Royal fishmongers, or, A welcome to Billinsgate [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Royal fishmongers, or, A welcome to Billinsgate [graphic].
- Alternative Title
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Royal fishmongers, or, A welcome to Billingsgate
Welcome to Billinsgate
Welcome to Billingsgate - Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before November 1816]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"The three members of the Royal family who had recently been given the Freedom of the City as members of the Fishmongers' Company are represented as Billingsgate porters, carrying baskets of fish on their heads, and being kissed by Billingsgate women. All wear flat round hats and aprons. Prince Leopold has a German sausage (cf. British Museum Catalogue No. 12759) projecting from his coat-pocket, and another is in his basket. A comely woman puts her arms round his neck, saying, "My dear Boy you are Welcome to Billinsgate, come give us a buss!! Charlotte wont be angry." He answers: "Stop my Dear I lay down my Sole, and give you bit de german saucage." Two women (left) hurry up from the left, eagerly wiping their mouths on their aprons. They say: "By Goles he's a nice fellow Come do make haste Poll," and "That's right Bet! if you dont look sharp we shant get a taste." The Duke of Sussex, fat and good-natured, is beset by two women, one, an Irishwoman, kisses his mouth. He says: "You Hussey you'll upset my Cod!" She answers: "By the Powers if I care about that my Jewel! I'll have a taste of your Jowl, and a rare Jolly one it is!!" A paper projects from his pocket: 'Freedom of the City of London'. In the middle distance (right) stands the Duke of Gloucester, silent between three women who say: "Now let me have the first an I'll carry your fish; Give me the first and I'll carry you and fish too my heart I'll have such a smack," and "You have a smack indeed I'm the girl for smacking & know the true Gloucester go." A woman sitting by her basket (right) drinking gin says: "you may smack there I'll smack here! so God Bless the Royal Fishmongers." Behind are masts and sails with (right) the colonnade of Billingsgate Market on the quay-side."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from initials present on earlier state: C.W. [Charles Williams].
Later state; printmaker's initials and imprint statement have been completely burnished from plate.
Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pub. Novemr. 1816 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Three lines of quoted text following title: "They printed melting kisses, "balmy as Burnetts gin, chaste as Drurys maids, "and keen as longing mothers.
Plate numbered "203" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 58 in volume 3. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1816
Etchings England London 1816
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843
William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834 - Subjects
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Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865 > Caricatures and cartoons
Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 > Caricatures and cartoons
William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1816
England > London > 1816
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12879225
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192600