Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: hallways -- Maidservants: chambermaids -- Cooks -- Brooms -- Food: roasting fowl -- Pictures amplifying subject: the Duke of Clarence and Mrs. Jordan kissing., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with monogram IS at bottom.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
"A large chamber-pot, cracked, stands (left) supported by the legs of Mrs. Jordan. The Duke of Clarence has thrust his head and shoulders within a fissure in the 'Jordan', singing a chanty, "Yeo! Yee! Yeo!" He is in back view and wears striped sailor's trousers; his naval coat with its star hangs on the wall (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Crack'd Jordan and Cracked Jordan
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.0 cm, on sheet 37 x 27.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
"A ragged cobbler (not caricatured) wearing an apron stands full face on his low bench in the attitude of a preacher. He holds out a dilapidated shoe in one hand, a strap in the other. Behind him (right) are listeners: a stolid man and two elderly and agitated crones. On the bench behind him are his tools; beside it (left) is a tub in which a shoe is being soaked, a hammer, &c. Beneath are etched in two columns twenty lines of verse beginning: 'Behold the Man of Whom 'tis True The Mending Trade, He doth Persue'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Two columns of verse below image: behold the man of whom tis true ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: cobblers -- Preachers -- Cobbler's tools.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1791, by S.F. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eleven lines in 3 columns quoted below design: ten thousand transports wait ..., Numbered '19' in lower right corner of plate., Reissue of No. 7908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: royal beds -- Chairs -- Stools -- Female costume: corset -- Naval uniforms: Duke of Clarence's uniform -- Sleeping -- Expressions of speech: jordan -- Allusion to Richard Ford, ca 1759-1806, Mrs. Jordan's husband -- Literature: quotation from Charles Coffey's (d. 1745) The devil to pay, or, The wives metamorphosed.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 24th 1791 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
Edmund Burke kneels holding a crucifix and rosary as protection from the two ghosts of Mirabeau and Price who stand before him drapped in sheets surrounded by clouds. They hold out to him copies of his Reflections on the French Revolution, damning him for the crime of writing such opinions. An old woman on the right holds a chamber-pot under her petticoats and sprinkles Burke, "old Loyola", with the water from a feathered aspergillum asserting that "this holy water' will protect him, an old accusation that he was a cancealed Roman Catholic
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Rowlandson (see Grego, p. 293) or by Henry Wigstead or William Holland (see British Museum catalogue)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 17, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de, 1749-1791, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Public opinion, Anti-Catholicism, Aspergillums, Chamber pots, and Ghosts
