Title from item., Printmaker identified by British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on the bottom., Publisher's announcement following the imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures &c. in the Kingdom, also the head & hand of Count Struenzee. Admit. 1 s., Temporary local subject terms: Gibraltar -- Guns: cannons -- Cannon balls -- Military uniforms: regimentals -- Orders: Star of Bath -- Threat of war with Spain -- Furniture: armchairs -- Weapons: muskets with bayonettes -- Flags: Union flag., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and initials L V G? below.
"Scene in a ramshackle attic, with a curtained bed on the right. A family sit at a table covered with a tattered cloth, on which are part of a loaf and four small potatoes. The ragged, lean, and elderly man (left) faces his still more haggard wife. A small boy stands by his mother, a youth and little girl sit opposite. All scowl with dismay at the meagre fare. A starving cat miaows. The man recites: "O! thou that blest the loaves and fishes, Look down upon these two poor dishes, And though the 'tatoes are but small, Oh make them large enough for all. For if they should our bellies fill 'Twill be a kind of Miricle!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 9., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Cf. No. 11469, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with modified imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry., 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Social conditions, Cats, Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Potatoes, Poverty, and Starvation
Title from item., Printmaker identified by the repository from the original drawing at the Huntington Library collection., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: rustic cottages -- Benches -- Farmers -- Costume: smocks., and '0' in publication year erased and replaced with handwritten '1.'
Publisher:
Published 27th July 1790 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"Heading to a song printed in four columns. An old maid's tea-table overturns, owing to a quarrel between her two cats and the dog of her visitor (left), an elderly hunchback. Tea-urn, tea-pot, &c, fall to the ground, scalding the guest. Below the title: 'Being a Companion to that excellent Song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." To the tune of "Away with these Queer Married Fellows", in the "Gay Deceivers"; by Mr Bannister'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from broadside printed on same sheet., Printmaker and imprint data from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of text and four columns of verse following title in letterpress., and Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Tea Urn -- Reference to "Gay Deceivers" -- Pictures amplify subject.