"A scene of disorder; men sitting and standing round a circular table; they are smoking, gesticulating and drinking. A very fat man, seated on the farther side of the table, wearing a hat and smoking, his hands folded, says,"we want men of Activity". His neighbour, also smoking, adds "To destroy all their Looms". The next man (left), clenching his fists, says, "Blood & Guts, what are we all about - our Armys are grazing in Idleness, like a Flock of Sheep till they die of the Rot - I'd send them to Slaughter all the Cattle on the Enemy's Coast & make the Papist Scoundrells keep a long Lent of it". A man (right) holding up a foaming tankard, says "Old England will never be conquer'd while we can Brew such Drink as this". A barber, a comb stuck in his hair, an implement for curling hair protruding from his pocket, leans back in his chair, saying, "We're all in the Suds - I could shew them a way to lower their French Toupees". On his right stands the figure of 'Prattle' (Atkinson of Pall Mall), as in BMSat 5603 but in reverse. He is saying, "Beg your Pardon my Dr Sir, meant no Offence my Dr Mr Tallow - too much Love & Respect - your Perfectly in the Right - of the same Opinion of my Led & I - they'll never Invade us as you say & my Lud Chatter observed to me the other Night at Lady Carbuncles". He is addressing a stout man standing on the left of the table, who flourishes a stick in his right hand while with a blow from his fist he overturns a punch-bowl, having upset a tankard, a lemon, and a number of wineglasses which are falling to the ground. He says "Dont Talk to me of your Dukes & your Lords, I'm a True Born Englishman, & dont care for Nobody not I - they dare not invade us - Damme they dare not - you Glister Pipe, you pitiful Plaister Spreader You------". A dog barks at him. A thin and rather ragged-looking man on his right, his hands in his breeches pockets, says "Invade us - Damme, what can Soup Meager do against Beef & Plumb Pudding"; a pair of scissors projecting from his coat-pocket shows that he is a tailor; his stockings are ungartered and his shoes are unbuckled. On the extreme left an elderly man with a tie-wig and wearing a hat and pince-nez, sits in a chair reading a newspaper; he holds up a hand in dismay saying, "All's lost". Behind stands a waiter, his napkin under his arm, saying "Dr Prattle says right - I'll go over to the Opposition and never drink another Pot with my Lords Footman". Hats are hung up on the wall, and a bracket-clock shows that it is one o'clock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Apothecaries, tailors, &c. conquering France and Spain and Apothecaries, tailors, conquering France and Spain
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.9 x 35.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 1 of 12.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 3 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Venus & Cupid.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 1 i. by 2 f. 9 3/4 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VI from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: [Rubens's wife].
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 15 Feby. 1779 by the proprietor N [...] Broad Street
Subject (Geographic):
Dominica.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dance, Indigenous peoples, and Musical instruments
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,66.42., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Title from item., Date of publication from pencil annotation on impression in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,67.230, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "No. 32" engraved at top of image; "Jewels set in [the] most elegant taste" engraved within banner below numbering., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Frontispiece. Case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman, and of his acquaintance with the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Martha Ray; bust length, looking to left; in oval, with scene of her street murder beneath; illustration to unknown publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miss Martha Reay
Description:
Title from text in image., Bound in as frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of: The case and memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. James Hackman ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statment from bottom edge., and Mounted to 21.1 x 12.8 cm
Publisher:
Published 1st of May 1779 by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
"Portrait of the infant musical genius William Crotch; aged 3, half length, full face; holding music sheet; wearing feathered hat; oval on pedastal with musical ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., Two lines of biographical information beneath image: This celebrated child who discover'd extraordinary talents for music during the third year of his age, was born at Norwich July 5th, 1775., Dedication at bottom of plate: To Sir Harbord Harbord Bt. L.L.D. this plate is by permission most humbly inscribed by his faithful and obedient servant, Isabella Crotch., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament May 12th, 1779, by Mrs. Crotch, near St. James's Street, Piccadilly
Title from lettered state in the British Museum., Artist, printmaker, and publication information from description of a later state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.916., State lacking text but having a coat of arms (lacking motto) etched below image., Plate V from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Sir Thomas Gresham.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 4 1/2 i. long., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate VIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2., and On same sheet: Hercules & Omphale.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1779, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside