John Bull's first visit to his old friend the new secretary
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Dogs -- Politics., Mounted to 29 x 40 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bulls dream, or, The insurrection of the papers and Insurrection of the papers
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to Charles Williams in local card catalog record., Two lines of quoted text following title: "All made of vulgar, rag-ingredients, "enough to smother ten such R-g-ents! Vide Morning Chronichle [sic], April 23d, 1812., Plate numbered "134" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Watermark: Basted Mill., and Leaf 69 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 27, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Title from item., Later state with S.W. Fores imprint replacing C. Knight imprint [scratched through]., Publication date inferred from earlier state., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Chair -- Costume: Clergy Rector -- John Bull -- Male Costume: 1804 -- Port -- Furniture: Table -- Biblical Reference: Ezekiel 35.1 -- Medical: Dermatalogical Disease.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Fifteen figures arranged in two rows, each with a caption: the words of the speaker etched below the name of his country. (1) A white-robed figure, with hands spread deprecatingly: 'Egypt. His extortions are abominable, I wish he was made a Mummy of!' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9352, &c.]. (2) A man, wearing a night-cap and a dressing-gown over Spanish dress, yawns and stretches: 'Spain. Bless me what a long time I've been taking & been dreaming about going to Peru.' (3) A man, wearing a bag-wig and old-fashioned dress, bows obsequiously: 'Italy. I bow to him with submissive respect.' (4) A Chinese in trousers stands impassively in profile: 'China Is not this Boonapar a famous robber.' (5) A man with a long pipe and gouty legs: 'Germany [Austria] I mean a great deal when I shake my head.' (6) A military officer puts a finger to his closed lips: 'Prussia. Mum.' (7) A post-boy, wearing jack-boots and heavily shackled, waves a bonnet rouge: 'France. Long live the Emperor - Vive La Liberté'!! (8) A Turk wearing a jewelled turban: 'Turkey. I quake whenever his name is mentioned.' (9) A man wearing fur cap, fur cloak, and fur-trimmed boots folds his arms: 'Russia I curse him one moment and am friends with him the next.' (10) An elderly military officer, wearing a long sword, stands hands on hips: 'Sweeden. Who's afraid!!' (11) 'A fat Dutch burgher, smoking a pipe, scowls reflectively: 'Holland For my part I dont know what to make of him.' (12) A man wearing a short jacket, trousers, and a long pigtail runs to the right.: 'Portugal I'm Off.' (13) A quaker stands full face with folded hands: 'America. Verily the Spirit doth move me to shake hands.' (14) An Oriental, wearing a turban and long trousers, stands full face: 'Assia I beg he may be kept at a distance.' (15) John Bull, a fat 'cit', stands with his hands in his waistcoat pockets, smiling dubiously: 'England I laugh at him, and defy him. but still I dont much like him'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
National opinions on Bonaparte and National opinions on Buonaparte
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "235" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., "THO" written in open letters in pencil near center of sheet, following the word "Holland.", and Leaf 11 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"British households are represented by large straw bee-hives; these are assailed by tax-collectors and their satellites who run through the air in a swarm. One hive is in the foreground (right), the two next are in the middle distance, with a line of little hives in the distance, curving to the left margin. John Bull, ragged but chubby, stands defiantly on the step of his hive, defending it with a stake shaped like a rough pitchfork and inscribed 'Prop of Reform'; with this he prods the foremost collector, who drops book and pen in dismay. Behind him in the doorway is his wife, brandishing a poker, while three ragged and terrified small children cluster round the door. Other tax-gatherers assail the upper part of the hive; one has made a hole in the straw and puts in his hand; he has already seized honey. Another man departs with chunks of honeycomb, but his coat-tails are clutched by a man who leans from a hole in the hive. Another collector runs through the air, laden with spoil. More of the swarm are still advancing, holding pen and book or paper. One, holding up a constable's staff, holds out a 'Warrant [of] Distress . . John Bull' [scarcely legible]; another has a huge book inscribed 'Poor's Rate'. Other books are inscribed 'Kings Tax' and 'Assess'd Taxes'. One man holds out a paper inscribed 'Snatch Broker & Sworn Appraiser'. The men recede in perspective towards the upper left corner of the design, from which the swarm is descending upon the hives. A tax-gatherer enters the door of the second hive, while another stands on the upper part nailing on it a placard: 'Kings Taxes'. In the foreground (right) beside the hive a broken cord drops from a clothes-prop weighted down with tattered garments. On the left is a smoking manure-heap inscribed 'Ministrial Dung-hill'; on this lies a paper, 'Prope[rty] Tax' [now removed, see British Museum Satires No. 12750, &c.], and from it grow toadstools inscribed 'Place, Pension', and 'Sinecure'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
No. II. Blessings of Britain, or, Swarm of tax-gatherers, Blessings of Britain, or, Swarm of tax-gatherers, Swarm of tax-gatherers, and Quarter day
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state; plate number has been altered and imprint has been removed from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Jany. 1817 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted text following title: "All with united force combine to drive," the lazy drones from the laborious hive." Virgil., Plate numbered "195" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 50 in volume 3.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints. Series published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker based on other prints from the series., Plate numbered '23' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms:, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"Napoleon, John Bull (a 'cit'), a British general wearing a star, and the Duke of Portland sit in conference, each holding a large double paper covered with type or script. Napoleon sits on the left, pointing to the text of his paper and saying to his neighbour, "You see Mr Bull the case is simply this If you do so, I'll do so!" John, much disconcerted, stares at the Emperor, exclaiming "O! O!" The general also looks at Napoleon, perturbed. Portland (right), who sits in an armchair facing the Emperor, with frank dismay says: "If he says O! O! I'm afraid t'is but so! so!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sounding the opinions of John Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. March 1808 by Walker & C., No. 7 Cornhill", see no. 10971 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., "March 1808" written in brown ink in lower right, over the remnants of the burnished imprint statement. Formerly mounted on a blue sheet, remnants visible on back., and Watermark, partially trimmed: 1811.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, John Bull (Symbolic character), Generals, British, Sitting, and Meetings
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Coins -- Globes -- Chess boards -- Ladders -- Crowns -- Swords -- Military Uniforms., and Manuscript "59" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 4th, 1814 by H. Humphrey No. 27 St. James St.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, and Francesco I, King of the Two Sicilies, 1777-1830
"John Bull, an ungainly yokel, short and stout, stands between Melville (left) and Pitt (right). Melville, wearing Highland dress, sits full face, vomiting a shower of guineas (as in British Museum Satires Nos. 10392, 10400) into a tub. Pitt, rather behind and in profile to the right, rests his elbow on a table and supports his head; a similar tub is before him on the ground. On the table are two large books, 'Debates' and 'Interest Tables'. In the foreground lies a large tankard inscribed 'Whtbr[ead]'. John holds a decanter of 'Conscience Emetic'; he grins, saying, "It do work em rarely to be zure it be better zo than having a continual load on the Stomach tho!" Melville says: "Mercy on me now sick I am! curse this Whitbreads Porter oh Billy, Billy, how is it we you Mon I shall disgorge every thing to the last Baubee!" Pitt, who is desperately thin, looks far more ill and miserable but is not vomiting; he answers: "O Lord afraid I shall reach my heart up by and bye! I never was so sick in all my life.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bulls recipe
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- Emetics.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Rapine, Great Knaves Acre, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Vomiting, Coins, Sick persons, Books, Wash tubs, and Drinking vessels
"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.