"A large central design is flanked by four small designs arranged as if to represent the decorations of folding doors open to display a puppet-show (but explained as 'tablets ... in the manner of a child's writing piece', as in a plate published in 18...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by M. Jones, 5 Newgate St., Scourge
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal College of Physicians of London., Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823., Walker, John, 1759-1830., Hill, Rowland, 1744-1833., Pepys, Lucas, Sir, 1742-1830., Moore, James, active 1812., Baron, John, 1786-1851., and Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Subject (Topic):
Golden calf (Bible), Smallpox vaccine, and Costume
"An uncouth footman (left) in livery stands in the door of a corner house, taking a tankard from a pot-boy, while he answers an elderly and hungry-looking visitor, who leans towards him with an angry and sceptical stare. Across the street is an old-fa...
Alternative Title:
Dissapointed dinner hunter and Disappointed dinner hunter
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand at bottom of sheet.
A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
A man sits in an armchair facing right, resting his gouty left foot on a footrest; a cane rests between his legs. He rings a bell and looks over his right shoulder at a young servant who is leaving the room through a door on the left. A hill is visibl...
An old man, wearing a robe from which hangs a crucifix, walks with a staff towards a city in the distance. A long beard grows from his chin and long hair hangs from the back of his head; the top of his head is completely bald
A country woman in an apron and cloak, hands on her hips, laughs as she watches the havoc caused by a sow and her piglets who run in all directions on the road. A horse rears in panic and topples acouple and their buggy. Another man on horseback is pi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Robberies, and Swine
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[10 December 1812]
Call Number:
Folio 724 C22 781
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of men standing outside a dilapidated building, part of which is visible on the right. One, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, holds in his left hand a torn paper on which parts of words are visible: "[Pet]itio[n] ... [Fr]eehold[rs] . . . Minist[ry...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs 10th December 1812 by J. Bretherton No. 134 New Bond Street
An old maid with a large chin and lump in her neck kneels in prayer before a simple table as a man looks down at her from a gap in the rafters. On the wall hang two notices entitled "Cupid's revenge" and "Love in a village".
