V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on costume and manners. Dandies (see British Museum Satires No. 13029) eagerly offer refreshments to ladies at a reception or ball. An elderly fright stands in the centre, between a thin (left) and a fat (right) dandy, one proffering a large goblet on a salver, the other a plate of patties, one of which is stuffed into his grinning mouth. She eagerly turns to the left with an ogling grin. On the left a footman spills a tray of goblets and ices over an elderiy lady seated on a chair which tilts backward. He has been knocked off his balance by the bow of the thin dandy. On the right a dandy seated by a fat ugly lady offers her a goblet. Her short skirt displays fat shapeless legs, defined by cross-gartering. All are much décolletée. A dandy drinks, while admiring himself in a mirror. A candle-sconce hangs between two oval mirrors, but in an adjacent room seen through an archway is a hanging chandelier with chimneys which probably indicate gas. Violinist, 'cellist, &c., play in a musicians' gallery in the background (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "186" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and Watermark: Turkey Mill.
Title from caption below image; letter "s" in "Wales" etched backwards., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a series of four prints personifying the countries that comprised the United Kingdom., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1, Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square
Title from item., Title continues: Sells lappet heads, brussels, macklin, blond & English lace, plain sprig'd and strip'd muslins, &c., ready made caps, handkerchiefs & ruffles, marsailles quilted caps & stomachers, childe bed linnen of all sorts, satten baskets, satten & dimity robes, blankets, quilted bed gowns & waistcoats & c., velvets, flowerd gauze & great choice of figured allamodes, french trimings, gauze handkerchiefs & all sorts of curious flowers, fans & fan mounts, beaver leghorn, shaving & new fashion'd horse hair & other [patts], sable, ermin & french muffs & tippets, feathers, gloves, necklaces, earrings & c., french & English capuchins, cloth cloaks, velvets gazue & silk hoods, pillareens, newmarket, night gowns, & other caps, bonnets, bags, muffatees, black & colourd laces, french combs with all sorts of fringes & ribbons, quilted coats, strip'd & flower'd dimity, upper & under coats, bath coatings, hoops with great choice of other goods., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 98 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
"Johnson and Boswell walk diagonally from the right towards the spectator. Boswell (right) walks jauntily, holding out a three-cornered hat and looking up at Johnson. Johnson holds his oak stick, and looks down at Boswell, putting his finger to his nose. Behind them a row of six-storied houses recedes in perspective."--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 First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "Mr. Johnson and I walked arm in arm up the High Street to my house in James Court; it was a dusky night ..." Vide Journal p. 13., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In mss. in lower right corner: E-145.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of buckles, spurs, buttons, seals, tea spoons, tongs & strainers, &c. in the neatest and newest manner at the most reasonable rates. Also ready money for old silver & silver lace., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 31 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from text above and below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text below image following title: Be quiet & go a-angling-- Walton's Angler, part 1., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A couple dance in an assembly-room; the man, active and dishevelled, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the ends of a large spotted handkerchief, since it is impossible to grasp her waist. In the background are two other couples. A chandelier and a corner of the musicians' gallery with a man blowing a French horn complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing -- Dances: waltz -- Interiors: ballroom -- Lighting: chandelier -- Architectural details: musicians' gallery -- Obesity -- Musical instruments: French horn., and Window mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street