V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dressing-room scene. A dandy stands by the dressing-table (right) making a gesture of rejection towards his wife (left). He is lacing a pair of stays over his shirt and puffed-out breeches. His waist is very small, his bare legs emaciated, his mouth a small irregular aperture; a set of false teeth is on the dressing-table. She is plump and comely, and holds out her arms to him; she wears frilled drawers reaching below the calf, and a long pad across her shoulders to give her short-waisted dress the fashionable line, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12939. A large fire is burning; on it is an iron; kettle and coffee-pot are on the hob. Before it on a towel-rail hang stockings and other garments; top-boots are warming by the fender. A mirror reflects the back of the dandy's head, with its grotesque collar. A high-shouldered coat hangs on a T-shaped stand. On a shelf above the wash-stand a pair of short yellow gloves (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13071) is drying on stands. A doorway (left) leads to a bedroom."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henpecked dandy
Description:
Title etched above image., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: The Demon of Fashion Sir Fopling bewitches, the reason his lady betrays, for as she is resolved upon wearing the breeches, in revenge he has taken the stays!, Plate numbered "320" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 17 in volume 5.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dressing-room scene. A dandy stands by the dressing-table (right) making a gesture of rejection towards his wife (left). He is lacing a pair of stays over his shirt and puffed-out breeches. His waist is very small, his bare legs emaciated, his mouth a small irregular aperture; a set of false teeth is on the dressing-table. She is plump and comely, and holds out her arms to him; she wears frilled drawers reaching below the calf, and a long pad across her shoulders to give her short-waisted dress the fashionable line, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12939. A large fire is burning; on it is an iron; kettle and coffee-pot are on the hob. Before it on a towel-rail hang stockings and other garments; top-boots are warming by the fender. A mirror reflects the back of the dandy's head, with its grotesque collar. A high-shouldered coat hangs on a T-shaped stand. On a shelf above the wash-stand a pair of short yellow gloves (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13071) is drying on stands. A doorway (left) leads to a bedroom."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henpecked dandy
Description:
Title etched above image., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: The Demon of Fashion Sir Fopling bewitches, the reason his lady betrays, for as she is resolved upon wearing the breeches, in revenge he has taken the stays!, Plate numbered "320" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Watermark: 1819.
"Kean, in the costume of Sir Giles Overreach, stands on the stage, indicated by a boarded floor surrounded by flame and smoke from the jaws of a semicircle of ferocious monsters, serpentine, scaly, and fanged, and with glaring eyeballs. The largest and most menacing is the Old Times, emitting Gall, Spite Venon [sic] Hypocricy. Towards this Kean directs his levelled rapier, saying, By the powers of Shakspeare, I defy ye all. He holds above his head a large open book: Shakspeare, which is irradiated. Almost as large as the 'Times' is the pendant to it: New Times, vomiting Hypocricy. The other monsters are not specified, they spit flames inscribed respectively: Spleen; Cant; Malignity; Slander; Spite; Envy; Malice; Nonsence; Oblique."--British Museum catalogue and A comment on the backlash in the press regarding the Cox vs. Kean trial, in which Kean was accused of adultery with Robert Albion Cox's wife, Charlotte Cox. Kean gave a speech at Drury Lane, Jan. 28 1825, in which he offered himself up to the audience: "If it [the backlash] is done by a hostile Press, I shall endeavour to withstand it -- if it is your verdict, I shall bow to your decision, remember with gratitude your former favours, and leave you" (quotation from the British Museum catalogue).
Alternative Title:
Shakspeare in danger and Shakespeare in danger
Description:
Title etched below image., George Cruikshank might have collaborated with Robert Cruikshank in the production of this print; see British Museum catalogue., Quoted text following title: "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow - thou shalt not escape calumny" - Hamlet., and Matted to 37 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1825 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833,, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, and Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833.
Subject (Topic):
Performances, Actors, British, Stages (Platforms), and Monsters
"Two pretty women run towards each other on velocipedes, see No. 13399. Their short full skirts do not impede their action, and they wear long frilled drawers above neat ankle-boots. Both are very décolletée, one wears a round cap with feathers and tassels, the other an enormous feathered bonnet, with flowers under the scoop. Behind (left) is a country house, a sign-post (right) points towards it: 'To Lark Hall'. The more voluptuous lady (right) says: "I do not see why Ladies should not have a Lark as well as the Gentlemen.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides., and "Price 1s."
