Title below image., Imprint mostly burnished from plate. Printing date from watermark., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Pipe -- Tankard., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 4th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: Alass how changed, no equipage attends, behind with grateful cup no menial bends ..., Text preceding printmaker's signature has been burnished from plate., Later state with new imprint. For earlier state published ca. 1790 by R. Pollard, see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7815., Companion print to: The heir disinherited., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
"France, a savage virago, dandles a tiny Napoleon seated on her right. hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: "There's a little King Pippin "He shall have a Rattle & Crown, Bless thy five Wits my Baby "Mind it dont throw itself down! Hey my Kitten, my kitten &c &c. Below the design is a note: '"False of Heart, light of Ear, bloody of Hand, "Fox in Stealth, Wolf in Greediness, Dog in Madness, "Lion in Prey: - bless thy Five Wits" - vide Shakespeares King Lear' Beside her (l.) is the plain wicker cradle from which she has snatched Napoleon, who points eagerly at the crown on the rattle, holding up a sceptre. She wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, a loose dress defining her figure, and sits in a small armchair, decorated with little decollated heads and a guillotine. Hand, dress, and the heads on the chair are blood-stained. Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield; this is tricolour; on it is the bleeding head of Louis XVI above a reversed crown, with the inscriptions: 'Vive la Republique' and 'The Last of Kings'. Pose, shield, and spear suggest a comparison (and contrast) with Britannia."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 26, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Title from caption below image., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: From chaise and four decends [sic] th' expectant heir, and next his mother lo' usurps a chair ..., Text preceding printmaker's signature has been burnished from plate., Previous imprint statement lightly etched but visible above title., Later state with new imprint. For earlier state published ca. 1790 by R. Pollard, see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7814., Companion print to: The disinherited heir., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
"Three wives of tradesmen dispute their precedence on a visit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '370' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Three ladies mostly on a visit, a grocer's wife, a cheesemonger's, and a tobacconist's, who perhaps stood more upon the punctilios of precedence than some of their betters ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 22nd, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: Quill -- Sailor -- Justice -- Watch and Chain., and Printseller's identification mark in lower right corner: S·W·F.
"A bird with human face squats on the back of a cow crowing at another fallen bird."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From the series of Laurie & Whittle Drolls., Plate numbered '344' in the upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Three columns of contemporary ms. on mount. Presumably a copy of the verse that normally accompanies a Laurie & Whittle Droll.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 24, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A master advances on a maid in his wife's dressing room, who reaches to touch his chin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '341' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Twelve lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns below title: One day behind my Lady's back, my Lord attack'd her maid, and stole a kiss, which she repaid, and gave him smack, for smack ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Heading to an engraved song of four verses. The Devil, with hooves and bat's wings, flies through the air carrying a tailor who has a roll of cloth under his arm. Beneath them is a landscape (l. to r.): on a hill is a gibbet with a corpse; a man drowns in a river beside a water-mill; the cottage of 'Snip Taylor', with a woman at the door; on a hill in the background a row of weaving-sheds. Below the title: 'A much admir'd Song - Sung by Mr Chas Johnston, & proper to be sung at all Musical Clubs.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miller, weaver, and little tailor
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of descriptive text below subtitle: Scene_"The Devil flying away with the tailor, with the broad cloth under his arm., Sixteen lines of verse above imprint: In good King Arthur's days, he was a worthy king..., Plate numbered '378' in the lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Water Mill -- Devil -- Gibbet -- Song.
Publisher:
Publish'd Dec. 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
