"A number of persons take shelter under the enormous hat-brim of a lady who screams, clasping her hands in alarm. An infant chimney-sweep or 'climbing boy' has climbed up her petticoats and sits astride on their lateral projection. A larger chimney-sweep is about to climb up, putting one foot on his sack of soot. A cloaked market-woman, smoking a pipe, stands under the shelter, as does a man in the dress of a naval officer. A sailor, wearing trousers, his arms folded, appears to be dancing a hornpipe under the shelter of the hat. In the background (right) a lady walks (right to left) holding up a small umbrella which shelters only a minute part of her enormous hat which extends far beyond her projecting breast and petticoats. In the foreground chickens run towards a hen for shelter. A house (left) and a high wall behind which is a tree (right) complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Any port in a storm
Description:
Title from item., On verso, in pencil: questionable attribution to Kingsbury., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Chickens, Chimney sweeps, Clothing & dress, Hats, Sailors, British, Street vendors, Umbrellas, and Uniforms
"A pugilistic encounter between two old market-women who are Eldon (left) and Wellington (right). Eldon is much the stouter and more purposeful, facing his enemy grimly and aggressively. He has a basket of oranges (emblem of the Orange Lodges) beside him, and wears a flat wide-brimmed hat. Wellington wears a soldier's coat over his skirt and apron (as beggar-women or basket-women often did, cf. (e.g.) BM Satires No. 15763). His profile is apprehensive, his hands loosely closed and on the defensive. Each has a bottle-holder; that of Eldon is John Bull, a stout yokel who puts his hand on his principal's bulging posterior, saying, 'Welldone--old Mother Baggs--you have got the best bottom after all. see what it is to have a good Constitution--give it her--she has'ent got the Mounshears to deal with now.' Wellington's supporter is a bare-legged Irish ragamuffin with a pipe thrust in his little hat. He capers excitedly, putting a hand on Wellington's back to push him forward, saying, 'Murder ye ould cat kape your fists Tight--or you'I let the Ould Orange-Woman bate ye clane.' In the background is a freely sketched crowd of spectators, women of St. Giles or Billingsgate. Two only are characterized: a fat woman with parson's wig and bands, with a basket of 'Oxford Sauce' on her head, looks over her shoulder at a handsome young virago (Peel), who is shouting at her, to say: 'Come give us none of your Jaw--Mother peel'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the row in Parliament Street
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are dail [sic] publishing., Approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Market-women -- Fruit -- Emblems -- Orange Lodges -- Male costume: Soldier's coat -- Peasants -- Irish ragamuffin -- Pipes -- Markets., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 185.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Spree at Melton Mowbray : larking at the Grantham toll-gate, or coming in for the brush
Description:
Title from caption below image., Two lines of verse below title: They left no man's sign, name, or calling, untouched, by something most appalling., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides and text in upper right margin erased from sheet., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published July 1st, 1837, by R. Ackermann at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent St.
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Two lines of text below image: A sailor happening to be present ..., Numbered '179' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: country inns -- Signs: inn signboard, 'The Swan' -- Clergy: parsons -- Sailors -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Barrels -- Maidservants., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man (l.), pen in hand, crouches in a ranting attitude, addressing an elderly man in old-fashioned dress, who gapes at him in dismay. On the r. a burly maidservant holds a pail of water, prepared to fling its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from the extreme right. The room contains a sloping desk, stool, shelves with papers, large volumes, and a box inscribed '9 to 12'. On the wall is a large calendar: 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Below the design: 'Dramatic Phrensy, to no place confind At freedom roves, and occupies the Mind, The Lawyers Clerk, Old Square-toes will to cross, Who spouts Lothario when he should engross All on a sudden from his writing stoops, My fierce ambitious soul declining droops His simple Master by - cries "whats the matter? Tom's in a fit here - Betty bring some water!' (Tom quotes the dying Lothario in Rowe's 'Fair Penitent', iv. I.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., No. 5 of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Ink well -- Lawyer -- Calendar., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
publis'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, [1749?]
Call Number:
749.08.12.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from earlier state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum 3047., 'Price 6d.'--Lower right corner., Four lines of verse below image: Thus blest was I before I went to law ..., Another state, with imprint burnished from plate. Cf. No. 3047 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Law and lawyers., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
1831.
Call Number:
831.00.00.46+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker's signature and date in imprint lightly etched on plate., Publisher's advertisement in lower left corner: See the following laughable plates. No. 1, Chip of the old block ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
"John Nash, misery personified, sits on the ground, in profile to the left, hands on knees, chin close to his hands; a harrow with huge spikes rests on his shoulders, and is thus tilted up, while a horse, its head cut off by the left margin, drags it along. Only one corner touches the ground, on a heap of papers, some of which it has spiked up; these are: 'Artists' Gallery', 'Marble Job', 'Lath & Plaister Acct', 'Job' (five times), 'Pimlico job' [Buckingham Palace], 'Regent Street Job', 'Brighton Job' [the Pavilion], 'Suffolk Street Job', 'Woods and Forests Job', 'Windsor Job', 'Brick . . .', 'his Mi . . . Job', 'Mosaic Gold Job'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Spiked harrows., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 99.
Page v. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7029. Johnson (left) climbs up a mountain on hands and knees, his oak stick in his left hand. Boswell follows, also on hands and knees; he licks Johnson's posteriors, saying, "I shall record this". Johnson says, "Come Bossy". Behind and below them a loch and mountain (right) are indicated. In the foreground (left) is a huge thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tomtit twittering on an eagle's back-side
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., A companion print to: A tour to the Hebrides., On paper with a watermark (trimmed)., and Tipped in at page v in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Mountains, Climbing, Staffs (Sticks), and Thistles
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., On same sheet, recto: The new pony chaise., and Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1829.
Publisher:
Published by O. Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair and Dean & Munday Lithographers, Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850