Spy._ The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank. In two volumes.
London, 8vo. Plate 32. _R.--A.--ys of Genius Reflecting on the True
Line of Beauty at the Life Academy, Somerset House._ By Thomas
Rowlandson.--This plate, which is dated June 1, 1824 (published by
Sherwood & Jones), was not, we fancy, designed expressly for the
_English Spy_, as we cannot fail to recognise it as an adaptation of
a very spirited caricature by the artist belonging to a considerably
earlier period, and described as _Drawing from the Nude_. In the
original the students are dressed in the costume of some forty years
anterior to 1824; their quainter persons are delineated with more
grotesque spirit and boldness of treatment. Be this as it may, whether
Rowlandson has obliged his friend Westmacott by adding new figures,
or whether the original design has been otherwise supplemented with
later portraits, the female model remains much as she is found in the
larger drawing. The artists, who are working from the life in this
more modern version, are chiefly Royal Academicians, as far as the
privileged circle is concerned, and the portraits are studied with
care. M. A. Shee is seated on the ground; one of the Landseers is
above him; the person of Benjamin West, arrayed in decorous black,
with his knee-breeches, silk stockings, and laced frill, bears a
resemblance to a Court physician; Westmacott, Jones, Chantrey, and
half a dozen other artists, evident likenesses, are portrayed with a
certain attention to securing resemblance. In the right-hand corner,
standing at an easel, is the figure of B. R. Haydon; and seated between
this unfortunate artist and the fair model is another student, on
whose drawing-board are the initials 'C. W.,' which may be intended
as a complimentary introduction of the person of Charles Westmacott,
the author of the publication in question. This plate, which is a
highly interesting addition to Blackmantle's _English Spy_, is the
only full-page illustration due to the caricaturist; and Mr. William
Bates, B.A., commenting on this contribution in an interesting sketch
of Rowlandson's works, pronounces it decisively 'the best plate in the
work.' The first volume contains numerous vignettes on wood, which
the index describes as being 'from original designs by Cruikshank,
Rowlandson, Gillray, and Finlay, engraved by Bonner and Hughes.' These
engravings are neither signed nor ascribed to the respective designers
mentioned in the index; but, as far as we can trace, very little is
offered of Rowlandson's beyond the advertisement of his name.
1831.
THE HUMOURIST.
A COMPANION FOR THE CHRISTMAS FIRESIDE. BY W. H. HARRISON.
_Embellished by Fifty Engravings,
exclusive of numerous Vignettes from Designs by_
THE LATE THOMAS ROWLANDSON.
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY R. ACKERMANN, 96 STRAND;
AND SOLD BY R. ACKERMANN, JUN.,
191 REGENT STREET, 1831.
The author, in his preface, thus refers to the circumstances under
which these illustrations by a deceased artist have been imported into
an annual:--
'Of the embellishments to which, after the manner of annuals in
general, the matter has been adapted, it will be a sufficient
recommendation to state that the designs have been carefully selected
from a great variety of original drawings by the late Mr. Rowlandson,
the humour of whose pencil has been long universally acknowledged,
and no expense has been spared to render the engravings worthy of the
subjects.'
The principal illustrations are as follows:--
Frontispiece. _The Humourist and her Crew._--The model of a ship,
drawn by a donkey, followed by an escort of seamen, who have
severally lost a leg in the service of their country; they are
singing lustily, and appealing to the charitably inclined.
Vignette. _The Doctors Puzzled._--A circle of grave practitioners.
" " " A learned consultation.
" Death pounding a mortar, as the apothecary's assistant.
('Great allowance to dealers in quack medicines.') This subject
occurs in the _Dance of Death_ (1814).
I have a secret art to cure
Each malady which men endure.
_Uncle Timothy._--A fat equestrian trying to mount a restive steed.
Vignette. Umbrella flirtations on horseback.
_The March of Intellect._--A bibliophilist doctor rummaging a bookstall.
_The Man of Business._--A grave curmudgeon turning his back on the
beguilements of certain pretty oyster-wenches at their stall.
_The Rivals._--A scene outside the premises of Dorothy Dump,
clear-starcher, and the box of a tailor. The knight of the thimble
has thrust his head out of his narrow window, while he listens in
consternation to the railings of the elderly clear-starcher, who is
jealously disputing the right of a young and buxomly-developed fair to
the attentions of the 'snip' their neighbour.
