In a clear parody of Hogarth's "Sleeping Congregation" this scene in a dissenting chapel, shows the preacher leaning from the pulpit, his fist raised as he shouts to the congregation below. A squirrel sits on the canopy of pulpit gnawing on a nut. While some of the congregation in the foreground and those in the background in a raised pew or balcony look up at the preacher, most are smiling at their neighbors and exchanging amorous glances. A chandelier hangs from the upper margin, beside it an inscription: "My friends fear nothing! Follow the first and good commandment -- increase & multiply! Defy as I do Beelzebub & all his crew. We are as innocent lambs passing our evenings here in love and harmony. Hearken not to backsliders, attend regularly & your feelings shall be gratified."
Alternative Title:
Celebrated and Reverend T. Screech Me Dead attacking the devil in his strong hold
Description:
Title from item. and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Chapels, Courtship, Dissenters, and Preachers
A young woman on horseback is talking to a soldier who is leaning on her knees. In the background are two tents, one of which is open and inside are three women seated a table. One of the women is sitting on the lap of a soldier. There is a cannon in the left foreground opposite the horseback rider. A drum can be seen on its side in the right corner of the open tent
Description:
Title from item. and Number '211' in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Novr. by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Couples, Courtship, Military camps, Military uniform, British, and Tents
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.07.14.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Secret influence
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: O mistress fair! I'd be a rose ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Uniforms: coachman's uniform.
Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside., Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by C. Knight, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, May 20th, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners., Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee., Another very similar broadside using the same plate was published October 23d, 1799 by C. Knight. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9446., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from etching in the center of the letterpress broadside., Etching originally published on February 16, 1799, by the same publisher, and here inset within a letter printed in letterpress in the left and right margins. The letter's title "To the fair ladies of Great Britain, old or young" is printed above plate. Signed "John Dinely" and dated "Windsor Castle, October 23d, 1799" below the plate. The whole is in ornamental border and decorated with emblematic woodcuts in each of the four corners., and Two lines of verse etched below the plate's title: How happy will a lady be, to have a little baronet to dandle on her knee.
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1751 and 1774]
Call Number:
751.00.00.49+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
With one arm encircling her waist, a man holds the hand of a young woman outside a fashionable residence, unaware that another gentleman kisses the woman's other hand behind his back. Above the doorway of the residence is etched he name "Notaris” and “Slik-op Notaris” on the left door frame. In the background a third gentleman smiles and points to the grouping in the foreground. In the distance at the back of the residence a maid stands in an archway; beyound her a view of the town
Alternative Title:
Guardian coax'd and Guardian coaxed
Description:
Title etched below image, between verses., Numbered '134' in upper right corner above image., Publication date from: Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Image from a scene in Molière's L'École des maris, 1661; translated by IJsbrand Vincent as De listige vrijster of de verschalkte voogd, 1690: Troost, Possibly after a painting by Jan Josef Horemans (1714-1792)., Four stanzas of verse in two columns on either side of title: Chloe 'tis true with charming leer, you coax your am'rous guardian here ... and bless thy youthful lover., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, print & map seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
The third in a series of scenes: A monkey dressed as a fine gentleman kneels before a well-dressed female monkey who looks away demurely behind her fan. The scene takes place in a formal garden
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, Gardens, and Marriage proposals
"A drawing room with a young woman seated at a piano at right, gazing seriously into the eyes of her tutor, who has his arm around the back of her chair; an older couple seated at the fireplace at left, the man dozing with his dog at his feet, the grotesque old woman, startled, just noticing the lovers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fortepianos -- Fireplace screens -- Music sheets -- Allusion to adultery -- Windows., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1818., and Number "5" in publication year changed to a "6" in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs., Mounted on page 49 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.3 x 34.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs.
