"Lord Howe (left) sits cross-legged on a tailor's shop-board working at a naval coat which lies across his knees. He holds up a threaded needle in his right hand; in his left are shears with which he is about to cut the thread. He says, "I have now finish'd my Seven Years Plan of the N-v-l Uniform; next the Marines must be Blue, faced with White, & White Buttons. I shan't let the Guardships cruize as formerly, a bad plan, give me young Officers that know little, then I may shew my skill - The word Merit should be expung'd from the Dictionary. Next Year I must set a few more of the old Ninety Two's aside, & have smart young Admirals. I'll have a general reform soon." Beside him is a tailor's goose, &c. Behind him (right) five naval coats in course of completion hang from a row of pegs, two have elaborately wide cuffs, one of which is decorated with an anchor. Beneath the board on which Howe sits are demons from whose operations smoke rises to surround him. Two grotesque nude creatures (left), one very thin, the other obese, are on the top of a circular platform which rests on a mast flying an ensign. They are cooking a goose, a cabbage, and a cucumber, all emblems of the tailor, cf. BMSat 5805, &c. The place where the 'cabbage' (pilfered cloth) was kept was called Hell. Grose, 'Dict. Vulgar Tongue', 1796. Next them a large devil with a gridiron under his arm stretches out his talons, saying, "And I'll have a general Reform soon as I shall get you before you are aware of it. I've ting'd your Heart so may safely leave you to go on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Black-Dick turned taylor and Black-Dick turned tailor
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1788, by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Volume 2, page 73. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of a man wearing large-brimmed and feathered hat and carrying a rifle over his shoulder, his catch attached to his belt, which two of the six dogs grouped around him look at with interest at left; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "First state with etched letters, before re-publication"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.442., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 73 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 5th, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
"Two prostitutes sit weeping on a bank (left); two heavily shackled convicts stand beside them (right). A jailer with a pistol in his belt standing behind the women points sternly to a ship in the background. On a hill in the background a body hangs from a tiny gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered in lower left corner: 79., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
Subject (Topic):
Penal transportation, Gallows, Handguns, Prisoners, Prostitutes, Shackles, Ships, and British
Volume 1, page 23. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting in a boat, waving as her dog looks longingly towards the right, a man rowing at left, land and ships on the sea behind; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Charles Knight from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.120., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan'., Two lines of verse etched below title: Her less'ning boat, unwilling rows to land; Adieu! she cries, and wav'd her lily hand. Gay., Companion print to: Blouzelind., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads., and Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Napoleon, a grotesque mannikin in a strait-waistcoat, sits on a three-legged 'Stool of Repentance' which stands in a large tub of 'Hot Water', whose steaming contents are inscribed 'Sea of Troubles'. The waistcoat is inscribed 'Allied Strait Waist-coat'; it has long sleeves extending far beyond his hands, the ends held by the Tsar (left) and a Cossack (right) so that the captive's arms are horizontally extended. His head is bald and is in profile to the left; he has a beak-like nose and his mouth gapes like a young bird's for a huge bolus inscribed 'Invasion of France' which John Bull, a fat 'cit', puts into his mouth. Alexander, who wears an ill-fitting bag-wig poised on his own hair, holds a knout with knotted lashes, inscribed 'Russia Hemp'; he says: "I have found, a constant application of this Russian Knout to work Wonders!!" John Bull, who stands beside him, says: "Work away my Masters I'll pay you your fees ay ay rave & rant Master Boney but the Devil will Bone you at last." In the centre of the design, high above the other figures, stands a grotesque Dutchman, with a conical hat, a frill round his neck, and grinning features. In his hat is a ribbon inscribed 'Orange' and a pipe. He holds up a short cannon or mortar inscribed 'Dutch Drops' [see British Museum Satires No. 12114], from which pours a flood containing tiny replicas of himself armed with dagger, axe, a blunderbuss or bayonet, who descend upon Napoleon's head; among these are balls (bullets or oranges), the largest inscribed 'Orange Boven'. He says: "We'll try what Dutch Drops will do!" By the tub (right) kneels a Spanish don, wearing slashed tunic and breeches, with cloak and ruff; he applies a plaster to Napoleon's back inscribed 'Spanish Flies' [cantharides or blister-beetles, see British Museum Satires No. 11016], and grins broadly, saying, "Here is a Plaster of Spanish flies for his - ." Behind him stands the Cossack, piercing Napoleon's left arm with his long spear, making a fountain of blood spurt into a bowl, inscribed 'Crown Bowl', held by Bernadotte, the Crown Prince of Sweden. Bernadotte wears an absurd powdered wig with queue perched on his own hair which is in a small pigtail. On the wig is poised a cocked hat. He says: "I think my Crown Razors have shaved his Crown pretty close." From his belt hangs an open razor, the blade inscribed 'Best Crown Steel'. Like Alexander, he wears uniform with jack-boots. The tub stands upon flames inscribed 'Moscow' from which emerge the towers and buildings of the city, see No. 12049. Napoleon frantically flourishes above the water one thin leg in a huge jack-boot with a giant spur. He exclaims: "Hence with your Medecines--they but drive me Mad-- Curse on your Dutch Drops your Leipsic Blister [see British Museum Satires No. 12093, &c.] & your Spanish flies they have fretted me to what I am D--n your Cossack Lancets They have drained my veins and rendered me poor & vulnerable indeed!--Oh! how I am fallen--But I will still struggle--I will still be great--Myriads of Frenchmen still shall uphold the glory of my Name the Granduer [sic] of my Throne & write my disgrace in the hearts of ye--ye Wretched creatures of English Gold!" On the extreme right a Frenchman wearing a bonnet rouge looks in through a window, much perturbed. He says: "By gar de grande Bounaparte get into de hot water at last, he no like his Doctors--by gar he say they be no doctors, but de journeymen of dat great Doctor John Bull." Behind Alexander and on the extreme left is the 'Allied Medecine Chest'. It contains a jar of 'Surgical Instruments' bristling with cutting and slashing weapons, axes, bayonets, sword, &c., with a jagged saw; a pile of 'snow balls' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11917, &c.], and a jar of 'Cossack Leeches'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bleeding and warm water!, or, The allied doctors bringing Boney to his sense's and Allied doctors bringing Boney to his sense's
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "287" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., and Leaf 63 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 12th, 1813, by T. Tegg, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, and Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Later state with publication date altered from "May" to "June" 1821. For earlier state cf. no. 14299 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publishing., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image., Attributed printmaker supplied by curator, and is also known as Paul Pry., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: Phrenology No. 1; Sketches of Science., In lower left margin: [Man with umbrella] Esq DM., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Publishing
"Bottom sits in an arm-chair directed to the left, wearing spectacles on his ass's forehead. In his right hand is a piece of charcoal in a holder, in his left is a paper, which he is studying. Above his head is etched 'Apollo'. On the left stands a man looking over Bottom's shoulder, his fists clenched. Behind (right) two students (seated) draw from the antique, a nude male statue on a pedestal just above the level of their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image, a line from a speech by the character Quince, from Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, iii.1.121., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: "W_hen Phidias or Raph'el shall chuse to repair, I_ncog to our fine modern Artists' fam'd School, L_ost in wonder to see stuck in Genius's Chair T_he Block which now fills it) a formal old Fool. O_ ff again with this sneering Remark they will go, N_o marvel your Pupils old Friend are so so". JP.", and Initial letters of each line form word 'Wilton.'
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Wilton, Joseph, 1722-1803, Richards, John Inigo, 1731-1810, Phidias, approximately 500 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C., Raphael, 1483-1520., Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Apollo (Deity)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Artists' models, and Sculptors