Opposite page 106. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on prostitution and foolish clergy; two courtesans tease a fat and smiling clergyman in a well-furnished room. The costume of the women appears to be c. 1792-3."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Probably published by Carington Bowles. This print was included in BM Satires twice. Dorothy George correctly placed it c.1792 (no. 8235), Stephens c.1770 (no. 4588). Thomas Holcroft's popular 'Road to Ruin' was first played at Covent Garden on 18 February 1792."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.2.17, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Prostitutes., Folded to 30.6 x 26 cm., and Bound in opposite page 106 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Carington Bowles?
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Courtesans, Interiors, Sofas, Mirrors, and Draperies
"Interior of a poorly-appointed barber's shop. The barber (left) is shaving a customer who sits in profile to the left facing the window, he holds his razor carelessly, to his customer's alarm, while looking eagerly towards another customer, who sits (right) on a stool in profile to the left, reading from the 'Morning Chronicle'. The barber's assistant or apprentice, a small ragged fellow, gapes up at the reader, he straddles across the stand of a barber's block on which is the wig which he is combing. Two other customers listen intently, both wear aprons, one of them is a shoemaker with a last under his arm. The man reading is shown to be a tailor by the yard-measure which hangs from his coat-pocket. On the wall hang coat, hat, wig, a broken looking-glass, a ballad, a roller-towel. In the window wigs are suspended. On the floor are two wig-boxes (left), inscribed 'Mr Deputy Grizzle' and 'Mr Snipp', a barber's bowl, and a night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership of Bowles and Carver. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers., Copy after a mezzotint of the same title published by Carington Bowles in 1782., Verses below imprint begin: Sam Soapsuds was scraping the Deputys chin; when Suet and Snip, with Old Crispin came in ..., and Watermark in lower part of sheet, countermark I V in upper part.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A woman sits at a table in front of a window, a patterned rug beneath them. She looks at a kitten walking towards her on the table and points with her left hand to a bird raised away from the table in her right hand. The two chairs and windows are covered in stripped fabric. An oval mirror is hung on the wall behind her
Description:
Title from item., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sitting room -- Upholstered furniture or slip covers -- Ladies' costume., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 4th 1788 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
A young Macaroni with an elaborate wig and enormous bow at his neck sits in an artist's studio as his portrait is painted by an artist, a caricature of Richard Cosway R.A., with an equally elaborate hair style. Both are fashionably dressed. The artist sits at his easel, his hand filled with paint brushes and an palette; the canvas faces the viewer so that the portrait is visible. On the wall in the background are two portraits, one of another dandy and one of a woman in an elaborate hat; the paintings hang on either side of a round mirror
Alternative Title:
Billy Dimple sitting for his picture
Description:
Title from item., Engraved by Earlom after drawing by Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Later state, with altered imprint statement and added plate numbering. For an earlier state with the imprint "Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, published as the act directs, 25 Sepr. 1772", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 772.09.25.01.1+, Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792. See: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers., Plate numbered '257' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: round mirror -- Portrait paintings -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, Map & Printsellers, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A domestic interior. A fat and ugly citizen, wearing old-fashioned dress with a small unpowdered wig, stands on the hearth-rug (right), his back to the fire; he is meditatively reading the 'Gazette', headed: 'New Taxes', and 'Bankru[pts]', his left hand plunged in his breeches pocket. Behind him on the chimney-piece is a pair of scales for weighing guineas (see BMSat 5128). His wife, bald-headed, ugly, and stout, leans back in an arm-chair, her hands raised in protest at an unpowdered wig which a grotesquely thin and ragged French hairdresser (left) proffers obsequiously. A fashionably dressed young man with cropped hair looks with imbecile surprise at his reflection in an oval mirror over the chimney-piece. His mouth is half-covered by his swathed neckcloth, he wears a short spencer (see BMSat 8192) over a sparrow-tail coat, and half-boots. A young woman with over-dressed but unpowdered (red) hair looks with dismay at her reflection in a mirror which she has snatched from the wall. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'Charles 2d', his tiny head framed in an immense powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frugal family saving the guinea
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Charles II in a powdered wig -- Newspapers: 'Gazette' -- Male dress: spencers -- Sparrow-tailed coats.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
"A domestic interior. A fat and ugly citizen, wearing old-fashioned dress with a small unpowdered wig, stands on the hearth-rug (right), his back to the fire; he is meditatively reading the 'Gazette', headed: 'New Taxes', and 'Bankru[pts]', his left hand plunged in his breeches pocket. Behind him on the chimney-piece is a pair of scales for weighing guineas (see BMSat 5128). His wife, bald-headed, ugly, and stout, leans back in an arm-chair, her hands raised in protest at an unpowdered wig which a grotesquely thin and ragged French hairdresser (left) proffers obsequiously. A fashionably dressed young man with cropped hair looks with imbecile surprise at his reflection in an oval mirror over the chimney-piece. His mouth is half-covered by his swathed neckcloth, he wears a short spencer (see BMSat 8192) over a sparrow-tail coat, and half-boots. A young woman with over-dressed but unpowdered (red) hair looks with dismay at her reflection in a mirror which she has snatched from the wall. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'Charles 2d', his tiny head framed in an immense powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frugal family saving the guinea
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Charles II in a powdered wig -- Newspapers: 'Gazette' -- Male dress: spencers -- Sparrow-tailed coats., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 38.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
In his meager attic lodgings, a man dresses as his land lady looks on. On the wall is a poster with a portrait of Thomas Paine and a partially torn sign with the words "Buggs distroy'd", the art amplifying the subject
Description:
Title engraved below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '174' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 28th Novr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Landlord & tenant relations, Mirrors, Poverty, and Shaving equipment
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 January 1796]
Call Number:
796.01.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. Two elderly men watch a small boy seated at a small round table, devouring a plum-pudding, with a countrified footman standing sourly behind his chair, hand in pocket. The admiring grandfather points to the child, turning to his friend: 'That Boy my good friend is a prodigy of human understanding, he is up every morning exploring the works of Nature* he will make his way through the world depend upon it - As to making his way through the world Neighbour I am no great judge but I think he seems to be in a fair road to make his way through the Pudding. *Hunting of Butterflies.' See BMSat 9810 a, p. 496."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Grand-papa's darling
Description:
Title from item., Six lines of text below title: That boy, my good friend, is a prodigy ..., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening. Prints & drawings lent out on plan of a circulating library., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: child's dress, 1796 -- Christmas food -- Furnishings: window curtains -- Furniture: tea table -- Domestic service: footmen., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 20th, 1796 by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Grandparents, Mirrors, Plum puddings, and Servants
"Five elderly men dressed in the fashion of youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '196' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Morning Herald -- Literature: reference to Ovid's Art of Love -- Magnifying glasses -- Pince-nez -- Walking staves -- Duelling: crossed foils -- Placards., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Published 22nd August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Older people, Newspapers, Reading, Staffs (Sticks), Signs (Notices), Hand lenses, and Mirrors
A group of fashionably dressed elderly gentlemen engage in a range of activities including reading aided by magnifying lenses, browsing newspapers, and gazing into mirrors. A placard on the wall reads: Young gentlemen instructed in fashionable accomplishments
Description:
Title and date based on Laurie & Whittle published etching after this drawing. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Newspapers, Mirrors, Bachelors, and Hand lenses
