Title from text in center of design., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily pub., Design split into upper and lower halves, with title and image captions in between., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Fantastic scene at a London street corner which abuts on open country, the roadway deep in mud. A coach and pair advances left to right; the coachman has laid down reins and whip to read the Times through spectacles, the footman standing behind is deep in a book. A ragged but monocled street-sweeper on stilts sweeps towards a small child half-submerged in mud, and a lady in a monstrous hat who picks her way through the slough. On the foreground pavement a butcher and a dustman play chess, holding the board between them. One sits on a great joint of beef, the other on a bag; a dog runs off with a bullock's heart. A ragged ballad-singer plays a guitar, screeching operatically; her small child holds up a parasol. Two climbing boys with misshapen legs argue with each other, one uses a handkerchief. Two servants in livery walk arm-in-arm, one smoking a huge pipe (like the footman in BM Satires No. 15779). An apple-woman seated against a lamp-post reads Byron, while a boy sneaks an apple. The lamp-post is topped by a flaming sun, presumably of gas. A dust-cart is drawn by two asses tandem, with a postilion on the leader; the dustman, seated on his load (instead of walking with it) plays a 'cello. On the opposite pavement are three tiny street musicians: a fashionably dressed woman sings from a sheet of music to the accompaniment of a harpist and flautist with music-stand. In the background is steam-traffic: (1) a steam carriage for two with three wheels, a tall smoking funnel, and a pendent coal-scuttle, all but the last much as 'Mr D. Gordon's New Steam Coach, illustrated and described', Observer, 30 Dec, 1827. (2) A large steam lorry on which soldiers with bayoneted muskets sit in rows. A small carriage with a steersman and two passengers is drawn by a kite (a kite-drawn carriage was displayed in Regent's Park, Jan. 1828, described by Pückler-Muskau, Tour in England, 1948, p. 218). Behind is a narrow channel crossed by a suspension bridge linking Dover to Calais; another branch of the Channel is crossed by The . . . Tunnel (oddly drawn), the top of which collapses under the impact of a ship, so that water pours down. An aerial battleship supported by two balloons attacks three ships immediately below; they sink under a rain of flame and cannon-balls. There are also an ordinary balloon, a flying-machine drawn by wild geese, and an aerial vessel which collides with the moon. The foreground buildings are one vast shop-window and the adjacent house; over the window: Business of this Shop on a larger scale than any other house in London. The window is filled with draperies and ladies' huge hats (cf. BM Satires No. 15628). A lady, with a giant hat, pin-point waist, and vast sleeves, stares in. The adjoining house of the same height is three stories high, the principal floor with street-door, bow-windows, balconies, and awning is at the top; passengers are being hauled up to it by a man using a windlass to hoist chairs up a vertical chute from the street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 23 1828 by G. Humphrey St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Steam, Storefronts, and Street vendors
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: Spies to see the nakedness of the land are come., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A huge pot rests directly on a fierce fire from blazing bank-notes. The scene is outside the Bank of England, the façade being on the extreme right. From it porters are carrying huge stacks of 'Notes' to add to the flames. The pot is inscribed 'Bank Pot' [twice], and 'Cash Payments at the Bottom of this Pot', where it is badly cracked owing to the fire. The pot is filled with Bank Directors, whose heads and arms emerge. They shriek: "I am in a Stew"; "I am sure the Pots Crackd," and "Take care it don't Break." A fashionably dressed man ascends a ladder leaning against the pot (right); he shouts to those inside "have you found the Gold." The fire is being stirred up by (?) Peel; Vansittart, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, uses a mace to push the man up the ladder. Huge clouds of smoke ascend from the fire covering much of the design; they are inscribed 'Smoke' and 'Cash Payments Smoke'. Two spectators stand on the left, watching the hurly-burly. One, a 'cit', says: "There's a pretty Kettle of Fish." The other, a countryman in a smock, answers: "Lord bless you they ban't Fish they be all paper"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Directors in a stew
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "356" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., and Leaf 68 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pub. June 22, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Bank of England., Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
"A man, grossly fat, short, and almost spherical, tries to step from the pavement into a cab, against the passenger's seat of which leans a tasselled cane. The ragged driver, seated beside the empty hooded seat, leans towards the fat man, whipping up his horse and saying, 'If your Legs ant long enough to get into this here Wehicle I wont drive you at all--you little Stump'. The other shouts: 'Stop that fellow he has got my Stick'. The 'Stump' is followed from a shop by a man clasping a large live turtle; in the shop-window are the words 'Real & Mock Turtle'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Flower of the flock loseing his stick!
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etchings., Text following title: Vide city police., Three lines of dialogue above image: If your legs ant long enough to get into this here wehicle, I won't drive you at all ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 26, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heath etching., Three lines of dialogue above image: Had any sport? Shot a grouse. A gross, I dont see but one., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 18, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etching., Several lines of dialogue above image: Oh dear I have tumbled into an ole. Is that you Perkins? Lork if I warnt agoing to shoot you for a black cock ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 16, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Title etched below image., Printmaker signature in small lettering in lower left portion of image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The front of the velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399) is in the normal shape, and is ridden by a dandy; the bar is elongated and dropped to give space for a seat on which a lady sits, wearing an enormous bonnet. At the back is a much lower seat, like a dickey, behind the back wheel. In this sits a groom, with his feet on a foot-rest, working the wheel by handles attached to the hubs. In the background (left) is a similar machine, carrying three."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New long backed hobby made to carry three without kicking
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., In reverse and upside down in lower left corner is the imprint: G. Harris, 1 Shoe Lane, London., Plate numbered "332" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 34 in volume 5.