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1. Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic] / etched by T. Rowlandson.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1812 May 12
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a small round table, holding up a large watch, the hands showing that it is 9.40, and yawning deeply. On the table are a decanter containing a tiny 'blue devil', cf. British Museum Satires No. 8745, and a guttering candle stuck in a potato at which a rat is nibbling. Another rat runs up the table leg. The other man (right), with closed eyes, and hands on knees, sits on a stool, registering melancholy resignation. One pig (left) devours a 'Racing Calendar' which floats on the water. A fire of sticks burns smokily on a wide hearth; a large pot is overturning, the contents gushing over. Above the chimney-piece hangs a picture in a broken frame of a country house. There is one small casement window, half boarded up, the other half partly stuffed up with a pair of breeches. A ham and a hare hang from hooks in the ceiling. High up on the wall is a small shelf on which is broken china; a cat stands on it."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Possibly etched after a design by Bunbury; see British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, attributed name., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cats., Clocks & watches., Ducks., Dwellings., Fireplaces., Floods., Interiors., Rabbits., Rats. , and Swine.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comforts of an Irish fishing lodge [graphic] / etched by T. Rowlandson.
2. Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1795 March 10
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A domestic interior. A fat and ugly citizen, wearing old-fashioned dress with a small unpowdered wig, stands on the hearth-rug (right), his back to the fire; he is meditatively reading the 'Gazette', headed: 'New Taxes', and 'Bankru[pts]', his left hand plunged in his breeches pocket. Behind him on the chimney-piece is a pair of scales for weighing guineas (see BMSat 5128). His wife, bald-headed, ugly, and stout, leans back in an arm-chair, her hands raised in protest at an unpowdered wig which a grotesquely thin and ragged French hairdresser (left) proffers obsequiously. A fashionably dressed young man with cropped hair looks with imbecile surprise at his reflection in an oval mirror over the chimney-piece. His mouth is half-covered by his swathed neckcloth, he wears a short spencer (see BMSat 8192) over a sparrow-tail coat, and half-boots. A young woman with over-dressed but unpowdered (red) hair looks with dismay at her reflection in a mirror which she has snatched from the wall. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'Charles 2d', his tiny head framed in an immense powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Frugal family saving the guinea
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800., Families., Fireplaces., Hair powder--Taxation--Great Britain., Hairdressing--England., Interiors., Mirrors., Parlors., Rugs., and Wigs.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Leaving off powder, or, A frugal family saving the guinea [graphic] / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.