Two grotesques caricatures shown in profile, a man on left and woman on right, laughing and smiling at one another
Description:
Title from item. and Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838.
Final scene of six images showing the progress of a courtship gone wrong. The characters are monkeys in human dress. The original suitor having lost his tail to his revival runs away while the new suitor and the object of their desire lift their arms in despair
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Courtship, and Gardens
A couple, caricatured and shown full-length, stand with the feet intertwined as the man clasps the woman under her arms. He has long legs and arms and a jutting chin; she, somewhat older than the man, is sharp-featured and appears to be falling
Description:
William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Title etched below image., Printmaker's name illegible in lower right corner of design: Possibly Stack or Stock., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Description based on imperfect impression; imprint statement mostly trimmed from sheet., Probably a copy of a print by Richard Newton that was published by William Holland on 8 May 1797. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.334., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate [71] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Titlepage for Chapter XXII; Edward IV standing, holding a bow in one hand, taking Lady Gray's hand in the other as she kneels to left, holding a child on her lap, with a boy holding two greyhounds behind to right; a descriptive plaque below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Edward the Fourth declaring his attachment to Lady Elizabeth Gray
Description:
Title from text above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [71] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Subject (Name):
Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483, and Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492,
"Heading to engraved verses ... Liston as Flourish, a Quaker, stands primly, thumbs together, beside Ruth, a Quakeress, who points alluringly to a distant grove, behind him is a signpost with three arms, one inscribed '5. Miles'. He relates his discomfiture by another suitor. The song ends: 'And kick'd me Ruthlessly behind With his Toe Turn Ti.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Finger post
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '440' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Twenty-four lines of verse arranged in two numbered columns in lower portion of plate: Yea! I fell in the pit of love, Ti Tum Ti ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 30, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
An old man and a young woman sit at a table. He wears a cap with a feather on it; his left arm is around the woman's shoulders. She is lifting a large wine glass. Her companion is holding a large pitcher
A pretty country girl, embraced by a handsome young military officer, turns her back on an ugly countryman on her left who tires to draw her away form her dangerous admirer
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '5' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Variant state, with plate number, of no. 11665 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
A print with two images, the first of which is an amorous young couple, enclosed in a garland of fruits and flowers joined at the bottom by a head of a blindfolded cherub on crossed cornucopias of fruit and coin. The second image can be viewed by turning the print upside-down image and shows an older, quarreling couple enclosed by a garland of entwined leafless branches and supported at the bottom by a horned head of a demon. Six lines of verse describing each scene are engraved on the happy couple's side on two goatskins suspended on either side of the image, and on the unhappy couple's side on a skin of an ass and that of a bear, suspended in similar fashion of the sides. The verse on the happy couple's side begins as follows, "When two fond fools together meet, each look gives joy, each kiss is sweet ..." On the unhappy couple's side the verse begins "The nuptials o'er with angry brow the married pair, both peevish grow ..."
Alternative Title:
Unhappy marriage
Description:
Title and imprint from another impression in an Andrew Edmunds sales catalogue (viewed October 2016)., With Carington Bowles series number '33' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Window mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles in S. Paul's Churchyard, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Marriage, and Metamorphic pictures
