Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's statement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate (partially trimmed): S.W.F.
Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Numbered 'Ptale [i.e., plate] 15' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 35' in upper right corner., Two lines of text below image: D--n [i.e., damn] thee don't play thy tricks with me ... ., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., State with title on plate. Cf. No. 8944 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Food: ham -- Slang: 'gammon'.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Gardens, Lamps, Farmers, Restaurants, Tearooms, and Waiters
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: riding habit -- Male dress: riding clothes -- Fortifications -- Notice boards., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below., and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pub by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, and Barwell, Richard, 1741-1804
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '172' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One line of text below title: "The end of these things is death.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Earrings -- Miniature portraits as jewelry -- Female dress: masquerade costume -- Tickets: masquerade tickets -- Pictures amplifying subjects: portrait of Cleopatra -- Pulley-stiles -- Parasols -- Furniture -- Powder puffs -- Domestic servants: lady's maid -- Furnishings: window curtain tassels.
Publisher:
Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Older people, Women, Headdresses, Clocks & watches, Jewelry, Dressing tables, Umbrellas, and Women domestics
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Saldanha Bay -- Cape of Good Hope -- Palm trees -- Monkeys -- Dutchmen -- Sailors -- Frenchmen -- Money: coins -- Ships: deck -- Cannons., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
In seven scenes in a design of two tiers, citizens dispute the oppressive fees imposed by a zealous tax collector who taxes bugs, pets, a bulbous nose and a runny nose, corns on a foot, and a man's skin. In the scene on the upper right, the tax collector penalizes a man whom he accuses of evading tax as he defecates in a bush
Alternative Title:
Taxes as they will be!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Black people, Birds, Birdcages, Cats, Defecation, Dogs, Servants, Single women, and Tax payers
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of text below image: Justice: Well, then you avou you have been married seven years ..., Plate numbered '167' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers: justices -- Food: bacon -- Civil uniforms: epaulettes with aglets -- Male dress: aglets -- Customs: claiming the flitch of bacon., and Watermark: (partial) Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Published 8th Feby. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A stout man (left) wearing a robe and nightcap, on crutches with his gouty right foot bandaged and in a sling that wraps around his shoulders, complains to a thin man (right) wearing a coat and boots but with his legs bare. The man on the left says "Don't plague me now - I have got the gout", to which the other man replies "I give you joy my good friend, in these hard times it is very well you can get any thing!!!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Final two digits of year in imprint likely transposed in error; publisher S.W. Fores did not move to the 50 Piccadilly street address until the mid-1790s, according to the British Museum online catalogue. Krumbhaar lists 1789 as the year of publication., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Sling for a gouty foot., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.5 x 23.3 cm.
A stout man (left) wearing a robe and nightcap, on crutches with his gouty right foot bandaged and in a sling that wraps around his shoulders, complains to a thin man (right) wearing a coat and boots but with his legs bare. The man on the left says "Don't plague me now - I have got the gout", to which the other man replies "I give you joy my good friend, in these hard times it is very well you can get any thing!!!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Final two digits of year in imprint likely transposed in error; publisher S.W. Fores did not move to the 50 Piccadilly street address until the mid-1790s, according to the British Museum online catalogue. Krumbhaar lists 1789 as the year of publication., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Sling for a gouty foot., Publication year in imprint corrected in manuscript from 1769 to 1796., and Watermark: P Edmonds 1817.