"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat hel...
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
Leaf 75. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Numerous figures clamouring to look at caricatures in window of Martinet's printshop, 124 rue Coq Saint Honoré, Paris; the shop sign is given as 'Marinet marchand's destampes', a sign at far left advertises 'Publications de Mons Tegg grande marchande...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Printing industry, Clothing & dress, Merchandise displays, Prints, Stores & shops, Window displays, and Signs (Notices)
"Four persons gazing at the prints displayed in a print-shop closely resembling though not identical with that in British Museum Satire no. 3758 (1774) which is evidently by the same artist. A man and woman (left) in macaroni dress stand together, he ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned...
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1843]
Call Number:
File 66 793 Sa176
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom...
Alternative Title:
Hat making
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
T.F. Salter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
"Trade card of Samuel Knights, printseller and frame maker, at 6 Change Alley, opposite Garraways Coffee House; view of the shop from the street, with many prints on the window and inside the shop, open door to the left."--British Museum online catalo...
A scene in a fashionable library with ladies and gentlemen conversing with attendants at the counters on either side. On the left a woman looks in a book while her male companion converses with a clergyman, as the woman behind the counter consults a b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Geographic):
Scarborough (England) and Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Libraries, Books, Bookcases, Window displays, Light fixtures, Dogs, and Stores & shops
Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature of seven men standing on the street in front of the window of Matthew Darly's shop looking at his caricature publications in the window. On the door are plates inscribed "39" "Dar".
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
