"Burke (three quarter length) as a showman bends over his magic lantern in profile to the right. In the upper part of the design is a draped sheet on which are the objects thrown by the lantern. These are (left to right): [1] an oddly shaped elephant chained to a stake inscribed 'A Benares Flea'. [2] Three mountains piled one upon the other, inscribed respectively, 'Ossa', 'Pelion', 'Olympus'; the whole is 'A Begum Wart'. [3] Four large eyes dripping tears float half-submerged in the water they have produced, inscribed, 'Begums Tears'. [4] A whale spouting is 'An Ouzle'. From the right side of the magic lantern the end of a slide (or slider, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6287) emerges; on it is an oriental seated cross-legged and smoking. Next the lantern (right) are the heads and shoulders of two spectators in back view who are applauding; one says "finely imagined"; the other, "poor Ladies they have cried their Eyes out". The 'profil perdu' of Lord Derby appears on the extreme right, saying, "very like an Ouzle [weasel]. "Polonius"" ['Hamlet', III. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in bottom part of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 61 with two other prints.
Publisher:
Publd. 6th May 1788 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Oudh (Princely State)
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"Burke (three quarter length) as a showman bends over his magic lantern in profile to the right. In the upper part of the design is a draped sheet on which are the objects thrown by the lantern. These are (left to right): [1] an oddly shaped elephant chained to a stake inscribed 'A Benares Flea'. [2] Three mountains piled one upon the other, inscribed respectively, 'Ossa', 'Pelion', 'Olympus'; the whole is 'A Begum Wart'. [3] Four large eyes dripping tears float half-submerged in the water they have produced, inscribed, 'Begums Tears'. [4] A whale spouting is 'An Ouzle'. From the right side of the magic lantern the end of a slide (or slider, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6287) emerges; on it is an oriental seated cross-legged and smoking. Next the lantern (right) are the heads and shoulders of two spectators in back view who are applauding; one says "finely imagined"; the other, "poor Ladies they have cried their Eyes out". The 'profil perdu' of Lord Derby appears on the extreme right, saying, "very like an Ouzle [weasel]. "Polonius"" ['Hamlet', III. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in bottom part of image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.4 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 18.7 x 16.8 cm., and Mounted with one other print on leaf 43 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 6th May 1788 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Oudh (Princely State)
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"Portrait of Galfridus Walpole, half length to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing large long wig; in oval; with facsimile of signature."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of second line of title from bottom edge. Complete title supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 142 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Galfridus, 1683-1726 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
"General Theobald Dillon (three-quarter length) is being murdered by French soldiers, ruffianly fellows, most of whom wear cocked hats with a tricolour cockade. He is pierced with many bayonets, and his throat is cut; his head is dragged backwards by a man who grasps his hair in hands and teeth. He puts up an arm crying, "oh le Pauvre Dillon". A man with sabre raised to slash again, says, "Encore Encore." Two of the men say "Ca-ira". One who is using his bayonet says, "oh by Gar dis will be de brave news for de new association in England."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
National troops' attachment to their general after their defeat at Tournay
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strassbourg lily on crowned armorial shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1792, by S.W. Fores, 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Dillon, Theobald, 1745-1792. and Society of the Friends of the People (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
Assassinations, Tournai, Belgium, Battle of, 1745, Black people, Soldiers, French, and War casualties
Title from heading above design., Publication date from local card catalog record., Six designs on sheet, individually captioned: Short cut & pig-tail; Low life; A tobacco-box; Lease & counter-part; The managers last kick; High life., and On reverse side of sheet: Monstrosities of 1836.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and A. Ducôté's lithogy. 70 St. Martins Lane
"A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. It is inscribed 'Tis expected every' and (round her neck) 'will do his duty'. She watches a servant holding a foppish and elderly naval officer, while he flourishes a cudgel. Bellows lie on the ground. The servant had discovered Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, had fetched the object of her affections and compelled him to marry her."--British Museum online catalogue. On the wall is a painting of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Alternative Title:
Miraculous recovery of the unfortunate Miss Baily
Description:
Title etched below image., Later printing, not before 1812., Possibly also the work of Isaac's son George., One line of text immediately below title: A ballad by W.J. Donne., Five numbered stanzas of verse arranged in two columns in lower portion of print: A lady fair in deep despair, who pleas'd the beaux in singing, From off the tester of her bed, one morning she was singing..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate numbered: 456., and Watermark: [Turke]y Mill 1812?
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A crowded scene, broadly caricatured, on the frozen Thames just above London Bridge, which forms a background, with coaches passing and spectators looking down. In the foreground (right) a jovial waterman straddles behind his ninepins at which an artisan is about to throw. Men and women drink and fight in an open tent inscribed 'Shannon', where a large pot cooks on a brazier. A man's wooden leg plunges through the ice; a fat woman falls on her back on breaking ice, dragging down a man by his pigtail and terrifying and tripping up a fiddler and a raffish man in a furred and braided overcoat with a flamboyant top-hat. Customers (left) buy souvenirs from a printer who inks a block: behind is a press placarded 'The Thames Printing Office--Copper Plate printg done in the Best Style by J water-- Wagtail & Co.' There are two makeshift tents on the left: one placarded 'Gin and Gingerbread Sold here Wholesale'; the other: 'The Nelson'. In the middle distance revellers drink or dance, and a woman at a stall cries "Here's my smoking Hot sasengers a penney a peic"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gambols on the River Thames : February 1814
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "312" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: Coaches -- Printer -- Wooden leg -- Ninepines -- Frost fair -- London Bridge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.6 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 9 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1814 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A crowded scene, broadly caricatured, on the frozen Thames just above London Bridge, which forms a background, with coaches passing and spectators looking down. In the foreground (right) a jovial waterman straddles behind his ninepins at which an artisan is about to throw. Men and women drink and fight in an open tent inscribed 'Shannon', where a large pot cooks on a brazier. A man's wooden leg plunges through the ice; a fat woman falls on her back on breaking ice, dragging down a man by his pigtail and terrifying and tripping up a fiddler and a raffish man in a furred and braided overcoat with a flamboyant top-hat. Customers (left) buy souvenirs from a printer who inks a block: behind is a press placarded 'The Thames Printing Office--Copper Plate printg done in the Best Style by J water-- Wagtail & Co.' There are two makeshift tents on the left: one placarded 'Gin and Gingerbread Sold here Wholesale'; the other: 'The Nelson'. In the middle distance revellers drink or dance, and a woman at a stall cries "Here's my smoking Hot sasengers a penney a peic"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gambols on the River Thames : February 1814
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "312" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., and Temporary local subject terms: Coaches -- Printer -- Wooden leg -- Ninepines -- Frost fair -- London Bridge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1814 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London