"Illustration to verses printed below in four columns. Six grinning 'cits' stand round one of their number who is in night-cap and waistcoat. Behind is a curtained bed. The verses relate a trick at a Sunday 'dining country jaunt' for which lavish prov...
Description:
Letterpress title printed partially on plate below image, partially below plate line.
Publisher:
Published 2d Decr. 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London and Jack Rider, printer
Subject (Topic):
Sweating-sickness, Beds, Bedrooms, Chamber pots, Interiors, Obesity, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Practical jokes
An image derived from Henry Fuseli painting titled "The Nightmare" from 1781. The incubus has been replaced with a caricature of Napoleon. This image shows a woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers,...
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Sleeping, Nightmares, Chamber pots, and Books
"Heading to printed verses: 'A Burlesque Ballad* - Tune "Billy Taylor was a brisk young Fellow". A man and woman in bed in an attic. A figure, draped in a sheet, stands at the foot of the bed, holding up a lantern. The man reaches for his wooden leg w...
Alternative Title:
Downfall of Miss Nancy Wiggins Dicky Day, the cruel cobbler
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 18, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Ministers recline on a large low platform, representing a magnificent state bed, which is completely covered with roses. It recedes in perspective from left to right. On the left is Fox, looking sourly over his left shoulder at his neighbour, Sherida...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1806 by Walker, 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822., and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Beds, Roses, and Draperies
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
807.10.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she ...
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The patient lies in a large bed (right), sourly watching four ugly doctors (left) who sit in consultation, their knees close together. Two put old-fashioned gold-headed canes to their mouths. They say respectively: "We must throw in the Bark" [quinin...
Alternative Title:
Consultation of doctors on the case of Sir Toby Bumper
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Alcohol, Fever, Quinine, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), Beds, and Sick persons
"A low platform covered with roses extends almost across the design; from this bed new Ministers advancing from the left are ejecting the old. Roses are scattered on the floor. The central figure is the tall and handsome Castlereagh, author of the phr...
Alternative Title:
Retaking the bed of roses by storm!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Beds, Roses, Draperies, and Fighting
