John Collet 1725-1780. Картинки быта.

The Pretty Bar Maid-Прекрасная барменша.

John Collet (painter/draughtsman; British- c. 1725 - 1780)- автор сатирических картинок, затрагивающих многие стороны жизни и быта.

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January and May

Summer

Осень

Зима

Spring

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The Gipsies

The Recruiting Serjeant

Paul Jones shooting a sailor who had attempted to strike his colours in an engagement

Troops Fording a Brook

The Church Militant

The Triple Plea

The Vicar going to Dinner with the Esquire

High Life Below Stairs
Слуги на кухне
Servants amusing themselves; a man dressing a woman's hair while she sits wtih one foot on a tub, admiring herself in a mirror, watched by a woman standing in front of the fireplace with trimmings on the table in front of her and mimicked by a child on the right while a kitten plays with the ribbons of her hat, with a couple sitting to left, singing and playing the lute, accompanied by a howling dog who sits on a music book marked 'A Trio by Signr.' and a woman washing clothes in a large tub in the right foreground; after Collet. 1772

Fielding's myrmidons spoiling Bob Booty's morning draught
Three Bow Street officers burst open the door (right) of a room where three persons are sitting up in bed, much alarmed at their entry. The highwayman or burglar in the centre, wearing a night-cap, spills the contents of a punch-bowl held in his left hand; over his arm is a netted purse containing coins. The two girls wear mob-caps, one (right) seizes the man's arm in terror, the other (left) takes up one of a pair of pistols lying by the bed (right). On the ground lie top-boots, a mask, &c, the man's coat lies across the foot of the bed, on it is a bank-note. The constables are forcing backwards furniture with which the door had been barricaded; a chair, placed on a table, is falling over. On the wall is a framed print of Jack Sheppard, shackled and sitting on the ground in prison. The foremost Bow Street officer, wearing a striped waistcoat, has a sword under his arm; behind him are two men with constable's staves. 1 May 1781

The Female Orators

Two women oppose each other in a built-up street; one, a market woman, is being assisted to her feet, the second, an aristocrat, is being handed a guinea by a butcher. To the left, two chimneysweeps are playing with her muff, and beside them, her hat and fur-lined robe have been cast to the ground; in the left foreground two cocks engage in a stand-off.

The Female Bruisers
Two women oppose each other in a built-up street; one, a market woman, is being assisted to her feet, the second, an aristocrat, is being handed a guinea(?) by a butcher. To the left, two chimneysweeps are playing with her muff, and beside them, her hat and fur-lined robe have been cast to the ground; in the left foreground two cocks engage in a stand-off

The Frenchman in London. / Le Francois a Londres.

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The Pretty Bar Maid

The Manchester Hero, or Arts yield to Arms

Peasants dancing; a man and a woman dancing on the green before an inn, while some men and women look on and a fiddler plays under a tree

'The Travelling Musician', an old soldier playing hurdy-gurdy in an archway outside an inn with a mermaid on the sign, two children beside him at left and another at right, looking to front playfully, a couple standing behind and a woman holding her baby in the air at left; after John Collet, proof before title. 1772

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1770

A young sailor sitting on a stile at the edge of a wood, offering a purse to a standing country girl who pushes him away while pointing to a church beyond at left

Rural scene with a seated young man, holding the hands of a standing girl, an old woman watching with concern from the shadows at left behind a tree, a cottage in the background and the admirer's horse tethered to a fence at right

The Refusal

The Spirit is Willing but the Flesh is Weak
Description to follow. 1 January 1773.

The Sacrifice

Good Entertainment for Man and Horse
Satire: a farm labourer admires a sleeping haymaker, while his horse grazes from a pile of the hay she has cut. 15 October 1776

The Discovery
Satire: an older woman clasps the hand of a young man beside a bed, while a maid directs her angry husband towards then through the door. 10 March 1774

The Country-Man in London

The Mutual Embrace

The Victim
An elderly man seated in an arm-chair, in night-cap and dressing-gown, a crutch by his side, holds by the wrist a young girl, who is being brought to him by a stout woman. The girl holds a handkerchief to her eyes; she is gaily and meretriciously dressed.

