A young dandy carrying walking stick and sword and with huge buttons on his coat, walks towards the left of the print, a long horn sprouting from his forehead and a diminutive woman emerging from his left shoulder. Behind him, arm in arm with a woman, a smiling man points to the first. All three are dressed in the fashion of the mid to late 1770s, the woman with a cork bustle and tall hairdo under her hat
Alternative Title:
Alas! Poor Benedick
Description:
Title from item. and Conjectured date from card catalog.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cuckolds, Couples, Dandies, British, and Clothing & dress
In a country setting with cows and a windmill in the background, a young milkmaid sits on a bench under an oak tree, receiving a ribbon from a young sailor seated beside her. Another young girl looks on from behind, while the milkmaid's country suitor stands behind sulkily scratching his head. A dog paws at the milkmaid's lap while another drinks from the milking pail
Alternative Title:
Jealous clown
Description:
Date surmised from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in lower left of plate 385., Publication date erased from print., and Torn and repaired.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his map & print warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, Sailors, Hats, Couples, Windmills, Dairy farming, Cows, and Dogs
A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song., Title etched below image and above verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '300' in lower left of plate., Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Brooms & brushes, Children, Couples, Dwellings, Homecomings, Sailors, British, Ships, Swine, and Young adults
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ill-matched couples dance facing each other; all are burlesqued. On the right a very tall man watches the assembly. The room is decorated with two sets of curtains and a large wall sconce lit with candles
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in local card catalog record., Later state; former plate number "394" has been replaced with a new plate number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pub. June 8, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.06.08.01+., Plate numbered "189" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 43 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance, Dandies, British, and Waltz
Ill-matched couples dance facing each other: all are burlesqued. On the right a very tall man watches the assembly. The room is decorated with two sets of curtains and a large wall sconce lti with candles
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered "394" in upper right corner., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. June 8, 1817 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance, Dandies, British, and Waltz
Page 289. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing behind the old woman and a couple smiling at them as they pass by, in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Description:
Title from later state., Additional title from note below image, written in pencil and brown ink: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Wilson delt. & fecit., Early state, with scratched-letter publication statement only. For a later state with the title "A real-scene on the parade at Bath" and other lettering in lower margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.363., Publisher from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd March 21st, 1772, by J. Parker, No. 82, Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Female costume, 1772 -- Male headdresses., Folded to 30.6 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 289 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Henry Parker
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Dandies, British, Wigs, Older people, Courtship, Couples, and Servants
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
"A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and manner corresponding with its owner. Two appropriate pictures are on the wall: Bank of England (left) and Seige of Acre (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Had I heart for falshood fram'd, I ne'er could injure you and Had I heart for falsehood framed, I never could injure you
Description:
Title from later state., Four lines of quoted dialogue below image: "Had I heart for falshood [sic] fram'd, I ne'er could injure you - For tho' your tongue no promise claim'd, your charms would make me true! &c. &c. &c.", First state, before title added above image. For a later state with G. Humphrey's imprint and the title "Money hunting," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 823.01.10.01. For a reissue with Thomas McLean's imprint, published in Cruikshankiana (London : Thomas M'Lean, [1835]), see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.247., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 10, 1823 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Dogs, Couples, and Courtship