"A Pic Nic: A curate, his wife, and four children gnaw bare bones at a table covered with a ragged cloth, on which are a loaf and an almost empty dish. The wife rocks an infant's cradle; washing hangs on a cord across the fireplace. A wall-clock points to 12.45. On the sill of the casement-window is a flowering plant. The curate's hat, cudgel, and gloves are on a table. A starving cat and dog face each other angrily. A contrast to British Museum Satires No. 14756. Below: 'On meagre fare the humble Curate's fed; 'Severe his labour--dearly earned his bread. 'Tho all the duty on his shoulders fall 'A paltry Thirty Pounds a Year his all.'"--British Museum online catalogue, "A Tuck Out: A dinner-table scene, with three liveried footmen, is watched by a bloated dog and fat cat. One fat parson (right) carves a sucking-pig; his wife (opposite) carves a bird. The other diners are a second parson, a youngish woman, and a loutish youth. On the wall a picture of 'Balthezar's [sic] Feast': the revellers see the writing on the wall. Below: 'But see the bloated Vicars gaudy state, 'Profusion surfiets, pamper'd menials wait; 'Preaches Humility, his practice pride 'Lived like an Infidel, and so he died.' A favourite theme, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 6153-4, &c., 14568."--British Museum online catalogue, "A Gorge: Seven foxhunters tipsily drink a toast, two standing by their chairs. A hare and other dishes are on the table. Two liveried servants wait. On the wall is a picture of a mounted huntsman with hounds. Antlers serve as pegs for two hunting-caps; a third with a fox's brush hangs beside it. Below: 'See l'Esquire seated, at the festive board, 'His Tenants squeez'd to satiate their lord, 'Who squanders all in riot and excess, 'His Family leaves in Want and deep distress.'"--British Museum online catalogue, and "A Burster: Three aldermen in furred gowns sit at a round table, knife and fork in hand, food speared on fork, but all waiting avidly for the dishes that four footmen bring in: a large tureen, (?) birds, a hare, a turkey, and sausages. Decanters stand in a wine-cooler, a sideboard is covered with plate. There is a picture of an inflated frog looking at an ox. Below: 'A greasy chin the Aldermans delight 'Their stomachs quite prepaid since yesternight 'Anticipating, Turtle, Venison, Jellies, 'To Cram, to Gorge nay e'en to burst their Bellies.' Cf. British Museum Satires No. 14690."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from collective title etched at bottom of plate., Plate signed four times with printmaker signature "C.W. fecit", once beneath each of the four designs., and Four designs on one plate, each individually titled within lower border and each having four lines of verse etched below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr. 15th, 1824, by S.W. Fores, No. 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Title from caption below image., Title continues: ... "Where shall I lunch" thought of the wine sale hesitated to face being too well known there, having often been spoken at, but it bein a last resource & conscious that "we must not stint" ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
In a courtyard of Christ Church (Oxford), undergraduates in cap and gown dance around a bonfire, fueled by doors, chairs, and tables carried from the surrounding buildings. Other students pull at ropes to drag a statute of Mercury towards the flames. From the windows on either side of the gateway students throw objects including a globe and a chamber pot, while another blows a trumpet. Groups of students dance wildly as they drink and riot
Alternative Title:
Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above images., Seven individual images on one plate; each image has an individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1823.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 10, 1824 by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Clowns, Couples, Garbage collecting, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Poverty
Title from text above images., Seven individual images on one plate; each image has individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from heading above image., Three scenes separately captioned within image area. Other title information from first scene's caption., Captions continue: ... Nights of pleasure ; and days of ease., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
"Three men sit at a table absorbed in an oyster feast, while Richard Martin ..., sensing cruelty to oysters, enters, followed by a constable with his staff (left). Papers hang from his pocket: M . . . . s Bill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and a book projects: Gullivers Travels--A Voyage to . . . Ho[uyhnhnms]. Martin points imperiously to the table, the constable makes a wry face. A lean elderly man ... sits with his back to the door on a piano-stool on which are sheets of music. At his feet is a paper: The Oyster crossed in Love as sung by Messs Sinclair & Gamon at Covent Garden O gentle Swain yr Knife [refrain] Nor Wound a Heart so soft as mine. Dr E----y, wearing tartan, stands over a tub of Natives, opening oysters. The third man's face is concealed. On the table, besides oyster-shells, &c, are a candle burnt low and a large jug of Hot Milk. The walls are covered with shelves. On one set (left), inscribed Larder of Death, are druggist's jars, &c. These include Opium, Oxalic Acid, Calomel, with a box of Gamboge. The other, inscribed Good Living, are laden with food: a pie, a chain of sausages, a sirloin, jar of Cherry Bounce, round of beef, a Scots Haggis, a hare, a bird. There is also (left) a high shelf of books."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different state or version
Description:
Title etched below image., Different state or version, with variations in the text below image, of a plate to No. VI of The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and goodliving (London : Walker [etc.], 1824-1829). Cf. No. 14696 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Three of the figures are identified with etched text beneath lower border of image: [left to right] Martin; Dr. Kitchener; Dr. E-y., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 301., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1265, 5259., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Eady.
Publisher:
Published by J. Walker
Subject (Name):
Martin, Richard, 1754-1834 and Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
"Three men sit at a table absorbed in an oyster feast, while Richard Martin (M----n), sensing cruelty to oysters, enters, followed by a constable with his staff (left). Papers hang from his pocket: M . . . . s Bill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and a book projects: Gullivers Travels--A Voyage to . . . Ho[uyhnhnms]. Martin points imperiously to the table, the constable makes a wry face. A lean elderly man (Dr K----r) sits with his back to the door on a piano-stool on which are sheets of music. At his feet is a paper: The Oyster crossed in Love as sung by Messs Sinclair & Gamon at Covent Garden O gentle Swain yr Knife [refrain] Nor Wound a Heart so soft as mine. Dr E----y, wearing tartan, stands over a tub of Natives, opening oysters. The third man's face is concealed. On the table, besides oyster-shells, &c, are a candle burnt low and a large jug of Hot Milk. The walls are covered with shelves. On one set (left), inscribed Larder of Death, are druggist's jars, &c. These include Opium, Oxalic Acid, Calomel, with a box of Gamboge. The other, inscribed Good Living, are laden with food: a pie, a chain of sausages, a sirloin, jar of Cherry Bounce, round of beef, a Scots Haggis, a hare, a bird. There is also (left) a high shelf of books."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate to No. VI of: The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and goodliving. London : Walker [etc.], 1824-1829., Three of the figures are identified with etched text beneath lower border of image: [left to right] M-n; Dr. K-n; Dr. E-y., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Eady., and 1 print : etching and aquatint ; image and inscription 12.5 x 19.2 cm.
Publisher:
Published by J. Walker
Subject (Name):
Martin, Richard, 1754-1834 and Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
"Three men sit at a table absorbed in an oyster feast, while Richard Martin (M----n), sensing cruelty to oysters, enters, followed by a constable with his staff (left). Papers hang from his pocket: M . . . . s Bill to prevent Cruelty to Animals, and a book projects: Gullivers Travels--A Voyage to . . . Ho[uyhnhnms]. Martin points imperiously to the table, the constable makes a wry face. A lean elderly man (Dr K----r) sits with his back to the door on a piano-stool on which are sheets of music. At his feet is a paper: The Oyster crossed in Love as sung by Messs Sinclair & Gamon at Covent Garden O gentle Swain yr Knife [refrain] Nor Wound a Heart so soft as mine. Dr E----y, wearing tartan, stands over a tub of Natives, opening oysters. The third man's face is concealed. On the table, besides oyster-shells, &c, are a candle burnt low and a large jug of Hot Milk. The walls are covered with shelves. On one set (left), inscribed Larder of Death, are druggist's jars, &c. These include Opium, Oxalic Acid, Calomel, with a box of Gamboge. The other, inscribed Good Living, are laden with food: a pie, a chain of sausages, a sirloin, jar of Cherry Bounce, round of beef, a Scots Haggis, a hare, a bird. There is also (left) a high shelf of books."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate to No. VI of: The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and goodliving. London : Walker [etc.], 1824-1829., Three of the figures are identified with etched text beneath lower border of image: [left to right] M-n; Dr. K-n; Dr. E-y., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Eady.
Publisher:
Published by J. Walker
Subject (Name):
Martin, Richard, 1754-1834 and Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
"Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this is a copy
Description:
Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827]., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray published 13 July 1799 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 265., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Punch., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.6 x 31.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 23 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Drinking vessels, Eating & drinking, Floor coverings, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Living rooms, Medicine, Songs, and Singing
