"Spectators watch military manoeuvres in the air. The sky is covered with camps, marching men, and galloping cavalry, some are in military formation, others are single figures. There are tents and marquees with wings; a man beats a drum, three orientals wearing turbans race through the air beating cymbals. In the foreground (left) spectators on horseback look up in amazement, one horse throws its rider; geese, goslings, and pigs are under the horses' feet. On the right the King and Queen sit together on a bank; the King gazing through a small telescope, the Queen looking at him with delighted astonishment. In front of them is a gate over which two officers mounted on winged cannon are gracefully leaping, a third soars into the air."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Amusment for John Bul, Amusement for John Bull, and Flying camp
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below ; countermark IV.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Aickin [sic], No. 13 Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
Bagshot (Surrey, England)
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Black people, Cannons, Military camps, Military parades & ceremonies, Musical instruments, Musicians, Spectators, and Telescopes
"A domestic concert with a lady playing the piano, accompanied by male violinist, cellist and flautist, while a man sings behind; a man listening throws up his hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Concert of vocal and instrumental music and Rising generation of Orpheus
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Eleven lines of verse in three columns below title: Orpheus was music master of the woods ..., Plate numbered '84' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: allusion to Orpheus -- Musical scores -- Musical instruments: cello, with head carved at top -- Pianoforte -- Violin -- Flute or recorder -- Amateur musicians -- Songs: God Save the King.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Groups of dancers practise figures of a cotillion in a ballroom with a small musician's gallery supported on pillars, in which are an oboist, two violinists, and a harpist, playing intently and paying no attention to a man who stands below, with outstretched arms, shouting directions. The room is lit by candles in wall brackets. In the centre of the balcony is an oval medallion: a man plays a lyre and three nude nymphs dance. Several of the dancers hold papers of directions headed 'Cotilion', with a description of figures '1' to '8'. The scene is one of confusion. On the left persons stand inspecting the dancers. One man only is dressed as a blood of the period with cropped hair, high-collared waistcoat, 'hanging collar', and long breeches (see British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c). He stands (left) superciliously inspecting the dancers through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue and The pictures in the image amplify the subject: Nymphs dancing to music of lyre
Alternative Title:
Rehearsing a cotillion
Description:
Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated on lower edge with partial loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on modern secondary support., Watermark., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Title etched below image., Printmaker from original drawing in the Huntington Library., No. 124 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., and Temporary local subject terms: Dancing instructors -- Children -- Dancing -- Fiddles -- Wallpaper -- Lighting: mirrors with sconces.
Publisher:
Published 27th Augt. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"A large man accompanied by a violinist serenades an elderly lady who leans out of her window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with printmaker Isaac Cruikshank's initials in lower right., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 11, 1802, by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Serenading, Musicians, Violins, Older people, and Obesity
