Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and From a series of prints etched by H. Wallis and published by Thomas Fry: Sketches by Seymour.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Vy come the hartful dodge, nothin a year and finds my-self to be sure., and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
A pretty young woman flanked by two young men. Four lines of verse below title: Oh thou Enchanting Beauteous Fair See at thy Feet a suppliant Pair, Yield but a smile, devoid of Scorn Assured of Love, without a Thorn
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Government steam hearse as it will be after the passing of the new interment bill
Description:
Title from text above image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Temporary local subject terms: Hearses -- Boats -- Stick figures -- Skeletons -- Musical instruments -- Gallows.
Title continues: ... Yes Mr. Smith you generally do, but, will you do as we do? With pleasure Ma'am! Then dine at home Mr. Smith
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler
Titles from captions below individual images., Series titles from text above design., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Design consists of ten images; most individually captioned.
And the second floor consumes 3 pails per week ...
Description:
Titles from captions under individual images., Series titles from text above design., and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and From a series of prints etched by H. Wallis and published by Thomas Fry: Sketches by Seymour.
Title from heading above design., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Design consists of nine images; each individually captioned., and Captions include: The second floor returns from the coal hole and rings up the first floor in mistake in his shirt; And such ocean's of half and half for the second pair; And the kitchen is glad to get rid of such a fantastical set ...
One 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 comic envelopes, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, Fores's dancing envelope, Fores's courting envelope, etc
Description:
Title and imprint supplied by cataloger and based other "Fores's envelopes" published by Messrs. Fores., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within design with loss of imprint statement and title., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Number six 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., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., "No. 6"., and Sheet trimmed.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Strt
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Horses, Passengers, and Postal stationery
Letter sheet, a parody on new stationary designed for the Post Office by William Mulready; Britannia seated at centre, despatching postmen to different parts of the World; a lion standing at her feet, with letters hanging from his tail, and a monkey seated on his back; in foreground at left and right, postmen on horseback, riding at high speed. One of a series if prints published by Messers. Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationary 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, etc
Description:
Title, imprint, printmaker, printer and date from British Museum catalgoue., "No. 1.", and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within design with loss of imprint statement and title.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs Fores, Sporting and Fine Art print Repository & Frame Manufactury 41 Picadilly, corner of Sackville Street and Printed by J.R. Jobbins 3 Warwick Ct.
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
Number three 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, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., "No. 3"., Imprint from related 'envelope' prints published by Messrs. Fores., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Messrs. Fores
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Ballet dancers, Dancers, Dance, Postal stationery, and Teachers
Number four 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 musical envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., and "No. 4."
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing & hunting gear, Horseback riding, Hunting, and Postal stationery
Number nine 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 comic envelopes, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., and "No. 9".
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Number two 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, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., "No. 2"., and Sheet trimmed within 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):
Musical instruments, Musicians, Orchestras, Postal stationery, and Singing
Number five 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 comic envelopes, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, etc
Description:
Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., Title from text above image., and "No. 5".
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Horse racing, Postal stationery, Race horses, and Race tracks
Title from caption below image., Title continues: ... Spectator so did I Lawks, vo sent he a chap arter the gals., and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and From a series of prints etched by H. Wallis and published by Thomas Fry: Sketches by Seymour.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities., and Some loss of caption; sheet trimmed within design.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Lor bless you yes, I can't see to go to sleep without my spectacles on!Vell if I didn't think so!, and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Title continues: ... and I see a neagle, I shall shoot him and in the wallis vere the lakes run, if there's any salmon, I shall catch 'em, and d'y see I've got a real velsh pony for an ass.
Title from caption below image., Publication date form unverified data from local card catalog record., and Below title: 'Your wife, I know her better than you do yourself'.
Publisher:
Published by J. McCormick, 62 Paternoster Row and Printed by G.W. Lauder, 14 Paternoster Row
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Below title: A goose attached to her Majesty's regiment of Coldstream guards enlisted at Canada and promoted to the post of superintending the sentinels on duty., and Temporary local subject terms: Goose -- Coldstream Guards -- Sentinels -- Canada.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and From a series of prints etched by H. Wallis and published by Thomas Fry: Sketches by Seymour.
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities., and Text below title: I say Nibs, if we want to be in constatn readiness and take a little care on ourselves, vy ve shouldn't be fit to belong to this here society!
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Me, zir! & he be wery glad o' thoe opportunity to ketch me here! cos he could have yer honour at any time!, and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
A man in ragged clothes walks past a wall covered in advertisements, notices theatrical and musical performances; auctions; animal shows: Devil on two sticks; water closets; Wellington boots; beaver hats; excursions; temperance society meetings; "Jump Jim Crow"; For New York the fast sialing [...]; Madlle Duvernays, Mrs. Wood, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Text below title: To be read downwards.
Publisher:
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet St.
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Why in that case ma'am I should recommend you to swallow a cat!, and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Title from text below image. and Below title: Hist! Stand back mate, keep your eye on him, mind he don't bolt! Ah! you villain we have caught you at last, have we?
Title from text above and below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Title continues: ... Vell vots the odds, as long as you'r happy.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Below title: Not worth a halfpenny, sold for a guinea.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., From Sketches by Seymour?, and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A rotund, red-faced man is seated at a table eating a large bowl of strawberries; his chair blocking the closed door behind him. On the table are the stems from the strawberries, a pitcher, a strawberry basket, and sugar canister. At his slippered feet are two more strawberry baskets
Alternative Title:
Strawberries and cream
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., From Sketches by Seymour?, and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Title from text above image and within banner at bottom of image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possible title page to a series of prints., Printed on pink paper., and Added in a contemporary hand at bottom of plate: 4 plates.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below title: God shield us! A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing! Midsummer night's dream.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Quotation below title: His master and he are scarce cater-cousins. Merchant of Venice.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below title: She let her second floor to a very genteel man. Tatler.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Text below title: She let her second floor to a very genteel man. Tatler., and Window mounted to 24 x 36 cm.
A young woman servant carries a teapot and a key. Text below image: I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself. Merry wives of Windsor
Description:
Title from text below image. and Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below title: The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft. Dibdin.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Text below title: To do obsequious sorrow. Shakspere., and Window mounted to 24 x 36 cm.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Text below title: And the truth is not in us. Common pr[a]yer., and Window mounted to 24 x 35 cm.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Text below title: Ne'er turns the key to th' poor. Shakspere., and Window mounted to 24 x 36 cm.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text below title: "Gently o'er my senses creeping.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Below title: In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. Henry V.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Two lines of verse below title: Remote from towns he ran his godly race, nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place. Goldsmith., and Window mounted to 24 x 35 cm.
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Below title: I say Bill that'll smother the hanimal. No, it won't it's a regular resperator you see he's a little assmatic & it's reccomended.
Title from text below image., Place of publication conjectured., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below image: A child more easily conceived than described. Old story.
A scene on the sidewalk outside a walled property: A group of citizens argue with each other, while a policeman apprehends a young man. An older man listens to a bootblack with the aid of an ear trumpet. A Black servant stands at the open door of the property
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of text below title: Eh, he, I, oh, you, why! A, E, I, O, U, Y.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 24, 1840 by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Fighting, Hearing aids, Police, and Servants
Title from first line of verse below image., Title continues: ... The glow-worms lamp is gleaming love, how sweet to rove through Norma's grove, when the drowsey world is dreaming love., and Temporary local subject terms: Night shirt -- Night cap -- Lantern -- Couples -- Moonlight -- Glow worms -- Kissing -- Club.
Publisher:
Published at Tregears' Comic print shop, 96 Cheapside
Title from caption below design., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption across top of design: Men & "gents" (who are really respectable) may now be seen smoking in the streets, even with bla'guard short clay pipes, a practice which was formerly only indulged in by common thieves, out-casts, sweeps & dust men! "Put that in your pipe & smoke it", Numerous designs on sheet, most individually captioned., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Caricatures -- Heads -- Smoking -- Mothers -- Children.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Frontispiece [?] preceding a series of at least 8 prints etched by H. Wallis and published by Thomas Fry: Sketches by Seymour.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Whoy zir, I dun no what they means to do, but they have done Plaguey little as yet!, and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
A monkey dressed in a flowered gown and holding a candestick in one hand and the leg of a cat in the other, leans out of a second-story window. The cat's front paw is stuck in the knocker on the front door as a second cat tears away in fright. The text below: Who am dat knocking at de door?
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Title continues: ... Please, sir, its one of your old un's as Misses gave me!!, and One in a series of at least 13 prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Title supplied by cataloger., The second plate in a series of at least four prints published by Chapman & Hall in 1840., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title supplied by cataloger., The third plate in a series of at least 4 prints published by Chapman & Hall in 1840., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One 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 comic envelopes, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, etc
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement and title.
Title supplied by cataloger., "Plate IV"--Above image, centered., The fourth plate in a series of at least 4 prints published by Chapman & Hall in 1840., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from ms. heading above design., Publication date form unverified data form local card catalog record., and Print without letters. Ms. captions added below each image: Present; Past; Future.