"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its pointed toe rests on the foot of Mathew's spurred top-boot. Both wear round hats of slightly differing shapes. Skeffington's dark hair is short, falling over his forehead; he has a large whisker. Mathew's fair hair is long and powdered, and tied by a ribbon at the tips; he has a small whisker. Round the two boots are grouped blacking materials. A large open book (left) is 'Essay on Blacking'; by it are bottles labelled 'Mr Broomhills Recipe' and 'The Princes Recipe', and a mixing-pot. Two volumes (right) are 'Chemistry'; on them are bottles labelled 'Pine Apple' and 'Spirit of Salt'. There are also two brushes, a polishing pad, a cake of 'Holdsworth's' blacking, and a broken bottle of 'Royal Blacking'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 56 x 37 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"Miss Farren and Lord Derby, both in profile to the right, walk together inspecting pictures. She, very thin and tall, looks over his head through a glass at a picture in the second row of 'Zenocrates & Phryne'. He looks at the picture immediately below, 'The Death', a huntsman holding up a fox to the hounds. The frame is decorated by an earl's coronet with horses, cf. BMSat 9074, &c. Lord Derby, much caricatured, very short and obese, wears riding-dress with spurred boots and holds a whip. Miss Farren wears no hat, a dress hanging from the shoulders and trailing behind her, short sleeves and gloves. Both hold an open 'Catalogue'. Behind, a man (left) and two ladies in back view and arm-in-arm inspect a picture of 'Susan[nah and the] Elders'. The lady in the centre wears a high, twisted turban (cf. BMSat 8755) with an enormous feather, the other wears a round hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tally-ho & his Nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge and Tally-ho and his Nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: art exhibitions -- Literature: reference to Burgoyne's The Heiress -- Lorgnettes., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 24th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834 and Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829
"An elderly man displays scientific experiments. He stoops forward, in profile to the left, holding a rod horizontally between his fingers, in the left hand is a glass. A small still, phials, &c, and an elaborate appliance (right) are on the long table behind which he stands. On the wall are two medallion profile-portraits, one (left) being that of Priestley. A serpent, a scroll with cabalistic signs, a terrestrial globe on a bracket, are also on the wall, which is lit by a single candle with a curiously shaped reflector."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Philosophers -- Scientific lectures -- Maps: globes -- Cabalistic signs -- Phials.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 28th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Walker, A. 1730 or 1731-1821 (Adam), and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
"Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table; each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six tricks. Sir Joseph Mawbey (left) looks at his partner (right), a very stout man wearing a legal wig, both hold court cards (diamonds). The man seated on the farther side of the table looks sideways at Mawbey, saying, "O---h! you've brought your Pigs to a fine Market!" His partner, in back view, is a very thin man whose hair extends grotesquely on each side of his head; he holds the five of diamonds. From Mawbey's pocket projects a document, 'Surrey Commission', and a book, 'Burn Justice' (Burn's well-known 'Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer', used by all acting J.P.s, not an exhortation to incendiarism as Evans supposes). Above his head is a picture of a pig feeding from a trough."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Stevenson, fl. 1788 -- Allusion to "Account of Elections for Survey" by Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1730-1798 in Gentleman's Magazine: 1788.ii.975, 1052-3 -- Allusion to "Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by John Burns[?], 1743-1839 -- Quarrels: Allusion to Mawbey vs. his steward -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Feeding pigs -- Gaming tables -- Whist.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Sir David Dundas on horseback, in profile to the left, drills a line of cavalry at some distance. He holds a gold-headed cane in place of a whip and sits his horse in the manner of a bad rider. His foot is thrust forward so that his boot projects beyond the animal's chest (cf. Nos. 7233, 7242); he holds the curb rein only, and this is merely placed between his hand and the cane; the snaffle lies on the horse's neck. The animal is clumsy, with shaggy fetlocks. Under the saddle is a leopard-skin. Dundas is on rising ground above the level of the soldiers who are drawn up facing some tents."