"Plate to the 'Scourge', iv, before p. 349. An illustration to 'Elections in the Isle of Borneo', pp. 349-55, relating a dream in which the Prince chooses his Ministers and Household officers according to their proficiency in adultery. A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 11899. The Regent is enthroned under a canopy in the centre of a long platform backed by the pillars of Carlton House. Below is the cobbled street, with passers-by and spectators whose heads are just below the platform, so that the figures are arranged in two tiers. The Regent's throne is on a triple dais; he puts one arm round the waist of Lady Hertford who sits on his knee, holding at arms' length a brimming goblet. She puts her right arm round his neck, and also supports herself by placing a finger on the branching antlers of her husband, who stands in his chamberlain's robes, and holding his wand of office, beside the dais, at which he points with a complacent grin. He says: "My gracious Master is personelly acquainted with my merits, they live in his bosom, & he will reward me, according to my Deserts." Lady Hertford wears a spiky crown, and her vast spherical breasts are divided by a jewel in the form of the Prince's feathers with his motto 'Ich Dien.' The drapery over the throne is centred by the crowned skull of a stag, with wide antlers; in its nostrils is a ring from which a birch-rod hangs above the Prince's head. A grinning demon, standing on the antlers, straddles across the crown, holding up the drapery. On the left of the throne the Duke of York, in uniform with cavalry boots, his hand on his sword, stands swaggeringly. A woman clutches his arm and whispers in his ear; beside them is a basket containing three infants and inscribed 'Mother Careys Chickin' [see British Museum Satires No. 11050]. He says: "I was turned out of the Office I now solicit because I was too fond of a married Woman [Mrs. Clarke, see British Museum Satires No. 11216, &c.] & could not live without commiting Adultery I claim therefore to be once more elevated to the Office of Commander in Cheif." Behind Lord Hertford (and a pendant to Mrs. Carey) stands an elderly posturing peer, wearing a star, his hands deprecatingly extended. He says: "As for business I never had a Headfor't but I have laid the Country under a Massy load of Obligations in other respects Adultery is my Motto so give me ******ship of the H-." Next (right) is a group of three: the Duke of Cumberland in outlandish Death's Head Hussar uniform holding a sabre with a notched blade and seemingly dripping blood, though not so coloured. He stands between two young women; one, holding his arm, brandishes a razor over her head, the other holds a paper called 'Nugent'. The Duke says: "Considering my Exploits you cannot do less than make me a Field Marshal." On the extreme right is the Duke of Clarence in admiral's uniform with trousers, pointing to a broken chamber-pot ('Jordan') decorated with a crown and containing seven children, two in uniform. Mrs. Jordan takes him affectionately by the arm. He points downwards, saying, "I have lived in Adultery with an actress 25 years & have a pretty Number of illegetimate Children. I hope you will make me an Admiral of the Fleets." On the extreme left McMahon, dwarfish and ugly, stoops over the edge of the platform, pouring coins from a bag marked 'P P' [reversed letters], for Privy Purse (or Pimp), into the apron of a hideous bawd who grins up at him. He says: "Let her be forty at least, plump & Sprightly." Next stands Lord Yarmouth, wearing a star, his hands in his pockets, scowling at a young woman who puts her hands on his shoulders; he says: "Confound my Wishers if Venus alias Fanny Anny [Fagniani] may not go to Juno----I'm Vice all over. Let me con tinue so." Next is a tall man wearing a long driving-coat with a star and a small rakish top-hat (? Lord Melbourne); one leg terminates in a cloven hoof. He stands between two disreputable women of the lowest St. Giles type, ragged and hideous, an arm across the shoulders of each; both offer him drink, one takes him by the chin. A third and younger woman sits on the ground at his feet, drinking from a bottle. He says: "As for me my Name is sufficient, I am known as the Paragon of Debauchery and I only claim to be the-s [Regent's] Confidential Friend." On the ground (left to right) are the bawd receiving money from McMahon, a ragged dustman with the curved shin-bones then known as 'cheese-cutters', a result of rickets; George Hanger, with his bludgeon under his arm (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8889, &c.), saying, "Hang her She's quite Drunk"; Augustus Barry, grotesquely thin and very rakish, with long coat, standing with widely splayed-out feet. These three stare up at the throne, Barry looking through an eye-glass. A ragged, sub-human creature picks Barry's pocket, taking a paper: 'A Sermon to be Preached at Cripple gate by Revd Honble A Newgate'. A blind beggar (? a sailor) walks with a stick, and a dog on a string, holding out his tattered hat. A Quaker-like figure stares up at the platform where the legs of the seated prostitute hang over its edge, as does a beggar boy with badly twisted legs. Next, a fashionably dressed man and woman shake hands, bending to stare into each other's face. He takes her left hand. His dress resembles that of the dandy of a few years later: shock of hair, exaggerated neck-cloth, hussar-pattern trousers, and long tail-coat. The centre figure in this lower row is John Bull looking up angrily over his shoulder at the prostitute, and pushing away to the right three young girls; he says to them: "Get away get away, if you go near the Platform you'll be ruined." His bull-dog looks pugnaciously up at the platform. A tall emaciated cavalry soldier speaks to a woman in a poke-bonnet, while a little ragged boy clasps the long horse-tail which hangs from his helmet. On the extreme right is Sheridan in (ragged) Harlequin's dress (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), moribund or drunk, supported between two top-booted bailiffs; one holds a writ and says "Poor fellow his Magic wand is broken." On the ground lies his wooden sword in two pieces, one inscribed 'M', the other 'P'; at his feet is a paper: 'Princely Promises'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election in the island of Borneo
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 4 (October 1812), page 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 318 (leaf numbered '143' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published November 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, 1745-1828, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Barry, Augustus, Honble., 1773-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), John Bull (Symbolic character), Dustmen, Thrones, Canopies, Columns, Adultery, Antlers, Cobblestone streets, Demons, Military uniforms, Baskets, Infants, Daggers & swords, Poor persons, Pickpockets, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Prostitutes, Soldiers, and British
