"Catherine II, seated on the throne, eagerly receives the heads of Poles offered to her by a ferocious-looking officer. Three attendants advance behind him with baskets filled with heads of young women and children; the foremost kneels, holding out his basket, the next carries a basket on his shoulders; above it flies a demon. On the extreme right, on a pedestal, is the bust of Fox by Nollekens (see BMSat 7902), looking wryly over his right shoulder at the Empress. The officer, Suvóroff, holds out by the hair to the Empress three heads, one of which she touches with a finger. His sleeves are rolled up; in his left hand is a bunch of heads, under his left arm a long bloody sword and a document: 'Articles of Capitulation Warsaw'. On his short top-boots are enormous spurs. He says: "Thus my Royal Mistress have I fulfilled in the fullest extent your Tender Affectionate & Maternal Commission to those Deluded People of Poland, & have brought you the Pickings of Ten Thousand Heads tenderly detached from their deluded bodies the Day after Capitulation." The Empress answers: "My Dear General you have well Executed your Commission; but could not you prevail on any of the Polish Women to Poison their Husbands?" (An allusion to the murder of Peter III, cf. BMSat 8072.) To the demon she says: "Go my little Ariel & prepare our Altars for these pretty Sacrifices, we must have te Deum on the Occasion." The demon, a nude bat-winged creature, says: "Bravo this outdoes the Poison Scene." The Empress wears ermine-trimmed robes and holds a sceptre, but does not (as usual) wear a crown. Beside her (left) lies a bear, only the head and forepaws being visible."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Later state with addition of letter 's' in 'heads' in Suvorov's speech balloon., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Battle of Warsaw, November 1794., Matted to 47 x 63 cm.; printmaker's and subjects' names printed on mat below image., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. January 7, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Praga (Warsaw, Poland) and Russia
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, kni︠a︡zʹ Italiĭskiĭ, 1730-1800, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"A broadside satirising the share mania in Paris; with an etching after a French broadside by Humblot showing a street scene in the rue Quinquempoix with a crowd of people holding various papers, in the right foreground some people fighting; with engraved Dutch title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue and "During the Mississippi Bubble’s heyday, trading took place on the rue Quincampoix in Paris. This print, from The Great Mirror of Folly, is based on an engraving by Antoine Humblot commemorating the street as a hub of chaos, lust, and criminality, as well as of unprecedented social mixing. The Dutch version includes foreboding rope nooses, along with placards indicating various commercial schemes as well as the emotional states of those investing in them. At right, a man is apprehended by the police, even as he passes a purloined object to his companion; at center, a woman flirts with a man while appearing to steal his wallet. From a window at left, John Law himself eyes the mayhem. The chiming bell above announces a dealer’s intention to sell."--New York Public Library website
Alternative Title:
Regte Afbeelding der Wind Negotie Gehouden in de Straat van Quinquempoix tot Parys
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image; subtitle in French and Dutch., Translation of the Dutch title in British Museum catalogue: A true picture of the wind trade of the rue Quinquempoix, Paris., According to Van Stolk, there is one state of this plate using Dutch verses. There are, however, other versions of this print with German and French text., and Three columns of verse in Dutch below title: Waar eertÿds 't Grieks Atheen 'vermaard ...
Publisher:
Chez G. Duchange, graveur du Roÿ, rue St. Jacques
Subject (Name):
Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):
Economics, Swindlers and swindling, South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, City & town life, Crowds, Fighting, and People with disabilities
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The stage or platform is surrounded by a dense crowd, some three rows of which form the foreground of the design. Cribb, who has cuts on the face, strikes Molineux on the throat and he falls backwards, to the dismay of his second, also a negro, and another supporter. On the right Cribb's second and bottle-holder register satisfaction. The crowd is wildly enthusiastic, and drawn with humorous realism. Some men on horseback are among the spectators immediately surrounding the stage, as are one or two carriages. Two pickpockets, a man and woman, work together in the foreground; two men are fighting. A few women are among the crowd, one astride a man's shoulders (right). The crowd and the stage which it surrounds fills the greater part of the design. There is a pleasant landscape background. On a road is a long line of tiny carriages and men on horseback, with one farm-wagon."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Milling match
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Sept. 29, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No.111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11786 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Text following title: Took place at Thisselton Gap in the County of Rutland Septr. 28, 1811, betwixt Cribb and Molineaux on a 25 foot stage ..., Plate numbered "94" in upper left corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling couloured [sic].", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 212., and Leaf 37 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Cribb, Tom, 1781-1848 and Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A burly whiskered and moustached Russian, wearing high fur cap, cloak, top-boots, and sword, gauntleted hands on hips, kicks a much smaller Napoleon into the air, contemptuously smoking a pipe. He says: "I'll teach you to insult Ambassadors Master Bouncing B," showing that he was originally intended for Markoff, and that the plate related to Napoleon's treatment of the Russian Ambassador in 1803, see British Museum Satires Nos. 10016, 10091. Napoleon's huge bicorne falls from his head; he says: "I'll not be treated in this way I will have my own way in every thing"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Russian amusement, or, The Corsican football, Corsican foot ball, and Corsican football
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a second reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803. Roberts's imprint in bottom of design has been obscured with cross-hatching, and Tegg's imprint has been added above title; the year "1814" in Tegg's imprint has been altered from "1807." See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "240" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 17 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 1t [sic], 1814, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
"George IV (left), covered with orders, flees in terror from a figure (right) composed of rectangular slabs of different size, all inscribed 'Address', except for the head, which is inscribed 'Queen', and the feet: 'Feeling' and 'Sense'. This figure extends an arm towards the King, from its feet rays of light slant towards him. P. 19: S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, That told what a cowardly action deserves; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, that told what a cowardly action deserves ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
Title from item., Date supplied by cataloger., Above image: Actualités; 190., Published in Le Charivari., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, French.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse 29 Paris and Imp Ch Trinocq Cour des MIracles 9 Paris
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Véron, Louis Désiré, 1798-1867, Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877, and France. Assemblée nationale législative (1849-1851).
