"John Bull, a fat 'cit', is seated beside a writing-table (right) holding up a large book. On the left hand page is inscribed 'Vote of Thanks respecting the Expedition to Copenhagen'; John's pen rests on the last word, but he turns in horror to gaze at the ghosts of (left to right) Fox, Pitt, and Burke. These wear shrouds and stand on clouds; all point a menacing forefinger. Fox says: "Erase those lines from your Journal"; Pitt and Burke say "Erase". Burke wears spectacles and a Jesuit's biretta (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6026), and holds a large book inscribed 'Sublime & Beautiful' [cf., e.g., British Museum Satires No. 6361]. John wears glasses, his hair rises on his head, pushing up his ill-fitting wig. He says: "Why dont you come then and transact the business yourselves? - it is impossible I can please every body. - it is come to such a pitch now that I have no peace either with the living or the dead!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spectres visiting John Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 23, 1808, by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Denmark.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Foreign relations, John Bull (Symbolic character), Ghosts, and Writing materials
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quotation following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair. Holcroft., Printseller's announcement below design: Price one shilling colored., Plate numbered "39" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Costume: Male armor -- Tilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume: 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks., and Plate numbered '82' in ms. along top margin of sheet. Numbering corresponds to plate position within previous collection.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quotation following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair. Holcroft., Printseller's announcement below design: Price one shilling colored., Concluding digit in the publication year erased from print leaving worn paper., Later reissued with series number. Cf. no. 10966, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Costume: Male armor -- Ttilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume: 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks., and Mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 10763, representing Ministerial and Opposition leaders on platforms in front of their booths. On the extreme left. is Sheridan addressing the crowd below: 'Walk in Gentlemen and Ladies - here is no deception. Just going to begin.' He points to his back-cloth which hangs from a flagstaff: under a bottle and glass is the inscription 'Prime Sherry Gratis - The Comedy of A New Way to Pay Old Debts [Massinger] - with the Publicans Friend.' Harlequin, masked, with a blackened face, postures behind him. The flag is inscribed 'In vino Veritas'. On the adjacent booth Castlereagh stands with upraised arms, holding a tali long-bow with two strings. Beside him a pierrot bangs a salt-box. His back-cloth is inscribed 'The Genuine Booth - Two Strings to your Bow [a popular farce by R. Jephson, 1791] and a Trip to Down [see British Museum Satires No. 10715]'. His flag is inscribed 'Down Down Hey Derry Down.' The centre booth has a tattered back-cloth inscribed 'The Old Broad Bottomd Booth rather out of repair But Excellent Entertainment.' Its flag, also tattered, is 'Catholic Emancipation'. On the platform Grenville bows very low, hat in hand. Beside him is a pierrot holding up a steaming bowl and a placard: 'Treasury Soup Hot at all Hours'. The next booth is 'The Only True Constitutional Booth Persevere & Company' the flag is 'No Popery'. On this Perceval, his back to Grenville, bows, saying, "Dont mind what the Broad Bottoms say good people - mine is the only treue constitutional Booth." He has two attendants, one holding 'Magna Charta' besides a man blowing a trumpet to which is attached a banner with the royal arms. On the extreme right., a little apart from Perceval's booth, is that of Canning. The back-cloth is inscribed: 'A Collection of Sky Rockets Just arrived from Denmark very Curious.' Rockets rising from behind the cloth descend in golden streams on the crowd below. Canning is in full armour and holds a tilting-lance; he says: "Don't be afraid they won't hurt you." His pennant is 'Necessity has no Law.' A man in the crowd, looking up at the rockets, says: "To tell you the truth I don't admire Sky." On the ground-level are side-shows under two of the platforms. That of Grenville is the roof of a square stone building; its door is placarded 'Portland Stone moveable Kitchen, a great Curiosity' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10718]. No ladder ascends to the top, as with all the other booths, so that Grenville can descend only by stepping on to an adjacent platform. Beneath Perceval's platform is inscribed: 'Underneath to be seen the Bed of Roses' [see British Museum Satires No. 10558, &c.]. Among the crowd of gaping spectators are men crying their wares. They hold out broadsides. One (left) shouts: "Who buys my rotten Burrows if I'd as much money as I could tell I never would cry rotten Burrows to sell." A yokel in a smock asks him: "What do you ax Master for a good snug thing in your way." A man cries: "Who wants to buy any New Taxes"; a fat farmer says: "Dang it we have got enough of that Article". A Highlander in a kilt cries "Places and Pensions at half Price". A man offers a similar Highlander: "Snug Sinecures Dirt Cheap." A corpulent parson addresses a stout woman whose arm a much shorter man is holding: "Any more Church livings than you make use of I'll buy them of you." On the extreme right a quack doctor offers money-bags: 'Delicate Consciences effectively cured - no cure no Pay'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Saint Stephens fair
