Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Imprint from no. 14333 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint statement trimmed from sheet. For intact statement cf. no. 14344 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Watermark.
"Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 341. A 'lounge' in Somerset House; the room is crowded with visitors holding catalogues, inspecting the pictures and each other. The upper pictures, chiefly portraits, are shown in detail, the others are hidden by the crowd. Among the visitors is the Persian Ambassador (see No. 13350), speaking to a fashionably dressed black man. Bound in the 1821 edition of Pierce Egan's Life in London, printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title form caption below image., Plate from: Egan, P. Life in London., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Corinthian Tom, Jerry Hawthorn and Bob Logic seated and drinking at a table in a 'whistling shop' in the Fleet prison, the former two visiting the latter who has been imprisoned for debt, prisoners and other rough-looking men drinking, gambling and smoking in the dingy room, some standing by the fire, a man entering the room to the right with tennis rackets under his arm and a warden talking to a lady with two children; illustration to Egan's "Life in London""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whistling shop Tom and Jerry visiting Logic on board the Fleet
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Egan, P. Life in London.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from other prints in series., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., The Lewis Walpole Library: Multiple pen and pencil sketches on verso., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtrooms.
"A parody of G. Cruikshank's 'My Eye', see British Museum Satires No. 14168. The eye is as before but much enlarged, filling the design. It contains a printing-press, inscribed 'Radical Press', and on it rests the Queen's bust portrait wreathed in laurel, closely copied from British Museum Satires No. 14150. Below the eye: 'See Hone's eulogium on the Radical Press. I'll watch them [him] tame. Shakespeare' ['Othello', III. iii; quoted in British Museum Satires No. 14168]."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched at top of image., Text at bottom of image: See Hone's eulogium on the Radical Press., Text in lower right corner of image: I'll watch them tame. Shakspeare., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 45 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1821 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Tom boxes with Jackson: two fencers (1eft), one masked, watch the boxers. Logic (the Oxonian, third of the trio) stands by the door, his umbrella under his arm, watching Jerry who is being weighed to decide a bet between them. On the wall are diagrams, a row of prints of fencers; a picture of two pugilists hangs above the door (right); boxing gloves and foils line the walls
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Title from caption below image., Plate from: Egan, Pearce. Life in London. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821, page 217., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint: 14.2 x 21.6 cm.
Tom fences with the fencing-master as spectators stand round the room or sit on a bench along the back wall, some wearing fencing jackets, others top-hatted. An umpire watches from a high stand (1.). Below Tom are Logic and Jerry. On the right is a table with foils laid out. On the back wall are three pictures: a battle-piece and two landscapes
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint supplied from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 252., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint.