Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Two lines of descriptive text below title: An old woman went to a chandler's shop, to buy a three-farthing candle, but was told they were raised to a penny on account of the war ..., Plate numbered '388' in the lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: John Wise 1804.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A copy of Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'. Below the title: 'These Armes are to be altered by the Desire of the Committee, a Wolf in Fleecy Hosiery is to be substituted for the Lamb and the Supporters are to be taken away - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arms for the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., One plate [tail-piece] to Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
"Two skaters strike attitudes in the foreground. One (l.), with hands on hips, describes a curve on the outside edge of the left. foot, the r. foot being held out stiffly. He looks aggressively towards the other, a younger man who bends his knees, arms extended, and grins at his rival. The former wears a spencer over a short coat, the latter a tail coat; both wear Hessian boots, but those of the latter, who is more fashionably dressed, reach to the knee and are tasselled. Both hold sticks. In the background (r.) a pair of men with folded arms skate back to back in doing a figure of eight; a third skates forward fast with hands on hips. The scene is a lake in a snow-covered landscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing : Attitude! Attitude is every thing! and Elements of skating : Attitude! Attitude is every thing!
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic]
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Swords -- Female Costume: 1805 -- Guns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Soldiers, and French
"A horse shies at a high and solid gate, throwing its fat rider, who flies sideways through the air, with arms extended. He wears red coat and top-boots. Behind shrubs on the. farther side of the gate lies a bull, the cause of the accident. Trees form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. August 20th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A social satire showing two clerics seated at a table, one fat and with a brimming tankard of "Tythe Beer", the other thin, his elbows resting on a book entitled "Fast Days"; the floor is littered with papers of "Threadbare Sermons" and "Temperance Preached 40", "Humility Preached Ten Times" etc."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., 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: Russell & Co.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 28, 1805 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Pl. to 'The second part, . . . [ut supra]', see BMSat 10465. Dr. 'Willain' and his wife, three-quarter length and arm-in-arm, gaze up at a Punch and Judy show: Punch, highly delighted, has knocked over his wife, who staggers back. The doctor holds behind him the stick (with a cat's face) which his wife holds in BMSat 10465. From the doctor's coat-pocket dangles the head of a duck which he has bought after watching with his wife the plebeian (and cruel) sport of duck-hunting. The profile head of a spectator, or the showman, gazes at her from the r. margin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., One plate from Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple bar in 1805., and Mounted to 37 x 34 cm.
"Social satire: the actor Charles Dignum stands in a large tricorn hat with one hand in his pocket, the other in his waistcoat; text below explains that the image is to help fine singers, or players, attain the "consequence so necessary for gaining Fortune & Fame", rather than to represent true grace in the drawing room."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ease and elegance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of explanatory text below title: This is not intended to represent any of that grace so bewitching in a drawing room, but merely to assist a fine singer, a good player, or any public characters in the attainment of consequence, so necessary for gaining fortune & fame., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 22 x 15 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 21st, 1805 by A. Beugo, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden
Title from item., Twenty lines of patriotic verse surround the upper portion of design: Hear me my gallant friends, and whilst I tell how your combining foes by thousands fell..., Plate numbered '414' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 12th December, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
