The husband and wife of British Museum satires number 14307 sit in a luxurious breakfast parlour, turning their backs on each other and the table. She caresses a cat, facing an empty grate (right); he is absorbed in a newspaper
"The Duke of Clarence, knock-kneed and meanly malignant, stands in profile to the left, his back to the sea. He wears top-hat, tail-coat, tight pantaloons, Hessian boots, and gloves, holding a cane; under his foot is a paper: 'Honor [thy] Father & thy Mother.' At sea is a man-of-war with furled sails flying the Royal Standard. Below the title; 'Vide Mr Denmans Speech. Octr 25 1820.' Said to be a good likeness. See British Museum Satires No. 14031, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A Maltese cross, at the center of an oval containing the year "1820", is etched below lower left corner of image., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Libel & slander, Top hats, Staffs (Sticks), and Ships
Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. In the left scene, the man stands outside a tavern with its fascia lettered "Cordials & compounds" and "Hodg[son's] best", i.e. ale brewed by George Hodgson (and subsequently Mark and Frederick Hodgson) at the Bow Brewery in London: the brewery was rebuilt and enlarged in 1821. The prostitute on the left holds his wallet concealed in her muff while the one on the right tries to steal his fobwatch. A burning gas light on the left indicates night. In the right scene, the moribund patient wearing a nightgown and nightcap sits in an armchair on casters next to the bed, while the physician (a thin elderly bald man in a black suit) looks at him intently from the next chair, and an old nurse stands nearby; medicine bottles on the mantlepiece behind
Alternative Title:
Love, law, & physic and Love, law, and physic
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Second part of title adapted from the farce by James Kenney, Love, law and physic, first performed in London in 1812., "A second state of British Museum Satires No. 14312, above the design as an additional title: SYMPTOMS OF LIFE IN LONDON--OR [cf. No. 14320]."--British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecary Shops -- Exterior.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 28th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Prostitutes' customers, Prostitution, Taverns (Inns), Gas street lamps, Debt, Debtor and creditor, Collecting of accounts, Physicians, Physician and patient, Patients, Nurses, Muffs, and Drugstores
"Thomas Raikes sits on a divan between two courtesans, his head in profile to the right. On the right is a round table spread with a luxurious dessert, pine-apple, peaches, decanters, &c. The centre-piece is a figure of Mercury (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7592) poised on a globe and holding up a second globe, perhaps a lamp. A long bill hangs from the table . . . Dr to Mrs Wood--Bed--10-- Brandy 5--coffee 1--Eggs--Brandy 2--Oysters 1--Eggs--20, 0 Ham--10-- Coffee 11--Beds 5--Brandy 2--Bed 1-- to show that the establishment is a brothel run by Mrs. ('Mother') Wood (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13734). On the wall are two pairs of crossed rakes tied with ribbons, and pictures, with punning titles: Siege of Belle Lisle, Wood Deamon [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10796], Babes in ye Wood, The Rakes Progress, Burn em Wood, Deity of the Woods, Wood Pigeon Wood Cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The commercial dandy and his sleeping partners
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Dr. E.D." pseudonym of George Cruikshank?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: male, female, 1821 -- Furniture: round table -- Divan -- Food: pineapple, fruit -- Decanters -- Lighting: candlestick -- Mythology: Mercury -- Rakes -- Mrs. "Mother" Wood, fl. 1821., Manuscript "256" in upper center of plate., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1821 by G. Humprey [sic] 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Raikes, Thomas, 1777-1848
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Courtesans, Dandies, British, and Prostitutes
Title from text within image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor tilted diagonally., Artist identified by George., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Plate 8., Cf. Later state published by Thomas McClean in 1835; no. 14089 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Temporary local subject terms: Sailors -- Ships -- Storms.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., An enlarged state with imprint Cf. no. 13895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Temporary local subject terms: Ladders -- Jacobins -- Firebrands -- Royal crowns -- Bible -- Constitution -- Mitre and crosier -- Scales of justice -- Cap of liberty -- Cap of folly -- Daggers -- Weapons: pike, bludgeon -- Sticks: bludgeon., and Manuscript "61" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, consort of George IV, 1768-1821 and Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835
"George IV (three-quarter length), surrounded by admiring Ministers, holds up a big extinguisher made of paper and inscribed 'Speech from the Throne', which he is about to place over a crowd of tiny Jacobins who surround the Queen and Alderman Wood. All these 'Lilliputians' are on a round table, whose top forms the base of the design except on the right. The terrified Jacobins fall on to papers inscribed 'Libels', 'Address' [twice], 'Sedition'. Alderman Wood steps on the back of one in a frantic effort to escape with the Queen whom he holds in his arms. She is a fat virago, holding up a fire-brand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13895) inscribed 'Sedition', whose smoke rises into the extinguisher, and a large money-bag, '50 000 per Ann', labelled 'Crumbs of Consolation'. Other Jacobins flee to left and right, escaping the extinguisher, but either falling calamitously from the table, or about to be grasped by the hand of Eldon who sits at the table (left). They have banners and caps of Liberty on poles (or pikes). Among the fugitives is a Don Quixote (left) in armour, wearing Mambrino's helmet, galloping off on horseback, holding a banner. A terrified Jacobin (right) drops a 'Tailors Adress'. Ministers watch the approaching extinction with pleasure: Eldon has a grim smile, Sidmouth and Castlereagh behind him register, one eager delight, the other bland satisfaction. Wellington (right), close behind the King, smiles triumphantly, Liverpool beside him, is in profile, surprised, pleased, and imbecile. The King, three-quarter length, is a cynical Adonis, in military uniform. Behind his head is a framed picture: an irradiated sun containing features dispels dark clouds, putting bats, serpent, owl, &c., to flight; beside it is a dark disk containing the features of the Queen, in eclipse (reversing the situation in British Museum Satires No. 14012)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians and King of Brobdingnag and the Lilliputians
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of quoted text below title: "Confound their politick's, frustrate their knavish tricks." "God save the king"!, Text above image: Ah! ha! Madam Q-!, Monsr. W! Messrs. Radicals, Addressers, & Co.!! Where are you now?!!! Ah ha! ha! ha! ha!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 33 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 7th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Fire extinguishers, Tables, Crowds, Documents, Torches, Money, Banners, Liberty cap, and Military uniforms
"The King and Ministers, as domestic servants in déshabille, surround a rush-light, trying, with fierce intentness, to blow it out. The flame of the light encloses the head of Queen Caroline wearing her feathered hat; the rush is supported on a saveall formed of the head of Wood [Brougham, according to Reid, who is incorrect in some of the other identifications], and placed in a kitchen candlestick standing on a rectangular table. The centre figure is Eldon, his Chancellor's wig formed of a pair of breeches. He leans sideways and the King, wearing a night-cap, looks over his shoulder, blowing downwards. Next them is Wellington, whose blast is better directed than that of the others, but all miss the flame by blowing too low. On the left are two old women, Sidmouth, using his (green) clyster-pipe as a squirt, and Liverpool, whose night-cap is a green bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735). Facing these are the Duke of York, next Eldon, and the Duke of Clarence on the extreme left, as a hideous black man, whose strong but ill-directed blast is inscribed 'Slander' [see British Museum Satires No. 14031, &c.]. Three other heads are in shadow, like the King; they watch with anxiety, but are not blowing; they are Castlereagh (left) and two women (right). Below the design: "Cook, Coachee, men & maids, very near all in buff, Came & swore in their lives they never met with such a light; And each of the family by turns had a puff, At the little farthing rush light, The curst farthing rush light, But none of the family Could blow out the rush light.!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 32 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Servants, Candles, Bags, and Medical equipment & supplies
"The dentist, short, fat, and bald, stands in back view on a low stool, his knees pressed against the chair, his left arm round the victim's neck; he tugs at an upper tooth. The thin elderly patient raises her left leg in agony, overturning the folding wash-stand on which the dentist's appliances are spread. These include a basin, cup (both spilling their contents), a double set of teeth, a hammer, and a stoppered jar which falls against a large pier-glass, starring it. Both are unaware of the accident, though a little dog barks from under the table. The glass reflects dentist and patient, showing the latter gripping the arm of the chair. There is a window (right), the lower part screened by a slatted green shade. Above this dangle teeth with large blood-stained roots. On a chest of drawers-bookcase are laid out sets of false teeth. The books are Warbler; Winter in London; Lock on the Gums; Miseries of Human Life [Beresford, see See British Museum catalogue No. 10815, &c]; Bible; Tales of the Devil; Tommy Two Shoes; Treatise on Tooth Powder & Brushes; Feast of Wit; Tales of Terror, and two big volumes of Frankensteiv [sic] [Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published 1818]. The room is carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tugging at a high tooth
Description:
Title etched below image., The word "high" in title remains visible but was scored through and replaced with "eye"., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dentists -- Tooth extraction -- Dentures., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.0 x 34.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Topic):
Bookcases, Dental offices, Dentistry, Dogs, Mirrors, Pain, and Reflections