"A thin, sharp-featured man walks in the teeth of the wind, holding on his hat, and with his left hand in his breeches pocket. His hat-brim, hair, cravat, coat, the tail of his shirt, the strings of his breeches and shoes, all fly backwards. He walks ...
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"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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Publish'd November 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
In front of Humphrey's print shop window, a man sits on the pavement, having fallen backwards; his legs are splayed up, his wig is falling off, and coins spill from his pockets. The man's predicament is unobserved by four men studying the Gillray pri...
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St. James's Street
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Coach drivers, Falling, Merchandise displays, Military officers, British, Older people, People associated with commercial & service activities, Prints, Syphilis, Stores & shops, Thermometers, Weather, Window displays, and Printing industry
"A very fat lady crouches in a shell drawn by two swans; she holds (tricolour) reins attached to the birds' necks; a carriage-whip is in her right hand. She has a blotched profile; snaky curls hang oddly over her face; she wears a swathed neck-cloth o...
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Venus a la coquille, Swan-sea Venus, and Swansea Venus
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Publishd. March 28th, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Kemble, in tattered theatrical dress, stands at the gate of Northumberland House in the Strand, holding out his hat and bowing to the obese and oafish-looking Duke of Northumberland, who is placing a "Draft for 10,000 Pounds" in the hat; in his right ...
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New dramatic resource : "a begging we will go! A scene from Covent Garden Theatre after the conflagration
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Publishd. Jany. 15, 1809, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Strand, The (London, England), and Covent Garden Theatre.
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Fires, Fools & jesters, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
"The lady sits facing her reflection in a pier-glass. She wears a plain muslin gown with long sleeves and holds an open book: 'Delphine'. Her hair is cropped; the maid holds the brown wig with tight curls which she is about to place on her mistress's ...
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Progress of the toilet : the wig
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Publish'd February 26th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Three handsome young men, stooping slightly, walk languidly arm-in-arm along a pavement in profile to the left. They have a strong family resemblance, with variations in profile and in the size of their whiskers. They are dressed alike, except for di...
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Pubd. June 16th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Sheridan, as Punch, grotesquely caricatured, stands on a platform, above the heads of a cheering crowd, blowing soap-bubbles. Clusters of soap-suds fall from the pipe, and from it rises an oval containing a figure of Young Roscius, in Highland dress ...
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Publishd. Jany. 7th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"A young woman stands in profile to the left, at a dressing-table, while a buxom ladies' maid laces a pair of long stays. She wears a boudoir cap tied under the chin, and holds a flat ruler-shaped stick under the stays in front to regulate the operati...
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Progress of the toilet : the stays
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Publish'd February 26th, 1810, 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...
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Danger of riding an old-hunter
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Publishd. December 1st, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"The Duke of Clarence stands full face, realistically depicted but cruelly caricatured, with porcine features. He wears a cylindrical hat with curved brim, a double-breasted coat with star, cut away to show the lower part of a double-breasted waistcoa...
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Publishd. June 26th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The undergraduate (r.) finds himself face to face with the Master who is walking with a Fellow across the College quadrangle. He stops, putting his hand to his cap, while his dog tries to take cover behind his legs and gown. A college servant behind ...
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Rake's progress at the university. No. 3
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Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"A stout man in regimentals holds a greyhound on a leash; he looks with a sly smile towards a yokel (l.) who points to the left., as if to show the whereabouts of a hare. The officer slyly indicates with a forefinger two horses whose heads only appear...
"A fashionably dressed man canters in profile to the left on a well-bred horse. He holds his single rein with both hands. He has a large whisker, and wears a small hat, swathed stock, and shirt-frill with tail-coat and top-boots. No background."--Brit...
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Publish'd June 29th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An elderly man, holding his umbrella in front of him to form a sail, cannonades into another skater, who falls, the apex of the umbrella entering his mouth, while his foot strikes the stomach of the aggressor. The ice cracks beneath them. The latter ...
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Elements of skateing : the consequence of going before the wind and Elements of skating : the consequence of going before the wind
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Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An adaptation in reverse of No. 7508 by Sayers. The Prince's head, set in a star which is the head of the comet, is as in No. 7508 except for the addition of a stock between the wings of the coat-collar. In the comet's tail the first profile head is ...
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Pubd. Jany. 1811 by T. Moon, Westminster
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Ponsonby, George, 1755-1817, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"Three young women, dressed alike in clinging dresses and straw bonnets trimmed with ribbons, are distressed by a high wind. Their dresses are above the ankle, and differ from those in No. 11594 in having long tight sleeves, and longer waists. Two hol...
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Publish'd May 26th by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The Duke of Portland and Mrs. Billington sit side by side on a settee; she sings to him, he listens ecstatically, with clasped hands, his head turned in profile to the right., staring with amorous intensity. She holds her music, but looks alluringly ...
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Pubd. April 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
"The Duke of Portland and Mrs. Billington sit side by side on a settee; she sings to him, he listens ecstatically, with clasped hands, his head turned in profile to the right., staring with amorous intensity. She holds her music, but looks alluringly ...
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Pubd. April 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
"An unshaven man, wearing only nightcap, shirt, breeches, and slippers, stands by the fireside grimacing with disgust, a medicine-bottle in one hand, full cup in the other. A dying fire, bare boards, and medicine-bottles on the chimney-piece add to th...
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Publish'd Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"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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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Autumn, City & town life, Rain, Streets, and Weather
"A pedestrian, flimsily dressed in tail-coat, nankeen trousers, and pumps, struggles against driving rain, turning an agonized face to the spectator. He walks (r. to left.) on a muddy track beside a decayed paling. A raven croaks on a rotten tree. In ...
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, sayi...
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Publish'd May 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A grotesquely dilapidated post-chaise stands outside a ramshackle inn (r.); the driver lashes the horses cruelly, a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, but the wretched animals refuse to move. A barefooted slattern approaches from the r. with a huge re...
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Publish'd. April 8th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"A loutish yokel (l.), holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile (r.), her features twisted in a sly grimace. In the background (l.) men reap a corn-field, and corn-stooks cover a more distant...
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Publishd. Jany. 23d, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"An elderly man stands in profile to the right outside a building on which are election placards, holding out his (orange-coloured) hat in which is a favour and a ticket inscribed Milton. He is curiously square, round-shouldered, long-waisted, and ban...
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Pubd. March 6th, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 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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Publish'd May 12th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Young women, gaily dressed, ride donkeys along a rough road at the edge of a cliff indicated by a railing and the sea below. There are three groups inscribed respectively 'Kicking-Sett', 'Active-Sett', and 'Passive Sett'. On the extreme left. one don...
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Publish'd Jany. 24th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
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Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Sir Busick Harwood and his wife lie side by side in a magnificent bed whose curtains frame the design. Both smoke long pipes. He (left) is small, lean and aquiline, she is large and comely. On the bed lies a letter: 'Sir--be you Sick', and, by the la...
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Matins at Downing College, Cambridge
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Publish'd March 28th, 1810, 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...
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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
"A man walks along the pavement in profile to the left., stooping from the waist but with head erect. He wears spectacles and carries a stick. He approaches the door (left) of Christies, which is partly visible. On the pillar hangs the usual catalogue...
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Publishd. May 9th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833
"Copy of a French print. A fashionable promenade. Two men walk towards each other, each with a lady hanging to each arm, all have their faces concealed by some part of their dress, hat, or collar, or both. One man has a round hat, with a fantastically...
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Dèpose à la Bibliot. Nat., Rue Montmartre, No. 132, et à Londres, chez H. Humphrey, St. James Street
"Copy of a French print. Two fantastically dressed couples dance, but in different manners. One pair (left) dance side by side, the man's right arm on his partner's waist, her left arm on his shoulder. The other couple face each other, the lady leanin...
Alternative Title:
Bon genre, 1810
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Dépose à la Bibliot. Nat., Rue Montmartre, No. 132, et à Londres, chéz H. Humphrey, St. James Street, No. 27
"The Earl of Harrington sits erect on horseback in profile to the left, his leg awkwardly thrust out. He wears a huge cocked hat, long and thick queue, and full-skirted coat. In the background (on his right) ranks of infantrymen are freely sketched; t...
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Pubd. Decr. 4th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"A tall young man rides a prancing horse in profile to the right. He wears a round hat, Jean-de-Bry coat (see BMSat 9425) with flying coat-tails over two waistcoats, the outer one being double-breasted. Long pantaloons and flat pumps complete a costum...
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Pubd. June 4th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Dillon, Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, Viscount, 1777-1832
"A pretty young woman and a fashionably dressed man sing together seated on upright chairs. She (r.) plays the harp, her head thrown back to look over her shoulder at the music-book which he holds open: 'Duets de l'Amour'. On a round table which suppo...
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Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Three tall young women, holding each other by the arm, walk, right to left, with hoydenish grace, their figures defined under trailing, high-waisted, short-sleeved, and low-necked muslin gowns. All are dressed alike with close-cropped hair under clos...
"Five Germans seated at a round table, gormandize savagely on cabbage and sausages. Three are grossly fat and coarse-featured and plebeian; one of these (r.) has tucked the table-cloth round his neck (cf. BMSat 8145). A lean military officer sits in b...
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Germans eating sauerkraut
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Pubd. May 7th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (left) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--British...
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Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Steet
Subject (Topic):
Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
"A fat elderly man in hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak-tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gipsy woman, who reads his hand. He listens, surprised and delighted, while another gipsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, ...
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Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A stout man skates towards the spectator, making curves on very cracked ice. Behind are snow-covered hills. Wild geese fly across the sky."--British Museum online catalogue
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Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An elderly 'cit' sleeps in a low, upright chair, leaning back till his profile faces the ceiling. His hands are clasped over his chest, his wig dangles from his coat-collar, and he puffs from tightly shut lips. The room is bare with a boarded floor. ...
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Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"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...
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Farmer Giles and his wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their neighbours on her return from school
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Publish'd January 1st, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The undergraduate advances dejectedly, raising his cap to a Fellow wearing cap and gown and gaiters, who walks with another wearin clerical wig and bands with a cocked hat, long coat to the ankles, and gold headed cane. The former points angrily at t...
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Rake's progress at the university. No. 4
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Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"The Marquis of Douglas rides a well-bred horse in profile to the left. He sits very erect, just reaching his long stirrups with his toes. He holds the curb-rein with raised hands in a curious manner; the snaffle-rein is tucked under the front of the ...
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Noble Scot metamorphosed
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Pubd. May 7th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, Duke of, 1767-1852
"The lady, dressed for the evening, stands before the pier-glass, drawing on a long glove. She wears an apparently simple dress of sprigged muslin, high-waisted and décolletée, showing her ankles, with draped shoulder-strap. The tight curls of the w...
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Progress of the toilet : dress completed
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Publish'd February 26th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A fat 'cit' halts on the road beside a milestone on which he has hung his hat, to mop his dripping forehead. In his left hand is his wig. His waistcoat is unbuttoned. Against the stone, inscribed 'One Mile from..', leans his gold-headed cane. He stan...
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