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with former plate number "39" removed and a new number added. See British Museum catalogue., Text following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair." Holcroft., Companion print to: A political fair., Plate numbered "255" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shilling colored.", Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: Pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Male costume: Armor -- Tilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume, 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks., and Leaf 39 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved song. A fat military officer, wearing cocked hat, sword, and boots, stands with an amorous swagger among eleven women; two cling to his shoulders, others raise their arms to attract his attention. Behind, and on the extreme left and right, appear the heads of two men, scowling jealously."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 11153 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Twenty-four lines of verse in two columns below title: Oh! a pettitcoat, Honey's, an Irishmans joy, go where he will, his time merrily passes; search the world over, sure Paddy's the boy, for banging the men, and for kissing the lasses ..., Plate numbered "232" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28 x 21.3 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 77 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved song. A fat military officer, wearing cocked hat, sword, and boots, stands with an amorous swagger among eleven women; two cling to his shoulders, others raise their arms to attract his attention. Behind, and on the extreme left and right, appear the heads of two men, scowling jealously."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 11153 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Twenty-four lines of verse in two columns below title: Oh! a pettitcoat, Honey's, an Irishmans joy, go where he will, his time merrily passes; search the world over, sure Paddy's the boy, for banging the men, and for kissing the lasses ..., Plate numbered "232" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., and Also issued separately.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hudibrastic mirror and Follies of the day in Lilliput
Description:
Title etched in center of image., Text within ribbon above title: The follies of the day in Lilliput., Design includes seven small scenes, each with a title etched above within a ribbon., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Imperfect; volume number "III" in title has been erased from sheet and replaced with the number "5," written in ink a contemporary hand. Missing text supplied from description of a reissue of the plate in the British Museum catalogue., For an 1821 reissue of the plate, see no. 11134 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Print modified for use as the title page to a different volume, with the manuscript number "5" replacing the erased number "III" in tile., and Title page to volume 5.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A cobbler, broadly grinning, holds up a long thread and recounts a long tongue-twister beginning, 'When a twister a twisting, will twist him a twist', to the diversion of two sailors, who remark, 'Scuttle my hammock, Jib, if this here fellow does not beat our parson.', 'I think so messmate and the surgeon into the bargain.'; a sign above the cobbler's shop reads, 'Men and womens soles translated, their understand-ings mended - uprights rectified - and quarters restiched. by J Cook - Knt. of St. Crispin, and secular twister to the parish of Sheeperton'; a gloomy parson looks out from a cottage window opposite, underneath a sign reading, 'Abraham Amen parish clerk and sexton', the notice in the house next door reads, 'Iohn Heavan. Apothecary and undertaker'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cheerful cobbler
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker's signature etched in bottom part of image, with "sculpt." lightly printed and barely visible., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. April 15th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1808 - Cheerful cobler., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shillg. color'd"--Within design., Plate numbered "160" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Cobblers -- Apothecaries., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Shoemakers, Drugstores, Undertakers, Sailors, and Clergy
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A cobbler, broadly grinning, holds up a long thread and recounts a long tongue-twister beginning, 'When a twister a twisting, will twist him a twist', to the diversion of two sailors, who remark, 'Scuttle my hammock, Jib, if this here fellow does not beat our parson.', 'I think so messmate and the surgeon into the bargain.'; a sign above the cobbler's shop reads, 'Men and womens soles translated, their understand-ings mended - uprights rectified - and quarters restiched. by J Cook - Knt. of St. Crispin, and secular twister to the parish of Sheeperton'; a gloomy parson looks out from a cottage window opposite, underneath a sign reading, 'Abraham Amen parish clerk and sexton', the notice in the house next door reads, 'Iohn Heavan. Apothecary and undertaker'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cheerful cobbler
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker's signature etched in bottom part of image, with "sculpt." lightly printed and barely visible., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. April 15th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1808 - Cheerful cobler., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shillg. color'd"--Within design., Plate numbered "160" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Cobblers -- Apothecaries., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 15 in volume 3.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Shoemakers, Drugstores, Undertakers, Sailors, and Clergy