"A lean and elderly virago (three-quarter length) with straggling hair, wearing a handkerchief which scarcely covers her breast, stands in profile to the left, glaring fiercely. Her arms are bare to the elbow; she holds her thumb and second finger together, her left hand is on her hip. Etched below her are her words: "What do you know, you B-? -every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?" Her profile is that of Lady Cecilia Johnston as caricatured by Gillray. She had a bitter tongue ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., Three lines of text below image: What do you know, you B-? Every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?, and Title etched above image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons., and Riviere & Son Binding.
"A man dressed as a coachman stands directed to the left, holding a long-lashed coach-whip. He wears a shiny round hat with cockade and gold band over a powdered wig with double row of curls, double-breasted waistcoat, shirt-frill, and loose coat reaching to the knee."--British Museum online catalogue, description of state with imprint.
Description:
Publication information based on that of state with imprint., Title etched below image., and Variant state, lacking publication line, of a print published with the imprint "Publish'd April 23d, 1810, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street." Cf. No. 11592 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"Another and probably later version of BMSat 5606; the two men have labels coming from their mouths containing words, and are more correctly drawn. The house on the right. is a more important building and its door has a plate inscribed "Lieut: Genl Bombardi. . N° 40". Grey Cooper stands at a different angle, showing more than his profile, his forefinger is laid against his cheek. He is saying "Then - My Led and I - his Ledship introduced the Affair you and I know of". Sir R. Hamilton (Bombardinian) answers "Hum-Aye-Mum". The same quotation from Churchill is engraved under the title. An inscription etched in the lower right. corner has been obliterated, the last words seem to resemble "J. Sayers."."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One line of verse below title: "Important blanks in Natures mighty roll." Churchill., Printmaker, publisher, and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Robert Hamilton, 4th Bt., d. 1786 (Bombardinian) -- Mythology: Temple of Fame on Parnassus -- Military uniforms: Lt. General, 40th Regiment of Foot -- Scandals: Sir Robert Hamilton, 1779 -- Dogs -- Cradles -- Orders: Order of the Thistle -- Literature: quotation from Charles Churchill, 1731-1764 -- Fame, with wreath and trumpet -- Bundles: childbed linens -- Documents -- Altars., Title etched below image., and Traces of text burnished from plate in lower right corner of the image.
Publisher:
[W. Humphrey,] No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Cooper, Grey,--Sir,--approximately 1726-1801--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ms. notes., and Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
"The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (l.) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant) bull, but is restrained by Talleyrand who holds him round the waist. He wears top-boots, one inscribed '7 Leagues', with apron, and rolled-up shirt-sleeves, showing 'R T' [? 'Returned Transport'] branded on his left. arm. On one flap of Talleyrand's oddly shaped cocked hat is a cross, to indicate the ci-devant Bishop of Autun. The head of the Russian bear looks in at the door, gazing menacingly at Napoleon. In the foreground lies a bulky body from which head, hands, and feet have been chopped; to it is skewered a paper: 'Germanic Body'; the severed r. hand lies on a paper inscribed 'Hanover'. On the extreme left. is a round wicker cage surmounted by the Papal tiara, inscribed: 'From Rome and Not worth Killing'; it contains a fox and other small animals. On the extreme right. is a dog-kennel inscribed 'Prussia' and 'Put up to Fatten'; from it a lean greyhound on a short chain puts out its head to lap greedily at a trough of 'Consular Whipt Syllabub'. Behind this is the butcher's block, on which lies a cleaver; blood drips from it into a receptacle inscribed 'Treasury'. Behind Napoleon, in a trough inscribed 'Jaffa Cross Breed', are the bodies of six turbaned Moslems; blood gushes from the trough into a tank inscribed 'Glory'. On the wall hang carcasses, &c. (l. to r.): a ram ticketed 'True Spanish - Fleec'd'; a bleeding calf's head, a simian creature with a tail labelled 'Native Breed'; an ass, ticketed 'From Switzerland', a bloated pig 'From Holland'. Below the title: 'New Style - No Quarter Day!' The verses are a dialogue between 'Boney and Talley' on the possibilities of plunder and conquest. Talleyrand restrains Bonaparte from a mad rush at the bull, regardless of the intervening water. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition.
