"An officer stands in back view, with his elbows akimbo, holding a small cane. He is thin and knock-kneed, with stick-like legs, his feet splayed outwards. He wears a plumed cocked hat, a sash round his small waist, spurred boots, and a sabre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Reference to the military camps at Weymouth in 1797., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 16.7 cm, on sheet 29.3 x 20.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 9 of 12.
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Pubd. Novr. 3d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Wilberforce and Bishop Horsley revel indecorously with two negresses. Wilberforce and a fat negress face each other sitting cross-legged on the bolsters at opposite ends of a settee; both smoke cheroots. The negress wears a large straw hat over her turban, her breasts are uncovered. On the ground by Wilberforce is a torn pamphlet: 'Tryal of. . . & . . . [names illegible] convicted of Perjury in the case of Captn Kimber'. On the right the fat bishop embraces a negress who is poised on his knee, holding up a wine-glass. Behind him and on the extreme right is a table on which are books: 'Rochesters Jests', 'Charity covereth a Multitude of Sins' (open), 'Humanity a Masque', 'Mathematick', 'Ghost of Clarence', and a paper: 'Defence of Orthodoxy, better late than never'. Both women wear loose patterned dresses. A little grinning black boy (left) brings in a tray of filled glasses. The room is well furnished with a patterned carpet. On the wall are four pictures and a candle-sconce. Above the door appears the lower part of a picture of a man seated on the ground: 'Captn Kimber in the Cells of Newgate'. Above Wilberforce's head is a picture, 'Inkle & Yarico': Inkle discovers Yarico, a negress, reclining under a palm tree in a mountainous landscape. (For Colman's opera, 1787, cf. BMSat 7260.) Above Horsley's head is a picture of a stage-coach driving right to left; a fat bishop (almost recognizable) looks out of the window to inspect the legs of an outside passenger which dangle from the roof. On the extreme right is a picture of 'Westminster Abbey'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833 and Horsley, Samuel, 1733-1806
"Three people sit at a round table playing push-pin. The Duke of Queensberry (right) leans on the table, pushing the pin. In his right hand is a double lorgnette over which he leers at his vis-à-vis, a very corpulent woman in a flowered dress who stares through spectacles at the pins. A younger woman, spinsterish and demure, watches the game with down-dropped eyes. Both wear hats. The chairs are decorated with ormolu, and on the back of Queensberry's is his crest (without the coronet): a heart between wings. The floor is carpeted."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Games: push-pin -- Carpets -- Mother Windsor, procuress., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.7 x 33.8 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 35.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 9 of 12.
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Pubd. April 17th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"The stout Prince of Orange, in profile to the left, shuffles along the pavement, holding the arm of his thin secretary, Nassalin. His eye is almost closed, his right hand, holding a stick, is thrust in his coat pocket. Both are plainly dressed, wearing powdered hair with small tails, and round hats with broad brims. Nassalin is hunchbacked."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pylades and Orestes
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Nassalin, fl. 1797, Secretary to the Prince of Orange -- Walking staves -- Hunchbacks, 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.4 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 39.4 x 28.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 9 of 12.
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Pubd. April 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
"A buxom girl pushes (left to right) her barrow of carrots along the pavement of Bond Street, looking over her right shoulder at Lord Sandwich ('Jemmy Twitcher'), who overtakes her and twitches her apron. He is in profile to the right, leering at her. Her elegant shoes and clocked stockings are inconsistent with her occupation. The background is a bookseller's shop at the corner of 'Little Maddox Street' (left) and 'New-Bond Street' (right), displaying the royal arms. Over the door, in Bond Street, is 'Faulder' and above the two windows, 'Bookseller & Book Binder'. Pamphlets or open books fill the panes of the windows: 'Rules of the Order of Sr Francis' [an allusion to Sir Francis Dashwood and the profligate order of Medmenham Abbey]; 'List of Servant Maids'; 'A Chip of the old Block'; 'Doe Hunting an Ode by an old Buck Hound'; 'The Beauties of Bond Street' (cf. BMSat 8377); 'A Journey through Life - from Maddox Street unto Conduit Street & back again'. The side of a third shop-window in Maddox Street appears on the extreme left. Cf. BMSat 7080."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Wheelbarrows -- Carrots -- Booksellers' shops: Robert Faulder's shop, 42 New Bond Street -- Allusion to Sir Francis Dashwood and Order of Medmenham Abbey., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.7 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 39.3 x 29.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 3d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792 and Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815.
