Title from caption below image., Title from item., Printmaker from companion prints in same set., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of seven groups of figures in two rows, with lines of text etched above each group., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 13., For other prints in the set, see the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8925, Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Marriage., and Later printing. Watermark: C. Ansell 1807.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 33 x 46 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint; mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., and Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
Title from verse printed below the image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Printing date from watermark., Two columns of verse below title: A London taylor (as 'tis said) ..., Plate numbered "43" in upper right corner; from the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to taylors -- Allusion to taylors' implements -- clergymen -- Broadsides -- Dishes: punch bowls -- Smoking: pipes -- Games: pyramid for billiards -- Purses -- Maidservants -- Male dress, 1796., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1813.
Publisher:
Published 12th Augt. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
John Bull frightened out of his money and John Bull frightened out of his wits
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., The word "money" in the title has been scored through and replaced by the word "wits"., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Telegraphs -- Coins: guineas -- Reference to French invasion., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of plate number and placing instructions., "Plate no. 18.", Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Old Bailey -- Symbols: figure of Justice.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Judges, Juries, Lawyers, Spectators, and Witnesses
"Plate 58 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. A ranting, unkempt preacher bends in profile to the right over a reading-desk on which lies an open book, to which he points. He stands on tiptoe, shouting "You'll all go to the Devil!!" He wears old-fashioned dress with clerical bands. Cf. British Museum Satires no. 9121. Both sermons are quoted and both are on the dangers of pleasure, in contrasted terms, but 'equally ridiculous in the eyes of true religion and philosophy (pp. 130-2)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., State with imprint. Cf. No. 9122 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and sides resulting in loss of plate number., Plate no. 58., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: reading desk.
Five women stand full-length most facing the viewer and exhibiting five styles of dress, as indicated in the words etched below each figure: A la Turk (Turkish) with a turban and oriental dress with Turkish trousers and bare breasts; A la Grec (Greek) with a high-waisted dress and feathered turban; A la Cité (Parisian) similar to the preceding woman but a different effect because the woman is short and balloon-shaped and wears a watch and seals from her bust; A la St. James, is shown with her back to the viewer, wearing a very large turban with two aigretts resembling stiffened brush of a fox; and, finally, A la St. Giles, a stout, busty woman in profile looking left, wearing a quilted petticoat and apron, arms crossed below her bare breasts
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 20' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 44' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., State with title. Cf. No. 8949 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Boats -- Seasickness -- Food: ham -- Telescopes -- Sailors.