Title from text in image., Publication date based on watermark., Certainly published after 1794, date in which Robert Laurie and James Whittle formed their partnership., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved rhymed letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "macaroni" by an image of macaroni, "lady" by an image of a woman dressed in a macaroni style., Later state by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5079 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Lewis Walpole prints 799.10.21.02: Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript., Temporary local subject terms: Hieroglyphs -- Letters., and Watermark: Horn with monogram JM below.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 1770, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from a pole; other boats on the water behind, bridge and church at left, the Chelsea Hospital on the bank beyond at centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Chelsea Reach
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate possibly first published in 1789. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 262., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from lower edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum., Companion print to: Bay of Biscay., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Boats: shallop -- Chelsea -- Flute -- Watermen -- Buildings: Battersea Church., Title written in ink on mounting paper below image, perhaps in a contemporary hand: Chelsea-Reach; same title also written in red ink on verso of print., and Window mounted to 25 x 35 cm.
"Mrs. Siddons as Elvira in 'Pizarro'. Her words are from Act III. iii (in Pizarro's tent). She stands with her head turned in profile to the left, right arm extended in a commanding gesture. She wears a high-waisted, quasi-classical dress, with a long cloak bordered with gold, folds of which are twisted round her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: actors in performance -- Literature: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, iii.3 -- Female costume: theater costume., Leaf 28 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.3 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Siddons" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
"The answer. An hieroglyphic epistle from a modern fine (lady) to a macaroni DescriptionHieroglyphic letter. An answer to BMSat 5079. The same etched figures, reversed, ornament the title.D(ear) delec(table) S(eye)r (Ewer) (letter) (eye) (saw) And the (heart) of a Rock (ewer) mis(Fortune)s wou'd thaw (Eye) Pitied (ass) soon (ass) your (lines) met my (eyes) And (Yew) may at (pea)resent w(eye)th me Sym(pea)athize For (eye) in a (tree)aty of Marr(eye)age of Late Had come (toe) Conclus(eye)on with Lord Awkward (Gate) The L(eye)cence (pea)rocur'd and the Marr(eye)age gone thro (Toe) re(pear) (toe) h(eye)s (house) w(ass) the next th(eye)ng (toe) do (Butt) my (head) w(ass) so h(eye)gh and his door w(ass) so low T(hat) in(toe) the (house) I was (knot) a(bell) (toe) go My Lord (eye)n a (pea)et h(eye)s Instr(yew)ct(eye)ons X(pea)rest T(hat) my (head) (shoe)ld in f(yew)t(yew)re (bee) otherw(eye)se Drest (Butt) before (eye) wo(yew)ld my (pie)ramid Lower (Eye)d lose (coach) and 6 and hus(band) and Dower For (eye)ll tell (Eve)ry Mod(urn) drest (Maid)en or w(eye)fe The h(eye)gher her (head) the (grate)er (eye)n l(eye)fe T(hen) (ladies) (toe) Sh(eye)ne (yew) Must learn (toe) (bee) Vain Of the Mount on (ewer) (head) and the length of (ewer) Train S(eye)nce Equal Mis(Fortune)s on (bee)oth have at(10)ded Our (4)ces let's Jo(eye)n (ass) our Troubles are (bee)lended (Eye) am (grate)ly Agreea(bell) Sr (ewer)s Awkward (Gate)"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of text., Publication date based on partnership of publishers. Partnership of Robert Laurie and James Whittle formed in 1799. See Maxted, I. London book trades., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved rhymed letter in the form of rebus. The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "lady" by an image of a woman dressed in macaroni fashion, "gentleman" by an image of a man dressed in macaroni fashion., Restrike, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5080 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: Horn with monogram JM below., and Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 17[...], by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief hangs over the doctor's cut right thumb. Behind him on the left stands Mr. Shandy, in dressing-gown and night-cap, smoking a long pipe, he is frowning and holds out his left hand in protest at the doctor's curses. Uncle Toby, his crutch under his left arm, stands on the right. pointing with his left hand at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head. He turns to speak to Corporal Trim, who stands (right) at attention in profile to the left holding a long broom."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 30 Jan. 1773 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 5214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Text below title: Vide Tris. Shandy, vol. 2d., Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: "May all the angels & archangels, principalities and powers, & all the heavenly armies curse & damn him ...", One of a series of prints illustrating Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy., Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Man-servant -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils -- Medical -- Dr. Slop., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Slang: tickler -- Slang: firm -- Bank notes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 28, 1799, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Kemble (scarcely caricatured), as Rolla (the noble Peruvian), stands with his left hand pointing upwards, his right arm thrown back, his head in profile to the right. He wears quasi-classical dress, with barbarian adornments, feathered head-dress, heavy gold belt, and ornaments. The costume appears substantially correct, with some exaggeration of the gold chains and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 26 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
