A young foppish man leans towards an older woman, with hands clasped and eyes rolling. Text below: Leave you dear girl!! never, never, (while you have a shilling)
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by L.M. Lefevre
An old man and a young woman sit at a table. He wears a cap with a feather on it; his left arm is around the woman's shoulders. She is lifting a large wine glass. Her companion is holding a large pitcher
A pretty country girl, embraced by a handsome young military officer, turns her back on an ugly countryman on her left who tires to draw her away form her dangerous admirer
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Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '5' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Variant state, with plate number, of no. 11665 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
A print with two images, the first of which is an amorous young couple, enclosed in a garland of fruits and flowers joined at the bottom by a head of a blindfolded cherub on crossed cornucopias of fruit and coin. The second image can be viewed by turning the print upside-down image and shows an older, quarreling couple enclosed by a garland of entwined leafless branches and supported at the bottom by a horned head of a demon. Six lines of verse describing each scene are engraved on the happy couple's side on two goatskins suspended on either side of the image, and on the unhappy couple's side on a skin of an ass and that of a bear, suspended in similar fashion of the sides. The verse on the happy couple's side begins as follows, "When two fond fools together meet, each look gives joy, each kiss is sweet ..." On the unhappy couple's side the verse begins "The nuptials o'er with angry brow the married pair, both peevish grow ..."
Alternative Title:
Unhappy marriage
Description:
Title and imprint from another impression in an Andrew Edmunds sales catalogue (viewed October 2016)., With Carington Bowles series number '33' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles in S. Paul's Churchyard, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, and Metamorphic pictures
First in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's dancing envelope, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., "No. 1.", and Sheet trimmed to design.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Cupids, Love letters, and Postal stationery
In a natural setting under a tree stand a young couple in rustic dress. The young man (left) is asking the pretty young woman (right) to marry him, smiles demurely at him
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Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns: Sylvia sweet can you love me. My mother to it will agree. She would sooner give a cow, Then I should die of love of you ... I would not for a crown, be wedded to a clown, Go for a looby go., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Published July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A sequel to BMSat 5797. Jack and his prize, the young woman of BMSat 5797, sit side by side on a settee, his left arm round her waist. Beside the woman (right) is a circular table, on which is a wine-bottle and two glasses, one of which she holds. The room is well furnished with a patterned carpet, on the wall which forms the background is a picture of a man seated at a table drinking punch, and a mirror in a carved frame with candle sconce"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Couples, Sailors, British, Clothing & dress, and Interiors
A handsome young man embrasses a pretty young woman wearing a fashionable hat as the stand in a grove of trees; he leans toward her, their checks touching. To the right, another pretty young woman peaks out from behind a tree and watches the pair with a distressed look on her face
Alternative Title:
Love and learning and Oxford scholar
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below title and above imprint statement, six lines of verse in two columns: Beauty invites and love & learning plead; The Oxford scholar surely must succeed, Yet Oh, ye blooming soft inclining fair, Of his too fatal eloquence beware; For see a slighted fair one is behind with jealous eye & most distracted mind.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1786, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Couples, Envy, Kissing, Students, and Young adults
"A young woman in rustic dress standing in a field with a cockerel in a cage near her feet, courted by a youth who leans over the fence behind to right, offering her a posy."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "529" in lower left corner., No. 4 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Chickens, Couples, Courtship, and Villages