"A small ugly man trots (left to right) deprecatingly beside his wife, a large, over-dressed, scowling termagant, on their Sunday outing. He carries her umbrella, cloak, pattens, and a bundle in a check handkerchief. She holds a fan. An elderly man (right) walking in the opposite direction looks angrily at the couple; he swaggers in front of his pretty young wife, who appears pregnant and walks carrying a little girl and an umbrella. Behind them is an inn with the sign: 'The Old Swant [sic] Ordinary on Sunday'. A couple sit on a bench."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Hen peck'd husband and Hen pecked husband
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 69-71., Cf. No. 10909 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pub. Apr. 24, 1807 by T. Tegg, Cheapside., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "147" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Blood and Co. setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown and Blood and Company setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Description:
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 7354 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Also issued separately., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and Townshend, John,--Lord.
"Two designs on one plate. Above, two rows of burlesqued yokels (with two comely women, and an ugly old one), seated behind the orchestra and backed by a rough brick wall, register intense amusement. A fiddler stands up to snuff a single wall-candle. Below, three members of the orchestra play, grotesquely weeping; behind them are the pittites, also burlesqued, except for a good-looking young couple. A woman tries to revive a fat and fainting man with a smelling-bottle. Above their heads is a gallery, with two footmen in livery, two ladies, and an elderly parson. All shed tears, or otherwise express their grief."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Tragedy in London.
Description:
"One shilling colour'd."--Following imprint., Also issued separately., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. May 29th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.05.29.01.1., Later state; former plate number "20" has been replaced with a new number, and the year of publication has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "Pub'd May 29th" and "by Thos. Tegg ...", Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "172" in upper right corner., and Titles etched below images.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life., Manners & customs., and Theater audiences.
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his I. hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (rigth) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (l.). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue.
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Also issued separately., Five lines of text below title: Take off the largest dishes and set them on with one hand to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies that if the dish happens to slip the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes ..., Originally issued with publication date . Cf. No. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text following imprint: Price one shilling col'd., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearing a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointing towards the comet. Napoleon looks up at the King, who gazes fixedly above his head. He has ascended from a small piece of land rising from the narrow Channel separating it from John's wider fragment. Up this a frog clambers. On the open sea ships are strung out along the horizon. John says: "Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Also issued separately., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, 10th Novr. 1807. Cf. No. 10769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Later state; former plate number "29" has been replaced with a new number, and date has been removed from end of imprint statement., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "274" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title (partially damaged) of the design: '[getting up] early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, ta[ble, shovel, tongues,] poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bee[s wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner., Reissue, with altered plate number and with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate, of a print published 9 October 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.10.09.01., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"Two pilgrims meet, one (left) debonair and jaunty, the other in a crouching position, and with an anguished expression. Both wear hats turned up with cockle shells, and necklaces hung with shells, long belted gowns with rosaries. Each holds a staff surmounted by a cross. The verses, by 'Peter Pindar' (Wolcot) (abridged), relate the pilgrimage of 'a brace of Sinners' to the shrine at 'Loretta', fifty miles, with peas in their shoes, by order of their priest. The returning pilgrim explains his rapid progress:'"To walk a little more at ease,"I took the liberty to boil my peas'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "P. 2" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Thirty-one lines of verse below title: A brace of sinners for no good, were order'd to the Virgin Mary's shrine, who at Loretta dwelt in wax, stone, wood, and in a curld white wig, lookd wond'rous fine ..., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"A Quaker (left), standing on his toes, faces four stout and elderly Commissioners seated at a small table, who register surprise and disapproval. Three of them say: "What an impertinent fellow to keep on his hat before such a dignified Assembly!"; "None of your theese and thous here Sir--come to the point--we know you have evaded certain duties," and, "Pray Sir do you know what we sit here for?" The Quaker, his hands folded, answers: "Verily I do--some sit here for £500 others for a £1000--and more over I have heard it reported that some sit here for two--thousand pounds per annum"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "276" in upper right corner., Reissue, with date burnished from imprint statement leaving a gap between "London, Published" and "by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." For earlier state numbered "23" and published 9 July 1807, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.07.09.02.1+., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"Scene at a conjurer's. A man covered with a shaggy skin, with bull's horns, stands in a circle, impersonating the Devil. A butcher cheers on his dog who is worrying the pseudo-Devil, while the conjurer (left), wearing robes and a fur cap, stands behind, in angry alarm. A stuffed crocodile, celestial globe, &c, decorate the room. An inscription relates at length that the butcher has gone to consult the conjurer about some lost sheep, when his dog springs at the 'Devil', thinking it is a bull; he detects the cheat and refuses to call off his dog. The prose narrative ends: 'so Dog against Devil, for what sum you please!'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Dog and the devil
Description:
"Price one shilling.", Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "Z 2" in upper right corner., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title etched below image., and Twelve lines of text below title: A butcher once had lost some sheep, & to discover the thief, went to a reputed conjurer ...
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside,
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Butchers., Crocodiles., Devil., Dogs., Globes., and Magicians.