The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 1 of 2) | Folder I-12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"Two designs on one plate. [Top design]: A young couple sit in a large curtained bed; the man embraces the pretty woman. Both hold cups; a maidservant (left) (disregarded) hands them food on a small dish. The head of the bed and the curtains form the background. [Bottom design]: Two men cling desperately to a broken mast floating in a rough sea."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Misery.
Description:
CtY-BR, Imperfect; top design only, with bottom design and imprint statement trimmed from sheet. Visible plate wear suggests that this is a later state of the plate; therefore, description is based on impression of reissued state in the British Museum., Reissue of a plate published 7 March 1786 by E. Jackson. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 185-6., and Titles etched below images.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-69
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"The piazza of Covent Garden, with the hustings, showing a line of hill in the distance inscribed 'View of Richmond Hill'. In the air, flying towards the hustings, is Mrs. Hobart encased from the waist downwards in a circular balloon to which is attached a hammock-like platform, on which lie two voters, face downwards, looking over the side. The lady, in profile to the left, looking upwards, excessively fat, with uncovered breast, is saying "This may save him"; her petticoats have been transformed into the balloon, her 'last shift'. A blast issues from her posteriors. One of her passengers in profile to the left holds out his hand, saying, "I see the Hustings". The other, facing in the opposite direction, says, "thank God I am an outside Passenger". A flock of birds scatters right to left of the balloon. Wray, kneeling on one knee, and Hood standing behind him (right) look up eagerly to the balloon, holding out their hands. Wrays says, "A foul wind is fair for us"; Hood says, "O come sweet Air Balloon or I must off in one". The hustings under the portico of St. Paul's are freely sketched; gesticulating orators, hat in hand, address the crowd. One of the houses on the right (north) side of the piazza is inscribed 'Lows'; a flag flies from a window."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Aerostatic dilly
Description:
Fourteen lines of explanatory text below image, in center column underneath title: The grand political balloon launched at Richmond Park on the of [sic] March 1784 and discharged by secret influence with great effect in Covent Garden at 12 O Clock on the same day. ..., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson and artist questionably identified as Townshend in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Canvassing -- Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Electors -- Covent Garden: Piazza -- Portico of St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Songs: 'Bellisle March' -- Richmond Hill -- Hustings -- Balloons -- Coaches: Allusion to diligence (stage-coaches) -- Low's in Covent Garden., Title etched below image, at top of center column of text., and Two numbered verses of a song, each verse in its own column to the left or right of center column, etched below image: Song, Tune Bellisle March. 1. Tho' in every street, all the voters you meet, the Dutchess knows but how to court them ...
Publisher:
H. Humphreys, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart,--Countess of,--1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hood, Samuel Hood,--Viscount,--1724-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Riviere & Son Binding., Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, artist., and Wray, Cecil,--Sir,--1734-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A man walks along the pavement in profile to the left., stooping from the waist but with head erect. He wears spectacles and carries a stick. He approaches the door (left) of Christies, which is partly visible. On the pillar hangs the usual catalogue: 'Catalogue of 800 Capital Pictures to be Sold by Mr Christie in Pall Mall. Feby 1st 1808'. The wall of the house (No. 125) with a window forms the background. Snow is heaped against the railings, where there is a shovel and broom."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower,--Duke of,--1758-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
Attribution to Rowlandson from description by Grego of other prints in the series., Probably part a series of views in Oxford and Cambridge. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 184., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and University of Oxford--Pictorial works.
Subject (Topic):
Universities and colleges--England--Oxford--Pictorial works.
"A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. From the edge of the ice (r.) projects a post with a notice-board: 'Humane Society - Whereas this Pond is very deep & dangerous, it is requested that no persons will rashly venture to Skait upon it.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing, Elements of skateing :, and Elements of skating :
Description:
One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image, following series title.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Fox, and Richmond on the left with Shelburne standing pensively between them, move away from the armored ghost of Cromwell who stands on a crushed crown and sceptre. Cromwell is saying "To obtain your end your measures are right, you arm the people, like me, you trample on prerogative...." A reference to Shelburne's plan after the Gordon Riots to arm the populace in preference to the use of troops.
Alternative Title:
Malagrida and conspirators, consulting the ghost of Oliver Cromwell
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Cromwell, Oliver,--1599-1658--Caricatures and cartoons., Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Lansdowne, William Petty,--Marquis of,--1737-1805--Caricatures and cartoons., and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox,--Duke of,--1735-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
"The male counterpart of British Museum Satires no. 11166. A half length figure leaning forward in profile to the right, shouting, with raised arm and clenched fist. He is coarse-featured and spectacled, with a mop of hair."--British Museum catalogue.
Description:
Numbered "12" in upper left corner., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Stevens, George Alexander,--1710-1784.--Lecture on heads., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"The interior of a bedroom, with Miss Gunning in bed (left), facing the spectator; a stout woman, her mother, holds her arm; both look round in alarm at a much-caricatured creature, Miss Minifie, who rushes towards them (right) from an open door, arms outstretched, gaping with staring eyeballs. Mrs. Gunning raises a leg in her surprise, breaking a bottle of 'Brandy' which with a glass had been concealed under her petticoats. Beneath the design is etched: 'What's the matter Auntee-Peg, what makes you put on such a long Face?"' In the upper and lower margins is the inscription: 'I was sitting by the Bedside of my smiling-injured-innocent-Lambkin, & holding one of the sweet tender hands of my amiable-gentle-dovelike-Cherub, when her Aunt came into the Room, with a face paler than Ashes, - "What is the matter, Auntee Peg" - says my dear-chaste-adorable-kind-benificent-enchanting-heart-feeling-benificent-paragon of Goodness \ She broke upon us the dishonorable-infamous-false-accusations, & the cruel most cruel messages that accompanied them, at that moment a Vow issued from my torn, my rent, my wounded, my agonizing, my suffering Heart, & my dear-divine-glorious-Arch angelic-Angel, said &c &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
What's the matter Auntee-Peg, what makes you put on such a long face?"
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gunning,--Miss--(Elizabeth),--1769-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Gunning,--Mrs.--(Susannah),--1740?-1800--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Minifie, Margaret--Caricatures and cartoons.
