"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...
"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 ...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress at the university. No. 3
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. Jamess [sic] 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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Title etched below image.
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Publishd. June 26th, 1804, 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 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...
Alternative Title:
Progress of the toilet : the stays
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title and preceding plate number.
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Publish'd February 26th, 1810, 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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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
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
"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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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. June 16th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"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 ...
Alternative Title:
Progress of the toilet : the wig
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title and preceding plate number.
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Publish'd February 26th, 1810, 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 ...
Alternative Title:
New dramatic resource : "a begging we will go! A scene from Covent Garden Theatre after the conflagration
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
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.
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Fools & jesters, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
"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...
Alternative Title:
Venus a la coquille, Swan-sea Venus, and Swansea Venus
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. March 28th, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street