A night scene under the Piazza of Covent Garden, the center of which is seen through the arch of the arcade. A couple hurry arm-in-arm through a doorway (right) over which is Haddocks (a bagnio). The woman is the Duchess of Devonshire, shown with a bare breast and holding a lantern. She tells the prim young man "Vote for whom you please but kiss before you poll." He answers, "Tis too much neighbor! I could not go through with it." On the left behind the couple is Mrs. Hobart who holds her lantern to see an old Chelsea pensioner and a negro supported on stumps and crutches. She says to them, "D-m the Duchess, she got all the young voters."
Alternative Title:
Dark lantern business, or, Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend and Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 24th, 1784, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Lanterns, Lighting, People with disabilities, Political elections, and Prostitutes
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of Doctor Botherum may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack-doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse below image, six on either side of title: High o'er the gaping crowd, on market day, while Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks -- Tooth Extraction -- Dr. Bossey., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 373 x 433 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
"Companion print to BMSat 9678. Four pretty young women are in different stages of dress; a fat woman dressed as (?) a nun, holding a bottle and glass, resembles a bawd. One (left) is having her lank hair combed by a hair-dresser. One, completely dressed, stands in a chair to see her reflection in the small mirror held by a squalid and elderly woman. She wears a quasi-oriental high-crowned turban with floating draperies; one breast is bare; she holds a mask. A young woman wearing a huge cocked hat, shirt, and breeches, puts on a stocking, her foot supported on an overturned chair. The fourth, wearing mask and large feathered hat, adjusts a 'derrière' over her petticoat, standing before a dressing-table and mirror. On the floor are a make-up box, mask, bandbox, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Companion print to: Dressing for a birthday., Temporary local subject terms: Hairdressing implements -- Mirrors -- Courtesans -- Hairdressers -- Masks -- Female costume: Masquerade -- Derrières -- Hats: Feathered turban -- Make-up boxes -- Masquerade headdress., and Watermark: 1794.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two Thames watermen pull a pair-oar wherry towards riverside stairs, much amused at the effects of the wind on a fat 'cit' and a pretty young woman whom he is leading out of the boat. His hat and wig blow off, as does her hat, while her parasol is blown inside out. Other fat and elderly grotesques on the stairs (right) chase hats and wigs. Two comely young women sit in the stern (left). The houses by the stairs are ancient and small. The river is wide; on the opposite side (left) are buildings closely grouped round a large church, and suggesting Southwark."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Scudding under bare poles
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate., Publisher and date of publication from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. May 10th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11620 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., 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 to plate mark., Design was previously etched in nearly identical form on a different plate. For this earlier version published 10 April 1810 by Thomas Tegg, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 186., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 1 in volume 1.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two Thames watermen pull a pair-oar wherry towards riverside stairs, much amused at the effects of the wind on a fat 'cit' and a pretty young woman whom he is leading out of the boat. His hat and wig blow off, as does her hat, while her parasol is blown inside out. Other fat and elderly grotesques on the stairs (right) chase hats and wigs. Two comely young women sit in the stern (left). The houses by the stairs are ancient and small. The river is wide; on the opposite side (left) are buildings closely grouped round a large church, and suggesting Southwark."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Scudding under bare poles
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate., Publisher and date of publication from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. May 10th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11620 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., 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 to plate mark., Design was previously etched in nearly identical form on a different plate. For this earlier version published 10 April 1810 by Thomas Tegg, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 186., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from Grego., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?], [1836?], p. 67., A reduced copy of no. 4185 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Bills of exchange., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet., Watermark, partially trimmed., Window mounted to 22 x 27 cm., and Shading added in pencil to lower portion of design.
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from statement of responsibility., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title and imprint from an impression in the Woodward Collection of Prints and Drawings, Derbyshire Record Office and Derbyshire Diocesan Record Office, record no. D5459/2/23/16., Publication date from watermark: 1824., Attributed to Woodward and Rowlandson on verso., "No. 19.", Three vertical strips in between borders. First image on top left: a Lilliputian man admires through a quizzing glass a Lilliputian woman who discloses her makeup secrets., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, statement of responsibility and imprint., and Watermark: J Whatman 1824.
Three vertical strips in between borders. First image on top left: two Lilliputian figures of sportsmen (jockeys?) riding from left to right, one of them saying, The sports are begun
Alternative Title:
Grotesque borders for rooms and screens
Description:
Title etched vertically in left margin., Number "5" in "Plate 5" etched backwards., "No. 5."--Upper left corner., Imperfect, sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, statement of responsibility and imprint. Missing text from Woodward Collection of Prints and Drawings, record no. D5459/2/23/2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1810.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 30th, 1799, at R. Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand, London