A pretty young woman flanked by two young men. Four lines of verse below title: Oh thou Enchanting Beauteous Fair See at thy Feet a suppliant Pair, Yield but a smile, devoid of Scorn Assured of Love, without a Thorn
An intoxicated man in tattered clothing leans against a wooden post on the street. He looks over at a woman to the left, also intoxicated, who sits on the ground. An article of the woman's clothing is caught on the post and is hanging off her shoulder...
A monkey dressed in a flowered gown and holding a candestick in one hand and the leg of a cat in the other, leans out of a second-story window. The cat's front paw is stuck in the knocker on the front door as a second cat tears away in fright. The te...
A man in ragged clothes walks past a wall covered in advertisements, notices theatrical and musical performances; auctions; animal shows: Devil on two sticks; water closets; Wellington boots; beaver hats; excursions; temperance society meetings; "Jump...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet St.
First in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's huntin...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Cupids, Love letters, and Postal stationery
Number two in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's ...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Musical instruments, Musicians, Orchestras, Postal stationery, and Singing
Number five in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's mu...
Description:
Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Horse racing, Postal stationery, Race horses, and Race tracks
Number six in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's h...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Strt
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Horses, Passengers, and Postal stationery
Number nine in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's mu...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
One in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's musical en...
One in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's musical en...
Description:
Title and imprint supplied by cataloger and based other "Fores's envelopes" published by Messrs. Fores.
Letter sheet, a parody on new stationary designed for the Post Office by William Mulready; Britannia seated at centre, despatching postmen to different parts of the World; a lion standing at her feet, with letters hanging from his tail, and a monkey s...
Description:
Title, imprint, printmaker, printer and date from British Museum catalgoue.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs Fores, Sporting and Fine Art print Repository & Frame Manufactury 41 Picadilly, corner of Sackville Street and Printed by J.R. Jobbins 3 Warwick Ct.
Interior view of the ruins of Holyrood Abbey, looking down the nave towards a wall with two arched windows. The building is mostly intact but without a roof; a broken column is seen in the center foreground. Figures with torches stand beneath the wind...
Description:
Title, imprint, and series title printed on label affixed to mount, below image.
Publisher:
Published by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside; W. Morgan, 64, Hatton Garden; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; and W. Wilson, Jun., 16, King William Street, City
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1840?]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 16 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Heading to a title page for a poem or musical composition. A winged devil looms above and behind a group of sixteen half-length figures wearing hooded cloaks, his arms outstretched and lifting up the cloaks of the figures in the back. All sixteen hold...
An intoxicated man in tattered clothing leans against a wooden post on the street. He looks over at a woman to the left, also intoxicated, who sits on the ground. An article of the woman's clothing is caught on the post and is hanging off her shoulder...
A young maid holding a steaming pots talks with an older woman sitting in a chair, the latter wrapped in a blanket and toasting bread over an unseen fire; a tea set rests on a table in the background
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840s?]
Call Number:
840.00.00.85
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A cook stirring a liquid from a bottle into his bowl, his right eyeball looking down at the table and his left eyeball looking to the side at a pot steaming on the hot fire in the hearth
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Cookery, Pots & pans, Tables, and Fireplaces
