Copy of the frontispiece to Joshua Kirby's 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape, with river, domed temple and city, in foreground the upper part of a column, its capital bearing emblems of the Prince of Wales, a cupid with a book, a paper w...
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Description:
Paulson's title for the print on which this is based: Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 May 1798]
Call Number:
Print00054
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four images on one plate. Each represents a different trade or profession that is advertised in highly accented English by its representative, beginnig on top left with a schoolmaster, entitled, Iddicatshun: I Luke Lojick larns younge gintlemen to rad...
Alternative Title:
Candidates for public favour
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. May 29, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 May 1798]
Call Number:
798.05.29.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four images on one plate. Each represents a different trade or profession that is advertised in highly accented English by its representative, beginnig on top left with a schoolmaster, entitled, Iddicatshun: I Luke Lojick larns younge gintlemen to rad...
Alternative Title:
Candidates for public favour
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. May 29, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"Social satire; four soldiers in uniform with bayonets, shooting at bugs on the wall, and uttering threats, including "I'll lodge a bullet in his Thorax"; one walks off, smiling, a bug speared on the end of his bayonet, saying "There is a Trophy of my...
Alternative Title:
Volunteer corps in action
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d 1798 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Rifles, Bayonets, Insects, and Interiors
Scene at the door of a cottage. Two soldiers on horseback talk to a young couple in the door of a cottage. The young man scratches his head as the woman looks down demurely. A kid plays with the large goat. An obese rustic sits on the bench near the...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Goats, Horses, Soldiers, British, and Recruiting & enlistment
"Monroe (not caricatured), heavily armed, carrying a long spear across his shoulder, rides, right to left, across a grassy mound, followed by a rabble of ill-armed and ragged Irishmen. In the background small figures flee from burning buildings. Benea...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1798, at Ackermanns Gallery, N. 101, Strand
"John Bull stands with a whip, jovially watching the baking of ships for France in a 'Dutch Oven' (right). A fat Dutchman, an empty pipe in his mouth, pushes into the oven on a shovel a batch of ships, saying, "Donder & Blaxan to Dis Fraternization in...
Alternative Title:
High fun for John Bull and Republicans put to their last shift
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 12, 1798 by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand
"Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the 'Irish Channel'; on a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shield and spear beside a pile of bales of go...
Alternative Title:
Whisper across the Channel
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 24th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
"Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the 'Irish Channel'; on a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shield and spear beside a pile of bales of go...
Alternative Title:
Whisper across the Channel
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 24th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
