A collection of prints and drawings probably assembled in the late 1830s or early 1840s, although the drawings may have been executed earlier. The wash drawings by Agnes Berry are of mostly Italian sites in Genoa, Florence, Naples, Rome, and Nice wit...
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Carriages & coaches, and Costumes
On the left, Charles Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, lies on the ground having fallen off an elephant who has the face of Lord North; Fox's dice and dice box are scattered on the pavement. In the speech bubble above his head: "Perdition, take thee...
Alternative Title:
Billy's triumph and Carlo Khan dethroned
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "e" inserted with a caret in the word "Dethron'd"
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 24th, 1784, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
East India Company, Politics and government, Costumes, Indian, and Elephants
On the left, Charles Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, lies on the ground having fallen off an elephant who has the face of Lord North; Fox's dice and dice box are scattered on the pavement. In the speech bubble above his head: "Perdition, take thee...
Alternative Title:
Billy's triumph and Carlo Khan dethroned
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 24th 1784 by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
East India Company, Politics and government, Costumes, Indian, and Elephants
The eighth drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fortun...
Description:
Title from pencil notation below title.
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical drawings, Ballrooms, Costumes, Masquerades, and Parables
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A actor in a costume that includes a large bow at his waist, a cape, and a hat with large plumes demonstrates six positions to convey dramatic emotion, each of the six appear in separate boxes with captions
Alternative Title:
Hamlet's advice to players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Coates, Robert, 1772-1848
Subject (Topic):
Movement (Acting), Study and teaching, and Costumes
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A actor in a costume that includes a large bow at his waist, a cape, and a hat with large plumes demonstrates six positions to convey dramatic emotion, each of the six appear in separate boxes with captions
Alternative Title:
Hamlet's advice to players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Coates, Robert, 1772-1848
Subject (Topic):
Movement (Acting), Study and teaching, and Costumes
"Satire on John Heidegger and the taste for the masquerades which he promoted. A London street scene in the foreground of which Heidegger sprawls on the ground, his watch and coins falling from his pocket, as he begs mercy of Hercules. Hercules, clad ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748. and Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), City & town life, Clergy, Costumes, Dogs, and Masquerades
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 1 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A richly dressed man stirkes a very dramatic theatical pose with one arm raised to full extension and his second arm crossed diagonally across his torso. Observers include a nearby onlooker with sword in hand and a full complement of lightly-armored s...
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in ink below image in the artist's hand.
"A woman, elderly, short, and broad, with swarthy Jewish features, stands, her head turned in profile to the right, holding a goose perched on her forefinger. In her right hand is the end of a ribbon attached to its leg. She says: "Say little foolish ...
