"Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left han...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
"Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left han...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Subject (Topic):
Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 August 1832]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 18 Box 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven rows of individually-titled designs on one sheet folded in half to create two pages. Starting with the largest design at the top of the first page, "Military pastime, or, The bastards in their glory" shows men in military uniform laughing and dr...
Alternative Title:
Bastards in their glory
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using caption above design at top of first page.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, news agent, Chancery Lane, also by C.N. Lewis, bookseller & news agent, 6 Market St., Manchester, & by Ross & Nightingale, at the office of the Liverpool Chronicle, 9 Lord St., Liverpool, & of most booksellers & newsmen in town & country
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Eating & drinking, Whipping, Soldiers, Fire extinguishers, Stoves, Liberty cap, Boats, Bags, Monsters, Noses, Singing, Kings, Queens, Writing materials, Sausages, Devil, Pitchforks, Older people, Gluttony, Obesity, Hunting, Stomach aches, and Horses
"John Bull, a fat "cit", is beset by descending water covered with the word 'Tax', many times repeated, in which dogs, cats, and pitchforks fall with violence. His eyes and spectacles are transfixed by a pitchfork inscribed 'Window Tax'; the shaft of ...
Alternative Title:
Raining cats dogs and pitchforks with the prongs downward
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 20, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal attachs, Cats, Dogs, Pitchforks, and Umbrellas
A crier, his mouth wide open and with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (right). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man (farmer?) with a pitchfork ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural facilities, Agricultural laborers, Bells, Pitchforks, and Town criers
"The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (left). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man with a pitchfork (right) loi...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 16th 1793, by Robt. Sayer and Company, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural facilities, Agricultural laborers, Bells, Pitchforks, and Town criers
