"A French recruit (left), an English recruit (right) face each other in profile, both are standing erect in a soldierly way, but are in civilian clothes except for the favour in the Englishman's round hat, and except for the bulky knapsack of fur or skin which each wears. They are described in words engraved beneath the title: "Monsieur all ruffles no Shirt Wooden Pumps and Stockingless" and "Jack English with Ruddy face and belly full of Beef". The Frenchman holds a slim cane, the Englishman a stout cudgel. Behind the former (left) are frogs and rats or mice, behind the latter cows and sheep, to illustrate the supposed contrast between French and English fare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Contrasted recruits
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed., Reissue, with publisher's name added to the plate, of no. 5862 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Date from print of same title; See British Museum satire no. 5862 which lacks imprint.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, National characteristics, British, and Clothing & dress
"A thin man wearing a coat with military facings, draws after him (right to left.) a small four-wheeled carriage, similar to a bath-chair or perambulator, inscribed Cox Heath. In it sits a child with a doll. A dog stands at her feet barking at the man who draws the carriage, who has a bundle strapped to his back, apparently containing hay. At the back of the carriage in the place of a footman stands a ragged dwarfish man. On the farther side of the carriage is a recruiting sergeant playing a fife. In the foreground (right) a fat woman, the wife of the man drawing the carriage, walks along carrying a basket containing bottles and a large umbrella in her right hand; a musket is tucked under her left arm. She and the three men all wear oak-leaves in their hats. In the distance the tents of the camp are indicated. An inscription beneath the title has been cut off. One of a number of satires on the militia and the camp of Coxheath, see BMSat 5523, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sergeant and contented mates
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Baby carriages, and Clothing & dress
"Gaetan Vestris (right) giving a dancing lesson to a gigantic goose with a human head and long pigtail queue. They face each other in profile. Vestris stands with his legs together, chest thrown out, his arms curved. "Regardez-moi" was his characteristic admonition. On a stool behind the goose is an open book inscribed "Electrical E. E. L."; on the ground at its feet is another inscribed "The Torpedo. Dedicated to Ld------C------. My Lord, I take the Liberty------ The greatness of whose Parts are known. . ." . This indicates that the goose is Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827), "The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel addressed to Mr John Hunter Surgeon" and "Dedicated to . . . Lord Cholmondeley," 4th ed. 1777, was a coarse and scurrilous poem, three lines of which are, "What tho' Lord Ch--lm--d--ly may conceal A most enormous length of Eel Admir'd for Size and bone:"In the wall which forms the background are two sash-windows and a door (left) round which a grinning youth, probably a servant, is looking. On the wall are half length portraits: three in ovals of elderly ladies in profile, one of a clergyman, full-face, wearing a biretta, his left hand on a book. There is also a picture of Fox, with a fox's head, seated opposite Cholmondeley; they are throwing dice. Fox appears satisfied, the other clenches his fist and exclaims in anger. A devil is climbing on the top of the frame and holds out a claw to grab the head of Fox. On the picture are the words "A Nick by God". Like Fox, see BMSat 5972, Cholmondeley held a faro bank at Brooks's. G.E.C., 'Complete Peerage'."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at bottom of image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
A dandified young man carrying muff and walking stick is met by a portly older bewigged gentleman (possibly his father or an innkeeper) before an inn. The young man is followed by 3 porters carrying baggage, including 2 sailors the last carrying 2 pistols. The inn's signboard depicting a tree with a face in it, is inscribed below with the name Bullock. In the courtyard behind a man is visible having emerged from a sedan chair
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., State with title almost removed from plate., Artist's initials and imprint from photocopy of later state., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Campione
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Sedan chairs, Travel, Dandies, Clothing & dress, and Taverns (Inns)
Copy in reverse of the first state of Plate 3 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 134): A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background; one woman drinks from the punchbowl; another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to the right, a harpist and a door through which enters a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged. A second version of the paintings is at the Atkins Museum (Kansas City, Missouri).
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 3 and What wretched Fate succeeds his guilty Joys, ...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Plate 3"--Lower right below design., Verses below image in three columns, four lines each: What wretched Fate succeeds his guilty joys, ..., The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 5.7 x 36.5 cm)., A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the third of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735.
Publisher:
Publish'd wth. [the] consent of Mrs. Hogarth, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill
A lady, seated and in fashionable dress wears a towering coiffure, which a French hairdresser adjusts her curls from behind while standing on the topmost rungs of a ladder. In front of the woman a naval officer sights through an octant to the top of her hairdo
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairdressing, Astronomical instruments, Ladders, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Four lines of text below title: Old gentleman (reading) Last Monday a society of college youths rang a peal of 4000, 500 changes in the space of two hours and twenty minutes ..., Plate numbered '213' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers: Courier -- Glass: wine bottles -- Eyeglasses -- Reference to gambling.
Publisher:
Published 20th March 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.2 plate 24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait, whole length, of a stout man facing three-quarter to right., looking to left over his right. shoulder. His left hand is thrust under his buttoned coat; his right (gloved) rests on a cane. He wears a looped hat, a tightly curled wig and is plainly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bully Bramble Esqr. Justice of Peace in Wasp Town and Roast beef and port
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue., and Plate numbered "24" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly accor. to act, April 1st, 1772, Strand
Leaf 5. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Admiral Rodney is depicted receiving the submission of the defeated De Grasse after the Battle of the Saints, as English sailors bring ashore the spoils of war, and chagrined politicians Fox, Keppel, and the Duke of Richmond look on from the left, with Sandwich and North behind them. Contrasts the new ministry's hostility to the popular Rodney with the rewarding of the incompetent Keppel (Admiral "Lee-shore.").
Alternative Title:
Admiral lee-shore in the dumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5992 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. 3"--On left above design., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 36., and On leaf 5 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31st, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street, London [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, French, British, Sailors, and Clothing & dress