"John Bull (right), an obese 'cit', is addressed by a group of citizens, less obese, but much caricatured. Their spokesman says: "You must know, Mr Bull, we are a Society of Odd Fellows who had a lodge in Downing Street, and were robb'd of our Cash and accounts, notwithstanding we met at the Kings Head and so near the Treasury too! - is not it very hard - however we have left Downing Street intirely!" John, his hands under his coat-tails, answers: "All I have to say my good Friends is this - I am very sorry for you but I must own I am of opinion if some more Odd Fellows in Downing Street were to quit theire situations it would be very much to my advantage!" They stand in 'Bird Cage Walk', the name being on a piece of paper on the ground. Behind are railings in front of trees behind which are the towers of Westminster Abbey. On the right 'Downing Street' is indicated, abutting on the 'Treasury', on the extreme right, with a sentry before the building."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Odd Fellows from Downing Street complaining to John Bull
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 88., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "168" in upper right corner., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. June 4, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 10988 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A clumsy lumbering diligence, with four horses, leaves the porte-cochère of an inn, part of whose ornate façade is on the left. The sign, 'Le Qoque [sic] en Pate', hangs from a wrought-iron bracket. Two postilions ride the near horses, flourishing their whips. The coach is full inside and out with typical French characters, humorously drawn, soldiers, monks, and women, with couples absorbed in conversation. An old couple beg from the passengers. A lean sow with small pigs scampers beside the coach. In the background (left) is the west end of a small church with a Calvary beside it at which nuns kneel in prayer; a group of monks approaches holding a cross. Down the hill leading from inn and church a post-chaise and pair and a post-boy on a horse are galloping, the latter wearing the huge 'milk-churn' boots which astonished visitors to France. A row of very ancient gabled houses forms part of the background, while on the extreme right is a large building of more recent date."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Paris diligence
Description:
Companion print to: A table dhote, or, French ordinary in Paris., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., For an earlier state lacking publication line and bearing the title "The Paris dil-gence," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 810.00.00.01.1+., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "19" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A fat 'cit' and his fat wife sleep in armchairs with a solid round table between them on which are two decanters, glasses, and a punch-bowl. He is by the fire (left); on the hob is a coffee-pot, on the chimney-piece a box of 'Turkey Tobbacco' and a long pipe. A fat spaniel lies on a cushion. Behind her mother and on the extreme right a buxom girl sits at a miniature piano being kissed by a plump young man. Her open music-book is inscribed 'Lucy's Delight Handell Water Piece'. Beside them on the floor an open book, inscribed 'a Duett Prestissimo', lies across a 'Dumb Flute'. Over the chimney-piece is a placard inscribed: 'Eating, Drinking and Sleeping, with the generality of People the three important Articles of Life'. On the wall hangs a large 'Plan of the New Improvement of the Cattle Market in Smithfield', with four divisions inscribed respectively 'Sheep Penns', 'Swine Market', 'Division for Horned Cattle', and 'Cow Penns'. Above the door is a heavily framed view of 'Wapping Docks'. Below the title: 'This honest Man being of greater Consequence in his own Thoughts, than in the Eye of the World, had for some Years past, kept a Journal of his Life--Videlisset [sic] Monday Eight O Clock--I put on my Clothes, Washed Hands and face--Nine O Clock--Tied my knee Strings, put on my double soaled Shoes Took a Walk to Islington. One O Clock took a Luncheon between Two and Three--Return'd, dined on a Knuckle of Veal and Bacon--Three--Nap as usual--Four to Six Walked in the Fields. Wind S.S.E. --from Six to Ten--went to the Club was half an hour before any body else came-- Ten at Night Went to Bed Slept without Waking till Nine next Morning-- Tuesday Wenesday Thursday Friday S. S. little or no Variation--'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Tegg's caricatures ; no. 18
Description:
"Price one shilling colored.", Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 187-8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Publication information based on earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. May 20th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11623 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., and Title etched below image
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A close-up view of one of the 'pigeon holes' which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from heat or discomfort, and except for one or two pretty young women are grotesquely caricatured. The centre figure in the front row, leaning on the parapet and apparently asleep, is a fat coachman in livery. An old man leans over, bleeding copiously at the nose. In the spaces left by the curve of the lunette in the upper corners of the design are groups symbolizing Comedy (left) and Tragedy (right): comic mask, pan-pipes, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Teggs caricatures ; no. 57
Description:
Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 200-1., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11797 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Covent Garden gallery., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Plate numbered "118" in upper right corner., Publisher and date of publication from Grego., Temporary local subject terms: Racing., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 190., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Septr. 18th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11626 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets., Fish. , Fishing boats., Fishmongers. , Piers & wharves., and Street vendors.
"Two figures in a pleasant undulating landscape with trees. A lean elderly man (resembling Dr. Syntax), rides across grass with a smile of anticipation towards a country girl seated on the ground under a tree. She stares fixedly at him. Two dogs scamper before the horse, barking."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Old mole catcher in full scent
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured."--Lower left corner of design., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Plate numbered "83" in upper right corner., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A pretty young woman swings high above the heads of the spectators, seated on a rope hung between two tall trees. A similar girl, and a young man who embraces her, pull at a rope which works the swing. An elderly parson of Syntax type (see British Museum Satires no. 11507, &c.), smoking and drinking on a bench, looks up delightedly at the girl's legs. Another, fat and humpbacked, flirts with a fat elderly woman. Three elderly farmers rush from the right to watch the display of legs, one waving a pipe and punch-bowl. A fat woman tugs angrily at the pigtail of one of them, kicking him behind; an elderly virago threatens them with her fist."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
How to show off a well shaped leg
Description:
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "9" in upper right corner., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore (right) where a man-of-war is at anchor. All are in difficulties. A fourth is on his hands and knees on the extreme left; he looks up to say: "Mind what you are at Messmates for I am upset, and the frigate I came on board of--has been under weigh, without me this half hour." The foremost, clasping his rearing horse round the neck, looks back to say: "Keep more to the Star-board and be D--d, to you--dont you see how you make my vessel, run a head." The next man is tied to his galloping mount with heavy ropes; and he says: "Here I come my Hearty's --Right and tight,--smart sailing, but never mind that--I cant be cast away for my commander, Heavens bless him has lash'd me to the deck, with some tough Old Cables!" The last sailor's horse kicks with tail erect; he exclaims: "D--n me--how she heaves. Why this is worse than a Jolly Boat, in the Bay of Biscay. and what a D--d noise she makes in her poop--Signals for sailing I suppose"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 202., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Plate numbered "62" in upper right corner., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pub. March 16, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11801 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A mountainous woman, with traces of comeliness, sits squarely in an arm-chair, plying a fan, between her husband (left) and a servant who stands (right), his hat under his arm and his hands in his coat-pockets. The latter says: "An please you Master and Mississ, The Sailor Man has sent word as how the Wessel is ready to swim." The husband, a paunchy 'cit' in old-fashioned dress, stands leaning towards his wife, saying, "Why my Dove--I am loaded with provisions like a tilt cart on a fair day, and my pockets stick out as if I was just return'd from a City Feast." The heads of two geese hang from his pocket. His wife says: "Dont be so Wulgar Mr Dripping--you are now among gentill folks, and must behave yourself--we shall want all the Wickalls on the Woyage depend upon it--bless me how Varm it is, I am all over in a muck"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Date from Grego., Later state; place and date of publication have been removed from beginning of imprint statement. For an earlier state missing the final two digits of the year of publication but with the imprint otherwise intact, see no. 11968 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "166" in upper right corner., Probably etched on a reused plate; ghost images, scratches, and faint upside-down text are visible in and around the design., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.