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1. "All among the Hottentots capering ashore"!!, or, The blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope (ie) to be half roasted by the sun & devoured by the natives!! Recommendd. to the serious consideration of all thos [sic] who are about to emigrate / [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [7 September 1819]
Call Number:: 819.09.07.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A grotesque caricature attacking the much-debated 1820 settlement scheme which encouraged English people to settle in South Africa, where they were promised fertile land and a pleasant climate. In the print, a working-class English family are shown being attacked by a snake, lion and crocodile while highly stereotyped and racist depictions of the local population are seen cannibalizing the family and burning down their home
Alternative Title:: Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Forlorn Hope
Description:: Title etched below image. The word "Forlorn" in title is scored through and the word "Good" has been inserted above the line with a caret, forming the correct place name "Cape of Good Hope"., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered twice in upper margin; "No. 2" is centered, and "366" is in the upper right corner., For a companion print entitled "A strong proof of the flourishing state of the country, exemplefied in the proposed emigration to the Cape of Good Hope! ...", see no. 13267 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:: Pubd. Septr. 7, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):: South Africa
Subject (Topic):: Emigration and immigration, Emigration & immigration, Indigenous peoples, Ethnic stereotypes, Cannibalism, Snakes, Lions, Crocodiles, and Fires
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > "All among the Hottentots capering ashore"!!, or, The blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope (ie) to be half roasted by the sun & devoured by the natives!! Recommendd. to the serious consideration of all thos [sic] who are about to emigrate / [graphic]

2. A mushroom for the Royal Society!, or, A view of a fungus lately grown on their own banks [graphic].

Published / Created:: March 1819.
Call Number:: 819.03.00.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A giant mushroom reaches the upper margin of the design; in its summit a cask is embedded. The butler stands on a ladder (left) holding out the spigot, and saying to Banks who stands below (right): "here's a pretty "Tale of a tub, all the Wine's gone!!" Sir Joseph stands in back view, capering delightedly; he holds up both arms, a stick in the left hand, and says with head thrown back: "It is a most Glorious discovery cut it down & send it to the Museum had the Wine been Bottled, it wod not have been half so Interesting." Against the wall of the cellar are wine-bins, stacked with bottles, four inscribed respectively 'Curious Tinta'; 'Cypress'; 'Very Curious'; 'Wine drank by the Grt Mogul'. Flasks on the top of the bins are 'Nile Water' and 'Water from Tombuctoo'. On the ground (left) is a two-handled covered vase: 'A small portion of the Sabine left by Horace at his death contained in this Vase preserved for dinners of the R S.'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Below the title: '--Dedicated to the worthy President--Sir Joseph Banks having a Cask of Wine rather too sweet for use, he directed that it shod be placed in a Cellar that the Saccharine matter it contain'd might be more perfectly decomposed by age--At the end of three years he directed his Butler to ascertain the state of the Wine, when on attempting to open the Cellar door he was prevented by some powerful obstacle--the Door was therefore cut down & the Cellar was found to be completely fill'd with a firm fungus vegetable production--the Cask was Empty & carried up to the deling where it was supported by the surface of the Fungus.--(vide Monthly Magazine).'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: View of a fungus lately grown on their own banks
Description:: Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
Publisher:: Pub. by J. Sidebotham, 287 Strand & sold also at No. 20 Princes St.
Subject (Name):: Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820,
Subject (Topic):: Mushrooms, Barrels, Ladders, Butlers, Staffs (Sticks), Bottles, and Vases
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A mushroom for the Royal Society!, or, A view of a fungus lately grown on their own banks [graphic].

3. A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [4 February 1819]
Call Number:: 819.02.04.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:: More legitimates
Description:: Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):: Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):: Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):: Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates [graphic]

4. Blockheads [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately late August-December 1819]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Folding frontispiece to "A Political Lecture on Heads, alias Blockheads!! A Characteristic Poem: . . .Drawn from Craniological Inspection, after the Manner of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim, of Vienna. By Don Juan Asmodeus. London. Printed for the Author, and Published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill (Price One Shilling)." Ten half length caricature portraits arranged in two rows, and, except for the last two, in separate compartments, each illustrating a section of the verse-satire. The date is after Peterloo (16 August 1819), see British Museum Satires No. 13258, and before the King's death (29 Jan. 1820). [1] 'Derry-Down-Triangle', Castlereagh, with ass's ears, his head, adorned by a tiny gibbet, turned in profile to the left, holds up a scourge. On a scroll is the motto 'EIREN·GO·BRAY' (see British Museum Satires No. 13301). [2] 'State Jackal', Canning, directed to the left, holds a pistol in each hand. On his head is a triangle, bells hanging from its apex as from a fool's cap. Behind him is a package inscribed 'Lisbon 20.000 weight'. For his much-attacked mission to Lisbon see British Museum Satires No. 12872, for the duel with Castlereagh, British Museum Satires No. 11370, &c. [3] 'Quack Doctor' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849], Sidmouth, in profile to the left, holds a pike on which is speared a ball inscribed 'Circular Pills' [see British Museum Satires No. 13282, &c.]. On his head is a pestle and mortar inscribed 'Drugs for John Bull'. At his back is a large 'Bible' (like Liverpool he was an Evangelical). [4] 'Chancery Jack', the shoulders of Eldon, who scowls to the right, emerge from a 'Coal Tub' (as son of a Newcastle hoastman or coal-broker). He wears wig and gown, across his forehead is a bandage inscribed 'In Chancery'; from his mouth issues the word 'Equity'. [5] Liverpool, in profile to the left, spoons into his mouth liquid from a bowl of 'Water Gruel for the Poor' held in his left hand. On his head is a round tea-tray inscribed '£4.000'; on this are two cups and an urn inscribed 'Cordial Tea'. [6] 'Croaking-Frog--' Croker sits, pen in hand, in profile to the left; on his head is a frog. At his shoulder is a flag inscribed Dry . Rot . In . Navy' above two broken anchors. He says "Fal de Raltit," and before him is a paper: 'Talavira [sic] Algiers 2000'. He has an oddly shaped seat, resting his arm on a 'Quarterly Review', above a longer (curved) block inscribed 'Couriers'. (He was Secretary to the Admiralty, see British Museum Satires No. 12310, author of 'Talavera', a leading contributor to the 'Quarterly', and (with Arbuthnot) manager of the Press for the Ministry.) [7] 'Dunderass--' Lord Melville (First Lord of the Admiralty), in tartan, is in profile to the left, holding a pinch of snuff. Across his chest is a broad band: 'Pickings of Dad 60.000 [see British Museum Satires No. 10377, &c.] Place 10.000.' He wears a curious head-dress topped by a man-of-war surrounded by smoke. [8] 'Waterloo-Man--' Wellington, so styled by Hone, see British Museum Satires No. 13302, stands in profile to the left, wearing a cocked hat on which stands a cannon. He holds a dagger transfixing a bleeding heart; behind his back is a bundle inscribed 'Iquisition' [sic], across his chest is a placard: 'Coruption [sic] Prize . Money £60.000 Allowances £200.000 &c &c.' The text is a savage attack, e.g.: His soldiers 'sav'd the Spanish nation'; | Sav'd them--to send them to perdition | By 'Ferdinand's' crust [sic] 'Inquisition' [see British Museum Satires No. 13009] and (on Waterloo): The 'General' he'd not aught to do | But scenes of triumph to review [having lingered in Brussels]. For the campaign against pensions see British Museum Satires No. 12781, &c. [9 and 10] 'Chere-Amie', Lady Hertford in profile to the right, holds a sceptre and wears a crown-like coronet. She offers the Regent a large goblet of 'Noyau', saying, "Take another sup my Jewel. Grand-Lama--" The Regent leans back tipsily, his eyes almost closed. A little demon, holding a firebrand, flies towards him, flinging a noose at his head. See British Museum Satires No. 11853."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attribution to George and Robert Cruikshank from pencil annotation on the British Museum impression; see British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to: Asmodeus, J. A political lecture on heads, alias blockheads!! A characteristic poem ... London : J. Fairburn, [1819], Approximate month of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1111.614., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 53 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and All figures except Lady Hertford (bottom row, second from the right) identified in ink beneath their respective caricatures. Typed key to the figures (with Lady Hertford misidentified as "Caroline") pasted above print.
Publisher:: John Fairburn
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Whips, Handguns, Fools' caps, Bells, Spears, Mortars & pestles, Wigs, Bandages, Spoons, Bowls (Tableware), Tea services, Frogs, Flags, Pens, Snuff, Headdresses, Warships, Hats, Cannons, Daggers & swords, Mistresses, Scepters, Drinking vessels, Crowns, and Demons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Blockheads [graphic].

5. Edward Gibbon, Esqr. [graphic]

Creator:: Romney, John, 1786-1863, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1819]
Call Number:: 42 W67 852B
Collection Title:: Volume 4, after page 232. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Full-length portrait of English historian Edward Gibbon in right profile
Alternative Title:: E. Gibbon
Description:: Title etched at bottom of plate., Facsimile of Gibbon's signature etched above title., Plate from: Dyer, C. Biographical sketches of the lives and characters of illustrious and eminent men. London : C.G. Dyer and H. Setchel and Son, 1819., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in The Morgan Library & Museum, accession no.: MA 10252., Window mounted to 22 x 14 cm., and Bound in after page 232 in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Williams, R.F. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries. London : Colburn & Co., 1852.
Publisher:: Pubd. by C. Dyer, Compton Street
Subject (Name):: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794, and Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Edward Gibbon, Esqr. [graphic]

