"Skeffington, in back view, stands squarely, but looks smiling to the right, his sharp features in profile. He wears a round hat, powdered hair, with a dark whisker, a much-wrinkled Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425), breeches, and top-boots with spike toes. His coat-collar and shoulders are thickly coated with hair-powder (cf. BMSat 8190). His attitude is that of one displaying his ungainly costume. He faces a path which leads to a distant gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Top-boots with spike toes -- Gibbets.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... who has just fitted up his exhibition room in an entire novel and elegant stile [sic], admittance 1 shilling, folios of caricatures lent out., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Germany -- Allusion to England -- Bishops -- Regimentals -- Mitres -- Croziers -- Swords.
Publisher:
Pub. March 7, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespeare's Hamlet., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
"The enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm extended, left arm thrown back, fingers (very large) pointing awkwardly; his head is turned in profile to the left. He wears quasi-contemporary dress, much dishevelled, with a star and ribbon from which hangs the elephant of the Danish order."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,2.22., Two lines of text from Hamlet are etched below title: ---------- that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably., Leaf 23 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching and stipple engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.5 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Stephen Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Stephen, 1758-1822
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Obesity, and Theatrical productions
"A design in two compartments; between the two titles is etched: ['Fatal Effects of the French Defeat']. On the left Fox hangs himself in a ramshackle garret. His neck is in a noose which hangs from a beam, his right foot rests on a low stool, his left hand holds the rope. He leans back with an expression of terror, dropping an 'Account of the Republican Overthrow'. On the wall (left) is a half length portrait of 'Pichegru' holding a sabre. The poverty of the room is indicated by peeling plaster showing patches of bricks, by the raftered roof, and a small casement window (right). On the right Pitt and Dundas drown themselves in wine. Both are on the floor; they have overturned a round table behind them from which the sliding bottles pour their contents over Pitt, who holds up a brimming glass in his left hand. He leans against an overturned chair holding a paper: 'News of the Victory over the Carmagnols'; he looks up smiling. Dundas sits behind and on the right, in profile to the right, more serious and more intent. He drinks with concentration, spilling his wine and waving his wig above his head. He wears a plaid over his coat. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'George IIId', the head cut off by the upper edge of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Drowning and Fatal effects of the French defeat
Description:
Title etched at bottom of images., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Suicides -- Interiors: garrets -- Furniture: footstools -- Drunkenness -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Gen. Pichegru -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of George III.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pichegru, Charles, 1761-1804
Title engraved above image., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Impressed on one sheet with three columns of letterpress., Four lines of verse in Dutch within design: De rouw van harlekin is droevig ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bellows -- Mythology -- Symbols: Mercury's Caduceus -- Harlequin., Watermark., Title translation on verso of mount: Harlequin and Bombario in mourning., and Mounted to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Mercury, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Title engraved above image., Six lines of verse below image: The man in graver tragick known (though his best part long since was done) ..., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), frontispiece for January issue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Harlequin -- Devil -- Cap of liberty --Staff of maintenance -- Literature: quotation from Written in the beginning of Mazeray's History of France, by Matthew Prior, 1664-1721., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below imprint: 6d. plain, 1s. colour'd., Four images, each with six lines of verse below. A horizontal line bisects the design to make 8 compartments., Verse below first image from left: The royal chaser here you view, a monarch and a sportsman too ..., Verse below second image from left: The clown is ordered by his master to keep the house, oh! sad disaster ..., Verse below third image from left: Here Harlequin with Columbine is telling of his whole design ..., Verse below fourth image from left: The old man from his information the subject treats with speculation ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Columbine -- Pantaloon as a Turkish magician -- Chemical equipment -- Hunting horns, 1772 -- Tuning fork -- Turkish magician, 1772 -- Animals: stuffed animals., and Watermark: initials HB in circle.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Marh. [the] 23rd 1772 by Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
"'The Feast' is a steaming sirloin in a dish inscribed John Bull's Comfort, flanked by (left) a frothing tankard decorated with the Royal Arms and (right) a plum-pudding. The three harpies, Tierney (left), Shuckburgh, and Jekyll (right), malignantly vomit and excrete on the feast. Tierney hovers over the tankard, Shuckburgh over the beef; Jekyll, with webbed wings and barrister's wig and bands, is planted on the pudding. All do their worst to the beef, against the dish of which lies a carving-knife and fork."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Harpies defiling the feast
Description:
Title etched below image., No. 3 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology., and Temporary local subject terms: Roast beef -- Table settings: utensils -- Food: plum pudding -- Dishes: tankard with royal arms -- Mythology: harpies -- Reference to John Bull.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837