"A grotesquely fat woman, much decolletee, sits at a piano (left) singing and playing, her left foot on the pedal. With upturned eyes and gaping mouth she sings: "Just like love ..." [three times]. Her music book is open at: 'Just like Love a Favorite Song Sung by Mr Braham'. A fat man in old-fashioned dress, standing just behind her, his hands raised in surprise, turns to address two younger men who are fashionably dressed. He asks: "Don't my Lady play and Sing delightfully? she was finished under the famous Sigr Squawlletti." The man on the extreme right, holding his friend's arm, says: "By G- if the Signior had been under my Lady she would have finish'd him! would'nt She Sir Thomas." The other laughs: "Ha! Ha! Ha! come that's a good one!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Watermark: Cansell 1822.
"One of a set (coloured) by Williams, all with the same imprint (British Museum Satires Nos. 12933-6). An adaptation of British Museum Satires No. 12925. The stout man dancing between two ladies is in military uniform with a large sabre. The room is altered by the addition of a side wall (left) to which the fireplace is transferred. In its place is the square piano under a large mirror. All the figures are altered; a lady in an arm-chair with a man leaning over her has been added. Elaborate gas or oil lighting replaces candles: a hanging chandelier with a circle of globes with chimneys, with similar lamps in brackets on a glass over the chimney-piece, which is surmounted by a standing lamp. There are three whole length portraits of dancers striking attitudes, two being 'Mde H[i]llisburgh' and 'Monr Vestris'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quadrille dancing pour la pratique
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., "No. 3"--Upper left corner., and Watermark: John Hall.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1817 by S.W. Fores
Subject (Topic):
Dance, Chandeliers, Gaslight fixtures, and Military uniforms
Title from caption below image., Publication year from British Museum catalogue., Number '4' in Fores's address etched backwards., Temporary local subject terms: Grimaces -- Faces -- Classes., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Lord Chancellor (Eldon), preceded by his mace-bearer holding a sword, is about to alight on the pavement outside Westminster Hall (left), having flown diagonally down from the right; next him is (?) the Vice-Chancellor Plumer, close behind are eight other judges followed by a closely packed swarm of barristers who recede in perspective. All are in wig and gown. Behind the barristers are their clerks, wearing top-hats and carrying (green) brief-bags over their shoulders. Three men stand outside the door of Westminster Hall waiting obsequiously to receive the Chancellor and his swarm; one is a constable holding his staff, the others wear black gowns, the foremost having cloven hoofs. In the street below (right) a few terrified pedestrians look up at the monstrous flight."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
No. 1. Blessings of Britain, or, A flight of lawyers, Blessings of Brittain, or, A flight of lawyers, Blessings of Britain, or, A flight of lawyers, Flight of lawyers, and First day of term
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state; plate number has been altered and beginning of imprint statement has been removed from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Jany. 1817 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text following title: "A darksome cloud of locusts swarming down." Milton., Plate numbered "200" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 54 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Lord Chancellor (Eldon), preceded by his mace-bearer holding a sword, is about to alight on the pavement outside Westminster Hall (left), having flown diagonally down from the right; next him is (?) the Vice-Chancellor Plumer, close behind are eight other judges followed by a closely packed swarm of barristers who recede in perspective. All are in wig and gown. Behind the barristers are their clerks, wearing top-hats and carrying (green) brief-bags over their shoulders. Three men stand outside the door of Westminster Hall waiting obsequiously to receive the Chancellor and his swarm; one is a constable holding his staff, the others wear black gowns, the foremost having cloven hoofs. In the street below (right) a few terrified pedestrians look up at the monstrous flight."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
No. 1. Blessings of Britain, or, A flight of lawyers, Blessings of Brittain, or, A flight of lawyers, Blessings of Britain, or, A flight of lawyers, Flight of lawyers, and First day of term
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state; plate number has been altered and beginning of imprint statement has been removed from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Jany. 1817 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text following title: "A darksome cloud of locusts swarming down." Milton., Plate numbered "200" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark.
