On the street in front of the shop of S.W. Fores & Co. a mix of Londoners -- trades people, clergy, gentleman and ladies, etc. -- fight the effects of a very strong wind: a parson loses his wig, a woman's dress is blown up over her hips revealing her large buttocks; a woman selling fish has fallen to the ground, her hat and wares strewn across the sidewalk as a man with a walking stick trips over her, etc. Above the shop window is a sign that reads "Prints &c wholesale & for expotation".
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 42 x 56 cm., matted to 49 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 28, 1793 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly and No. 57 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England) and Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Fishmongers, Men, Prints, Publishing industry, Stores & shops, Wigs, Window displays, Winds, and Women
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '172' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One line of text below title: "The end of these things is death.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Earrings -- Miniature portraits as jewelry -- Female dress: masquerade costume -- Tickets: masquerade tickets -- Pictures amplifying subjects: portrait of Cleopatra -- Pulley-stiles -- Parasols -- Furniture -- Powder puffs -- Domestic servants: lady's maid -- Furnishings: window curtain tassels.
Publisher:
Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Older people, Women, Headdresses, Clocks & watches, Jewelry, Dressing tables, Umbrellas, and Women domestics
A young woman is shown full-length in a huge head-dress and "fashionable" dress elaborately decorated with flowers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Introduce me to your female friends for whom, by taste, I was designed., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Treguar 106 St. Martins Lane Chairing Cross
A woman stands before a mirror in her petticoat with her maid behind her holding her dress. Caption below image: Well I declare Betty I'm getting rather too much en bon points, don't you think so? Why yes miss I think you are getting too much bone points!
Description:
Title from text above image. and Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
W. Spooner, 377 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Mirrors, Women, and Women domestics
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone pointing at the watch in her hand, a look of happy anticipcation on her face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Reissue by Fores, with original imprint partially burnished from plate., Four lines of verse below title: To the soft summons of her love, Eliza raptrous bends her way; While stillness lulls the neighbr'ing grove, And Cynthia glimmers thro' the spray., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Happiness, Fences, Women, and Clothing & dress
"Social satire; two seated women, one on a wooden chair, dressed simply with a bonnet tied with a ribbon round her chin and holding a letter, the other on a sofa, more fashionably dressed, with jewellery and holding a fan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1794.
Publisher:
Published 24th Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Women, Chairs, Sofas, and Fans (Accessories)
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone looking at the watch in her hand, disappointment written over her face
Description:
Reissue by Fores, "London Pubd July 1792" scored through., Four lines of verse below title: With trembling step and downcast eyes, Hopeless to meet her facour'd Swain; Eliza breathes the troubled sigh, WEith words that inward griefs explain., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Sadness, Women, and Clothing & dress
A couple, much caricatured, bow to each other as they meet on a pavement. The man is very tall with exaggerated long legs wears dandy costume with bell-shaped top-hat, and trousers strapped under high-heeled boots with spurs, his very thin cane is his left hand. The much shorter lady is given height by the scoop of an enormously high bonnet. She wears a coat trimmed in ermine and matching large muff. Another couple on the left and two men with their chests puffed out walk from the right are similarly dressed and caricatured
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Price 1s.", See a similar print by G. Cruikshank: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, no. 13090., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Smith & Allnut 1815.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 28th, 1818 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
"Ten ladies, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes etched beneath the design, their proposed offices etched above their heads. ... '(1) First Lady of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.' The 'Duc - ss of Gor-n' (Pitt's friend), wearing a tartan drapery, sits at a writing-table. Facing her, with outstretched right arm, is '(2) President of the Council and Duc-ss of Ric-nd.' '(3) Lady High Chancellor is the Coun-ss of Buc-s-e', very short and fat, in wig and gown and holding the purse of the Great Seal. Facing her is '(4) Chamberlain', who is 'Margr-ne of Ans-h', wearing a coronet and feathers, and holding a long wand of office. '(5) Mistress of the Horse' holding a whip is 'Lady Arc-r.' '(6) First Lady of the Admiralty' is 'Mrs Jo-n', with her arms folded, in profile to the right, as if playing the part of Priscilla Hoyden in 'The Romp', see British Museum Satires No. 6875, but wearing a naval cocked hat, emblem of her liaison with the Duke of Clarence, see British Museum Satires No. 9009. Facing her is '(7) Secretary of War & Capn of the Guards, La-y Wa-ce' (sister of No. 1); she wears a military cocked hat and coat with epaulettes, her hands placed truculently on her hips. (Her friendship with Dumouriez is perhaps hinted at.) '(8) Mistress of the Buck Hounds', is 'March-ss of Sa-ry', thin and weatherbeaten, holding two hounds on a leash, '(9) Ranger of Hyde Park', is 'La-y La-e' (wife of Sir John Lade) wearing a riding-habit and holding a riding-switch. '(10) Post Mistress General and Inspector of Mis-sent Letters' is 'La-y Je-y'. She sits at a round table on which are many letters and appliances for opening and re-sealing them, including a spirit-lamp inscribed 'Hot water'. She holds a lighted candle and peers through spectacles at a sealed letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and With illegible monogram, perhaps a collector's mark, written in brown ink in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Lady Wallace, -1803, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Lade, Letitia, Lady, -1825, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821