"A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both hands to an enormous mouth. He is morosely savage, she is melancholy; both are gap-toothed. On the ground (right) by the man's chair are collected a ham or gigot, a large irregular (?) galantine, a raised pie: 'pâté de périgueux', a huge jar of 'vin de lafitte' round which four bottles are grouped: 'frontignac', 'Clos de Vouge[ot]', and '. . . seac'. Beside the woman are a basket and tray filled with grapes, peaches, and pears. Through a wide doorway (left) the street is seen with a seated fruit-seller who serves three grotesquely hideous Englishwomen. Two are lank and emaciated, one tries to stuff a big peach into an immense mouth, holding an armful of grapes and peaches; the other gnaws at a bunch of grapes held in both hands. The third, also with bulging cheeks, bites a peach. The fruit-seller's tray is empty; she holds out her last peach. All the women wear small absurd hats or caps, tight long-waisted bodices (coloured) with long white skirts (cf. No. 12359)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print attributed to Alphonse Roehn in the British Museum catalogue., Date and series name from British Museum online catalogue., and "Déposé à la Don Gle de l'Imprimerie."
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, and Women
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Titles in English and French etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 53.8 x 48.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 21st, 1786, for the proprietor by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
Subject (Topic):
Freemasonry, Quacks and quackery, Fraternal organizations, Interiors, Dining tables, Chairs, Candles, and Eating & drinking
Series of 15 numbered scenes on 5 postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a child as an advocate addressing a court.
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child in legal attire addressing a court, Legally themed postcards depicting a child in legal attire addressing a court, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
Date from postmark., Scene number 15 does not include a caption. , On card number [2], scene number 6: Rappelez-vous Lesurques, refers to Joseph Lesurques a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281764, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.11 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Series of 6 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a French child as advocate
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child as advocate, Legally themed postcards depicting a child as advocate, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
All postcards include manuscript notations and addressed to "Mademoiselle Laure Wattenne, Forest. par Aseg[?]"on verso., Caption on card number 6, "... Rappelez-vous Lesurques ...," refers to a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796, Joseph Lesurques., Date from postmark and manuscript date, June 1902., In lower left corner: Collection G.I.D., Nantes., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281676, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.3 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Royer et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Wattenne, Laure, Aseg, and Lesurques, Joseph, 1763-1796.
"French cartoon on the abolition of slavery in England. John Bull gives freedom to an enslaved woman while keeping his own English wife on the leash. According to the caption, the woman is publicly offered for sale. This refers to the English use of 'wife selling'. Because divorce in England until 1857 was virtually impossible and expensive, it occurred in poorer circles that the woman was literally sold to end the marriage. In the background, the abolition of slavery is celebrated while at the same time a woman is sold."--Rijks Museum online catalogue, object number: RP-P-1951-702
Alternative Title:
Dédié aux anglomanes
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed with the initial "B" in lower left corner of design., Date of publication inferred from the reference to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833., and "Déposé."--Beneath image in lower right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, John Bull (Symbolic character), Slavery, and Spouses
Series of 6 numbered postcards with narrative captions depicting a girl in legal attire advocating children's rights.
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a girl in legal attire, advocating children's rights and Legally themed postcards depicting a girl in legal attire, advocating children's rights
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. , Postcards are addressed to Mademoiselle Marie Thérèse Desmons; dates from postmark: Lille, France, 1902 and 1904., Some postcards include manuscript notes below captions., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281671, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.1 tall, In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Series of five numbered postcards with narrative captions satirizing the arrogance of the legal profession. The child peasant in need of legal assistance cannot afford to pay the lawyer sufficiently
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting two French children as attorney and peasant and Legally themed postcards depicting two French children as attorney and peasant
Description:
In lower right corner: R.P.I., Postmarked 1904., Title devised by cataloger. , Card number 5 dated 1903 in manuscript. Other manuscript notes on some postcards, some of which are addressed to Mademoiselle B. Devidel and Jeanne Lacaton. , Accompanied by translation., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281709, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.4 tall., In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
"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
Series of 6 numbered postcards, with narrative captions. The narrative is the French version of He loves me/He loves me not. Child advocate with cupid's wings
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child posed as advocate, with cupid's wings and Legally themed postcards depicting a child advocate with cupid's wings
Description:
Date from postmark., Accompanied by translation., Include manuscript notes., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281724, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.8 tall., In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Publisher:
Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ecole de Nancy (Group of artists)
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Cupids (Art)
Print shows Caroline, wife of King George IV, hugging and kissing Bartolomeo Bergami, her Italian lover
Description:
Title from item., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 75 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
