"A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
"A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., Variant state, without publisher and date and with differently etched title, of No. 8753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
"A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified by George., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy in reverse. Cf. No. 8753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., No. 6 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
"A companion print to BMSat 8659. Grenville seated in an ornate armchair peers near-sightedly at a map of 'The Globe' in two hemispheres which he holds up to his face. The eastern hemisphere, at which he is not looking, shows an exaggeratedly large tract of 'French Conquests'. His posteriors and legs, very solid in BMSat 8659, are thin. He sits before a light rectangular table on which are ink-stand and pens and two books, 'Court Calender' and 'Locke on Human Understanding' (as in BMSat 8659). On the wall are two pictures, the subjects merely indicated: 'The Treasury' (left) shows the arched gate and stone wall of many satires; 'Brittania Triumphant': Britannia seated with spear and shield. A patterned carpet completes the design. Grenville fixes his attention on scarcely visible successes in the W. Indies, ignoring the French conquests in Europe. The 'Court Calender' and 'The Treasury' indicate eagerness for the perquisites of office, cf. BMSat 8061 (1792)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Inkstands -- Maps -- Shortsightedness -- Pictures amplifying subject: View of the Treasury building -- Pictures amplifying subject: Britannia's chariot -- Literature: reference to John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 8th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"A companion print to BMSat 8656. Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of the 'Treasury Bench': three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors; the wall of the Treasury forms a background. ...."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Nine lines of verse in two columns below title: "Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Fireplaces -- Furniture: shelves -- Fish bowls -- Shortsightedness -- Wall maps -- Pictures amplifying subject: Treasury bench -- Literature: Reference to John Locke's Essay on human understanding -- Furnishings: carpets.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"A lady sits in back view before a tall pier-glass, twisting a piece of drapery round her head. Two young women (right) hold up festoons of the immensely long drapery, the end of which trails across the floor and is worried by a small dog, shaved in the French manner. The glass is surmounted by an earl's coronet and decorated by triple ostrich plumes, suggesting that the lady, who wears a loose wrapper, may be Lady Jersey. The mirror is lit by two candles. Through a window (right) is a crescent moon, sinking into clouds. The second attendant wears a hat, suggesting that she is a milliner. Both are dressed in the short-waisted fashion of the day (cf. BMSat 8571). An elaborate bowl of flowers stands on a pedestal or small ornate table. A patterned carpet covers the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: mirrors -- Crowns: earl's coronet -- Claw-foot table -- Furnishings: flower arrangements -- Window curtains -- Emblems: Earls of Jersey ostrich feathers -- Pets: dogs -- Lighting: candle holders on mirror -- Trades: milliners -- Female dress: drapery headdress.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
"A whole length caricature-portrait of Prince William Frederick of Gloucester in profile to the right wearing military uniform. He is very thin, elongated, and knock-kneed, and stands with his right hand in his breeches pocket. His profile resembles that of his uncle, George III ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Slice of Gloucester cheese
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
The Duke of Clarence dressed as a rough sailor, stands full-face with folded arms (three-quarter length view only), looking to the right with a belligerent stare. He wears a shapeless hat, a naval coat, striped trousers, a handkerchief knotted round his neck. Etched below the image: "Damn all Bond St Sailors I say, a parcel of smell smocks! they'd sooner creep into a Jordan than face the French! dam me!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Enlarged copy of Naval eloquence, by the same printmaker., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816. and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
"The King in profile to the right, with the Queen holding his right arm, leans towards a startled yokel who clutches his hat and a bucket. Behind the yokel (right) are pigs sniffing at the bucket and the gable end of buildings. All are caricatured. The King wears riding-dress, with a broad-brimmed hat and a spencer (see BMSat 8192) over his coat. He stands as if knock-kneed, his legs awkwardly splayed out. The Queen is dwarfish, wearing a hood over her hat and a shapeless cloak. In her right hand is a snuff-box. The yokel, wearing smock and gaiters, has the staring eyes, lantern jaws, and gaping mouth characteristic of Gillray's sansculottes. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of text below title: Well, friend, where a'you going, hay? What's your name, hay? Where d'ye live, hay? Hay?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Farmyards -- Yokels -- Male costume: spencer -- Riding habit -- Pigs -- Crops -- Buckets.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818