Six small designs, individually titled: AEIOUY; Wretched stuff; Very pretty overtures; Humility; Vulgar pride
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Title from heading above design., Publication date from local card catalog record., A.C. or A. Crowquill, for a time the joint pseudonym of Charles Robert Forrester and Alfred Henry Forrester; later used by Alfred Henry Forrester alone., Number 3 in a series of at least seven prints published by Smith, Elder & Co., and Temporary local subject terms: Vowels -- Pride -- Humility.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from local card catalog record., and Caption continues: ... for to write letters to your wicked hussey's?
"Portrait of William Beckford after Reynolds (Mannings 149); head and shoulders facing to left, in cravat and plain coat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state of similar composition
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Title from text below image., Later state, with the image reduced in size and the title and statements of responsibility reengraved, of a plate formerly issued with the publication line: London, 1835, Published by R. Bentley. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Babb-Beckford no. 21., Date of publiction based on that of earlier state., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with slight loss of text from statements of responsibility and possible loss of imprint statement.
"Portrait of William Beckford after Reynolds (Mannings 149); head and shoulders facing to left, in cravat and plain coat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state of similar composition
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Title from text below image., Year of publication in imprint statement follows "London" and precedes "Published by R. Bentley.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from heading above image., Publication date from local card catalog record., and Caption below image: "I suppose it's one of these here out-landish things got out!"
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?, 1836?], p. 82., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of artist's name., A reduced copy of one of several prints published in 1771 based on the same Bunbury drawing. Cf. no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title added. See Caricatures. [London] : [Publisher not identified], [1836?], p. 82., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design, mostly obscuring artist's signature in lower left corner., and Titled in pencil below image: Billiards.
