"A rich farmer's parlour or drawing-room, with curtains drawn over two high windows (right). Betty, plump and bucolic, wearing a high-waisted dress with short sleeves, sits at a square piano (left), in profile to the left, laboriously playing and sing...
Alternative Title:
Farmer Giles and his wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours on her return from school
Description:
Title etched below image.
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Publish'd January 1st, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The undergraduate walks diagonally (right to left) across the grass of a College court; under his arm is a book: 'Advice to Freshmen'. Behind him (right) the grossly obese Master stands in a Gothic doorway leading from a staircase, pointing angrily a...
Alternative Title:
Rake's-progress at the university. No. 2
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title.
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Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"The undergraduate, cap in hand, stands with bent head facing a table at the opposite end of which stands the Master, obese, drink-blotched, and angry, delivering sentence. Six Fellows stand at the table, three a side, all glaring at the culprit, and ...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress at the university. No. 5
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title.
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Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"A 'cit', ugly and elderly, sits full face at right angles to the fire (right). He has been suddenly awakened by two squalling cats behind him (left) and registers surprise and terror, with staring eyes and gaping, distorted mouth. Both hands are rais...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd November 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. From the edge of the ice (r.) projects a post with a notice-board: 'Humane Society - Whereas this Pond is very de...
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing : making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency! and Elements of skating : making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency!
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Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"While crossing a ford the horse of a man with a lady seated behind him rears and snorts and prepares to gallop after the hunt: huntsmen follow a pack in full cry on the opposite hill (r.). The lady is very fat and wears a light, loose dress with a cl...
Alternative Title:
Danger of riding an old-hunter
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Title etched below image.
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Publishd. December 1st, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"A tall thin man on a well-bred hone gallops (l. to r.) close to the sea. He bends forward, his flying coat-tails making his back a concave line. The cliff and curving pier of Scarborough, with a low coastal fortification, are on the extreme left."--B...
Alternative Title:
View of the peer of Scarborough
Description:
Title etched below image; the first 'e' in 'peer' is scored through and an 'i' inserted above using a caret.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 18th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"An old woman stands on a pavement in in profile to the left., holding a basket containing nosegays on her right. arm. She has sharp features and is very neatly dressed in a plain figured gown gathered at the waist by a string. She wears a flat hat of...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd May 12th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A stout, elderly, well-dressed man walks along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding, reversed, a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe w...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Autumn, City & town life, Rain, Streets, and Weather
