"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., Date '1785' in lower right corner of image., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 21.7 x 30.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Couples, Courtship, Dogs, Servants, and Tea parties
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 35.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two designs on one plate, divided by the first title (Mock turtle). The first design shows the profiles of an ugly, elderly couple (he has a large carbuncular or bulbous nose) sticking out their tongues to touch; between them is a large bowl and above their heads two doves bill on a branch. The second design below, titled 'Puff paste', is an image of a fat cook, smiling contentedly, rolling out puff paste, while a hideous footman caresses her. To the left of the pastry on the table-top is a bowl of apples labeled 'Codling tart'; to the right, a bag labeled 'Apple Dumpling' and a tied bag labeled 'Batter Pudding' in a bowl
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 20, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheets 15.9 x 22.7 cm and 16.1 x 22.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet cut into upper and lower halves that are mounted separately, with series title and numbering trimmed away from upper half., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two designs on one plate, divided by the first title (Mock turtle). The first design shows the profiles of an ugly, elderly couple (he has a large carbuncular or bulbous nose) sticking out their tongues to touch; between them is a large bowl and above their heads two doves bill on a branch. The second design below, titled 'Puff paste', is an image of a fat cook, smiling contentedly, rolling out puff paste, while a hideous footman caresses her. To the left of the pastry on the table-top is a bowl of apples labeled 'Codling tart'; to the right, a bag labeled 'Apple Dumpling' and a tied bag labeled 'Batter Pudding' in a bowl
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 20, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.8 x 23.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.
"A Quaker fondling a woman's exposed breasts outside a house or brothel. Above and leaning from a balcony are two other women watching the couple with amusement. On the left walks another Quaker who appears shocked or surprised by the proceedings. A sign placed in the garden of the house warns of man traps within the grounds."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the Royal Collection Trust online catalogue., Date assigned by curator., Three lines of verse on either side of title: I love you, would move you ... Concent then, relent then, and take an upright Quaker., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
"Lady Cecilia Johnston (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair in profile to the left, leans forward to kiss the nose of a large goat which puts a hoof on her chest. Identified by Grego as Sir W. W. Wynn, but improbably."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
St. Cecilia charming the brute and Seduction of the Welch ambassador
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Day of publication in imprint seems to have been burnished from plate., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 38.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. th [sic], 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Goats, Kissing, National emblems, and Welsh
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from curator., Date based on Rowlandson's active years., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from curator., Date based on Rowlandson's active years., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
