"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., 1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 26.5 x 19.3 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 99 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Caroline" identified in pencil below image; date "19 July 1821" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hideous profile, her mouth wide open; her attitude is theatrical. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable (see BMSat 7099, &c). He looks up at her with a yearning smile. Both are grotesquely caricatured."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Trades: pastry cooks -- Vanhangen, Thomas, 'Captain Rolling-pin.', 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 38.7 x 29.1 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills., and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"An elderly general rides a high-stepping horse in profile to the left, posed like an equestrian statue. He wears a high cocked hat with cockade and plume; his sword-belt is buckled over his sash, which girds a heavy paunch. In his right hand is a cane. He is Lt.-General Richard England of Lifford, co. Clare, Colonel of the 5th Foot and Lt.-Governor of Plymouth, father of Sir Richard England (b. 1793). He was a veteran of the American War, and had been one of the first colonists of Western Upper Canada."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, with minimal loss of image from right edge., Leaf 71 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808.
"A half length portrait of Matthew Day standing in profile to the right. He is very obese, wears round hat, long coat, tasselled Hessian boots, and holds a cane in his gloved hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 31 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"A magician stands full face with uplifted sabre held over the heads of two figures from the past whom he has called up, and who stand within a magic circle. He displays them to their modern descendants, a tall stout Frenchman plainly dressed, wearing cocked hat and military boots, who stands with his arm on the shoulder of a thin, wretched, shambling, Englishman, small, ugly, and foppish, his hand thrust through an empty pocket. The magician has a beard, but features, cocked hat, consular dress, and sabre indicate Napoleon. He asks: "Are you satisfied Gentlemen?" The apparitions (left) are a grossly obese Englishman in old-fashioned dress, a cane hanging from his right wrist, and an ugly, tall, cadaverous, and foppish Frenchman holding a snuffbox. They say, respectively: "Is that my Grandson Jack? what a skeleton!!!"; "Ah mon Cousin, vat you eat de Beef & Plum Pudding!!" Their surprised successors exclaim: "Bless me! why I am a mere Stump of a man to him!!! and viable my Cousin look like de Frog & John Bull look like de Ox but Grace a Dieu times are Changed!!" Beside the magician are symbols of his art: a globe, a crocodile, a scroll, a skull. Within the circle and beside the French apparition is a frog."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Review of old times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Magicians, Daggers & swords, Globes, Ethnic stereotypes, and Obesity
"The Duchess of St. Albans, fat, flamboyant, moustached, and smiling, stands on a carpeted floor, a glove in one hand, three large feathers in her hair. Curious draperies decorate a deep border to her skirt, and are seemingly intended for money-bags. On the wall is a small framed picture of a melon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15458). Above: 'Sure thou wert form'd by all the Gods in Council; Who having made a lucky hit, | beyond their journey-work, Cry'd out,--"This is a Woman!"'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hugeous Duchess
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title etched above image: Hugeous Duchess., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., Watermarked paper: J. Whatman 1829., and Offprint on verso
Publisher:
Pub. by E. King, Chancery Lane
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
"A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer's wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant field."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox and Dandified coxcomb in a bandbox
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Clergy, England, Obesity, Boxes, Farms, Donkeys, Roosters, and Pitchforks
"Mansel, Bishop of Bristol and Master of Trinity (from 1798), walks from left to right, and slightly towards the spectator, head in profile, and thrown back, his mortar-board in his left hand. His voluminous, inflated, and much convoluted gown covers a bulky figure. He wears a clerical wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker tentatively identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Leaf 52 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Bishop of Bristol" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1810, by Dighton, 6 Charg. Cross
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Mansel, William Lort, 1753-1820
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Clergy, College administrators, and Obesity
"A caricature portrait of the Marquis of Buckingham (George Grenville Nugent Temple) walking in profile to the left. He wears military uniform with cocked hat and spurred Hessians, and is enormously obese, his sword-belt grotesquely clasped across his paunch. His hand is on the hilt of his sword. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bucks. Unlike other caricatures of Buckingham."--British Museum online catalogue and "George identified the subject as George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) but it is, rather, his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), known until 1813 as Earl Temple."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 76 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808., and Figure identified as "Marquess Buckingham" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839 and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813,
"The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port' and 'Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on which are long bills: 'Poulterers Bill . . . unpaid, Butcher's Bill . . . unpaid, Baker's Bill . . . unpaid', and (on the ground) 'Doctors Bill'. In the foreground (right) lie a dice-box and dice with three books: 'Debts of Honor Unpaid', 'Newmarket List', and 'Faro Partnership Account Self Archer Hobart & Co.' On a shelf behind the Prince (right) is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, among which is a small pot: 'For the Piles', and a bottle: 'Drops for a Stinking Breath'. Beside it are a box of 'Leakes Pills', and a bottle of 'Velnos Vegetable Syrup' (see BMSat 7592). On the wall above is a candle-sconce with a burlesque coat of arms for the Prince: a plate with a crossed knife and fork, with his motto, coronet, and feathers; one candle is stuck in a wine-bottle, the other in a wine-glass. Above the Prince's head is a round picture in an elaborate frame inscribed 'L. Comoro, Ætat. 199 [sic]': a half length portrait of a man with a long beard drinking from a glass inscribed 'Aqua'. (Luigi Cornaro of Padua, 1467-1566, published 'Discorri della vita sobria . . .', a treatise on the means of living to extreme old age, describing the ascetic diet by which he had recovered health and vitality when in danger of death at the age of forty. Portrait by Tintoretto, Pitti Palace.) A carpet covers the floor. Through the window is seen the (unfinished) colonnade of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Companion print to: Temperance enjoying a frugal meal., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gastronomy., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.2 x 29.0 cm, on sheet 41.6 x 33.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 2d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
