"In a bare but neat ale-house room three Greenwich pensioners are in deep and heated discussion at a table before the fire. They point to fragments of pipe stem, arranged to show the position of ships in some engagement. Two sit, one stands; two have peg-legs. A fourth man (left) watches intently. The host (right) enters with frothing tankards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sailor heaves a donkey over the railing of a small enclosure, holding its fore-legs across his shoulders, so that the beast looks over his head. Another sailor stoops to support the ass's hindquarters on his own back. A paunchy man wearing top-boots, and with a dog, stands (left) in profile to the right., angrily facing the sailor; he says: "Who gave you authority to release that ass from the Pound". The sailor, who is smoking a pipe, answers: "Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., One of multiple reissues of a plate first published in 1803(?) by Piercy Roberts. Original imprint statement, "London, Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn," has been completely shaded over with etched lines in lower left corner of design. Plate was reissued by Thomas Tegg in 1812 and again in 1818 (this state), and was possibly first reissued in 1807. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "105" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: C.[...] 1819., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 35 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 1, 1818, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Boots, Dogs, Pipes (Smoking), Donkeys, Sailors, British, and Staffs (Sticks)
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sailor heaves a donkey over the railing of a small enclosure, holding its fore-legs across his shoulders, so that the beast looks over his head. Another sailor stoops to support the ass's hindquarters on his own back. A paunchy man wearing top-boots, and with a dog, stands (left) in profile to the right., angrily facing the sailor; he says: "Who gave you authority to release that ass from the Pound". The sailor, who is smoking a pipe, answers: "Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., One of multiple reissues of a plate first published in 1803(?) by Piercy Roberts. Original imprint statement, "London, Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn," has been completely shaded over with etched lines in lower left corner of design. Plate was reissued by Thomas Tegg in 1812 and again in 1818 (this state), and was possibly first reissued in 1807. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "105" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 46 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 1, 1818, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Boots, Dogs, Pipes (Smoking), Donkeys, Sailors, British, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Three sailors sitting on trunks on board a ship, grimacing as they read papers. At centre one points to his paper, saying, 'Did you ever hear such palaver Jack - Just before an Action'; his paper is inscribed, 'nothing opposes the individual esteem entertaind for your excellency by your faithfull servant / J Moore / Cadiz'. At left, a sailor reads a paper inscribed, 'I am your Excellrncys most Humble Servant / Rossily'; his trunk is lettered 'Will bo[...]'. At right the third says, 'Be quiet you lubbers, you dont know how to be polite - one of the Mounseers has ax'd me a little time, before I blow him up, and see what a civil letter I have sent him.'; his trunk is lettered 'Junk' and his paper, 'Mounseer / I had the honor of your this morning, and if you don't surrender by six in the evening, I'll be d-d if I dont blow you up / yours / to command / Jack Junk'. On the floor in the foreground, a tankard of 'Grog', a pipe and broadsides, one of which is headed 'True courage'; a cannon behind at left. Reissue by Fores of a print originally published c. July 1808."--British Museum online catalogue and "In May-July 1808, at the beginning of the Peninsular war, the British fleet helped to defend the Spanish in Cádiz from the French fleet led by Rosily; the British officer John Moore left England for Portugal in July 1808. The imprint indicates a reissue, giving the address line used by Fores in 1818-19."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
British sailors perusing the dispatches from Cadiz
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.697., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Moore, John, Sir, 1761-1809. and Rosily-Mesros, François de, 1748-1832.
Subject (Topic):
Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Sailors, British, Decks (Ships), Luggage, Newspapers, Cannons, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Drawing of Nicholas Stone Junior (bap. 1618-1674), English, sculptor and architect, second son of Nicholas Stone Senior (1585-1657).
Alternative Title:
Nicholas Stone junior statuary and architect
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image on mount., Inscription in ink, above oval image: This may be Nicholas Stone Jun. Painted at Rome ano. 1638 as he mentions in his journal., Inscription in ink, below oval image: a sketch of a head pianted in Oyl in an oval. Sold in Mr. Gibbons [illegible] sale, called Mr. Stone., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Oval drawing of Nicholas Stone Senior (1586-1647), leading sculptor, master mason, and architect, in London in the mid-17th century
Description:
Title from inscription in ink, below image., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Stone in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 23., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title from caption below image., Approximate month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: (A scene at Bushy)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Hussar -- Male costume: Mourning scarves -- Mourning-bands., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 214.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1830 by S. Gans, Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, Dandies, Military officers, British, and Military uniforms
A scene on a street: a sailor with a bag beside him offers to sell a young man a new handkerchief as his accomplice steals his hankerchief from his back pocket
Description:
Title from text below image., Title continues: ... but all our Indy hankerchers is smuggled or we could not offer em at the price, fact I do assure you., and Date of publication from note in local card catalog record: 1860?, dated by costume.