Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker / Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1809 / Language: English

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1. A Parliamentry toast [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 March 1809]
Call Number:: 809.03.02.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Six men at a dinner-table, four in regimentals. An officer stands (right) to give a toast, the man seated on his left having said "Come Jack favor us with a Toast". He responds: "Here is the Lady that can raise Five Hundred Members!!" A civilian on his right says: "very fair--very fair". The man at the foot of the table (left) asks his civilian neighbour "How much did you give to be Gazzetted. The man answers gloomily: Five hundred hard cash!!" The sixth man says: "I did not think it would have been done up so soon-- I had promised at least a Dozen promotions"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) See No. 11216, &c. A reference to Mrs. Clarke's effect on the Commons, cf. No. 11238. Wilberforce records in his diary: 'House examining Mrs. Clarke for two hours--cross-examining her in the Old Bailey way--she elegantly dressed, consummately impudent, and very clever: clearly got the better in the tussle' (1 Feb.). 'Mrs. Clarke by fascinating the House has prevented its degradation by appearing to stifle the inquiry, and take too strong a part with the Duke of York--curious to see how strongly she has won upon people' (Feb. 26)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 2nd. 1809 by Thos. Tegg
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852
Subject (Topic):: Eating & drinking, Military officers, and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Parliamentry toast [graphic].

2. A York address to the whale, caught lately off Gravesend [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [5 April 1809]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Duke of York, in regimentals, his hat and sword beside him, kneels with clasped hands before the vast head of a whale, which projects into the design from the right, and rests on a low wooden platform. He says: "O Mighty Monster of the Deep, continue to attract the attention of John Bull, bend his mind solely towards thee, for in that is my only hope-fascinated by thy powerful attractions he may perhaps forget the honour of a P------e."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on verso of leaf 10 of volume 10 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 5th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A York address to the whale, caught lately off Gravesend [graphic].

3. A general discharge, or, The darling angel's finishing stroke [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [13 March 1809]
Call Number:: 809.03.13.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Mrs. Clarke (left) bestrides a large cannon on a gun-carriage, her back to the muzzle, hammering a spike into it with great gusto; she says: "A Wise General shoud make good his Retreat". The Duke of York kneels on the ground (right), looking over his right shoulder at her, and exclaiming, "Alas! Alas for ever ruined and Undone, / See See she has spiked my great Gun". His cocked hat and sword lie on the ground. In the background (left) two military officers followed by a parson run away to the left, and on the right Mrs. Clarke beats a drum, playing the 'Rogues March', while tiny soldiers flee before her."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Darling angel's finishing stroke
Description:: Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified in, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 13th, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):: Cannons and Military parades & ceremonies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A general discharge, or, The darling angel's finishing stroke [graphic].

4. A going! A going!!! [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1813?]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: A going! A going!!!
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier reissue with imprint intact except for a scratched-out year of publication, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 813.06.10.01.1+. For the earliest state with imprint completely intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., and Leaf 66 in volume 4.
Publisher:: Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A going! A going!!! [graphic]

5. A going! A going!!! [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1813?]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: A going! A going!!!
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier reissue with imprint intact except for a scratched-out year of publication, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 813.06.10.01.1+. For the earliest state with imprint completely intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.9 x 33.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark, partially trimmed: 1819., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A going! A going!!! [graphic]

6. A going! A going!!! [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [10 June 1809]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:: A going! A going!!!
Description:: Title etched below image., Early state, with intact imprint statement and variant plate numbering. For a reissue with scratched-out year of publication in imprint and with plate number "291" etched in upper right, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 813.06.10.01.1+. For a later reissue with beginning of imprint removed from plate, see no. 12152 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "95" in upper left corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 267., Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1805., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 10 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 10 - 1809 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A going! A going!!! [graphic]

7. A going! A going!!! [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1813?]
Call Number:: 813.06.10.01.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with year of publication in imprint scratched out and with new plate number "291" etched in upper right. For an earlier state with imprint intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10. For a later reissue with beginning of imprint removed from plate, see no. 12152 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on that assigned to the later state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine bottles -- Night cap., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Unsuccessful treatments.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 10 [year scratched out] by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Therapeutics
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A going! A going!!! [graphic]

8. A going! A going!!! [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1813?]
Call Number:: Print00177
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with year of publication in imprint scratched out and with new plate number "291" etched in upper right. For an earlier state with imprint intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10. For a later reissue with beginning of imprint removed from plate, see no. 12152 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on that assigned to the later state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine bottles -- Night cap., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Unsuccessful treatments., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 236 x 324 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 10 [year scratched out] by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Therapeutics
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A going! A going!!! [graphic]

9. A lump of impertinence! [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 30 September 1809]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title:: V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A very fat man, broadly caricatured, with a gouty leg, sits full face in an arm-chair, staring with open mouth and goggling eyes. Above his head: 'Who the Devil do you stare at? Get along about your Business'. He wears a night-cap, a handkerchief round his neck, a loose coat over shirt. At his left hand is the corner of a table with a decanter of 'Madeira' and a glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:: Title etched below image., Later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "London, Pubd." and "by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside.", Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. Sept. 30th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11463 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "143" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Companion print to: A lump of innocence., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 166, Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1809 -- Night-cap -- Gout -- Madeira., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 84 in volume 3.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A lump of impertinence! [graphic]