"A man (whole length) walking to left and looking to his left with a smile. He wears an enormous cutlass. In his right hand is a cane which rests on his right shoulder; his left hand is on his hip. Dress: military coat and hat with a cockade, knee-breeches, low buckled shoes. His hair is in a large looped club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Captain Cutlass
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, without volume number, of no. 4986 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '1' in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Captain's uniform -- Weapons: Enormous cutlass -- Canes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, Novr. 18th, 1771, accorg. to act
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 65. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (whole length) walking to left and looking to his left with a smile. He wears an enormous cutlass. In his right hand is a cane which rests on his right shoulder; his left hand is on his hip. Dress: military coat and hat with a cockade, knee-breeches, low buckled shoes. His hair is in a large looped club."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Captain Cutlass
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Captain's uniform -- Weapons: Enormous cutlass -- Canes., and First of three plates on leaf 65.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, Novr. 18th, 1771, accorg. to act
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Tipu Sultan (left) gallops (right to left) past Cornwallis who is seated in an ornate chair on the back of an ill-drawn elephant. Tipu, rising in his stirrups, excretes a blast which displaces a boy-mahout on the elephant's neck and strikes Cornwallis. He says, "Now my Lord I'll Tip you the Swamps". The horse excretes a blast directed at the elephant's eye. The elephant, raising its trunk, says, "I wish I could run as fast as he how i would thump him." Cornwallis, with his sabre raised above his head, his left fist clenched, says, "These Monsoons are more Violent than ever I knew them before Boy turn back again." The boy says, "Yes my Lord I am going backwards Pr force." Behind Cornwallis's seat is a box inscribed 'Rice for Gruel during the Monsoons'. Behind Tipu (left) is a circular fort inscribed 'Seringapatam'."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
How to gain a complete victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Watermark: I Taylor.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 15, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India and India.
Subject (Name):
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805., Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805, and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
Subject (Topic):
History, Daggers & swords, Defecation, Elephants, Horses, Military retreats, British, and Urination
"A tall and elegant officer walks left to right and slightly towards the spectator, his hand on the hilt of his sword. He wears cocked hat, high tasselled Hessian boots; gold aiguillettes hang from his right shoulder below the waist. Donald Macdonald, of the 55th Foot, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort William, was commissioned Lieutenant-General in 1810."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant General Macdonald
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher tentatively identified as Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1848,1221.44., Leaf 73 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808.
"Officers promenade, swaggering selfconsciously; three couples are arm-in-arm. One pair, one of whom is a lancer with a moustache, arrogantly stare at a taller and more dignified Life Guards officer wearing a huge curling plume on the crest of his helmet. All have small high waists with belts or sashes, bulging breasts, high collars, and stocks, narrow and sometimes tiny coat-tails, tight sleeves, high padded shoulders; usually a bush of hair projects from a fantastic shako or helmet. The two Life Guards officers have boots, wide at the top, reaching to the thigh. Two officers wear fantastically large plumed shakos. An officer in back view, (?) the Duke of York, wears the plumed hat of a field-marshal, and is arm-in-arm with a very tall thin officer"--British Museum online catalogue, description of S.W. Fores copy
Alternative Title:
Heroes of 1819
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Possible reissue of print published by S.W. Fores., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. No. 13059 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Le Petit 20 Capel St.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Military uniforms
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Refined taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett)., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner., Second of two plates on leaf 44., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Refined taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett)., and Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Two timorous duellists face each other at close quarters in a saw-pit, trembling and dropping their weapons, namely pistol and blunderbuss; each has a heap of weapons at his feet: sabres, rapier, pistol, more blunderbusses. The hair of both rises on their heads. One (left) is in uniform, the other (right), who is smaller, wears fashionable civilian dress with tasselled Hessian boots. A scroll extends above their heads inscribed: 'Did you mean to Offend me? indeed Sir not I.--indeed Sir I'm very glad on't!!!' A spectator (right) looks over the edge of the pit, holding a bowl from which he blows soap bubbles, which float over the head of the civilian. The bubble in the pipe is inscribed 'Puff', suggesting a publicity campaign."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Direful courage of Dolla Lolla
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Portal & Bridges 1802.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1810 by S.W. Fores, Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Fear, Guns, Military uniforms, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Dundas, tall and elegant, stands directed to the left, right hand on a cane, left on his scabbard. He wears a cocked hat with side-peaks, with loop, cockade, and small plume, double-breasted uniform, coat with star, boots of Hessian pattern, a sword-belt under, and a sash over his coat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir David Dundas, KB, Commander in Chief
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 74 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820
Subject (Topic):
Generals, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords