Five images: 1. Two men converse: Man on the left: "If this is not the Tippy I wonder." Man on the right replies, "What pains some people take to make themselves ridicolous! 2. Two elderly couples sit at a game of cards with the man on the right addressing his partner: "I believe, Ma'am, we have two honors." 3. Two women walking with parasols discuss the novelty of their dresses. A short woman on the leftt says, "I believe Ma'am you'll find this the complete thing." The tall woman on rights responds with a haughty look on her face, "I beg your pardon Ma'am this is the true Bond Street." 4. Two elderly men read a letter from Copenhagen. "They write from Copenhagen!" "What do they say?" 5. A watchman brings a man he had accosted to an elderly judge or parson, "Please your Worship, this terrible looking fellow knock'd me down five times." The judge sitting in a chair replies, "A fierce looking countenance indeed, he shall be committed directly."
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series of Borders For Rooms, designed by Woodward and etched by Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492., Publication information from an unverified attribution on verso of the print., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 10 x 9 cm, mounted to 27 x 22 cm, together with one more image cut out from a Borders plate., and Image 2 only.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 30, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand
Satire on the dispute between John Hill and Mountfort Brown showing Hill in his bed apparently feigning illness to avoid appearing in court after charging Brown with assault
Alternative Title:
Consultation
Description:
Title etched above image., Month and date of publication transposed, precedes publisher's statement., Printed on a single sheet with: A night scene at Ranelagh on Wednesday 6th of May 1752., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., One line of text below title: Extremâ moriens tamen alloquar horâ., Seven lines of 'Extract from the Covent Garden Journal' below image: Whereas several scandalous paragraphs have been published in a Common Newspaper ..., and First state of no. 3184 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3? Speech balloon of the first doctor on the left, and partial text below title varies.
Satire on the assault by Mountefort Brown on Dr Hill
Description:
Title etched above image., Printed on one sheet with Le malade imaginaire, or, The consultation., 'Price 6d'--Following imprint., One line of text below title: Thus I bore my point; six rogues in buckram let drive at me., Three lines of quotation from Henry IV, Part I, below image: I am a rogue if I were not at half sword with a dozen of them two hours together ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: entrance to the Rotunda at Ranelagh -- Lighting: street lamps -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 -- Mountefort Brown, fl. 1752 -- Mr. Cole, Master of the Ceremonies at Ranelagh -- Constables.
BEIN AUSsheet2: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Suit system: French., Sheet contains 12 cards, King-Jack., King: FRANZ // ENTNER; Jack: PROS- // NITZ., and Type: A.
A collection of original caricatures by Robert Dighton, published 1792-1812
Alternative Title:
Caricatures by Dighton
Description:
Title from spine., Etching, several leaves watermarked 'Edmeades & Pine' and dated 1808 and 1807; sheet size 31.0 x 25.5 cm., Bound in early 19th century black half morocco, gilt-decorated spine, titled in gilt 'Characatures by Dighton', recased with original spine laid down., With the bookplate of James Barratt, Lymm Hall, inside front cover., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by cataloger., Title from spine: Architectural drawings., Ms. note on front pastedown: 4th night lt 70. Bought at Doctor Mead's sale --- £2=2=0., and Press-mark on front flyleaf "A.L.30."
