"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless horse."--British Museum online catalogue, description of trimmed impression lacking imprint statement.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly the same plate as an impression in the British Museum, from which the imprint statement might have been trimmed. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.10.207., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J. R. Smith, no. 83 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
"A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
"A crowded scene in a bare room giving access to the theatre, which is seen through two open doors (right), each showing two boxes, and a section of gallery above, filled with spectators. Courtesans and ladies are being inspected and addressed by the loungers. The centre figure is George Hanger in profile to the left, his club under his arm, arms folded, staring at a bold and handsome girl who stands with another pretty young woman. A man in deep shadow seizes Hanger's bunch of seals. Two elderly men address a fat bawd who holds a basket of fruit and playbills; a coin is placed in her hand. A misshapen elderly beau (not, as Grego suggests, Sir L. Skeffington, b. 1771), looking through a quizzing-glass, steps on an irate lady's dress (right). On the wall is a large play-bill: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden \ Way of the World \ Who's the Dupe'. The room is lit from bracket lamps high on the right wall, diagonal shadows are thrown across the room, some of the figures are brilliantly lit, others in shadow."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher., and Wigstead, Henry, artist.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 1 of 2) | Folder I-17
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
CtY-BR, Questionably attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J. R. Smith, no. 83 Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Riviere & Son Binding., and Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"A brothel scene. The fat bawd (left) leans back in an arm-chair in a drunken sleep; the contents of a glass in her right hand pour over a dog; a bottle on the ground at her feet spills its contents. There are three couples of revellers, the three women all pretty; one puts her arms round the neck of a man who waves his hat in one hand while with the other he pours the contents of a punch-bowl on to the sleeping woman's head. Another sits on the knee of a very young military officer while she snatches off the wig of the third man (right), old and ugly, who is dallying with the third young woman. The room is lit by a candle-sconce on the wall (left)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state.
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 145., CtY-BR, Printmaker from signature on later state: Engrav'd by W.P. Carey., Probably an early (proof?) state before printmaker's signature added., Publication information based on later state with the imprint "London, Publishd. June 24, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street." Cf. No. 6719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Riviere & Son Binding., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist., and Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
