"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title added. See Caricatures. [London] : [Publisher not identified], [1836?], p. 82., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 5913 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design, mostly obscuring artist's signature in lower left corner., and Titled in pencil below image: Billiards.
In a tavern diners eat eagerly as they sit crowded around tables each covered in white linen and divided from each other by curtains. A waiter delivers a covered tureen to the table on the right as he crosses pathes with the waitress hurrying to the left with two tankards of beer. The diners' hats hang on pegs around the walls. A chandelier hangs before three casement windows with oval mirrors decorating the walls between. The tavern has been identified as either the Rainbow Tavern or the Wheatsheaf Eating House, both on Fleet Street
Printmaker and title from Grego., Publication date from watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title on the original drawing (now in private hands): The Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. See Bridgeman Art database., Later reprint in Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. (London, 1836) is titled: Table d'hote., Restrike of a print listed by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v.2, p. 19., Watermark: J Whatman 1828., and Title supplied in unknown hand below plate: Rainbeau Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800.
Title devised by the cataloger., Publication information from another impression., Illustration to: Adventures of Roderick Random., Placement instructions in upper right corner of plate: vol. 1, p. 78., Temporary local subject terms: Ships: upper deck -- Pugilism -- Fighting., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title devised by the cataloger., Publication information from another print in this work: Lieut. Bowling visits Rod. Random in prison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to: Adventures of Roderick Random, chapter 21., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: garrets -- Poverty -- Sickness -- Medical: medicine vials., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
"The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures. The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of the cart and laughs at their plight. Another man holds the broken rope harness of the kicking horse. Two couples (left) run joyfully towards the disaster, an unrehearsed sport of the fair: two country people in front, an over-dressed and elderly couple behind. In front (right) are the bones of a horse. In the background is a line of tents and booths before which stand spectators. On the stages of adjacent booths persons are posturing, and an acrobat swings on a slack-rope. The names over the booths are 'Polito', 'Sanders', 'Guny', 'Ast . . [? Astley]'. Farther off (left) a horse- or ass-race is in progress, indicated by tiny figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., First series statement appears above image; second series statement appears below image., Printmaker identified by George., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and "Price one shilling coloured."
Publisher:
Pub. 5th October 1810 by Tho. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures. The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of the cart and laughs at their plight. Another man holds the broken rope harness of the kicking horse. Two couples (left) run joyfully towards the disaster, an unrehearsed sport of the fair: two country people in front, an over-dressed and elderly couple behind. In front (right) are the bones of a horse. In the background is a line of tents and booths before which stand spectators. On the stages of adjacent booths persons are posturing, and an acrobat swings on a slack-rope. The names over the booths are 'Polito', 'Sanders', 'Guny', 'Ast . . [? Astley]'. Farther off (left) a horse- or ass-race is in progress, indicated by tiny figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue; imprint has been burnished from plate., Publication information based on imprint on earlier state: Pubd. 5th October 1810 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., First series statement appears above image; second series statement appears below image., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 191., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 35 in volume 1.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures. The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of the cart and laughs at their plight. Another man holds the broken rope harness of the kicking horse. Two couples (left) run joyfully towards the disaster, an unrehearsed sport of the fair: two country people in front, an over-dressed and elderly couple behind. In front (right) are the bones of a horse. In the background is a line of tents and booths before which stand spectators. On the stages of adjacent booths persons are posturing, and an acrobat swings on a slack-rope. The names over the booths are 'Polito', 'Sanders', 'Guny', 'Ast . . [? Astley]'. Farther off (left) a horse- or ass-race is in progress, indicated by tiny figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue; imprint has been burnished from plate., Publication information based on imprint on earlier state: Pubd. 5th October 1810 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., First series statement appears above image; second series statement appears below image., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 191.
Title from later state., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., State before title. Cf. Later state in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c., p. 77., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the later state was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 8205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from sheet., and Added in pencil: shading within lower part of image and title "The commercial[?] party" below image.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A corner of a theatre made of timber fills the greater part of the design. Flames stream from windows on the first floor under which runs a balcony giving access to the door. From the door a staircase slants to the ground. A terrified crowd rush through the doorway and precipitate themselves headlong down the stairs, to fall in a heap at the bottom. A young woman drops from the balcony, two men standing below grip her legs, an elderly musician assists her, losing his fiddle. Another woman climbs over the balcony rail. There are other (comic) incidents. The theatre is placarded 'Cockburns Company'. A large playbill is inscribed 'Last Night--Pizzarro [see British Museum Satires No. 9396, &c.]--Don Juan--A Shower of Real Fire and a View of the Infernal Regions'. In the background (left) fugitives run in frantic haste across the grass towards a row of booths, inscribed 'Pinello', 'Genello Compan[y]', 'Cromer', where players and spectators watch the conflagration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably a reissue; first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., "Price one shilling coloured.", Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 37 in volume 1.