"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from a smaller version of this design published 1 Mar. 1803 by R. Ackerman. See Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 42., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London : Publisher not identified, 1836?], p. 41., A copy of no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower right corner of sheet., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 26 x 39 cm
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., Date '1785' in lower right corner of image., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 21.0 x 29.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., and Date '1785' in lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
"A fat man (left) seated in an arm-chair, his swathed left leg supported on a stool, his crutches and an open 'Treatise on Gout' beside him. A meretricious-looking young woman bends over him, putting her right hand on his right shoulder and holding his left hand. A young woman of disreputable appearance pours out wine for him. A footman in livery (right) is about to put a large tureen on a dinner-table (right). A fat man is seen through an open door. A dog and cat lie together in the foreground. Behind the man's chair are the curtains of a bed. Probably one of the establishments in King's Place, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6764, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostitution.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 30th - 1785 - by J.R. Smith, No. 83 - Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Prostitutes, Servants, Wine, Crutches, Dogs, and Cats
"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Alternative Title:
Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.8 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 90 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 333 x 223 mm., and Sheet trimmed within platemark.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
Meulen, R. van der, active approximately 1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1830]
Call Number:
Print10122
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of activity., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., In margin top: Koninklijk Museum van s'Gravenhage., In margin bottom center: Déposé., See also Print10001., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Physician's visit; Vapours.
Publisher:
Steend. Desguerrois en Co.
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Lovesickness, Physicians, Servants, Eating & drinking, Sick persons, Chamber pots, Dogs, and Pitchers
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: English barracks., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning