A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 18.3 x 14.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
A hungry boy (left) holding the string of a bag over his shoulder, scratches his hair under his hat, as he looks in a window. On the otherside of the window, a grinning cook holds up a large plum pudding on a platter
Description:
Title etched above image., “No. 7”--Upper right corner above image., Three lines of text below image: Various are the ways this passion might be depicted, in this delineation the subjects chosen are simple -- a hungry boy -- and a plumb pudding., 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 9 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
"A mounted officer with drawn sabre heads a procession of 'Volunteers' linked by a chain to his horse and to each other. The horse is a well-bred animal with handsome trappings, but the rider is lean and has torn breeches. He is followed by a file of three whose necks are attached to the horse and whose hands or arms are pinioned. All are miserable wretches, barelegged and ragged; the last, less abject, has sabots and takes snuff. He is chained to the neck of a donkey on whose back is a pannier containing three despairing conscripts. To the animal's tail is tied a low truck on which a moribund shackled man lies on his back, his knees drawn up. To the truck is chained, in a stooping position, a man whose hands are tied behind his back, his nails being long talons. Birds, scenting carrion, fly towards the procession. Below the design: 'Dedicated (by an Eye Witness) to the Volunteers of Great Britain'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in top part of image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and the artist questionably identified as Charles Loraine Smith in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Watermark: 1809 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 68 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 25th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers, French, and Starvation
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., Companion print: Beer Street., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.8 x 32.1 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 75 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., Companion print: Beer Street., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 39 x 32.3 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm., and Leaf 50 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Feb. 1, 1751.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 75. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 50. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the streets of the slum Ruins of St. Giles, Westminster, the only business are S. Gripe pawnbroker (left), Kilman Distiller (right) and the undertaker (background right). It is a scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners -- charity children, mothers and babies, trades people, cripples, etc. -- shown dead or dying, fighting, or stupefied with drink. Notably in the foreground a syphilitic mother sitting on the steps lets her child fall to its death over the railing, towards a flagon labeled "Gin Royal", as she takes a pinch of snuff; below her in the steps, an emaciated, bare-chested ballad-seller sleeps with a glass in one hand and a basket and a jug in the other; the ballad hanging from the basket is entitled 'The downfall of Mdm Gin". His dog looks down at the empty glass. On the right in a crumbling building a barber is shown hanging by his neck; below a crowd is being pushed back towards Kilman Distiller. Mid-ground a woman is being placed in a coffin, her child weeping on the ground beside the coffin. Another child is impaled on a spit and carried along by a cook with a bellows on his head. In the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury; in this state, the child's face has been changed so that the face is wizened and the eyes sunken
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., Verse below image: Gin cursed fiend with fury fraught, makes human race a prey; it enters by a deadly draught, and steals our life away ..., Companion print: Beer Street., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.8 x 32.1 cm, on sheet 59 x 46 cm., and Plate 75 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Building deterioration, Children, Crowds, Death, Dogs, Fighting, Gin, Intoxication, Occupations, Pawnshops, People with disabilities, Signs (Notices), Slums, Starvation, Suicides, Street vendors, and Undertakers
A piece of propaganda most likely produced during the Seven Years War which depicts the English army as well-fed (and watered), happy and in good spirits in contrast to the French who are shown beleaguered and in disarray. On the English side of this print (left) a finely dressed general stands proudly in the foreground, a large tankard in his right hand, and his left outstretched in a gesture of merriment. Behind him, a singing man raises his hat to the sky. They trample upon torn flags decorated with the fleur-de-lis. In the background men and women. The crowd that spills from the doorway of the “Cow & Bow” includes a bishop, a woman sitting on a man’s knee, and other couples in close embrace. The party continues in the upper floors of the public house, and from its balcony, where it is accompanied by the music of a violinist. The masts of ships at dock occupy the horizon. On the French side by contrast a dishevelled man in French military dress holds a hand to his face in desperation. The skull of a horse lies on the ground next to a prone soldier who holds his hand to his breast. One of the soldiers behind eats something non-descript, another crouches by a puddle, using his hat to scoop water and drink. Ranks of the French army are pictured on the left, and in the background masts of ships - some of which appear to be going up in flames. The verses below nicely describe ‘the happy contrast’ pictured: See here the Emblem of successful war; The bold brave soldier & the jolly tarr, With Cap & Can their hearty Joys express, While mirth and gladness brighten ev’ry face, The flowing Bowl goes merrily around, And their full bliss with smirking Girls is Crown’d. Here is display’d the Figure of Despair, And the dire Train of unsuccessful War, Here a poor famish’d soldier begs for Bread. Another there with Horses flesh is fed, Water & Wooden Shoes & skin & Bones. Their portion is; and their whole Army Skeletons
Alternative Title:
England triumpant, or, France in despair and France in despair
Description:
Title engraved below image., Approximate date of publication from internal content., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Window mounted: 34 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Public opinion, Armies, British, French, Soliders, Generals, Drinking vessels, Happiness, Taverns (Inns), Flags, Couples, Ships, Skulls, Starvation, and Thirst