"Three grotesque and ill-matched soldiers charge rapidly and fiercely down the pavement. Their bayonets threaten three women who flee in terror, only legs, petticoats, and an upraised arm being visible on the extreme right. One soldier, very thin and ragged, wears a busby, the next, who is fat, wears a huge cocked hat with a damaged brim, the third, who is small, wears a peaked helmet with a spiky plume. The uniform coats with epaulettes are worn over frilled shirts and ragged breeches. Behind the three march others of the company, wearing busbies, and holding their muskets against their shoulders. In the background shop-windows are freely sketched."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
St. George's Volunteers charging the French after clearing the Ring in Hyde Park ...
Description:
Title etched below image; words 'the French' scored through and replaced with the words 'down Bond Street,' the latter being inserted above the line using a caret., Temporary local subject terms: Volunteer corps: St. George's Volunteers -- Bond Street., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 36.0 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
"George Hanger bestrides a pile of calves with which his pony is laden, high above his mount's head. He sits in profile to the left, carrying a bludgeon; his right leg thrust forward over the calves. The fore-feet and hind-feet of the calves are tied and lie across the pony and each other. Eleven heads are visible. Hanger says: "Here they are my Lord, here's the slunk Calves, by Gxx - no allusion, dxm'me! - almost forgot you was a North-Countrey-Man! - Runt carries weight well! - no less than Thirteen damme! - come push about the Bottle, & I'll tell you the Story; - In Scotland they eat no Veal, by Gxx! nothing but Staggering-Bobs, - by Gxx! - on my Honor & Soul I mean no insult! - but Tattersal he swore, d------n me, if he didn't, - that on a small Scotch Runt, he saw, Gxx dxxn my blood, - how many d'ye think he saw? - ( - "Saw what, Georgey? - ) - why Calves! - Staggering-Bobs to-be-sure! - why d'ye think he saw Seventeen? - no! - but dxxme, by Gxx, he saw Thirteen!!! - & all just upon such another little Cock-Horse as my own!!!' ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Munchausen driving his calves to market
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: This print is dedicated to Lord Exxxl [i.e., Errol], his party, & the frequenters of Steevens's in general., Temporary local subject terms: Calves -- Reference to Steevens's Coffee House -- Reference to Baron Munchausen -- Dedication to George Hay, 16th Earl of Errol., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.6 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 39.9 x 29.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"A grotesque body of tradesmen, &c, march in close formation, with fixed bayonets. They wear military coats and crossed bandoliers with very unsoldierly foot-gear and appurtenances. Their leader (right) marches in profile to the right, a very short and fat butcher in over-sleeves wearing a feathered cocked hat above his butcher's cap, a military sash (from which hangs his steel) over an apron. He carries a banner on which St. George is killing the dragon. The front rank consists of (left to right): a cobbler wearing an apron, with the twisted shins known as cheese-cutters, and tattered stockings; a bricklayer, with thick gouty legs, a trowel thrust through his apron-string; an artist, his palette inscribed 'R.A', very thin and with a grotesquely thin neck; his toes project through a tattered boot of fashionable shape; a tailor with shears and tape-measure, a hairdresser with scissors and combs wearing a fashionable stock. On the left of this front rank a dwarfish drummer, an old campaigner with two wooden legs and one eye, beats his drum. Behind, the men recede in perspective, densely packed together."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text following title: "The French invade us, hay? Damme, who'se afraid?", Temporary local subject terms: Militias -- Trades: cobblers -- Butchers -- Tailors -- Hairdressers -- Brick-layers -- Artists -- Drummers -- Wooden legs -- Eye patches -- Banners: St. George and the dragon -- Reference to Pitt's proposal (Oct. 1796) for supplementary militia., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 30.0 x 42.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"The Mameluke rides (right to left) an ill-drawn galloping horse, holding the rein in his teeth. In his right hand is a sabre, with the left he fires a pistol; at his back is a quiver of arrows. Another pistol is thrust through his sash, from which hangs a sheath holding a battle-axe. The horse is curiously flecked in a manner which resembles a leopard-skin under the saddle. The title continues: 'from a Sketch by a French Officer by whom he was taken Prisoner'. Cf. BMSat 9360."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly attributed to Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Temporary local subject terms: Mamelukes -- Weapons: pistol -- Battle-axe -- Sabres -- Horses., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.0 x 30.2 cm, on sheet 26.9 x 35.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"The Archduke Charles of Austria, directing military operations, stands on a bluff in profile to the left, right arm extended, his left hand rests on his sword. He wears laced coat and waistcoat, with a star, and spurred jack-boots. He has a long pigtail queue; in his enormous cocked hat, one point of which hangs before his face, the other over his shoulders, is an olive-branch. In the background clouds of smoke rise from an invisible battle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archduke
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Olive branch., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.7 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 45.1 x 28.6 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman 1808., and Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 15th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
