Leaf 72. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a country 'quack' doctor standing behind an alarmed looking female patient with his fingers in her mouth. A young boy stands on the left holding a dish and pliers. In the background stands a woman wearing a ... cape and holding the side of her mouth whilst exhibiting obvious pain. Suspended from the ceiling is a bird in a cage. A bill on the wall reads: 'Barnaby Factotum / Draws teeth Bleeds and Shaves / Wigs made here, also sausages / wash Balls, Black puddings. / Scotch pills Powder for the Itch / Red Herrings / Breeches Balls / and small beer by the maker / In Utrumque Paratus'."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue and "Print of a tailor seated cross legged on a table as he irons a garment. Beside him on the table, stands a pewter tankard and shears. A second tailor, also ironing, sits behind the first with a look of surprise cast in the direction of a woman who stands at the door holding a basket of ?cucumbers on her head. The woman resembles Rowlandson's etching of a 'Shrimp Girl' (RCIN 913702). In the foreground, a small boy warms irons by a fire as cat stands next to him, yawning."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each with its own title, signature, and imprint statement., Restrike. For original issue of the left side of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810964. For original issue of the right side of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810963., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 375., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 374., and On leaf 72 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Title etched below image., 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:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Toothache, Dentistry, Quacks and quackery, Dental equipment & supplies, Pain, Birdcages, Wigs, and Dogs
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Nightmare -- Headless spectre.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"A semicircle of spectators, seated and standing, crowded one behind the other, watch the performance of the pig, who stands before a row of initial letters, one of which he holds in his mouth. Over the chimney-piece is a placard, 'The Surprising PIG well versed in all Languages, perfect Arethmatician Mathematician & Composer of Musick'. On the right wall of the room hangs a large shoe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Portal & Bridges.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, April 12th, 1785 & F. Clarkson, No. 73 St. Paul's Church Yard
"A semicircle of spectators, seated and standing, crowded one behind the other, watch the performance of the pig, who stands before a row of initial letters, one of which he holds in his mouth. Over the chimney-piece is a placard, 'The Surprising PIG well versed in all Languages, perfect Arethmatician Mathematician & Composer of Musick'. On the right wall of the room hangs a large shoe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., State with only one publisher statement., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis in center of sheet.
"Two men lie in the small truckle-beds (i.e., trundle bed) of a cheap lodging-house, one (left) asleep. An old woman holding a candle kneels at the foot of the other bed, and tugs at the wooden leg of its occupant. She says: "There is nothing like looking after Servants I always like to see that my lodgers are comfortable. --Aye here's a pretty careless trick--the warming pan left in the gentleman's bed I declare". Its owner, an angry sailor, shouts: "Hollo --Avast heaving Zounds dont pull off my timber--I went to bed half seas over and forgot to stow it alongside the hammock"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Careful landlady
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson and artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue of a print apparently first published 10 May 1809; in this reissued state, the day and year of publication in imprint are heavily scored through but still legible. For a later state with beginning of imprint burnished from plate, see no. 11466 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Plate numbered "300" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. May [10th, 1809, by] Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Two men lie in the small truckle-beds (i.e., trundle bed) of a cheap lodging-house, one (left) asleep. An old woman holding a candle kneels at the foot of the other bed, and tugs at the wooden leg of its occupant. She says: "There is nothing like looking after Servants I always like to see that my lodgers are comfortable. -Aye here's a pretty careless trick -- the warming pan left in the gentleman's bed I declare". Its owner, an angry sailor, shouts: "Hollo -- Avast heaving Zounds dont pull off my timber -- I went to bed half seas over and forgot to stow it alongside the hammock"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Careful landlady
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker and artist identified in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on one side., and Plate numbered "300" in upper right corner.
"Fox stands in the House of Commons, making a speech; in his right hand he holds out a paper: 'Speech on the 'Rights of the P------'; in his left is an 'Explanation of that Speech'. He faces the table on which are piled large folios: 'Statutes at Large', 'Magna Charta', 'Principles of the Constitution', 'Rights of the People'. He says, "all these I'll devour next". Behind him on the ground are two open books: 'Jus Divinum of Kings' and 'Principles of Toryism &c.' The benches behind him are packed with intent listeners, some dismayed, some admiring. North, a bandage over his eyes, sits on the extreme right, next him is Burke. The end of the gallery (left) is visible; listeners hang over to watch Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Five lines of text below title: Advertisment extraordinary. This is to inform the public ..., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 30th 1788, by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.577., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 81-2., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 109., and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.