"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
A German copy of Hogarth's "The Discovery" (1743?): a scene in a bedoom where four gentlemen stand beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain. The scene is thought to record a practical joke carried out on the lothario John Highmore by his friends: having arranged an assignation with an attractive young woman, they replaced her with a black prostitute. When he discovered the swap, on climbing into bed, they appeared from hiding. See Paulson
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name below image, right, most erased from this impression, After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155., Date based on publication date of the Samuel Ireland copy of this Hogarth image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below title: Ein Personalcaricatur! Ein gewisser Highmore, der im Spiel und mit Mädchen sein Vermögen durchgebracht hatte ..., Plate numbered "30" in upper right margin., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal, v. 3, no. 2600., and Sheet laid on board.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Highmore, John, 1694-1759,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Actors, British, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Practical jokes, Prostitutes, and Women
"Social satire; two seated women, one on a wooden chair, dressed simply with a bonnet tied with a ribbon round her chin and holding a letter, the other on a sofa, more fashionably dressed, with jewellery and holding a fan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., 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.
Publisher:
Published 24th Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Women, Chairs, Sofas, and Fans (Accessories)
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone looking at the watch in her hand, disappointment written over her face
Description:
Reissue by Fores, "London Pubd July 1792" scored through., Four lines of verse below title: With trembling step and downcast eyes, Hopeless to meet her facour'd Swain; Eliza breathes the troubled sigh, WEith words that inward griefs explain., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Sadness, Women, and Clothing & dress
An elderly doctor in an old-fashioned wig, holding his silver-headed cane to his nose, takes the pulse of a young woman seated on a sofa. Her eyes are averted to avoid his leering gaze. A bottle of "Blessed Medicine" protrudes from his left pocket
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Medicine bottles -- Female dress, 1772 -- Canes.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Young adults, Women, Medicines, Bottles, Staff (Sticks), and Wallpapers
An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.318., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text beneath title: "Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Name):
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Street musicians, Harps, Older people, Poor persons, Women, and Doors & doorways
publish'd according to the act of Parliam[...] [not before 1738]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Elizabeth Adams, three-quarter length, seated to left, holding a notebook titled "Repenting sins", shown with both hands on her lap, wearing bonnet and plain dress. Adams was a criminal who was hanged for robbery in 1738. Resemblance to a figure in William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, plate 6; and tentatively attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of the end of the publication statement., and On page 63 in volume 1. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 194.
Leaf 56. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Droll: a fat and jolly woman representing 1760 seated facing a thin gin-sodden woman of 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Emblems of 1760 and 1780
Description:
Title engraved below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.64., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: In this poor and humble station, see an emblem of the nation ..., and On leaf 56 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1st Jany. 1780, by Robt. Wilkinson, at No. 58 in Cornhill and Field & Tuer
A view of the interior of a busy English barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (left); beside her, one soldier brushes his britches while another adjusts his helmet. A second woman (center) carries a child on her back as she hands a drink to a soldier who sits on a bunk; a basket of rolls (?) hangs from her arm. A third woman (left) stands at a washing tub wringing out clothes as she looks up approvingly at a young boy dressed as a soldier; beside her a handsome, well-dressed solder holds a baby who smiles at the scene
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: French barracks., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Army
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Arms & armament, Barracks, British, Breast feeding, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Laundry, Soldiers, English, and Women