An elegantly dressed young woman is seated in an armchair facing right reading a letter. The room is richly carpeted and furnished, with striped upholstery on the furniture and matching draperies. Through the window is visible a winter scene with ice ...
Description:
Title from manuscript inscription on mount.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ice skating, Reading, Rugs, Draperies, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
A group of five boys play under a large tree. One boy has climbed up the tree and is handing down a bird's nest with three fledgling birds to another boy on the left, who holds out his hat. On the right one boy gives another boy a ride on his back. On...
Alternative Title:
Boys taking a bird's nest
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
From the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title de...
Alternative Title:
Hobnelia
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"The interior of a well-furnished room with a carpeted floor. A young woman turns aside with a gesture of disgust from a young man of simian appearance who is grinning sheepishly. Her father stands behind her with outstretched arms, pleading desperate...
Alternative Title:
Happiness sacrifised to riches
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Fathers, Interiors, Marriage, Mirrors, Parlors, and Rugs
"The interior of a farrier's smithy. A country woman sits on a low stool, while a farrier pulls at her tooth with a pair of pincers which he grasps in both hands. He presses one foot on her outstretched leg while a grinning assistant holds her head in...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Blacksmiths, Dentistry, Forge shops, Pain, and Toothaches
A dentist wearing a bag wig stands before an elderly woman in a chair as he works on her teeth. Behind him a younger woman looks on with concern and a young black servant grins at the viewer. Through the window is visible a portion of St. James's Pala...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dentistry, Blacks, Servants, and Interiors
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
Two politicians out of office sit shivering in a garret with very downcast expressions. The man on the left writes on a paper entitled 'Abusing Administration', with other similar papers scattered at his feet and those of his partner. Their landlady p...
Alternative Title:
Hors d'emploi
Description:
Title from caption below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Chamber pots, Costumes, Prices, Interiors, Furniture, and Emblems