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Earlier state of No. 11256 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature and imprint. Printmaker and imprint from impression in the New York Historical Society collection., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Military camps -- Military manoeuvres: cavalry drill -- Military uniforms: Quartermaster general, Horse Guards., and Mounted to 40 x 48 cm., matted to 44 x 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"A half length portrait in an oval of the Duke of Cumberland in profile to the left, scarcely caricatured, but with a half-closed eye which gives an expression of arrogance. He wears a hat whose curving brim shades his eyes and rests on his high coat-collar. His chin is swathed in a stock, and an eye-glass hangs from a ribbon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: neck-cloth -- Hats -- Quizzing glasses., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 30th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A ship-load of English courtesans has just arrived in Calcutta and is being sold by a thin and foppish auctioneer who stands on the extreme left on an improvised rostrum. The women are being inspected by Englishmen and orientals whose appearance is more Turkish than Indian. The central figure is a woman who gives her right hand to an Indian, at whom she looks languishingly, her left to a stout Englishman, over whose head a little black boy holds a tall umbrella. Papers projecting from his pocket are inscribed 'Instructions for the Governor General'. A stout oriental smoking a long pipe holds up the petticoats of a woman in back view who puts her hand on the shoulder of an elderly man wearing a jewelled turban, turning aside from a young military officer. The middle distance is crowded with figures; an enormously fat woman (right) is being weighed in a scale opposite a barrel inscribed 'Lack of Rupees' which she slightly outweighs. On the right is the side of a high warehouse into the door of which a number of weeping women are crowding. Over the door is inscribed, 'Warehouse for unsaleable Goods from Europe NB: To be return'd by the next Ship'. Behind are the masts of a ship with furled sails. In the foreground is a row of seven casks all inscribed 'Leake's Pills'; on them is a box inscribed 'Surgeons Instruments'. The auctioneer stands on a case inscribed 'British-Manufacture' and decorated with crossed birch-rods. Beside it is a smaller case supposed to contain books and inscribed 'For the Amusement of Military Gentlemen. Crazy Tales'; 'Pucelle'; 'Birchini's Dance'; 'Elements of Nature'; 'Female Flagellants Fanny Hill'; 'Sopha'; 'Moral Tales'. The auctioneer's desk is a bale placed on end and inscribed 'Mrs. Phillips (the original inventor) Leicester Field London. For the use of the Supreme Council.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Surgeon's instruments -- Leake's pills -- Turbans -- East India Company -- Auctioneer.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 16th 1786, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
"A satirical representation of the duel between the Duke of York and Lennox. The Duke (left), calm and dignified, fires his pistol in the air; Lennox (right), his knees bending in obvious alarm, holds a pistol in each hand, saying, "I hope your H--gh--ss is satisfied now that I am a Man of Honor, by my firing thro' your hair? & that you will retract the opinion of my being a Coward". The Duke, whose hat is on the ground, answers, "Satisfied? yes I am satisfied! that your whole race are a set of dastards! - & you may fire at me till the day of Judgment, e'er I will retract my opinion - or honor a Coward, by putting him out of the World!" The seconds stand behind their principals: 'Lord Raw--n', in profile to the right, a pistol in each hand, says, "Gunpowder is disgrae'd when used upon such reptiles! make them eat their own words, till they are choak'd, thats the way to quiet Charles's-bastard-brood" (cf. BMSat 7507); 'Lord Wine--l--a' (right), looking very frightened, holds an arsenal of pistols under his left arm, a blunderbuss in his right hand, saying, "Would that I had not meddl'd in the business, or, that I could get over to the other side." All wear military uniform; Winchilsea was a Lord of the Bedchamber, Lennox Lt.-Col. in the Coldstream, the Duke's regiment. In the background stands an empty post-chaise."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prince and a poltron
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1 s./6 plain.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Duels: Duke of York and Lt.-Col. Lennox, 26 May, 1789 -- Guns: pistols -- Blunderbuss -- Military uniforms: lieutenant colonel, 35th Foot -- Military uniforms: Lord of the Bedchamber -- Coaches: post-chaise -- Poltroon: coward --Allusion to Charles II., and Watermark: countermark S. Lay.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 27th, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Field
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Winchilsea, George Finch, Earl of, 1752-1826
"A whole length caricature-portrait of Prince William Frederick of Gloucester in profile to the right wearing military uniform. He is very thin, elongated, and knock-kneed, and stands with his right hand in his breeches pocket. His profile resembles that of his uncle, George III ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Slice of Gloucester cheese
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street