_An Enemy bearing down: Hope in the distance._--An enraged bull is
throwing various rural pedestrians into commotion. A stout lady is
endeavouring to escape over a stile; a one-legged veteran is hurrying
her movements, as his own position is becoming precarious; and a young
damsel is left sprawling on the grass; meanwhile the infuriated brute
is receiving a check from a dog, which he is endeavouring to toss.
_Too Hot and too Late._--Several stout Sunday excursionists, at various
distances apart, are toiling up a hill in the broiling midday sun to
reach a suburban tavern, where is held, as was the custom at that
period, an ordinary on holidays for the benefit of Cockney travellers.
A stout pedestrian, mopping his forehead, and followed by his panting
dog, who takes after his master in obesity, is at the bottom of the
hill; the pair are evidently epicures, and the prospect of the ascent
with the probability of arriving only to find the viands swept away
by the eager appetites of earlier arrivals is evidently filling their
minds with dread.
_Fire and Water._--A riverside alehouse; customers on benches,
indulging in pots and pipes. A waterman, who is probably indebted
to the alewife, is receiving a warm reception on the ground of
unliquidated scores of long standing which he has attempted to increase.
_Steering._--An old admiral, driving his wife in a curricle, has some
difficulty in restraining the skittishness of a pair of badly-trained
steeds, whose eccentric career is threatening the whole concern with
annihilation.
_Bar Practice._--Interior of a tavern, guests at tables; in the front
of the picture is the saloon; a showy counter-maid is compounding a
bowl of punch for a brace of customers, a military and a sporting buck,
who are leaning over the bar and exchanging pleasantries with the
landlady.
_Getting Cash for Notes._--A blind Scotch bagpiper, going his rounds
of the country, is passing a cottage; certain charitable damsels, who
are clustered about the portal are acknowledging the piper's notes with
coppers.
_A Timekeeper._--A Doctor of Music, in his robes, is beating time
with a roll of music, and conducting a mixed choir of girls and lads;
all the members of the party are evidently bawling their utmost and
straining their tuneful throats.
_The Italian Scribe. An out-of-doors Amanuensis._--A similar subject to
that represented in the _Letters from Italy_, republished as _Naples
and the Campagna Felice_ (1809-13). (See _The Letter Writer_, 1815.)
_Love in a Box._--A Hebrew gentleman, evidently a Shylock, is
gravely trudging along the ways of some Continental city--it may
be Venice--with a bunch of keys in his hand; three picturesque and
Masaniello-like looking porters are in his train, one is bearing a
trunk, and two are carrying, suspended on a pole, a large square
receptacle, the contents of which are implied to be of a romantic
nature.
_The Pleasures of Solitude._--An old gourmand is solacing his solitary
state of dining by an excess of creature-comforts; his servants are
bringing in fresh courses to add to a selection of dishes already amply
sufficient for the needs of an individual, and his butler is supplying
him with wine on an excessive scale.
_Rich and Poor._--A pensioner, minus a leg, and otherwise under the
'slings of adverse fortune,' has called to solicit some trifling
assistance from a wealthy sybarite; the poor man's exertions in the
representation of his case seem thrown away, as the person solicited is
so deaf to his eloquence that, even with the assistance of a trumpet,
he fails to hear the appeal of the suitor.
_Village Politicians._--The wiseheads of the hamlet are portentously
discussing the contents of a news sheet in the vicinity of the sign of
the 'Bugle Horn.'
_A Disciplinarian._--A Zantippe of a wife, with a flood of invective,
is driving her cowed husband before her, whose advance is further
accelerated by the liberal exercise of a stout cudgel, which is raining
strokes on the bent back of the unmanned and overawed victim.
_An Admirer._--A comely maiden, standing with her pitcher beside a
pump, is asking assistance to raise her load of an idiotic rustic
dandy, who is staring and grinning his imbecile admiration with a face
marvellously well fitted to fill a horse-collar, but who does not
otherwise respond to the girl's request.
_The Cow Doctor._--A consultation over the condition of a suffering cow.
_Taking a Horse to Water._--In this case, it rather seems, the steeds
are taking their riders there and leaving them--soused in the brook.
_Lost and Won._--A gaily-apparelled nymph is leaning over the palings
of a waterside landing-stage. A waterman is looking on in dudgeon;
he is evidently the 'loser;' whilst the fickle fair is making tender
demonstrations in favour of a dashing young soldier, whose uniform and
martial trim have evidently won the changeable lady's heart.
_A Man of Colour._--At the portico of a villa stands the black butler,
who is emptying a plateful of victuals into the apron of a comely
female tramp, with a child slung on her back; the _darkie_ is evidently
moved by the attractions of the gipsy, since his face expresses the
most unqualified admiration for her personal allurements.
_Civic Enjoyments._--A dinner party assembled in a Guildhall. The
health of the entertainer is being uproariously received as a 'standing
toast' with full-charged bumpers.
_A Siege._--A highly genteel, youthful, and elegantly clad
lady--whether maid or widow it is difficult to determine--is
surrounded by a crowd of suitors, recruited from pretty nearly all the
professions, and of all ages and sizes. The object of this profuse
idolatry, perfectly unmoved, is waving off her too presumptuous
assailants, whose assiduities interfere with her comfort.
_Recruiting._--A party of soldiers on ''listing' service in a country
town have secured certain volunteers. One of the new recruits, a
sprightly damsel, is creating no little consternation in the breasts of
the villagers by joining the troopers' march; a cobbler and a tailor,
armed with the implements of their trade, are offering some show of
resistance to the abduction of this Helen by a smart young Paris 'in
the line;' but these deserted swains are kept at a respectful distance
by the bayonet of the gay Lothario's comrade.
_Knowledge of the World._--A village pedagogue is instructing his
pupils in that elaborate branch of fashionable education (according
to school prospectuses at the beginning of the century), 'the use of
the globes.' Certain mischievous urchins are taking advantage of the
preceptor's preoccupation to insert quill pens into the 'Busby' wig of
the learned Doctor.
_Modern Antiquities._--A variation of the larger engraving on this
subject published (by Tegg) under the same title.
_A Man of Taste._--A fat old voluptuary, in a 'nautical rig,' in
person not unlike (and probably expressly designed for) the convivial
and yachting alderman, Sir William Curtis, is critically inspecting
through his eyeglass a small selection of shellfish held out for his
gratification by a pretty shrimper-maid of pronounced personal graces.
_Looking a Broadside._--A stout party of the old school, of great
breadth and solidity, is looking daggers at a dandified fop of the
period, a mere scarecrow of a figure, who is 'quizzing' the substantial
piece of antiquity through a spyglass. The indignation of the old boy
is barely appeased by the soothing caresses of a tender and pretty
maiden who is clinging to the incensed veteran.
_Credulity._--A fashionable, elegant, and good-looking lady is seated
at her breakfast-table, while her maid is arranging the apartment. A
messenger or letter-carrier has just brought a _billet-doux_, which the
confiding beauty is eagerly perusing.
_Indecision._--An obese prebendary, his gouty limb supported on
cushions, is in all the perplexities of _embarras de choix_; one maiden
is bringing in poultry, as appropriate to the day's dinner, shortly to
follow in due course; and a fish-girl has offered an equally attractive
choice of fish. The arrival of these luxuries and the necessity of
selecting between them is vexing the soul of the good man.
_Spoiling a Cloak and Making a Fortune._--Another version of the
traditional episode of the gallant Raleigh laying down his mantle
at the feet of his sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth to bridge over an
undesirable crossing.
_A Military Salute._--A gallant officer engaged in amorous dalliance
with a tender-hearted fair, who is leaning out of a cottage window
to receive the courtesies of the dashing warrior. Another version
of _Kissing for Love, or Captain Careless Shot Flying by a Girl of
Fifteen, who unexpectedly popped her Head out of a Casement_ (May 1810).
_A Bagman._--A tired commercial traveller, cloaked, booted, and
spurred, is alighting at the 'Woolpack;' his horse is taken to
the stable; his saddle-bag is under his arm; and the buxom and
broadly-expanded hostess of the inn is standing at the portal to bid
the weary pilgrim welcome.
_Obtaining the Countenance of the Minister._--An Italian itinerant
vendor of 'images' is offering a citizen the chance of purchasing the
head of the Government on easy terms, as far as his plaster bust is
concerned.
_Training._--A jockey, with his saddle strapped on his back, ready to
mount for the race, is receiving the final and special instructions of
his patron, a venerable and evidently deep file, well versed in the
iniquities of the turf, whose face wears an expression of experienced
and long-trained cunning. Another version of _Tricks of the Turf, or
Settling how to Lose a Race_ (1821).
_An Exhibition._--The fashionable attendants at a gallery of pictures.
All the spectators are lost in wonder and admiration at the collection
of paintings. The figure of the Duke of Gloucester is 'taken off,' with
that of other visitors. A partial transcript of the _Portrait Painters
Gallery.--Adventures of Johnnie Quæ Genus_.
_A Banquet._--Three _convives_ are enjoying their soup, seated in a
sort of supper-box; the French _chef_ is prominently shown before his
cooking-range, busied in the compounding of some extensive _pot au feu_.
_The Ratcatcher._--As the title expresses, the figure of a professional
ratcatcher, with a cage full of prisoners, which he is exhibiting to
a venerable couple--probably his employers; his dogs are excited at
the prospect of the sport. Another version of Rowlandson's _London
Characters_.
_A Court Day._--A small rendering of _A Levée at St. James's Palace_.
The Beef-eaters are on duty, and crowds of courtiers and distinguished
representatives, clerical, military, diplomatic, civil, foreign, &c.,
are proceeding through the reception-room for the privilege of making
their bow to royalty.
_A Dark Prospect._--A master-sweeper and his lad are seated, on their
soot-bags, by the can of a pretty and picturesquely-attired dairymaid,
who has supplied the dark customers with cups of 'clean milk from the
cow.'
_Symptoms of a Dinner._--A meeting of dignified prelates of the Church;
amongst the company are certain bigwigs, bishops, who are received with
flattering deference by the lower clergy. Two eager members of the
cloth, more set on the serious gratifications of a Convocation festival
than the empty ceremonial courtesies of the hour, are examining a
sun-dial in the foreground and comparing it with their watches, in
expectation of dinner-time.
_The Studio._--A painter, in Court costume, is daubing away boldly
at his picture, surrounded at a respectful distance by a circle of
_dilettanti_ connoisseurs, all of whom sport spectacles or eyeglasses;
these critical spectators are engaged in cold contemplation of the work
before them.
_Vignette._--A second group of _cognoscenti_, whose faces in this case
express more interest and admiration, and justly so, since the work
before them appeals to their tenderest susceptibilities; it is one they
can all appreciate--a lively turtle, ready to be converted into real
soup. A number of clergymen are following the lead of their bishop,
who, excellent man, is evidently longing to bless the good things which
beneficent Nature has here provided for the faithful.
_Hydrophobia: the Church in Danger._--A pastor is running his hardest,
pursued by a dog, which we are to suppose is suffering from _rabies_;
the venerable prelate is doing his best to keep in advance of his
pursuer, who in turn is followed by a _possé_ of eager philanthropists,
armed with pitchforks, flails, spits, pokers, choppers, shovels, and
even pistols and guns, which are being discharged ineffectually, as the
dog is managing to keep ahead of his would-be executioners.
_The Way to Fill a Wherry._--A party, including the fair, have secured
their places in a wherry at the riverside; the waterman is taking
in one more customer before starting, an elephantine and venerable
gentleman, whose advent has filled the occupants of the bark with
alarm, the aquatic party evidently anticipating that they will be
swamped at the very least by the ponderous weight of the last comer,
who is vainly trying to find a seat in the boat without capsizing it.
_A View of the Coast._--A village inn, with a blind fiddler and his
daughter stationed upon the green outside; almost identical with the
subject published by Ackermann in Rowlandson's _World in Miniature_
(see April 1, 1816).
_Operatives._--The title of this plate goes by contraries.
_Inoperatives_ should be the description. A pair of soakers are sunk
in heavy slumber over the table of the taproom; a brace of industrious
working-men, whose ambitions in the direction of exertion are limited
to 'raising their elbows,' 'tilting measures,' 'reducing the liquid
contents of receptacles for intoxicants,' and similar performances of
an anti-temperance order.
_Home, Sweet Home._--A drunken convivialist is, pipe in hand,
unconsciously approaching the spot whose praises he is tipsily
chaunting, quite unprepared for the reception that is awaiting his
roystering at the hands of his outraged and furiously indignant wife,
who is anticipating his arrival with a cane prudently provided in
advance for further arguments upon the _douceurs_ of his rooftree.
The last print in Volume I. of _The Humourist_ is a vignette
representing a bench of fox-hunting justices, who have gone fast asleep
in their respective armchairs, their legs on the table; bottles and
bowls strewing the floor, and their dogs, scattered around, sunk in
sleep as heavy as that indulged in by their masters. A transcript of
the plate _Johnny Quæ Genus Attending on a Sporting Finale--Adventures
of Johnny Quæ Genus_ (1832).
The illustrations to Volume II. of _The Humourist_ are supplied by
another hand. It does not contain any further rendering of subjects
after Rowlandson.
CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CARICATURES,
ENGRAVED BY OR AFTER
THOMAS ROWLANDSON.
_WITH HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOK ILLUSTRATION
IN THE ORDER OF PUBLICATION._
SUMMARY OF ROWLANDSON'S CARICATURES.
1774.
June 8. A Rotation Office. Pub. by H. Humphrey, Bond St.
" The Village Doctor. Do.
1780.
Mar. Special Pleading. Pub. by A. McKenzie, 101 Berwick
Street, Soho.
July 18. The School of Eloquence. Probably designed by
Rowlandson, and badly etched by some one unknown.
Pub. by Archibald Robertson, Savile
Passage.
Scene at Streatham. Bozzi and Piozzi.
Sept. 1. Italian Affectation. (Real characters.) Pub. by T.
Rowlandson and J. Jones, at 103 Wardour Street,
Soho.
How happy could I be with either
Were t'other dear charmer away.--_Brookes._
18. Sir Samuel House. Do.
Do. Do.
Nov. 13. Naval Triumph, or Favours Conferred.
1781.
June 30. The Power of Reflection. I. Harris, Sweeting's
Alley, Cornhill.
Oct. 28. E O, or the Fashionable Vowels.
Nov. 27. Brothers of the Whip. A. Grant del.
27. Charity Covereth a Multitude of Sins. H. Humphrey,
18 New Bond Street.
Dec. The State Watchman Discovered by the Genius
of Britain Studying Plans for the Reduction of
America.
(N.D.) Luxury.
(N.D.) Bob Derry of Newmarket.
1783.
Feb. 11. Long Sermons and Long Stories are apt to Lull the
Senses. Pub. by W. Humphrey.
Oct. 17. Amputation. Republished. (See 1793.)
(N.D.) The Rhedarium. (1783?)
(N.D.) Interior of a Clockmaker's Shop. (1783?)
The Discovery. (Political.)
Dec. 22. Great Cry and Little Wool.
The Times. Regency of the Prince.
Scene in a farce called the Quaker.
Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern.
1784.
Jan. 1. The Pit of Acheron, or the Birth of the Plagues
of England.
4. The Fall of Dagon, or Rare News for Leadenhall
Street.
7. The Loves of the Fox and the Badger, or the
Coalition Wedding.
19. His Highness the Protector.
23. The Times, or a View of the Old House in Little
Britain.
24. A Sketch from Nature.
Feb. Long Sermons and Long Sieges are apt to lull the
senses.
Feb. 3. The Infant Hercules.
" Britannia Roused, or the Coalition Monsters
Destroyed.
7. Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard Playing
at Football.
Mar. 1. The Apostate Jack Robinson, Political Ratcatcher.
3. A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study.
8. Master Billy's Procession to Grocers' Hall.
11. The Champion of the People.
26. The State Auction.
29. The Drum-Major of Sedition.
30. Sir Cecil's Budget for Paying the National Debt.
31. The Hanoverian Horse and the British Lion.
April 1. The Duenna and Little Isaac.
3. The Two Patriotic Duchesses on their Canvass.
(Duchesses of Portland and Devonshire.)
4. The Incurable. 'My Lodging is on the Cold Ground.'
8. The Rival Candidates.
10. The Parody, or Mother Cole and Loader. (Vide
Foote's 'Minor,' p. 29.)
12. The Poll.
12. The Devonshire, or most Approved Method of
Securing Votes.
12. The Westminster Watchman.
14. Lords of the Bedchamber.
20. The Covent Garden Nightmare.
22. King's Place, or a View of Mr. Fox's Best Friends.
22. The Wit's Last Stake, or Cobbling Voters and
Abject Canvassers.
22. Madame Blubber on her Canvass. (See verses.)
22. Political Affection.
23. Reynard put to his Shifts.
29. Madame Blubber's Last Shift, or the Aerostatic
Dilly.
29. The Case is Altered.
30. Procession to the Hustings.
May 1. Every Man has his Hobbyhorse.
4. _La Politesse Française_, or the English Ladies' Petition
to his Excellency the Mushroom Ambassador.
4. Wisdom Led by Virtue and Prudence to the
Temple of Fame.
11. The Westminster Mendicant.
11. A Coat of Arms. Dedicated to the newly-created
Earl of Lonsdale.
12. A New Insect. A Buck. (It is not certain the
print is by Rowlandson.)
18. The Westminster Deserter Drummed out of the
Regiment.
18. Preceptor and Pupil--
Not Satan to the ear of Eve
Did e'er such pious counsel give.
18. The Departure.
18. Secret Influence Directing the New Parliament.
20. For the Benefit of the Champion.
25. Liberty and Fame Introducing Female Patriotism
(Duchess of Devonshire) to Britannia.
28. The Petitioning Candidate for Westminster--
From the heath-covered mountains of Scotia I come.
July 24. 1784, or the Fashions of the Day.
Aug. 8. The Vicar and Moses. (Song heading.)
Sept. 5. Manager (Garrick) and Spouter. T. R. Smith, 83
Oxford Street.
25. Bookseller and Author. H. Wigstead del., S. Alken
fec. Pub. by S. W. Fores. (Repub. July 1,
1802.)
25. The Historian Animating the Mind of a Young
Painter.
(N.D.) English Curiosity, or the Foreigner Stared out of
Countenance. (Republished. See 1794.)
(N.D.) Counsellor and Client.
Nov. 1. New-invented Elastic Breeches. Nixon inv. Pub.
by W. Humphrey.
8. Money Lenders.
8. Apollo and Daphne. (Broderip and Wilkinson.)
25. The Minister's A---- (_Vide_ 'Gazetteer,' Nov. 11.)
25. A Peasant Playing the Flute. After J. Mortimer.
Opening a Vein.
Lunardi. (See 1785.)
Dec. 10. Anticipation. (Chr. Atkinson, Contractor, in the
Pillory.)
10. The Rhedarium. (See 1783.)
10. Colonel Topham Endeavouring with his Squirt to
Extinguish the Genius of Holman. (See 1785.)
10. Billingsgate.
(N.D.) John Stockdale, the Bookselling Blacksmith, one
of the King's New Friends. (_Vide_ 'Intrepid
Magazine.')
Rest from Labour. Sunny Days.
Miller's Waggon. Pub. by E. Jackson.
A Timber Waggon. Do.
Country Cart-horses. Do.
Dray-horses, Draymen, and Maltsters. Do.
Higglers' Carts. Do.
A Postchaise. Do.
A Cabriolet. Do.
The Dead-alive. H. W. pl. 1; do. pl. 2.
ROWLANDSON'S IMITATIONS OF MODERN DRAWINGS. (Folio) 1784-8.
F. Wheatley. A Coast Scene. Fishermen and Fisherwomen.
Do. Do. The companion.
Gainsborough. A Sketch. Trees, Cottages, &c.
Do. Cattle. Riverside.
F. Wheatley. A Fair.
Bartolozzi. A pair of Cupids.
Barret and Gilpin. Mares and Foals, &c., in landscape.
Do. Cattle, in landscape.
Gainsborough. Landscape sketch.
Mortimer. A Storm at Sea.
Gainsborough. Cows.
Zucchi. Harmony. Two nymphs singing, another playing a
lyre.
Mortimer. The Philosopher.
Barret. Ruins; and a Park.
Mortimer. A Study.
Barret. Ruins, &c.
Gainsborough. A Cottage, &c.
Do. An open landscape.
Mortimer. Scene in 'The Tempest,' from Shakspeare. Repub.
1801, by J. P. Thompson.
G. Barret. Lake Scene.
Sawrey Gilpin, R.A. Horses.
Geo. Holmes. The Sage and his Pupil.
Michael Angelo. Leda and the Swan.
G. B. Cipriani. Sleeping Venus and Love.
1785.
The Times (George III. on throne, &c.).
A-going--a-going.
Gone.
Jan. 7. The Fall of Achilles.
24. Mock Turtle. Pub. by S. W. Fores.
Mar. 2. The Golden Apple, or the Modern Paris. Prince
of Wales, Duchesses of Rutland, Devonshire, and
Gordon. Pub. by J. Phillips, 164 Piccadilly.
3. The Admiring Jew. Etched 1784.
7. Defeat of the High and Mighty Balissimo and his
Cecilian Forces on the Plains of St. Martin's.
Mar. 27. The Surprising Irish Giant of St. James's Street.
Apr. 12. The Wonderful Pig.