A New Cock Wanted – or work for the plumber
Another day, another Rowlandson – and another print from the Thomas Tegg series of caricatures. It was published in London on 20 April 1810 and… Read More »A New Cock Wanted – or work for the plumber
Another day, another Rowlandson – and another print from the Thomas Tegg series of caricatures. It was published in London on 20 April 1810 and… Read More »A New Cock Wanted – or work for the plumber
I was intrigued to see that Thomas Rowlandson had prepared three different etchings, all with the title of ‘The Prospect Before Us’ and I thought… Read More »The Prospect Before Us – one artist, three pictures, one title.
A lovely trade card on the Lewis Walpole Library site. It belonged to William Bonner and according to his trade card he made and supplied… Read More »William Bonner’s Trade Card – looking at it with a fine-tooth comb …
In a week of post-Budget analysis and endless vox pop interviews (‘Are you better off or worse off than you were before? Can you afford… Read More »Paying taxes – not a purely modern problem…
I rather like this print, entitled ‘A scene in the farce of Lofty Projects as performed with great success for the benefit & amusement of… Read More »A scene in the farce of Lofty Projects – an 1825 view of progress in the field of transport.
An interesting mezzotint from the early 1780s, appearing courtesy of the British Museum site, entitled The Love Sick Lady Cured, showing a despondent young lady… Read More »From a print by William Humphrey to squirrel symbolism – and from selling sea-shells to the shores of Tahiti….
A delicious Thomas Rowlandson aquatint, published on 17 February 1786, under the title of ‘Amputation’: It isn’t the most colourful version – a much brighter… Read More »A leg amputation in February 1786 (NOT for the squeamish!)
I am looking forward to giving a talk later this month on 24 January to the London branch of the Jane Austen Society – about… Read More »When Jane Austen went to Astleys … 23 August 1796. A talk on 20 January 2024
One Christmas tradition which emerged in the nineteenth century and was thanks to a bit of Victorian trickery – is the Christmas Cake. In doing… Read More »Twelfth Night – where’s my cake?
One of the great influences on what we nowadays term ‘a traditional Christmas’ owes its roots to this man, Clement Clarke Moore and his poem… Read More »Two centuries on and still going strong: The Night Before Christmas