, Earl of, 1797-1868
Watercolor drawing that provides a view from the back window of a house on the west side of St Martin’s Lane and shows the buildings running behind St Martin’s Lane. Identifiable on the right of the image is the building occupied by the bookseller John Noble, as Sandby has included his shop sign, a bust of Dryden, placed over his door and a trade sign advertising his circulating library. In the projecting bay-window to the right of the composition, a man can be seen at work
Description:
Title and date from dealer's description. and See Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, Recent Acquisitions, 2019/2020, pp. 46-49. fuller description and history.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England),, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Cityscape drawings, Neighborhood, Signs (Notices), and Stores & shops
LWL Ptg. 102 Framed, on view in Administration Area
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the Ponte Lucano and the Mausoleo dei Plauzi, or the tomb of the Plautius family, located near Tivoli in Italy. The rural scene is populated with figures both at work and leisure. Patch painted this type of scene for English grand tourists
Alternative Title:
Italianate river landscape and Italian riverscape
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: An Italianate River Landscape.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Tivoli.
Subject (Name):
Mausoleo dei Plauzi (Tivoli, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Mausoleums, Bridges, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Rivers, and Ruins
Title from British Museum catalogue., Second of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: spatterdashers, 1792 -- Trades: fishwives -- Bottle-holders -- Walking-matches -- Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Innes, Edward, d. 1808 -- Cooper, James, d. 1818 (jeweler and Innes's bottle-holder).
[1792, i.e. not before 1842] and [printed not before 1842]
Call Number:
792.00.00.45.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., First of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792., "No. 1.", Restrike of No. 8184 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Walking-matches -- Bottle-holders -- Trades: fishwives -- Baskets: creels -- Fish -- Harnesses -- Bell, Hamilton -- Rae, John (surgeon-dentist and Bell's bottle-holder)., and "No. 1" in upper left corner illegible.
A social satire: a "curtain lecture" with a standing woman in night-clothes, one breast expose, berating a man in bed, who draws the bed-covers up to his chin. The bedroom has a large casement window through which is seen moonlight; on the sill are three bottles. Beside the bed is a chair on which his coat hangs; on the floor his unbuckled shoes and a candle
Alternative Title:
William and Margaret
Description:
Letterpress fragments from a ballad, pasted to the bottom edge of the print: William and Margaret. A Burlesque. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S. Watts, No. 50 Strand
Wash drawing depicting a plainly dressed woman holding the hand of her small child while buying goods from a street vendor. The vendor is scooping goods from a large portage basket strapped to his horse and weighing the purchase in a two pan beam balance scale
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Drawing dated from Bruce Robertson's The art of Paul Sandby,1985, fig. 121.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Children, Mothers, Scales, and Street vendors