An interior with a stout dancing master in the centre of the room teaching a dandified gentleman to dance, while another man sits with his feet in a trough to force his feet to turn outwards. A fiddler seated in the leftt foreground, with an ear trump...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dancers, Dandies, British, Hearing aids, Musical instruments, and Musicians
A tall, thin old woman receives dance instruction from a small dancing master as he holds a violin in one hand. Above them a painting on the wall shows a monkey and a cat in a similarly engaged. Behind them on the right near the door, two young girls...
Alternative Title:
Grown ladies taught to dance
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Cats, Dance, Dancers, Monkeys, and Musical instruments
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of mus...
A line of seven figures all caricatured with animalistic features, marching right to left, shown full-length. The first character blows a horn, carries a violin and bow in his hands and on a string around his waist another horn with smoke coming out ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Royalists, History, Animals in human situations, Baskets, Cannons, Hand tools, Musical instruments, Soldiers, and French
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st Jany. 1772.
Call Number:
772.01.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed young maid sitting in an ornate armchair by a round table with an almost empty wine bottle and glasses on it, is being embraced by a black manservant sitting on a stool in front of her. Another black servant is sitting sideways o...
Alternative Title:
Mungo addressing himself to my lady's maid
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Draperies, Musical instruments, Servants, and Women domestics
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull capers on one leg, arms raised, looking down delightedly at little capering creatures at his feet whose bodies are composed of food or drink. These have human arms and legs (as in British Museum Satires no. 9851) and are flanked by two simi...
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his friends commemorating the peace
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg?
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Musical instruments, Pipes (Smoking), and Satires (Visual works)
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull capers on one leg, arms raised, looking down delightedly at little capering creatures at his feet whose bodies are composed of food or drink. These have human arms and legs (as in British Museum Satires no. 9851) and are flanked by two simi...
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his friends commemorating the peace
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg?
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Musical instruments, Pipes (Smoking), and Satires (Visual works)
