Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album., and On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
A vendor shown full-length before his basket on a stand. He wears an apron under a military-like jacket as he calls out
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: 1818., and Ms. annotations in pencil.
Title from header at top of sheet., Imprint statement repeated below each design., Caption below upper design: Pray Mrs. Mouse are you within? ..., Caption below lower design: Come Mrs. Mouse now give us some beer ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1818.
Title from caption below image., Two columns of verse above image: I've been drinking, I've been drinking where the Purl ws rather cheap and I'm thinking & I'm thinking that I've drunk somewhat too deep ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1818.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1818.
Title from header at top of sheet., Imprint statement repeated below each design., Caption below upper design: The frog he would a wooing go heig oh said Rowly ..., Caption below lower design: Off he set with his opera hat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1818.
Equestrian portrait of Sir John Moore, riding to the left, his brown horse rearing up; one hand holding the reins and the other gesturing with his drawn saber; wearing a bicorne with a feather cockade on his head, star on the breast of his military uniform; a landscape with a military encampment beyond
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant General Sir John Moore, K.B.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nicholson, W. The history of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution. London : R. Evans, 1816., "Page 406"--Lower right., and Watermark: 1818.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1815, by Richd. Evans, Whites Row, Spitalfields, London
Title from header at top of sheet., Imprint statement repeated below each design., Caption below upper design: Since you have caught cold Mr. Frog Mousey said ..., Caption below lower design: As they were in glee and merry making ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1818.
Title from header at top of sheet., Imprint statement repeated below each design., Caption below upper design: The cat she seized the rat by the crown heigh of & c. ... see song set to music to be had of Fores, Piccadilly., Caption below lower design: As froggy was crossin over a brook heigh oh &c. &c. ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1818.