A miserable, angry-looking tailor stands in the middle of his dilapidated workshop. His wig is turned sideways on his head, his empty pockets turned wrong side out, and his stockings undone. Between his feet on the floor lies a large lottery ticket si...
Description:
Title from caption etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Tailors, Tailor shops, Lotteries, Poverty, and Interiors
"Lord Howe (left) sits cross-legged on a tailor's shop-board working at a naval coat which lies across his knees. He holds up a threaded needle in his right hand; in his left are shears with which he is about to cut the thread. He says, "I have now fi...
Alternative Title:
Black-Dick turned taylor and Black-Dick turned tailor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1788, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Great Britain. Royal Navy
"Lord Howe (left) sits cross-legged on a tailor's shop-board working at a naval coat which lies across his knees. He holds up a threaded needle in his right hand; in his left are shears with which he is about to cut the thread. He says, "I have now fi...
Alternative Title:
Black-Dick turned taylor and Black-Dick turned tailor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1788, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Great Britain. Royal Navy
The sudden entrance, through the window, of Napoleon Bonaparte startles tailors assembled in their shop, i.e., the European rulers at the Congress of Vienna, busy "cutting out" portions of Europe for themselves. With a blood-dripping sabre in his hand...
Alternative Title:
Devil among the tailors
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd April 21st, 1815 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824., Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825., William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843., Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840., Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823., Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844., Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819., and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Congress of Vienna, Tailor shops, Clothing and dress, Scissors & shears, Hats, and Crowns
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
807.10.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A ragged 'botching tailor' is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, 'Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoy...
Alternative Title:
Quarrelsome tailors and Two of a trade seldom agree
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Sewing equipment & supplies, Signs (Notices), Tailor shops, and Tailors
"A ragged 'botching tailor' is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, 'Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoy...
Alternative Title:
Quarrelsome tailors and Two of a trade seldom agree
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Sewing equipment & supplies, Signs (Notices), Tailor shops, and Tailors
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Subject (Topic):
Tailor shops, Scissors & shears, Buttons (Fasteners), and Irons (Pressing)
"A tailor on his raised shop-board (right) kneels in terror at the apparition of an emaciated corpse-like man and a fat pig with its throat cut standing on its hind-legs. Beneath the shop-board the head and shoulders of the Devil emerge from the flame...
