"A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep (right) while a man, Irish in appearance, gazes insinuatingly into her face as he fills her bowl with brick-dust from a jar. He has an ass which stands patiently, a double sack pannier-wise across his back and a second jar or measure standing on the sack. The profile of a shrewish old woman looks through the door at the couple, who are intent on each other. A dog barks at the girl. Behind is a street, the nearer houses tall the farther ones lower and gabled. At the doorway opposite a woman appears to be giving food to a poor woman and child. A man and woman lean from the attic windows of adjacent houses to converse. A little chimney-sweep emerges from a chimney, waving his brush."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint ; sheet 32.2 x 25.6 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 20, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bricklayers, Charity, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Dogs, Donkeys, Street vendors, and Women domestics
Three men sit by a supper-table, a grandfather-clock behind them points to XI. The man on the left is having his jack-boots pulled off by a small boy; the boy stands astride his right leg pulling hard, his back to the man, who is scowling and pushes his other booted foot against the boy's back; on the floor are a pair of spurs, a pair of slippers, and a boot-jack. A man (right) wearing a night-cap, but otherwise completely dressed and wearing spurred boots, leans one elbow on the table, his face contorted as if in pain, he holds his hand to his thigh. On the table beside him is a small packet inscribed "Diaculum". In the centre, and on the farther side of the table, the third man leans both elbows on the table, his hair is tousled and his eyes are shut. A servant behind, yawning, is carrying off a square box, probably a wig-box, while a maidservant stands on the right, a candle in one hand, a warming-pan in the other, watching with amusement the efforts of the boy to pull off the boot. Three hats hang on the wall; a bottle, a plate, three wine-glasses, and a guttering candle, burnt down to the socket, stand on the table. See related image in the British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of feeling
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on watermark., A copy of no. 5920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: W. Pickering & Co. 1816., and With a biographical note in pencil, from John Heiton's Castes of Edinburgh, about Henry MacKenzie of Scotland, author of Man of feeling.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831.
Subject (Topic):
Boots, Boys, Candles, Dining tables, Drinking vessels, Hats, Longcase clocks, Medicine, Slippers, Servants, Women domestics, and Yawning
Volume 2, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 57. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. Three men sit by a rectangular supper-table, a grandfather-clock behind them points to XI. The man on the left is having his jack-boots pulled off by a small boy; the boy stands astride his right leg pulling hard, his back to the man, who is scowling and pushes his other booted foot against the boy's back; on the floor are a pair of spurs, a pair of slippers, and a boot-jack. A man (right) wearing a night-cap, but otherwise completely dressed and wearing spurred boots, leans one elbow on the table, his face contorted as if in pain, he holds his hand to his thigh. On the table beside him is a small packet inscribed "Diaculum". In the centre, and on the farther side of the table, the third man leans both elbows on the table, his hair is tousled and his eyes are shut. A man-servant behind, yawning, is carrying off a square box, probably a wig-box, while a maidservant stands on the right, a candle in one hand, a warming-pan in the other, watching with amusement the efforts of the boy to pull off the boot. Three hats hang on the wall; a bottle, a plate, three wine-glasses, and a guttering candle, burnt down to the socket, stand on the table."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of feeling
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Morning, or, The man of taste., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Maid -- Man-servant -- Male hats, 1780 -- Night-cap -- Medical: Packet of 'diaculum' -- Male costume, 1780 -- Jack-boots -- Boot-jacks -- Boot-boy., Mounted on page 57 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; circular image 29.0 cm, on sheet 35.3 x 30.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octbr. the 10th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Dining tables, Longcase clocks, Boots, Slippers, Boys, Candles, Servants, Women domestics, Hats, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his hand is an open volume with text "A sermon, I am sick of love." She is dressed in a wrap and cap and, while smiling at the clergyman, surreptitiously takes a letter from a black servant boy who approaches from behind her chair. A parrot in a cage hanging above them sings, "Caesar and Pompey were both of them horned." A squirrel sits on a stool next to the table. In the foreground, a monkey sits on the floor, reading "A dissertation on winding up the clock, by Tristam Shandy." On the extreme left, a footman with a long unbraided queue is trying to push out of the room a bill collector who came in to present a tailor's bill
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: With touch indelicate His Grace, approaches that angelic place ..., Companion print to: High life in the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.5 x 34.2 cm, folded to 22.5 x 24.8 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 61 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
"Caricature on Queen Caroline, who is sponged in her bath by Bergami, while a maid throws up her hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Delicate recreations on board a polacre
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Theodore Lane from a similar print, likewise bearing the signature of "Selim" and also published by George Humphrey in October 1820, that is attributed to Lane in the British Museum online catalogue. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.12.160., See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 13890., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 23.5 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 26.4 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 92 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Bergami" and "Caroline" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "2 Oct. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description for No. 14188 (which mentions this print) is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
"A woman sitting over the cradle of her child, at right a servant woman seen from the back pours from a jug into a saucer resting on a ledge below a portrait of the Lady, standing three-quarter length with folded arms; oval design after Bunbury, illustration to the ballad of the same title."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Angelica's ladies library; or, Parents and guardians present. London : Printed for J. Hamilton and Co.; and Mrs. Harlow, 1794., Two lines of text below title: Balow my boy, lie still and sleep, it grieves me sore, to see thee weep., Illustration to the ballad 'Lady Ann Bothwell's lament'., and Mounted on page 105 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, Women domestics, and Pitchers
"Young woman dressed in her ballgown half-reclines on a settee in her bedroom while her elderly maid yawns with tiredness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A figure of Paul Pry., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1995,0930.40., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked paper: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ball dresses, Bedrooms, Couches, Yawning, Candles, Dogs, and Women domestics
Page 150. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall
Alternative Title:
Modern Register Office
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 24.5 x 24.3 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 150 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Employment agencies, Interiors, Interviews, Desks, Benches, Servants, Dandies, British, Women domestics, and Coach drivers
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 91. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her right hand while in her left she holds a candle over the cradle where the swaddled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious fury, her mouth agape. On the left Dr. Slop raises his left fist at her while in his right he holds a cataplasm in a ladle, ready to fling at her. His hat lies at his feet, and his wig is ablaze. Obadiah stands behind him carrying in his hands a chamber pot and a bowl, a medicine bottle tucked under his arm. The two men stand before a screen. The walls of the room are hung with portraits and a mirror; a grandfather's clock showing the time as 6:15 stands against the wall behind the cradle and Susannah. Two medicine bottles sit on a table partially hidden behind the screen. In the foreground lies an over-turned chair
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of quoted text below image, four on either side of title: "Susannah rowing one way & looking another, set fire to Dr. Slop's wig, which being somewhat bushy & unctuous withal was as soon burnt as kindled ..." Vide Tris. Shandy vol. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: Cataplasm -- 'Dr. Slop' -- Dishes: Bowls -- Lighting: Long handle candlesticks -- Domestic service: Maid -- Furniture: Hall clock -- Folding screen., and Mounted on page 91 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d February 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, Servants, and Women domestics
A large woman, her dress thrown up revealing her legs and part of her bottom, crashes to the floor, having broken her commode The contents of the commode spills out much to the anger of a lap dog and the terror of a cat who flees by climbing a curtain. To the left, another older woman, probably the maid, with a look of alarm, rushes towards the falling woman
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Isaac Cruikshank, who produced (often anonymously) many of Williamson's prints around this time. See British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
Subject (Topic):
Washstands, Falling, Dogs, Cats, Draperies, Women domestics, and Obesity
