Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1798]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 35 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman questions a man dressed in a curious combination of professional military uniform and shopkeeper's attire with an apron tide around his waist and a musket propped against his shoulder. The woman exclaims, "Thee looks't very genteel indeed Tommy, I should hardly ha known thee, but I hope the shop is not quite neglected, trade must be minded thee know'st" while the shoppkeeper/soldier responds, "Trade d--n trade! I'm a gemmen and a soljer as Mister Wind-hum says".
Description:
Title from inscriptrion in black ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Stores & shops, Commerce, Soldiers, Military uniforms, and Dogs
Two newly arrived Frenchmen meet on the pavement outside the door of the White Bear (Piccadilly). Their speech and appearance amuse two girls who have just passed (left), and a stable-boy and coachman (right) and the fact that a dog is urinating on the boot of the tall man on the left who is unaware of this action. They wear supposedly English dress: breeches and boots, top-hats with small high crowns, reversing the shape of the prevailing bell-shaped topper (cf. BM Satires 14438). One (right) wears a multi-caped coat (carrick, see BM Satires 12375) and carries its skirts looped over his arm; against his shoulder he holds a huge (furled) umbrella. Their words are below the title: "Gode a Morning Sare, did it rain tow Marrow?--"Yase it vas"--. Above the door is a carved polar bear. In the window (left) above a green blind appear a tureen, bottle, &c.; placards hang against the panes offering Hashed Tongue, Soup Meagre, Hotch Potch, and Mock [Turtle]. On the right of the door is the entrance to the coach-office: The Original White Bear Inn. Coach & Waggon Office--The Original Paris Coach Office. Advertisements and place-names flank the doorway: (left) Expeditio--French English Made Easy; P[aris] & Dover Dilligence & Jumbling Ease, (right) Deal, Dover, Brighton, Paris, Calis. On the right is the entrance to the inn-yard in which stands a coach. -- From the British Museum online catalogue with additional comments., Title from caption below image., Lines of dialogue below title: "Gode a morning sare, did it rain towmorrow? "Yase it vas.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Anglo-Parisian salutations, or, Practice par excellence!, Reissue of no. 14440 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published June 6, 1822, by G. Humphrey., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 113.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Dogs, Umbrellas, Stores & shops, Taverns (Inns), and Urination
Page 3. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man and woman sit facing each other beside the counter, which stretches across the design; he holds a jelly-glass and puts a spoonful to her mouth; she sits with open mouth and folded arms, a closed fan in one hand. A third customer leans on the counter, holding a jelly-glass and admiring through a lorgnette his own reflection in a mirror; this is the centre of the wall behind the counter, dividing two sets of shelves on which are neatly ranged canisters, glasses, packets, &c. A shop-girl (right) also gazes at the pair. All are fashionably dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After an original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank in the Huntington Library., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "219" in lower left corner., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm; pasted beneath is a 1750s newspaper clipping advertising "How's Chocolate and Jelly House in Half-Moon-Court joining to Ludgate"., and Mounted on page 3 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:
Published 4th June 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[September 1801]
Call Number:
801.09.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the shop of P. Roberts, publisher, from the street with a crowd on the sidewalk and street looking at the display of prints in the window. An elegant figure Roberts (?) stands in the doorway with a tool of his trade (a burin?) in hand; a customer is seated inside near the window. In the crowd are men, women and children, including a Black man and a man with no legs
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker surmised from subject matter., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mss. note at top of sheet: No. 7.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Sepr. 1801 by P. Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, Printing industry, and People with disabilities
Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned with a broken anchor). From it fall papers and drawings, including a prescription (suggestive of madness) from Dr. Monrow (i.e. John Monro, physician of Bethlehem Hospital). One print in the shop window echoes the present image, while Austin's "Proposals for opening a museum of drawings" is trodden underfoot by a dog in the foreground
Description:
Title etched below text., Text beneath image: "Be it known to all men that I -- upon just cause before God and men do declare & pronounce war with and against all and every printshop and printseller within and without the city of London....", Text on shield is a quote from John Gay's My own epitaph: Life's a jest and all things show it. I thought it once, but now I know it., At bottom of plate: B--b--y., Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi. See British Museum catalogue., and Cropped within plate mark. Numbered in ink by an unidentified hand: 46.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Austin, William, 1721-1820., Darly, Matthias., and Monro, John, 1715-1791.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Shields, Dogs, Coats of arms, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Title from item., Place of publication from item., Date from copy in Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Library no. 811674i., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks.
Publisher:
chez Vidal Graveur, rue de la Harpe, au coin de celle Poupee, No. 181
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medicine shows, City & town life, Spectators, Stages (Platforms)., Quacks & quackery, Dogs, Anchors, Stores & shops, Horses, and Patent medicines
"Four persons gazing at the prints displayed in a print-shop closely resembling though not identical with that in British Museum Satire no. 3758 (1774) which is evidently by the same artist. A man and woman (left) in macaroni dress stand together, he holds her left hand smiling, and pointing at one of the prints with his right hand. She turns aside smiling behind her fan. Two men (right) stand in conversation; one (right) points out to the other, who is in back view, both hands held up in astonishment, one of the prints in the top row, apparently that of Wesley. Other prints print of John Bunyan and George Whitefield. A dog befouls the foot of the man facing the shop-window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below title, in two colums: While macaroni and his mistress here, At other characters in picture, sneer, To the vain couple is but little known, How much deserving ridicule their own.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned grocer's shop. A plump woman stands on the ground behind the shafts, naked between waist and stockings, the hole in the floor of the gig having scraped up her petticoats. A scene of violent action: one man holds the head of the restive horse. Men (l.) rush to look at the unfortunate woman who screams with upraised arms, as does her husband who stands with his back to his shop. A woman furiously clutches the hair of a too-eager spectator (r.); a barking dog leaps towards Mrs. Figg. Over the shop-door hangs a conical sign: 'Old Sugar loaf.' A board over the door is inscribed 'Grocery Sweetmeats Hams Tongues Starch Plumbs Figs Vermicelli Tripe Barley Pickles Mustard Soap Hogs Puddings &c Sold here by Peter Figg.' In a bow window are many jars, &c, two inscribed 'Mustard' and 'Virgin Honey'. Above it are two large pot-plants. An agitated woman screams from a casement window over the door. On the house is a placard: 'Cattle Life Insurance Cow Lane Smithfield.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from Grego., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
"Two fashionably dressed shopmen supply ladies with pads to extend their dresses at the back. Two other ladies have already been fitted; a fifth, who is buxom, sits on a stool clasping an inflated specimen at which she smiles with satisfaction. Various types of these pads or 'derrières' hang on the wall, and a pile lies on the ground (right). A dog, shaved in the French manner showing very thin hindquarters, is begging. Beneath the title is engraved: 'Derriere begs leave to submit to the attention of that most indulgent part of the Public the Ladies in general, and more especially those to whom Nature in a slovenly moment has been niggardly in her distribution of certain lovely Endowments, his much improved (aridæ nates) or Dried Bums so justly admired for their happy resemblance to nature. Derriere flatters himself that he stands unrivalled in this fashionable article of female Invention, he having spared neither pains nor expence in procuring every possible information on the subject, to render himself competent to the artfully supplying this necessary appendage of female excellence.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with CV [monogram] below.
Publisher:
Published July 11th 1785 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
