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 pitched forward as his horse noses the piglet caught between his front legs. In the distance beyond a stone wall on the left is the town dominated by four steeples, on the right trees. While the woman is looking away, two small boys, eyeing her carefully, steal from the contents of her wheelbarrow
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Robberies, and Swine
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
"Rural scene with two couples dancing on the left while a man pipes and plays a drum under a tree on the right, and another couple watch at a table in front of him, smoking and drinking; village in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Shepherds holy day
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Four lines of verse in two columns below title: The month of May is now begun, and the sweet flowers are all in bloom; the nymphs and swains like lambs shall play, to welcome the shepherds holyday.
Publisher:
Published Oct. 24th, 1794, by John Fairburn, map, chart & printseller, No. 146 Minories, London
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Dancers, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Holidays, Shepherds, and Pipes (Smoking)
A widow with her gouty foot elevated, sits on a stool in front of her cottage, as her daughter wipes away a tear in the doorway. A tax collector with a book under his arm examines the widow's possessions, which are strewn about the ground in front of the house. Included are a bellows, chair, candlesticks, and cauldron. The cow's head is visible on the left. In the foreground a young squire in riding dress is in the act of offering the old woman a purse, as he eyes her pretty daughter
Alternative Title:
Widow Costard's cow and goods distrained for taxes
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett ... No. 53 Fleet Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Widows, Cows, Farmhouses, Tax payers, Country life, and Clothing & dress
An album compiled by Sir Henry Edward Bunbury containing character studies and humorous depictions of coaching, hunting, military, domestic scenes, dogs, and people (mostly caricatures) from a variety of social stations, drawn by him or his father in a variety of mediuma directly on the blue album paper or drawn on laid paper that has been mounted on the album paper. Many of the drawings include titles and dates. Also included is a sheet of eleven men shown in profile drawn by an amateur artist "Miss Jones" and entitled "The worthy magistrates and other inhabitants of [illegible] Ashford ... taken by representative of R.B. Esq. at [illegible] ... 1806 by Miss Jones."
Description:
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860), a professional military officer and later, member of Parliament and published historian, was also a caricaturist whose work is very similar to that of his father, Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811)., Title devised by cataloger., Dated from internal evidence., Three drawings removed and folded separately., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Clegy, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Couples, Dogs, Hunting, Judges, and Servants
An album of amateur etchings, mostly by Charlton Wollaston and The Hon. Booth Grey, and a few pen and gray wash landscape sketches and portraits. Many of the etchings are represented by multiple impressions and variant states, and on various paper stocks. Also mounted in the album is a copy of a bust of a man by Miss Clarke, from College-Green Worcester and dated 1789. Some later prints are mounted on 19th century photolithographs. The etchings represent country scenes -- thatched cottages, peasants, farms and farm animals, and peasants at work -- as well as views of churches, villages, ruins, and landscapes with row boats and skiffs on rivers. Also included are several engravings and prints from published works on various topics including a large engraving of Greek sculptural elements pasted on the inside of the back cover
Alternative Title:
Collectanea Cantab
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Caption title from p. [1]: Collectanea Cantab., Many of the sketches are signed with the monogram "CW" or the initials "BG"., Binding: 18th century limp vellum blank account book with paper printed with three columns of vertical rules. First couple of pages have been removed with stubs suggesting that the book may have been first used for accounts., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Isle of Wight., and Isle of Wight (England)
A single-horse carriage is stopped in front of a rustic inn or roadhouse, with two caricatured Frenchmen (one a postillion wearing enormous boots) engaged in changing out the horse. An occupant of the carriage hands money out the window to a peasant woman holding an infant and accompanied by a young boy; two other shabbily dressed figures are nearby next to a tree, one of them playing a makeshift drum. In the doorway of the building stands a young woman, and to the left a man under an archway stands with arms crossed; both watch the scene unfold. In the background a postillion rides away on horseback, whip extended into the air
Alternative Title:
Changing horses on the road to Paris
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Signed by the artist in lower left., and One of five views by the artist F.G. Byron that record his visit to France in 1790; they were exhibited at the Society of Artists the following year. This drawing was exhibited under the title "Changing horses on the road to Paris" (Society of Artists, 1791, no. 39).
Subject (Geographic):
Clermont (France) and France.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Taverns (Inns), Postillions, French, Peasants, Country life, Ethnic stereotypes, and Drums (Musical instruments)
Carlisle, Isabella Howard, Countess of, 1721-1795, artist
Published / Created:
[1760]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 9 Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed with the artist's initials in lower portion of image., Date of production from ink annotation below image: Isabella Carlisle 1760., and Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Two London lawyers quizzing a clever countryman tipping his hat off of his head and holding a riding whip
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Possible preparatory drawing for a print published under the tile 'Lawyers and countryman' by Laurie & Whittle in 1797., and For further information, consult library staff.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 50 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Six sketches arranged across two rows depicting rotund red-faced countrymen riding horses poorly or in various states of humorous accidents. Captions include: How to be obstinate; The most approved method of sliding; How to stick in a ditch; How to prevent being run away with; A Cheshire kick; How to slip from your saddle with ease to yourself and horse
Description:
Title and date devised by cataloger. and Sheet trimmed cropping artist's signature and title.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Horseback riding, Accidents, and Country life
