"The King in profile to the right, with the Queen holding his right arm, leans towards a startled yokel who clutches his hat and a bucket. Behind the yokel (right) are pigs sniffing at the bucket and the gable end of buildings. All are caricatured. The King wears riding-dress, with a broad-brimmed hat and a spencer (see BMSat 8192) over his coat. He stands as if knock-kneed, his legs awkwardly splayed out. The Queen is dwarfish, wearing a hood over her hat and a shapeless cloak. In her right hand is a snuff-box. The yokel, wearing smock and gaiters, has the staring eyes, lantern jaws, and gaping mouth characteristic of Gillray's sansculottes. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of text below title: Well, friend, where a'you going, hay? What's your name, hay? Where d'ye live, hay? Hay?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Farmyards -- Yokels -- Male costume: spencer -- Riding habit -- Pigs -- Crops -- Buckets.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Volume 2, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 1. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bleak mountainous landscape cradling an infant, sitting beside the body of a man lying bleeding on the ground, a dog sitting in the foreground beside his master; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Dickinson from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1891,0213.43., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse below image, etched on either side of title: Cold on Canadian Hills or Minden Plain! Perhaps [the] parent wept, her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe her eyes dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Sad mournfull presage of his future years; The child of misery baptized in tears. Langhorne., and Mounted on page 13 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 21st, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
From a doorway on the left, a man approaches a large, well-dressed woman who sits in a chair under two paintings. He is pointing to his red nose and holds a cane under his arm and his hat behind his back; a dog is at his heel
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion to a print entitled "Before"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willlm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Dogs, Interiors, Staffs (Sticks), and Clothing & dress
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a rustic bedroom, a pretty, buxom young woman kneels before an open chest in which is hidden a handsome young soldier. As she holds open the lid of the trunk the two kiss, unaware that an ugly old man glares at them through a open, casement window and unaware that she has upset the full chamber pot at her feet. Beside the trunk are a hat filled with fruit, a bottle of eau de vie, and a mouse in a trap
Alternative Title:
Corporal Casey got into the wrong box
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 30, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11642 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 194-5., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 22 in volume 1.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a rustic bedroom, a pretty, buxom young woman kneels before an open chest in which is hidden a handsome young soldier. As she holds open the lid of the trunk the two kiss, unaware that an ugly old man glares at them through a open, casement window and unaware that she has upset the full chamber pot at her feet. Beside the trunk are a hat filled with fruit, a bottle of eau de vie, and a mouse in a trap
Alternative Title:
Corporal Casey got into the wrong box
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 30, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11642 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 194-5.
Burford, Thomas, approximately 1710-approximately 1779, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1741]
Call Number:
741.00.00.17+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Afternoon
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: In love and play we equal hazards run ..., One of four plates in an untitled series on the times of the day., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhil
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Later state by Fores of a print published by Thomas Harmar in 1788., Publication date in the British Museum database is Jan. 10, 1803., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires but an impression was acquired by the Museum afterwards., and Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Young women -- Military officers -- Adultery -- Domestic service: footman -- Food: roasted fowl -- Table settings -- Furniture: armchair and foot-stool -- Gout.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 10, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Title etched below image., From a series of eleven plates entitled "Love in Caricature.", One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Not age, with its cramps in full store ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Couples., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 20.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with loss of printing statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead and Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.