"Lady Buckinghamshire (left) and Lady Archer (right) stand side by side in the pillory, heads and hands closely confined, their heads in profile to the right, weeping angrily. Both wear tall feathers in their hair and large pendent ear-rings. Lady Buckinghamshire is forced to stand painfully on tip-toe, a short petticoat exposes her fat legs. On the front of the platform is a placard: 'Cure for Gambling Publish'd by Lord Kenyon in the Court of Kings Bench on May 9th 1796'. This is raised above the (freely sketched) heads of the crowd, with grinning upturned faces in the foreground. Eggs, a cat, &c. fly through the air; the pillory and the dresses of the victims are bespattered. On the right is a house with spectators in the windows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pillories -- Jewelry: earrings -- Allusion to 'faro-banks' -- Cards: faro -- Reference to Lloyd Kenyon, Baron Kenyon, 1732-1802., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.3 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 29.4 cm., Watermark: J. Ruse 1799., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
"A scene in Lady Jersey's bedroom. Lady Jersey as an old hag (cf. BMSat 8806) lies in a magnificent bed. Lord Jersey, carrying the Prince of Wales on his back, supports himself by resting his hands on the foot of the bed. The Prince, very fat in his famous Light Horse uniform (see BMSat 8800), wearing helmet, gloves, and spurred boots, and the Garter ribbon, holds Jersey's scraggy queue in the manner of a rein; he holds up two fingers, saying (as in BMSats 8809, 8816), "Buck! Buck! - how many Horns do I hold up?" Jersey, who is very thin, leers towards the Prince out of the corners of his eyes, saying, "E'en as many as you please!" Both are in profile to the right; the Prince's eyes are hidden by the brim of his helmet as in BMSat 8816. The Princess's coronet, with its triple plume, is conspicuous on a circular close-stool (left) which is decorated with a large 'J' and earl's coronet. On the wall above it, in an ornate oval frame, is a picture of Cupid piping to an old sow who dances on her hind-legs. The fringed pelmet of the bed is decorated with earl's coronets from which spring horns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: close-stools -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Cuckolds -- Symbols: coronets with horns -- Emblems: Princess of Wales's coronet -- Furnishing: bed curtain -- Military uniforms: Prince of Wales's Light Horse uniform -- Pictures amplifying subject: Cupid with an old sow -- Furnishings: carpets -- Obesity., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.5 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 40.0 x 29.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
"A whole length portrait of the corpulent Prince Frederick William Charles of Wurtemberg, standing 'chapeau-bras' in profile to the right, wearing a ribbon; his right hand on his waistcoat, his left on the hilt of his sword. He has a very heavy double chin, thick lips, staring eye, high narrow head, and an expression of good-natured surprise."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition and "A later state with the same inscriptions. The contour of the Prince is altered: he is very obese, his head bulges slightly at the back, and his legs are thicker. The position of his right hand is altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketch'd at Wirtemberg
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with changes to the plate. Cf. No. 8827 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : stipple engraving & etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 30.0 x 22.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 24th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Str
"George Hanger rides in profile to the left on a pony with a heavy body and short legs; his right foot thrust forward, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. He wears a round hat tilted over the right eye, a striped neck-cloth, and prominent shirt-frill. Behind is the corner of (lower) 'Grosvenor Street', showing the door and a window of the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', the name inscribed over the door."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and bottom edges., Temporary local subject terms: Coffee house: The Mount., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.5 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 37.9 x 30.0 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 29 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 23d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Two officers on high stools face each other at the counter of a fruit-shop and confectioner's. One (right), tall, lank, and elderly (identified as Captain Birch, see BMSat 9037), devours a jelly; empty jelly-glasses strew the counter beside him. The other, a mere child, his legs dangling, eats from a large cornet of 'Sugar-plumbs'. A buxom woman behind the counter brings a tray of jellies in glasses. In the doorway (right) a third officer, extremely fat and grotesquely knock-kneed, stands with his hands clasped behind him watching a coroneted coach driving past with two footmen in feathered hats standing behind. The officers wear large plumed cocked hats, spurred jack-boots, and sabres. Each pane of the large shop window (left) is decoratively filled with fruit, jars, jelly-glasses, &c. A pottle of strawberries and a partly peeled orange lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Guard Day at St. James's
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Shops: Kelsey's fruit shop -- Food: jellies -- Sugar plums -- Exotic fruits -- Capt. Birch, fl. 1797., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.9 x 26.0 cm, on sheet 39.4 x 29.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban (cf. BMSat 8755), which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. (Small copy in Grego.) Behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down. Among the crowd in the background a man arm-in-arm with a military officer in back view (? Lord Moira) resembles Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Politesse du grande monde
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 28.5 x 37.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 27th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Crowds, Etiquette, Show windows, and Window displays
"The Prince of Wales, on horseback, figures as a life-like equestrian statue (of the future George IV) mounted on a pedestal of three rectangular blocks, diminishing in size. On the middle block: 'PATER URBIUM subscribi Statuis." Juvel'. The Prince, in regimentals, very fat, sits in profile to the left, holding a drawn sabre. He holds the left curb rein, the snaffle lying on the animal's neck. The toe of his spurred boot is in the stirrup. He wears a feathered cocked hat, a star on his breast and on his hat, a broad sash round his ample waist. A large holster hangs from the saddle beneath which is a leopard-skin with a 'GR' and crown on each corner. The horse's near foreleg and off hind leg are raised. Beneath the design: '"------"I saw him with his Beaver on "His Cuisses on his Thighs gallantly arm'ed "Rise from the ground like feather 'd Mercury "And vaulted with such ease into his seat "As if an Angel dropt down from the Clouds, "To turn & wind a fiery Pegasus "And witch the world with noble Horsemanship - Kg Henry 4th'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pater urbium subscribi statuis
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Monuments -- Military uniforms: regimentals -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part I, iv.i., 1 print : stipple engraving & etching on wove paper ; plate mark 35.8 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 43.2 x 28.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 3d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription' (cf. BMSat 9240). Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan, left, with Bardolph's fiery face, cf. BMSat 7528, &c, holds his glass and looks delightedly at Morris, as does Fox (as Falstaff), who says: "Come sing me a Boosey-Song, [A misquotation from 'I Henry IV', III. iii, where Falstaff says, "Come, sing me a bawdy song; make me merry."] to make me merry". Part of the face of a fourth man appears on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Wine bottle and glasses -- Spirits: brandy -- Literature: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I -- Allusion to the secession of the Opposition., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 36.3 cm, on sheet 29.9 x 39.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Morris, Charles, 1745-1838
"A handsome mulatto woman walks from left to right and slightly towards the spectator. Her hair is a mop of carefully arranged curls. She wears a high-waisted, trailing dress, defining her limbs, with a shoulder-scarf, bare arms and neck, and much quasi-barbaric jewellery. On the wall (right) half of a picture of 'Havanna' is visible. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Doublure de Madame Tallien
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Blacks: Mulattos -- Female costume: Creole -- Roman costume -- Headdresses -- Mme Tallien, fl. 1796., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.9 x 18.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. 25th Feby. 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"The Duke of Clarence drags his three children (left to right) in a go-cart. His waistcoat is open, a handkerchief under his hat drapes his head, perspiration pours from his forehead. The boy, an infant replica of his father, holds a pair of reins which are attached to the duke's pocket, and flourishes a whip. Beside him are a little girl hugging a dog, which hides her face except for the eyes, and a crying infant whose features, though infantine, are those of her father. The crest on the cart is a chamber-pot (cf. BMSat 7835, &c.) surmounted by a crown. From the duke's pockets project a toy battleship, a coral and bells, a toy windmill, and a doll. Mrs. Jordan, in a dress of masculine cut, walks beside the cart, intent on the part which she is studying from an open book ('The Spoil'd Child', see BMSat 7835): 'Act IIId enter Little Pickle'. A signpost (right) points (left) 'From Richmond', (right) 'To Bushy'. A sandy bank with trees forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Toys -- Pets: King Charles spaniel -- Literature: Bickerstaff's Farce of the Spoil'd Child., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 36.4 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 40.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street's
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842
