"Townsend, the Bow Street Officer, stands in profile to the right, left hand on a tall stick, pointing with right forefinger. He is neatly dressed, with broad-brimmed top-hat, long coat over a long waistcoat, and short loose trousers, with high-quartered tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Townsend
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 3 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Townsend" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"Fox, as a quack doctor, addresses a mob from the front of a platform which rests upon five beer-barrels inscribed 'Whitbreads entire' (cf. BMSat 8638). Four other mountebanks are performing. Fox wears the full wig and old-fashioned laced coat and waistcoat of a doctor; he points to a young man (Bedford) behind him (left) who stands on his head, coins pouring from his pocket into a box. A Pierrot (Grey) stands behind the platform holding a trumpet and saying: "Turn me Grey Gemmen if I dont read you the particulars of his curing 30,000 Patients in one day; when Brother cit. has done tumbling". On a slack-rope stretching across the left part of the platform is little Lord Lauderdale, holding a balancing pole. He and Bedford are dressed as acrobats. On the right is the doctor's zany, Sheridan, wearing a fool's cap and a tunic and trousers dotted with representations of the Devil. He scatters, and kicks towards the spectators below him, a shower of paper scrolls inscribed: 'An Infaliable cure for a bad constitution'; 'Aether for Arguments'; 'Caustics for Crimps' [cf. BMSat 8484]; 'Mercury for Ministers'; 'Preparations against Prosecution'; 'Powder [cf. BMSat 8629] for Placemen' [twice]; 'Pain for the Poor' [cf. BMSat 8146]; 'A Rope for Reeves' [cf. BMSat 8699]; 'Gibets for Justices' [cf. BMSat 8686]; 'Aqua Regis for Royalists'. The crowd (right), who are three-quarter length, eagerly hold out their hands to catch the papers. Next the platform is a well-dressed man resembling Grafton. The man on the extreme right is a butcher wearing a bonnet-rouge. Fox says: "Dis is de first Tumbler in de Vorld Gemmen, dat is Citoyen de Bedforado, who vas stand so long upon his head dat all de money vas Tumble out of his pockets; de Next is Citoyen Van Lathertalo, who's trick upon de slack rope are delightfull it is expected he vil von Day dance on de Tight Rope ha ha!!" The men and women composing the crowd on the left all raise a hand in affirmation; all are shouting. A man dressed as a militiaman, standing prominently beside the platform, raises a hand from which two fingers are missing; he shouts "All. All." Perhaps Edward Hall, 'Liberty Hall'."--British Museum online catalogues
Alternative Title:
Palace yard pranks
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks' zanies -- Acrobats -- Pierrot -- Rope-walking -- Musical instruments: trumpet -- Reference to the meeting in Palace Yard, November 16, 1795 -- Bills: reference to Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices bills -- Fool's cap - Money: coins -- Allusion to Samuel Whitbread, 1764-1815., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P 1794 below., and Mounted on top and bottom to 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published No. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Medicine shows, Quacks & quackery, Politicians, Acrobats, Aerialists, Clowns, Money, Barrels, and Spectators
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Huge scroll representing the Whig amendment on the point of swallowing another smaller roll symbolizing the King's speech."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "77" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 77.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The King points at a Whig being taken away by a beefeater; the Duke of Wellington tries on the crown; a chancellor hides
Alternative Title:
Whigs turned out
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text below image in lower right: A national blessing - though, alas! a curse seems close behind., and No. 62.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
"Eight dissenting ministers, headed by Dr. Abraham-Rees, approach the King with an address whose inscription is the only title; it continues: 'in & about the Cities of London & Westmr We your Majesty s loyal and faithful...' Rees, a bulky 'Encyclopedia' in his coat-pocket, puts one foot on a step leading to a doorway within which are visible the legs of the seated King, and his right. hand, which rests on a wall-box from which issues a paper: 'Bramah Patent Water [C]losets'. Just outside the door, holding his long wand of office, Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain (actually Dartmouth, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10283A), stands stiffly looking over the heads of the Addressers, who are ushered in by a beef-eater on the extreme left. Rees is scarcely caricatured except for a grotesque stalk-like neck which issues absurdly from a wide coat-collar. Behind him is Theophilus Lindsey, holding his hat and a big umbrella. Most of the other six are probably portraits, but two may be generalized sectaries with lank hair. All have sour, apprehensive expressions. A quasi-Tudor window suggests St. James's Palace. A whole length portrait of Charles I is issuing from the frame, one hand held up in horror. Over the door of the inner closet are the Royal Arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life ...
Description:
Title etched on scroll in image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date from British Museum catalogue, which notes that this plate was not published., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life; And guard his court from these tormentors, fanatics, democrats, dissenters; Addressing knaves who sin and pray, and kiss like Judas to betray., and Mounted on page 109.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Honor guards, Windows, and Umbrellas
"Eight dissenting ministers, headed by Dr. Abraham-Rees, approach the King with an address whose inscription is the only title; it continues: 'in & about the Cities of London & Westmr We your Majesty s loyal and faithful...' Rees, a bulky 'Encyclopedia' in his coat-pocket, puts one foot on a step leading to a doorway within which are visible the legs of the seated King, and his right. hand, which rests on a wall-box from which issues a paper: 'Bramah Patent Water [C]losets'. Just outside the door, holding his long wand of office, Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain (actually Dartmouth, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10283A), stands stiffly looking over the heads of the Addressers, who are ushered in by a beef-eater on the extreme left. Rees is scarcely caricatured except for a grotesque stalk-like neck which issues absurdly from a wide coat-collar. Behind him is Theophilus Lindsey, holding his hat and a big umbrella. Most of the other six are probably portraits, but two may be generalized sectaries with lank hair. All have sour, apprehensive expressions. A quasi-Tudor window suggests St. James's Palace. A whole length portrait of Charles I is issuing from the frame, one hand held up in horror. Over the door of the inner closet are the Royal Arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life ...
Description:
Title etched on scroll in image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date from British Museum catalogue, which notes that this plate was not published., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life; And guard his court from these tormentors, fanatics, democrats, dissenters; Addressing knaves who sin and pray, and kiss like Judas to betray., 1 print : aquatint with etching on wove paper ; plate mark 34.6 x 40.5 cm, on sheet 38 x 41.2 cm., Contemporary pencil annotations in lower margin note that the plate was "unpublish'd" and that the subject matter deals with the "address on his Majesty's escape from assassination.", and Mounted on leaf 56 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Honor guards, Windows, and Umbrellas
Title and date from item., Published in Punch, or the London Charivari, 22 November 1879., Bradbury & Evans were publishers of Punch at the time, and were located in London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Bradbury & Evans
Subject (Name):
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 and St. Cyres, Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount, 1869-1926
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Economic conditions, Alchemy, Politicians, Chemicals, and Bellows
In the bottom row four bewigged judges, three of whom are asleep, are seated on the bench in Westminster Hall. In the top row are eight caricatured heads, two representing one of the judges below, the others, two versions of the lame man in Raphael's Sacrifice at Lystra (extreme left) and apostles in Leonardo's Last Supper. The lengthy text explaining the character, caracatura, and outrè etched on a second separate plate below image plate
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., Print made from two plates; image and text on separate plates., The judges were identified by Nichols (Biographical anecdotes) as William Noel, Sir John Willes, Henry, Earl Bathurst, and Sir Edward Clive. See British Museum online catalogue., On page 1 of volume 3. Sheet trimmed within plate mark: 305 x 209 mm. Only visible plate mark is the one between image and text., and With ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print lower right: Later.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Noel, William, 1695-1762, Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, and Clive, Edward, Sir, 1704-1771
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Caricatures, Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Sleeping, and Wigs
Plate 65. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the bottom row four bewigged judges, three of whom are asleep, are seated on the bench in Westminster Hall. In the top row are eight caricatured heads, two representing one of the judges below, the others, two versions of the lame man in Raphael's Sacrifice at Lystra (extreme left) and apostles in Leonardo's Last Supper. The lengthy text explaining the character, caracatura, and outrè etched on a second separate plate below plate with image begins: There are hardly any two things more essentially different than character and caracatura ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Print made from two plates; image and text on separate plates., State and publisher from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Only visible plate mark is between image and text., The judges were identified by Nichols (Biographical anecdotes) as William Noel, Sir John Willes, Henry, Earl Bathurst, and Sir Edward Clive. See British Museum online catalogue., On page 1 of volume 3., and With ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print lower right: 2nd state.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Noel, William, 1695-1762, Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, and Clive, Edward, Sir, 1704-1771
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Caricatures, Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Sleeping, and Wigs