Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 11 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pregnant woman holds a bible in one hand and rests her other hand on her protruding stomach while 'swearing a child' before a shocked looking magistrate. The alleged father(?) is kneeling beside the woman with clasped hands and his hat removed and r...
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Paternity, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Judges, Law & legal affairs, and Bibles
"Singerie copy of Hogarth's painting, 'A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen'; a pregnant young woman with the face of a cat standing to right, swearing on a book before a monkey-faced magistrate who sits at a bench to left, that the child is by...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Courtrooms, Couples, Monkeys, and Pregnancy
A happy looking lad stands center accepting with his left hand the king's shilling from the recruiting serjeant. A pregnant girl weeps on the lad's shoulder while on the left her mother berates the lad. To the right behind the serjeant stands a drumm...
Alternative Title:
Brown Bess sooner than bigg bell'd betty
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Drums (Musical instruments), Military uniforms, British, Pregnancy, Recruiting & enlistment, and Signs (Notices)
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
767.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashionable life described in a sub-title as "Address'd to the Professors of Driving, Dressing, Ogling, Writing, Playing, Gambling, Racing, Dancing, Duelling, Boxing, Swearing, Humming, Building, &c. &c. &c." with broad space flanked by lar...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
