Leaf 2. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
Alternative Title:
Coal-heavers
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6213 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 2 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
Charles Fox, with a fox's head and tail and an expression of delight, holds open the top of a large sack almost completely filled with coins. Opposite him, Lord North, standing on a substantially diminished pile of coins, carefully adds another shovelful to the sack. The sack is signed, "For private use." Behind them on the wall, under the ribbon signed, "For the use of the publick," several smaller empty sacks hang on a rope stretched between large pegs. Under the title is a verse, "Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves."
Alternative Title:
Coal-heavers
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Coins, Obesity, Bags, and Clothing & dress
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death
Leaf 16. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the center of the image, Major John Cartwright holds a long staff in his right hand, as he delivers a pro-Pitt speech in Covent Garden. To his right, in a pleading attitude, stands Lord Hood, the ministerial candidate opposing Charles Fox in the upcoming Westminster election. Neither attracts any attention from the crowd of Fox's supporters listening to a man speaking from the portico of St. Paul's.
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6474 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Ten lines of text below title: All gentlemen and others electors for Westminster who are ready and willing to surrender their rights and those of their fellow citizens to secret influence ..., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 121-2., and On leaf 16 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29, 1784, by Mrs. Dacheray, St. James's Street [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824 and Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Politics and government, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
In the center of the image, Major Cartwright holds a long staff in his right hand, as he delivers a pro-Pitt speech in Covent Garden. To his right, in a pleading attitude, stands Lord Hood, the ministerial candidate opposing Charles Fox in the upcoming Westminster election. Neither attracts any attention from the crowd of Fox's supporters listening to a man speaking from the portico of St. Paul's.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Ten lines of text below title: All gentlemen and others electors for Westminster who are ready and willing to surrender their rights and those of their fellow citizens to secret influence ..., and Mounted to 44 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29, 1784, by Mrs. Dacheray, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Westminster (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824 and Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816
Leaf 66. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length figure in profile of a lady in a riding-habit holding a riding-whip in her right hand. Her hair, without powder, is tied up in a club. She wears a cravat and a cap with an erect plume of feathers."--British Museum online catalogue and "Probably the Duchess of Grafton, the Duke being the Turf Macaroni in this series, see British Museum Satires No. 4634; see also British Museum Satires No. 5324."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 66., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15.7 x 10.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly Decmr. 24th, 1771, accorg. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Elizabeth, Duchess of, 1745-1822
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Riding habits, Whips, and Feathers
Leaf 66. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length figure in profile of a lady in a riding-habit holding a riding-whip in her right hand. Her hair, without powder, is tied up in a club. She wears a cravat and a cap with an erect plume of feathers."--British Museum online catalogue and "Probably the Duchess of Grafton, the Duke being the Turf Macaroni in this series, see British Museum Satires No. 4634; see also British Museum Satires No. 5324."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly Decmr. 24th, 1771, accorg. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Elizabeth, Duchess of, 1745-1822
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Riding habits, Whips, and Feathers
A satire on the mechanical studies of antiquarians who sought a canon of beauty by measuring the proportions of fine works of antiquity. A collection of five rows of wigs, some of which are shown on human heads, are drawn with measuring lines and lettered to reference a table at the side of the design
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image., Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs, First state as described by Paulson, without second "e" in "Advertisement"; without addition of "or Parsonic" under "Episcopal"., Below the design: Advertisment. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumes, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ..., Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 304 x 220 mm, on sheet 321 x 237 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image., Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs., State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out., Caption etched below image: Advertisement. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumns, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ..., Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Perriwigs five orders of. See Mr. Nichols's book, edit 3. P. 372., Sheet trimmed to: 29.8 x 21.6 cm., and Formerly on page 187 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs