- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1808 September 24
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Napoleon plays a double bass, stooping forward, and looking with an agonized expression towards a music-book on a high stand, the pages headed 'Conquest of / Spain & Portugal' and ending in 'Volti Su . . . .' He says: "Plague take it! I never met with so difficult a 'passage' before - But if I can once get over the 'Flats', we shall do pretty well for you see the 'Key' will then change to B sharp." Behind Napoleon and on the right stand the Russian bear on his hind legs, muzzled, and blowing a French horn. He says: "Why that is 'Natural' enough brother Boney though this 'French horn' of yours seems rather out of Order I think." Napoleon, who wears a large bicorne, stands on a 'Map of the Continent' showing 'Spain' and 'Portugal'. Behind him are a drum and a roll of 'Boney's Orations Vol. 10th'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Boney playing base on the Continent and Boney playing bass on the Continent
- Description:
- Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann, no. 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A hard passage, or, Boney playing base on the Continent [graphic] / Geo. Saulez Farnham.
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1808 August 18
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Joseph, neatly dressed as an avocat, takes an enormous step from the rail of a desk (right) on which his right toe is poised to a wall 'Map of Spain & Portugal' on a level with his shoulders, where his left toe touches 'Madrid'. His hands are raised above his head to clutch at a mass of fringed cushions on which is the crown of 'Spain', with a sceptre. On the wall is pinned a notice: 'Notary Public Bayonne'. Four clerks sit facing each other at the desk he has left, which has double slopes, divided by the low rail from which he steps. One asks: "Why Joseph wither art thou going"; he looks down answer: "Whither - but to fill my high destiny? And like my noble Brother Sway tne Sceptre of another." The other clerks say respectively: "But proverbs tell of many Slips, Between the tankard & the lips, And really I am apt to give, The proverb credit as I live" and "He must needs go whom the Devil drives and should it cost his Neck; Ownds! what a prodigious step for a Notary's clerk"."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann, no. 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Joseph Bonaparte,--King of Spain,--1768-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821., and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de,--prince de Bénévent,--1754-1838.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > From the desk to the throne [graphic] : a new quick step by Joseph Bonaparte, the bass by Messrs. Nappy and Tally / G. Sauler Farnham.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist.
- Published / Created:
- 1807 January 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A man, hat in hand, sits on a cat, which was on a low chair beside the fire. His hostess, a lean and ugly old maid, tugs angrily at a bell-rope; another cat sits on the back of her armchair; a dog barks. An ugly (?) maid-servant of similar type enters the room. Before the fire is a round table with work-basket, &c. Against the wall hangs a bird in a cage."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
- Description:
- "Page 214"--Upper right corner., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Text below title: Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miseries domestic [graphic] : 10. Dialogue / Rowlandson delt. et sculpt.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist.
- Published / Created:
- 1807 January 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A scene in the Strand, showing Ackermann's shop. In the foreground a man and dog chase a hat, followed by a small butcher's boy (left). Two fat women with baskets on their heads watch from the right. On the pavement is an amused muffin-man, ringing his bell. A woman helps herself to a muffin. A young woman stands on the pavement, her hands in a large muff, her feathered hat sailing upwards. In the middle distance the road is blocked by a scavenger's cart, from which a dense cloud rises, and men with shovels and broom. Ackermann's is a house with four first-floor windows. The (glass) door is inscribed 'Caricatures' and 'N 101 Strand'; above it is a tilted board: 'Ackermanns Repository of Arts'. On the left. of the door is an ale-house window from which two grinning men look out."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Chasing your hat (just blown off in a high wind) through a muddy street ...
- Description:
- "Page 71"--Upper right corner., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Text below title: Chasing your hat (just blown off in a high wind) through a muddy street, a fresh gust always whisking it away at the moment of seizing it ..., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miseries of London [graphic] : 4. Dialogue / Rowlandson delt. et sculpt.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist.
- Published / Created:
- 1807 January 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A skating scene. A man with legs widely spread poised on the back of his skates, throws up his arms and is about to crash backwards; his hat flies in the air. Beside him (left) a man falls through the ice. A young man pushing a woman in a chair, absorbed in the falling man, is about propel her into the hole. A stout man staggers wildly on one heel, kicked by a military officer (right) skating rapidly to the right A little boy with a broom grins at the disasters. In the background (left), under a bare wind-swept tree a man sits to have his skates adjusted. Two women look on."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture ...
- Description:
- "Page 43"--Upper right corner., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Text below title: In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture, from which, however, you are soon relieved by tumbling forwards on your nose, or backwards on your skull ..., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Beresford, James,--1764-1840.--Miseries of human life--Illustrations., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miseries of games, sports, &c. [graphic] : 3. Dialogue / Rowlandson del. et sculpt.