"A Hyde Park scene. An African family, man, woman, and child, and a similar Lapp family, stand to be gazed at by extravagantly dressed pedestrians. The Lapps have a reindeer decorated with ribbons as in BM Satires 14430, and the child is held on its back by the proud parents. The Africans have distended ear-lobes and projecting under-lips; they wear metal circlets on their heads, set with erect feathers, and feather-trimmed robes. 'Monstrosities' include a very tall cavalry officer with a huge plume in his ornate helmet, and a dwarf in top-boots and fashionable dress. There are also a dandy on horseback with concertina-like trousers, two men in ulsters (one tartan) which trail on the ground, a woman with an enormous bonnet and ermine-trimmed pelisse of grotesque shape. Men's hats are low-crowned and broad-brimmed, or cylindrical, or bell-shaped."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., Temporary local subect terms: Reindeers -- Native Americans -- Lapp family -- Ethnic stereotypes., and Watermark.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of print orginally published by S.W. Fores in 1800., Plate is part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 4 Pl. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers -- Devils -- Fishing rods., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "No. 1" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Musicians -- Ballrooms -- Dancers -- Couples., and Watermark: John Hall 1816.
"Bedroom scene. A powerfully built man in greatcoat and top-boots throws a dandified youth out of a window, with stern concentration. The houses opposite, lit by a full moon, show that the ground is far below. The victim's head and shoulders are outside; he desperately clutches sash and sill, kicking violently. A terrified woman stands by the bed. Her huge bonnet hangs on the wall. In the struggle the dressing-table glass has been thrown to the floor, where it lies, with lighted candle and watch and seals. Stick, hat, and gloves are on the floor, the victim's hat and coat on a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above and below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 14591 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Throne -- Bowing., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 8th, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806
In a sitting room, a man sits on the sofa his arms around two woman who sit on his knees while he turns his head to kiss a third woman who has climbed on the sofa and thrown her arms around his neck. Standing before the sofa, a second man angrily pulls at the arm of one of the woman on the first man's knee, much to her annoyance. Behind the sofa on the wall, hang two pictures one entitled "Pluralist" and the other "Miser" both of which comment on the scene below
Description:
Title from caption above and below image., Plate numbered "Pl. 1" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. January, 1823, by S.W. Fores No. 41 Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1800., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by S.W. Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Place and date of publication from other prints in the series., Reduced copy. Cf. no. 9592, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds -- Fences -- Food: chicken -- Ginger bread -- Beverage: bottle of wine., and Watermark.
"Ministerial rats with human heads scamper about a barn, searching for food. John Bull, a yokel in a smock and holding a pitchfork, holds open one leaf of the door facing the spectator, to watch their antics with amusement. George III, in profile to the right., puts a hand his shoulder, and says: "What! What! looking for Grain, eh! looking for grain; it's all gone, all gone all gone, quite Empty." John answers: "Why, these Hungry Rats thought to have had some fine pickings, I warrant, but egad they'll he woundedly mistaken, tho'f they seem to want it nationly; but that dom'd Scotchman [Melville] carried off a rare lot of it & as to poor Billy the Butler [Pitt] why he was so fond of a drop of Black Snap, [Perjorative for thick, sweet port. Partridge, 'Slang Dict.', 1938.] that when he and his friends, not at it, d'ye see, the rest of the Servants did as they pleased, poor Rogues I'se afraid they'll Undermine the Barn they're so main Hungry." The rats are on a smaller scale. On the extreme left., Lord Derby peeps from a bin inscribed 'Treasury', saying, "Why I suppose the Old Rat Died because there was nothing to feed upon." Moira climbs down a tilted sieve, Grenville sniffs at an upturned '[T]reasury' tub on which Lord Ellenborough sulkily reposes. Grey scampers towards an empty lantern but Windham has dragged out its candle and is nibbling at it. Sheridan races towards the candle from the r. Behind him is Erskine, looking sly. A bulky animal wearing a garter ribbon, probably the Marquis of Buckingham, lies with its head inside an empty '[T]reasury' sack. Fox and Bedford nibble at a pile of tattered and folded sacks on which is Lord Spencer, looking down at them. In the background are three other rightats, whose heads are less characterized: those on the left may be Sidmouth and Lauderdale; one nibbling a bundle of straw (r.) resembles Burdett."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm..
Publisher:
Pubd. March, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
"Two designs, side by side, each with title. [1] John, a very fat and jovial 'cit', leans back in an arm-chair holding up a glass of port. On the table beside him (right) are a decanter of 'Port', round of beef (pushed aside), pipe, tobacco-box. An empty tankard lies on the floor. He says: "Well a glass of good Port cheers both Body and mind and enables one to gthrough [sic] the fatigues of Business. Here's a bumper to the great Chatham aye he was a statesman A greater in England there never was known, A friend to the People, a friend to the Throne." On the wall is a framed portrait (three-quarter length) of 'Good Queen Bess' above three broadside ballads: 'The Land we live in'; 'Oh the roast Beef of Old England'; 'May we Live all the days of our Lives'. A fat bull-dog (left) gnaws a large bone. On the floor are also papers: 'Orders for Russia'; 'Good [sic] ship'd for America'; 'Ord . . .'; 'Good shipd for Spain'. [2] John, lean, ragged and starving, sits in profile to the left, on a broken chair in a ruinous garret, contemplating suicide. The head and shoulders of a stout tax-collector appear outside a (broken) casement window; he says: "Oh there you are enjoying yourself! I have been kocking [sic] at the door this have hour. I want your property Tax I had a deal of trouble last time I thought you had run away." John: "Why there is very little of me left sure enough you need not trouble yourself to call any more, for that will be gone soon." He faces a table, with an open drawer, on which a razor lies on a book: 'Toughts [sic] on suicide by Danl Doleful'; there are also a broken pitcher, an onion, &c. A starving cat looks up at its master. On the floor is a torn and discarded 'Order Book'. A 'Gazette' with two columns headed respectively 'Bankrupts', 'Promo[tions', an attack on 'placemen'], lies on large papers headed 'Butchers Bill'. With these are an empty plate and spoon and burned-down candle. There is a miserable bed (right); laths show through the broken plaster. On the wall is a large half length print of 'Iohn Bellingham' above broadside-ballads: 'Oh Dear what can the matter be', and 'there's nae luck about the House'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull in clover, John Bulll done over, and Iohn Bulll done over
Description:
Title from caption below image., Two separately titled images on one plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty., and In imprint, "12" is written in manuscript over "19."
Publisher:
Pub. Jany 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.