"Lord Petersham sits erect on his horse in profile to the right, a large cocked hat in his right hand, the arm, in a long wrinkled sleeve dropped by his side. A family likeness to his father is stressed by the similarity of pose, see British Museum Satires No. 10294. His shoulders are oddly drawn, his waist pinched."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Noble aide-de-camp
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Leaf 68 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Lord Petersham" in pencil in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton Junr., Charing Cross
Subject (Name):
Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1780-1851
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Dandies, Horses, and Staffs (Sticks)
"George IV sits in an arm-chair, his gouty right leg in a bulky swathing rests on a cushion; the left leg is tightly bound between calf and ankle with a narrow bandage. He wears a loose fur-collared coat or gown over breeches and waistcoat. He leans back reflectively, an open book, Diversions of Purley [by Home Tooke, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9020], in his right hand. Phases of his past life are illustrated in a series of W.L. portraits on the wall behind him. [1] As a handsome young man he stands holding a long-bow, as if at an archery contest. [2] He stands, slightly obese, in his Light Horse uniform, see British Museum Satires No. 8800 (1796). [3] He stands in back view as in BM Satires 12803, facing a wall on which is a portrait of the Hottentot Venus [Saartjie Baartman], see British Museum Satires No. 11577, &c. [4] He stands in hussar uniform, with high curled wig and whiskers. [5] He stands directed to the right in Field Marshal's uniform (as 'especially in 1814). [6] He stands on the deck of a ship in yachting costume wearing loose jacket and trousers, his hands in his coat-pocket. The profile and paunch of Sir William Curtis are behind and on the extreme left. [7] The picture is partly concealed by a curtain, but the King sits near a chamber-pot. [8] He stands in coronation robes holding orb and sceptre (see British Museum Satires No. 14199). [9] He is in Highland costume (see British Museum Satires No. 14386). At the King's left hand is a small cheval-glass topped by a crown. His appearance has changed, he has no whiskers, and has a wig of lightly curled natural hair, parted in the middle, so that in place of the pear- or pineapple-shaped head resulting from a crest of curls and whiskers, as from c. 1811 [In caricature. An engraved H.L. portrait by Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, pub. Cadell & Davis, 11 Oct. 1809, has whiskers and crest of curls], his face seems rounder, and, in many prints, younger. His dress is less formal, and his appearance (confirmed by portraits from 1820) suggests a determination to depart completely from the appearance and costume of caricature."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theater -- Hottentot Venus.
Publisher:
Pub. March 15, 1824, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Costume, History, Gout, Recluses, and Dandies
Print shows three fashionable dandies in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutanist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an ornate curiously shaped instrument. The third stands behind the sofa, playing a flageolet, and admiring himself in a mirror above the ornate fireplace. The vocalist holds an open music-book: 'Love has eyes.' On the floor beside him are two others: 'The Lovesick Swain set to Music' and 'Our Warbling Notes and Ivory lutes Shall ravish every ear.' Two whole length portraits flank the mirror, one of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress, the other of a man similarly dressed, both having pinched waists and full busts. Below one is a picture of 'Vacuna' [Goddess of rural leisure], a blowzy woman lying under a tree; below the other, a grotesque 'Narcissus' admires his reflection. On the end of the sofa sits a grotesquely clipped (and dandified) poodle suckling puppies
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio and Hummingbirds, or, A dandy trio
Description:
Title etched below image., After a design by amateur caricaturist John Sheringham; see British Museum catalogue., Later state, with G. Humphrey's original imprint replaced. For an earlier state, see no. 13446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., A reissue of a print originally published 15 July 1819 by G. Humphrey. This later state was included in Thomas McLean's 1835 collective reissue of several Cruikshank etchings entitled "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fashion, Clothing and dress, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, Music, Parlors, and Poodles
Leaf 25. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5169. Fourteen caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn in 1773. Most appear to be portraits: one is evidently a caricature of Lord Chancellor Bathurst, see British Museum Satire No. 4888."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5170 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Companion print to: Hats., On leaf 25., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 12, 1773, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Leaf 25. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5169. Fourteen caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn in 1773. Most appear to be portraits: one is evidently a caricature of Lord Chancellor Bathurst, see British Museum Satire No. 4888."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5170 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Companion print to: Hats., and Watermark : countermark W.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 12, 1773, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
A companion print to British Museum satire no. 5169. Fourteen caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn in 1773. Most appear to be portraits: one is evidently a caricature of Lord Chancellor Bathurst, see British Museum satire no. 4888."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '29' in upper left corner. Plate number cited in the British Museum Catalogue: 28., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 12, 1773, by M Darly, 39 Strand