"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 17.1 x 22.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Proof state, before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image., Lettered state of this plate is the frontispiece to: Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., [1787], 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 20.0 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 20.8 x 25.7 cm., Alerternative title written in ink in a contemporary hand below image: Pindars Pegasus., Statement of responsibility, "T. Rowlandson fecit," written in later hand below image in lower left; identifications of the figures written below plate mark in the same hand., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
Description:
Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
Title from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Alternate title written in ink in contemporary hand below plate mark: The den of Algeirs [sic]., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Title from Grego., Month and possibly day in publication line partially burnished from plate., For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Title devised by curator., Part of imprint lightly printed and illegible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Title and publisher from Grego., For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
"A stage coach setting out from a posting house, with the sign of a coat of arms; the coach loaded with passengers, the horses at right, a case being handed up at left; a smiling young woman handing a glass to the coachman in the doorway at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by curator., Printmaker from Grego., For a brief description of series, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 212., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Window mounted to 18.5 x 26 cm., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 15, 1787, by T. Rowlandson, No. 50, Poland Street
A campanion piece to print of the same title (Such things are. Telles choses sont) which ridicules women's dress. This plate shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Description:
Title and date from print based on this drawing published by S.W. Fores April 2, 1787., Attributed to Captain Mercer: According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., and Formerly mounted with an impression of the engraving, based on this drawing: See Lewis Walpole Library 787.04.02.04+.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Men
"A roadside inn with the sign of three horseshoes, the inn at right, path with gate at left; several people gathered outside, including two men on horses."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Three horse-shoes and Three horseshoes
Description:
Title devised by curator., Title given by Grego: The three horse-shoes., Signed by Rowlandson in the lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,1008.2851., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 20 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
