Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 February 1772]
Call Number:
772.02.05.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists clenched and despair on his face. In his lap lies a pair of breeches he is sewing; above on the wall of their meagre abode hangs an advertisement placard next to which is drawn a small stag's head with antlers
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by W. Humphrey, St. Martin's Lane
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sitting rooms -- Tables -- Wine -- Firescreens -- Mantels.
A party of two well-dressed couples, the women holding umbrellas, are caught in a wind and rain storm as they travel in a open carriage. A coachman and footman attend the party
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published August 8th, 1826 by T. Gillard, 40 Strand
Title from caption below center image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 1831 by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Covt. Garden
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Courtship, Couples, and Eating & drinking
Depicts a lady seated at her dressing table, her elaborate mountain of hair being combed by her equally coiffed hair-dresser who stands behind her. The lady turns to see her husband who has just entered the room in riding dress, his whip upraised. Behind him in the doorway, the housemaid, winking at the viewer, raises two fingers above his head. Two portaits hang on the wall in the background
Alternative Title:
Hint to the husbands and Dresser properly dressed
Description:
Title from item. and A reduced copy of no. 5467 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires; tentatively attributed by George to P. Dawe.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cuckolds, Couples, Hairdressing, Dressing tables, Boudoirs, and Clothing & dress
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '207' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1794 -- Trades: hairdressers.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A girl, in profile to the left, seated on the box-seat of a four-wheeled cart drawn by a pair of horses. She is receiving a driving-lesson from a man who sits behind her on the edge of the cart in which is a sheaf of straw. On the side of the cart is a board inscribed "Tom Longtrot's Academy for Young Ladies. Driving taught to an Inch, Ladies compleatly finish'd in a fortnight, for Gig, Whiskey, or Phaeton: Single Lesson half a Crown, Five for half a Guinea". The girl holds whip and reins very awkwardly, the hind wheel passes over one of a litter of small pigs which is with a sow in the foreground. A short stout citizen (left) clutches a post or mile-stone in alarm at the prospect of being run over. The driver wears an elaborate hat with feathers and a muslin dress, very unlike the dress of the fashionable women-whips of the day, cf. BMSat 6114. Beneath the title is engraved, "Hammersmith Turnpike", and,"When once the Women taken the Reins in hand, 'Tis then too true, that Men have no command." Behind the cart the upper part of the toll-house appears, with the head of a grinning spectator, probably the toll-keeper. By the toll is a large rectangular Georgian house with a square pillared porch inscribed "WILL-SON". This is the inn, The Bell and Anchor, at the corner of Blyth Road close to Olympia"
Alternative Title:
Morning visit to Betsy Cole
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Hammersmith Turnpike., and Date erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard London
Title from caption below image., Artist from signature on companion print in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication based on that of the print from which this design was copied. See no. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner., Design consists of ten figures arranged in two rows., A companion print to no. 7229A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Window mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Volume 2, page 55. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A strip design of ten couples in different stages of the minuet, All dance in silence; the expressions of the male dancers denote anxiety, determination, or complacency. All are intended to be ugly, or awkward, or both, but the figures have charm, and even in some cases a certain grace. ... None of the men suggests a parson, most are lean and none corpulent by eighteenth-century standards."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image on second and third plates., Variant state, lacking the text "Bos, Fur, Sus, atque Sacerdos" above image on second plate. Cf. No. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., A single design on four plates., Text in Latin below title, etched on second and third plates: Longa Tysonum Minuit Quid Velit et possit rerum concordia discors. Horace., Mounted on page 55 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink beneath Latin text: Tyson was Master of the Ceremonies at Bath.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
"A sailor walking (right to left) arm in arm with a young woman, her right arm in his left. He wears striped trousers, and carries a cane. She wears a ribbon-trimmed hat, short petticoat with an over-dress draped above it at the back, and an apron. Behind are steps leading to a sea-wall, with ships. On the left are trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed and date erased from this impression., Date of imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Numbered in lower left of plate, 459.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Sailors, British, Military uniforms, and Clothing & dress