"A bare foot, inflamed and hideously swollen, rests on a cushion. The demon of gout, snorting fire, spreads himself over the affected part, digging in barbed fangs and sharp teeth. His barbed and serrated tail waves above him."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils., 1 print : soft-ground etching, hand-colored ; sheet 253 x 339 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Pubd. May 14th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A bare foot, inflamed and hideously swollen, rests on a cushion. The demon of gout, snorting fire, spreads himself over the affected part, digging in barbed fangs and sharp teeth. His barbed and serrated tail waves above him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils.
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Pubd. May 14th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Two ferocious Austrian hussars have decapitated the two French envoys. One (left) holds his victim feet in air, the head between the feet. The other stands still, blood spouting from his neck, while the soldier displays to the victim the head spiked on his sabre. The third (De Bry), slashed with sabre-cuts and dropping a dispatch-box, flees before a mob of soldiers. On the left is the back of the travelling carriage, with three trunks inscribed respectively: 'Roberjot', 'Bonnier', 'Jean Debry'. An open dispatch-box with papers is on the ground. After the title: '"Now you shall see! how the cruel Austrians turn'd the Heads of \ "two French Gentlemen, whose brains were deraigned.'"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Artist questionably identified in the British Museum catalogue as Marquis Townshend, based on the drawing for this print in the British Museum collection., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Austrian hussars -- Congress of Rastadt, April 1799 -- Plenipotentiaries: French envoys -- Murder : decapitation -- Vehicles: carriages.
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Pubd. May 22d, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Debry, Jean-Antoine-Joseph, 1760-1834, Roberjot, Claude, 1752-1799, and Bonnier d'Alco, Ange Elisabeth Louis Antonin, 1750-1799
"Paul I, caricatured, stands full-face, his head turned in profile to the left, and looking up, arrogant and mean. He wears uniform with a star, two Crosses of the Order of the Knights of St. John, and a ribbon. (He had been elected Grand Master in Oct. 1798 by the Knights, exiled from Malta, who had sought refuge in Russia.) He wears a sash over his coat, the tails of which reach, beetle-like, to his heels. Under his right arm is a huge fringed cocked hat, in his gauntleted left hand he holds a walking-stick. He tramples on a tattered flag inscribed 'Vive l'Egalité'. A low horizon and clouds form a background. Near the upper margin is a Russian P enclosing I: symbol for Paul I."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Russian uniform -- Flags: torn French flag.
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Publishd. September 17th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"An officer wearing boots, plumed cocked hat, and an enormous sabre, stands full-face, with shoulders hunched, a porte-crayon in his mouth. Under his right arm is a portfolio of 'Caricatures', while crude caricature prints are pinned to the wall: 'Wit' is a squatting woman looking over her shoulder to say "Baiser!". 'Character' is a quasi-lion with an ass's head inscribed 'This is a Red Lion'. A print of a Jean-de-Bry coat and a boot is inscribed 'Classick Studies'. A clumsy Hottentot inscribed 'Venus de Medicis is Grace'. A goat painting a recumbent nude on a canvas inscribed 'Leith Harbour is Refined Sentiment'. On a table against the wall (right) is a bottle of 'Velno' (a quack remedy, see BMSat 7592), and two books: 'Aretine's Postures' and 'La Pucelle'. Under the table is a large portfolio: 'Hints from Bunbury'; 'Mat . . Darly - Lord Townshend &c &c.' A patterned carpet covers the floor. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted text below title: "His satires are as keen as the back of a rasor; and having but three ideas in the world, "two of them are borrow'd, & the third, nobody else would own.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Swords -- Medicine: Velno -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furnishings: carpet -- Reference to George Townshend's (Marquis Townshend, 1724-1807) drawings -- Reference to Henry William Bunbury's (1750-1811) drawings -- Reference to Matthew DArly's (fl. 1754-1778) drawings.
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Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Bonaparte (much caricatured), standing precariously on a 'Dutch Cheese', is attacked by the allies. Austria and Russia pull from his thin leg a large clumsy boot, consisting of a map of 'Italy'; coins (French plunder) pour from the boot, on which 'Naples', 'Rome', 'Florence', and other geographical divisions are indicated. Austria is a fierce hussar, smoking a pipe, on his cap is the Habsburg eagle; he tugs at the boot, the Russian bear (on the extreme left) assists him, its paws clasping his waist. A ferocious Turk holds Bonaparte by the nose and raises a scimitar whose blade, inscribed 'St Jean d'Acre', drips blood; across his shoulders are strung bleeding ears and noses to which Bonaparte's is to be added. A sailor (right), representing the British Navy, seizes Bonaparte from behind; in his hat are ribbons inscribed 'Nelson', 'Duncan', 'Bridport'. A fat Dutchman on the extreme right, with the blunt profile of the Prince of Orange, tugs at the cheese in order to dislodge Bonaparte; he kneels on a paper, 'Secret Expedition'. Bonaparte's uniform is ragged, his left foot is bare, but in each hand is a blood-stained dagger. In the background (right) tiny figures (probably Dutch) dance hand-in-hand round a bonfire in which burns a 'Tree of Liberty', a bonnet-rouge on a pole, cf. BMSat 9214."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch soldiers -- Holland -- Ships: English men-of-war -- Flags: The Hague -- Frogs -- Windmills.
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Pubd. Septr. 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"French soldiers, puny simian creatures, are being destroyed or put to flight by the powers of the Second Coalition. In the foreground (right) the British Lion devours a heap of the little creatures; others flee. An ogre in Turkish costume (left), his profile set in a crescent, grips Bonaparte in his left hand, raising a blood-stained scimitar. Bonaparte attempts to strike with a dagger; he drops a paper: 'Organization of Egypt, & Triumph of Buonaparte'. The Russian bear sits grasping and crushing struggling French apes. On the right the Habsburg eagle, clasping a sheaf of thunderbolts, flies off to the right, tearing a bonnet-rouge in beak and claws. A French army is in flight with a tricolour flag inscribed 'Egalite'. Behind Turkey are Frenchmen impaled on spears."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monkey-race in danger
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Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801 -- Coalitions -- Frenchmen as monkeys -- Sansculottes -- Emblems: Russian bear -- Habsburg eagle -- British Lion -- Turks -- Male costume: Turkish dress -- Impalement.
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Pubd. May 20th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Two corpulent men, with arms interlaced, trip through space, their heads turned in profile to the right, naked except for a piece of floating drapery. One (left) holds up a frothing tankard of Berkley Ale, the other a foaming goblet, tankard and goblet being the centre of a pointed star. The heads are well characterized, and alike only in fatness, short hair, and side-whisker."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Twin stars, Castor and Pollux
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Title etched below image., No. 5 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Castor & Pollux -- Brewers: George Barclay, fl. 1799 -- Charles Sturt -- Dishes: tankards -- Glass: goblets -- Beverages: ale., Mounted., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mills.
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Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
"A terrified French civilian is about to be impaled on a spike planted in the desert. He is carried by two Turks, in a sitting posture, one supporting his legs, and clasps in the left hand a paper: 'Le Prophete demasqué', while in the right is raised a large volume: 'L'Imposture de Mahomet'. A Mohammedan priest follows the group, declaiming from his open 'ALKORAN'. A stout Turk with a long spear stands (left) facing the victim and directing operations. In the background is a Frenchman holding on his head a large turban, his discarded hat lying on the ground. He looks over his shoulder with a grin at the impending execution."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., One of seven plates on the French Expedition to Egypt by Gillray, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member., Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801-- Military: French soldiers -- Frenchmen: civilian Frenchman -- Turks -- Mohamedan priests -- Executions: impalement -- Weapons: spears -- Guns: rifles -- Books: Koran -- Allusion to Copies of Original Letters From the Army of General Bonapart in Egypt, Intercepted by the Fleet., and Watermark: 1794 J Whatman.
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Pubd. March 12th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street