The quadrangle at Tattersalls (1823) is filled with groups of betting men, 'the greater part ... are portraits' (p. xx). The three men on the extreme left are Mr. Tanfield, Lord Sefton, and Colonel Hylton Jolliffe. In the extreme right corner is Sir L. Skeffington; near him, but not identifiable, is John Gully the ex-pugilist. A Jew sells wares from a basket-tray. Over the doorway: Houses must not be taken away without being paid for
Alternative Title:
Heroes of the turf paying & receiving at Tattersals and Heroes of the turf paying and receiving at Tattersals
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For published state see, no. 14944 in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1824 by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gully, John, 1783-1863., Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850., and Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Horse buyers, Horse trading, Crowds, and Street vendors
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- Hats -- Dogs -- Promenades., and Ms. note in a contemporary hand at end of title: + 1828.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street St. James's
Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors site by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief debtors' prisons, 'Bench' and 'Fleet', and a framed table of 'House Fees. Fire 0 2.6. Candles 0.2.6. Bed 0.10.6. Warming do. 0.1.0. Breakfast 0.7.6. Eggs 0.2.0. Total £1.7.0. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date in imprint burnished out. Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.
"Alderman Wood, dressed as an elderly woman (as in British Museum Satires No. 13858) in bonnet with a lace frill, worn over a cap, and tippet, comes out of his house in South Audley Street, grasping in a gloved hand a large bottle inscribed 'Popularity'. He stands, directed to the right, between the pillars of the porch; above the porch in large letters: 'Refuge for the Destitute'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed only with Robert Cruikshank's name, but a collaboration with George Cruikshank is noted in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 26 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
"Jerry Hawthorn handing a lady into a coach, Corinthian Tom following with a lady on his arm, both gentlemen dressed in dark coats, holding opera hats, both ladies wrapped in shawls with feathers in their hair, a coachman standing at the door to the coach, two link boys with flaming torches offering their services to Tom, a large crowd behind them in the colonade outside of the opera house, a beadle pushing his way through the masses and two infantrymen on guard at the near door, one chatting to a young girl, a man shouting to the right; illustration to Egan's "Life in London" (1821)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Egan, Pierce. Life in London., Imprint statement erased from sheet. Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Country lanes -- Bicycles., and Watermark: Basted Mill.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Eating and drinking -- Wine -- Flurtations -- Couples., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander, and are making for the Point
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
The King's Bath with the heads of men and women emerging from steaming water. Robert Cruikshank (right) is in profile to the right, addressing a pretty woman, and pointing to 'Blackmantle' who swims (defying the rule), approaching a group of alarmed and pleased women. British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stewing alive
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
"Satire: a balance with George IV and his ministers with green bags on one pan being outweighed by Queen Caroline alone on the other, with John Bull cheering in the centre and soldiers toasting her at the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 34 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by Benbow, St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Scales, Bags, Soldiers, and Toasting