Facing left and wearing an ankle-length apron, a cook walks holding saucepan in his left hand and a covered tureen in his right. He wears a bag wig, lace cuffs and patterned stockings. Protruding from the back of his coat are a spoon and other cooking...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Cooks, Cooking utensils, Aprons, Wigs, and Clothing & dress
A young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair ...
Description:
Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells.
Publisher:
Pub. 13 June 1776 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Women domesticss, Wigs, Hairstyles, Cooks, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Mops & mopsticks, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cats, Apes, Cheese, and Vegetables
"A grotesque procession of brass-founders (braziers), carrying banners and emblems of brass on poles, burlesquing a Roman triumph. They march (right to left) past a sign-post pointing (left) 'To B--burgh House' and (right) 'To Turnham Green'. All wear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
"A grotesque procession of brass-founders (braziers), carrying banners and emblems of brass on poles, burlesquing a Roman triumph. They march (right to left) past a sign-post pointing (left) 'To B--burgh House' and (right) 'To Turnham Green'. All wear...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
"French soldiers are being cooked or drowned in a big round vat built of stone, under which a fire is burning. Blücher (left) and Wellington (right) stand over the vat, holding long-handled perforated ladles with which they skim the surface of the wat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Cerberus (Greek mythology), Cooking utensils, Generals, French, Military officers, Prussian, Soldiers, and Vats
A large, ugly woman, shown in full-length in profile looking left, holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig that she is diligently powdering with a flour dredger
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Cooking utensils, Dandies, British, and Wigs
A large, ugly woman, shown in full-length in profile looking left, holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig that she is diligently powdering with a flour dredger
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Cooking utensils, Dandies, British, and Wigs
Watercolor drawing depicting some of the weapons kept by Horace Walpole in the Armory at Strawberry Hill. These weapons, which include spears and lances, are presented in two rows in the bottom part of the drawing. Above the weapons, in the upper left...
Description:
Title written in ink below image.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Arms & armament, Locks (Hardware), and Cooking utensils
