"Lord Grantham, in military uniform, wielding the club of Hercules, inscribed 'L G his cane', stands with legs astride, threatening Wooler (left), a tiny 'Black Dwarf, as in British Museum Satires No. 12892, who registers extreme rage or terror. Grantham has enormous moustaches, which fly upwards on each side of his head. A lion's skin hangs from his shoulders, with a solid head which snarls savagely. He wears a bell-shaped shako, long tight trousers strapped under boots, and immense spurs. His left arm, terminating in a huge fist, is extended horizontally. On the left a knock-kneed yokel with bristling moustaches and wearing the cap of a Death's Head hussar, grins in oafish delight, saying, "Well done Col.! well done our side!!! my Zoul! what Honnor this will bring upon our Corpse!!! and if any more Dwarfs or Devils attack's our Regemunt Lord Grant'them all the zame fate, I zay!!" Wooler stands among piles of his paper, 'Black Dwarf', some of which have various inscriptions: 'Strictures on the York Hussars'; 'York you are not wanted'; 'The Devil to Pay'; 'a Lame Story to the Yellow Bonze at Japan'; 'universal Suffrage'; and (adapting 'As You Like It'), 'Then a Soldier, full of Strong Oaths & bearded like the Pard Jealous in Honor Sudden & quick in quarrel seeking the bubble Reputation Ev'n in the printing office'. He wears an ink-pot for hat, with three large pen-feathers; at his waist is a tricolour cockade. On the wall behind him is a framed picture of 'The Yellow Bonze', a grotesque imp, squatting with outspread fingers, and registering surprise. Below is a broadside headed by figures hanging from a gallows."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord G- & the printers devil and Lord Grantham & the printers devil
Description:
Title etched below image., "Lord Grantham" written in ink by a contemporary hand., and Mounted to: 22 x 26.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859 and Wooler, T. J. 1786?-1853 (Thomas Jonathan),
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Clubs (Weapons), Dwarfs, and Hides & skins
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Sabre -- Trident -- St. Vincent., Watermark: A. Stace 1797., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d., 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Portrait of Gilbert Wakefield with a plain background, seated to the left, looking right, arms resting on a table in front of him, right hand resting on papers/a book. Balding, wearing a white stock(?), dark waistcoat and jacket with edged cuff
Description:
Title engraved below image., Frontispiece to v. 1 of: Wakefield, G. Memoirs of the life of Gilbert Wakefield. London : J. Johnson, 1804., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Civis erat qui libera posset verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero. Juv. Sat. IV. v. 90"--Beneath title., This image resembles a larger print portrait of Gilbert Wakefield made by Robert Dunkarton, also after William Artaud, and published by Hannah Macklin in 1802 (see e.g. British Museum 1870,1008.2735)., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 589 (leaf numbered '20' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a printer's ornament above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: Gilderoy was a bonny boy had roses on his shoes ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
John Gilpin galloping through Edmonton, north London, on an out of control horse, passing the Bell Inn, his intended destination; his hat and wig have flown off behind him; a dog and pig scamper out of the way of the charging horse; as he passes, Gilpin glances longingly up towards his wife and children waiting for him in the inn. Two men sit on a bench outside the pub and observe the commotion; another man leans on a trestle table. A lamp hangs above the tavern entrance
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: William Cowper's ballad, John Gilpin, in The wit's magazine, 1784, v. 1, p. 271-3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22 x 25 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
John Gilpin galloping through Edmonton, north London, on an out of control horse, passing the Bell Inn, his intended destination; his hat and wig have flown off behind him; a dog and pig scamper out of the way of the charging horse; as he passes, Gilpin glances longingly up towards his wife and children waiting for him in the inn. Two men sit on a bench outside the pub and observe the commotion; another man leans on a trestle table. A lamp hangs above the tavern entrance
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: William Cowper's ballad, John Gilpin, in The wit's magazine, 1784, v. 1, p. 271-3., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., Caption below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away. Virtue and truth, driv'n to despair, it's rage compells to fly, but cherishes, with hellish care, theft, murder, perjury. Damn'd cup! that on the vitals preys, that liquid fire contains which madness to the heart conveys, and rolls it thro' the veins., Companion print: Beer Street., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3136., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 186.
Publisher:
Published by G.G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers