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46. Matrimonial-harmonics [graphic] / Js. Gillray des. & fect.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 October 25
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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 (l.), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in the corner of a sofa, crouching away from her, his hand over his ear, food stuffed into his mouth, reading the 'Sporting Calendar'. The pages of her open music-book are headed 'Forte'. Her song is: 'Torture Fiery Rage \ Despair I cannot can not bear'. On the piano lies music: 'Separation a Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniment'; on the floor is 'The Wedding Ring - a Dirge'. She wears a becoming morning gown with cap, but has lost the slim grace of BMSat 10472, and her soft features have coarsened. Behind the piano a boisterous coarse-featured nurse hastens into the room holding a squalling infant, and flourishing a (watchman's) rattle. On the lady's chair is an open book, 'The Art of Tormenting', illustrated by a cat playing with a mouse. Her sunshade hangs from the back of the chair. On the breakfast-table are a large hissing urn, a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, &c., a bottle of 'Hollands' (beside the woman's place), and a (full) dish of muffins. The man's coffee-cup is full and steaming. He wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings and slippers. An air of dejection and ill-nature replaces his former good-humoured sprightliness. Under his feet lies a dog, 'Benedick', barking fiercely at an angry cat, poised on the back of the sofa. A square birdcage high on the wall is supported by branching antlers. In it two cockatoos screech angrily at each other, neglecting a nest of three young ones. Beside it (l.) is a bust of 'Hymen' with a broken nose, and (r.) a thermometer which has sunk almost to 'Freezing'. On the chimney-piece is a carved ornament: Cupid asleep under a weeping willow, his torch reversed, the arrows falling from his quiver. This is flanked by vases whose handles are twisted snakes which spit at each other."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Companion print to: "Harmony before matrimony.", Temporary local subject terms: Firepalce -- Musical Instruments: piano -- Furniture: sofa -- Female Costume: Morning gown -- Children's Nurse -- Toys: rattle -- Parasols: sunshade -- Male Costume: Dressing-gown -- Thermometers -- Cupid -- Bell-Pulls., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Matrimonial-harmonics [graphic] / Js. Gillray des. & fect.
47. Harmony before matrimony [graphic] / Js. Gillray des. & ft.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 October 25
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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 supports his elbow as he leans towards her is an open book: 'Ovid' [Art of Love]. She wears clinging draperies. Two cats gambol amorously on music-books on the ground. The elaborate décor of the room stresses the subject of the design. A large wall mirror (l.) hangs above a marble console which is supported on winged heads; a butterfly flies towards its own reflection. Chinese vases containing roses (twin flowers) flank a bowl in which gold-fish swim to meet each other. One vase only is fully visible; it is a scene of courtship. Below the console a heart-shaped vase, decorated with a Sphinx, stands on the floor. An oval picture elaborately framed hangs above the heads of the lovers: a Cupid fires a blunderbuss at two doves billing on a dove-cot. This is flanked by carvings of flowers with (l.) crossed torches (of Hymen) and (r.) the bow and arrows of Cupid. In the foreground (r.) is one corner of a console table supported by a grinning satyr with a cloven hoof; on it is a myrtle plant in an ornamental pot. The luxury of the room is shown by an arcaded wall with pilaster reflected in the mirror, and by a palm-tree pilaster (as in BMSat 10303)."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Companion print to: "Matrimonial-harmonics." and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Harmony before matrimony [graphic] / Js. Gillray des. & ft.
48. A cockney & his wife going to Wycombe [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 June 10
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "The pair, seated in a gig, drive (r. to left.) along a country road, preceded by a mongrel dog carrying a large bone. The man drives the miserable hack with the air of an expert, flicking a heavy lash over the animal's neck. He is smartly dressed with side-whisker, swathed neck-cloth, high collar, and top-boots. His almost spherical wife takes his arm. She holds a little closed parasol, and wears gloves above we elbow. The feather and trimmings of her hat float behind her in the wind. On the side of the gig is a pestle and mortar, showing that the man is an apothecary. The emaciated and decrepit horse has broken knees and gaping wounds under the collar and harness; one pastern is swollen. Birds fly towards it, scenting carrion. A broken milestone (r.) is inscribed 'Miles from London'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Cockney and his wife going to Wycombe
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title etched below image., and Two lines of quoted text emphasizing a lingual accent follow title: "Vednesday vas a week, my vife & I vent to Vest Vycombe, & vhether it vas the vind, or vhether it vas ...
