"A young man in civilian dress, Battier, and two officers of the Tenth Hussars, are having their shaved heads inspected by six grotesque practitioners of phrenology, two to each. On the wall, besides pendent skulls, is a placard : Craniums examined and fitness developed.-- 1. Penetration--2. Folly--3. Insolence--4. Conceit--5- Benevolence--6. Ideality--7. Civility--8. Self Love 9. Brutality 10. Pride with Ignorance! Battier is identified by a paper at his feet, To Co . Bat**; he has a head of ideal shape; one expert says to the other: No, wont do for the 10th to omuch of No. 1-- 5 and 7--. One officer (left) sits in back view, he has a grotesquely misshapen head with lateral protuberances; the inspecting expert says to his colleague: No. 9 Conspicuously. The other (right) sits in profile; he is without a forehead, with an absurdly extended back to his head. One phrenologist, smelling his cane, says: No 3 and 4 very clear. The other adds: Heres the 10th the 10th the 10 to a demonstration."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Science practically developed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Battier, William, active 1824
Subject (Topic):
Phrenology, Physicians, Head, Hussars, Costume, Military uniforms, Skulls, and Baldness
"Britannia, terrified, faint, and dishevelled sits on the ground supported by Addington and Hawkesbury, and defended by Sheridan, a Silenus-like and ragged Harlequin. They are on the coast towards which are advancing many rowing-boats filled with little French soldiers. Napoleon stands with drawn sword in the foremost boat, a tiny figure with a large head and no body, to show that he is Nobody, as in BMSat 5570, &c. The distant French coast (right) is covered with troops marching towards the shore. Clouds of smoke rise from the beach, which is concealed by the foreground. Britannia, wearing Roman dress with cothurnes, raises her arms, and shrieks (parodying Hamlet): "Doctors & Ministers of dis grace defend me!" The 'dis' is scored through but conspicuously legible. Addington holds a bottle of Gunpowder to her nose, and looks in alarm at the approaching army. He says: "Do not be alarm'd my dear lady! the Buggabo's (the Honest Gentlemen, I mean,) are avowedly directed to Colonial service, - they can have nothing to do Here - my Lady! - nothing to do with Us! - do take a Sniff or two, to raise your Spirits, and try to stand, if it is only upon One Leg!" Hawkesbury looks down with deep melancholy, supporting her (cracked) shield, and holding her (damaged) spear. He says: "Yes my Lady, you must try to Stand up, or we shall never be able to "March to Paris"". Sheridan holds Harlequin's wooden sword of 'Dramatic-Loyalty' in his right hand (cf. BMSat 9916). On his left arm is a shield with Medusa's head, the snaky locks inscribed: 'Abuse', 'Bouncing', 'Puffing', 'Detraction', 'Stolen Jests', 'Malevolence', 'Stale Wit', 'Envy'. He wears a hat turned up in front with a tricolour cockade; its crown is a fool's cap with two ears and a bell. Round his paunch is a tricolour sash through which is thrust a paper: 'Ways and Means to get a Living'. He shouts in defiance at the distant army: "Let 'em come! - dam'me!!! - where are the French Buggabo's? - single handed I'd beat forty of 'em!!! dam'me, I'd pay 'em like Renter Shares, sconce off their half Crowns!!! - mulct them out of their Benefits, & come ye Drury Lane Slang over 'em!" Behind, between Addington and Sheridan, is the head of Fox, holding his hat before his eyes; he says: "Dear me - what can be the reason of the Old Lady being awak'd in such a Fright? - I declare I can't see any thing of the Buggabo's!" In the foreground lies a long torn scroll, headed 'Treaty of Peace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Britannia recover'd from a trance and Britannia recovered from a trance
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Harlequins -- Britannia -- Literature: Parody of Hamlet by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Medical: Smelling salts -- Weapons: Ammunition -- Gunpowder -- Sword -- Emblems: Britannia's shield -- Britannia's spear -- Shield with Medusa -- France: Threat of invasion -- Peace treaties., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Publd. March 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Title from item. and Temporary local subject terms: First partition of Poland, 1772 -- Allusion to Russo-Prussian Treaty, February 17, 1772 -- Allusion to first Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 -- Maps: map of Poland -- Scales -- Imprisonment.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789, Stanisław II August, King of Poland, 1732-1798, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Series of 10 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice and Legally themed postcards a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Description:
Date from postmark., Some cards include manuscript notations., Card number 6 mentions Berenger, a reference to René Bérenger, a French lawyer and politician who campaigned for public decency and virtue., Card number 8 mentions Magnaud, a reference to Paul Magnaud, a French judge., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281725, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.9 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Édition Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Ecole de Nancy (Group of artists), Bérenger, René, 1830-1915., and Magnaud, Paul, 1848-1926.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Mimes