The Unlucky Attempt
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The Quiet Husband

The Coaxing Wife
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Bachelor's Fare - or Bread and Cheese with Kisses

The Amorous Thief - or, The Lover's Larceny

The Sailor's Present - or, The Jealous Clown

eceitful Kisses, or the Pretty Plunderers

-----------------------Modern Love--------------------

Modern Love / The Elopement

Modern Love / Discordant Matrimony

Modern Love / Courtship

Modern Love / The Honey-Moon

The Bold Attempt

патруль и проститутки
The Guards of the Night Defeated

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The Rival Milleners

The Unwelcome Customer

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Чтение

The Cotillon Dance

A Macarony taking his Morning Ride in Rotten-Row Hyde-Park / Le Francois a Londres.

Kitty Coaxer driving Lord Dupe, towards Rotten Row

The Pretty Waterwoman, or Admiral Purblind just run aground by Peggy Pullaway

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The sudden explosion in fording the brook

A fox, pursued by hounds and members of the hunt, takes refuge in the cottage of a farmer, whose wife and daughters wave brooms at it. c.1770s
лиса, преследуемая собаками и члены охоты,- спасается бегством в коттедже

Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger.
two finely dressed ladies in the country, one with a cricket bat, the other holding a gun and two dead pheasants. 1 January 1778

Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger. Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot, And forty five notches Miss Wicket's just got.

A Soft Tumble after a hard ride

The Ladies Shooting Poney.

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The Ladies Disaster

Lofty Riding, or Miss Folly's head exalted

The Feather'd Fair in a Fright

Мода на страусовые перья и недовольные страусы.
It satirizes the fashion of wearing long erect ostrich feathers on the summit of a grotesquely high and elaborately-dressed coiffure. See BMSat 5370, &c. Beneath the print are twelve lines of verse, beginning
"Two Lasses who wou'd like their Mistresses shine,
On their Heads clap'd some Feathers, to make them look fine:" 24 June 1779

Мода на страусовые перья и недовольные страусы.
The Feather'd Fair in a Fright
It satirizes the fashion of wearing long erect ostrich feathers on the summit of a grotesquely high and elaborately-dressed coiffure. See BMSat 5370, &c. Beneath the print are twelve lines of verse, beginning
"Two Lasses who wou'd like their Mistresses shine,
On their Heads clap'd some Feathers, to make them look fine:" 24 June 1779

An Actress at her Toilet, or Miss Brazen just Breecht
The interior of a well-furnished dressing-room. A young woman stands in the centre, arms akimbo, putting on a pair of breeches and looking towards the mirror which stands on a dressing-table (right) in which a small monkey is also looking. A maid-servant (left) stoops to fasten the buttons at the right. knee. A poodle, partly shaved, barks at the actress; it stands on a play bill inscribed "and the Part of Capt Macheath by Miss ." A pair of top-boots lies on the floor. On a stool (right) is a sword, a pair of stays, and a paper inscribed "To be seen a most surprising Hermaphrodite." 1779
Mezzotint

An Actress at her Toilet, or Miss Brazen just Breecht

Затягивание корсета
Tight Lacing, or Fashion before Ease

The Englishman in Paris
У парикмахера- так пудрили парики.

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John Collet (painter/draughtsman; British- c. 1725 - 1780)
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Painter of genre low-life subjects; b. London; d. London 1780; studied St. Martin's Lane Academy and was pupil of Lambert; exhibited FS 1761-80 and posthumously 1783; popularized by engravings by John Goldar; according to Alexander, Collet's output falls into three periods: in the late 1760s, a number of his designs were engraved by Goldar and others for Thomas Bradford of Fleet Street; 1768-73, prints after his work were jointly published by Robert Sayer and John Smith, and from 1774-76 by Sayer and Bennett; 1777-81, mezzotints after his designs published by Carington Bowles.