V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
Abstract:
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 13397. The Mayor and clerk sit as before. The two constables have brought in three naked bathers, who modestly try to screen their persons with hat, handkerchief, and a basket inscribed 'Sprats from the Royal Canal'. The two women peep in at the door, scandalized; their place near the table is taken by a woman in a red cloak who says: "Blood & Ouns your Worship give poor pat his breeches!!!!" One constable, with coat and breeches over his arm, points to his victims: "Here your Worship, I have brought three of those rebelious Naked Vagabonds before your Lordship to be treated your honor according to Law." The other, also holding ragged garments, stands smugly silent. The men say: [1] "Please your worshipful Lordship tell the Constable to give me my Cloathes--sure & little enough I have of them"; [2] "O! your honor! for the decency of Ireland don't let the Constable sell my poor rags!!!" [3] "By my soul I think is Lordship is going to turn us all into Hottentots." The Mayor, extending a clenched fist, shouts: "You rascals! how dare you presume to cool your selves in the Royal Canal--? No one in this Country must meddle with Royalty--I think I have prevented further indecency on your Parts--give them their cloathes Constable." His left hand rests on a paper: 'Plan for Reforming the City of Dublin'. The two women at the door say: "La what a sight!!!!!!" and "I think it is a greater shame than it was before--I'm quite shock'd to see it." The dandy (? Archer) looks mockingly towards the Mayor, saying, "Well! I think an Archer Bull is not to be found in Joe Miller"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "362" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Magistrates -- Clerks -- Constables -- Dandies -- Bathers., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 75 in volume 5.
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Pubd. Augt. 30th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Caption title in letterpress below image., Imprint statement printed in letterpress following verses., "Tune - town and country.", Two columns of verse in letterpress: Assist me ye lads who have hearts free from guile, to sing in the praise of old Ireland's isle ..., and Plate numbered '531' in upper right corner.
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Published the 20th October, 1815 by J. Whittle and R.H. Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Soldiers -- Rioters -- Horses --Blowhorns.
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Pubd. April, 1825 by J. Robins & Co., Ivy Lane PN. Row
"A man sits behind a cloth-covered table, a prey to demons and to little figures enacting scenes that madden, urging to suicide and divorce. He clutches his head, his elbow resting on a book, Werter [cf. BM Satires 7765]; his right fist is on a letter signed your sincere Friend -- Anonymous. One tiny demon whispers in his ear, another runs up his arm holding a pair of spectacles; both have reindeer-antlers. At his right hand a pistol, with arms, legs, and face, bows invitingly. At his left hand a fat pugnacious barrister proffers a paper: Damages 1000; another, simian, and with barbed tail, clambers up the table-cloth towards him. A demon lies flat on the table, holding the rope by which a little man hangs himself, having just kicked away a stool. Under a chair (left) an officer in dandified uniform embraces a woman; the same woman, wearing a hat, clambers down a rope-ladder from the back of a chair (right) towards her lover who stands below extending his arms; a little watchman in the shadow of the table, holding his lantern, watches them with a cynical grin. On the chimneypiece is a duel scene: the officer fires a pistol killing his opponent, the jealous man. Pictures on the wall: Horn Fair, a fair scene, horns and antlers displayed on poles; Othello smothering Desdemona. This hangs above an oval miniature of a lady. Books (on the table) are The Revenge [E. Young, 1721]; (on the floor) Don Juan and The Cuckoo Song Book."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., 'Crowquill' was a psuedonym used jointly by Charles Robert Forrester and Alfred Henry Forrester. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms -- Jealousy -- Demons -- Torment --Pistol -- Suicide -- Death -- Seduction -- Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: 1825.
