Four separate sheets, probably not from the same plate, mounted on one leaf. Uppermost sheet has imprint: Pubd. July 12, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand. The bottom right sheet is entitled "A scene in Hamlet" and is numbered "No. 23.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker and date based on similar plates. See no. 9691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheets trimmed within plate marks., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
Design consists of two horizontal strips., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker and date based on similar plates. See no. 9691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
"A thin officer in profile to the left stands on a flagged pavement, his feet splayed outwards, right hand on hip, holding one glove in his (gloved) left hand. He wears an enormous busby and sabre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
A scene in a ballroom with a Beefeater addressing the astonished crowd.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Proof before letters., and Title and publication information from lettered state. Printmaker from Grego.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, publisher.
"A stout youngish man, fashionably dressed and wearing boots of Hessian pattern, walks in profile to the right, on a flagged pavement. His nose is exaggeratedly Jewish and in the roadway are pigs (left and right) scampering off, only their hind-quarters visible said to indicate the converted Jew."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Franco, Jacob,--active 1800., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.