Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
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"From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 51 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 28 x 40.9 cm., and With identifications of "George IV" and "Q. Caroline" written in pencil below image, as well as the explanation "the green bags with reference to their divorce were ordered to lie on the table" written in pencil below title.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 25 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 6015, Gillray's 'Ahitophel in the Dumps'. Liverpool, emaciated and despairing, and much caricatured, rides an ass along a road on a desolate heath towards a gibbet (left), to which carrion birds are flying. His arms are folded, his head sunk on his breast; from his pocket hang a noose of rope and a paper: 'Paines & Penelties' [sic]. The bag to his wig is a green bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, and to the ass's tail is tied a clyster-pipe, emblem of Sidmouth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed ...
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 35 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 31st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Ahithophel (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Despair, Donkeys, Vultures, Nooses, Gallows, Bags, and Medical equipment & supplies
"Life" in a billiard room, or, Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins "au fait" (awake) to the Parisian sharpers
Description:
Title from caption 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., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., and Temporary local subject terms: Games -- Hand gestures.
Publisher:
Published July 1, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
"A spectacled auctioneer (the well-known Squibb) stands full-face in his rostrum with hammer raised, pointing downwards at a misshapen brass (yellow) figure of Queen Caroline in quasi-classical draperies, her arms akimbo, and displaying an ungainly leg. She stands on a wooden head of Alderman Wood, both being directed slightly to the left. Her sandalled feet rest on two curving supports of the head, which resemble the drooping peaks of a fool's cap. Near it lies a bundle of bulky papers, 'Defence of Innocence', labelled 'Lot 2 Waste Paper'. These two lots are on a table forming the base of the design below the rostrum. Behind the auctioneer less conspicuous lots are ranged on shelves: more bulky bundles inscribed 'Waste Paper Lot 3--Times'. A box of bonnets rouges with tricolour cockades inscribed 'To be Sold by Private Contract', with other chests of caps and of daggers, both inscribed 'Private'. A jar is 'Lot 5 Unsunned Snow' [see British Museum Satires No. 13975]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Going! A going! the last time ... and To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Squib at Bullock's rooms ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Seven lines of text below image: To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Squib at Bullock's rooms. Lot 1. (for exportation) Xantippe, a brazen statue, supported by a prime block of soft alder wood, a matchless article ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 26 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprial [sic] 13, 1821, by G. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Squibb, George, approximately 1764-1831, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., Bullock, William, 1773-1849., and Xanthippe.
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Auctioneers, Stages (Platforms), Gavels, Sculpture, Documents, and Liberty cap
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"In a fantastic procession Napoleon, much burlesqued and very thin, is dragged and pushed to the sea-shore, where (right) a boat manned by the Devil waits to take him to Elba. Round his neck is a rope dragged by two dwarfish and ragged Frenchmen (right): one is a ferocious little Jacobin, wearing a bonnet rouge, shouting "à bas le Tyran"; the other is a royalist, waving a hat in which is an olive-branch and ribbons inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons', and shouting "Vive Louis XVIII." Napoleon weeps; he is assailed by a shower of missiles including cats and rats; a little demon capers on his head playing a fiddle. His hands are tied behind him and his coat is worn back to front; his feet project through his ragged boots, his great spurs are attached to the front of his leg above the instep. In his coat-pocket is a tiny King of Rome waving a rattle topped by a crown and shouting: "By gar Papa I have made von grand manœuvre in your Pocket!!" The chief motive force is the large 'Allied Broom' [according to Broadley, perhaps describing another state, the inscription is not 'Allied Broom' but 'Abdication'], with which Talleyrand, wearing a long gown and a high surgical shoe on his left foot, pushes Napoleon forward, pointing derisively and grinning delightedly; he says: "There he goes!!!" Behind Talleyrand are a small but elderly drummer and a ragged soldier playing a fife. The former wears in his cap a big white favour, and an inscription: 'Vive Louis XVIII'; the latter wears a laurel branch and a favour inscribed 'Vive Louis' in his bonnet rouge; from his mouth float the words: "He was whip'd & he w drum'd, He w [sic] drum'd out of the Regt, If ever he is a Soldier again, The Devil may be his Sergeant." Next, and on the extreme left, are two women flinging missiles at Napoleon, and shouting "a bas le Tyran--Down with the Tyrant--Vive Louis." On the extreme right is a shouting man holding up a tricolour flag, inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons', its staff topped by a fleur-de-lis. On the ground (left) are Napoleon's epaulets with the scissors by which they have been cut from his coat, his sash and a small crown, perhaps that of the King of Rome. With these is a document: 'Done at Fontainebleau', across which lies a broken sword. On the horizon (right) is a rocky island from which rise large flames; these surround a tall gibbet with one dangling corpse and one empty noose; a ladder leans against it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rogues march to the island of Elba
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "325" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 25 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 13th, 1814, by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
"In a wheeled car, Louis XVIII careers down a wooden track (as on the Montagnes Russes in Paris), laid on a steep grass slope, towards a monster formed of a guillotine, from which diabolical talons extend, ready to clutch him. The car is partly throne, partly bath-chair; the King has the usual swollen flannelled legs and wears an old-fashioned court-suit. He is blindfolded by a fool's cap with a long peak which streams behind him, showing the rapidity of the descent. In his right hand he holds out a spluttering firebrand, or Holy Candle, in the left is a sword with a serrated blade inscribed Sword of Justice, to which heavy fetters are attached. On the right of the track is a wide doorway, inscribed Chamber of Deputies, whence soldiers with fixed bayonets are pouring out. The two foremost drag between them a deputy, Manuel. The King turns his head to the right, shouting: War! War! war! war with Spain is indispensable. We will carry our measures at home & abroad with the point of the Bayonet, The Bourbons must be absolute monarchs, the people must be slaves!! His car is pushed behind by a band of simian Frenchmen, having the legs of apes, in court-dress with orders, wearing fool's caps like that of the King, the two foremost having their faces completely covered with the caps. The first pair, evidently Villèle and Chateaubriand, shout War! war! war! and War! war! Vive l' Roi. Those behind shout Shove away Shattebrain [cf. BM Satires 12614]; this is a Glorious cause. Vive l' Roi. Manuel, dignified and determined, makes a speech: "Let others seek to debase the National character: they have no doubt a guilty interest in doing so: I will do every thing in my power to preserve it's virtue. I do not expect an act of Justice; it is to one of Vengence [sic] that I resign myself. Sent to this Chamber by the will of those who had the right to send me here, I shall only leave it through the Violence of those who have not the right to exclude me; and if this resolution on my part may draw on my head the gravest dangers, I console myself that the field of Liberty has sometimes been fertilized by generous blood." Soldiers (right) watch the ejection, their hands resting on the barrels of their muskets, the butt ends being on the ground. They differ from the ejectors in wearing bearskins in place of cocked hats, gaiters in place of jack-boots, and they have a flag inscribed National Guard. One (Mercier) says: We will not Obey the Order to expel M. Manuel. Comrades, what say you to the Right about? In the foreground (left) two ghosts emerge from clouds, looking up at the madly careering king. Napoleon, a profile bust portrait, says: Silly Bourbon! Remember the Consequences of my interfereing with Spai. Louis XVI, his neck hidden by cloud, holds out his decollated head; he wears a shirt patterned with fleur-de-lis. He says: O! Brother, Brother, be warned by my unhappy fate!! The guillotine-monster is topped by a cap of Liberty with two tricolour cockades for glaring saucer-eyes. The base of the cap forms a gaping mouth; from it issue the words: What are you at!! what are you a'rter!!! I am really surprised at your Blind Stupidity! My appearance Here, I assure you, is with the most friendly intentions, to warn you of your impending danger. But if you are bent upon your own destruction, why come along!! C'a [sic] ira c'a ira c'a ira."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hint to the blind and foolish and Bourbon dynasty in danger!
