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.
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!)
In the Eighteenth Century we seemed to veer from slavishly following French taste and fashion in all things, to ridiculing them as chattering scrawny monkeys!… Read More »How the English (through Gillray) viewed the French: Part 2 (or is it 72?).
A couple of prints sixty years apart, showing a late night drinking scene. In the first, by William Hogarth, we see the scene at four… Read More »Late-night drinking sessions – contrast and compare: Hogarth v Newton
I came across this print on the Lewis Walpole Library site – oddly enough while looking up prints showing Captain William Bligh. Apparently the dandy… Read More »Cruikshank’s view of the Bon Ton, c. 1817
Googling the word ‘refinement’ brought up a couple of interesting caricatures: I rather like this fashion print (courtesy of the British Museum) showing what the… Read More »Two versions of refinement – London Refinement, 1787 and the Refinement of Language, 1802.