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
Description:
Title from item., Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde., and With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French edition of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout the three volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were issued with the work
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Many of the drawings have the sitter's name written below, and most are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see name authority record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de Mme. du Deffand avec la duchesse de Choiseul ... Paris : M. Lévy frères, 1866., and Extra-illustrated: plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,, Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Lévis-Mirepoix, Anne-Marguerite-Gabrielle de Beauvau-Craon, duchesse de, 1707-1791,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, Guerchy, Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de, 1715-1767,, Gleichen, Charles Henri, baron de, 1733-1807,, Dufort de Duras, Henriette Julie de, comtesse d'Egmont, 1696-1779,, Noailles, Marie-Anne-Françoise de, comtesse de la Marck, 1719-1793,, Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785,, Barthélemy, J.-J. 1716-1795, (Jean-Jacques),, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Boufflers, Amélie de, 1751-1794,, Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 1713-1795,, Aiguillon, Louise Félicité de Brehan-Plélo, duchesse de, 1726-1796,, Sénac de Meilhan, Gabriel, 1736-1803,, Brionne, Louise de Rohan, comtesse de, 1734-1815,, Mirepoix, Gaston Charles Pierre de Lévis, duc de, 1699-1757,, Mazarin, Louise-Jeanne de Durfort de Duras, duchesse de, 1735-1781,, Conzié, Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de, 1732-1804,, Maine, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du, 1676-1753,, and Grammont, Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de, 1730-1794,
A series of eight, small watercolor drawings depicting castles and country houses in England and Wales. The views show: Brancepeth Castle near Durham; Enville Hall in Staffordshire; New Weir on the river Wye, Herefordshire; Hagley Hall, Worcestershire; Hereford Cathedral from across the river Wye; St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire; Lumley Castle near Durham; and Chirk Castle near Wrexham, north Wales
Alternative Title:
Drawings by De Wint
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attributed to Peter DeWint., Date based on DeWint's visits to Wales between 1829 and 1835. See Oxford dictionary of national biography., Drawings are mounted an album of thirty-four unnumbered blank leaves; each drawing is captioned by the artist below in ink, some are numbered in pencil. Bound in nineteenth-century half black roan over marbled boards with the spine lettered in gilt ‘Drawings by De Wint’; marbled endpapers and edges; old bookseller’s description pasted at foot of first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Wales
Subject (Topic):
Cathedrals, Dwellings, Estates, and Castles & palaces
A group of amateur watercolor drawings that illustrate various scenes from Clara Reeve's Gothic novel The old English baron. The drawings are inserted throughout the printed text of the fourth edition, bound in near the scenes that are depicted. Although untitled, the drawings have been assigned titles that derive from the text
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Each drawing is signed 'C. Boyle' and most are dated with the month, day, and year of production. The artist is probably Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (1769-1831), who married Lord Henry Fitzgerald in 1791; she legally changed her name to Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros in 1806, after successfully petitioning to end the abeyance to the Barony of de Ros and becoming 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley., Bound in a copy of: Reeve, C. The old English baron: a Gothic story. London : Printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]., Lacking the two published plates., Bound in vellum with gilt edges and tooling and with pink silk endpapers., Extra-illustrated with eight watercolor drawings on vellum, produced by Charlotte Boye in 1789 (these drawings are cataloged separately)., Autograph (Fitz-Gerald?) scratched out on page iii., and In red case.
A group of drawings that illustrate select scenes from Laurence Sterne's novel The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. The drawings vary in level of detail and completeness; one is a slight pencil sketch, two are more detailed drawings in pen and ink over pencil, and three are elaborate drawings in ink and wash. The drawings are bound in as either the frontispiece or before the frontispiece, one in each of the six volumes of the eighth edition of the work. Several of the compositions were later engraved, presumably from larger designs by Bunbury
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., The drawings are unsigned, and only one has a title written at the bottom., Bound in H.W. Bunbury's copy of: Sterne, L. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770., In slipcase., and With H.W. Bunbury's original drawings (cataloged separately) bound in; also with verses in unidentified hand on end-papers of v. 4.
A collection of prints, mostly after designs by H.W. Bunbury and engraved by: Charles Bretherton, F. Bartolozzi, T. Trotter, M. Haughton, G. Shepheard, J. Baldrey, T. Watson, P.W. Tomkins, C. Knight, and J. Bretherton. Most prints were published by W. Dickinson; other publishers include: Watson and Dickinson, J. Jones, T.R. Smith. Other artists included: C. Bretherton, Angelica Kauffmann, and B. Scarron. Many of the prints are in multiple states, including proof before letters as well as multiple impressions, colored and uncolored
Description:
Title from spine., Bound in three quarter tan calf, marble boards, with spine title in gold: Bunbury album., and Typed list with titles and page numbers inserted; cross-referenced with Horace Walpole's two volume collection of Bunbury prints.
"Heading to a song printed in four columns. An old maid's tea-table overturns, owing to a quarrel between her two cats and the dog of her visitor (left), an elderly hunchback. Tea-urn, tea-pot, &c, fall to the ground, scalding the guest. Below the title: 'Being a Companion to that excellent Song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." To the tune of "Away with these Queer Married Fellows", in the "Gay Deceivers"; by Mr Bannister'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from broadside printed on same sheet., Printmaker and imprint data from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of text and four columns of verse following title in letterpress., and Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Tea Urn -- Reference to "Gay Deceivers" -- Pictures amplify subject.
"Heading to engraved verses ... A young woman seated in front of the fire looks sourly over her shoulder at a military officer who is feeling the blade of his razor. He first professes to be about to cut his throat because he is scorned by the lady, but: 'No, says he, - to kill himself a brave man scorns, Tol de, &c., So instead of his throat he cut his corns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '462' in the lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of text above design: Sung by Mr. Bannister, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; in the new opera, call'd False Alarms, or, My Cousin. The music of this song composed by M.P. King., and Thirty two lines of verse below title: Major MacPherson heav'd a sigh, Tol de diddle dol, &c. ...
Publisher:
Publish'd April 6, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A couple of Irishmen look in horror at a white cat in a church graveyard."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 16., and Undescribed in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from letterpress text printed below plate., Plate numbered '488' in the upper left corner., Date of publication and artist from British Museum catalogue., Forty lines of verse printed on broadside portion: To a village that skirted the sea, an exciseman one midsummer came, but prudence, between you and me, forbids me to mention his name ..., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Published by R.H. Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"A group of men sit round a table with candles and beer discussing public affairs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 11., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '475' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., "Sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Incledon in his Wandering Melodist.", and Sixteen lines of verse below title: Oh did you not hear of Kate Kearney,she lives on the banks of Kilarney, from the glance of her eye, shun danger and fly, for fatal the glance of Kearney ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 9, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 6., For a description of a later state with altered plate number, see no. 10902, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Quakers -- Sailors -- Open grave -- Spade -- Female costume: Quaker's bonnet -- Skulls.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse arranged in two columns below design: Too true alas! was founded this belief, behold him tampering with a title chief ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 10., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Twelfth Night., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Published Janr. 10, 1807, by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside
A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific and facing the west coast of North American, Pitt stands fishing with a rod baited with a sack labelled "3 million genl. elc." Beside him in the boat is Henry Dundas holding another sack labelled "million gen. elec" and beside him in the back of the boat, a third sack also labelled "million gen elec." Selected points along the shore from the Sea of Kamtschatka and Bristol Bay (north) to New Mexico are identified with no attempt to convey a sense of scale: Nortons Sound, Alaska, Cooks River, Ps. William Sound, Spanish Land, Nootka or King Georges Sound, New Albion, California. Off the coast of Alaska are shown the islands Arako and Foxes Is. Whales surface above the water inside the buoys with flags reading "10 leagues." In the upper left is a galley "Convention." Pitt says "I fear Harry the fishing will never answer." Dundas replies, "Never mind tha Billy the gudgeons we have caught in England will pay for all."
Alternative Title:
Cheap way to catch whales
Description:
Title etched above image., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: The hostile nations view with glad surprise, the frugal plans of minsters so wise, but they the censure of the world despise, sure from their faithfull commons of suplies [sic], convinced that man must fame immortal gain, Who first dare fish with millions in the Spanish Main., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
Title from item., Artist from unverified data in local card catalog record., Number 258 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '258' 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: Welshmen -- Inns: Pack Horse -- Sign Boards -- Signs: Pack Horse -- Welsh ponies -- Horseshoes on door -- Innkeepers -- Welsh names.
Publisher:
Published 4th Feby., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 12., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dance parties -- Beauty -- Caricatured figures (large head, small bodies) -- Minuets., and Final digit in year "1807" in imprint statement has been altered from "7" to "6" in ink.
