"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. Geor...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
"An obese and elderly citizen stands almost full-face holding up a (?) turbot, with an expression of intense satisfaction. His left hand holds his head, pushing up his wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with a flapped waistcoat. Between his feet is a sh...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"An obese and elderly citizen stands almost full-face holding up a (?) turbot, with an expression of intense satisfaction. His left hand holds his head, pushing up his wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with a flapped waistcoat. Between his feet is a sh...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A comely widow kneels in profile to the left, facing an upright chair; in her left hand is a handkerchief; her weeds reach from her head to the ground. Her prayer expresses grief, resignation for the loss of three husbands, and a desire for more with,...
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Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden and Pubd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 July 1801]
Call Number:
Bunbury 801.07.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on an unidentified man strolling in the countryside carrying a stick."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Unknown satirical portrait
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.102. Alternative title from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1, 1801, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccdilly [sic]
A man with multiple carbuncles on his face holds a map in his hands. Through the center of the map runs 'Rhino Fluvius'. The land is divided into provinces or states with names based on types of wines. Behind on the wall is a shelf with wine bottle...
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Title etched below image.
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Published Novr. 1st 1801 by Mr. Howitt, No. 15 Queen St., Soho
As she looks directly at the viewer, a short, plump woman dressed in a short dickey bares her breasts as she stands, legs apart, between a dresser and an armchair. A cat with a shocked expression looks up under her short chemise
"Key to Smith's print 'The Annual Ceremony of administering the Oath of Allegiance &c on Novr. 8th, the Day preceding Lord Mayors Day,' listing the aldermen and sheriffs, including Newnham and John Boydell, portrayed, assembled in the Guildhall."--Bri...
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Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Published June 4th, 1801 by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside & at the S. Gallery, Pall Mall
"A Welshman and a Yorkshireman drink together at a table outside a rustic building; one holds a halter, waiting for a horse which a boy in the background is catching. The former says: '"Gots splutter I tell the County where I came from is so fertile t...
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Title from item.
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Pub. July 1, 1801 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
In the top image, four horsemen, one man on foot, and three hounds chase a fox across the fields. Clockwise, a small image shows an alerted fox lying on the ground, a decapitated fowl under his paw, accosted by two snarling dogs. Below is an image of ...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 2 November 1801, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Hunting dogs, Foxes, Rabbits, Fox hunting, Rabbit hunting, and Game bird hunting
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned pr...
Alternative Title:
Councillor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiti...
A thin man in shabby clothes, kneels in prayer before a candle on a chair, bedcurtains on either side of the chair; his toes through his worn shoes. The window panes in his room are broken
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"An elderly man in old-fashioned dress stands at his desk, his right hand on an open ledger, looking down with a calculating grimace. He wears a night-cap and slippers; a pen is behind his ear. His high stool is behind him. In the background another e...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
"A handsome young woman, in full dress with feathers in her hair, kneels on one knee, left foot thrust forward, arms extended, apostrophizing an ornate arm-chair on a dais (right). She appeals to Thalia and Melpomene for aid in her profession, asking ...
Description:
Title from letterpress text printed below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd. 10th Augst., 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A man in old-fashioned dress kneels in profile to the right at a high-backed elbow-chair, clutching a bundle of 'Bank Notes'. He addresses the 'Adorable and ancient Lady of Thread-needle Street', asking for wealth, for success to the conductors of th...
Description:
Title from letterpress text printed on same sheet as plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A fat elderly John Bull kneels in profile to the left, clasping his hands above the seat of a chair on which lies a long tobacco pipe. On the floor is a frothing tankard inscribed 'Golden Lion'. On shelves (right) are small spirit-casks, punch-bowls,...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 20, 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"A plump woman kneels with clasped hands in profile to the left before an upright chair. She addresses 'Enchanting Pharaoh' (Faro), asks for ability to pay a debt of £5,000 to Captain Simper, for the frustration of a design upon her virtue, for protec...
