Depicts a semi-nude seated female figure holding a caduceus before whom dance three putti, while two putti in the air above approach bearing a basket and grape vine. Within an oval border of olive and oak leaves resting on a pedestal containing the text
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Caduceus, Children dancing, Cornucopias, and Social life and customs
Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned with a broken anchor). From it fall papers and drawings, including a prescription (suggestive of madness) from Dr. Monrow (i.e. John Monro, physician of Bethlehem Hospital). One print in the shop window echoes the present image, while Austin's "Proposals for opening a museum of drawings" is trodden underfoot by a dog in the foreground
Description:
Title etched below text., Text beneath image: "Be it known to all men that I -- upon just cause before God and men do declare & pronounce war with and against all and every printshop and printseller within and without the city of London....", Text on shield is a quote from John Gay's My own epitaph: Life's a jest and all things show it. I thought it once, but now I know it., At bottom of plate: B--b--y., Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi. See British Museum catalogue., and Cropped within plate mark. Numbered in ink by an unidentified hand: 46.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Austin, William, 1721-1820., Darly, Matthias., and Monro, John, 1715-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Shields, Dogs, Coats of arms, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Depicts two bearded figures in classical attire (possibly Tragedy and Comedy), the former leaning on a tomb while the latter gestures laughingly at a cracked and broken globe on which the countries of France, Canada and Great Britain are identified. A satyr (the Devil), stands holding his scythe before the globe, whence from the broken area of Great Britain emerges a procession of persons mounted on hobby horses, including royalty, clergy, and a man carrying a ship model and bags of money. Time flies above, lifting the curtain on the scene, while a putto with a bubble-pipe flies towards the globe. Within the bubble is a representation of Fortune. On the ground a monkey accosts an owl, while to the right an open scroll proclaims "Life is a jest," a possible reference to John Gay's Epitaph
Alternative Title:
Life is a jest
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bear representing England sits at the left side of a table brandishing a knife over a huge roast beef and plumb pudding, beside an enormous tankard of ale. Opposite him a green rat-like animal, (possibly a monkey) representing France and wearing a red military coat, sword, and feathered tricorne hat, has before him a carafe and glass of wine together with a few mushrooms and onions. On the wall behind the bear is a picture of two overweight pugilists, and behind the rat two duelists with rapiers
Alternative Title:
England, roast beef and plum pudding and France, toad stools & garlick
Description:
Title from item. and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1775 accy. to act by M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Bears, Rats, Drinking vessels, Plum puddings, and Interiors
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Lucy Charlton on left, numbered 34, and John Dunning, on right, numbered 35.
Alternative Title:
Miss Charlton and Powerfull pleader
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified by George., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1774 p. 625., and On secondary mount with p. 625-628 attached.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783. and Charlton, Lucy.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of John Wesley, and Miss D. The woman is on the left, her portrait numbered 37, with Wesley's portrait on right numbered 38.
Alternative Title:
Miss D-ple and Pious preacher
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects from British Museum catalogue., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1774 p. 681., Article purports to recount Wesley's relations with his "fair proselyte," the daughter of an "eminent attorney.", and On secondary mount with p. 681-684 of magazine article.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Nesbit on left, numbered 2, and Augustus John Hervey, on the right, numbered 3.
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Nesbitt, Hon. Capn. H-, and Hon. Capn Hervey
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified on the British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1775, p. 9.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Augustus John Hervey, Earl of, 1724-1779. and Nesbitt, Mary, -1815.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Williams on left, numbered 4, and George William, 6th Earl of Coventry on the right, numbered 5.
Alternative Title:
Miss Williams and Peeping Tom of Coventry
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified in British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1775 p. 65.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Coventry, George William Coventry, Earl of, 1722-1809. and Williams, Miss.