Alternative Title:
Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
Description:
At bottom of broadside is printed the additional publication line "Published by J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly," the printing line "Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, SOHO," and the price statement "Price two shillings and six pence, coloured." Another edition of the broadside, in a different type and apparently lacking these statements, was also printed in 1803. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication based on that of probable later state. See British Museum catalogue., Plate serves as a heading for a broadside poem of twenty-nine verses arranged in three columns. The text of the broadside, printed in letterpress below the plate, begins: Says Boney, the butcher*, to Talley his man, one settling-day as they reckon'd ..., Printmaker from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Probably an earlier state of a plate later published with the imprint: Published by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, Septr. 1803. Cf. No. 10091 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Text below title: New style-- No quarter day!, and Title from letterpress text below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Ginger, John, active 1797-1806, publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de,--prince de Bénévent,--1754-1838--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A bishop, full face, supports his elbows on his pulpit-cushion, the tips of his fingers together, his eyes turned up sanctimoniously. He is plump, smooth, and bland, wearing a small wig. He is framed by the carved back to the wooden pulpit which is against a panelled (and vignetted) wall. Two lighted candles flank the pulpit-cushion."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Percival & Co.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Mansel, William Lort,--1753-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A Dutch soldier (left) and his wife (right), joining hands, dance round a tree of Liberty to music supplied by a foppish French soldier on the extreme left who beats a drum and blows a trumpet, and by a stout Dutchman on the extreme right who plays bagpipes inscribed 'Vader-lands Liefde' (Love of Country). The 'tree' is a pole surmounted by a milk-churn inscribed 'Vryheid \ Gellykheid \ Broederscha[p]', [This inscription (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) occurs on Dutch prints after the French invasion, e.g. Van Stolk, No. 5299; Muller, No. 5385.] above which is a cap of Liberty shaped like a fool's cap, and a tricolour flag inscribed 'Hollandia Regenerate[a]'. On the churn sits a parroquet, 'trying to imitate the patriotic accents of his French brothers'. A monkey climbs up the pole as in BMSat 8831. Texts, 'Acts', vii. 41, and 'Job', xviii. 16."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "1" in upper left corner., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch uniforms -- Dutchmen -- Holland: civil discord -- Tree of Liberty -- Cap of Liberty -- Emblems: dove as emblem of peace -- Monkeys -- Kitchen utensils: milk churns -- Musical instruments: drum -- Bagpipes -- Musical instruments: trumpets, Title etched above image., and With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
"The Convention, a creature with the body of a stout woman and with seven monstrous and demoniac heads, sits full-face in an accoucheur's chair. A little demon on the ground holds up a pitchfork. A French surgeon, smiling (right), with shirt-sleeves rolled up, holds a clumsy pair of forceps; a Dutch accoucheur, fat and senile, peers into a folio volume: 'Sectio Caes: et Sectio Synchondroseos'. '. . . L'accoucheur Français, homme experimenté, prévoit ses terribles convulsions, et s'est déja muni du forceps. Son collegue Hollandais, dont les craintes vont encore plus loin, repete la théorie de l'incision Caesarienne. Il faudrait effectivement un Caesar, pour couper court à tout proces.' Text, 'Isaiah', xiv. 29. Her fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "19" in upper left corner., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Conventions -- Surgeons -- Medical instruments: forceps -- Physicians: Dutch accoucheurs -- Monsters., Title etched below image., and With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
"A birch-rod placed diagonally, the handle (tied with rope) in the lower left corner of the design. From among the twigs ten heads (caricature portraits) project, also (right) the head of a boar and posteriors emitting smoke. 'O peuple aveugle et endormi! . . . C'est la liberté qui a formé pour ton éducation cette verge salutaire. . . .' Text, 'Ezekiel', vii. II."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "18" in upper left corner., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Emblems: birch rod., Title etched below image., and With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
Charles James Fox, with the feet and tail of a fox, his empty pockets turned out, and with cow horns protruding through his hat, stands on an E.O. (gaming) table placed on the North Pole. Quoting Satan's speech from Paradise Lost, he looks to the upper right where the sun is depicted as Lord Shelburne. Refers to Fox's gambling habit and his July 1782 resignation after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury.
Alternative Title:
Devil addressing the sun
Description:
Date based on that of earlier state with the publication line: Pubd. July 22d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., and Lansdowne, William Petty,--Marquis of,--1737-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790., Foxes. , and Gambling.
"Three tall young women, holding each other by the arm, walk, right to left, with hoydenish grace, their figures defined under trailing, high-waisted, short-sleeved, and low-necked muslin gowns. All are dressed alike with close-cropped hair under close-fitting caps, scarves twisted round the neck, and long gloves. All have parasols, but two are closed. There is a background of trees."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text above image: Junctaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, G. (George), 1773?-1831?, publisher.