- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 February 1808]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 10763, representing Ministerial and Opposition leaders on platforms in front of their booths. On the extreme left. is Sheridan addressing the crowd below: 'Walk in Gentlemen and Ladies - here is no deception. Just going to begin.' He points to his back-cloth which hangs from a flagstaff: under a bottle and glass is the inscription 'Prime Sherry Gratis - The Comedy of A New Way to Pay Old Debts [Massinger] - with the Publicans Friend.' Harlequin, masked, with a blackened face, postures behind him. The flag is inscribed 'In vino Veritas'. On the adjacent booth Castlereagh stands with upraised arms, holding a tali long-bow with two strings. Beside him a pierrot bangs a salt-box. His back-cloth is inscribed 'The Genuine Booth - Two Strings to your Bow [a popular farce by R. Jephson, 1791] and a Trip to Down [see British Museum Satires No. 10715]'. His flag is inscribed 'Down Down Hey Derry Down.' The centre booth has a tattered back-cloth inscribed 'The Old Broad Bottomd Booth rather out of repair But Excellent Entertainment.' Its flag, also tattered, is 'Catholic Emancipation'. On the platform Grenville bows very low, hat in hand. Beside him is a pierrot holding up a steaming bowl and a placard: 'Treasury Soup Hot at all Hours'. The next booth is 'The Only True Constitutional Booth Persevere & Company' the flag is 'No Popery'. On this Perceval, his back to Grenville, bows, saying, "Dont mind what the Broad Bottoms say good people - mine is the only treue constitutional Booth." He has two attendants, one holding 'Magna Charta' besides a man blowing a trumpet to which is attached a banner with the royal arms. On the extreme right., a little apart from Perceval's booth, is that of Canning. The back-cloth is inscribed: 'A Collection of Sky Rockets Just arrived from Denmark very Curious.' Rockets rising from behind the cloth descend in golden streams on the crowd below. Canning is in full armour and holds a tilting-lance; he says: "Don't be afraid they won't hurt you." His pennant is 'Necessity has no Law.' A man in the crowd, looking up at the rockets, says: "To tell you the truth I don't admire Sky." On the ground-level are side-shows under two of the platforms. That of Grenville is the roof of a square stone building; its door is placarded 'Portland Stone moveable Kitchen, a great Curiosity' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10718]. No ladder ascends to the top, as with all the other booths, so that Grenville can descend only by stepping on to an adjacent platform. Beneath Perceval's platform is inscribed: 'Underneath to be seen the Bed of Roses' [see British Museum Satires No. 10558, &c.]. Among the crowd of gaping spectators are men crying their wares. They hold out broadsides. One (left) shouts: "Who buys my rotten Burrows if I'd as much money as I could tell I never would cry rotten Burrows to sell." A yokel in a smock asks him: "What do you ax Master for a good snug thing in your way." A man cries: "Who wants to buy any New Taxes"; a fat farmer says: "Dang it we have got enough of that Article". A Highlander in a kilt cries "Places and Pensions at half Price". A man offers a similar Highlander: "Snug Sinecures Dirt Cheap." A corpulent parson addresses a stout woman whose arm a much shorter man is holding: "Any more Church livings than you make use of I'll buy them of you." On the extreme right a quack doctor offers money-bags: 'Delicate Consciences effectively cured - no cure no Pay'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Saint Stephens fair
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Later state, with former plate number "39" removed and a new number added. See British Museum catalogue., Text following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair." Holcroft., Companion print to: A political fair., Plate numbered "255" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shilling colored.", Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: Pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Male costume: Armor -- Tilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume, 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks., and Leaf 39 in volume 4.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > St. Stephens fair [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 February 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.02.08.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Saint Stephens fair
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quotation following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair. Holcroft., Printseller's announcement below design: Price one shilling colored., Plate numbered "39" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Costume: Male armor -- Tilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume: 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks., and Plate numbered '82' in ms. along top margin of sheet. Numbering corresponds to plate position within previous collection.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > St. Stephens fair [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [8 February 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.02.08.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Saint Stephens fair
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quotation following title: O don't you think it a wonderful fair. Holcroft., Printseller's announcement below design: Price one shilling colored., Concluding digit in the publication year erased from print leaving worn paper., Later reissued with series number. Cf. no. 10966, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Weapons: Long bow -- Clowns: pierrot -- Salt boxes -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Royal Arms -- Costume: Male armor -- Ttilting lance -- Fairs -- Farmers -- Male costume: Kilt -- Scots -- Parsons -- Female costume: 1808 -- Physicians -- Quacks., and Mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 8th, 1808 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > St. Stephens fair [graphic]