A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attend the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the gir...
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attend the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the gir...
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attending the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the ...
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th 1793 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A design resembling a high-relief depicts three amoretti attending the toilet of an old hag. The cestus of Venus is a huge pad which one of the attendants ties round the old woman's waist as another attendant holds up a mirror. A third cupid ties the ...
Alternative Title:
Vestal of 1793 trying on the cestus of Venus
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 29th 1793 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
publish'd according to act of Parliament June 15, 1775.
Call Number:
775.06.15.01 Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A couple stand side by side before a rectangular tomb. The male figure is a skeleton wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and a sword; the lady wears a cloak. The tomb is decorated with the skull and crossbones and inscribed with the words "Requiescas in ...
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looki...
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 huntin...
Description:
Title from text above image.
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
Copy of the frontispiece to Joshua Kirby's 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape, with river, domed temple and city, in foreground the upper part of a column, its capital bearing emblems of the Prince of Wales, a cupid with a book, a paper w...
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Description:
Paulson's title for the print on which this is based: Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
Four nymphs kneel or stand in front of a tree in front of which is a fenced enclosure holding three cupids. In the background on the left, another nymph carrys away a cupid on her shoulder
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May the 25, 1795, by C. Guisan, No. 74, Wells Street Oxford Street & sold by A. Molteno, Printseller No. 76, St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A lady stands on a mound in profile to the left; a young military officer (left) fires a cannon from an embrasure, while another fires a trench-mortar at her from behind. Her dress caricatures the fashion for a very projecting breast, and a large pro...
Alternative Title:
Siege of Fort Phyllis
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd 16 May, 1786, by Geo. Townley Stubbs Peters Court St. Martins Lane
Caroline and Bergami sit together in an opera-box, frowning angrily at the occupants of the pit, all men, who look up at the box disapprovingly. Bergami holds a bottle labelled 'Essence of Bergamot' and wears a braided hussar uniform. Caroline is very...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Caroline and Bergami sit together in an opera-box, frowning angrily at the occupants of the pit, all men, who look up at the box disapprovingly. Bergami holds a bottle labelled 'Essence of Bergamot' and wears a braided hussar uniform. Caroline is very...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Three young ladies in the open air among trees grouped on the left, one holding flowers and two holding fans, with a young man who looks at a cupid on a fountain with a sundial
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Cupids, Fans (Accessories), Fountains, and Women
"The marriage of Caroline of Brunswick. The Prince takes her hand at the altar rails. Behind her fly attendant cupids; beside him are satyrs with wine and fruit. P. 15: O, for the Oath that the Archer once took, To love and to cherish, as wrote in the...
Alternative Title:
O, for the oath that the archer once took to love and to cherish, as wrote in the Book ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Weddings, Altars, Supernatural beings, Cupids, Wine, and Fruit
"Queen Caroline, not caricatured, wearing Bergami's miniature as in British Museum Satires No. 14103, &c., stands on the summit of a column holding out a paper inscribed 'R+G+NA still in spite of them.' Her left hand supports a medallion, inscribed 'K...
Alternative Title:
Caroline Column
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
"Queen Caroline, not caricatured, wearing Bergami's miniature as in British Museum Satires No. 14103, &c., stands on the summit of a column holding out a paper inscribed 'R+G+NA still in spite of them.' Her left hand supports a medallion, inscribed 'K...
Alternative Title:
Caroline Column
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
"Queen Caroline, not caricatured, wearing Bergami's miniature as in British Museum Satires No. 14103, &c., stands on the summit of a column holding out a paper inscribed 'R+G+NA still in spite of them.' Her left hand supports a medallion, inscribed 'K...
Alternative Title:
Caroline Column
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
"Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kne...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
The Kendal arms; coat of arms of Countess Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenberg, in ornamental architectural cartouche, surmounted by coronet and with wild men, clothed in ivy, holdings clubs for supporters and two decorative cupids beneath the lozen...
Print with twelve panels relating to the affair of Mary Toft, "the rabbit breeder": from top left, she is held aloft by two men and a Harlequin or Merry Andrew, she has a rabbit in either hand; she pursues a rabbit while working in a field; she dreams...
Alternative Title:
New whim wham from Guildford
Description:
Title etched above images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Births, Brothels, Cupids, Fools & jesters, Fraud, Law enforcement, Physicians, Pregnant women, and Rabbits
