"Below the title: 'The Woman who shews General Guise collection of Pictures at Oxford'. She stands directed to the left., holding a pointer with which she slyly points to a picture of Suzanna and the Elders. She is old and grotesquely ugly, wearing a hat over a frilled cap, an apron, and bunched-up skirt. Her left hand is on her hip, a large key dangling from the fourth finger. A corner of the room is shown, the pictures fitted closely together; three rows are depicted, hung above a dado; a fourth is indicated. The pictures are very freely drawn, and one at least is burlesqued."--British Museum online catalogue, description of alternate state.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Initials burnished from plate: JN (John Nixon)., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Nixon, John, -1818, artist.
"The dignified houses of Pall Mall, receding in perspective from right to left, form a background to a crowd of carriages and pedestrians all fashionably dressed except for a woman carrying a basket."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Title etched below image., and Two lines of quoted verse on either side of title: "O bear me to the paths of fair Pall Mall, safe are thy pavemts., grateful is thy smell ...
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A Quaker (left), standing on his toes, faces four stout and elderly Commissioners seated at a small table, who register surprise and disapproval. Three of them say: "What an impertinent fellow to keep on his hat before such a dignified Assembly!"; "None of your theese and thous here Sir--come to the point--we know you have evaded certain duties," and, "Pray Sir do you know what we sit here for?" The Quaker, his hands folded, answers: "Verily I do--some sit here for £500 others for a £1000--and more over I have heard it reported that some sit here for two--thousand pounds per annum"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "276" in upper right corner., Reissue, with date burnished from imprint statement leaving a gap between "London, Published" and "by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." For earlier state numbered "23" and published 9 July 1807, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.07.09.02.1+., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Companion print: The holy friar., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Six lines of verse below design: After supper of heaven I dream. But that is faith pullets & clouted [sic] cream ..., and Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.