"Heading to etched verses. Mrs. Clarke, seated on a dais, receives applicants for commissions who advance through a doorway (left). She sits on a drum, wearing a cocked hat and military sash over a white dress, and holds up a sword. A short fat soldier holds over her head a Union flag with the white horse of Hanover. Two soldiers stand at attention with fixed bayonets behind her, and a fat trumpeter blows his trumpet. Another Union flag, without the white horse, flies from the corner of the large dais. On the wall hangs a notice: 'Half-pay Commissions at Half Price for Ready Money'. The applicants press forward in a bunch, headed by a fat and gouty 'cit' hobbling on two sticks, behind whom is a chimneysweep. The first of three verses: 'Come all you brave Fellows who wish for Promotion. Wether Captain or Colonel or a General's your notion. A Warehouse I keep for the sale of Commissions, And our Prices you'll find will suit all conditions, You'll be treated with Honor if you secrecy mark Sir For my Master is Noble and I am his Clarke Sir, You'll be treated &c.' The last lines: 'But forget not the ready (Gold or Notes) for pray mark! My Master wants Money, & so does his Clarke. But forget not &c.' The verses are bordered by spears which serve as posts for plump purses, symmetrically attached to them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Soldiers, British, Flags, Podiums, Daggers & swords, Hats, Staffs (Sticks), and Chimney sweeps
Leaf 64. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A nobleman (the Earl of Ancrum) with his hair tied in a long tail, with boots and holding a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "23" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Long queue wig -- 'Nivernois' hat with ribands and cockade -- Sabres: Tasselled sabres -- Belts: Sword belt., Second of three plates on leaf 64., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15.6 x 10.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 64. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A nobleman (the Earl of Ancrum) with his hair tied in a long tail, with boots and holding a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4687 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "23" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Long queue wig -- 'Nivernois' hat with ribands and cockade -- Sabres: Tasselled sabres -- Belts: Sword belt., and Partial watermark: L.V.G.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act of Parlt. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 83. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing in profile to the right. In his left hand he holds up a handkerchief, in his right is a cane with a large tassel. The figure is about half the size of others of this series; this, and the length of his sword, suggests that he is very small. He is dressed macaroni-fashion, though his looped club is small. Evidently Cosway, the miniature painter, who was very small, see British Museum Satires No. 6102, and whose portraits this resembles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 83., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Sepr. 24, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 83. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing in profile to the right. In his left hand he holds up a handkerchief, in his right is a cane with a large tassel. The figure is about half the size of others of this series; this, and the length of his sword, suggests that he is very small. He is dressed macaroni-fashion, though his looped club is small. Evidently Cosway, the miniature painter, who was very small, see British Museum Satires No. 6102, and whose portraits this resembles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Sepr. 24, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 69. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A tall young officer wearing a small-sword and holding a pike stands looking left
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., The person depicted is Richard Fitzpatrick; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Hats: Little cocked hat, laced -- Halberds -- Tartar scarf -- Ensign on parade., and Third of three plates on leaf 69.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, Feb. 25th, 1772, according to act, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1747-1813
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Daggers & swords, and Spears
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Stephen Fox, 2nd Lord Holland: a portly man with coat and sword in profile asleep on his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sleepy macaroni stealing a nap
Description:
Title from text below image., Sam Sharp-Eye is the pseudonym of an unknown artist, possibly H.W. Bunbury. See no. 5083 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies, 1772 -- Male costume, 1772., Mounted on page 107 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 14.2 x 10.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 1st, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, in New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Daggers & swords, Obesity, and Sleeping
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.06.01.03 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 107. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Stephen Fox, 2nd Lord Holland: a portly man with coat and sword in profile asleep on his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sleepy macaroni stealing a nap
Description:
Title from text below image., Sam Sharp-Eye is the pseudonym of an unknown artist, possibly H.W. Bunbury. See no. 5083 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies, 1772 -- Male costume, 1772.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 1st, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, in New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Daggers & swords, Obesity, and Sleeping
Leaf 84. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing full face. His right hand rests on a tasselled cane. His left is thrust inside his waistcoat. He wears a laced hat, embroidered waistcoat, ruffled shirt, a solitaire, and a sword. He is knock-kneed. "--British Museum online catalogue and "Probably a portrait of Lord Harrington whose house was called the Stable Yard (St. James's); Lady Harrington was called the Stable Yard Messalina, see British Museum Satires No. 4903. See also British Museum Satires No. 5322."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stable yard macaroni and Stableyard macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "4 v." in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner., Second of three plates on leaf 84., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Sepr. 29, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand