"A design partly bisected by a vertical line. The same lady sits (left) directed to the left at her dressing-table, wearing only a long chemise or petticoat, and slippers. On the right she sits, in the same attitude but directed to the right, fully dressed at the same dressing-table. In undress she is almost bald; a wig of naturally-dressed hair is on a stand on the table. She has an over-long neck and skinny arms. On the the table (left) are her fan, a locket suspended on a ribbon, cosmetic-boxes, and a bottle labelled 'Wrinkles'. When dressed her neck is concealed by a lace ruffle on a chemisette, she has long rucked sleeves, in her gloved hand is her fan. She wears a high-waisted gown under which her legs are defined; she wears elaborately embroidered stockings with flat slippers. Her wig seems to be luxuriant natural hair; she wears an ear-ring. On the dressing-table are boxes, a bottle of 'Lavender', and tickets inscribed 'Opera' and 'Cards'. She looks young and handsome, the dress (not exaggerated) effectively concealing her weakest points."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fashionable lady in dress and undress
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 14 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.7 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Wigs, and Cosmetics
Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he holds up, beckoning with his right hand to two bare-legged men in Highland dress who are climbing up the mountain behind Johnson. In the foreground are thistles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., A companion print to: A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side., On paper watermarked "W.J.", and Tipped in opposite title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a hill-side looking away to left, her hands joined under her apron, wearing a broad-brimmed hat over a veil, a cross and chain around her neck and a gown with a laced bodice, holding a crook in the crook of her left arm with two shaggy dogs at her heels and a view of a church spire smong trees and a castle at the foot of a hill behind to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 45 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 18.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Feb. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
Alternative Title:
Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 45 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 18.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 5. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 43. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 43 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 17.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Frontispiece. Dandyism displayed, or, The follies of the Ton.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two couples, the men on the right and the women on the left: the couple at top half for 'dandies in a morning dress', the man in morning suit with hat and umbrella, the woman with large hat and shawl; the other couple at bottom half for 'dandies in a evening dress', the man in short evening jacket with handkerchief, the woman with large feather headpiece."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to George Cruikshank by Cohn., Frontispiece to: Bisset, J. Dandyism displayed, or, The follies of the Ton. London : Published by Duncombe ..., [approximately 1820]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Duncombe
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Umbrellas, Hats, Handkerchiefs, and Headdresses
Page 133. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably dressed lady and gentleman are seated facing each other, a tea-table between them. She wears an enormous 'derrière' and a projecting bosom; a round hat with a huge brim surrounded by a curtain frill of lace, through which her eyes and much-curled hair are visible. He wears a tight-fitting coat with a high collar, large buttons, and projecting shirt-frill. His hair or wig is in a looped queue with large side-curls. He looks at himself in a pocket-mirror with a satisfied air. His cane and round hat are on a chair behind him. The 'antient' dresses are those of the three quarter length portraits on the wall: in the centre are a gentleman and lady standing together in early Georgian dress, each holds a crook, a bird sits on the lady's finger. This is flanked by a lady (left) in quasi-Elizabethan dress, wearing a conical hat, a ruff, and a hooped petticoat in the form of a cylinder; and a man (right) wearing a high hat, cloak, slashed doublet, and breeches, holding a hooded hawk."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dresses antient and modern
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costume -- Men's costume -- Pocket mirror -- Pictures that amplify subject., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 28 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 133 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. May 16, 1786, by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Mirrors, Tea services, and Chairs
Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 39. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman stands in front of a cliff, facing right, wearing a dress and a hat; a stringed instrument, which she grasps with both hands, is slung around her shoulders with a ribbon or strap; the roof of a cottage, some trees, and the side of a mountain are seen behind her on the right
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 39 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 37.3 x 29.0 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Peasants, Clothing & dress, Stringed instruments, and Dwellings