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Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd. August 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A buxom young woman, wearing a straw bonnet and many trinkets, including a miniature, kneels at a chair in profile to the right. Behind her on a table are a punch-bowl, spirit decanter, glasses, and a long pipe; above it is a framed picture of a man-...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden and Pubd. 20 Septr., 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"A man, fashionably dressed and vulgar, kneels on one knee, praying to a large framed picture of Fortune. She stands blindfolded on her wheel, empties coins and notes from a cornucopia, and holds out a placard: 'Peter Puffs Lucky Lottery Office'. He b...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden and R. Ackermann
"A young jockey in peaked cap and spurred boots, slim and almost girlish, kneels with clasped hands in profile to the left before a plain chair, his riding-whip beside him. On the wall is a picture of two jockeys galloping almost neck and neck. He pra...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Augst. 10, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A young sailor sits on a large sea-chest with folded arms, right leg raised above the chest. He wears short jacket, striped trousers, and buckled shoes, and smokes a short pipe. Behind, rigging and a sail are indicated. He prays to 'Mighty Neptune' f...
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Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 12, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see BMSat 9698. A long table, the cloth removed, one end cut off by the left margin, stretches almost across the design, slanting back slightly from the left, where it is in the foreground, and where Fox, gros...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, and Sturt, Charles, 1763-1812
"The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the 'Treasury', led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document: 'Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks'. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pi...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
"In a small space between the House Commons (left) and a rustic alehouse (right) Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head (the features as in BMSat 9200) of Horne Tooke. In this are stuck feathers, five inscribed re...
Alternative Title:
Old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens
Description:
Title from text in lower part of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"The new Ministers (identified by inscriptions below the design) don the clothes of their predecessors. These are (left to right) the Chancellor (Eldon) on the Woolsack, in back view, wearing the wig, enormously elongated so that it trails on the floo...
Alternative Title:
Lilliputian substitutes equipping for public service
Description:
Title etched in top part of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 28th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, and Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834
"Lord Hawkesbury as a drummer boy, very thin and weedy, marches (left to right) in front of John Bull with awkward and shambling aggressiveness; he steps on to a rotten plank inscribed 'Heart of Oak' which connects the shores of England and France. Hi...
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his little friends "marching to Paris"
Description:
Title etched in top part of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"Windham, not caricatured, lies in bed dreaming, his right hand extended, his left hand against his head. The coverlet is patterned (inconspicuously) with dragons, &c. The bed is surrounded by solid clouds, supporting visions. At its head (right) is a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 9th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Elisabeth, Princess of France, 1764-1794, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
"Burdett (right) declaims a speech whose heads are inscribed on a gigantic scroll held out to him by Fox. Fox raises his arms high to hold the scroll, one end of which falls behind his head and shoulders. The other end, still rolled and blank, is held...
Alternative Title:
Private rehearsal of "The ci-devant Ministry in danger".
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 4th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
"The tattered flag ('Vive l'Egalité), on which stands Paul, grotesque, mean, and arrogant, has been altered to a torn paper: 'Treaty of Alliance'. The background is the sea with on the horizon (right) a castellated Malta flying the British flag. Above...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Jany. 20th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"The bulky Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827) stands in profile to the left. He wears a small round hat with long powdered hair tied back, and a whisker; a double-breasted coat over a double-breasted waistcoat, striped breeches, striped stockings, and wrin...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827
"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadow...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
"Sir William Hamilton, old and bent, inspects his antiques. He stands in profile to left, looking through spectacles held in his right hand and reversed. He wears a round hat, a spencer over his coat and spurred top-boots, a stick in his (gloved) left...
Alternative Title:
Cognocenti contemplating the beauties of the antique and Cognoscenti contemplating the beauties of the antique
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its poin...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots."--British Museum onli...
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Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two gr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A caricature of Hamilton, in back view, in the form of a porcelain vase standing on a (chipped) base inscribed: 'D AM.N.Q.V.I.Σ.Σ.Ω.N'. The wig, with black bag, forms the cover of the vase. The shoulders are enormously wide and curved, with large pro...