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Petitions, History, and Politics and government
"Sir Alan Gardner (left) in naval uniform, bends forward to cut off, with a sickle inscribed 'Loyalty', the head of Fox, which is planted in the ground like some monstrous vegetable, the hair terminating in leaves. One of these Gardner holds, saying, "My Life and Services are ever devoted to my King & Country". Fox says: "I was always a Staunch Friend to the Crops and Sans Culottes but this damn'd Crop is quite unexpected". Gardner stands on 'Constitutional Ground'. Behind him stands Britannia, towering above him, and holding a laurel wreath over his head; she says: "Go on, Britain approves and will protect you!" On her spear is the cap of Liberty. More 'venemous' democrats are being drawn towards flames by the Devil (right), a figure like that of BMSat 6283. He puts his trident-like rake in the neck of Horne Tooke, who has a reptilian body with a barbed tail and feline claws, saying, "Long look'd for come at last Welcome thou Staunch Friend and faithful Servant, enter thou onto the Hot-bed prepared for thee." Tooke, his head in profile to the right, says, "Now will no prospering Virtue gall my jaundiced Eye - nor people foster'd by a belov'd Sovereign and defended by the Wisdom of his Counsellors. - To Anarchy & Confusion I will blow my Horne, and wallow in every thing that's damnable". The Devil clutches in the talons of his right foot the head of Thelwall, who says, "This will not Tell well." His left foot tramples the neck of Hardy, who says, "I was Fool Hardy". In the background is a man-of-war, Queen, her flag inscribed 'June Ist'. Below the title: 'Weeds carefully eradicated, & Venemous Reptiles destroy'd \ by Royal Patent \ God save the King.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Alan Gardiner, Covent Garden
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Royal Navy: "Queen"., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 31 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Gardner, Alan Gardner, Baron, 1742-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, and Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1796, First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Trials (Treason), Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty cap, Devil, and Wreaths
"Three men on the deck of a small sailing-vessel. Boswell, his knees flexed, stands in profile to the left holding the end of a rope and looking at Col, in Highland dress, who holds up his finger admonishingly. His Scots cap flies from his head, his coat-tails blow in the wind, his ink-pot dangles from his neck, his 'Journal' is under his left arm. A sailor (right) stands in back view leaning against the side of the vessel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "As I saw them all busy doing something, I asked Col. with much earnestness what I could do. He with a happy readiness put into my hand a rope which was fixed to the top of one of the masts ..." Vide Journal p. 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Ink pot., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-159.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Inkstands, Dancing, Scottish, Costumes, Sailing ships, and Sailors
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Allusion to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 1755-1793 -- Allusion to Marquise de Vasse, fl. 1789 -- Allusion to the Marquise de Vasse, fl. 1789 -- Allusion to the French Revolution -- Flight of French immigrants -- Scatology -- French officers -- Signs: signpost -- Boulogne -- Dover -- Allusion to spa -- French revolutionary flag -- Boats: row-boat -- French National Guards -- Naval uniforms: sailors -- Coast of France -- Allusion to Spain?, and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 29 by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccaddily [sic]
Subject (Name):
Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802, Broglie, Victor François, Duc de, 1718-1804, Breteuil, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de, 1730-1807, Montmorency Luxembourg, Anne-Charles-Sigismond, duc de, 1737-1803, Montmorency Luxembourg, Madeleine-Suzanne-Adèlaide de Voyer d'Argenson de Palmy, duchesse de, 1752-1813, Massereene, Clotworthy Skeffington, Earl of, 1743-1805, Polignac, Yolande-Martine-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de, 1749?-1793, Polignac, Diane, comtesse de, Lamotte, Jeanne de Luz de Saint-Remy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791, and Lamotte, Marc-Antoine-Nicolas, comte de
