A series of six cartoons, with text parodying "The House that Jack Built", satirizing the scandal surrounding Mary Anne Clarke, former mistress of Frederick, duke of York, and her attempt to publish his love letters. In this print, the second in the series, Sir Francis Burnett, the Reverend O'Meara, William Dowler a witness in the trial, and the printer are all represented; the two other scenes depict the published volumes on the one hand and the destruction of the volumes in a fire
Description:
Title from from first of six boxed caricatures; series title from lower margin., Possibly by Rowlandson., Second of two plates., Numbered '89' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 28 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1809 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, Radnor, William Pleydell-Bouverie, Earl of, 1779-1869, O'Meara, Reverend, fl. 1809, and Dowler, William.
"Wardle stands in a bedroom addressing a crowd in the street below through an open sash-window flush with the floor. Behind him stands Mrs. Clarke (left), with arms outstretched, pointing at Wardle, and declaiming: "And Clarke said unto Felix. Thou art the Man- behold the Furniture! and Felix Trembled". Wardle, fashionably dressed and wearing Hessian boots, stands with clasped hands and flexed knees. He says: "Good People of the United Kingdom suspend your judgement for the present till I get this woman placed in the pillory-I never did any thing naughty with her no more than the child unborn-it was all for the good of my Country I assure you I am as firm a patriot as ever purchased a convex Mirror, or a red turkey Carpet". The heads and shoulders of the proletarian and much amused spectators are closely grouped on the extreme right, with a background of town houses. Behind Mrs. Clarke is a draped dressing-table on which stands a bottle of 'Ratifie' and glasses. The curtains of the bed form a background (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fresh accusations
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified by George., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides., Plate numbered "96" in upper left corner., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852 and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833
"Above, Mrs. Clarke stands on a round dais, under a canopy, receiving her clients. These are headed by six military officers; the foremost makes a sweeping bow, cocked hat in hand. Next is a fat parson holding a money-bag inscribed 800; behind is an obese doctor, with three other elderly men. She says to them: Ye Captains and ye Colonels-ye parsons wanting place, Advice I'll give ye gratis and think upon your case, If there is possibility, for you I'll raise the dust, But then you must excuse me-if I serve myself the first. Below, Mrs. Clarke, much décolletée, looks from an open ground-floor window of a London house, to see a fashionably dressed man, Taylor, walking towards her holding a sealed packet. He looks over his shoulder at a yokel with a cudgel, who asks: I say Measter Shoe-maker where be you going in such a woundy hurry? Taylor answers: Dont speak to me fellow you should never pry into State affairs. Mrs. Clarke says: Open the door John here comes the Ambassador Now for the dear delightful Answer. Behind the yokel, evidently John Bull, is his dog. On the right is a house with a door-plate inscribed Mrs Weston."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Clarkes levee
Description:
Title of top design from text above image; title of bottom design from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 44 x 29 cm., and Watermark: E & P.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Mrs. Clarke (left), more of a siren than in authentic portraits, sits indecorously on a sofa, while the Duke, with eyes tipsily closed, reclines against her, seated on the floor. She holds scissors and the Duke's long pigtail, which she has cut off and displays to two men who approach from the r., a military officer, probably Wardle, who puts his finger slyly to his nose, and a good-looking young civilian (? Folkestone). She says: "Gentlemen you may now take him with safety, his strength is gone, I have cut off his regulation tail, and there is no danger"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on one side., Variant state missing series number of no. 11262 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 19 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Radnor, William Pleydell-Bouverie, Earl of, 1779-1869, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Tail piece to volume 3 of Tegg's Caricature Magazine, the title 'Tail Piece to Volume Three' inscribed on a theatrical drop curtain, pinioned at centre by a wig, above the scene. Street scene showing Tegg's printshop, the 'Apollo Library' at 111 Cheapside, at left, signs above its windows reading 'Libraries purchased or exchanged.', 'The largest assortment of caricatures in the world.'; a crowd looking at the printshop windows, which show various prints and advertisements: 'Spirit of fresh wit / Spirit of English wit / Marmion travestee / The whale / An auction at eight precisely / Caricature Magazine Vol 4'. In the doorway, Tegg is just visible firing a large gun to right, bringing a winged man with a fool's cap tumbling out of the sky; below four demons, the 'genii of caricature', hold out a long net filled with papers, one saying, 'Thats right Master Tegg - fire away - you will always find plenty of game - we have got a precious hawl here for the supply of the shop'; the papers are inscribed with the subjects of satirical prints: 'Portraits / Bon mots / G[...] / The day / Mrs clarke / Oddities / The times / Mirth and jollity / Whim / Manners / Investigation / Jokes / Fashion / Crim con'. Many figures strolling on the other side of the street at right, Bow Church at the corner opposite."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to volume three and Genii of caricature bringing in fresh supplies
