With the view of city buildings behind, pavers work with picks and shovels on the street ...
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Pl. II."--Numbered in upper right corner., Illustration from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. ii, p. 46., and Attribution to artist William Hogarth burnished from lower left below design.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Cityscapes, Dogs, Laborers, Shovels, Musicians, and Women
"A stout and burly woman stands at a street-door with a large basket of buns. A young woman and three children buy; the children help themselves, the woman holds a plate which she fills with buns. In the background (left) is a Georgian church with pediment and cupola; a fat parson in his surplice hurries along to escape from a woman and two children, who beg from him."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hot cross buns, two a penny buns
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 4, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Baked products, Beggars, Children, Churches, City & town life, Clergy, Peddlers, Vegetables, and Women
Four images: 1. An obese man in military uniform sits for his portrait as Alexander the Great. 2. A hopeful actor auditions for a skeptical manager. 3. A militia volunteer is instructed by an officer. 4. An actor and an actress in a scene from Arthur Murphy's Apprentice
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Rowlandson and Woodward on verso of print., Fragment of the bottom strip from one of the Borders plates designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson, and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800., Publication information from manuscript note on verso of the print., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
"A decrepit old man stands at the door of a house of ill fame at the corner of Portland Street; Mrs Burke is on the door-plate. One hand is on the knocker; he turns to scowl at a woman (right) who holds out a bunch of water-cress from a large shallow basket slung from the hip. A child clings to her shoulders; a little girl (left) with a small basket also offers him a bunch. Two young courtesans lean from a first-floor window. In the background (right), behind a spiked gate, are trees and a large house (or houses)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Watercresses, come buy my watercresses
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Children, City & town life, Mothers, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Vegetables, and Women
"A handsome young man sells pot-plants to a pretty young woman who stands on a door-step (left); a little girl beside her points eagerly to the flowers. He has a two-wheeled cart drawn by an ass; in it are small shrubs in large pots; two pots of flowering plants are on the ground. The background is formed by part of a palatial house having a portico raised on an arcade."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 38.1 x 29.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, City & town life, Girls, Plants, Row houses, Street vendors, and Women
"A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep (right) while a man, Irish in appearance, gazes insinuatingly into her face as he fills her bowl with brick-dust from a jar. He has an ass which stands patiently, a double sack pannier-wise across his back and a second jar or measure standing on the sack. The profile of a shrewish old woman looks through the door at the couple, who are intent on each other. A dog barks at the girl. Behind is a street, the nearer houses tall the farther ones lower and gabled. At the doorway opposite a woman appears to be giving food to a poor woman and child. A man and woman lean from the attic windows of adjacent houses to converse. A little chimney-sweep emerges from a chimney, waving his brush."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint ; sheet 32.2 x 25.6 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 20, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bricklayers, Charity, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Dogs, Donkeys, Street vendors, and Women domestics
"A mounted officer of the Norfolk rangers, his blued sword drawn, a Tarleton helmet on his head, in green uniform with black facings and silver lace, a sword-belt across his chest and a sash about his waist, other members of the corps exercising in the fields beyond, the colours of the regiment below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from dedication etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British volunteer, or, A General History of the formation and establishment of the Volunteer and associated corps ... London : Printed by C. Whittingham ...; and published by T. Egerton ..., 1799., and Mounted to 35.2 x 23.4 cm; mounted on board to 36 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, Decr. 1, 1799, for the proprietors by Egerton, Whitehall
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)
Subject (Name):
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Militia, Army, Volunteers, Military officers, Military uniforms, Cavalry, and Military training
"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish provisions were sent to the Roe Buck in 'the Forest'. The Club went on horseback, butter was hidden in the lining of one member's hat; he was induced to believe that he had 'sweating sickness', and was put to bed instead of sharing the feast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Four columns of verse below title: Tom Ruby was a merry wag as any in the town, and he full fifteen years had worn and grac'd the civic gown ..., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Fevers -- Anecdotes., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 200 x 247 mm, on sheet 439 x 298 mm.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Printseller's announcement beneath imprint statement: Folios of caricatures lent &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Villagers -- Furniture: slipcovered armchair., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Unsuccessful treatment., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.0 x 23.9 cm.
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement reworked to remove date. For an earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Septr. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, Strand", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 799.09.10.02., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Series title and number etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Medicine bottles -- Food: reference to beans & bacon., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 245 x 195 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Akerman, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Drugs, Pulse, Diet, Physicians, Medicines, and Bottles