Upper image depicts a white horse (representing the House of Hanover) removing a mask and treading on papers called "Trade" and "Liberty." A dialog ribbon is coming out of his mouth with the word "Worms" on it [i.e. Treaty of Worms]. He is surrounded by men offering him money and saying such things as "Here's Cole" and "Damn Engl---d." and Lower image depicts Hanover as a nurse sitting on a three-sided stool and changing the diaper of Britannia as a baby. The nurse is saying "Your Besh-t again wares y. Clouts." A stool is nearby with a pot of food on it and a sign saying "Bon pour Nicole."
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two images, one above text, one below, on broadside 38 x 24 cm., Text consists of two lists showing pay received by, respectively, Hanoverian soldiers, Hessian soldiers and Danish soldiers., Cf. Malcolm, History of caricaturing, 1813, p. 83, pl. XXI, fig. 4., Cf. Lewis, Genesis of Strawberry Hill for three-sided Gothic chair, fig. 35., Temporary local subject terms: Masks: George II -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Lists: pay lists -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Furniture: three-sided Gothic chair -- Personifications: Britannia as a baby -- Personifications: Hanover as an old woman -- Money: purses -- Food: rotten baby food., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, 1673?-1743, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Great Britain., and Hanover, House of.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Armed Forces, and Pay, allowances, etc
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five images of geese arranged vertically on left of plate, each enclosed in a border and accompanied by description to its right., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to George II -- Reference to Lord Anson -- Reference to British Lion.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778
List of the pedigrees of some eminent turkeys shortly to appear in public
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '25' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Five images of turkeys arranged vertically on left of plate, each enclosed in a border and accompanied by description to its right., Copy of No. 3414 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms;
Napoleon in bed wearing a nightshirt holds a map of Malta while visions of soldiers poisoned in the hospital at Jaffe, the massacre at Paris 18 Vendémiaire, the invasion of England, ghosts of the 3800 murdered Turks on the sand hills of Syria, the surrender of Ajacio in 1793, Wellington seeking revenge, his attempted poisoning, and murder by his own soldiers fill the room
Alternative Title:
Boney's visions
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist tentatively identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., For a later print with a similar theme and title, see no. 11736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Watermark: Russel & Co. 1799.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 and Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Delights of harmony
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher questionably identified as Thomas Tegg in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.10.164.a., Date based on publication date of the original print by Gillray, of which this is a reduced copy. Cf. No. 11611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "92" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 33 in volume 2.
Title from caption below image., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Date of publication based on that of the print from which this design was copied. See no. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Design consists of ten figures arranged in two rows., Companion to a print of the same title and similar design. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 787.00.00.24+., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet, and sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title., and Temporary local subject terms: Dancing -- Minuet -- Couples.
Title from caption below image., Copy of a print by James Gillray with the same title., Variant state lacking plate number in upper right. Cf. No. 9386A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven lines of verse in two columns below image: -Ne'er may his whiskers loose their hue chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! ... vide Anti-Jacobin., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: quasi-military -- Sideburns -- Walking staves -- Literature: Quotation from the Ode to Lord Moira, by George Ellis (1753-1815) -- Periodicals: Anti Jacobin Review, no. XI., and Numbered '99' in contemporary hand in upper right corner of design; mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
A pedestrian struggles through deep slushy snow, facing driving snow, with a broken umbrella, the spokes projecting through the cover. He clutches at his cloak and hat; he wears gaiters to the knee with socks over them, and overshoes. Cape and comforter stream behind him. In the background are two buildings. Other figures also struggling through the snow are faintly etched in the distance
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year in London
Description:
Title etched below image., A reversed and reduced version of a print by George Hunt after M.E. Egerton, published ca. 1825 by Pyall & Hunt. Cf. No. 14999 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Pasted on blue album paper at corners: sheet 19.4 x 15.2 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blizzards, Salutations, Snow, Winter, and Umbrellas
Title from text within banners at top and bottom of image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Temporary local subject terms: Christmas greetings -- Christmas., and Mounted to 29 x 21 cm.