"A farmer (John Bull) and his family gape in amazement at the arrangements for the Regency fête on 19 June. The narrow table extends across the design receding from left to right, the cloth hanging over the seats of chairs in the foreground. The famous canal decorates the centre of the table with its gold and silver fish, and the table is laid with gold plate, and ornate cut-glass goblets and decanters labelled 'Dry Champain', 'Claret', and 'Burgundy'. There are three-branched gold candelabra. The Prince's chair is on the extreme right; beside it stand a man in livery and an attendant in plain clothes. Behind the chair large ornate gold salvers are arranged on shelves covered with white drapery, as in No. 11729. This was 'a kind of circular buffet . . . lined by festoons and antique draperies of pink and silver' ('Ann. Reg.', 1811, p. 69). The sightseers are on the farther side of the table (left) with their backs to the windows, John in the centre; he says, pointing: "Why Odd Zookers this is marvellous fine indeed. Oh Nan how we should relish a rasher on one of they monstracious beautifull Plates, why now I think I shan't grumble to pay three or four Bank Tokens towards this grand treat - methinks I should Just like a nippikin too." His wife puts out her hands protestingly: "Oh John one of our milk white Chickens roasted by myself by our wood fire would be Luscioscious indeed." His daughter says: "La Feather do zee how they gilded Fishes be stareing at yow." There are three loutish sons; one says: "I say Sue I thinks I should not like that dry Shampain, but a Dobbin of our home brewed in that there gilded gold thing would be dreadfully noice indeed"; another (looking up at the (invisible) ceiling : "Dang it if the top 0 the pleace beant all Eel pottles I'll be hang'd."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull in the conservatory
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint., Watermark: NV, and Manuscript "63" in ink upper center of plate.
"Scene in an assembly room. A mountainously fat woman stands fanning herself, as she talks to a stout man in old-fashioned dress. She says: "Dear me it is perdigus Hot! which would you advise me to do take a Rubber or Dance." He answers: "Dance first! Madam, and take the Rubber afterwards." A fashionably dressed but vulgar-looking man stands by, looking quizzically at the lady. In the background (left) is a high musicians' gallery, and below it four people dance a (?) country dance. There is a cut-glass chandelier. Through an ornate arched doorway four people are seen playing cards."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers
Description:
Title etched below image., Argus is a pseudonym for Charles Williams., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: Cassell.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Fans (Accessories), Dance, and Chandeliers
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '19' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Food: pudding -- Male dress: child's dress, 1796 -- Christmas food -- Furnishings: window curtains -- Mirrors -- Furniture: tea table -- Domestic service: footmen.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
A satire on Napoleon. "The 'dwarf' (Lord Kirkcudbright) stands beside Glumdalclitch's empty chair at the dinner-table. A marrow-bone stands erect on the plate; from this emerges Napoleon, three-quarter length., wearing his bicorne and clenching both fists. The 'dwarf' says: "There you little insignificant Pigmy, I've Bone'd you." Kirkcudbright, in profile to the right., is based on Gillray's caricature, see BMSat 9905, head, figure, dress and sword being closely copied; but he stands chapeau-bras, and the arms and hands are differently posed: r. hand on the edge of the table, left hand held up derisively above Napoleon. The legs are cut off below the knee by the lower margin. On the back of the chair is a crown; on plate, knife, and fork are the Royal Arms."--British Musuen online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Vide Swift's Gulliver, Voyage to Brobingnag., and Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum. See Registration number 1868,0808.7205.
Publisher:
Pubd October 18th 1803 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons and Adaptations, parodies, etc
"Fox stoops to support on his back Horne Tooke, who is about to climb into the window of 'St Stephe[n's] Chap[el]', the name on a slab over the door, partly cut off by the right margin. The door is being closed by Lord Temple, who says: "He shall not pollute this holy Temple". Tooke rests his right foot on Fox's back, his hands grasping the sill; his left toe is in a cranny in the wall above a placard headed: 'Old Sarum Dilly takes only one at the Brazenface'. He looks down at Fox, saying, "don't give way I am not quite in Yet". Fox, his head towards the door, one foot supported on a book: 'Powerfull Reasons for Non attendance', says: "Come on with you!! and mind and button your great Coat to hide the Old Cassock." Tooke's greatcoat hangs open, showing his coat, and the skirt of a short cassock over knee-breeches. On the wall beside him is a torn placard: 'A New Edition The Diversions of Purley by the Rev John H...' The keystone of the arch over the door, on the extreme right, is a satyr's head, leering at Tooke with protruding tongue."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Westminster ceceeder on fresh duty and Westminster seceder on fresh duty
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "Westminster" is etched backwards, and the third "e" in "ceceeder" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Early state, before spelling of "ceceeder" in title changed to "seceder". For the later state with this correction, see no. 9715 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Printseller's announcement beneath lower right corner of image: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, and St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England),