"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
A copy of no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London : Publisher not identified, 1836?], p. 41., Printmaker and publication information from a smaller version of this design published 1 Mar. 1803 by R. Ackerman. See Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 42., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms., Billiards., Dogs., Pictures., and Servants.
"A family of sweeps sitting before the smoking hearth (at right) in a low hovel, eating, drinking and smoking; all have sooty skin apart from the grotesque mother who leans back, barebreasted and negligently holding a long pipe, against a heap of sacks; a man sitting alongside and smoking a long pipe leers at her, another beside him; four children lie or sit on the floor eating with spoons from bowls, at one of which a cat also sits; on the rafters, above the billowing smoke, a caged black bird and an uncaged white bird."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Sweeps regaling
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly a companion print to: Love and dust., Probably a reissue of a plate first published in 1802; the year etched above Rowlandson's signature might have originally been "1802," and was seemingly modified to "1808" and then possibly "1812" before being mostly obscured with crosshatching. See Grego., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"No. 9."--Upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Text above image: A Pygmy cat hunt., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England
"Two pugilists, stripped to the waist, face each other with raised fists, each with his second behind him. The bottle-holders sit on the ground (left and right) just inside the ring, which is formed by the front row of seated spectators. A dense (masculine) crowd seated in tiers surrounds the ring, backed by coaches on which stand women as well as men. Below the title: 'The Concourse of people exceeded any thing we have ever wit-nessed. The Spectators were computed at Ten Thousand. At one O'Clock the Champions entered the ring, and Sam had for his second Harry Lee, whilst Joe Ward officiated for Medley, after a severe and bloody contest of 49 Rounds Victory was decided in favour of Sam'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Boxing match for two hundred guineas betwixt Dutch Sam and Medley
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 189-90., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. June 5, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11600 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 "22" in upper right corner., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., 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.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-44
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
A giant, half-nude female figure of Britannia swings terror-stricken diminutive figures of Charles Fox and Lord North in the air. Holding Fox by the ankle, she raises him above her head while North dangles by his neck from her other hand. Her shield and the liberty cap are beside her.
Alternative Title:
Britannia roused, or, The coalition monsters destroyed and Coalition monsters destroyed
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., North, Frederick,--Lord,--1732-1792--Caricatures and cartoons., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"Price one shilling.", Date of publication from Grego., 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. 4., Plate numbered "272" in upper right corner., Reissue, with date removed from imprint statement. For an earlier state with the date "Jany. 1st, 1808" at end of imprint, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 808.01.01.02+., 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.
"Scene by a roadside pond opposite a picturesque inn (right). A few country-people watch a distressed cat in a bowl which floats precariously. An angry old woman strides into the water to rescue the animal, but is restrained by a friend. Other spectators watch with amused delight; they wear holiday finery, imitating fashionable dress. A boy, holding back a dog, and a girl sit together on the bank. A young couple in a gig at the inn-door watch the cat. Behind the pond (left) a tandem runs away overturning a gig."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Rural sports ; no. 1 and Rural sports. Cat in a bowl.
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 205-6., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Plate numbered "69" in upper right corner., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. April 24, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 811.04.24.01.1+., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Series title precedes print title below image; series numbering follows print title., 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 young man, [Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) misidentified by Dorothy George as] Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), stands on a platform in a crowded lecture-room, circular in shape, an arc of the wall being shown. He pours liquid from a kettle into a beaker. His table is covered with similar beakers, a tiny retort, &c. Behind him is a door inscribed 'Surrey Institution'. The absorbed audience consists chiefly of pretty women in evening dress and ugly and elderly men. Men are seated on the platform; one is standing. In the foreground (left) a much caricatured elderly man in old-fashioned dress and bag-wig leans forward on his stick, registering anguished jealousy. In his pocket is a book: 'Accum's Lectures' .... Spectators look down from a balcony immediately above the platform."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from Grego. A date of ca. 1810 is given in the British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Accum, Friedrich Christian,--1769-1838--Caricatures and cartoons., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
"Another version, reversed and altered, of British Museum Satires no. 8196 (1772). A fat woman on her back has been added to the group of two fleeing men, and beside the three men standing on the bank is a fat woman, horrified at the calamity."--British Museum online catalogue. and "Skaters have fallen upon breaking ice, some lie flat; heads and legs and arms emerge in wild confusion. In the middle distance (right) two skaters, one a parson, flee headlong from the danger-spot. On the shore (left) three men stand watching the catastrophe with amusement. Farther off is a marquee within which are tiny figures seated at a table."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier version.
Description:
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.