"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Print of Molyneux in a fighting stance, likely during his fight against English champion Tom Cribb of 1810 or 1811
Description:
Thomas "The Moor" Molineaux, although usually called Tom Molineaux (which is sometimes spelled Molyneaux) was an African-American bare-knuckle boxer and former slave. He spent much of his career in Great Britain and Ireland, where he had some notable successes. He arrived in England in 1809 and started his fighting career there in 1810. It was his two fights against Tom Cribb, widely viewed as the Champion of England that brought fame to Molineaux, although he lost both contests. His prizefighting career ended in 1815. After a tour that took him to Scotland and Ireland, he died in Galway, Ireland in 1818, aged 34., Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Leaf 16 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
Subject (Name):
Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818, and Molyneux, Tom, 1784-1818.
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers, Prints, and Boxers (Sports)
"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Portrait heads of fifty-five men, mostly in profile, identified elsewhere as portraits of various print sellers, collectors, artists, etc., sketched by Paul Sandby while attending print sales in London
Description:
Title etched below image., "The portrait heads are based on thumbnail drawings made by Paul Sandby in the margins of print sale catalogues of the 1780s, now in an album in the Royal Library. They are described by A.P. Oppé in "The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby at Windsor Castle" (Phaidon, 1947), pp. 83-85"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1876,1209.612., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. the 1st, 1798, by Sylvester Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Print dealers, Prints, and Collectors and collecting
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
"Trade card of Samuel Knights, printseller and frame maker, at 6 Change Alley, opposite Garraways Coffee House; view of the shop from the street, with many prints on the window and inside the shop, open door to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
City of London
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.46., Text at bottom: N.B. Frontage 11 feet - depth - 8 feet., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted before page 437 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"An intricate design with small inset scenes, the background being walls of a room covered with free copies of caricatures against George IV, chiefly relating to the Queen. On the extreme left is an open door, showing Napoleon as a tiny colossus on the summit of St. Helena (see British Museum Satires No. 12611, &c.), a steep rock. In the centre George IV, his forehead inscribed '0', stands in deep dejection, looking down; he has ass's ears, and from his fob, in place of seals, hang bottle, corkscrew (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13299), pie, &c. Loops of rope hang from his pockets. He stands on thorn-branches, as do his Ministers and brother-sovereigns, orientals excepted. No. '1' (a small scene in the background). Six Ministers dance round Britannia who is chained to the ground: Castlereagh, Sidmouth, Liverpool, Bathurst, Melville, and Wellington (names from initials); they say: "We have put him in a pretty Situation." Answer: "Laugh & Rejoice I have New Years Gifts for you in my Pockets." (He threatens them with dismissal for their failure to obtain his divorce.)The next are '2, K--g of Pru--a', a very tall officer wearing a mortar-board cap (see British Museum Satires No. 12283) who points derisively at George IV, saying: "Stupid Ass he is right enough to be ashamed of himself"; '3. Em--r of R--a', adapted from British Museum Satires No. 13010, and laughing as in that plate, but wearing a barber's bowl (Mambrino's helmet) inscribed 'New Don' [Quixote]; he says: "It is enough to set one mad"; '4. Em--r of A--a', thin and shrivelled, with his grandson, '18, Napoleon 2', a tiny figure in his pocket who says: "I wish I could move this bowl"; Francis says: "What a face." George IV's answer to the three sovereigns is "Go to School before you laugh at me Small Heads upon Tall Bodies had it not been for me you would have been on the Parish, a long time ago [an allusion to British subsidies, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12875]. Come Come you are as black as myself or our Infernal Brother." He answers 'Napoleon 2': "Be comforted, in a little time you will roll it." '5' and '6', seated together cross-legged in the foreground, are 'Great T--k' and 'Em--r of P--a', who say "Turn Turk then since thy wife no longer pleases thee" and "Prends garde qu'on ne te mette en perce." The King answers them: "For a long time I have had a great mind to do it" and "That is what I Dread." Nos. '7' to '12' are sovereigns standing in a row behind '2' and' 3'. '7 The K--g of S--n' says: "For this long year I pity but cannot help laughing in seeing you"; answer: "We shall see who will laugh the last" (Ferdinand VII since early in 1820 was in the power of revolutionaries); '6. K--g of Na--s', his head a block of 'Naples Soap', says: "My brother in misfortune speeks [sic] the truth." (There was revolution in the Two Sicilies, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14132.) Answer: "Nay all the little Dogs will Bark look at this Cake ['cake' (slang) = fool, gull, or blockhead, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10750] of Naples soap you would do better to eat your Macaroni and come and Drink with me to comfort us." '9. K--g of B--a', "It would have been better to have said nothing"; answer: "I confess it would have been better." '10. K--g of W--g'. "Clamour in such cases is wore [sic] than silence"; answer: "Experience has taught it me." '11. K--g of S--x--y.' "I in your case would have taken my wife and lived politically with her"; answer: "It would have been the most advisable Plan." '12. K--g of N--ds.' "Gratitude compels me to pity you" [see British Museum Satires No. 12102, &c.]; answer: "Think rather to preserve the Administration of thy Cheeses" [a remark borne out by the Belgian revolution of 1830]. Even bulkier than George IV is '14. L--s. tout de Suite [XVIII]', who sits on thorns, and has cloven hooves for feet and hands, animal's ears, and a small black cap or tonsure; from his shoulders hangs a long rosary with a dangling cross. Looking up at George IV with a cynical smile he says: "Poor fool"; answer: "At