V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in old-fashioned (gold-laced) dress rides a velocipede in front of which on the pole is a seat with arms, for a passenger, occupied by an elderly woman with a cat on her knee. Behind her sits a monkey who stretches backwards to clutch the man by the nose, while a second monkey perched on the back of the machine tugs at his pigtail, and waves his victim's laced cocked hat. From the front of the pole, under the woman's seat, hangs a cage containing a parrot. A lap-dog tied to the back of the machine is dragged along in the dust. There is a landscape background. The woman is the typical old maid of caricature. The rider is probably her footman or coachman."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Family party taking an airing
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "334" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 39 in volume 5.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in old-fashioned (gold-laced) dress rides a velocipede in front of which on the pole is a seat with arms, for a passenger, occupied by an elderly woman with a cat on her knee. Behind her sits a monkey who stretches backwards to clutch the man by the nose, while a second monkey perched on the back of the machine tugs at his pigtail, and waves his victim's laced cocked hat. From the front of the pole, under the woman's seat, hangs a cage containing a parrot. A lap-dog tied to the back of the machine is dragged along in the dust. There is a landscape background. The woman is the typical old maid of caricature. The rider is probably her footman or coachman."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Family party taking an airing
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "334" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
Satire on portrait painting: a middle-aged English couple sit together on a dais, each holding a bird in their hand. Their bored son, dressed as Cupid, is seated on a stool in front of them, yawning. They are being painted by an enthusiastic artist wearing spectacles and holding a brush and palette. Two oval portraits hang on the back wall
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date based on printmaker's known address., Variant of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., No. 3 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Leaf 40. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published in 1811, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 222., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], A copy of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 40 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered in upper left corner: No. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with loss of imprint., and Temporary local subject terms: Pets: Birds -- Mythology: Cupid -- Persons: Sir Joshua Reynolds [?], 1723-1792.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 15th, 1781, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Title from caption below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 15 Oct. 1781 by W. Dickinson. Cf. No. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered in upper left corner: No. 10., Temporary local subject terms: Pets: Birds -- Mythology: Reference to Cupid -- Cupid's bow -- Arrows -- Persons: Sir Joshua Reynolds [?], 1723-1792 -- Portraits -- Families -- Short wigs -- Doves -- Artist's implements., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1, 1794, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
"A portrait-painter painting a family group of a man and wife and their little boy. The group (right) is raised on a low semicircular platform, the couple sit on a high-backed settee without arms, the little boy on a stool in front of his mother. The child, though in his ordinary clothes, is holding a cupid's bow and a sheaf of arrows (reminiscent of the family portrait in the 'Vicar of Wakefield'); a large quiver holding arrows is slung across his shoulders, a wreath is on his head; he yawns violently. The man, in profile to the left, is obese and wears a short bushy wig, a dove sits on his left wrist; only the toes of his shoes reach the ground. His wife sits on his right holding a dove on her right hand; she turns towards her husband, looking straight forward with a fixed and painful smile; she wears ringlets and a cap of lace and ribbons on her high-dressed hair. The artist (left) stands at his easel which supports a large canvas and is placed close to his sitters. He wears spectacles, a bag-wig, and ruffled shirt, and holds a palette in his left hand. He looks towards his sitters with an insinuating smile, which, together with his attitude and the figure of the man sketched on the canvas, shows that he is intent on flattery. High up on the wall behind him are two oval bust portraits, one (left) of a clergyman, the other of a lady. Behind the sitters is a tall screen of several leaves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1836?], p. 40., A later copy of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 10 of a series., Watermark: 1809., and Imperfect; artist's signature mostly erased from lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' materials, Doves, Easels, Families, Group portraits, Obesity, Wigs, and Yawning
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., Number two in a series of prints with variant series name on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.