"Another version, reversed and altered, of British Museum Satires no. 8196 (1772). A fat woman on her back has been added to the group of two fleeing men, and beside the three men standing on the bank is a fat woman, horrified at the calamity."--British Museum online catalogue. and "Skaters have fallen upon breaking ice, some lie flat; heads and legs and arms emerge in wild confusion. In the middle distance (right) two skaters, one a parson, flee headlong from the danger-spot. On the shore (left) three men stand watching the catastrophe with amusement. Farther off is a marquee within which are tiny figures seated at a table."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier version.
Description:
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Colonel Gardiner in his military uniform taking leave of two women wearing hats and cloaks; carriage with open door waiting at left, soldiers warming around bonfire at the gates of Stirling Castle in the background at right, within oval."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Colonel Gardiner's last interview with his wife and daughter
Description:
Seven lines of text below title: A few days previous to the battle of Preston-Pans, in the troubles of the year 1745 ... Vide, Doddridge &c. and Title engraved below image.
"A large pig wears fashionable man's dress: coat with high collar and cravat, breeches; fore-legs in Hessian boots, hind-legs in slippers, with spectacles, a wig simulating short hair, an eyeglass hanging from the neck. Farm buildings form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Collared pork
Description:
Companion print to: Beef a la mode. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right is a buxom young woman, pulling the rope. Two undergraduates flourish long-lashed whips, one aims a squirt, another lets off a squib. The aisle is divided from the nave by an iron railing; on the ground is a stone or brass with a mitre and crosier inscribed 'Here Lies the Body of Bishop Blear eyes'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Crabbed fellow's taught to caper on the slack rope and Tegg's caricatures ; no. 53
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan / by John L. Stephens
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 315.
Subject (Geographic):
Central America --Antiquities, Central America --Description and travel, Chiapas (Mexico) --Description and travel, Mexico --Antiquities, Mexico --Description and travel, and Yucatan (Mexico : State) --De
Subject (Topic):
Indian sculpture --Mexico, Indians of Central America, and Mayas --Antiquities