"Seurat, see British Museum Satires No. 14882, &c, stands full-face before a curtained archway, displaying himself to ladies (left and right) who crowd to see him. Both arms are raised from the extended elbows, and in his left hand is a wig of short hair that he has just taken off. He says: I am de Anatomie Vivante dat is come to Londres to please all de pretty Lady, and give dem all de much satisfaction. The notorieties are on the left, Mrs. Coutts, the only seated visitor, is the most prominent; she stares up at him through an opera-glass: Poor creature, he seems very little calculated in my opinion to please the ladies, tho' really he is as stout as the Old Banker was. She holds a pamphlet: Claude Seurat or The Living Skeleton. From her arm hangs a reticule ornamented with a flaming heart. Behind her chair (left) is Maria Foote, her arm round Mercandotti's waist. She says: What a very extraordinary Foot; the other answers: And a head as round as a Ball [see British Museum Satires No. 14549]. There are two others (? actresses) on this side. One stoops to finger Seurat's little petticoat, saying, I wonder what this is a yard? The other: I wonder how long he can stand in that position. On the other side, the two most prominent visitors wear wide-brimmed straw hats (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15183); with them is a little girl who wears drawers to the ankle. A hideous woman exclaims What a fright. Another says: I declare he is a greater curiosity than Senior Velluti; a third: My goodness Death upon wires. There are other comments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker Robert Cruikshank's "R.C." initials are etched on the dog's collar in image., Text below image: A number of ladies have gone daily to view the French Living Skeleton in Pall-Mall since the commencement of the exhibition of this extraordinary being. Morning Chronicle, Augt. 13th., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anomalies -- Thinness.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1825 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841,
Subject (Topic):
Freak Show, Thin people, Leanness, Human curiosities, Physical conditions, Spectators, Women, and Dogs
"A big cauldron rests on the bent backs of Wellington (left), supporting himself on his sword, Sidmouth, knock-kneed and holding a clyster-pipe, and Castlereagh (right), dandified and bland. From their mouths floats a scroll inscribed: "O is not this a Dainty Dish to set before a King." They are on a much smaller scale than the cooks, who stand one on each side, stirring the brew. One (left) is fashionably dressed, and stalwart, with brown complexion and negroid hair. He holds a green bag inscribed 'Rakings of Italy' and uses a spoon. A winged demon whispers in his ear: "Never mind the dirty work my boy it won't spoil your Complexion." He says: "It wants more seasoning master Cook." The other, pale and emaciated, and wearing barrister's wig and bands, stands on a large dispatch-box in order to reach the pot; this is inscribed 'G.R Milan Commission'. He stirs with a rolled document, and answers: "Indeed Mungo it must be warmer to be relished." Behind him and clutching his shoulder stands a large Devil, who says: "This beats the black Broth of Satan." The steam from the pot forms a background for a large fantastic face or mask, George IV, saying: "The Odour of this Cookery is exquisite! How Invigorating!! How Reviving!""--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on the Milan Commission, instructed by Leach in 1818 to go abroad to procure evidence against the Princess of Wales, its report to the Cabinet in July 1819 forming the contents of the Green Bags, see British Museum Satires No. 13735. The barrister is William Cooke, his companion is his assistant, Lt.-Col. Browne (residing in Milan): Mungo (from Bickerstaffe's comic opera 'The Padlock') was a generic term for a negro, the name also implying one who does dirty jobs, cf. British Museum Satires No. 5030. There was also a solicitor, Powell, called 'the Rat' because he had acted for Burdett in election business. See British Museum Satires No. 10708 and 'Examiner', 1820, p. 540. ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 24 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, St. Clements Church Yd., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Cooke, William, 1757-1832, and Browne, Thomas Henry, active 1820
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Cauldrons, Daggers & swords, Medical equipment & supplies, Cooks, Cookery, Cooking utensils, Demons, Devil, Documents, Boxes, and Bags