V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A yokel puts his head through a trap-door (left), holding up a lantern and pitchfork. He gapes in horror at the sight before him. Two witches (right) sit over a fire burning in a bowl; one holding a broom gazes grimly towards the creatures they have called up: two bodies, one old, the other young, both winged, one having wings of flame, terminate together in the crouching hind-legs of a beast of prey; with these are the head and neck of a monstrous bird. Two grotesque goblins emerge from clouds (left), and a serpent hisses at the women."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement completely burnished from plate, of a plate originally published 29 April 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.04.29.01+., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "226" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 4 in volume 4.
"A yokel puts his head through a trap-door (left), holding up a lantern and pitchfork. He gapes in horror at the sight before him. Two witches (right) sit over a fire burning in a bowl; one holding a broom gazes grimly towards the creatures they have called up: two bodies, one old, the other young, both winged, one having wings of flame, terminate together in the crouching hind-legs of a beast of prey; with these are the head and neck of a monstrous bird. Two grotesque goblins emerge from clouds (left), and a serpent hisses at the women."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '18' in upper right corner., and Later state issued around 1813. Cf. No. 12150, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9 for description with different plate number.
Publisher:
Published April 29, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Title and publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Letterpress broadside poem with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 11.2 x 14.9 cm.)., Below imprint: Price six-pence., and Eight stanzas of a song in two columns separated with a decorative border: Since folly in England for wisdom can pass, and th' Apollo of Grub Street will shew himself ass ...
Publisher:
Printed for T. Ewart opposite Northumberland Street, Strand, and sold at all the print and pamphlet sellers
Two figures face each other made of tools, implements, &c. On the left a carpenter, very thin and erect, is composed of a straw tool-bag, containing saw, plane, &c., supported on a pair of compasses for legs. The head is a mallet on which is a glue-pot, with gimlet, chisel, &c. An axe serves as an arm. The gardener bends politely; the body is a watering-pot supported on a pair of shears. The head is a nosegay of roses, &c. tied to a spade; roses and lavender lie in a piece of drapery that serves as apron. A rake and hoe are thrust through the handle of the watering-pot. Below the Carpenter: 'With Bowels lank and Head of Mallet The Joiner longs to taste a Sallad,' Below the gardener: 'Old Nosegay quite alert and busy, Has one to sell and asks a tizzey.'
Description:
Title from verse below image., Variant lacking date of publication from imprint statement. Cf. British Museum catalogue., "Dedicated to the carpenters and gardeners of Great Britain &c &c.", "Price one shilling coloured.", Numbered '89' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Variant of no. 11822 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, vol. 9 / Mary Dorothy George.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1798., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Printmaker inferred by cataloger based upon evidence present in other prints from the series., Plate is numbered in lower left corner: No. 1 Pl. 1., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A winter hunting scene: one hunter on his knees trying to catch a rabbit. The other hunter looks on the scene from behind a fence
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Published,-- by H. Fores, No. 16 Panton Street, Haymarket
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which the plate was published., Plate numbered '36' in lower right corner., Six lines of verse below title: With shame o Britons here behold sly Sawney pocketing your gold ..., Plate from: The 2nd vol. of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Cf. No. 3877 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Whitehall (Treasury Building) -- Vehicles: cart -- Sland: coal (cole), i.e., money -- Sentry -- Scots., and Mounted to 27 x 43 cm.
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which the plate was published., Plate numbered '36' in lower right corner., Six lines of verse below title: With shame o Britons here behold sly Sawney pocketing your gold ..., Plate from: The 2nd vol. of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Cf. No. 3877 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Whitehall (Treasury Building) -- Vehicles: cart -- Sland: coal (cole), i.e., money -- Sentry -- Scots., and Mounted to 27 x 43 cm.
In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key below the image. In the center a tower covered by a cloud, obscuring all but a crown, orb and scepter. Two counselors with goose heads standing gossiping, and two bishops play backgammon and drink spirits (wine?), one sits on a chair made from a bible and the other sits on am overturned model of a church. Two noblemen rob a countryman as he sleeps in his chair. Two senators count their bribes, one hiding the money in his 'pension'. The decline in manufacturing (trade) is symbolized by the idle loom, covered with cobwebs and labeled "To be sold cheape". A thin, starving seaman begs while behind him two common folk stand idly with their hands in their pockets. In the upper left, soldiers in uniform lounge around their military encampment, beside rows of tents and cannons. In the distance, lines of ships stand idle at sea
Description:
Title etched above image., Earlier state of the print had 'Gazette' in title; this later state Gazette has been burnished out and replaced with 'Evening Post.', Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: "Price six pence.", Later state, with change in title, of No. 3605 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Subject (Topic):
History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation