Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Text following imprint: where political & other caricatures are daily pub., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text in upper right corner: to be continued., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily pub., the largest collection of any house in London., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A Frenchman, tall and gaunt, his thin legs engulfed in post-boy's boots, addresses John Bull (left), shrugging his shoulders and extending his hands: "by Gar Mr Jean Bull you Var much alter Should not know you var Jean I was as big as you now." John, an elderly cit, still paunchy, but with clothes hanging in wrinkles, turning his head in profile to the left, contemptuously smokes a short pipe, the smoke inscribed 'Puff'. His right hand rests on a cudgel inscribed 'Wellington Oake'. He answers with a fierce scowl: "why look you Mounseer Parley Vou tho I have got Thinner my Self I have a little Sprig of Oake in my hand thats as strong as ever and if you give me any of your Parlerver I'll be D--d if you shant feel the wait of it"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull come to the bone
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "234" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 78 in volume 4.
An Irish schoolmaster-priest, sits in a chair taking a pinch of snuff from an open snuff box as he catechizes a dwarfish Irish peasant, ragged and barelegged, who answers with a sly grin: 'O'C -- for O'Connell thats right--now Pat what does MP stand for eh?' Answer: 'Mealy Potato'. On the table to the right is a crucifix used to prop open a book. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Irish MPs
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication inferred from references to Daniel O'Connell and Catholic emancipation., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publishing., and For a brief description of this print, see entry for no. 15684 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, page 102.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Crucifixes, Ethnic stereotypes, Peasants, Priests, Snuff, and Teachers
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data form local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... sole pub. of P. Prys caricatues [sic]., Text above imprint: None are orilinal [sic] without McLeans name., Text below image: The architect. Glory consists in the designment and idea of the work; his ambition should be to make the form triumph over the matter., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Buckingham Palace -- Male costume: Apron -- Trowels -- Architects -- Walking-sticks., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 91.
Title from caption below image., The word 'my' from the title is inserted superscript over a caret symbol., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.