Drawings St888 no. 2 Framed, shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three native American men, one with tattoos, sit under the roof of a wigwam, eating, drinking and smoking as one woman offers a tray of food, one pours a drink, and a third stands at the left nursing a child. The woman on the right carries a child on ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger from dealer's description.
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Wigwams, Breast feeding, Eating & drinking, Infants, and Mothers
Three eighteenth-century scenes of English taverns, sketched by the Dutch artist Paul Duverger, presumably during a visit to England. The same character appears in two of the sketches, and is perhaps a depiction of a friend or fellow traveller, or Duv...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Taverns (Inns), and Eating & drinking
Sixteen men are seated at an oval table in Windsor arm-chairs smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes, drinking from glasses and tankards, and engaging in conversation. The figures include Lord George Gordon, William Holland, William Lloyd, Thomas Townley ...
Description:
Title and date based on Newton's aquatint print after this image.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, George, 1741-1779, Holland, William, active 1782-1817, Macan, T. T. (Thomas Townley), Ridgway, James, Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy), Pigott, Charles, -1794, Holt, Daniel, and Eaton, Daniel Isaac, -1814
Scene in a crowded room lit by a few guttering candles, 'far exceeding in profligacy and dissipation' anything depicted by R obert Cruikshank in St. Giles. Men and women fight, drink, and smoke. An old soldier fiddles, a woman beats a drum for dancers...
Alternative Title:
Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
The interior of a bare and plainly furnished room in a country inn; a number of middle-aged and plainly dressed men stand waiting for dinner to be served. Through a door in the back wall a serving-boy enters with a tureen, followed by a stout woman ca...
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication information from later state in the British Museum catalogue.
A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is poi...
