"Mrs. Billington, enormously fat, sits in an arm-chair, her arms flung over its arms, opening her mouth for a spoonful of guineas, administered by W. T. Lewis (right), who bends over her. On her other side stands Sheridan, round-shouldered, stooping, and agitated. He holds out a money-bag, saying, "O Dear O Dear - if the dear Creature has lost her Notes - what will become of us - my dear friend spare no Cost to make up the deficiency, give her another spoonfull, I have plenty more in the bag - all the true Pizarro-coinage." Lewis, smiling, answers: "Dont be alarmed she takes the Boluses very kindly - and I have every reason to hope a speedy recovery." Mrs. Billington is dressed as Clara, in quasi-Spanish costume, almost as in British Museum Satires No. 9914; a checked scarf lies across her lap. On the right are two amoretti; one stands looking up at the other, who flies above his head holding out a scroll; both hold handkerchiefs to their eyes; the one below has butterfly wings and a wreath of roses, the other has feathered wings. The scroll: 'Mourn Cherubims and Seraphims Clara's Notes are Stopp'd - Copy of a Letter - Dear Sir, It grieves me to the heart that I am not able to play this evening - my Throat being so closed as not to leave me a single Note in my Voice" [see British Museum Satires No. 9970]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair -- Money: Guineas -- Medical Procedures: administering medicine -- Literature Allusion: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1756-1816, 'The Duenna'., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.9 x 35.6 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 38.3 cm., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 436 (leaf numbered '50' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 16th, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Opera singers, Chairs, Coins, Physicians, and Putti
"Mrs. Clarke (left) stands on one of a pair of scales which is held down by Wardle and almost rests on the ground, while three lawyers in wigs and gowns (evidently Sir W. Grant, Gibbs, and Plomer) stand on the other (right) which General Clavering tries desperately to pull down. The beam is inscribed England expects every Man to do his Duty, and is supported on a mitre (see British Museum Satires No. 11227) worn by the Duke of York, who stands on William Adam's back, which is inscribed Rock of Adam ant. Adam, who lies prone, puffs a blast inscribed Gratuisously [sic] against Mrs. Clarke. Under his hand is an Anonymous Letter. Wardle, in civilian dress, holds out towards the Duke a paper headed [Ch]arges. Perceval, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans towards the right scale, holding out two papers: 199 Majority and 82 Majority, another, 241 Majority, lies on the scale. Where this scale is attached to the beam there is a purse labelled Light Crown Pieces. The Duke wears regimentals with gorget and star, and holds a paper: the Honor of a . . . [Prince]. He holds his drawn sword across Perceval, as if protecting him. Clavering sits on the ground, straining at the ropes. He sits on a paper inscribed [G]enl Claver[ing], and has a paper: Prevaricating Evidence [see British Museum Satires No. 11247]. Beside him is a fragment of paper inscribed Sic donec. Beside the principal performers, and between Mrs. Clarke and the Duke, stands John Bull, a short fat 'cit', holding a large weight inscribed Vox Populi --Sterling. He says: If I dont throw in my weight, our dearest sweetest Love will get the worst of it after all. (Her scale, however, rests on the ground with Wardle's help only.) She turns to him, saying, O Mr Bull! Pray give a pull! At her feet are Letters [see British Museum Satires No. 11228, &c.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, Grant, William, Sir, 1752-1832, Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820, Plumer, Thomas, Sir, 1753-1824, Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, Adam, William, 1751-1839, and Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Mistresses, Lawyers, Miters, and Scales
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1795., Plate is 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 is numbered in lower left corner: No. 1 pl. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: undertakers' hat .
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., Place and date of publication extrapolated from other prints in the series., Reduced copy. Cf. no 9593, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for original., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved song. Two sailors stand in a man-of-war; hammocks are slung from the roof, guns project from port-holes. One (left) is wrapped in a sheet over his sailor's dress. The other relates how he shot Tom Tack who 'com'd from Boney-Ayrs', in a quarrel over Polly of Spithead. Tom visited him wrapped in a sheet, but is threatened with a rope's end. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue., Forty lines of verse below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married; at first she was most cruel kind, but she prov'd false as you shall find ..., Plate numbered "38" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved song. Two sailors stand in a man-of-war; hammocks are slung from the roof, guns project from port-holes. One (left) is wrapped in a sheet over his sailor's dress. The other relates how he shot Tom Tack who 'com'd from Boney-Ayrs', in a quarrel over Polly of Spithead. Tom visited him wrapped in a sheet, but is threatened with a rope's end. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue., Forty lines of verse below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married; at first she was most cruel kind, but she prov'd false as you shall find ..., Plate numbered "38" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 71 in volume 1.
Leaf 46. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two Thames watermen stand on the river bank gaping at the explosion of a steam packet-boat, whose stern is inscribed 'For Richmond'. Wreckage flies into the air carrying with it a number of passengers, men and women, who are flung about in a dense cloud of steam high above the boat. A lady falls near an elegant wooden seat, a boy sits astride a funnel. Against the bank lies the watermen's wherry, the carved back behind the cushioned seat is inscribed: 'The Swiftsure T. Tugg Lambeth'. One says: "My Eye Ned there they go!!" The other: "Aye and a going rather out of the Road! d--ce they are got into Ayrshire insead [sic] of Surry!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Travelling by steam
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 12920 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published in 1817; see British Museum catalogue., and On leaf 46 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
"A pretty and elegant young woman kneels on a bed supporting her elbows on the pillow. A woman stands beside her raising the girl's skirt in order to birch her, but finds her posterior covered by a life-sized mask which is a close portrait of herself. She says: "Oh ma foi! dot is mine own Head in t'oder place.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Governess outwitted
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A close copy in reverse of print published by Holland in 1799: The governess delineated, or, A pretty face spoiled. Note from Andrew Edmunds April 2019., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on brown paper backing to 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1817 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Governesses, Child discipline, Beds, Masks, and Young adults
"A tall barrister in wig and gown looks down with angry contempt at a much smaller one (r.). He says: "you pretend to talk of Law - you little Puppy for six and eightpence I'd take you by the collar and put you in my Pocket." The other answers: "Would you you Jackanapes - then you 'd have more Law in your Pockett than ever you had in the whole course of your Practice."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., 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., and Plate numbered '22' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Parasol -- Jean de Bry Sleeves -- Bicorne hat.