An elaborately dressed old gentleman with a huge club wig and a bouquet of flowers and vegetables in the buttonhole of his coat, leans with his left hand on a table while addressing an elegant tall young woman seated in the chair on the right, her toupée wig decorated with ribbons and scarf, and a large nosegay stuck in the neck of her pelisse
Alternative Title:
Two maccaroni's and Two macaronies
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Scene of constables disrupting the work of those selling goods on Sunday. Includes man in stocks below sign: For vending Goods on the Lord's Day. Includes a smoking and drinking woman who has in her basket: Wesley's Hymns. A preacher standing on a tub and preaching is in the background. The name, John Ketch, appears among others on a sign on the wall of a nearby house
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Portrait of Methodist, based on Hogarth print published in 1763., Text following title: quote from Matthew, Chap xii, ver. 5, 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788. and Ketch, Jack, -1686.
"Three separate scenes blend into a single design. The dialogue is etched in the lower margin. On the left a young girl sits on the knee of her father, a stout drink-blotched man wearing a plain old-fashioned wig, breeches, and top-boots. She takes his chin, saying insinuatingly: Lord, Papa! you must let us go to the Continent ; Mrs Thingamary says we shall never be accomplished till we have seen the Paris manners and customs. A round mirror is topped by a coronet. In the centre two dandies stand on a London pavement, against a background of tall houses. One, dressed in French fashion, with a moustache, a small hat perched on curls, and trousers pinched at the knee, stands with folded arms and a theatrical scowl. The other, wearing strapped trousers, tail-coat, and bell-shaped top-hat, smokes a cigar and holds a riding-whip; he asks: Well, Charles, where are you off to? Answer: O! moy dear feller, to Paris--to Paris, moy dear feller; nothing like Paris --there you have the--the--the--Je ne sçais quoi, moy dear feller, the--the every thing the every-thing!!-- On the right two ladies sit facing each other across a small round table. One wears a huge hat with broad flat brim trimmed with ribbon loops and streamers, the other a hat with wide brim bent bonnet-wise; both have big gigot sleeves, and full skirts. Below: Lord, ma'am! you are not serious,--you can never think of going to Margate--it is so common every tailor, shoemaker, and linendraper goes to Margate--No, no ma'am; Paris is the great resort of pure gentility, I assure you.--I always goes to Paris."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image. and Reissue of a plate originally published 25 September 1827 by G. Humphrey. Cf. No. 15464 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
A lady sits in an armchair, her head titled back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. Long locks of hair escaped from the turban, and she holds a fan in her right hand. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge., and Manuscript note below image identifies the sitter as Lady Charlotte Cambell.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
"A scene at a faro-table; part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground, players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she holds a pack of cards in one hand, a knave in the other, looking with a triumphantly rapacious smile at a stout lady (? Mrs. Hobart) who sits (right) clenching her fists and scowling back. All the others have expressions of alarm or concern, the least agitated being the Prince of Wales, seated on Lady Archer's left. On the extreme right and next Mrs. Hobart is Fox, turning up his eyes. The guests (except the Prince) are much caricatured; one of Gillray's witch-like hags sits between the Prince and Mrs. Hobart. On the table are heaps of coins, notes or bills, and rouleaux of guineas. Above the design is etched 'The Knave wins all'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Friendly party in high life and Knave wins all
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Dedication following title: To those earthly-divinities who charmed 20 years ago this honorable method of banishing mortifying reflections is dedicated., One line of text below title: O Woman! Woman! Everlasting is your power over us, for in youth you charm our hearts, and in your after-years you charm away our purses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: faro -- Playing cards -- Furniture: faro table -- Money., and Window mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 31st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Title from text above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publishing., Text below image: Keep outside. Oh dear it is so dirty. Keep off I say., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from heading above image., Part of imprint statement inscribed upside down and reversed on print., and Caption below image: "Lovely Miss Higgins shall I have the pleasure of hearing you play? La Sir I could not indeed unless Par and Mar where [sic] present.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducôté & Steven's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Caroline and Bergami sit together in an opera-box, frowning angrily at the occupants of the pit, all men, who look up at the box disapprovingly. Bergami holds a bottle labelled 'Essence of Bergamot' and wears a braided hussar uniform. Caroline is very décolletée, with loose black curls and a four-cornered headdress. The Arms of the Republic of Genoa are on the wall beside them with a harp and musical score below. The front of the box is decorated with two cupids holding a ribbon
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Her modest looks a cottage might adorn, sweet as the primroase peeps beneath the thorn.", and An enlarged version of a design, one of four on a single plate, etched by George Cruikshank and published 15 June 1820. Cf. No. 13731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Print of Molyneux in a fighting stance, likely during his fight against English champion Tom Cribb of 1810 or 1811
Description:
Thomas "The Moor" Molineaux, although usually called Tom Molineaux (which is sometimes spelled Molyneaux) was an African-American bare-knuckle boxer and former slave. He spent much of his career in Great Britain and Ireland, where he had some notable successes. He arrived in England in 1809 and started his fighting career there in 1810. It was his two fights against Tom Cribb, widely viewed as the Champion of England that brought fame to Molineaux, although he lost both contests. His prizefighting career ended in 1815. After a tour that took him to Scotland and Ireland, he died in Galway, Ireland in 1818, aged 34., Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Leaf 16 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818, and Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818.
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers, Prints, and Boxers (Sports)