"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated waist (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7352). He places one toe on the body of a fish-woman who lies on her back, her legs much exposed. His outstretched right leg is poised above a crouching woman who tries to protect her barrow of vegetables. Two men holding muskets precede the officer; one tramples on the face of an infant. The officer is followed by a man carrying a pike, behind whom march six soldiers in double file carrying muskets with fixed bayonets. All march ruthlessly, eyes front, regardless of the havoc they are causing. A porter lies on the ground clutching a broken wooden case faintly inscribed 'Mr . . . Silversmith'; from it pour plate and jewels. The porter's knee is badly damaged, and his knot has been knocked from his shoulders. A milliner or courtesan lies on her back clutching the hair of a barber who clasps her leg. On the extreme right a prostrate woman tries to protect her infant, and a newsboy with his horn and a sheaf of the 'Morning Herald' tries to escape from the trampling soldiers. Other victims between the soldiers and the wall are a woman with a crutch, a shoeblack, a man with a tray of rolls. A pair of beseeching hands and two female legs (right) waving in the air add to the turmoil, which is accentuated by the writhing forms of the fish which fall from the fishwoman's basket. The background is formed by the wall of a stone building with two elaborately barred niches, and by the window of a silversmith's shop (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Abuses: military marches, 1787 -- Newspapers: Morning Herald -- Architectural details: barred niches -- Trampled victims -- Guns: muskets with fixed bayonets -- Protection of the Bank, 1787 -- Military march, double file -- Children: abused infant -- Shops: exterior of a silversmith shop -- Silversmith's box -- Vegetable sellers -- Fishwomen -- Allusion to the Strand -- Allusion to Cheapside -- Allusion to Fleet Street -- Porter's knot -- Newsboys -- Milliners., and Watermark: Hall & [...]plin 1804 on the right side of sheet; Strasburg bend on the left.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. The civilian gentleman have walking sticks tucked under their arms, and one carries a quizzing glass. The short, stout lady wears a large hooded cloak and carries a large umbrella
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "1" in upper left corner., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1779, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
"Two tiers of single English figures expressing appropriate opinions about the coronation of Napoleon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in dealer's description. Questionably attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.188., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image in lower right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 16th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, British, Public opinion, Soldiers, French, Sailors, and British
Political satire on the British military action in Spain during the Peninsular War: Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley expresses surprise to an overweight soldier, sweating after fleeing from the French, that is was able to re-join the rest of the army
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably etched by William Heath. See British Museum satire 11361 for similarity of style., Lettered with imprint and series statement in additon to speech balloons., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark: [illegible].
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr., 1810 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Obesity, Soldiers, and British
Title from text above images., Eight designs on one plate, each individually titled below., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Ten hand-colored engravings, depicting scenes from the Battle of Seringapatnam, form the border of a writing sheet, one each along the upper and lower edges and four on either side. Illustrations include, at the top, a battle scene; portraits of the British generals, Harris and Stuart; Tippoo Saib discovered among the slain, Tippoo's sons surrender; A sepoy upon a charge, An Indian soldier; Tippoo Sultan, Tippoo Sultan's wife; a design with flags, drums, cannons, swords and bugles. The battle scene and the image with the two sons include images of elephants
Alternative Title:
Conquest of Seringapatnam
Description:
Title from head of sheet., Numbered '65.' in lower right corner., With blank center of sheet filled in manuscript in black ink with an adage and a poem and signed: John Halton June 12th, Prescot School, 1801., and With watermark and countermark.
Publisher:
Published 18th Novr. 1799 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
India, India., Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa., and Indian
Subject (Name):
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799, and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
"British troops are about to march through a large fortified gate leading from open country (left) to the town of Buenos Ayres, where confused street-fighting is in progress. Can are fired from the battlements of the gate at the soldiers, some of whom lie dead or wounded. In the foreground an officer (mounted), in conversation with others, asks: "where is the General"; others say: "go look for the General"; "Find the General"; "why the General is lost". A Highland officer, taking snuff (right), slyly; "I dare say he is varra safe." From the country (left) three mounted men gallop, all saying, "I come for Orders". In the background Whitelocke's head and shoulders are seen peeping over a hillock on the extreme left. He says: "He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day, But he thats in the Battle slain, Will never live to fight again". In the distance, behind him, are tiny (British) soldiers in close formation. In the city men are firing and hurling stones from the roofs of flat-roofed houses on British soldiers in the plaza. On the wall (right) is a placard: 'Lost, or Mis-led a General officer Who ever can [give] Information ... ampl[y] rewarded.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of courage
Description:
Title etched below image., "G. Whiteliver" is a pseudonym. Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7629., Variously attributed to either Isaac or George Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue., Title is a direct reference to an Isaac Cruikshank print, published by S.W. Fores in 1790, entitled "Symptoms of courage, or, The tables turned." Cf. No. 7667 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., and Penciled note in an unidentified hand: relates to Genl. Whitelock's conduct at Buenos Ayres, S. America.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Argentina and Buenos Aires.
Subject (Name):
Whitelocke, John,
Subject (Topic):
History, Campaigns & battles, Soldiers, British, Military officers, Scottish, Ethnic stereotypes, Gates, and Signs (Notices)
"A very fat and jovial volunteer, dressed as a light horseman, holds ln his left hand a pole on which is the head of Napoleon in profile to the right. and wearing a huge cocked hat decorated with plumes, tricolour cockade, gold lace, and tassels. The hand that holds the pole holds also, by the hair, a bunch of bleeding heads which form a grisly garland round it. In his right hand is his sabre. He is surrounded by women; two embrace him, others hasten up; he swaggers with raised left leg, saying, "There you rouges, there! there's the Boney Part - twenty more killed them!! twenty more killed them too!! I have destroyed half the Army with this same Toledo." The women say, respectively: "Bless the Warrior that saved our Virgin charms"; "take care I'll smother him with Kisses"; "Oh! what frightful Heads how ravishing they look, - they would have used us ill I am sure"; "ha ha, thats, that great man little Boney, how glum he looks." An elderly spinster exclaims: "ah bless him he has saved us from Death and Vileation." A handsome woman turns to a tall young man in civilian dress on the extreme left, saying, "There you Poltroon look how that noble Hero's Caressed!" He turns away, saying, "Ods Niggins I wish I had been a Soldier too then the Girls would have run after me - but I never could bear the smell of Gun powder"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hero's reward
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Preceding imprint are the words "Pubd. July", which have been mostly obscured with shading., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Text following title: None but the brave dsere [sic] the fair., Text within bottom part of image, above imprint: The Yeomanry Cavalry's first essay., and Watermark: Slade 1802.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Obesity, Daggers & swords, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and Women
"Pitt dressed as a volunteer officer, drills Fox and Sheridan, who stand at attention, holding muskets. Pitt, in back view, turns his head to Fox (1.) and points with his sabre, held horizontally, to Sheridan (r.). Fox stands correctly, Sheridan raises his right. arm above his head and grins broadly. Pitt says: "Keep your Eye upon the Corporal Mr Honesty and when I have drilled you to my likeing perhaps I may take you under my command Mr Honesty". Fox says: "I do I do great Colonel I shall mind my Manoeuvres Great Colonel." The scene is the open country."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Gog & Magog are pseudonyms for printmaker Charles Williams., Place of publication based upon cataloger's conjecture., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 21st., 1803 by C. Knight Lambeth
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816