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A cockney & his wife going to Wycombe [graphic].
49. Posting in Scotland [graphic] / C. Loraine Smith Esqr. fecit.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 May 25
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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, saying to the unfortunate traveller: '" - Hald your Haund Mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun! e'n gin you na mind \ "yoursel, youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels! - ' The chaise was drawn by a horse and ass; on the latter, which kicks violently, sits a primitive postilion; the traces are of rope. A shepherd (the muckle laird) reclines in the elbow of the road in the foreground; his dog barks at the chaise, which is followed by a man on a donkey. Horned sheep with tattered fleeces and bare rumps are beside the shepherd (r.). All four Scots are bare-footed, and have bare posteriors, the kilt being a mere apron."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Companion print to: "Posting in Ireland.", Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835, artist.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Posting in Scotland [graphic] / C. Loraine Smith Esqr. fecit.
50. Posting in Ireland [graphic] / C. Loraine Smith Esqr. pinxt.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 April 8
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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 red-hot poker. From the post-chaise leans its occupant, who wears a ribbon and star, and a night-cap. His feet have broken through the ruinous chaise; he threatens the driver with his cane; the latter's words are etched after the title: '"------"Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a'nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker \ "just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, 'tis just to make her start your Honour.' The chaise is roofed with thatch on which a cock is pecking; it is held together by rope, the reins and traces are of rope. The wheels are broken. Above the door of the primitive inn is a placard: 'The New Thatched-House Tavern' [the Thatched House was a fashionable London tavern and club]. On the signboard an eagle attacking a naked infant (Ganymede) is depicted; above is a board: 'Nate Post-Chaise and Whiskey \ Nate \ Entertainment for Man & Beast.' From a brick chimney a little sweep looks out waving his brush. On a bench by the door a man with a crutch and wooden leg sits smoking and drinking, not interested in the departing grandee. In the foreground a lean sow eats from a heap of potatoes; a young pig attempts to suck; another, almost a skeleton, tries to eat potatoes. In the coach-house which is part of the inn, is a second and less-ruinous thatched post-chaise. Beside the road is a stone wall and behind it a signpost, pointing (r.) 'to Ballyragger', (l.) 'to Athlone'"--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Companion print to: "Posting in Scotland.", Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835, artist.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Posting in Ireland [graphic] / C. Loraine Smith Esqr. pinxt.
51. A design for a scene in the intended new melo drama intitled The forty thieves [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 March 23
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "On the left. Fox stands at his tavern-door, which is at r. angles to the front of the house (r.), where a large open sash-window faces the spectator. Below the window is a large inscription: 'C. J. F & Co. Dealers Rectifiers and Compounders [the 'nf' of 'confounders' is scored through, and replaced by 'mp'] of foreign Spirits'. Beside the window are chequers, indicating the sale of ale; below them: 'Whitbreads intire' [cf. BMSat 10421]. Over the door is the sign: a crown, and 'The Case is Altered' [cf. BMSat 9714], with a bunch of grapes indicating the sale of wine. Fox, very neat and debonair, with a napkin under his arm, a corkscrew in his coat-pocket, a typical tavern-keeper or head-waiter, smiles at a ragged, Bohemian-looking fellow, who approaches him, with outstretched left hand, a large book under his right. arm inscribed 'Pl[an] of Reform'. The ragged reformer says: "Ah! Citizen, how do you do. I've just finisd my plan of Reform, and as you have no plan we can as well be going on with that as doing nothing." Fox, his hand thrust in his coat-pocket, answers: "Citizen!!! we-go-on-with your plan!!! I dont understand you Oh!. I suppose you mean what I used to gammon my Custommers with when I lived over the way, but that sort of fun wont do now, we are all different people!" Within the open window members of the new Ministry are seated drinking, as if at a tavern-club meeting, with Erskine, wearing a hat and Chancellor's wig and gown, in the chairman's seat, which is surmounted by the Prince of Wales's feathers (see BMSat 10525); he holds the mace. On the left. (or Erskine's r.) are Sheridan (a bottle of 'Sherry' in front of him), Grey, and Lauderdale. Opposite them are (r. to left.): Grenville, Bedford, Moira (wearing a cocked hat and smoking a long pipe), Petty, and (slightly isolated) Sidmouth. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Design for a scene in the intended new melodrama entitled The forty thieves
- Description:
- Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bedford, John Russell,--Duke of,--1766-1839--Caricatures and cartoons., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville,--Baron,--1759-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Grey, Charles Grey,--Earl,--1764-1845--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings,--Marquess of,--1754-1826--Caricatures and cartoons., Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,--Marquess of,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons., Lauderdale, James Maitland,--Earl of,--1759-1839--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A design for a scene in the intended new melo drama intitled The forty thieves [graphic].
