Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker's signature has been burnished from lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Waterloo Place -- Carlton House -- Male costume: top-hat, 1819 -- Coronets -- Female costume: 1819., and Manuscript "141" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M. Clincl [i.e. Clinch] No. 20 Princes Street Soho
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Gordon, Charlotte
"Fashionable carriages throng the west side of St. James's Street, stopping outside a house with a pilastered door (right) above which is a notice: 'Chalk Drawing'. A dense crowd of tiny figures enters. The crowd is watched intently by Haydon who stands (left) on the opposite pavement; a taller man, probably a pupil, takes his arm. Haydon wears spectacles and holds a small portfolio. A goose labelled 'W C' menaces him from behind. At the bird's feet are two papers: 'Cabal 2 Octavo Volumes W C.' and 'Quack Artist Play .W C. Weather Cock.' There are two placard bearers; one behind Haydon and on the extreme left holds up a notice: 'Chalk Drawings by Haydon['s] Pupils Landsers & Bewick--Private Day.' The other is a small boy (right), assailed by hissing geese, at whose feet is a paper: 'Catalogue Raisonny'. His placard is inscribed 'Exhibition of Drawings, by Haydons pupils Landseers and Bewick for the Cartoons and Elgin Marbles.' The street recedes in perspective to the gate of St. James's Palace. Outside the first-floor windows of the house of the Exhibition is a carved lion."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
St. James's Street in an uproar and Quack artist and his assailants
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Saturday morning 30 Jany. 1819., and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.8410.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
St. James's (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846, Landseer, Thomas, 1795-1880., Bewick, William, 1795-1866., Carey, William, 1759-1839., Saint James's Palace (London, England),, and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Artists, British, Carriages & coaches, Crowds, Signs (Notices), and Geese
"Two designs divided by a vertical line. [1] The dandy (cf. No. 13029) sits in a squalid room, complacently adjusting his cravat in a small mirror fixed to the fire-jamb. He wears high collar, stays, with shirt-frill tied over them, short wide trousers, remnants of socks. His high-heeled spurred boots, blacking-brush, and pot stand on the boarded floor, with an open book: 'The Beau[x] Stratagem' [Farquhar's comedy]. On a small table is a paper: 'Mr Dandy for washing &c a Collar --, a -- D°, a -- D°, a-- D°'; by this is a big key (substitute for a watch) with dangling ribbon and seals. A bowl of water stands on a stool; his coat hangs from his chair, umbrella and caped overcoat (on a coat-hanger) hang against the wall. The dandy umbrella in this and other prints is tightly rolled, unlike the gamp of the period. On the chimney-piece are medicine-bottles. [2] Completely dressed, with seals dangling, he bows from the waist, looking through an eyeglass with a complacent smile. His hat conceals a bald crown."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
At home and Dandy dressed abroad
Description:
Title from caption below images., Two separately titled images on one plate., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and "Price 1 s".
