Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy, without verse, of No. 3904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Scots., and Window mounted to 25 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Napoleon, scarcely caricatured, stands in the centre of the design, pointing with left forefinger to a pile of cannon-balls in the right foreground inscribed 'Forse, meat Balls for the Lads of Paris'. Just behind him, and emerging from clouds, stand the Devil (left) and Death (right), directing his actions. Napoleon is flanked by two much taller supporters: an Italian brigand holding up a pole inscribed 'Plunder' to which a limp purse is tied, and with a pistol in his left hand. On the right is a savage dishevelled butcher, holding up a knife, with a noose in the right hand. Both wear belted tunics. These three are identified by an inscription below the design: 'Capt of Starved Banditty from the Alps, Ad Camp,, The Aghast Emperor & his two Friends & Pillars of the State,, Butcher from Elba. Generalissimo'. All are dominated by a larger figure, emerging from clouds above Napoleon's head, which has a scaly body and streaming hair, styled 'Deamon of War Presideing over the Tyrant'. His extended right hand points to the words 'Boundless Ambition' in large letters on a background of fire and lightning of which he is the centre. In his left hand is the shaft of a pennant inscribed: 'We, Come, to Redres:s Grievances'. Dark clouds and lightning extend left and right over ranks of soldiers in the middle distance who watch Napoleon. Those on the right are a ragged, dilapidated, and motley crew, some with pitchforks; they shout "Vive la Empre . . . [sic]" and "Vive la Boun. . . ." Those on the left are perhaps intended for National Guards (cf. British Museum Satires No. 12531)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "351" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 64 in volume 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1767-1815
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Devil, Skeletons ., Death, Soldiers, Italian, and French
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below image: Moderation, moderation, wonderfull moderation ..., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: the Tower -- Yeomen of the Guard -- British Lion -- Animals: dogs -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Whips -- Laws: allusion to Habeas corpus -- Emblems: royal cipher., and Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
Title from item., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., Third state, with an addition of a gallows on far right. See British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from earlier states., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., "Price 6"., and Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Newspapers: Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.'
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Barbers, Engravers, Devil, Wigs, and Gallows
The central figure of this satire is Lord Bute who stands on a chest labeled "Treasure Box". He is surrounded by his supporters, including Hogarth, and other members of the administration, Smollett, Murphy, Bedford, Dashwood, Townshend, Talbot, Kirby, etc. A satire on Bute's administration and his handling of tax reform and peace with France
Alternative Title:
Set of blocks for Hogarth's wigs
Description:
Title engraved above image., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., First state, as described in British Museum catalogue: plate without additional text and before addition of gallows., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin ..., and "Price 6".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Barbers, Engravers, Devil, and Wigs
"Satire on George II's reluctance to accept an inter-party ("Broad-Bottom") government which included Tories suspected of Jacobite sympathies. The king, in the centre. leans across a table crying out, "Hounsfoot me no Stomach him!" as Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, and his brother Henry prepare to cram the Tory John Hinde Cotton into his mouth; Newcastle remarks, "His Bottom's dam'd Broad". Six other former opposition members hoping for office, including Lords Cobham (saying "I'll Protest no more") and Lyttelton ("You are right Cuz"),and William Pitt ("We drive a fine Trade"), lie on a shelf ready to be treated in the same way as Cotton, one of them saying, "Burn the Yellow List." The kings breeches are lowered and he is evacuating Lord Hobart. Others who have presumably emerged in the same manner leave the scene to left complaining that they have been turned out of office. They include Sir John Rushout saying, "Rusht-out with a Fizzle", and, kneeling in the foreground, Lord Winchelsea who has dropped his spectacles, complaining, "Bes[hi]t without a Job". In the foreground to right, stand two other gentlemen address the oppositiion members, one saying "Consider Your Oaths", and the other, holding a large key, "Remember The Healths"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above image., Printmaker George Bickham the Younger and publication date 1744 from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 34 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Buckinghamshire, John Hobart, Earl of, 1693-1756, Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Rushout, John, Sir, 1684-1775, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
Subject (Topic):
Broad-bottom, Politics and government, Defecation, and Politicians
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines below image: They go from the devil to Court, and from the Court to the devil again., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Demons -- Female dress: petticoat -- Allusion to the Princess of Wales -- Games: soap bubbles -- Litearture: quotation from Jonathan Swift., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Caricature of Alderman Wood with the body of an owl, his head nearly in profile to the right
Alternative Title:
Queen's owl
Description:
Title etched below image., Statement of responsibility etched in lower right corner of image., Date inferred from timing of Wood's service as advisor to Queen Caroline, which began upon the Queen's return to England in 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., For a copy of this design, published 23 October 1820 by S.W. Fores with the title "An emblem of wisdom made of wood", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.97., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 26 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Richard Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
"A ship, apparently bearing 'Aeneas' (George II) is tossed on a stormy sea. On the shore at right, 'Dido' (the figure of Britannia), points and smiles, above the inscription, "She, while [the] outragious winds [the] deep deform, Smiles on [the] tumult, & enjoys [the] storm". In the sea Neptune near the shore looks at the ship in displeasure. Above in the sky are three Winds, as three young boys, one blowing, one farting, the last kicking a hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now thought to be by Van der Gucht. See British Museum online catalogue., Questionable attribution in Paulson's 2nd edition., Lettered below image: Tanta haec mulier potuit suadere malorum., Latin motto below image translated: So much evil can a woman induce., Verse etched in lower right of image: She, while [the] outragious winds [the] deep deform, Smiles on [the] tumult, & enjoys [the] storm., Also a note in Steevens's hand discussing the three prints on this page pasted down at top of page., and On page 89 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Dido,, Aeneas (Legendary character),, and Neptune (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Sailing ships, and British