Title from item., Artist supplied by cataloger., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of dialogue inscribed below design: Good lack a day John, what are you doing? you have broke all the tea things. "I can't help it Ma'am, that nasty cur[?] of yours has bit my lef." Bit your leg! has he? dear me; I hope the pretty little creature won't be sick after it!!, Numbered '259' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spilling tea service -- Tea trays -- Tea tables -- Birdcages -- Birds: parrot -- Domestic service -- Liveried Manservant.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 4, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Imprint line differs from description in the British Museum catalogue., Probably from the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '273' in lower left corner., and Watermark: E & P 1805.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 21, 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Letterpress broadside printed by: D.N. Shury, Berwick-Street, Soho., Fourteen lines of text below title on broadside: You are now, young man, entering on a scene of life the most glorious and enterprising--that of an English sailor ..., Temporary local subject terms: Invasion broadside., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Published at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand, London
A pretty young woman sits on the knee of an officer (left) wearing a gorget and cocked hat. She looks over her shoulder to speak to her elderly husband who leaves the room (right) supported on crutches: "Pray my Dear go and speak to Sir John in the mean while the Captain & I will push the point in this Quarter." He answers: "I'll go this momment. now is the Golden instant so dont be Idle but exert yourselves to have the affair well done & quickly." Over the doorway is a stag's head with antlers. The captain says: "Thanks, Sir. I trust your good Lady will Succeed in her Undertaking
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., State with street address '20 Strand' burnished from plate., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 24, 1802 by T. Williamson, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Horns (Anatomy), Military uniforms, British, Sofas, and Spouses
Title and artist from British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and attribution., Temporary local subject terms: Invasion prints -- Punch Bowl., Alternate title added in pencil in modern hand to lower portion of mount: The lion of the club on his legs -- "attention gentlemen"., and Mounted to 23 x 33 cm.
Title from item., Number 284 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: (A polite bow from both parties) Lord. "Sir your face is quite familiar to me, I must have seen you somewhere before, will you do me the honor to tell me your name.", Plate numbered '284' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Margate -- Bathing Machine -- Fan -- Parasol -- Pantaloons.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '263' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Cart.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 10., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Published 10, Janry, 1807 by Thomas Tegg, Cheapside
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate numbered: 395., Title from broadside poem written by C. Dibdin, Esq. in letterpress below image., and Watermark: 1812.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 3, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse arranged in two columns below design: His seat secure, he ranges on the side where Opposition swells the patriot tide ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: 1804., and Mounted to 26 x 34 cm.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Eleven lines of descriptive verse inscribed in 3 columns below design: Betty with bridled chin extends her face, And then contracts her lips with simp'ring grace ..., Plate numbered '265' in upper 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: Inns: exterior -- Covered carts -- Countrymen -- Quotation from literature: Dr. King, fl. 1801?, 'Little Mouths'.
Publisher:
Published 25th May, 1801, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A scene on the poop of a man-of-war. A lean and shambling civilian, his hat tied on by a spotted handkerchief, clutches the coat-tail of a sailor to say: "My dear Friend - I understand you are Captain of this here ship - and they says a how the Enemy, is in sight - now could not you put the ship a little on one side, and not be too ventersome - its the best way to be a little cautious - I am but a poor weaver - but however life is sweet." The sailor (r.) (dressed as in BMSat 10894) holds a cudgel, has a quid of tobacco in his cheek, and points with his left hand to the right. He glares fiercely at the weaver, saying, "Why you paltry land Lubber do you want me to run away? - but however I never bear malice so I'll give you a little Comfort - before I would strike to an Enemy d'ye see - I would blow the vessel up in the air - So before you could turn a chaw of tobacco you would be out of your misery." Behind (l.) two sailors man a gun. On the deck (r.) is a pile of cannon-balls."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Cf. No. 10897 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Title from letterpress broadside poem printed below image., "Extracted from no. XII of the Monthly mirror-new series"., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate number in upper right corner: 481., Twenty four lines of verse below image: From Brighton two Paddies walk'd under the cliff ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ivy Mill, 1809.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
An engraving above a song: A pretty young woman (Mrs. Bland) sits with her elbow resting on a square piano, facing a man wearing a cocked hat (Braham), who bends towards her, smiling, hands on hips. She weeps: on the piano is a song: 'False Alarms Smile & Tear . . . Laurie & Whittle'. The piano is by 'Broderip'.
Description:
Title from text engraved below image., "False Alarms, or My Cousin' was a comic opera by Kenney first performed at Drury Lane, 12 Jan. 1807. Braham played Edgar Gayland in love with Emily, played by Mrs. Bland." See British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Eighteen lines of verse in lower portion of print: Said a smile to a tear, on the cheek of my dear ..., and Plate numbered '458' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 2, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Protestant St. George too much for all the talons, or, the beast with seven heads and Beast with seven heads
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Title from text in image., Artist and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Nine lines of descriptive text located centrally in design: In presenting to your notice these volumes of caricatures, I am desired in the names of the publishers, artists, & also from myself ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from item., Imprint from other prints in the series and from Krumbhaar., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 26 x 34 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Plate numbered '253' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd 8th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Illustration at the head of Henry Carey's poem (also sometimes 'Sally of our alley') in letterpress, shows a scene in a cobbler's work-room. The apprentice has thrown down a shoe on a last to embrace 'Sally', unconscious of his master who stands behind him with lifted strap
Description:
Title from letterpress poem printed below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Date from letterpress at bottom of page., Date engraved on print: Published Nov. 1, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on upper side., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Song attribution below title: Sung by Mr. Incledon. Mr. Braham. Mr. Dignum. Mr. Hill. Mr. Taylor, &c. &c., Fifty-six lines of verse arranged in four columns on broadside portion of sheet: Of all the girls that are so smart, there's none like pretty Sally ..., and Plate numbered '411' in the upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 9th November, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, Fleet Street, London
"A design with much-burlesqued 'Lilliputian' figures with large heads, as BMSat 9635, &c, but grotesquely elongated as in BMSat 10604, &c In the foreground (l.) are four card-players at a round table lit by two candles. One man (l.) is in military uniform, with a pigtail, trousers and tied shoes; he and his partner (r.) are pleased: she says: "I lead trump"; he says: "A charming hand this time however". A man in back view wears an enormous bag-wig, the bag covering the back of his chair; he says: "Worse and worse". His melancholy partner says: "I never held such cards in my Life." Behind the lady on the r. stands a footman holding a salver with three tall glasses of wine; he yawns cavernously: "Ya, ha!" In the middle distance (r.) an bows to a lady who curtseys; he says: "I never saw your Ladyship look more beautiful will you take cards or dance." She answers: "Neither my Lord at Present." A cut-glass chandelier with four tall candles hangs above their heads. Behind is an ornate archway through which is seen a ball-room with a musicians' gallery and grotesque dancers. On the extreme right. is a side-table with decanters, candles, a stand of jelly-glasses. These small background figures and the table, with the inscriptions, are etched by G. Cruikshank."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Also attributed to George Cruikshank in British Museum catalogue., Numbered in upper left corner: Plate 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
A manservant and a maidservant on the extreme left peer through a half-opened door at two men seated at a round table covered with a white cloth on which are plates of peas, a decanter, and wineglasses. A waiter (left) is leaning towards them checking prices off on his fingers and saying: "I'm sure Gentlemen on inspection you'll find the charges very reasonable, nothing can be cheaper, fifteen shillings the peas! Ducks one pound one!!!" The man in the middle of the table looks at him with his mouth open; the man on the left holds up a sheet of paper on which is written "No. 4 Tim Fleecem Duck £1.1. Peas 0.15 s." He shouts: "Ducks!!! why my good friend they are Guinea Fowls!!!"
Alternative Title:
Ducks metamorphosed
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.39., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 4., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from broadside printed on same sheet., Header to broadside: In answer to Captain Morris's celebrated song of "Country life" written by the late Mr. Hewerdine., Ten stanzas of verse printed in letterpress: As town-bitten bards, bred in fashion and noise, the country decry, and its health yielding joys; let us fairly examine the preference due to the smoak-smother'd town, o'er the villa's clear view ..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '465' in the upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 15, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Imprint from other prints in the series and from Krumbhaar., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 25.7 x 33.8 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Trace remains of plate numbering are visible in upper right corner: [No. 6?]., Variant state. Cf. no. 10908, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Watermark: J Whatman.
