The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-30a
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"A sketch of fish-wives with their baskets ranged on the pavement (left); behind are the masts and sails of vessels in Billingsgate dock. Facing them is an irate customer with a gouty leg, a fish-wife (right) fastens a flat fish to his wig, while a small urchin tugs at his coat-tails. He clenches his fist and waves his stick, shouting with indignation. Of the women opposite, one holds out a fish towards him, shouting, another laughs with hands on hips, a third lies on the ground drunkenly vomiting, the contents of her basket spilling. Behind stands a woman drinking from a bottle. All are gross and fat, their breasts bare."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Billingsgate
Description:
Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Feby. 4, 1786, by E. Jackson, N. 14 Mary le bone Strt., Golden Square." Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.29., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate; traces of imprint still visible below title., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son Binding.
The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-31a
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
"A sketch of fish-wives with their baskets ranged on the pavement (left); behind are the masts and sails of vessels in Billingsgate dock. Facing them is an irate customer with a gouty leg, a fish-wife (right) fastens a flat fish to his wig, while a small urchin tugs at his coat-tails. He clenches his fist and waves his stick, shouting with indignation. Of the women opposite, one holds out a fish towards him, shouting, another laughs with hands on hips, a third lies on the ground drunkenly vomiting, the contents of her basket spilling. Behind stands a woman drinking from a bottle. All are gross and fat, their breasts bare."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Billingsgate
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 150., For a reissue with imprint burnished from plate, see no. 6725 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
E. Jackson, no. 14 Mary-le-Bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Jackson, Elizabeth, fl. 1785-1797, publisher., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"A man dressed as a coachman stands directed to the left, holding a long-lashed coach-whip. He wears a shiny round hat with cockade and gold band over a powdered wig with double row of curls, double-breasted waistcoat, shirt-frill, and loose coat reaching to the knee."--British Museum online catalogue, description of state with imprint.
Description:
Publication information based on that of state with imprint., Title etched below image., and Variant state, lacking publication line, of a print published with the imprint "Publish'd April 23d, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street." Cf. No. 11592 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A family of sweeps sitting before the smoking hearth (at right) in a low hovel, eating, drinking and smoking; all have sooty skin apart from the grotesque mother who leans back, barebreasted and negligently holding a long pipe, against a heap of sacks; a man sitting alongside and smoking a long pipe leers at her, another beside him; four children lie or sit on the floor eating with spoons from bowls, at one of which a cat also sits; on the rafters, above the billowing smoke, a caged black bird and an uncaged white bird."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Sweeps regaling
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly a companion print to: Love and dust., Probably a reissue of a plate first published in 1802; the year etched above Rowlandson's signature might have originally been "1802," and was seemingly modified to "1808" and then possibly "1812" before being mostly obscured with crosshatching. See Grego., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"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 tailor and Black-Dick turned taylor
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Promotions., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Howe, Richard Howe,--Earl,--1726-1799--Caricatures and cartoons., and Humphrey, G. (George), 1773?-1831?, publisher.
"John Bull, blindfolded, is being robbed and bullied by the powers of Europe who are urged on by Pitt. He stands in back view, without his coat, leaning forward with outstretched arms, wearing the wrinkled gaiters by which Gillray denotes the countryman (cf. BMSat 8141, &c). The Emperor (left), wearing a crown and a long ermine-lined robe decorated with a Habsburg eagle, leans forward from the left, and furtively picks his pocket. He holds a document inscribed 'Imperial Loan'. Prussia, as a Death's Head hussar, stands full-face near the Emperor and snaps his fingers at John Bull, holding out in triumph a money-bag inscribed '£2000000'. On the right John is assailed by France and Holland: a lean and ragged sansculotte with clenched fists kicks him behind; a fat Dutchman, holding a tobacco-pipe, puffs a blast of smoke in his face. On the extreme left Pitt stands in profile to the right, holding John Bull's coat and putting his hand into its pocket, he says: "Go it, my Honies, go it! Supple him a little! Supple him!""--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Too many for John Bull
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched at top of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Francis--I,--Emperor of Austria,--1768-1835--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
Blood and Co. setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown and Blood and Company setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Description:
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 7354 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Also issued separately., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and Townshend, John,--Lord.
"Fox, followed by Burke and Sheridan, hastily leaves a vaulted archway from which issue smoke and flames. George Hanger (left) runs in front, holding a burning firebrand; behind him is the White Tower in flames. Fox carries the crown which he partly conceals under his voluminous coat. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit (cf. BMSat 6026), holds the sceptre; he looks with satisfaction at Sheridan, who takes his arm. Sheridan holds the orb; in his hat is an election favour inscribed 'Townsend'. Hanger wears a cocked hat with an election favour, his military coat and tight breeches are in rags; under his arm is a sack labelled 'Unmill'd Coin'. Torn bills pasted on the wall behind Fox's head are inscribed 'the Westminster Election; for the Interest of Lord J. Townsd', and 'Leak's Pills'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Blood and Co. setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown and Blood and Company setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Description:
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Following imprint: Price 1 s., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Great Britain.--Parliament--Elections, 1788., Hanger, George,--1751?-1824--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and Townshend, John,--Lord.
"Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, wades waist-deep in the sea, advancing towards the spectator. On his shoulders sits Hastings, in oriental dress, holding in each arm a large money-bag inscribed '£4.000.000'. Thurlow scowls; Hastings has a serene and contented expression. In the water (a sea of blood) are the mutilated corpses of Indians: three heads tied together by the hair float in the water; a man floats with a rope round his neck; there are also a scourge and birch-rod."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Gillray in British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
India.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,--Baron,--1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where these enemies advance. He is dressed as Harlequin; the tight chequered dress (slightly torn) accentuates his obesity; an empty purse hangs from his belt; in his left hand is a hat with a tricolour cockade (emblem of Jacobinism). In his right hand he flourishes a large pen whose feather makes wide swirling curves, terminating in firework-stars, and inscribed with the names of newspapers: 'Courier', 'Morning Post', 'Morning Herald', 'Morning Chronicle'. He is masked, to indicate that he has been writing anonymous squibs against the Pic Nics. The swirls of his pen partly obscure a figure of Comedy, meretricious, and half-naked, holding up a mask which decorates the left pilaster of the proscenium. The actors follow in characteristic attitudes. Kemble (as Hamlet) wearing a ribbon, ranting in tragedy, directly behind Sheridan, staggers back with legs astride, both arms raised. On the left is Mrs. Billington, singing as in BMSat 9765, left hand on her breast. Mrs. Siddons (? as Lady Macbeth) clutches a dagger. Behind is the head of Lewis (see BMSat 9915), with a comedian's smile, wearing a cocked hat. Crowds of actors pressing on from behind (left) and in deep shadow, are indicated by arms holding up banners; the chief one with the head of 'Shakespeare', badly torn. Others are 'Otway Rowe'; 'Kotzbue', and 'Schiller', both tricolour (indicating the supposedly revolutionary tendencies of modern German drama, cf. 'The Rovers' in the 'Anti-Jacobin', and BMSat 7054); 'Jonson', 'Congreve', 'Addison'. In the foreground, through splintering boards, the ghost of Garrick rises, a mask in his hand. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets
Description:
Text following title: Vide Tottenham Street pantomime. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Billington, Elizabeth,--1765-1818--Caricatures and cartoons., Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart,--Countess of,--1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Cecil, Mary Amelia,--Marchioness of Salisbury,--1750-1835--Caricatures and cartoons., Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley,--Marquess of,--1749-1827--Caricatures and cartoons., Garrick, David,--1717-1779--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Kemble, John Philip,--1757-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Lewis, William Thomas,--1746?-1812--Caricatures and cartoons., Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe,--Earl of,--1764-1839--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., and Siddons, Sarah,--1755-1831--Caricatures and cartoons.