Kean as Richard III, directed to the left, stands on a large volume with the word 'Shakespear' written on the top edge. Resting on his head and humped shoulders is a model of Drury Lane Theatre, a massive block, inscribed 'Whitbreads Intire.' On the roof is poised an ugly figure of Fame, blowing through a trumpet 'Puff Puff Puff', and holding behind her a second trumpet, from which issue the words 'Puff Puff P'. At the entrance to the theatre straddles a tiny Whitbread, his legs and arms projecting from a cask which forms his body; he says: "Now by St Paul the work goes bravely on" (altering Richard's words from 'this news is bad indeed'). Kean stoops, leaning on a cross-hilted sword, inscribed 'A Keen supporter'; he has misshapen bandy legs. He says: "Well, as you guess." He wears an ermine-trimmed cap encircled by a crown, slashed doublet and trunk hose, a sleeveless coat bordered with ermine and embroidered with a (Yorkist) rose, with flapped and spurred boots. (The figure, with the position of the arms altered, is a travesty of J.J. Hall's portrait of Kean interrogating Stanley on the approach of Richmond. The costume is correct.) The stage is indicated by curtains flanking the design. In the background are clouds of smoke.--Adapted from British Museum
Description:
Title from text etched below image., Complete imprint statement and dimensions supplied from British Museum impression., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of characters in the publisher's name.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1814 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,, and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Leaf 65. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length profile figure of a man in a hat and military coat with facings. His hair stands out in a long, thin, stiffened queue. His right hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder; his left is on the hilt of his sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Twenty more, kill'em
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms: Lieutenant's uniform -- Tasselled canes -- Queue wig -- Lieut. Alexander Murray, fl. 1768 -- Expressions of speech: Kill'em, Tiger., and Second of three plates on leaf 65.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, accorg. to act, Decr. 1st, 1771, (39 Strand)
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"A whole length profile figure of a man in a hat and military coat with facings. His hair stands out in a long, thin, stiffened queue. His right hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder; his left is on the hilt of his sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Twenty more, kill'em
Description:
Title etched below image, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., For a later state with added volume numbering, see no. 4987 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms: Lieutenant's uniform -- Tasselled canes -- Queue wig -- Lieut. Alexander Murray, fl. 1768 -- Expressions of speech: Kill'em, Tiger.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly accorg. to act, Decr. 1st, 1771, (39 Strand)
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs
Leaf 93. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man stands in profile to the left in a rural setting. He looks along the barrel of a gun with a raised trigger. He wears a large looped-up club, low hat, a coat with facings, half-boots and striped stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 93., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Jany. 16, 1773, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 93. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man stands in profile to the left in a rural setting. He looks along the barrel of a gun with a raised trigger. He wears a large looped-up club, low hat, a coat with facings, half-boots and striped stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Jany. 16, 1773, by MDarly, (39) Strand
A corpulent man, whole length in profile facing right, holds a walking stick with hooked handle and wears his hair in a long pig-tail
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbers in upper left "V.5" and upper right corner of plate "1"., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Bound as 19.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to the act, Octr. 22, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...
"A bayonet charge of British soldiers (right) against Spaniards and Frenchmen (left). The Spaniards, wearing feathered hats, are fleeing unarmed. A thin Frenchman dressed as a petit-maitre staggers back in alarm, his arms outstretched, one hand on the shoulder of an equally terrified Spaniard. A Spaniard in cloak and slashed doublet has fallen to the ground and tries to shelter behind the Frenchman; coins apparently from his pockets lie on the ground beside him. The British advancing with bayonets are led by an officer who holds a sword raised to strike; a soldier holds a British flag."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 8th, 1780, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Soldiers, British, Military standards, and Clothing & dress
"A sailor (left), who grins over his shoulder at the spectator, sits on a corded sea-chest pointing at his prize-money which is heaped up on a larger chest in front of him, coins spilling over the top of the chest. He is gaily dressed, wearing a hat with a ribbon favour, long pig-tail, striped trousers; a bunch of seals dangles from his waistcoat; a spotted handkerchief hangs from his jacket pocket. His smoking pipe lies on the ground behind him. In his right hand is a sheaf of papers inscribed 'List of Prizes taken at the [ ?] Huntinna St Eustatia'. Five money-sacks stand on the chest, three being inscribed respectively '£10,000', 'Spanish Dollars', and '£5,000'; a sixth lies open with coins issuing from it. Four wine-bottles, one labelled 'Made[ira]', and a glass also stand on the chest. Through an open sash-window is seen a man-of-war whose sails are being lowered. Pinned to the wall (left) behind the sailor's head is a broadside ballad headed by an oval bust portrait of George III and the words 'God save the King'; below the verses is a crown."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Verse in two columns below image: "Now the wars are all over, faith I'll live in clover; I've enough of this Pelf, for my friends and myself.", Numbered "561" in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 32 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London