"Pitt and Dundas (in tartan), back to back, vigorously ply long whips against a herd of swine with human faces whom they drive through broken palings from the enclosure in which they stand (right). On the extreme left is the corner of a pound through which poke the heads of two (normal) swine, ringed and shedding tears. The swine who are being flogged have, beside their human heads, ringed snouts, both heads being enclosed in a wooden triangle. The leaders are Fox, with Norfolk (cf. BMSat 9205) on his right and Bedford (cf. BMSat 8684) on his left, the others are less prominent: Erskine, Tierney, looking over Fox's back, Burdett, Derby, and Nicholls (left), while M. A. Taylor (right), smaller than the others, scampers to right instead of left. Beside the pound (left) stands a grinning yokel (John Bull); on its post is a placard: 'London Corresponding Society - or the Cries of the Pigs in the Pound'. The background is a row of conical haystacks behind which is a thatched and gabled farm-house. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Swine flogg'd out of the farm yard and Swine flogged out of the farm yard
Description:
Title etched below image., Three columns of verse etched below title: Once a society of swine, liv'd in a paradice [sic] of straw, a herd more beautiful & fine, I'm sure Sir Joseph never saw ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to George III as Farmer George -- Allusion to the London Corresponding Society.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 22d, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Farms, Haystacks, and Swine
"Sheridan (left) and the Duke of Norfolk, bloated and senile, stagger tipsily on the pavement of St. James's Street, walking from the door of 'Brooks's' (right) which they have just left. Lamps light the façade of the club, part of which is visible with three (lighted) windows on the first floor. Sheridan holds the Duke's right arm, and raises his right fist in a rhetorical gesture, saying, "And now, have at the Ministry, Damme!"; in his pocket are papers: 'Motions for to Badger Ministry'. The Duke says: "and Now for the Majesty of the People!" From his coat-pocket projects a bottle of 'Port'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title, in lower right: Three o'clock & a cloudy morning., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 41 x 29.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1809, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815
Old woman and her ass, a fable, Fox in the pit, and Pillars of the state
Description:
Title from item., Three playing card designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Title of the bottom design assigned by cataloger from its original version or copy (see Stephens 3399)., Caption under top image: Peachum and Lockit., Four lines of verse below center image: There lives a report that in Asias [sic] hot clime, was an ass turn'd to Stone for a horrible crime ..., Four line quote from Bible below bottom design: And whosoever will not do [the] law of thy God & [the] law of [the] king ..., Copies of, from top, nos. 3371, 3497, and 3399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: French cock -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to French influence -- Gallows -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Webs: cobweb -- Asses -- Tubs: fishwoman's tub for picked salmon -- Allusion to Billingsgate -- Allusion to House of Commons, Ways and Means -- Taxes: 1756 -- Military: payment to Hanoverian Hessians, 1756 -- Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- Literature: allusion to the beggar's opera, by John Gay, 1685-1732 -- Literature: quotation from the fable, The old woman and her ass -- Bible: quotation from Ezra, ch.vii.v.26, 27.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Leaf 93. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man standing in profile to the right, holding in his right hand a conical vessel. He wears a tie-wig, three-cornered hat and frilled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue and "The title, and the resemblance to his engraved portrait, show that he is Christopher Pinchbeck the younger (c. 1710-83), the inventor, holding one of his inventions, perhaps his celebrated candlesnuffers. He is described in his patents as "toyman and mechanician". As an anti-Wilkite he was a subject of raillery: 'The London Evening Post', 19-21 Nov. 1772, forecast the possible election as president of the Royal Society of "no less a person than the noted Pinchbeck, buckle and knickknack maker to the King." Cf. Mason's 'Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck', 1776."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bauble macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 93., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.3 x 12.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Decr. 29th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 93. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man standing in profile to the right, holding in his right hand a conical vessel. He wears a tie-wig, three-cornered hat and frilled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue and "The title, and the resemblance to his engraved portrait, show that he is Christopher Pinchbeck the younger (c. 1710-83), the inventor, holding one of his inventions, perhaps his celebrated candlesnuffers. He is described in his patents as "toyman and mechanician". As an anti-Wilkite he was a subject of raillery: 'The London Evening Post', 19-21 Nov. 1772, forecast the possible election as president of the Royal Society of "no less a person than the noted Pinchbeck, buckle and knickknack maker to the King." Cf. Mason's 'Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck', 1776."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bauble macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Decr. 29th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand