"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
"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 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
"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
"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
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Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
"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
"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...
"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
"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
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Dillon, Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, Viscount, 1777-1832
"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