"Portrait (whole-length) of a man standing in profile to the right holding a violin in his right hand, a bow in his left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First catgut scraper
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly etched by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., and First letters of imprint statement are lightly printed and illegible, possibly due to an imperfection in the plate. The letter 'S' in 'Street' in publisher's address is etched in reverse.
Publisher:
[Pu]bd. Nov. 27, 81, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
"Gaetan Vestris (right) giving a dancing lesson to a gigantic goose with a human head and long pigtail queue. They face each other in profile. Vestris stands with his legs together, chest thrown out, his arms curved. "Regardez-moi" was his characteristic admonition. On a stool behind the goose is an open book inscribed "Electrical E. E. L."; on the ground at its feet is another inscribed "The Torpedo. Dedicated to Ld------C------. My Lord, I take the Liberty------ The greatness of whose Parts are known. . ." . This indicates that the goose is Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827), "The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel addressed to Mr John Hunter Surgeon" and "Dedicated to . . . Lord Cholmondeley," 4th ed. 1777, was a coarse and scurrilous poem, three lines of which are, "What tho' Lord Ch--lm--d--ly may conceal A most enormous length of Eel Admir'd for Size and bone:"In the wall which forms the background are two sash-windows and a door (left) round which a grinning youth, probably a servant, is looking. On the wall are half length portraits: three in ovals of elderly ladies in profile, one of a clergyman, full-face, wearing a biretta, his left hand on a book. There is also a picture of Fox, with a fox's head, seated opposite Cholmondeley; they are throwing dice. Fox appears satisfied, the other clenches his fist and exclaims in anger. A devil is climbing on the top of the frame and holds out a claw to grab the head of Fox. On the picture are the words "A Nick by God". Like Fox, see BMSat 5972, Cholmondeley held a faro bank at Brooks's. G.E.C., 'Complete Peerage'."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at bottom of image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with aquatint on laid paper ; sheet 26.7 x 36.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Gaetan Vestris (right) giving a dancing lesson to a gigantic goose with a human head and long pigtail queue. They face each other in profile. Vestris stands with his legs together, chest thrown out, his arms curved. "Regardez-moi" was his characteristic admonition. On a stool behind the goose is an open book inscribed "Electrical E. E. L."; on the ground at its feet is another inscribed "The Torpedo. Dedicated to Ld------C------. My Lord, I take the Liberty------ The greatness of whose Parts are known. . ." . This indicates that the goose is Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827), "The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel addressed to Mr John Hunter Surgeon" and "Dedicated to . . . Lord Cholmondeley," 4th ed. 1777, was a coarse and scurrilous poem, three lines of which are, "What tho' Lord Ch--lm--d--ly may conceal A most enormous length of Eel Admir'd for Size and bone:"In the wall which forms the background are two sash-windows and a door (left) round which a grinning youth, probably a servant, is looking. On the wall are half length portraits: three in ovals of elderly ladies in profile, one of a clergyman, full-face, wearing a biretta, his left hand on a book. There is also a picture of Fox, with a fox's head, seated opposite Cholmondeley; they are throwing dice. Fox appears satisfied, the other clenches his fist and exclaims in anger. A devil is climbing on the top of the frame and holds out a claw to grab the head of Fox. On the picture are the words "A Nick by God". Like Fox, see BMSat 5972, Cholmondeley held a faro bank at Brooks's. G.E.C., 'Complete Peerage'."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at bottom of image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"A French recruit (left), an English recruit (right) face each other in profile, both are standing erect in a soldierly way, but are in civilian clothes except for the favour in the Englishman's round hat, and except for the bulky knapsack of fur or skin which each wears. They are described in words engraved beneath the title: "Monsieur all ruffles no Shirt Wooden Pumps and Stockingless" and "Jack English with Ruddy face and belly full of Beef". The Frenchman holds a slim cane, the Englishman a stout cudgel. Behind the former (left) are frogs and rats or mice, behind the latter cows and sheep, to illustrate the supposed contrast between French and English fare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Contrasted recruits
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed., Reissue, with publisher's name added to the plate, of no. 5862 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Date from print of same title; See British Museum satire no. 5862 which lacks imprint.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, National characteristics, British, and Clothing & dress
Gamblers with expressions of anxiety and despair sit or stand around an octagon-shaped table. One man slumps in his chair, asleep and with his purse empty. One man resembles Captain Topham; others may be caricatures as well. In the center of the table is a circular roulette mechanism with the letters E and O for even and odd
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution from British Museum catalogue., Reissue of an earlier state dated 1781, with a different title. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 5928., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.3 x 26.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Gamblers with expressions of anxiety and despair sit or stand around an octagon-shaped table. One man slumps in his chair, asleep and with his purse empty. One man resembles Captain Topham; others may be caricatures as well. In the center of the table is a circular roulette mechanism with the letters E and O for even and odd
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution from British Museum catalogue., Reissue of an earlier state dated 1781, with a different title. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 5928., and Partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
On the left, a meagre Scotchman shown full-length in rags, scratching between his fingers and scratching himself against a sign-post. In the distance is on a hill is Edinburgh Castle. To the right, under a tavern sign with a picture of an ox and the words "Roast & Boil'd" stands a well-dressed, well-fed Englishman holding a large pot of "London Porter". He leans against a post; behind him is St. Paul's in the distance
Alternative Title:
North and South of Great Britain
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Paul Sandby. See British Museum catalogue., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in R. Paulson's Hogarth's graphic works., and On page 207 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Published June the 11th 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse, No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and I. Thane
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, England., England, and Scotland.
Subject (Topic):
Relations, Ethnic stereotypes, and Signs (Notices)
On the left, a meagre Scotchman shown full-length in rags, scratching between his fingers and scratching himself against a sign-post. In the distance is on a hill is Edinburgh Castle. To the right, under a tavern sign with a picture of an ox and the words "Roast & Boil'd" stands a well-dressed, well-fed Englishman holding a large pot of "London Porter". He leans against a post; behind him is St. Paul's in the distance
Alternative Title:
North and South of Great Britain
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Paul Sandby. See British Museum catalogue and later state., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in R. Paulson's Hogarth's graphic works., On page 207 in volume 3., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's Book, 3d, edit., p. 407.
Publisher:
Published June the 11th 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse, No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and I. Thane
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, England., England, and Scotland.
Subject (Topic):
Relations, Ethnic stereotypes, and Signs (Notices)
"A stout, elderly man wearing a wig and three-cornered hat, seated at a table with a wine bottle and glass, a sword hanging from a button hole; after a drawing formerly attributed to Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not i: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See ibid., and On page 215 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27, 1781, by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarth's, Leicester Fields
"A family party walking past the entrance to Bagnigge Wells: A fat citizen, his wig awry and dripping with perspiration, carries a little girl who holds a whip. His stout wife walks behind (right) holding a fan in one hand, a tasselled cane in the other, she smiles complacently. In front, a small boy drags a small four-wheeled chair in which sits a doll-like child holding a doll. The background is the corner of a brick house (right) showing part of a bow-window inscribed "Dealer in Coffee", and a gate inscribed "Bagnigge Wells" with an ogive-shaped decoration surmounting the architrave. Behind are trees. The design evidently derives from Hogarth's "Evening".-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum online catalogue., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum online catalogue., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Families, Fathers & children, Couples, Walking, and Clothing & dress
