- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 19 November 1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man and woman, fat, elderly, and grotesque, play backgammon, the surface of a round table and the backgammon board forming the base of the design. The woman (right), a harridan, frantic with rage, leans towards the man clutching his wig. Two candlesticks are overturned, the guttering candles broken. A cat miaows at the back of his mistress's chair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Hit at backgammon
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. November 19th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11637 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 193-4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 41 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Subject (Topic):
- Games and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A hitt at backgammon [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 19 November 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.11.19.01+
- Collection Title:
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man and woman, fat, elderly, and grotesque, play backgammon, the surface of a round table and the backgammon board forming the base of the design. The woman (right), a harridan, frantic with rage, leans towards the man clutching his wig. Two candlesticks are overturned, the guttering candles broken. A cat miaows at the back of his mistress's chair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Hit at backgammon
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. November 19th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11637 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 193-4., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
- Publisher:
- Thomas Tegg
- Subject (Topic):
- Games and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A hitt at backgammon [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 April 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.04.22.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Ministers and others strike at a shuttlecock above their heads inscribed 'Speakers Warrant'; among the feathers sits a little man holding a crowned staff; he says: "Curse this game I dont Like it I never experienced Such boning about in my life, I wonder when you will have done"; he is Colman the Serjeant-at-Arms. Eldon, in his Chancellor's wig and gown and holding the Purse of the Great Seal, is the centre of a close group; he says: "Dont knock it here we have not power to Strike it". Perceval, in back view, wears his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown and holds a document inscribed 'Majority'; he says: "Curse the thing I wish I had never Seen it away with it". A second judge whose head is partly visible behind Eldon is probably Ellenborough. On the right is Gibbs, holding a paper inscribed 'Attorn[ey Gen]eral'. He says: "D-n it Ill hit it as Hard as I can tho I'm almost afraid to meddle with it". There are two others in the group, one is silent, the other resembles Canning (not in the Ministry); he says: "Sure honey Right or wrong I always stick to the Strongest Side so do let me have a Slap at it". The sturdiest striker stands in back view on the left, with a paper inscribed 'Read Bow Street' projecting from his pocket; he says: "I cant Read it Die Veneris! why its Spanish to me we dont understand Them there warrants". On the extreme left stands the Speaker, Abbot, with a bat inscribed 'Double'; he says: "Dont Strike it to me again Ill have nothing more to do with it I've sent it to Bow Street". The bats used are not the usual long-handled battledores as (e.g.) in British Museum Satires No. 9716, but short-handled wooden bats. Above the design: 'NB The Feathers of the Shuttle Cock were pluked [sic] from a Sumersetshire Goose' [Lethbridge, see British Museum satires no. 11538]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- New game of shuttlecock as played by his Majesty's servants for the amusement of John Bull
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 22 Apl. 1810 by Fores, Picadilli [sic]
- Subject (Name):
- Colman, Francis John, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Abbot, Charles, Baron Colchester, 1757-1829, and Lethbridge, Thomas Buckler, 1778-1849.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Badminton, and Games
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new game of shuttle cock as played by his Majestys servants for the mausement [sic] of John Bull [graphic].