"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.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 26th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"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...
Alternative Title:
Progress of the toilet : dress completed
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title and preceding plate number.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 26th, 1810, 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...
Alternative Title:
Matins at Downing College, Cambridge
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd March 28th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"William Smyth, slim, and fashionably dressed under his gown, delivers a lecture. He stands in profile to the left, his hands resting on the cloth-covered table on which his reading-desk stands, its slope covered with the sheets of the lecture. Heavy ...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. March 20th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Smyth, William, 1765-1849 and Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863.
"A man dressed as a coachman stands directed to the left, holding a long-lashed coach-whip. He wears a shiny round hat with cockade and gold band over a powdered wig with double row of curls, double-breasted waistcoat, shirt-frill, and loose coat reac...
"A sea-side scene on a hot day. The centre figure is a tall young woman, in a muslin dress with bare arms and neck, holding an open parasol and a patterned scarf. A fat 'cit' trudges along, much distressed; he mops his bald head, holding his hat with ...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd May 16th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A violent storm of wind and rain strikes prome-naders on the sea-shore. The dress or cloak of a fat woman blows over her head, and her umbrella is blown inside out. A dog stands facing her. A man tries to walk against the wind (right). In the middle ...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 16th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"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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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 26th by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit...
Alternative Title:
Delights of harmony
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Figurines, Music rooms, Musicians, and Sleeping
"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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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 29th, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
