Two designs on the same plate. Upper design: A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep. Lower design: A young woman (right) lies full length on a sofa; next her in the opposite corner of the sofa is an elderly man in regimentals, also asleep. The feet of both rest on a chair (left). A cat sleeps on the floor
Alternative Title:
Nap in town
Description:
Lettered beneath each image with title; lettering within image on upper design: "Rowlandson. 1785."; below lower design: "London Pubd by S.Alken, No.3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho".
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of second part of imprint., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: It is not that delicate frame ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1797.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese, elderly sailor stands atop a fortified battlement looking out to sea through a telescope. Beside him a young woman turns to kiss a handsome young military officer as she holds up her wind-swept parasol. In front of him, at his feet, another young woman looks down at a sailor who gazes up at her with admiration. An old man shivers in the wind beside a sentry who stands with his back to the sea, smiling at the scene before him
Alternative Title:
Stolen kisses sweetest
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "313" has been replaced with a new number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 14, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12402 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "279" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 275-6., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf xx in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese, elderly sailor stands atop a fortified battlement looking out to sea through a telescope. Beside him a young woman turns to kiss a handsome young military officer as she holds up her wind-swept parasol. In front of him, at his feet, another young woman looks down at a sailor who gazes up at her with admiration. An old man shivers in the wind beside a sentry who stands with his back to the sea, smiling at the scene before him
Alternative Title:
Stolen kisses sweetest
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "313" has been replaced with a new number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 14, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12402 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "279" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 275-6.
A fat woman sits on a sofa next to a thin man as she sings and plays a lute, apparently very badly given the pained look on the man's face
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in upper right corner., "Price 1/col.", Printmaker from Grego., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Feb., 1803 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A woman wearing a mob-cap, with tongue protruding and eyes wide, grasps her husband's left ear and raises a cudgel to strike him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 11' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Three lines of text below image: A termagent wife, a henpeck'd husband & a cudgel are three principal ingredients for bringing forward the passion of simple bodily pain, as may an unfortunate sufferer can witness., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Two lines of verse below title: Here vulgar nature plays her courser part. And eyes speak out the language of [the] heart ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Drinking vessels, Hats, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Rings, and Wine
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Two lines of verse below title: Here like the fly, vice flirts the painted wing without, all saint within, a venomed sting! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: headdress -- Male costume: night-cap-- Dishes: coffee service -- Coffee cups without handles, 1799., and Watermark: Russell 1798.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eyeglasses, Jewelry, Older people, and Young adults
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: The sorrows of Werter I've read ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Miniatures as jewelry.
Publisher:
Pubd Feby. 6, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead and Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn, London