Description:
Title from text in top part of design., Text in bottom right portion of design: The genii of caricature bringing in fresh supplies., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1992,0516.63., Two lines of quoted text, from Alexander Pope's An essay on man, below image: "Eye natures walks, shoot folly as it flies, "and catch the manners living as they rise. Pope., Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner., Tailpiece to: 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., Watermark: C Wilmott., and Countermark: 1819.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Tail piece to volume 3 of Tegg's Caricature Magazine, the title 'Tail Piece to Volume Three' inscribed on a theatrical drop curtain, pinioned at centre by a wig, above the scene. Street scene showing Tegg's printshop, the 'Apollo Library' at 111 Cheapside, at left, signs above its windows reading 'Libraries purchased or exchanged.', 'The largest assortment of caricatures in the world.'; a crowd looking at the printshop windows, which show various prints and advertisements: 'Spirit of fresh wit / Spirit of English wit / Marmion travestee / The whale / An auction at eight precisely / Caricature Magazine Vol 4'. In the doorway, Tegg is just visible firing a large gun to right, bringing a winged man with a fool's cap tumbling out of the sky; below four demons, the 'genii of caricature', hold out a long net filled with papers, one saying, 'Thats right Master Tegg - fire away - you will always find plenty of game - we have got a precious hawl here for the supply of the shop'; the papers are inscribed with the subjects of satirical prints: 'Portraits / Bon mots / G[...] / The day / Mrs clarke / Oddities / The times / Mirth and jollity / Whim / Manners / Investigation / Jokes / Fashion / Crim con'. Many figures strolling on the other side of the street at right, Bow Church at the corner opposite."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tailpiece to volume three and Genii of caricature bringing in fresh supplies
Description:
Title from text in top part of design., Text in bottom right portion of design: The genii of caricature bringing in fresh supplies., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1992,0516.63., Two lines of quoted text, from Alexander Pope's An essay on man, below image: "Eye natures walks, shoot folly as it flies, "and catch the manners living as they rise. Pope., Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner., Tailpiece to: 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., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 34.6 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: Basted Mill., Mounted on laid paper backing., and Leaf 99 in volume 3.
"Mrs. Clarke, in profile to the right, runs with extended arms towards a Quaker, saying, "Stop my Darling and go along with me". She is a siren, not resembling Mrs. Clarke (see No. 11216, &c). The Quaker walks stiffly from her, clasping his gloves to his breast; he says: "Woman avaunt, I am not to be tempted, and be it known also I am a married man, therefore what little business I do in thy way it is not worth dividing"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread marings on two sides., Plate marked "83" in upper left corner., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 24th, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
"The Duke of York (right), blowing a horn, sits in the boot of a coach driven by a lawyer, probably William Adam (left), who says: I thought we should bring him through. On the roof is a bush supporting a placard: Acquitted Glorious Majority of 82. Inside the coach are three lawyers, as in British Museum Satires No. 11269, who are not characterized. The coach is surrounded by a cheering mob. Mrs. Clarke, a termagant with streaming hair, holds up clenched fists towards the Duke. Next her is a fat parson, who says: I always said he was Innocent. A man shouts Huzza Glorias News for Old England. Next him is a bearded Jew in a long gown with a sack on his shoulder inscribed Left of Regimentals. A man shouts: That's right-go it my Darling [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11228]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumph of innocence
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Variant state lacking series number in upper left corner. Cf. No. 11274 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Mounted to 30 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 30th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852, and Adam, William, 1751-1839
"The Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke in bed; his arm is round her neck, and he gazes at her, saying, "Ask any thing in reason and you shall have it my dearest dearest dearest Love". She answers: "Only remember the promotions I mentioned I have pinn'd up the list at the head of the Bed". Above their heads: 'List for Promotion-a Bishoprick for Dr O Leary, a Commissariat for Dicky Dowlas-A Generalship-Cl Clackwrng-A Majority-[?] 2d Lieutenant for my Foute Boy' [see British Museum Satires No. 11223]. At the foot of the bed are two chairs, one (left) a commode, on which is a large mitre, with a crosier behind it, on the other (right) are the Duke's breeches."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., A possible earlier state lacking series number. Cf. No. 11227 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on one side., and Mounted to 42 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 26, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852