6. Giant Grumbo & the black dwarf, or, Lord G- & the printers devil [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:: July 24th, 1819.
Call Number:: 819.07.24.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lord Grantham, in military uniform, wielding the club of Hercules, inscribed 'L G his cane', stands with legs astride, threatening Wooler (left), a tiny 'Black Dwarf, as in British Museum Satires No. 12892, who registers extreme rage or terror. Grantham has enormous moustaches, which fly upwards on each side of his head. A lion's skin hangs from his shoulders, with a solid head which snarls savagely. He wears a bell-shaped shako, long tight trousers strapped under boots, and immense spurs. His left arm, terminating in a huge fist, is extended horizontally. On the left a knock-kneed yokel with bristling moustaches and wearing the cap of a Death's Head hussar, grins in oafish delight, saying, "Well done Col.! well done our side!!! my Zoul! what Honnor this will bring upon our Corpse!!! and if any more Dwarfs or Devils attack's our Regemunt Lord Grant'them all the zame fate, I zay!!" Wooler stands among piles of his paper, 'Black Dwarf', some of which have various inscriptions: 'Strictures on the York Hussars'; 'York you are not wanted'; 'The Devil to Pay'; 'a Lame Story to the Yellow Bonze at Japan'; 'universal Suffrage'; and (adapting 'As You Like It'), 'Then a Soldier, full of Strong Oaths & bearded like the Pard Jealous in Honor Sudden & quick in quarrel seeking the bubble Reputation Ev'n in the printing office'. He wears an ink-pot for hat, with three large pen-feathers; at his waist is a tricolour cockade. On the wall behind him is a framed picture of 'The Yellow Bonze', a grotesque imp, squatting with outspread fingers, and registering surprise. Below is a broadside headed by figures hanging from a gallows."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Lord G- & the printers devil, Lord Grantham & the printers devil, Lord Grantham and the printers devil, and Giant Grumbo and the black dwarf
Description:: Title etched below image., "Lord Grantham" written in ink by a contemporary hand., and Mounted to: 22 x 26.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859 and Wooler, T. J. 1786?-1853 (Thomas Jonathan),
Subject (Topic):: Military uniforms, Clubs (Weapons), Dwarfs, Hides & skins, and Ethnic stereotypes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Giant Grumbo & the black dwarf, or, Lord G- & the printers devil [graphic]

7. His Most Excellent Majesty George the Fourth, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. &c. &c. &c. [graphic]

Creator:: Skelton, William, 1763-1848, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:: [4 March 1819]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of George IV, half-length, slightly turned to the left, in gold-laced military uniform buttoned to the neck, an aiguillette and lace epaulette on his shoulder, a riband across his chest and the Order of the Golden Fleece on a ribbon about his neck, the stars of other orders pinned to his breast, the whole surrounded by a rectangular frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: His Most Excellent Majesty George IV
Description:: Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower left margin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 480 (leaf numbered '85' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:: Published March 4th, 1819, by W. Skelton, 1 Stafford Place, Pimlico
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):: Kings and rulers and Kings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > His Most Excellent Majesty George the Fourth, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. &c. &c. &c. [graphic]

8. Lord Cochrane from an original picture by W. Walton in possession of his Lordship / [graphic]

Creator:: Cooper, Robert, active 1795-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 February 1819]
Call Number:: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Portrait of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, three-quarter length, standing slightly to right, his right hand on his hip, holding hat and walking stick in his left hand; wearing braded coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; curtain and column behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 626 (leaf numbered '66' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:: Published February 1st, 1819, by T. & H. Rodd, 17, Little Newport St., Leicester Sq.
Subject (Name):: Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860,
Subject (Topic):: Military officers and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Cochrane from an original picture by W. Walton in possession of his Lordship / [graphic]

9. Nine tailors making a man!, or, Foreign habits for a native prince! [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately May] 1819.
Call Number:: 819.05.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Regent, with one gouty foot, postures before a pier-glass which reflects his tight waist and spherical posteriors. His wig and whiskers are much exaggerated. All round him nine grotesque German tailors are at work or register admiration of the Prince; most of them are lean and moustached. Some sit cross-legged on the floor; one cuts from a roll of cloth assisted by a man with a yard-stick who says: "D--n de English Taylor, he not know how to handle de yard like de foreigner!" One irons a braided hussar jacket. On the floor: 'A List of Foreign Tailors recommended by Prince Esther Crazy to work for the R--t!' Nearer the Regent is 'A Goose!' with the adjacent inscription: '"To waste your time before a Glass / Exposes oft a monstrous Ass!' The Regent recites: "I begin to think that I'm a marvellous proper Man! "I'll have my Chambers hung with looking Glass And entertain a score or two of Tailors To study fashions to adorn my Body--""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Foreign habits for a native prince!
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., and Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Sidebethem [sic], 287 Strand
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):: Gout, Mirrors, Buttocks, Tailoring, and Irons (Pressing)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Nine tailors making a man!, or, Foreign habits for a native prince! [graphic]