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Purchased with gift funds from Robert Pirie.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th 1823 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"The Princess of Wales and her suite in a carriage drawn by six horses arrive at the porte-cochère of the British Embassy in Vienna. At the gate and in front of the horses is a mounted groom or outrider blowing a trumpet, from which issue the words: 'Vite! Vite!! 7 Lits de Maitre--13-- de Domestique--!!' Facing him is a fat porter, who keeps one leaf of the gate shut, and answers: "Sein Excellenz ist nich zu haus--!!!" Over the archway are the Royal Arms, the lion (burlesqued) and unicorn look down scandalized at the carriage, in which the Princess turns to Pergami who sits on her right, saying, "This Palace will lodge us well Sir Bergamot." Her plump breasts are displayed, and she wears a turban with a jewelled aigrette. Bergami wears hussar uniform with a furred dolman, and a bunch of orders hanging from his tunic. Facing the Princess sits little Willy Austin (see British Museum Satires No. 12027) wearing a round peaked cap; a lady wearing a tasselled cap like a smoking-cap sits next him. On the box are a foreign servant in quasi-military uniform and cockaded top-hat and a turbaned negro, with two big pistols in his sash. The negro puts his arm across the other's shoulders; both grin, as do two negro servants seated in the rumble with drawn swords; these also wear turbans, and are armed with pistols. Two postilions, French in type, flourish their whips; they wear huge jack-boots and large plumed cocked hats; the spirited horses have received a sudden check. The door-panel of the carriage, an open barouche is covered with the Royal Arms with the Prince's feathers. A stout peasant woman and a little boy (left) watch the cavalcade with astonishment; two dogs bark. Part of the Embassy forms a background: two rows of windows, the lower ones heavily barred."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Royal visit to a foreign capital, or, The ambassador not at home!! and Ambassador not at home!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Intermediate state, with plate number and "April 1817" added but without the addition of drapery over the princess's bosom. For earlier and later states of the plate, see nos. 12889 and 12889A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., "Ple. 1"--Upper left corner., Companion print to: R-y-l condescension, or, A foreign minister astonished!, and Mounted on page 3 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 15, 1817, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Carriages, Porters, Servants, and Embassies
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"Wellington on the extreme left, seated in profile on his white horse, looks down at three officers who heap trophies at his feet. He says: "Why! here's enough for three nights Illumination!" An officer answers: "Three times Three! My Lord!!" Another, holding two eagles with their tattered tricolour flags, holds out a marshal's baton, saying, "Here's Marshal Jordens Rolling-pin." The third, wearing hussar uniform, and holding an eagle with a flag inscribed 'La Emperu . . .', points behind and to the right, saying, "And here comes their Last Cannon!!" In the middle distance a soldier is dragging after him downhill a cannon by a rope attached to the muzzle; he says, grinning, "By St Patrick I think we have taken all they brought from Parts!"; a drummer bestrides the gun beating his drum and shouting, and a third man stands astride it on the gun-carriage, waving a Union flag and his shako and shouting "Huzza Huzza". Two asses are harnessed tandem to the gun-carriage and are being dragged backwards, one slides on its haunches the other rears; on each is a French soldier wearing a bonnet rouge; one says: "By Gar every ting goes backwards with us." On the hill lies a dead soldier' burlesqued and wearing a bonnet rouge, his legs raised from the ground by his huge spurs; near him is a decapitated body with the detached head still wearing a grenadier's cap. In the foreground (right) are sacks of coin, and a chest inscribed 'Plunder', heaped with church plate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene after the Battle of Vitoria, More trophies for White-hall, and More trophies for Whitehall
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Plate numbered "202" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 57 in volume 3.