"A bishop leans back exhausted in an armchair (right). The lawn sleeve on his left arm has been rolled up, blood spouts from a puncture on to the floor and pours from a broken bowl lying on the ground. The doctor turn his back on his patient and haste...
"The interior of Sir Robert Taylor's rotunda in the Bank of England when it was used as a stock exchange with the arc of the pilastered wall and part of the domed ceiling forming a background. The floor is covered with groups of small figures, only th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Jany. 1792, & S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Bank of England.
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Banks, Crowds, Interiors, Pilasters, Rotundas, and Stock exchanges
"Two medallions placed side by side illustrate 'British Liberty' and 'French Liberty', these titles being inscribed on the borders of the medallions. [1] Britannia seated in profile to the right under an oak with her shield and the staff and cap of Li...
"Nine clergymen stand in conversation, the most prominent being a stout bishop (right) wearing a gown and lawn sleeves; he turns superciliously from a clergyman who addresses him, and looks towards a stout parson wearing an apron in profile to the rig...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A couple embracing on a couch at right are interrupted by the appearance at left of a grotesque, stout, bespectacled woman holding up a groaning moribund man wearing a shroud-like nightshirt; the young lover has his hand on a paper lettered 'last wil...
"Scene from the Sheridan play, the characters sitting together (suggested to be portraits of Mrs Green and Quick in the roles), the Duenna a portly woman at left with wide open mouth and hands on chest, turning to Isaac who cowers from her."--British ...
"Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are seated in a carriage, of the type then called 'pot de chambre', the Dauphin between and in front of them. The three galloping horses are suddenly checked by a French soldier, on horseback, and by another man beside ...
Alternative Title:
Grand monarck discovered in a pot de chambre, Grand monarch discovered in a pot de chambre, and Royal fugitives turning tail
Description:
Titles etched below image; the word "royal" in alternative title is etched above the line, inserted with a caret.
Publisher:
Publishd. by S.W. Fores, at his Caracature Wharehouse [sic], No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
"A young woman holds a little girl on her lap; an ugly elderly man (three-quarter length) leans towards the child, holding a piece of sugar between his lips. The child looks up delightedly. On a table beside them (right) is a tray of tea-things."--Bri...
"A young woman holds a little girl on her lap; an ugly elderly man (three-quarter length) leans towards the child, holding a piece of sugar between his lips. The child looks up delightedly. On a table beside them (right) is a tray of tea-things."--Bri...
"The patient sits in an armchair in profile to the left, in the centre of a well-furnished room. He wears dressing-gown and nightcap, his arms are folded and he stares fixedly, assailed by ghostly visions which float before his eyes, emerging from smo...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Hypochondria, Depression, Mental, Suicide, Skeletons, Hearses, Demons, Daggers & swords, Handguns, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Medicines
"A hand-coloured print of a company of Paviors outside the Tun Tavern. The Paviors hold rammers resembling large bottles. A portly cleric walks over the paving with an air of solemnity during which the paviors all cheer. On the left stands a woman wit...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Obesity, Taverns (Inns), Laborers, Baskets, and Pickaxes
"Musicians and dancers performing in a street, one figure holds out a hat into which a spectator drops money, another figure drops a heart (?) into another man's hat, behind the group a figure holds a banner, figures lean from the window of a Pawn Bro...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Jan. 13, 1791, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
"The interior of the Pantheon, reconstructed as a theatre, seen from the stage on which, in the foreground, are two opera dancers holding garlands of roses. The house is crowded; in the foreground (left and right) are three tiers of stage-boxes filled...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Jany. 13, 1791, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
"An obese and gouty parson (left) reclines in an arm-chair, inspecting through an eye-glass a sucking-pig which a buxom maidservant brings in on a dish. She shows it to the clerk, who sits beside the parson, with a paper: 'An Estimate of the Tythes of...
"Illustration to a lampoon on the Gunning scandal. A series of portraits following [1] a letter directed to 'His Grace the D. . . of' [Marlborough, see BMSat 7980], beneath which is inscribed: 'This is the Note that Nobody wrote!' [2] A groom (three-q...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, John, -1797, Gunning, Miss (Elizabeth), 1769-1823, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, and Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill, Duke of, 1766-1840
"Mounted yokels, riding right to left, make havoc in a farm-yard. One only wears uniform; he shouts at them from the right, with upraised hand. A man riding a horse with blinkers fires a blunderbuss, shutting his eyes; he damages a pigeon-house and ki...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Decemr. 18, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Military training, Military uniforms, Firearms, Pigeons, Wells, Pitchforks, Farmers, Swine, Poultry, and Dogs
"A design in two compartments, one above the other, the title between them. In both a pack of hounds with human heads chases a crowned stag; in one the stag is George III, in the other (below) Louis XVI. [1] The stag (left) is beside a signpost pointi...
Description:
Title from text etched in center of design; letter "r" in "first" etched above line and inserted with a caret.
Publisher:
Pub. May 29, 1790, by S.W Fores N. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Latouche-Tréville, Louis-René de, 1745-1804, Vauban, Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre, comte de, 1754-1816, Genlis Sillery, Charles Alexis Pierre Brulart de, marquis de, 1737-1793, Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Limon, Geoffroi, marquis de, -1799, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Powys, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
