"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and...
"Satire on differences among parliamentary constituencies instructing their members variously to insist on an investigation into the conduct of Robert Walpole's administration, or to desist and to support new government measures. In a large compartmen...
Alternative Title:
Bristol & Nottingham weighed in the balance & found light and Bristol and Nottingham weighed in the balance and found light
Description:
Title etched above large compartment at top.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745. and Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770
A Glasgow street vendor “Nosey” (?William Parkinson - the name is partially obscured at the head of the sheet) offering hats for sale but surrounded by his other wares including shoes, bellows, brushes and books. Above the shop: A shop to set. Dealer...
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his rea...
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Families, Interiors, Poor persons, Povery, Sewing, and Fireplaces
"Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his rea...
Alternative Title:
Effects of youthful extravagance and idleness
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1789, by T. Simpson, St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Dogs, Interiors, Families, Poor persons, Poverty, Sewing, and Fireplaces
"John Bull sits full face holding a bowl of soup, between Addington, the cook, and the protesting Windham on the extreme right. On the left Pitt sits in profile to the left before an enormous kitchen fire, over which hangs a giant cauldron; he blows t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bowls (Tableware), Soups, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Kitchens, Cauldrons, Fireplaces, Bellows, Aprons, and Cooking utensils
A satire on a 6 May 1791 scene between Fox and Burke in the House of Commons which resulted in their permanent estangement. Fox stands weeping as a boy kneels at his feet filling a bucket, the tears are so copious. Burke, turns back to look at him, cl...
Alternative Title:
Opposition in disorder
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. May 10, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764-1845
Subject (Topic):
France, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Debates, Books, Ceremonial maces, Crying, Handkerchiefs, Buckets, Constitutions, Legislation, Documents, Demons, and Bellows
"In front of a roaring fire sits a stout old cleric in a powdered wig, with a clay pipe in his mouth and a pot of hot toddy on the trivet. On the other side of the hearth sits his old wife, and [...] a pretty daughter with a book on her lap, to which ...
Alternative Title:
Country vicar's fireside
Description:
Title, artist, and approximate date from the 1786 exhibition catalogue of the Royal Academy.
"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and...
Description:
Title from a copy published by Carington Bowles, July 17th, 1770.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Interiors, Kitchens, Servants, Peg legs, Violins, Bellows, and Dogs
