Racist caricature lampooning the inept attempt by African Americans to mimic the leisure culture of white high society depicting an African American tea party hosted by "Mr. Ludovico" and "Miss Rosabella." To the far right of the table, "Miss Rosabell...
"An obese, elderly, bottle-nosed man stands in his garden, in profile to the left, his knees flexed, in slippers, ungartered stockings, open waistcoat; he shades his eyes and looks up ecstatically. A cloud of flies buzz round his bald head; a panting ...
"A pedestrian struggles through deep slushy snow, facing driving snow, with a broken umbrella, the spokes projecting through the cover. He clutches at his cloak and hat; he wears gaiters to the knee with socks over them, and overshoes. Cape and comfor...
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year in London
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Blizzards, Carriages & coaches, Salutations, Snow, Umbrellas, and Winter
A pedestrian struggles through deep slushy snow, facing driving snow, with a broken umbrella, the spokes projecting through the cover. He clutches at his cloak and hat; he wears gaiters to the knee with socks over them, and overshoes. Cape and comfort...
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year in London
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blizzards, Salutations, Snow, Winter, and Umbrellas
"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a smal...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
A man sits backwards in his chair at the counter of an shop as he smiles with pleasure as he spoons his ice from his glace. In the background are drawers and a shelf with jars
A young couple face each other as they begin to dance in a hall lighted by a wall sconce with a mirror and a chandelier. Behind them an older woman looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowing, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance parties, and Etiquette
A view of the Stock Exchange, filled with members; the wall-clock points to 1:30. A few sticks and fists are raised above the crowd, and a hat flies up. In the foreground a horse, led in by two members, is incited by others to kick, a practical joke ...
Alternative Title:
Billy White's poney made a member of the stock exchange and Billy White's pony made a member of the stock exchange
A wintery scene: A hunter who in pursuit of the duck that he shot which has fallen on the frozen pond, has broken through the ice and scrambles toward the shore; his gun sinks into the water beside the abandoned duck. His two hunting dogs look at the...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published, by H. Fores, No. 16 Panton Street, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, Hunting accidents, Hunting dogs, Ice, and Lakes & ponds
"Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy s...
Alternative Title:
Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November and One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November
Holding a candlestick, a wife departs from a room, which shows sign of an altercation with a turned over chair and pillow and book on the floow, her back to the viewer turns back looking at her husband
"Hunting scene, hounds in the distance in full cry. In the foreground two riders gallop across a field; one is in pink, the other is a neatly-dressed parson in tricorne hat, and bushy powdered wig. The former: Holloa Hark!--Doctor--d'ye hear that char...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Chas. Hunt, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Huntsmen and hounds with moutned members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimeny and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. T...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
"Liston starts up in bed, alarmed at Venus who stands upon cloud at the foot of his bed (left). Mrs. Liston, small and doll-like (cf. BM Satires 12327), sleeps beside him. A large crescent moon shines through the window. On an arm-chair by the bed (ri...
Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors site by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief...
A man stands in the center of his dressing room with an expression of pain on his face as he pulls open one of his eye lids to expose a large black speck in its center. He stands in what appears to be his dressing room, dressed in a waistcoat, nightca...
A man stands in the center of his dressing room with an expression of pain on his face as he pulls open one of his eye lids to expose a large black speck in its center. He stands in what appears to be his dressing room, dressed in a waistcoat, nightca...
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits ...
The King's Bath with the heads of men and women emerging from steaming water. Robert Cruikshank (right) is in profile to the right, addressing a pretty woman, and pointing to 'Blackmantle' who swims (defying the rule), approaching a group of alarmed a...
A woman sits with her hand to her head with a rueful look on her face, a tea setting on the table before her. Behind her to the left, her husband sits slumped in his chair, eyes closed
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. See British Museum ca...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
Men, horses, and (mongrel) dogs in wild but spirited confusion in a forest glade pursue a cow (left); the stag is in the background running in the opposite direction, followed by one man on foot. One horse and rider struggle in a ditch while a second...
Alternative Title:
Cockney comicalities in full chace and Cockney comicalities in full chase
The Bristol London Royal mail wagon arrives outside the Post Office as men, women, and children (and dogs) walk about the street, some reading letters others conversing. Next to the Post Offfice is the Fire Office
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Mail wagons, Postal service, and Post offices
"Four men, raffishly prosperous, dance forward together in a line, three in tipsy joviality, one dragged forward, ill and dejected. The Irishman and Englishman have their arms entwined, one flourishes a cane, the other a handkerchief. The melancholy S...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Dancers, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish
"A dandy walking on a London pavement cuts an acquaintance. In profile to the left a moustached man gazes up open-mouthed; walking to the right, nearer the tree-topped wall forming a background, is a man who touches his bell-shaped top-hat; he carries...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1, 1825 by H. Pyall Mole Hill Lodge, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth
"A dandy (right), in frogged tight-waisted coat, glove-tight pantaloons or breeches, Hessian boots, a riding-whip under his arm, an eyeglass in his hand, stares over the head of a fashionably dressed man (left), accompanied by a poodle, who faces him....
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1, 1825 by H. Pyall Mole Hill Lodge, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Dandies, British, and Picture sheets (Broadsides)
The palatial room, lit by candle chandelier, is filled with memebers standign conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
"Four men walk arm-in-arm from right to left. All are strikingly different in build, character, and dress, but all have features strikingly similar, though much altered by time and character, showing that they are brothers. A study in facial expressio...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
"A Paris street. A young and handsome English couple walk arm-in-arm (right to left), the man well-dressed in top-hat, tail-coat, breeches, and top-boots, the lady simply and elegantly dressed in a high-waisted gown and plain bonnet. Four Parisiennes,...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, City & town life, and Clothing & dress
"In a palatial room, lit by elaborate cut-glass chandeliers, three games are in progress, one in the foreground, with an officer leaning over one of the women players. Another officer in full dress uniform with sword and plumed helmet admires himself ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Strt. Covent Garden
A woman stands facing the viewer smiling: she is dressed in a wedding outfit and holds a gold ring in her left hand as she points to it with her right. In the background is a church
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1, 1825 by J. Brooker, 5 Southamptom Row, Russel Square
A red-faced woman stumbles backwards, her feathered hat falling from her head and her cloak at her feet, causing the contents of her ewer to spill to the ground; she holds a cup in her hand. On the counter behind her are tavern supplies -- wine bottl...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Capes (Clothing), Hats, and Taverns (Inns)