52. Palemon and Lavinia [graphic] / J.C. Esqe. delt.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 January 23
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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 hill. Lavinia is framed in foliage, with autumn leaves and a withered tree."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title etched below image., and Two lines of quoted text following title: "He saw her charming; but he saw not half" "the charms her downcast modesty conceal'd."
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Palemon and Lavinia [graphic] / J.C. Esqe. delt.
53. The theatrical bubble [graphic] : being a new specimen of the astonishing powers of the great Politico-Punchinello in the art of dramatic puffing / Js. Gillray inv. & ft.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 January 7
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "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 as Douglas in Home's play. The boy, breathing fire, holds out a coral and bells, striding arrogantly over decollated heads inscribed 'Exit Garrick - Kemble - Cooke'. Other actors, freely indicated, stagger back from the young conqueror, over whose head are the words 'Veni. Vidi Vici.' Sheridan's pipe is irradiated against a dark sky. From the pipe, and a source of some of the rays, project little trumpets with banners inscribed respectively: 'Times', 'Morning Chronicle', 'True Briton', 'Sunday Observer', 'Herald'. From each issue the words (sometimes repeated): 'Roscius!' followed sometimes by faintly-drawn ciphers. Sheridan gazes up at his huge bubble. He is bloated and pimpled; his head sunk between hump and paunch. His dress is striped, his contour defined by close-set buttons, ound his paunch is twisted a tricolour sash; a tricolour cockade decorates is hat, which has a conical crown, curved brim, and erect feather. His pocket angs inside out, patched and empty. The cheering crowd (r.) fling coins to the platform, on which lie two pamphlets: 'Account of the Profits of the Bubble' and 'Petition of the Renters for a Share in the profits of the Bubble'. Behind Sheridan lies the dog, 'Carlo', hero of 'The Caravan', see BMSat 10172, &c. Beside Carlo is a padlocked money-box: 'Drury Lane Strong Box'. These are under a table at the back of the stage. On the table is a barber's bowl, filled cubbies issuing from a pipe; the largest is inscribed 'Forty Thieves'; under the bowl is a paper: 'Materials for bran-New Pantomimes for Johnny Bull's Amusement'. Beside the bowl is a bottle labelled 'To be repeated the first opportunity', in whose neck is a funnel inscribed 'Bottle Conjurer', which is filled by a little fat man who grasps his paunch. The back of the stage is bordered by a curtain from which project over the table a sign and a banner. On the former is a dog with the inscription: 'The Wonderful Red Lion, of surpassing Abilities - to be seen within.' On the banner: 'In a few Days, will be Perfom'd - a new Comic Divertisment, called The Bubble-burst, accompanied bv Laughing Song by John Bull.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Text below title, in lower right: Vide, new method of raising [the] wind. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Carlisle, Frederick Howard,--Earl of,--1748-1825--Caricatures and cartoons., Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Jordan, Dorothy,--1761-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and William--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1765-1837--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The theatrical bubble [graphic] : being a new specimen of the astonishing powers of the great Politico-Punchinello in the art of dramatic puffing / Js. Gillray inv. & ft.
54. Clearing a five-bar-gate [graphic] / J. Cd. Esqr. del.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1805 August 20
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A horse shies at a high and solid gate, throwing its fat rider, who flies sideways through the air, with arms extended. He wears red coat and top-boots. Behind shrubs on the. farther side of the gate lies a bull, the cause of the accident. Trees form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Clearing a five-bar-gate [graphic] / J. Cd. Esqr. del.