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Pubd. November 1st., 1825 by S. Knight, Sweetings Alley, Ryl. X'Change
The walls of a fashionable, sporting gentleman are covered in sporting prints: fox hunting, horse racing, cock fighting, boxing, etc
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Lacking imprint statement. For state with intact imprint statement, see no. 14321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
From good to bad & from bad to worse and From good to bad and from bad to worse
Description:
Title from caption below images., Three designs arranged horizontally on one plate, each with an individual title etched above; design on left entitled "Before the war," center design entitled "During the war," and design on right entitled "Peace with all the world.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
"Cockaigne, shewing "Cousin Tummas" a "Lions" den--' A view of Crockford's with riders, carriages, and pedestrians in the roadway. From the opposite pavement of St. James's Street a cockney points it out to a countryman. On the roof is a (symbolical) pigeon-cote on which perches a rook, while pigeons circle round it. Below: 'That's one of the London "Hells" Coz!"--"No sure! why what a nice looking place!!--Well; no wonder so many people do go to the Devil if he a' gotten such Foine Housen!!--' See No. 15934, &c. [2] "Legs" famous for "Cutting" & "Shuffling". Three gamesters stand together, all with long black legs, no body, and the heads of birds (rooks) with predatory beaks. Legs = blacklegs. Jon Bee, Slang, 1823. Cf. No. 14399, &c. [3] "I could a tale unfold". A pig with a curly tail. [4] 'Any thing but Fair play!' A duel, a very broad fat man fires at an absurdly thin one (who does not fire). [5] 'The Abode of Genius'. A ramshackle attic with a mattress on the floor under a sloping roof, across which socks are hung on a line. A man in ragged clothes of fashionable intention sits at a small table struggling with a piece of food held between teeth and fork. He says: 'To call this a tender Chuck Steak! & charge me two pence half-penny for it!!--I've a great mind to go & Chuck it in his face!--Aye!--its a fine thing to be a Genius!!!!!' Below: "My lodging is on the cold ground, / And very hard is my fare;"-- The distressed poet, a standard theme, cf. (e.g.) Nos. 12139, 15641. [6] "House of Industry"-- [Workhouse.] A cobbler, his wife, and three small children are hard at work in a miserable room. She: 'If you get paid for them shoes shall us have a bit of meat on Sunday?-- ' He: 'Why--I dont know what to say to that--you know we had meat last Sunday!--we must not be extravagant.' Below: "A Cobler there was & he lived in a Stall / which served him for Parlour & Kitchen & hall"!--"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below center image., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, p. 73., and Temporary local subject terms: Cobblers -- Street scenes
"Children on the sea-shore, with a background of cliffs and bathing-machines suggesting Brighton. In dress and manners they are tiny adults. Three couples walk arm-in-arm, a little boy sits on the ground. Two girls and two boys wear vast broad-brimmed hats as in BM Satires 15183. 24th January 1826"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image. and Publication year erased partially and modified with ms. to present as '1826'
"Mrs. Cox, in décolletée evening dress with roses in her hair, sits on a sofa with Kean on her lap. He wears slashed doublet and trunk hose. She caresses him, saying, O Romeo, I would thy love were pure as is the virgin snow --. He gazes at her with an intent, cynical smile, answering, By Heaven 'tis as pure as ever lover felt in the purlieus of Drury -- pure as refined gold, as ere was seen in Great or little Britain dearest Juliet --!!!! He holds a glass of brandy; on a table (left) a decanter of Brandy, with a second glass, stands on a playbill: Theatre [Royal] Drury [Lane]. A bold Stroke for A Husband [Mrs. Cowley, 1783] with the Devil to Pay [Coffey, 1731]. On the sofa are a pile of 150 Love Letters; a book, Ovids Art of Love; a paper, Cox and Co. Above Mrs. Cox's head is a picture, Europa and the Bull, a nude woman astride the bull. On the right is a sash-window reaching to the floor. Through this stares Cox; on his head are bull's horns and huge antlers. He wears his alderman's chain, and holds a letter: Dear C- I advise you to keep a Keen eye on you [sic] wife, or Mr -- will --Yours truely E. K-. He shouts: Fire! Fury! and gold dust!! what do I see? K-Kissing my Wife! my head swims and my hair stands erect, but Damages, Damages, Damme!!!!- In front of the window two cats caterwaul angrily at each other: Waough!!! Waough!!!; Maoul Roouw!!"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Keenish sport in Cox's court! and Symptoms of crim. con in Drury Lane May 1824
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State with imprint. Cf. No. 14710 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Temporary local subject terms: Costume: male, female, 1824 -- Brandy -- Bull's horns -- Huge antlers -- Crim con -- Cox, Mrs. Charlotte (Newman), fl. 1824 -- Cox, Robert Albion, fl. 1794-1826.
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Pubd. May, 1824 by J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill