"A Park promenade, with wind-swept fashionables. In the foreground (left) are three tiny children, almost hidden by their huge wide-brimmed straw hats, below which ankle-length drawers are seen. With them is a wasp-waisted lady also in a big flat hat, and with inflated sleeves connected by a tiny corsage. A soldier wearing a flat cap looks down on the roof of hats with astonishment. A dandy resembling one of the Crowquills in BM Satires 15156, and holding a similar cane, is arm-in-arm with a tall man draped in high-collared and tasselled cape reaching to the ground. They meet and address two ladies. A grotesquely obese woman ogles a passer-by. The new developments in costume are trousers pinched at the knee, and inflated above and below it, and for women large flat hats with flexible brims (cf. BM Satires 15017, 15059), much-defined breasts, and draped shoulder-capes tied at the back, with a general impression of swirling draperies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monstrosities of 1825 and 6
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- French., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th 1826, by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Strt. St. James's
Title from caption below image., A. Crowquill is the pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester., Following imprint in lower margin: Small image of a giraffe with speech bubble that reads "Tit for tat.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- Hats -- Dogs -- Promenades., and Ms. note in a contemporary hand at end of title: + 1828.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street St. James's
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "Lo this is their very guise.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1829.
"A promenade in Hyde Park. Innovations are that the men have trousers pinched at the knee, hour-glass fashion, their hats have small crowns, truncated cones, like the Petersham hat, some wear flat pumps with bows, and hold small riding-whips. They have enormous whiskers, patently false, sometimes meeting under the chin. The women have much-trimmed hats with large brims, gigot sleeves, belted dresses, with full skirts. There are three little children, all with plain straw hats with vast brims, like flat mushrooms; a little girl has a hoop, a boy a whip."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monstrosities of 1825
Description:
Title etched below image., Tentative attribution to Henry Heath from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge.
Publisher:
Published June 28, 1825, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hats, and Whips
George III, dressed as an old woman, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales in a fool's cap decorated with his three feathers, are seated around a basin perched on the laps of the King and Queen, marked "John Bull's Blood" and filled with gold coins. All three eagerly spoon the coins into their mouths. Pouches hanging from their necks like goitres are full, except for that of the Prince of Wales, whose is empty. In the background is a wide open gate to the Treasury
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Restrike, with aquatinting worn out in some areas. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7166., Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: bowls -- Craws, monstrous -- Cutlery: ladles -- Coins -- Guineas as food -- Fool's cap -- Prince's debts -- Gate of the Treasury building -- Coalition feast -- Reconciliation of Prince George and his parents -- Miserliness of George III and Queen Charlotte -- Reference to John Bull., Watermark on the left side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the right side., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd May 29th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
George III, dressed as an old woman, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales in a fool's cap decorated with his three feathers, are seated around a basin perched on the laps of the King and Queen, marked "John Bull's Blood" and filled with gold coins. All three eagerly spoon the coins into their mouths. Pouches hanging from their necks like goitres are full, except for that of the Prince of Wales, whose is empty. In the background is a wide open gate to the Treasury
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: bowls -- Craws, monstrous -- Cutlery: ladles -- Coins -- Guineas as food -- Fool's cap -- Prince's debts -- Gate of the Treasury building -- Coalition feast -- Reconciliation of Prince George and his parents -- Miserliness of George III and Queen Charlotte -- Reference to John Bull., and Folded & mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
"Satire: four disconsolate devils sit warming their hands around a fire while one tells a story."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with re-etched title, series title, and image border. For an earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.715., Publication information from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.