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2.
- Creator:
- Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1787]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 787.09.01.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two families and a laden ass travelling on a path, the parents looking to each other with worried faces and weeping as the children play; a woodcutter on the far left by a thatched cottage, hills and landscape to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Dedication from James Kirby to James Caulfield, the Earl and Viscount Charlemont, etched below title., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint, dedication, and coat of arms below title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration number: 1890,0415.234., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Published the 1 Sept. 1787 by I. Kirby, No. 7 Gresse Street, Rathbone Place
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Donkeys, Crying, Children, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The deserted village [graphic]
3.
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.09.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., A publication date of approximately 1760, later amended to 1783, was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3161., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon., Companion print to: The benevolent physician., and Plate numbered "487" in lower left.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Avarice, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Clothing & dress, Diseases, Families, Poverty, Quacks, Bacon, Children, Costume, Country life, and Sick
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rapacious quack [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Nugent, Thomas, active 18th century, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1800]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan with her son Charles on her back, as a rustic figure carrying a jug towards a stream at right, donkeys in surrounding landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. Sheridan and son
- Description:
- Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statement of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. ; engraved by T. Nugent., State before any lettering. For a later state with the imprint "London, Published April 2, 1800, by T. Nugent, No. 21 Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.321., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Bound in as frontispiece (opposite title page) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and With title "Hester Jane, Second Wife of R.B. Sheridan" and artist statement "John Hoppner pinxt." added in pencil in lower margin, in a later hand. Printmaker's name "Nugent" written beneath image in lower right, in a contemporary hand.
- Publisher:
- T. Nugent
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Hester Jane, 1776-1817, and Sheridan, Charles Brinsley, 1796-1843,
- Subject (Topic):
- Country life, Donkeys, Pitchers, Mothers, and Children
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Mrs. Sheridan & son] [graphic].
