"A fat 'cit', wearing a short brown wig, sits almost full-face between fire (left) and round table (right) on which are decanter, steaming glass, and smoking pipe. His face is contorted by a violent sneeze; in his left hand is his snuff-box, his right holds a pinch of snuff near his face. On his knee is a paper headed Parliamentary Debates. His dog looks up from between his feet, startled and annoyed. On the chimneypiece, the right part of which is visible, are a bust of Morpheus, a large shell, a squatting and obese Chinese nudity. An oval bust portrait is on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pinch of cephalic
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 36 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 25th, 1822, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Tobacco, Sneezing, Snuff, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Fireplaces, and Dogs
List'ners seldom hear good of themselves and Listeners seldom hear good of themselves
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Variant without publication date of no. 12923 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Temporary local subject terms: Tea table -- Old women -- Interiors -- Chinese porcelain.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sitting rooms -- Tables -- Wine -- Firescreens -- Mantels.
Title from heading above central image., Numerous images on sheet, some individually captioned., Caption below central image: The artist who gives his time to drawing in albums is like a mishipman upon half pay who gets nothing a day & finds himself ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A spectacled auctioneer (the well-known Squibb) stands full-face in his rostrum with hammer raised, pointing downwards at a misshapen brass (yellow) figure of Queen Caroline in quasi-classical draperies, her arms akimbo, and displaying an ungainly leg. She stands on a wooden head of Alderman Wood, both being directed slightly to the left. Her sandalled feet rest on two curving supports of the head, which resemble the drooping peaks of a fool's cap. Near it lies a bundle of bulky papers, 'Defence of Innocence', labelled 'Lot 2 Waste Paper'. These two lots are on a table forming the base of the design below the rostrum. Behind the auctioneer less conspicuous lots are ranged on shelves: more bulky bundles inscribed 'Waste Paper Lot 3--Times'. A box of bonnets rouges with tricolour cockades inscribed 'To be Sold by Private Contract', with other chests of caps and of daggers, both inscribed 'Private'. A jar is 'Lot 5 Unsunned Snow' [see British Museum Satires No. 13975]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Going! A going! the last time ... and To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Squib at Bullock's rooms ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Seven lines of text below image: To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Squib at Bullock's rooms. Lot 1. (for exportation) Xantippe, a brazen statue, supported by a prime block of soft alder wood, a matchless article ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 26 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprial [sic] 13, 1821, by G. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Squibb, George, approximately 1764-1831, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., Bullock, William, 1773-1849., and Xanthippe.
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Auctioneers, Stages (Platforms), Gavels, Sculpture, Documents, and Liberty cap
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a fantastic procession Napoleon, much burlesqued and very thin, is dragged and pushed to the sea-shore, where (right) a boat manned by the Devil waits to take him to Elba. Round his neck is a rope dragged by two dwarfish and ragged Frenchmen (right): one is a ferocious little Jacobin, wearing a bonnet rouge, shouting "à bas le Tyran"; the other is a royalist, waving a hat in which is an olive-branch and ribbons inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons', and shouting "Vive Louis XVIII." Napoleon weeps; he is assailed by a shower of missiles including cats and rats; a little demon capers on his head playing a fiddle. His hands are tied behind him and his coat is worn back to front; his feet project through his ragged boots, his great spurs are attached to the front of his leg above the instep. In his coat-pocket is a tiny King of Rome waving a rattle topped by a crown and shouting: "By gar Papa I have made von grand manœuvre in your Pocket!!" The chief motive force is the large 'Allied Broom' [according to Broadley, perhaps describing another state, the inscription is not 'Allied Broom' but 'Abdication'], with which Talleyrand, wearing a long gown and a high surgical shoe on his left foot, pushes Napoleon forward, pointing derisively and grinning delightedly; he says: "There he goes!!!" Behind Talleyrand are a small but elderly drummer and a ragged soldier playing a fife. The former wears in his cap a big white favour, and an inscription: 'Vive Louis XVIII'; the latter wears a laurel branch and a favour inscribed 'Vive Louis' in his bonnet rouge; from his mouth float the words: "He was whip'd & he w drum'd, He w [sic] drum'd out of the Regt, If ever he is a Soldier again, The Devil may be his Sergeant." Next, and on the extreme left, are two women flinging missiles at Napoleon, and shouting "a bas le Tyran--Down with the Tyrant--Vive Louis." On the extreme right is a shouting man holding up a tricolour flag, inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons', its staff topped by a fleur-de-lis. On the ground (left) are Napoleon's epaulets with the scissors by which they have been cut from his coat, his sash and a small crown, perhaps that of the King of Rome. With these is a document: 'Done at Fontainebleau', across which lies a broken sword. On the horizon (right) is a rocky island from which rise large flames; these surround a tall gibbet with one dangling corpse and one empty noose; a ladder leans against it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rogues march to the island of Elba
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "325" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 25 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 13th, 1814, by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
"In a wheeled car, Louis XVIII careers down a wooden track (as on the Montagnes Russes in Paris), laid on a steep grass slope, towards a monster formed of a guillotine, from which diabolical talons extend, ready to clutch him. The car is partly throne, partly bath-chair; the King has the usual swollen flannelled legs and wears an old-fashioned court-suit. He is blindfolded by a fool's cap with a long peak which streams behind him, showing the rapidity of the descent. In his right hand he holds out a spluttering firebrand, or Holy Candle, in the left is a sword with a serrated blade inscribed Sword of Justice, to which heavy fetters are attached. On the right of the track is a wide doorway, inscribed Chamber of Deputies, whence soldiers with fixed bayonets are pouring out. The two foremost drag between them a deputy, Manuel. The King turns his head to the right, shouting: War! War! war! war with Spain is indispensable. We will carry our measures at home & abroad with the point of the Bayonet, The Bourbons must be absolute monarchs, the people must be slaves!! His car is pushed behind by a band of simian Frenchmen, having the legs of apes, in court-dress with orders, wearing fool's caps like that of the King, the two foremost having their faces completely covered with the caps. The first pair, evidently Villèle and Chateaubriand, shout War! war! war! and War! war! Vive l' Roi. Those behind shout Shove away Shattebrain [cf. BM Satires 12614]; this is a Glorious cause. Vive l' Roi. Manuel, dignified and determined, makes a speech: "Let others seek to debase the National character: they have no doubt a guilty interest in doing so: I will do every thing in my power to preserve it's virtue. I do not expect an act of Justice; it is to one of Vengence [sic] that I resign myself. Sent to this Chamber by the will of those who had the right to send me here, I shall only leave it through the Violence of those who have not the right to exclude me; and if this resolution on my part may draw on my head the gravest dangers, I console myself that the field of Liberty has sometimes been fertilized by generous blood." Soldiers (right) watch the ejection, their hands resting on the barrels of their muskets, the butt ends being on the ground. They differ from the ejectors in wearing bearskins in place of cocked hats, gaiters in place of jack-boots, and they have a flag inscribed National Guard. One (Mercier) says: We will not Obey the Order to expel M. Manuel. Comrades, what say you to the Right about? In the foreground (left) two ghosts emerge from clouds, looking up at the madly careering king. Napoleon, a profile bust portrait, says: Silly Bourbon! Remember the Consequences of my interfereing with Spai. Louis XVI, his neck hidden by cloud, holds out his decollated head; he wears a shirt patterned with fleur-de-lis. He says: O! Brother, Brother, be warned by my unhappy fate!! The guillotine-monster is topped by a cap of Liberty with two tricolour cockades for glaring saucer-eyes. The base of the cap forms a gaping mouth; from it issue the words: What are you at!! what are you a'rter!!! I am really surprised at your Blind Stupidity! My appearance Here, I assure you, is with the most friendly intentions, to warn you of your impending danger. But if you are bent upon your own destruction, why come along!! C'a [sic] ira c'a ira c'a ira."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hint to the blind and foolish and Bourbon dynasty in danger!
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Purchased with gift funds from Robert Pirie.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th 1823 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
"A sailor and a young woman dance a jig on the deck of a man-of-war, watched by a sailor leaning from the forecastle roof (right). They dance side by side, man's left arm raised, holding his hat, woman with hands on hips."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Watermark: GP. 1813.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lawyer, spectacles on forehead, seated in an arm-chair by a blazing fire (right), listens with quizzically twisted mouth and folded hands to a visitor with a grievance. Between them is a table with glasses, spirit-bottle, as well as a newspaper under the lawyer's elbow. His friend (left) leans forward, gesticulating, to say: "My dear Friend Quilldrive,-- I have a Melancholy affair to communicate, I had put by just five hundred Guineas purposely for Law, and some villian has robb'd me of every farthing!-- what would you advise me to do in this distressing case?" The other answers: "Why--I'd advise you, instead of desponding, to rejoice & sing, for depend upon it, you are a gainer by the loss!!!" A dog, his collar inscribed 'Quild[rive]' sits opposite the fire. On the chimney-piece are a clock and a china mandarin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "182" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Manuscript "78" in upper center of plate, and 1 print on wove paper : etching, colored ; sheet 26 x 36 cm.