"A tall French soldier, swarthy, mustachioed, muscular, and sinister stands almost full-face, his mouth open as if shouting. In his large cocked hat are three large favours, one white inscribed 'Vive Le Roi', one tricolour inscribed 'Vive Le Empereur', the uppermost and largest, 'Vive Le Diable', is pink. He holds his musket by the barrel, the butt resting on the ground, in his left hand he holds out a snuff-box. His uniform is neat, but his feet are bare, except for remnants of leather across the instep. By his head in large letters: 'French Constancy' (left) and 'French Integrity' (right). Behind and on a smaller scale are emblems of fickleness: a windmill (left) represents 'French Stability'; an ape and cat embracing, both on their hind-legs, represents: 'French Union between the National Guard and Troops of the Line'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Vive le roi! Vive le empereur. Vive le diable
Description:
Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"View of the bay at West Looe, beach in foreground with three men repairing the bottom of one fishing boat with pitch and three men unloading baskets from another; river behind running from between the arches of a bridge at left to the sea at right, and low cliff jutting up behind with a small row of houses at centre; tree-covered hill behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
West Looe, Cornwall
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Also signed "Rowlandson 1822" in lower left corner of design., Date of publication based on other plates in the series; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 373., For a probable earlier state published 25 November 1809, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 169., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Cornwall (England : County)
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-66
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"A canvassing scene in a poor and disreputable district of Westminster, indicated by 'Peter Street' on the corner of the house. The Duchess of Devonshire canvasses a cobbler; she sits supported on Fox's knee, putting one foot on a cobbler's stall that he may do some imaginary repairs, for which she lavishly pays the man's wife, who leans forward, both hands held together to receive coins. The cobbler and his wife are behind a stall protected by a pent-house roof. On this is a notice, 'Shoes made and mended by Bob. Stichitt Cobler to her Grace the Tramping Dutchess NB Dogs Wormd Cats Gelded'. From an open casement window above it a man leans out waving a fox's brush; he holds a tankard and a long clay pipe in his left hand. Beside him a woman holds her head to vomit from the window, her elbows supported on the sill. A dog lies under the cobbler's stall. Fox, his right knee on his hat on the ground, the other supporting the duchess, turns round to give his right hand to a ragged man to whose mouth Sam House holds a tankard, his other hand pressed on the elector's head, who is shown by his long shovel to be a scavenger. Behind, a chimneysweeper with his brushes and his boy with brush and shovel are amused spectators. These figures fill the space to the left of Fox and the duchess. Behind are the irregular gabled roofs and casement windows of old Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Cobling voters and abject canvassers
Description:
CtY-LW, Plate reissued for The history of the Westminster election. See British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: London: Peter Street -- Old Westminster -- Gabled roofs -- Casement windows -- Coblers' stalls -- Dishes: Tankards -- Clay pipes -- Shovels., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Geographic):
Westminster (London, England)--Politics and government.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer,--Duchess of Devonshire,--1757-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Great Britain.--Parliament--Elections, 1784., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., House, Samuel,--d. 1785--Caricatures and cartoons., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Printmaker and artist from description of published state in the British Museum catalogue., Proof before letters. For state published by G. Humphrey in 1818, see no. 11779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date based on earliest imprint, partially scored through, present on published state: Publish'd January 9th, 1811, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges., and Title based on that of published state.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A governess sitting on the left at a round table, teaching three children maths, handing a coin to one; with toys on the floor and a picture of an infant Cupid under a tree reading a book, on the wall above."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.1346.
Description:
Title and approximate date supplied by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-32e
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"Skaters of varying competence on a frozen river, some to right and left sitting at stalls and having skates fitted; strip cut from a sheet of a drawing book."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue., CtY-BR, Date of publication based on Fores's street address, to which he moved ca. 1795-1797. See British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with nearly complete loss of imprint and probable loss of additional images. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1874,0509.114., Reissue of a plate from: Rowlandson, T. Outlines of figures & landscapes. [London] : Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ..., [1790-92]., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a plate originally published with the imprint "Pub Aug. 6, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly." Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,1214.437., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
Copy in reverse of a print made by James Gillray and published by William Humphrey. Cf. No. 5608 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Date of publication based on questionable date assigned to published version. See British Museum catalogue., and Title from published version.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Cooper, Grey,--Sir,--approximately 1726-1801--Caricatures and cartoons., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Four separate sheets, probably not from the same plate, mounted on one leaf. Uppermost sheet has imprint: Pubd. July 12, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand. The bottom right sheet is entitled "A scene in Hamlet" and is numbered "No. 23.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker and date based on similar plates. See no. 9691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheets trimmed within plate marks., and Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons --England and Satires (Visual works) --England