last comes the Kick of the Ass, But I have a Dish ready forhim." Behind Louis is '13. Em--r of Ch--na', saying: "You look a thousand times more like a Chinese than myself in your B--s pavillion"; answer: "Thou art the only one I could not deceive." Standing in the doorway are three well-dressed young men who are 'People', they are 15-17, and look at the King with smiling contempt; the third points to Napoleon. '15.' "You are the laughing stock of your faithful brothers who are no better than yourself"; answer: "It is true when too late I have open'd my eyes, but look at my pockets and you will find Ropes for my M--n--st--rs and my Brothers." '16' "We have found you out at length in spite of your mask do us justice or we shall give you your deserts Whitehall is not gone and there is room for you all" [an allusion to Charles I's fate, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13269]; answer: "Do it yourselves, it will be the shortest way." '17.' "Boney Boney you alone deserve our tears your fall has been as fatal to them as to ourselves your return would save us all." Answer: "He is a Man I must allow it." (For 18 see under 4.) '19' is "Green Bag [see British Museum Satires No. 13735], inscribed Milan Commission [see British Museum Satires No. 13755]; it says: / am cruelly thrown aside and fallen into very bad hands" [see British Museum Satires No. 13986]; answer: "However all my hopes are in the [sic]." Prints (uncoloured), or ad hoc designs, completely cover the walls; only a few can be identified. The lunette under the domed ceiling contains apotheoses of Queen Caroline; these are flanked by designs, both on the vaulted ceiling, depicting the joy of John Bull (left) and Britannia (right) on her return to England, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13743. Below, on the three walls, are thirty-one prints copied or adapted regardless of the size of the originals. The two largest, in the upper left corner, are from British Museum Satires No. 13843 (simplified and perhaps combined with British Museum Satires No. 13764) and British Museum Satires No. 13786. Others are British Museum Satires No. 13210, reversed and simplified; British Museum Satires No. 13998, reversed and altered, or a similar plate; British Museum Satires No. 13830, simplified, or a similar plate; British Museum Satires Nos. 13851, 13901, 14012; the King from British Museum Satires No. 13848 (throwing mud, the Queen not depicted, the right of the plate hidden by George IV). British Museum Satires No. 13508, a small woodcut, appears as a full-sized print; British Museum Satires No. 14029 is simplified and the domes of the Pavilion are introduced. The origins of twenty others have not been traced. On the floor behind Louis XVIII (left) are partly rolled caricatures, and on the right is a print (coloured) of Castlereagh standing behind a huge pie from which he carves portions for four supplicants, evidently the King of Prussia, the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria, and (?) Bernadotte (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13619). As a pendant to this is a battle scene: the statue of Napoleon presides over an empty throne; beside it stands a woman who offers crown and sceptre to a little boy (his son) who runs to take it, holding the hand of a Grenadier, beside whom is another soldier (cf. British Museum Satires No. 12707)."--British Museum online catalogue and "A Bonapartist satire in which the King's unpopularity and failure in the Queen's affair is related to the revolutionary state of Europe in 1820 (of which little specific knowledge is shown; cf. British Museum Satires No. 14113), and Louis XVIII is depicted as a priest-ridden fool. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 14050."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dialogue between King Naughty and his Brothers Consorts, Caracature of all caracatures presenting the joke of the day, and To every one his due
Description:
Title etched below image., Manuscript imprint "Pubd. by John Milleville, Hampstead" added in ink in lower right portion of image. Impression at the British Museum has an identical imprint written in the same spot., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Below the title is the 'Dialogue' in parallel columns: (left) speeches of persons numbered '1-19'; (right) answers from George IV headed 'Answers of No. 0 (K--G Naughty)'"--British Museum online catalogue., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 52 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Two typed extracts (comprising twenty-four lines total) from the British Museum catalogue description are pasted above and below print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by John Milleville, Hampstead
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1762-1834, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Mahmud II, Sultan of the Turks, 1784-1839, Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, 1751-1825, Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, 1756-1825, Friedrich August I, King of Saxony, 1750-1827, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, and Jiaqing, Emperor of China, 1760-1820
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politicians, Corkscrews, Dance, Military officers, Heads of state, Ethnic stereotypes, Prints, and Bottles
Caption title., Text continues: ... Fifty-six lots at 2s. 6d. each, to be paid on subscribing. The views may be inspected at his shop, in Narrowgate Street., "Alnwick, January 20th, 1816."--Lower left., Handbill advertising an art sale by lottery., and For further information, consult library staff.
In front of Humphrey's print shop window, a man sits on the pavement, having fallen backwards; his legs are splayed up, his wig is falling off, and coins spill from his pockets. The man's predicament is unobserved by four men studying the Gillray prints displayed in the shop window, each identifiable: a gentleman with a quizzing glass held to his eye; a military officer; a coachman; and a young dustman carrying a pair of skates under his arm, his nose eaten away by syphilis. From the cobblestone street a dog looks at the man. Through the shop door, two men, one an obese cleric, are shown examining a print
Alternative Title:
St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 24.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Coach drivers, Falling, Merchandise displays, Military officers, British, Older people, People associated with commercial & service activities, Prints, Syphilis, Stores & shops, Thermometers, Weather, Window displays, and Printing industry
