Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 January 1792]
Call Number:
792.01.10.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Elderly men sit and stand, all smoking long pipes; large clouds of smoke issue from their mouths, but little or nothing comes from the bowls of their pipes. Most sit or stand silently morose; two standing men (left) appear to be puffing smoke in each other's faces. One leans back, apparently asleep, but smoking. An ugly man seated on the extreme right takes the hand of a pretty young woman who stands opposite him; he holds a large key. She slips a note into the hand of a fierce-looking military officer who stands with his back to her. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'At a general meeting of this Society, it was resolv'd by a Majority of Independent members, that any member may be Indulg'd with having the Key brought him, by his Servant or hand-maid, but on no pretence whatever be followd by that bane of good fellowship calld the White Sergeant.' Above the door are framed Rules: 'Ist No Gemman to be a member of this Society who cannot smoke three pipes at one sitting - NB no Spitting 2d No members pipe to be more than 14 Inches nor less than nine unless permitted so to do by the Landlady 3d Every member to find his own Stopper 4th Any member who puffs designedly in the face of another, to be find sixpence or be puff'd at in return by the whole company 5th All fines to be spent in Porter T. Twig Secy' On the back wall is a large print of Sir Walter Raleigh seated smoking (right) while a servant raises a bucket to fling at the smoke."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smoking club
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Another state or copy without publication line and with statements of responsibility: Bunbury, delt. C. Knight, sculp.
Publisher:
Publish'd 10 Jany. 1792 by Bull & Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618,
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Eating & drinking, Seduction, Smoking, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Elderly men sit and stand, all smoking long pipes; large clouds of smoke issue from their mouths, but little or nothing comes from the bowls of their pipes. Most sit or stand silently morose; two standing men (left) appear to be puffing smoke in each other's faces. One leans back, apparently asleep, but smoking. An ugly man seated on the extreme right takes the hand of a pretty young woman who stands opposite him; he holds a large key. She slips a note into the hand of a fierce-looking military officer who stands with his back to her. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'At a general meeting of this Society, it was resolv'd by a Majority of Independent members, that any member may be Indulg'd with having the Key brought him, by his Servant or hand-maid, but on no pretence whatever be followd by that bane of good fellowship calld the White Sergeant.' Above the door are framed Rules: 'Ist No Gemman to be a member of this Society who cannot smoke three pipes at one sitting - NB no Spitting 2d No members pipe to be more than 14 Inches nor less than nine unless permitted so to do by the Landlady 3d Every member to find his own Stopper 4th Any member who puffs designedly in the face of another, to be find sixpence or be puff'd at in return by the whole company 5th All fines to be spent in Porter T. Twig Secy' On the back wall is a large print of Sir Walter Raleigh seated smoking (right) while a servant raises a bucket to fling at the smoke."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Smoking club
Description:
Title from caption below image., Year of publication based on imprint on different state in British Museum: London, Publish'd 10 Jany. 1792 by Bull & Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill., Possible earlier state of impression in British Museum with publication line and varying statements of responsibility. Cf. no. 8220 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Added in later hand above title: Jany. 1810.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618,
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Eating & drinking, Seduction, Smoking, and Pipes (Smoking)
"A man in quasi-fashionable dress with spurred top-boots and knee-breeches gapes oafishly at a print-shop window, while a little boy, respectably dressed, takes a purse from his breeches-pocket, having already twitched a handkerchief from the coat-tail pocket which hangs inside out. Behind (right) a lady stares through an eye-glass. In each pane of the curved window of a corner-shop (Berthoud's?) is a print. One of the Devil faces a portrait of the 'Duke of Wellington'; these are 'The Pair Half a Crown' [cf. BM Satires Nos. 13826, 15646]; 'Up to every thing' is a tall soldier, taking the hand of a woman at a first-floor window; 'A Loan' is BM Satires No. 14993; 'Man of Taste' is a man at the counter of a ham and beef shop (cf. BM Satires No. 13127); 'Remember the Post Boy your Honor', scene in an inn yard. There are other prints, one is a double sheet: 'Joe Lisle Play upon words'. There is a Paul Pry (not resembling Liston, cf. BM Satires No. 15138), and against the pickpocket's head is a print of an empty gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Boys, City & town life, Merchandise displays, Pickpockets, Prints, Stores & shops, and Witnesses
Title from item, Numbered '316' in lower right of plate., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Near five o'clock - his comrade's gone, and luckless squander left alone ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Spendthrifts -- Young men -- Furnishings: wall clock -- Window curtain -- Lighting: candleholder -- Dishes: china bowl -- Money: empty purse -- Smoking: pipe -- Gambling: playing cards -- Male dress, ca. 1765., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., State without imprint. Cf. No. 4141 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Laws and statutes: repeal of the Stamp Act -- Laws and statutes: Cyder act -- Monuments -- Demons: Fury -- MIrrors: hand-held mirror -- Rebellions: skulls of the Jacobite rebels -- Poverty -- Emblems: tobacco leaves -- Emblems: apple tree branch as Cyder act -- Stamps: caricature of stamps for the American colonies., Watermark: countermark: initials GR below crown., and Mounted to 30 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Scott, James, 1733-1814, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from item., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
"Satire; a fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'; a more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so-'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1822.
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 February 1772]
Call Number:
772.02.16.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed young woman sits at a writing table as she seals an envelope with her stamp while her maid, standing in front of the table, waits attentively. A picture on the wall behind them depicts Cupid flying with an envelope in his hand. From behind a curtain on the right, a man peers into the room, curious and wide-eyed. The title perhaps a specific reference to the play of the same title by Benjamin Hoadly
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Letters: love letters -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furniture: ladderback chair -- Candle holders., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 16, 1772 by R. Marshall, N. 4 Aldermary Church Yard