"The room of an impecunious family. The father, probably an actor, writer, or artist, sits on a three-legged stool, with a little girl on each knee, one flourishes a whip and tugs at his shirt frill, the other pulls his pigtail. A younger child rides astride his leg, and a little boy tugs at his coat-tail; both flourish whips. An infant in a wicker cradle screams. The man turns up his eyes in melancholy resignation. His stockings are ungartered, and his dress suffers from the too-active children. Behind is an open fire, with a kettle beside it. The mother, neatly dressed, cooks, holding a frying-pan on a grid attached to the grate. A small round table (right) is laid for a scanty meal. From a line across the room hangs neatly folded washing. The chimneypiece is covered with medicine-bottles, &c, among which is a bust of a man. Above is an unframed picture of Diogenes in his tub. On the wall are also a small (broken) mirror, and a print of a man bent under a towering pile of sacks. On the boarded floor is an open book: a picture of a sow with many sucking-pigs faces: All the pretty little ones and their Dam Oh! Oh! Oh."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: J Whatman 1821.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One in a series of six prints. Series title varies., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One in a series of six prints. Series title varies., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Each phrase of the title relates to one of the four women depicted who stand in a carpeted room, each with an appropriate picture behind her. [1] A pretty girl stands in profile to the left, eyes demurely downcast, finger to lips, holding up a corner of her apron. At her feet is a letter: Dear William . . . Love. The picture is two lovers under a tree. [2] A young country girl who seems shocked at [1]; a stocking she is mending is drawn over her left hand. Her picture is a domestic interior: a woman at a spinning-wheel, her husband holding up an infant. (Her sweetmeat is Elecampane (dial. Allycompaly), flavoured with the (medicinal) root of the plant so named.) [3] An ugly spectacled old woman who berates the culprit with raised forefinger. Tales of Scandal project from her pocket. Her picture is (Æsop's) fox turning from the grapes he cannot reach. [4] A shameless old bawd, hideously drink-blotched, closing one eye in a lewd grin, a bottle of Brandy projecting from her pocket. Her picture is of a couple carousing; the woman says May we never want a Friend & a bottle to give him"--British Museum online catalogue
Title from caption below image., "T.C." in the statement of responsibility has been scratched through on the plate., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Temorary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject -- Women -- Paintings -- Rugs.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1822 by Geo. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
"Twelve cards of varying shapes, each containing a verbal puzzle, are arranged in a medley and held by crossed tapes or ribbons to simulate a card-rack. They include a 'Favorite Vocal Performer', the blade of a bill-hook is inserted in a cask: Bill-in-tun, see BMSat 9765, &c. 'An Emblem of Pride', a pea-pod and a cock, or peacock. 'A Necessary Occupation', the word 'Taker' above 'an', i.e. an undertaker."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Printseller's description following imprint: Variety of ornaments for screen dressing boxes & c. & c., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture screens -- Card rack -- Bill hook.
"Scene in a neat parlour or music room, with open square piano and lyre-back chairs. A middle-aged termagant, coquettishly dressed, has overturned her chair and stands with raised fist, shrieking at a very young man in riding-dress. He sits (left) with hat and riding-switch beside him, bewildered and passive; his dog takes cover under his chair, looking sideways at an aggressive cat which arches its back against its mistress. A cockatoo screams from its perch. On the piano, which is inscribed Row Maker, is an open music-book: Blow High. Blow Low; on the floor is a book open at Wake to Ecstacy the living Lyre. Behind the woman's head is a convex wall-mirror, topped by a carved eagle which looks fiercely down. This is flanked by two sea-scapes: Calm (left), ships becalmed, and Storm (right), a ship struck by lightning and about to be submerged in towering waves."--British Museum catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Pictures in image amplify subject of the print., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A game is just finished: a pretty elegant girl (right) has nine tricks, and an elderly spinster in old-fashioned dress, with spectacles on forehead, has four. They argue, gesturing with their hands, while the two men watch the girl intently. A dog barks at her. The room is lit by two candles from a sconce. Two pictures are on the wall, an owl in a bush, and a half-length portrait of a man, who seems to be watching the game intently, finger on lip"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One in a series of six prints. Series title varies., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Two men play at a small round card-table, the cribbage-board between them. One (left), fashionably dressed, has thrown his cards on the table, rising slightly from his chair, with a stare of triumph at his opponent. The latter, elderly and old-fashioned, holds his cards, and stares with melancholy surprise at those on the table. A large snuff-box lies on the floor, overturned. Behind them is a folding screen which partly conceals a picture: a man, dressed as a jester, performing a conjuring trick to astonished spectators."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and One in a series of six prints. Series title varies.
"A London night-scene. A fashionably dressed man wearing top-boots is chased (right to left) by two police officers holding bludgeons. One holds a pair of hand-cuffs. The pavement is backed by a high stone wall topped by trees. On the wall, by a projecting lamp, are three superimposed bills: Burglary; £200 Reward Felony; Murder, Reward 100 Guineas. There is a full moon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1821.
