Title from item., Four lines of verse below title on plate: And now the dear cratures appear / As if for hot action inclin'd for / With breast-work projecting in front, / And extended bumbatteries behind, sir. [Signed] vide Paddy O'Brien., Price printed in lower right corner: 1..6., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costumes -- Fortification breastworks., and Watermark in center of sheet: C Patch.
Publisher:
Published March 15, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
"The interior of a bedroom with a large four-post bed (right). An emaciated man in nightcap, shirt, and breeches sits on the edge of a bed; a bailiff (left) seizes him by the right shoulder threatening him with his bludgeon; another holds him by the right wrist ..." (Source: George)
Description:
Title etched below image., Suggested attribution to Kingsbury in British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Lt. Major Scot, Governor of St. Helena -- Medical Doctor -- Dying patient -- Sick bed -- Medicine bottles.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores October the 20, 1786 at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
Title etched below image., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.2 x 23.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 178[...?] by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
"Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
Title etched below image., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: [...]ng?
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 178[...?] by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
"Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) talk across a small circular table on which is a candle. Boswell leans on the table, with raised fingers, talking vivaciously. Johnson leans back as if asleep, his stick between his outstretched legs. Through an open door (left) is seen the back of Mrs. Boswell hurrying from the room. A bracket-clock points to 1.55. A dog looks up at Boswell yawning. The floor is boarded."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "We talked of murder -- and of the antient trial by duel -- We sat till near two in the morning having chatted a good while after my wife left us ..." Vide Journal p. 15., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Wall clock -- Dog., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.9 x 25.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) talk across a small circular table on which is a candle. Boswell leans on the table, with raised fingers, talking vivaciously. Johnson leans back as if asleep, his stick between his outstretched legs. Through an open door (left) is seen the back of Mrs. Boswell hurrying from the room. A bracket-clock points to 1.55. A dog looks up at Boswell yawning. The floor is boarded."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "We talked of murder -- and of the antient trial by duel -- We sat till near two in the morning having chatted a good while after my wife left us ..." Vide Journal p. 15., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Wall clock -- Dog., 1 print : etching on wove paper, black and white ; plate mark 25.5 x 27.7 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 30.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) talk across a small circular table on which is a candle. Boswell leans on the table, with raised fingers, talking vivaciously. Johnson leans back as if asleep, his stick between his outstretched legs. Through an open door (left) is seen the back of Mrs. Boswell hurrying from the room. A bracket-clock points to 1.55. A dog looks up at Boswell yawning. The floor is boarded."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "We talked of murder -- and of the antient trial by duel -- We sat till near two in the morning having chatted a good while after my wife left us ..." Vide Journal p. 15., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Wall clock -- Dog., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-147.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"A companion print to BMSat 6978. A bust portrait of George III in oriental dress, directed to the right. He wears a jewelled turban, a stone above the forehead being inscribed 'The Diamond'. Across his forehead is a band: Monarch. A bag attached ornamentally to the turban is inscribed 'Gold Dust'. Across his shoulder is a piece of drapery inscribed 'The Shawl'. A fringed curtain draped beside his head (right) is 'The Curtain'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet dated in a contemporary hand in lower right corner: 1786., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 2 of 12.
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., Date '1785' in lower right corner of image., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 21.7 x 30.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., and Date '1785' in lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
