"The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man (l.), pen in hand, crouches in a ranting attitude, addressing an elderly man in old-fashioned dress, who gapes at him in dismay. On the r. a burly maidservant holds a pail of water, prepared to fling its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from the extreme right. The room contains a sloping desk, stool, shelves with papers, large volumes, and a box inscribed '9 to 12'. On the wall is a large calendar: 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Below the design: 'Dramatic Phrensy, to no place confind At freedom roves, and occupies the Mind, The Lawyers Clerk, Old Square-toes will to cross, Who spouts Lothario when he should engross All on a sudden from his writing stoops, My fierce ambitious soul declining droops His simple Master by - cries "whats the matter? Tom's in a fit here - Betty bring some water!' (Tom quotes the dying Lothario in Rowe's 'Fair Penitent', iv. I.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., No. 5 of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Ink well -- Lawyer -- Calendar., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
"scene in a coffee-house or tavern, the tables (l.) separated by the high backs of benches topped by short curtains, leaving a wide floor-space (r.). A young man, fashionably dressed, postures as if terror-struck before two astonished waiters (r.); a broken decanter and spilt wine lie at his feet; the foremost waiter points to the mess. The second waiter holds a punch-bowl. A man seated at the nearest table watches in quizzical amusement. An ornate wall-mirror reflects a lighted candelabra. Below the design:'Like dire Macbeth, - with sudden glare and start, Young Vapid studious o'er the Tyrants part, Like a stuck pig he stares - and trembling stands, Down falls the glass and bottle from his hands, Th' affrighted Waiter saw his tackle broke, While thus his attitude - and thus he spoke "Thou canst not say I did it bloody Banquo? Yes cried the Waiter "by my soul I can though.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue, Number 2 in a series of six plates: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Like dire Macbeth, -with sudden glare and start, young vapid studious o'er the tyrants part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Punch Bowl -- Candelabra., and Watermark: Russel & Co. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer's wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant field."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox and Dandified coxcomb in a bandbox
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Clergy, England, Obesity, Boxes, Farms, Donkeys, Roosters, and Pitchforks
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissued at later date. Cf. no. 11148, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description lacking date in imprint statement., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octobr. 1st, 1807 by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly lawyer (left) reads a will to the legatees, who are grouped round a table: a young couple looking slyly at each other, a fat and startled butcher, a drunken dishevelled butler, an elderly doctor smelling his cane, a would-be fashionable in a wrinkled Jean-de-Bry coat (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9425) and tasselled Hessians. The lawyer reads: "The Genuine Will of Timothy Whimsey Esqr of Whimsey Hall--I give and bequeath to my young Wife the bulk of my Fortune for the trouble she has had with me, and to my secretary Tom Cunningham I bequeath the said Wife . . . as by amourous glances, I have at different times noticed, I think there will be no objection on either side--To my old Friend Briskett the Butcher, I leave him a small portion of common honesty and advise him to cut his steaks thicker in future--To Timothy my Butler, I leave sixty pounds per Annum for his extreme Sobriety!!!--to Doctor Bolus I leave all the pill boxes--phials--potions--lotions &c &c &c accumulated at different periods, and deposited in my corner cupboard--and lastly I leave my Nephew Tim Dash--a small portion of advice viz--not to act and dress so like a puppy in future!!!" The butler says: "Very sensible in respect to the Butler", the nephew: "What a Quiz I'll report him at Brooks's"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; plate number has been added and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. Octobr. 1st, 1807, by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 07.10.01.03.1+., Plate numbered "280" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shillg. colored."--Within lower left portion of design., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 57 in volume 4.
Title from caption below image., Series no. '4' etched backwards., Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 14591 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Plate numbered "Pl. 4" in upper right corner.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '32' in upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Burkes' Justice -- Begging.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decmr. 1st, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker questionably identified as Charles Williams in local card catalog record., Later state; former plate number "32" has been removed from upper left corner and a new plate number has been added in upper right, and first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. Decmr. 1st, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.12.01.01.1+., Plate numbered "142" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 3 in volume 3.
"George IV, crowned, and with orb and sceptre, sits on a coronation chair in Westminster Abbey (right). The Archbishop, well characterized, stands beside him, holding his mitre, his right hand on the chair. On the King's right hand stands Londonderry (Castlereagh) in Garter robes; other peers stand behind him. All watch the antics of Canning, dressed in parti-coloured clothes as a merry-andrew or buffoon. He kneels on the dais at the King's feet, arms flung wide; at his feet is a high-crowned hat with a peacock's feather; on the back of his tunic are the letters M P and P C. He declaims: The delight of the Nation at the Celebration of your Majesty's Coronation, the Exultation throughout the Creation exceeds all Imagination. the Expectation to which the Anticipation of this Consumation has given occasion is beyond Contemplation; we offer the Oblation of our Congratulation, without Hesitation or Trepidation; no Tribulation can effect a Cessation of the Sensation which pervades every Station; no Situation in whatever Deprivation will utter an Execration for the Association are in Preparation to effect an Extirpation of all Defamation. We hope the Expectation of a Decollation will produce Annihilation of all Deviation from strict Regulation; we submit to Subjugation without Hesitation, and we offer our Oration with gratefull Adoration upon this Jollification. The King composedly touches (or kicks) Canning's chin with his toe. Peeresses stand in a gallery across the north transept, holding their coronets. Above them is a second and more crowded gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation, Coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation, and Coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation
Description:
Title etched below image; the name "George" is scored through and replaced by "Jack" written above., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., The identification of the jester as Canning is wrong. The jester has been identified as Admiral Sir Edmund Burke Nagle., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1821 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Nagle, Edmund, Sir, 1757-1830