"The invalid, unshaven, in a nightcap, and wearing a dressing-gown over unfastened waistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings, stands as in British Museum Satires No. 9584, grimacing with disgust at a cup of medicine, the bottle in his left hand. In place of the fireplace is a table on which are medicine bottles, pill-box, and a small case inscribed 'Tractors', see British Museum Satires No. 9761. Behind him is a commode. A strip of bed-curtain appears on the extreme right. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9805. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 10304, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., An imitation of Gillray's print of the same title; cf. No. 9584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Physic -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Close stools., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives -- Toilet facilities.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Laxatives, Tractors, Metallic, Medicines, Medical procedures & techniques, and Sick persons
"Ten Odd Fellows with grotesque faces watch a sailor who stands, arms akimbo, wary and pugnacious. The chairman sits in a raised armchair, smoking and drinking, behind a small table on which are two lighted candles. On the back of his chair are three small but realistic heads, seeming to watch the proceedings. A man in a dressing-gown, introduces the sailor, doffing a night-cap: "Most worthy Chairman Mr Benjamin Block of Wapping Old Stairs - attends to be made a Member of the Ancient and honorable Society." The sailor, who wears round hat, short blue jacket, a petticoat (as in earlier prints), and buckled shoes, says: "Avast my Hearties, - before I've proceeded any further on the voyage let me know what course you are steering - if you mean to frighten a British sailor with your goggle eyes, and queer faces you are d------dly mistaken - besides it appears to me that you have got masks on which is like fighting under false colours, and that wont do for an English Jack Tar!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Earlier state. Cf. No. 10899, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 8., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
"Heading to printed verses ... A young woman sits a donkey which is in the sea, refusing to move; she flourishes her parasol. Holiday-makers stand on the sea-shore watching with amusement. In the background one lady is being thrown from her donkey, another is galloping. In the verses a she-ass relates to a mere beast of burden the delights of frolicking by the sea: 'Fashion here tells young lasses to ride On the best walk that ever was seen'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title and imprint statement below image., Artist from the British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three columns of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Brother Jack I am going to inform you , of things that ne'er enter'd your head, and I hope that narration will charm you, wherever you're driven or led ..., and Plate numbered '167' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 25th May 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, No. 53, Fleet-Street, London
A coach drives into swampy water; the drunken coachman has dropped the reins, the footman at the back shouts at him; the occupants, an elderly man and two ladies, have opened the door and are screaming. There is a crescent moon
Description:
Caption title from letterpress printed below image., Imprint appears at top of image. Imprint in letterpress at bottom of third column: Published 6th April, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of imprint at top of sheet., Plate numbered '464' in the upper left corner., Header to broadside: Written by Captain Morris, with additional stanzas by the late Mr. Hewerdine, marked by inverted commas., Fourteen stanzas of verse arranged in three columns on broadside portion: In London I never know what to be at, enraptur'd with this, and transported with that, I'm wild with the sweets of variety's plan, and life seems a blessing to happy for man! ..., and Number '464' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Publisher:
Publish'd Apr. 6, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Six numbered verses of a song below title: If to hear a droll song, it is your intention, I'll somebody hint at, but nobody mention ..., and Plate numbered '461' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 28, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint from other prints in the series and from Krumbhaar., Twelve lines of verse arranged in two columns below design: Sir Hugh deceas'd his wild ambition fires, and rich in cash, to Parliament aspires ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine., and Mounted to 26 x 34 cm.
"Scene in a ramshackle attic, with a curtained bed on the right. A family sit at a table covered with a tattered cloth, on which are part of a loaf and four small potatoes. The ragged, lean, and elderly man (left) faces his still more haggard wife. A small boy stands by his mother, a youth and little girl sit opposite. All scowl with dismay at the meagre fare. A starving cat miaows. The man recites: "O! thou that blest the loaves and fishes, Look down upon these two poor dishes, And though the 'tatoes are but small, Oh make them large enough for all. For if they should our bellies fill 'Twill be a kind of Miricle!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 9., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Cf. No. 11469, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with modified imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry., 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Social conditions, Cats, Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Potatoes, Poverty, and Starvation