Smith, Charles Loraine, of Enderby, 1751-1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1782]
Call Number:
782.06.04.04++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Musicians are grouped round a piano. Their names (some misspelled) are written in the margin. The pianist sits in profile to the right looking fixedly at his score; he is Ferdinando Bertoni, a Venetian composer who accompanied his friend Pacchierotti...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. 4th June 1782 by M. Rack, London
Subject (Name):
Bertoni, Ferdinando, 1725-1813, Pacchierotti, Gasparo, 1744-1821, Duncan, Mary Tufton, Lady, 1723-1806, Cervetto, James, 1747 or 9-1837, Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800, Wilkes, Mary, 1750-1802, and Burney, Charles, 1726-1814
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Concerts, Harpsichords, Musicians, and Musical instruments
"A young woman plays the piano (right) with painful intentness, and sings, as does the man who holds open her music-book, inscribed 'On Rosy Bed by Tinckling Billy'. A middle-aged military officer stands full face playing the flute. A fat elderly 'cit...
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconc...
Alternative Title:
Oddity wags have at ye
Description:
Title etched above image. Above title: Attic miscellany.
A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two furt...
Description:
Title from print in upper right.
Publisher:
Geo. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two furt...
Alternative Title:
New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:
Title from print in upper right.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
"Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
"Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
"Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
A group of four musicians in a semi-circle play their instruments -- a viola, violin, harpsichord, and cello. Most of the musicians are seated in chairs, but the violist stands with one leg raised. A dog and cat (who plays amongst some fallen sheet mu...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 21, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Musical instruments, Music ensembles, and Musicians
"A fantastic theatre scene, showing stage, orchestra, and two boxes on each side of the stage. On the stage the fall of Amsterdam is represented by a number of frogs (burghers) who hasten obsequiously to submit to the Stadholder. William V, much caric...
Alternative Title:
Last scene of the republican pantomine
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790
"A fantastic theatre scene, showing stage, orchestra, and two boxes on each side of the stage. On the stage the fall of Amsterdam is represented by a number of frogs (burghers) who hasten obsequiously to submit to the Stadholder. William V, much caric...
Alternative Title:
Last scene of the republican pantomine
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790
"Spectators watch military manoeuvres in the air. The sky is covered with camps, marching men, and galloping cavalry, some are in military formation, others are single figures. There are tents and marquees with wings; a man beats a drum, three orienta...
Alternative Title:
Amusment for John Bul, Amusement for John Bull, and Flying camp
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Aickin [sic], No. 13 Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
Bagshot (Surrey, England)
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Black people, Cannons, Military camps, Military parades & ceremonies, Musical instruments, Musicians, Spectators, and Telescopes
An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
An Italian family, in a poverty-stricken room, practise for opera. A young man stands full-face, singing, his fingers interlaced across his chest. He wears an open, ruffled shirt, awaistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings. To his right an old man...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho. Sold by W. Hinton, No. 5 Sweeting Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Vulpius, Christian August, 1762-1827, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842
Subject (Topic):
Children, Families, Italian, Mothers, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singing
"An election procession of thirteen patriots walking from right to left wearing the colours of Sir Watkin Lewes, elected M.P. for the City, 29 Sept. 1781, see British Museum satire no. 5849. Two flags are carried, one "Lewes & Freedom", the other, "No...
Alternative Title:
Electioneering procession from the Mansion House to Guildhall
Description:
Title etched below image. The 'o' in 'electioneering' has been inserted above the line.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 25, 1781 by W. Wells No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821 and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Political activity, Elections, Butchers, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Corruption, Dogs, Muckraking, Musical instruments, Political parades & rallies, Slogans, and Staffs (Sticks)
"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. Geor...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Britanias pocket pickd by mercenaries, Britanias pocket picked by mercenaries, and Britannia's pocket picked by mercenaries
Description:
Titles etched below each image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Mingotti, Regina, 1722-1808.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Ammunition, Barrels, Cannons, Crowns, Eagles, Eclipses, Flags, British, Mercenaries (Soldiers), Musical instruments, National emblems, French, German, and Scepters
"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from ...
"Scene on the Thames near Chelsea; a large pleasure party of young men and women on a boat, drinking toasts, rowed by six watermen wearing jockey caps, a servant and two men playing French horns at the helm at right, where a union jack is flying from ...
Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, ...
Alternative Title:
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments incl...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Lithography
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
Copy of a concert ticket with a group of eleven musicians playing various instruments in an interior with a Venetian window and curtains behind; with a blank oval at the lower edge of design, presumably intended for a manuscript ticket number. Below i...
"Between Fox and Surrey, Powys, the second violin, is seated on the ground, looking with an agonized expression (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6413) towards Fox, the first violin. From Fox's pocket hangs a paper: 'Irish Propositions set to music for ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published [the] 7th June 1785 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Concerts, and Musical instruments
"Between Fox and Surrey, Powys, the second violin, is seated on the ground, looking with an agonized expression (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6413) towards Fox, the first violin. From Fox's pocket hangs a paper: 'Irish Propositions set to music for ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published [the] 7th June 1785 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Concerts, and Musical instruments
"Between Fox and Surrey, Powys, the second violin, is seated on the ground, looking with an agonized expression (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6413) towards Fox, the first violin. From Fox's pocket hangs a paper: 'Irish Propositions set to music for ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published [the] 7th June 1785 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814
Subject (Topic):
Trained animals, Concerts, and Musical instruments
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 23d March 1773.
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.03.23.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three men playing musical instruments: A fat man (left) sitting in a chair plays a viol da gamba, perhaps a portrait of Abel, see British Museum Satires No. 5163. A thin man in profile to the left plays a flute. He wears a bag-wig, laced coat, ruffle...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787, Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800, and Punto, Giovanni, 1746-1803
A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse
Alternative Title:
Negroes dance in the Island of St. Dominica
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in French and English.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, et au Palais Royal au Pavillon près le bassin
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dance, Indigenous peoples, and Musical instruments
An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The...
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation
"A staff dinner in a large open tent. At the head of the table the Duke of York carouses; a fat Flemish woman seated on his knee plays with his sword; he raises a full glass, looking down at the woman. He is seated on a drum, his left foot rests on a ...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
"A staff dinner in a large open tent. At the head of the table the Duke of York carouses; a fat Flemish woman seated on his knee plays with his sword; he raises a full glass, looking down at the woman. He is seated on a drum, his left foot rests on a ...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806
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 ...
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):
Musical instruments, Musicians, Orchestras, Postal stationery, and Singing
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1782.
Call Number:
Bunbury 782.01.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in an oval. An old military officer with a wooden leg describes his campaigns to two cronies. He is seated in a chair (right) in profile to the left wearing regimentals and sword, his wig has a long loosely twisted pigtail queue; his wooden le...
Alternative Title:
Fought all his battles over again and thrice he slew the slain
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, Musicians, Peg legs, and Wigs
An interior with a stout dancing master in the centre of the room teaching a dandified gentleman to dance, while another man sits with his feet in a trough to force his feet to turn outwards. A fiddler seated in the leftt foreground, with an ear trump...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dancers, Dandies, British, Hearing aids, Musical instruments, and Musicians
A tall, thin old woman receives dance instruction from a small dancing master as he holds a violin in one hand. Above them a painting on the wall shows a monkey and a cat in a similarly engaged. Behind them on the right near the door, two young girls...
Alternative Title:
Grown ladies taught to dance
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Cats, Dance, Dancers, Monkeys, and Musical instruments
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of mus...
