"The pair, seated in a gig, drive (r. to left.) along a country road, preceded by a mongrel dog carrying a large bone. The man drives the miserable hack with the air of an expert, flicking a heavy lash over the animal's neck. He is smartly dressed wit...
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Cockney and his wife going to Wycombe
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd June 10th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"On the left. Fox stands at his tavern-door, which is at r. angles to the front of the house (r.), where a large open sash-window faces the spectator. Below the window is a large inscription: 'C. J. F & Co. Dealers Rectifiers and Compounders [the 'nf'...
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Design for a scene in the intended new melodrama entitled The forty thieves
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Pub. March 25th, 1805, by I. Hays, 25 Marylebone St., Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie ...
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Fundamental error in the art of skating, Elements of skateing : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting, and Elements of skating : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting
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Title etched below image, following series title.
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Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A sailor and his pregnant fiancée stand at left before a clergyman in a white surplice who stands at right, reading from papers inscribed 'Matrimony', and asking 'Wilt thou take this Woman to be thy wedded wife'; the sailor responds in affronted man...
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Pubd. May 25, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brides, Clergy, Grooms (Weddings), Pregnant women, Sailors, British, and Weddings
"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities inc...
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Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Two skaters strike attitudes in the foreground. One (l.), with hands on hips, describes a curve on the outside edge of the left. foot, the r. foot being held out stiffly. He looks aggressively towards the other, a younger man who bends his knees, arm...
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Elements of skateing : Attitude! Attitude is every thing! and Elements of skating : Attitude! Attitude is every thing!
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title.
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Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic]
"Below the title: 'Barrass (then in Power) being tired of Josephine, promised Buonaparte a promotion, on condition that he would take her off his hands; - Barrass had, as usual, drank freely, & placed Buonaparte behind a Screen, while he amused himsel...
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Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barrass in the winter of 1797
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Feby. 20th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814, Barras, Paul, vicomte de, 1755-1829, and Tallien, Thérésia Cabarrus, 1773-1835
"A horse shies at a high and solid gate, throwing its fat rider, who flies sideways through the air, with arms extended. He wears red coat and top-boots. Behind shrubs on the. farther side of the gate lies a bull, the cause of the accident. Trees form...
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Title etched below image.
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Publishd. August 20th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A burlesqued illustration of the quotation from 'Paradise Lost' etched below the design ... In the upper left corner of the design, and in the background, an aged St. Peter holds open a small arched door, putting one of his three massive keys into th...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 17th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grattan, Henry, 1746-1820, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
