Volume 12, page 214. Horace Walpole and his world.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing with two scenes: 'the back parlour" in an oval within a larger rectangular view of a 'park wall'. The park wall is covered in ivy and at its base, lush ferns and other plants and mushrooms, ferns and at the top a stand of trees. The oval inset in the lower right shows a man view from behind, sitting in a chair looking out a window at a city street scene and two birds at perched on the vine before a leadlight casement window
Description:
Title written below image, from a quotation by Horace Walpole's letter to Miss Berry December 1793: "A park-wall with ivy on it and fern near it, and a back parlour in London in summer, with a dead creeper and a couple of sooty sparrows, are my strongest ideas of melancholy solitude. A pleasing melancholy is a very august personage, but not at all good company.”, Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 288., and Bound in as page 214 in volume 12 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subject (Topic):
Parlors, Garden walls, Casement windows, and Depression (Mental state)
A well-dressed man with a distressed look on his face is accosted by two men in his elegant parlor decorated with paneled walls, a carpet and settee. The man standing behind him (a bailiff) holds out a arrest warrant as another man desperately grasps his coat front, his hat at his feet with an unpaid bill presumably
Alternative Title:
Man with two suits to his back
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eight stanzas of a song below title: I sing of a flashy Hibernian blade, Altho' non-commission'd, yet sports a cockade ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mss. note following author's name: "supposed father of Edmund Kean the Tragedian."
Publisher:
Published 24th June 1800 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Actions & defenses, Dandies, British, Interiors, Parlors, and Tailors
"Four card-players at a round table in an old maid's parlour, with expressions that indicate a crisis in the game. A monkey sits on the back of the hostess's chair, about to snatch off her cap. A cockatoo is on a high perch before a tall folding screen decorated with prints. A kettle boils on the fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany 4, 1825 by S.W. Fores, Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, Cockatoos, Interiors, Parlors, Mirrors, and Monkeys
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour addresses two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen, similarly dressed and resembling her mother. On the right is a piano with open music, and a chair on which is propped a needlework picture of Charlotte mourning under a weeping willow, at a tomb with an urn inscribed 'Werter'. The governess holds in her hand a card: 'Terms of B[on] Tons School'; she points to the picture, saying, "You would perhaps like the Young Lady to work something in silks Madam! there is a pretty subject, Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter". The visitor exclaims: "A very pretty piece I pertest! my Dater has a Genii for Drawing! Penelope my dear! you shall work Charlotte at the Tub of Water". The girl, delighted, answers: "La Mother! I shall like that! you know Mounseer Gumboge says: I make Water as natural as Life". Trees are seen through an open window."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Natural genius
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 26 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Daughters, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Pianos, Social classes, Student aspirations, and Teachers
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour addresses two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen, similarly dressed and resembling her mother. On the right is a piano with open music, and a chair on which is propped a needlework picture of Charlotte mourning under a weeping willow, at a tomb with an urn inscribed 'Werter'. The governess holds in her hand a card: 'Terms of B[on] Tons School'; she points to the picture, saying, "You would perhaps like the Young Lady to work something in silks Madam! there is a pretty subject, Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter". The visitor exclaims: "A very pretty piece I pertest! my Dater has a Genii for Drawing! Penelope my dear! you shall work Charlotte at the Tub of Water". The girl, delighted, answers: "La Mother! I shall like that! you know Mounseer Gumboge says: I make Water as natural as Life". Trees are seen through an open window."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Natural genius
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Daughters, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Pianos, Social classes, Student aspirations, and Teachers
An angry, bare-breasted young woman in a night dress and cap enters the door of a sitting room from a bedroom (seen through the open door on the right). She scowls at the white-haired man relaxed in an armchair in front of a fire; he smokes a pipe and holds a goblet of wine in his left hand as he leans back in the chair, his feet resting on the grate of the roaring fire; at his elbow a table with a lit candle, carafe, jug, spoon, and book "Miseries of Human Life". One dog sleeps near a gun propped up against the mantel piece; a hunting cap hangs on back wall. Another dog looks at the woman from under the table at the man's side and barks. A large cat that has come in with the woman hisses back at him. A book on the mantel is titled "Rule a wife and have a wife"; the painting above the mantel "Mr. Pantons grey mare ranter out of doll tearsheet." In front of the and to the right are a bootjack and discarded boots pants; a clock hangs on the wall above a tiered table
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1806, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 15th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Parlors, Tea, and Tea tables (Tables)
"An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Dedicated to the serious attention of the fashionable ladies of Great Britain., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 39.5 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 68 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 15th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Parlors, Tea, and Tea tables (Tables)
In a well-furnished room Tom and Kate waltz gracefully. Logic, at the piano (right), looks over his shoulder at the pair with a delighted grin. Jerry sits on a couch, with a second courtesan (Sue). Both women wear evening dress with long gloves. On a table are decanters, fruit, &c. There are wide folding doors flanked by pictures that amplify the subject
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to: Egan, P. Life in London, page 250., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and State without imprint statement. Cf. No. 14334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Neely, & Jones
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtesans, Dance, Musicians, Parlors, and Pianos
Two well-dressed young women sit in chairs opposite each other over a table on which are placed scissors, fabric, and ribbon and other sewing notions. They each are sewing , the woman facing the views attaches a large feather to a hat. The room is well-furnished with wallpaper, a patterned rug and a mirror on the wall behind them
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '383' in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Jany 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hats, Interiors, Parlors, Rugs, Sewing, and Wallpapers
