A midwife holds out a newborn child, who exhibits a combination its parents' physical traits: the nose of its mother, who lies in bed, and the hook arm, peg leg, glasses and queue of its father, who stands proudly at the foot of the bed. The midwife e...
Four scenes in one plate, each with a separate title, each showing a marital or courtship scenes with monkeys and cats and pictures on the walls that amplify the domestic scene
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 26, 1810 by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Couples, Courtship, Fighting, Spouses, Draperies, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Monkeys
Illustration to Gay's 'A Beggar's Opera' from 'Inchbald's British Theatre'. An interior scene with a Peachum and Polly administering a drink to Mrs. Peachum, who is lying back with her eyes closed in a chair, having had a fit at learning about the mar...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Loss of consciousness
Depicts Burke wearing spectacles and wig, but in monastic habit as an Irish Jesuit. He is seated on a stool peeling a potato, at a table on which is a chamber pot full of steaming potatoes, and at the other end a keg of whisky supporting a broken cruc...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 23d, 1782, by Eh. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Monks, Demons, Chamber pots, Potatoes, Tableware, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Anti-Catholicism
"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 s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"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 s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
