Title from text below image., Several lines of a song sung to the tune "The young may moon" engraved below image: A dandy beau is all the go, so I resolved to change my plan ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1815.
Title from item., Below title: A favourite song, composed and sung at the Lyceum, by Mr. Dibdin., Four stanzas in two columns are printed below the plate: I was, d'ye see, a waterman ..., "The Waterman," a ballad-opera, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1774., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c in the Kingdom. Admittance one shi., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Sailors -- Buildings: rustic cottages -- Wooden fences -- Pigs -- Kissing.
Title from item., Below title: A favourite song, composed and sung at the Lyceum, by Mr. Dibdin., Four stanzas in two columns below the plate: I was, d'ye see, a waterman ..., The Waterman, a ballad-opera, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1774., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Sailors -- Buildings: rustic cottages -- Wooden fences -- Pigs -- Kissing., and Watermark: partial countermark W.
"A boy is seated on an ass which stands in a rectangular band-box. He is directed to the right and looks at the spectator grinning, his left hand extended as if pointing. He wears a round hat, a handkerchief knotted round his neck, ungartered stockings, shoes tied with strings, and a bludgeon under his right arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
My ass in a bandbox
Description:
Title etched below image., For a variant (earlier?) state lacking imprint statement, see no. 7793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Leaf 12 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
A monkey wearing a military uniform and holding a sword and a flag "Volunteer cavalry" sits astride an ass. From a basket hanging from the saddle hang a portrait of Fox with the caption "In place" and a portrait of Fox with the words "Out of place"; below the portraits can be seen a papers, the top the words "Tantararara rogues all" . The ass stands in a trunk with bundles of newspapers and paper hanging off the sides or in the lid, identified with the words: Telegraph, Parliament speeches, Gazettes extraordinary, Fashionable occurrences, Independent [sic] elections, Law suits. On the ground around the trunk are papers with titles: Speech of Mr. Deputy Did[...], 20 s. notes, Examination of Faro's daughters before the Justice
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: I Taylor 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10, 1797, 12 Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Baskets, Donkeys, Military uniforms, Monkeys, and Newspapers
"Social satire: an elderly woman with glasses and stick standing by her chair and table with her dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier state published 1 March 1815, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.226., Date of publication based on watermark., Nine lines of text below title: Formerly there existed in the families of most unmarried men or widowers of the rank of Gentlemen, residents in the country, a certain antiquated female either maiden or widow, comonly [sic] an aunt, or a cousin ... Grose's Olio., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "My bunkie." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Three soldiers on horseback in foreground with one soldier being pulled up from the ground by another
Description:
Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Text in lower left: copyrighted 99.