V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 333 x 223 mm., and Sheet trimmed within platemark.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
Print00209
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
From her bed with bed curtains, an ill-looking woman with an imploring look on her face from her bed reaches for her nurse who is asleep in an armchair with her back to her patient and her feet on a cushion. She is very fat and coarse looking as she sits in front of a fire. The candle stick has fallen from the table and lies unobserved smoking on the floor at her feet, the snuffer also on the floor beside a cat who grabs the food from a plate that has also fallen to the floor. The table by the nurse's elbow holds medicine bottles as well as dishware. More medicine bottles are on the mantel and at her feet. A pot warms over the fire
Alternative Title:
While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse
Description:
Title etched below image., Five lines of text below title: While confined to your bed by sickness, the humours of a hired nurse, who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort, leaves your door wide open, stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 32.3 x 23.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1807 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Bedrooms, Cats, Medicines, Nurses, Accidents, and Sick persons
