"A fat woman laden with basket, bottles, bundle, &c. descends steps to the waterside, blown by the wind and beset by five bawling watermen, who point towards their boats. Behind (right), other men hail an approaching passenger. The bows of two Thames wherries are on the left; in one a young waterman stands punting his boat. The watermen wear short full-skirted coats with knee-breeches and have large oval badges on the arm. Part of an old timber building forms a background to the group on the stairs. It has a large placard: 'Wapping Old Stairs'. From a projecting upper floor a man and girl look down, amused, the man smoking a long pipe. In the foreground (right) a chubby fisherman's boy sleeps in a dinghy on a pile of nets. There is a background of ships at anchor, a riverside church flying a flag, and a timber building with a large beam projecting over the water from which hangs a barrel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: Entering upon any of the bridges of London, or any of the passages leading to the Thames, being assailed by a groupe of watermen, holding up their hands and bawling out. Oars Sculls. Sculls. Oars Oars., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Fish nets -- Watermen.
Publisher:
Designd. & pubd. July 14, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Leaf 56. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout and disappointed coachman standing outside a house at night, holding out his hand in which there is a single coin; at left, a smartly dressed but uncouth looking couple standing in their doorway making jeering faces, the man with his hand in his pocket, a maid with a candle behind; the coach behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Surly saucy Hackney coachman
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.797., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 284., and On leaf 56 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Light fixtures, and Passengers
"A stout and disappointed coachman standing outside a house at night, holding out his hand in which there is a single coin; at left, a smartly dressed but uncouth looking couple standing in their doorway making jeering faces, the man with his hand in his pocket, a maid with a candle behind; the coach behind at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Surly saucy Hackney coachman
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 38 x 28 cm., and Watermark: IW[?]
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Light fixtures, and Passengers
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, shovel, tongues, poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bees wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., "Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title (partially damaged) of the design: '[getting up] early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, ta[ble, shovel, tongues,] poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bee[s wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with altered plate number and with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate, of a print published 9 October 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.10.09.01., Date of publication from Grego., Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 40 in volume 4.
"A bedroom scene. A plump lady sits in a chair, making gestures of pain with hands and legs, while a hairdresser combs her back hair, and a negress combs a tress pulled forward over the face. Behind (left) another hairdresser combs the tousled hair of a lean man, who registers anguish. Below the design: 'Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair when by poking curiously about on board of Ship, it has become clammed and matted with pitch or tar far beyond all the powers of the comb.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker and publisher from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Bedrooms, Hairdressing, Servants, and Women domestics
Leaf 53. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A bedroom scene. A plump lady sits in a chair, making gestures of pain with hands and legs, while a hairdresser combs her back hair, and a negress combs a tress pulled forward over the face. Behind (left) another hairdresser combs the tousled hair of a lean man, who registers anguish."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair when by poking curiously about on board of ship, it has become clammed and matted with pitch or tar far beyond all the powers of the comb., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10820 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Bedrooms, Hairdressing, Servants, and Women domestics
Leaf 77. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Men in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have fallen on the floor. An obese parson leans against the wall as he vomits. Several of them are wearing hunting hats; on the wall are antlers and a hunting-piece
Alternative Title:
While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex being under under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life. Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10829 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 124., and On leaf 77 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Intoxication, Manners & customs, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, and Vomiting
Leaf 50. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A rectangular plot enclosed by palings and gate and surrounded by trees outside an old-fashioned country house (left). The plot has four rectangles of turf set in gravel which a fat man in a dressing-gown with a cloth tied over his head is rolling, a dog running in front. A fatter man in night-cap, shirt-sleeves, and waistcoat (split up the back) holds a pair of dumb-bells, turning to a young woman (left) who is sawing a log of wood supported on trestles. Beside the paling is a dove-cote on a pole."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country so inveterately miry as to imprison you within your own premises so that by way of exercise ..., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10823 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806; see no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 123., and On leaf 50 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Beresford, James, 1764-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Fences, Gates, Trees, Dwellings, Dumbbells, Obesity, Dogs, Woodcutting, Saws, and Axes
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Variant lacking imprint statement. Cf. No. 12722 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Temporary local subject terms: Indian servants -- Smoking., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.