Eight people crowd around a dining table, a woman on the right having fainted, perhaps choking, while two gentlemen attempt to revive her. Other diners continue eating as a maid carries in a dripping tray of meat and a dog begs from a woman on the left. Two caricature portraits hang on the background wall
Alternative Title:
Good dinner spoiled by the ridiculous custom of drinking to friends with a full mouth
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted on paper 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Toasts, Food habits, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, and Dining rooms
"View within the dining hall of the asylum in Lambeth; girls dressed in simple purple dresses with white bonnets seated at long narrow tables along sides of plain large room, with flagstones and grey walls; a few more elegantly dressed figures strolling between the tables."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 25., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 5., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Asylum, or House of Refuge.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Lambeth (London, England), London (England), Great Britain., England, and London.
"The King, Queen, and three princesses are seated at a small dinner-table, on which is a soup-tureen, &c. The King holds a plate on which is an insect, turning round to address angrily a cook (right), who stands trembling beside him. Two alarmed servants stand behind the King's chair. The Queen and princesses make gestures of alarm; one princess (left) has risen from her chair in horror. On the extreme left stands a beefeater holding a jug, who lets glasses fall from a salver in his consternation. A draped window forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; source of the title "Lousiad canto 1st" as indicated., Printmaker from Grego., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., and Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. The Lousiad. An heroi-comic poem. Canto I. London, G. Kearsley, 1787.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
"A sequence of disasters: a servant (left), entering with a joint of meat, is tripped up by a dog, falls forward, bringing his dish down heavily on the head of one diner. The latter falls backwards, grabbing the table, which tilts and, together with a plate of soup, strikes his 'vis-à-vis' under the chin. The contents of a large tureen deluge the falling man. A second servant (right) runs forward with uplifted arms. Two lighted candles fall with the table."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '10' in upper right corner., and Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark.
"A civic feast: men sit on each side of a table whose ends are cut off by the margins of the print. Four men sit on a bench on the near side of the table: a short man (left) in regimentals, his hair or wig in a long pigtail queue, probably an officer in the city militia, drinks from a tankard. Next him a man in bag-wig and laced coat is waggishly pouring the contents of a sauce-boat into the coat-pocket of the man on his right hand, who, quite unconscious of this, is stuffing into his other pocket provisions abstracted from the table. The man on the extreme left lifts his glass in his left hand, looking across to the man at the opposite corner of the table, who stands to return his toast. On the farther side of the table are six men. A waiter serves a stout man with wine. The wall of the room forms the background: in the centre is a chimney-piece, over which is the seated three quarter length portrait of a Lord Mayor wearing his civic chain and smoking a long pipe; his elbow rests on a table and on a document "Pro Magna Charta". An open book is "Lord Littleton on Co[ke]". On each side of the chimney-piece hang hats, one with a tasselled cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher dates from British Museum catalogue., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, no. 6135 in v. 5 for later state which changes to imprint., and Partial watermark top center of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 21st, 1784, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 (opposite Salisbury Court) Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Banquets, Eating & drinking, Drinking vessels, Fireplaces, Dining rooms, Municipal officials, Pipes (Smoking), Tableware, and Waiters
On the right a balding man sits at a well-laid table opposite a parson. The bald man has his arm around the waist of a pretty young woman who stands to his right with her one hand on his head. The parson toastst the couple. A dog sits on the floor near the table on the left. In the background are two pictures that amplify the subject of the print: above the hearth is a picture of a horse, and on the wall to the left (beside a ornate mirror) is a portrait of a bald man in an oval frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: If I live to grow old, for I find I go down. ... And a clearly young girl to rub my bald pate', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
