"A lean and ugly old man sits in profile to the right, bending forward towards an immense volume which lies open on a table in front of an open sash-window (right). On the page is a fly at which he gesticulates. He wears a night-cap and a loose robe over an old-fashioned laced waistcoat, short breeches, and high-quartered shoes. Above his head hangs a large stuffed crocodile, and in a frame on the wall are butterflies and insects. The 'virtuoso' (? naturalist) is examining the works of Linnaeus 'for a description of an uncommon species of insect'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 41' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric Excursions, or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Variant state with title. Cf. No. 8968 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, and Temporary local subject terms: Virtuosi -- Allusion to Linnaeus -- Collections: insects -- Taxodermy: crocodile -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Male dress: nightcap -- Eyeglasses.
"Wellington sits behind a small cloth-covered table flanked by eight other representations of himself, as depicted in recent caricatures, apparently all by W. Heath. The arrangement is evidently that of Charles Mathews' 'At Homes', see British Museum Satires No. 14714, &c., Wellington, like Mathews, being in propria persona at the table. In this guise he wears the robes (indistinguishable from Coronation robes) and collar of the Garter and the order of the Golden Fleece and a (crown-like) ducal coronet; his head is turned in profile to the right. Immediately below him, the head and hands of another Wellington, who is crouching on the floor, project from the tablecloth; he grasps a royal crown, and wears a cap coloured blue and resembling a tam-o'-shanter, but perhaps intended for a coronet. The other Wellingtons, all standing (left to right): [1] A mute as in British Museum Satires No. 15501, in profile to the right. [2] A Grenadier, full-face and rigidly at attention, much as in British Museum Satires No. 15768, but without the musket. [3] A ratcatcher stooping to the left and touching his hat, the cage in his left hand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15806). [4] Aged and cloaked, wearing spectacles, with bowed head, he clasps a cross in both hands. [5] The old woman in a soldier's coat of British Museum Satires No. 15721, facing, and apparently in angry altercation with, the seated Wellington. [6] The coachman of British Museum Satires No. 15731, in profile to the left, holding shaft and lash of his whip as if they were the reins of a four-in-hand which he is driving. [7] Wellington in uniform, directed to the left, wearing his plumed cocked hat and holding up with a furtive expression a sword with a damaged blade in a dilapidated scabbard. [8] A mummy-case with an aperture to show Wellington's head with the forefingers compressing his mouth; below the aperture is the word 'Mum'. (Apparently from a satire on Wellington's silence as to his intentions on Catholic Relief until the eve of the opening of Parliament, see British Museum Satires No. 15659.) There is a background of curtains. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 15787."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
All the world's a stage &c. S-
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Publisher's annnouncement following imprint: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures, none are original without T. McLeans name as publisher., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pub. June 15, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Robes, Crowns, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, Coach drivers, Sarcophagi, and Draperies
Caption title., Printed on silk, within decorative borders. Engraved portrait of "Caroline Queen of England" beneath title., Broadside addressed from the Brass Founders and Braziers in support of Queen Caroline in October 1820, a month before the withdrawal of the Pains and Penalties Bill which aimed to annul Caroline’s marriage to George IV. Beneath the address is a response from Queen Caroline together with an ‘Order of the Procession’ in support of the queen., First lines: May it please Your Most Excellent Majesty. We, the operative Workers of Brass ... do most humbly and dutifully approach your Most Gracious Majesty, to offer our congratulations on your Majesty’s return ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Cowie, 58 Shoe Lane, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Brass Founders and Braziers.
Volume 2, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 125. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door with inscription in tablet above at right, another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Prinkmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., "Final third state, the aquatint considerably lighter than in the second and the inscription above the doorway in even engraved letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below image, following title: Thoughts of past joys before the altar rise, stain all my soul and wanton in my eyes! I wake the matin lamp in sighs for thee, thy image steals between my God and me. Eloisa., Mounted on page 125 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker in reddish-brown ink on laid paper ; sheet 38.8 x 50.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Abbeys, Monks, Doors & doorways, and Bells
Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1809]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, nearly half-length, standing slightly to left against background of cloudy sky, looking to left; wearing wig, naval uniform, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist tentatively identified as Lemuel Francis Abbott in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: A,2.4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 466 (leaf numbered '72' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
United States and United States.
Subject (Name):
Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816,, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
A well-dressed young woman holding a fan and wearing a large feather in her hair stands with her back towards a mirror set on a stand as she looks back over her shoulder at her reflection. She wears a small, satisfied smile on her face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet together with: "Scorn.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Complacence, Mirrors, and Young adults
"George IV, crowned, and with orb and sceptre, sits on a coronation chair in Westminster Abbey (right). The Archbishop, well characterized, stands beside him, holding his mitre, his right hand on the chair. On the King's right hand stands Londonderry (Castlereagh) in Garter robes; other peers stand behind him. All watch the antics of Canning, dressed in parti-coloured clothes as a merry-andrew or buffoon. He kneels on the dais at the King's feet, arms flung wide; at his feet is a high-crowned hat with a peacock's feather; on the back of his tunic are the letters M P and P C. He declaims: The delight of the Nation at the Celebration of your Majesty's Coronation, the Exultation throughout the Creation exceeds all Imagination. the Expectation to which the Anticipation of this Consumation has given occasion is beyond Contemplation; we offer the Oblation of our Congratulation, without Hesitation or Trepidation; no Tribulation can effect a Cessation of the Sensation which pervades every Station; no Situation in whatever Deprivation will utter an Execration for the Association are in Preparation to effect an Extirpation of all Defamation. We hope the Expectation of a Decollation will produce Annihilation of all Deviation from strict Regulation; we submit to Subjugation without Hesitation, and we offer our Oration with gratefull Adoration upon this Jollification. The King composedly touches (or kicks) Canning's chin with his toe. Peeresses stand in a gallery across the north transept, holding their coronets. Above them is a second and more crowded gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation, Coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation, and Coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation
Description:
Title etched below image; the name "George" is scored through and replaced by "Jack" written above., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., The identification of the jester as Canning is wrong. The jester has been identified as Admiral Sir Edmund Burke Nagle., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1821 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Nagle, Edmund, Sir, 1757-1830
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Alternative Title:
Hudibras's first adventure
Description:
Title engraved above image., After Hogarth., From a series of twelve prints issued by Robert Sayer., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '3' in upper left corner; "Part 1 Canto 1 l. 1." in upper right corner above image., Verse in three columns below image: "The Catalogue and Character of th' enemies best men of war Whom in a bold Harangue the Knight Defies and challenges to fight; H' encounters Talgol routs the bear, And takes the fidler prisoner; Conveys him to enchanted castle There shuts him fast in wooden bastile.", Copy of no. 506 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 84., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., Mounted on page 1 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 43.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street