"Two designs on one plate. Above, the Duke of York sits, pen in hand, writing a love-letter, but turns from his table to declaim towards the window (right): To morrow I inspect my regiment--and then for my Dearest--Dearest--Dearest--Love. A negro servant (left) wearing a jewelled turban regards him with dismay: Bless my Massa what be de matter with him--him in love I fear--Sambo once be in love with bad Woman but him repent. On table and floor are papers inscribed: O Love is the cause of my Folly, My Amiable Girl; My Dearest Dear I hope to be in your Arms; Love Letters. Below, an elderly military officer without sword or gorget, scowls through an eye-glass at a pert boy (right) in uniform with sword and gorget. He says: Can I believe my eyes, why this is the little foot boy--who waited on us at the house of a Lady of a certain description. The boy (Carter) answers, hands on hips, I beg Sir you will not come for to go, to affront a gemmen--."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene at Weymouth
Description:
Title for upper design etched above image; title for lower design etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Artist identified as Woodward in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate numbered "69" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Eye glass -- Blacks., and Mounted to 43 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 26, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
"Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 14 March 1783 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 6341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 30, 1802, by Iohn Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Plate from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii. 233: On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. He says "Stew it well - It cannot be Overdone for you and me". In the picture, 'Irish Stew I A Favourite Disk for French Palates', two French soldiers superintend the boiling of a Revolutionary Pot, in which stand three naked Irishmen shrieking for mercy; one says: "Liberty of being Stewed"; the other, "Equality - all to be stewed en Masse". Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies." A fugitive looks round to say "What your own A. O Connor too!" A lawyer (? Curran): "So much for Republicani[sm] and glorious Independence! No Money! No Lawyer." A monk: "By St Patrick a complete Catholic Emancipation." Three others say: "I now howl in Vain - We are all gone to Pot"; "Brother John [Bull] would not have treated us so -" ; "My Merits with the Republic should have saved me, but I find we must all stew together" [he is perhaps Grattan]; "A Radical Reform by Jasus". Beside the last speaker, a ragged peasant, lies a bundle of pikes, &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, v. 2, page 233, Temporary local subject terms: United Irishmen -- Maps: map of Ireland torn by demons -- Reference to the French Revolution -- Allusion to the Directory -- Allusion to anarchy -- Pictures: le tableau parlant., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1799, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
Subject (Name):
Barras, Paul, vicomte de, 1755-1829 and Tallien, Jean-Lambert, 1767-1820
An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Earlier edition of print described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 14., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798 below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
An angry wife confronts her astonished husband with a letter from his paramour in which she suggests a rendezvous in the garden after the wife has gone to bed
Description:
Title from item., Earlier state published by Akerman on October 1, 1799., Publication date from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
A very plain, elderly man peers through a quizzing glass at an upright Egyptian mummy. He gapes in astonishment at finding the mummy grinning at him. The mummy case is on the left. Below in front of it are a tall vase and a recumbent Sphinx with a very pretty contemporary face and hair-do.
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's announcement at bottom of plate: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admit. 1 shillg., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Printmaker's name partially erased from this impression; matted to 62 x 47 cm.
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., One line of text within design: This horse is certainly an astronomer! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: riding habit., 1 print : etcing and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of series title and number., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: booksellers -- Authors -- Spectacles., 1 print : aquatint and soft-groung etching with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36 x 24 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and printmaker's signature erased from sheet., and Window mounted to 41 x 28 cm.
"An obese and elderly citizen stands almost full-face holding up a (?) turbot, with an expression of intense satisfaction. His left hand holds his head, pushing up his wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with a flapped waistcoat. Between his feet is a shallow saucepan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v 6., no. 7445 for a description of another state published in 1788., and Watermark: A Stace [?] 1798.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly