"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, hand-colored ; sheet 21.0 x 29.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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
Elegantly dressed guests dine outdoors at Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Harrison's British classicks. Volume VI : containing The connoisseur, The citizen of the world, and The babler. London : Printed for Harrison & Co. ..., 1786., Plate number etched in lower left corner., Inlaid to 38 x 55 cm., and Mounted on page 119 in an album containing material relating to Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, with the spine title: Vauxhall miscellany.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Name):
Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768. and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
"The theatre is apparently drawn from a box on the first tier. The left corner of the stage is shown with the prompter and another man standing in the wings. Almost half the orchestra, the pit, three tiers of boxes, and the lowest gallery are shown. Of the upper gallery only the balustrade and the extreme corner are visible. On the stage a man in Roman costume addresses a lady in modern dress who repels his advances; she is either singing or screaming. The house is crowded and the audience watch intently. The King and Queen are seated in the royal box; two men and a lady stand behind them. The figures are on a small scale, freely drawn with much expressiveness and humour. A representation of the theatre at that date, drawn apparently with architectural correctness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on wove paper backing., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 20, 1786 by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
"Whole length portrait of Johnson (not caricatured) walking (left to right) in a mountainous landscape. He walks with a tall stick; his left hand is held up as if declaiming. Behind and below him walks Boswell, a minute figure. In the middle distance (right) is a thatched cottage and a man on horseback leading a saddle-horse. In the foreground (right) is a thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below title: "The Drs. reply to Mr. B- on the loss of his oak stick in Hebrides. "No, no my friend, it is not to be expected that any man in Mull who has got it will part with it. Consider, sir, the value of such a piece of timber here! "Price 1s. 6d.", and Mounted on paper: 372 x 273 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Jany. 18th 1786 by Geo. Kearsley No. 46 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Page 133. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably dressed lady and gentleman are seated facing each other, a tea-table between them. She wears an enormous 'derrière' and a projecting bosom; a round hat with a huge brim surrounded by a curtain frill of lace, through which her eyes and much-curled hair are visible. He wears a tight-fitting coat with a high collar, large buttons, and projecting shirt-frill. His hair or wig is in a looped queue with large side-curls. He looks at himself in a pocket-mirror with a satisfied air. His cane and round hat are on a chair behind him. The 'antient' dresses are those of the three quarter length portraits on the wall: in the centre are a gentleman and lady standing together in early Georgian dress, each holds a crook, a bird sits on the lady's finger. This is flanked by a lady (left) in quasi-Elizabethan dress, wearing a conical hat, a ruff, and a hooped petticoat in the form of a cylinder; and a man (right) wearing a high hat, cloak, slashed doublet, and breeches, holding a hooded hawk."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dresses antient and modern
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costume -- Men's costume -- Pocket mirror -- Pictures that amplify subject., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 28 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 133 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1786, by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Mirrors, Tea services, and Chairs
Page 133. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably dressed lady and gentleman are seated facing each other, a tea-table between them. She wears an enormous 'derrière' and a projecting bosom; a round hat with a huge brim surrounded by a curtain frill of lace, through which her eyes and much-curled hair are visible. He wears a tight-fitting coat with a high collar, large buttons, and projecting shirt-frill. His hair or wig is in a looped queue with large side-curls. He looks at himself in a pocket-mirror with a satisfied air. His cane and round hat are on a chair behind him. The 'antient' dresses are those of the three quarter length portraits on the wall: in the centre are a gentleman and lady standing together in early Georgian dress, each holds a crook, a bird sits on the lady's finger. This is flanked by a lady (left) in quasi-Elizabethan dress, wearing a conical hat, a ruff, and a hooped petticoat in the form of a cylinder; and a man (right) wearing a high hat, cloak, slashed doublet, and breeches, holding a hooded hawk."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dresses antient and modern
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costume -- Men's costume -- Pocket mirror -- Pictures that amplify subject.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1786, by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Mirrors, Tea services, and Chairs
Design in an oval with the bust portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte in profile looking to the right, his taller figure concealing her right shoulder and the back of her shady hat which has a transparent brim. Both are plainly dressed as in prints depicting them as a farmer and his wife, see British Museum satire no. 6918. A reverse of the original (British Museum satire no. 6968). A small anchor is etched in the lower left corner outside the oval design
Alternative Title:
Farmer George and his wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor tilted diagonally., and Probably published by William Holland: the lettering is in his hand and the print is listed in his 1788 Catalogue at a shilling.
Publisher:
Wm. Holland
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Verse below title: 'Twas doing nothing was his curse, Is there a vice can plague us worse? Florio, page 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Quotation from Hannah More -- Wallpaper -- Bracket shlef -- Pictures that amplify subject.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, March 12th, 1786 by H. Humphrey No. 51 New Bond Street
Title from item., Four columns of verse inscribed below the title: Oh listen, Oh! listen good people. O prick up your ears and attend O ..., Artist from early catalog record: unverified., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Richmond's fortifications -- Windmills -- Muffs -- Female Costume -- False bosoms -- 'Derrières' -- Guns -- Cannons -- Navy ships -- Klingender Collection -- Economy., and Watermark in center of sheet: G. Patch.
Publisher:
Pub as the act directs, for the proprietor, by W. Moore, New Bond Street
"Engraving, described in the advertisement as 'General Paoli, Dr Johnson, and the Journalist practising his celebrated Imitations'. Johnson and Paoli drag Boswell (right to left) in a roughly constructed child's go-cart. Boswell sits jauntily, kept in place by a stick across his seat; from his mouth issues a blast inscribed 'Moo o oh'. He wears ordinary English dress with a barrister's wig and bands and a Scots cap decorated by two bells; behind his ear is a pen, an ink-bottle is fastened to his coat, in his right hand is a rattle, in the left a book inscribed 'Ogden'. Round his neck is a portrait-medallion inscribed 'Bruce'. From each side of the cart projects a bulky book: 'Corsica' and 'Journal to the Hebri[des]', On the near side of the cart is the monogram 'JB' surmounted by a fool's cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
All hail Dalblair
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], Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Child's go-cart -- Corsica -- Fool's cap -- Barrister's wig -- Scottish cap., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 23.7 x 26.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 15 May 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary[le]bone Street, Golden Square