Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A comely young woman, the centre figure, stands bare-legged in a wash-tub, holding her petticoats high, and smiling coyly. Behind (left), another woman with kilted petticoats steps into a tub, looking over her shoulder. In the foreground (right) a man in Highland dress sits on the ground, taking snuff. Water gushes into a rectangular tank of masonry from a satyr's head set in a wall. Behind is a tree and in the distance (?) Edinburgh Castle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by the printmaker in lower left corner of image., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, no. 1069., and On leaf 69 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Restrike, with remnants of a burnished imprint statement above image. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1809, see no. 11476 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
"Ten ladies, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes etched beneath the design, their proposed offices etched above their heads. ... '(1) First Lady of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.' The 'Duc - ss of Gor-n' (Pitt's friend), wearing a tartan drapery, sits at a writing-table. Facing her, with outstretched right arm, is '(2) President of the Council and Duc-ss of Ric-nd.' '(3) Lady High Chancellor is the Coun-ss of Buc-s-e', very short and fat, in wig and gown and holding the purse of the Great Seal. Facing her is '(4) Chamberlain', who is 'Margr-ne of Ans-h', wearing a coronet and feathers, and holding a long wand of office. '(5) Mistress of the Horse' holding a whip is 'Lady Arc-r.' '(6) First Lady of the Admiralty' is 'Mrs Jo-n', with her arms folded, in profile to the right, as if playing the part of Priscilla Hoyden in 'The Romp', see British Museum Satires No. 6875, but wearing a naval cocked hat, emblem of her liaison with the Duke of Clarence, see British Museum Satires No. 9009. Facing her is '(7) Secretary of War & Capn of the Guards, La-y Wa-ce' (sister of No. 1); she wears a military cocked hat and coat with epaulettes, her hands placed truculently on her hips. (Her friendship with Dumouriez is perhaps hinted at.) '(8) Mistress of the Buck Hounds', is 'March-ss of Sa-ry', thin and weatherbeaten, holding two hounds on a leash, '(9) Ranger of Hyde Park', is 'La-y La-e' (wife of Sir John Lade) wearing a riding-habit and holding a riding-switch. '(10) Post Mistress General and Inspector of Mis-sent Letters' is 'La-y Je-y'. She sits at a round table on which are many letters and appliances for opening and re-sealing them, including a spirit-lamp inscribed 'Hot water'. She holds a lighted candle and peers through spectacles at a sealed letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and With illegible monogram, perhaps a collector's mark, written in brown ink in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Lady Wallace, -1803, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Lade, Letitia, Lady, -1825, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
"A 'cit', ugly and elderly, sits full face at right angles to the fire (right). He has been suddenly awakened by two squalling cats behind him (left) and registers surprise and terror, with staring eyes and gaping, distorted mouth. Both hands are raised, and he has flung back the bandanna which covered his face. The room suggests prosperity: carved marble chimney-piece surmounted by mirror or picture, carpet, hearth-rug, low-backed arm-chair of modern shape."--British Museum online catalogue description of Gillray print of 1806 after which this is a copy
Description:
Title etched below image., From: The Caricatures of Gillray, With Historical & Political Anecdotes. London: John Miller, 1818., and Original work created 1806.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Waking, Cats, Parlors, Fireplaces, and Clothing & dress
Description from similar print in Lewis Walpole Library: A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Description:
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Below title is a poem in three columns: "The well fed rich Doctor now Dinner is o'er, In his Arm Chair gives way to an Afternoon's snore ..., In margin lower right: 102., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, at their Map and ... Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A satire on high-waisted dresses. A lady (left) stands holding an infant in a long robe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8897). She wears a round hat of masculine shape trimmed with three small feathers. Her dress hangs in straight folds from a line across, or above, her breast; behind appears the end of a train. Beside her stands a lady in back view: a transparent curtain veil hangs from her small hat. Her dress and a loose train held over the right arm hang from the shoulders. A stone wall forms a dark background to the light figures. See British Museum Satires No. 8896, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
A man stands in the center of his dressing room with an expression of pain on his face as he pulls open one of his eye lids to expose a large black speck in its center. He stands in what appears to be his dressing room, dressed in a waistcoat, nightcap, heavy stockings over his trousers, and slippers.The table is filled with medicine bottles and a vial. His clothes hang from a dresser drawer, a laundry washtub, brushes, and a bar of soap lie off to its side under the window. A blanket has been thrown on the back of the upholstered chair with castors. Small weights for lifting lie on the rug beside the chair
Description:
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Caption below title: I wish you'd take it out. There's always something the matter with me!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Eye disorders.
With the Tower of London visible in the background, a quack doctor on a platform holds up a bottle of medicine before a small crowd of city folk, as his assistant passes out handbills. Among the crowd is a carter with his whip, a chimney sweep's boy, and an obese woman. On the platform behind the doctor are several invalids, including a man with a crutch. A sign attached to the platform reads "Doctor Van Cheatall."
Description:
Title from item. and Artist and publisher from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
William Allen
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Sick persons, Quacks, Clothing & dress, Crowds, and City & town life
"A fat ugly woman sits squarely on a stool, in stays and petticoat with clumsy ungartered stockings. Three women, grotesquely ugly, advance towards her, one with a cap, the other with a petticoat, a third with a chamber-pot. On the ground are combs, hair-tongs, tankard, pin-cushion, fan, and garters, one inscribed 'Set thy thoughts on things above'. Said to be a satire on 'some vulgar fashionable'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1800 -- Female fashion -- Pincushions -- Tankards -- Garters -- Hair-tongs., and 1 print : etching and stipple engraving with aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.6 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Venus (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Vanity and pride, Clothing & dress, Fans (Accessories), Drinking vessels, Chamber pots, and Combs
A scene inside an apothecary’s shop, with a surprised looking apothecary standing behind the counter serving a shifty looking male customer wearing a Scottish bonnet cap and tartan trousers. Behind the counter is a labelled drug run (a set of drawers for storing medicinal ingredients) and labelled drug jars (for storing prepared medicines); on and in front of the counter are pestles and mortars. The shop has carboys and drug jars on display in the windows to the right. The apothecary holds a plaster iron in his hand and is in the process mixing a preparation. See: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum online, Attitudes to Health Collection, Reference 997.17.7.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of dialogue etched below title: Please Dockthar to gee me a baubee's worth o' brimstane, its no for mysel but for anither gentleman thats outside., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.