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
First in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's dancing envelope, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., "No. 1.", and Sheet trimmed to design.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their Sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactory, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtship, Cupids, Love letters, and Postal stationery
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentotts, pickpockets, bishops, hunters, etc. Images are loosely arranged in three columns with the following headings at top (left to right): Hints to singers; A few favorite songs &c. &c.; Musical term's.
Description:
Title from text at top of design., "Price twopence"--Following publisher's statement and preceeding publication date in imprint., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26.8 x 19 cm., Printed on wove paper; mounted to 34 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
A soldier with an elongated nose appears to plead with or coax a woman wearing a stole, feathers in her hair, and a crucifix on a chain
Description:
Title from item., Signed in ink lower left: G.C., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information consult library staff.
In a natural setting under a tree stand a young couple in rustic dress. The young man (left) is asking the pretty young woman (right) to marry him, smiles demurely at him
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns: Sylvia sweet can you love me. My mother to it will agree. She would sooner give a cow, Then I should die of love of you ... I would not for a crown, be wedded to a clown, Go for a looby go., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Published July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from street address., Sheet trimmed., Series supplied by curator., In image lower left: 96 [reversed]., Below image: Par Gavarni., Above image: 38., Originally published in Le Charivari., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Bauger R du Croissant 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
A clergy man with a bulbous nose and large wig (right) kneels before an elderly, well-dressed woman (left) who sits in a chair with a cat on her lap. She is very thin, with wrinkled face and pursed lips and wears multiple strands of pearls around her neck and wrist. Her cat hisses at her suitor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse, signed W.H., below title: Hear me, angelic object of my love ... ., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. September 3, 1793, by Will. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clergy, Single women, Courtship, and Marriage proposals
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 35.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
