Five poverty-stricken Scotsmen are depicted walking to attend Parliament, four having crossed the Tweed river, the one on the furthest left about to cross. He is labelled "famine", the next two in the center are dancing a reel, and further to the right another (possibly Dundas) carries his breeches on a pole. The figure on the far right is leaning on two sticks. He is possibly Lord Adam Gordon
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 28 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as [the] act directs Jany. 1784 by J. Smith & sold at No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Adam, Lord, approximately 1726-1801. and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811.
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, Scottish, Poverty, Walking, and Clothing & dress
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round snuff box on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published 2 March 1795 by Bowles & Carver. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2105., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.7 x 16 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 18.6 cm., and Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
An ugly woman with only two teeth and with holes in her sleeve, shown half-length to left, a scarf over her head and tied under her chin, one hand around a tankard, holding up the other hand with thumb and forefinger pinched together, a small round snuff box on the table
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left edge., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published 2 March 1795 by Bowles & Carver. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2105., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Snuff, Drinking vessels, Older people, and Poverty
Title from verse written below image. "Some write for pleasure, some for spite; But want of Money makes me Write.", Alternate title supplied by curator., From: The Passions Hummoursly Delineated by Timothy Bobbin, Esq., London: Edward Orme, 1810., Design trimmed from page and mounted., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub June 4 1810 by Edwd. Orme. London
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Amputees, Crutches, Peg legs, Poor persons, and Beggars
A coach pulling up to the Post Station, the Cock Inn at left, on route to Brighton. The coach is pulling into the court yard, about to pass under a wooden gate bearing the inn's sign, while another coach stands at the inn door. People look down from the second story windows. A man waits at the mile marker in front of another building at right. In the foreground to left, a man with a wooden leg carries a small child on his back as he leads a donkey that carries a woman and two children, one of whom appears to be nursing, the other in a basket that hangs over the donkey. Their dog follows behind
Description:
Title etched below image., First of eight plates to: Wigstead, H. Excursion to Brighthelmstone, made in the year 1789. London : Printed ... for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint in sepia on laid paper ; sheet 26.4 x 33.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinson's, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Sutton (England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Donkeys, Peg legs, Poverty, and Taverns (Inns)
"Scene in a ramshackle attic, with a curtained bed on the right. A family sit at a table covered with a tattered cloth, on which are part of a loaf and four small potatoes. The ragged, lean, and elderly man (left) faces his still more haggard wife. A small boy stands by his mother, a youth and little girl sit opposite. All scowl with dismay at the meagre fare. A starving cat miaows. The man recites: "O! thou that blest the loaves and fishes, Look down upon these two poor dishes, And though the 'tatoes are but small, Oh make them large enough for all. For if they should our bellies fill 'Twill be a kind of Miricle!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 9., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Cf. No. 11469, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with modified imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry., 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Social conditions, Cats, Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Potatoes, Poverty, and Starvation
"A ragged man, wearing clerical bands, stands full face. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, his toes protrude through one shoe. He looks downwards with a meditative grimace, one arm held out towards a church steeple among trees. Mountains form a background. Beneath is etched: '"------Best scene of all, "With which I close this reverend description, "Is your Welch Parson, with his noble living, "Sans shoes, Sans hose, sans breeches, sans every thing.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward. See British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title, beginning: Best scene of all ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: parody of Shakespeare's As You Like It, ii, 7, 163.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
"The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man (left) seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. He wears a night-cap, his hat and wig hang on the back of his chair. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. He is yelling with pain. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains." Poverty is indicated by the untidy bed, a broken casement window, and the character of the chimney-piece, on which is a lighted candle, a tea-pot, and a broken cup. Over it is a print of a man, three quarter length. Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctor -- Medical: Chiropody -- Pin-point spectacles., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Kibe -- Chilblains., 1 print : etching, engraving, and stipple engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 189 x 161 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Podiatry, Foot, Diseases, Interiors, Poverty, Teapots, Fireplaces, Eyeglasses, Beds, Cats, and Pain
"The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man (left) seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. He wears a night-cap, his hat and wig hang on the back of his chair. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. He is yelling with pain. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains." Poverty is indicated by the untidy bed, a broken casement window, and the character of the chimney-piece, on which is a lighted candle, a tea-pot, and a broken cup. Over it is a print of a man, three quarter length. Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctor -- Medical: Chiropody -- Pin-point spectacles., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Kibe -- Chilblains.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Podiatry, Foot, Diseases, Interiors, Poverty, Teapots, Fireplaces, Eyeglasses, Beds, Cats, and Pain
Title from item., Places of publication derived from location of corporate headquarters., Text in lower margin: Country of Origin U.S.A. ; Copyright 1940 RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Property of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Leased for restricted use only...must be returned to RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. and must not be sold, leased, or given away by any other party. ; Morgan Litho. Corp. Cleveland, O. 17905., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
RKO Radio Pictures and Morgan Litho Corp. Cleveland, O.
Subject (Name):
Hersholt, Jean, 1886-1956,, Lovett, Dorothy, 1915-1998,, Baldwin, Robert, 1904-1996,, Neal, Tom, 1914-1972,, and Eburne, Maude, 1875-1960,
Subject (Topic):
Meningitis, Spinal, Poverty, Health aspects, Physicians, Sick persons, and Nurses