Alternative Title:
From Sir William Hamilton's collection
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. May 8th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Amateur musicians, the design based on 'Ars-Musica', BMSat 9586, altered, and much elaborated. Four ugly and elderly men grouped round a young woman who sits, full face, at a square piano lit by a guttering candle. She lifts her hands to thump, with ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A fat country-woman, threatened by a fierce dog, has fallen face downwards in front of a pair of horses, causing them to stop suddenly, and paw the ground. The terrified coachman loses his hat and wig, the footman is flung across the roof of the low ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Two terrified riders meet face to face on Hounslow Heath; each takes the other for a highwayman. One (left) losing his stirrups holds out his purse, saying, "Here is my Money! Spare my Life". The other dropping his whip, puts his hand in his waistcoa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Three brothers, with similar but identical profiles, sit squeezed together in a small rustic phaeton drawn (left to right) by three prancing goats, two being wheelers. The driver is nearest the spectator; all have leeks in their round hats; that of t...
Alternative Title:
Welsh tandem
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840, Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 1775-1850, and Williams-Wynn, Henry Watkin, Sir, 1783-1856
"A fat and vulgar woman, indecently décolletée, stands with right hand on her hip, a fan in her left hand, looking arrogantly up and to the left. She wears a large paradise plume in her hair with a small bunch of flowers. Her head is framed by an erec...
Alternative Title:
Lioness
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A box-like room is suspended in the sea by ropes on pulleys, a shaft ascending from its roof. There is no front wall, enabling sea-monsters to attack the occupants, who are four terrified little men, naked except for breeches. In each of the three wa...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 19th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 11, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
"A young and very smart officer lunges forward, pointing his tasselled cane at one of a line of soldiers who stand rigidly at attention full face, but with 'Eyes right' (the words inscribed at the end of the cane). He shouts: "Hold up your Head that M...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 12th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a ...
Description:
Title from quotation etched above image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Mrs. Billington, directed to the right, sings with head thrown back, right hand on her breast, left arm extended. She is stout and majestic, wears many jewels and quasi-contemporary dress, with four tall feathers and jewelled aigrette in her hair, fr...
Alternative Title:
Mandane
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 22d, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The Duke of York with his officers on horseback on the left, with Valenciennes in the distance with smoking ruins to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published December 1st, 1801, for R. & V. Green by R. Cribb, No. 288 Holborn, and by Chr. de Mechel at C. Geisweilers, No. 42 Parliament Street, London
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two gr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
On the right a Jewish stockbrocker with a very large belly stands in the door way of his establishment; the sign over the door identifies him as "Solomon Stock broke[r]". He addresses two jolly-looking 'cits'; their dog barks angrily at the stockbroke...
"An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned pr...
Alternative Title:
Councillor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"An elderly man in old-fashioned dress stands at his desk, his right hand on an open ledger, looking down with a calculating grimace. He wears a night-cap and slippers; a pen is behind his ear. His high stool is behind him. In the background another e...
Description:
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiti...
"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadow...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
A thin man in shabby clothes, kneels in prayer before a candle on a chair, bedcurtains on either side of the chair; his toes through his worn shoes. The window panes in his room are broken
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Sir William Hamilton, old and bent, inspects his antiques. He stands in profile to left, looking through spectacles held in his right hand and reversed. He wears a round hat, a spencer over his coat and spurred top-boots, a stick in his (gloved) left...
Alternative Title:
Cognocenti contemplating the beauties of the antique and Cognoscenti contemplating the beauties of the antique
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title, printmaker, and publication information from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Landsdowne, William Petty, 1st Marquis of, 1737-1815., Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
"Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticula...
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its poin...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"Fox stoops to support on his back Horne Tooke, who is about to climb into the window of 'St Stephe[n's] Chap[el]', the name on a slab over the door, partly cut off by the right margin. The door is being closed by Lord Temple, who says: "He shall not ...
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "Westminster" is etched backwards.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839
"In a small space between the House Commons (left) and a rustic alehouse (right) Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head (the features as in BMSat 9200) of Horne Tooke. In this are stuck feathers, five inscribed re...
Alternative Title:
Old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens
Description:
Title from text in lower part of image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"The invalid, unshaven, in a nightcap, and wearing a dressing-gown over unfastened waistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings, stands as in British Museum Satires No. 9584, grimacing with disgust at a cup of medicine, the bottle in his left hand. I...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Laxatives, Tractors, Metallic, Medicines, Medical procedures & techniques, and Sick persons
