Title from item., Printmaker & imprint data from British Museum catalogue., Originally published by S.W. Fores Jany. 2d, 1804. Cf. No. 10346 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires v. 8., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Lighting -- Food Pot -- Kitchen., and Watermark.
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 38.4 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 41.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
Title from item., Plate numbered '326' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: "These are a capital pair of boots, a'n't they Dad." They seem so indeed Harry." "I got them on a new principle." "What you paid for them then I suppose." "No, no I order'd another pair to be ready for next week, & promis'd to recommend the shop ; that did the business.", and Temporary local subject terms: Boots.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany 12th, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Two columns of verse below design: By little cupids warmest passion led, when Daddy and Momma were gone bed ..., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Military Uniform: Regimental -- Male Costume: Cocked Hat -- Furniture: Bed -- Female Costume: 1804 -- Female Costume: Feathered Hat -- Male Costume: Night Shirt -- Male Costume: Night Cap -- Weapons: Blunderbuss -- Lighting: Lantern., Watermark: J Whatman., and Plate number burnished from plate.
Publisher:
Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Two columns of verse below design: By little cupids warmest passion led, when Daddy and Momma were gone bed ..., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Military Uniform: Regimental -- Male Costume: Cocked Hat -- Furniture: Bed -- Female Costume: 1804 -- Female Costume: Feathered Hat -- Male Costume: Night Shirt -- Male Costume: Night Cap -- Weapons: Blunderbuss -- Lighting: Lantern., 1 print on laid paper : etching, stipple, & roulette ; sheet 29 x 37.5 cm, Watermark: J Whatman., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '380' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: "Why you have cut your friend Jack to day?" "Yes, I dislike walking with him, the girls quiz him so, on account of his in-knees..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 24, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Sheridan (l.) sits in an arm-chair at his writing-table, pen in hand. He slouches forward, peering at a large playbill in his left hand. 'Tom Hickathrift \ and the \ Giants \ a new Growlo Drama \ with \ Wittington \ and his \ Cat \ a Pur-letta \ in which a real \ Cat and Mice \ will be Introduced \ - Due Notice will be given \ of Mr Carlo's next \ Performance.' He says: "Now I have got my head down Water I am determined to go on Swimmingly." The Newfoundland dog 'Carlo' (his massive padlocked collar so inscribed) who played in 'The Caravan', faces Sheridan holding in his mouth a basket labelled 'Raw Materials for New Subjects'; these are rolled MSS. inscribed: 'Dog-Matical Essays', 'Bark-shire Poems', 'Bones to Pick'. Fox (r.), immensely fat stands beside Carlo, in profile to the left., r. hand on the dog's head, l. in his coat-pocket. He says: "You are a very good Dog Namesake - a very good Dog indeed - I wish you would Spin me a little Money thes hard times - it would be very acceptable." Behind Sheridan are book-shelves; from a shelf inscribed 'Glass Slippers as good as New' two slippers dangle. The titles of the (bulky) books are: 'Jack the Giant Killer', 'Goody Two Shoes', 'little Red Riding Hood', 'Tom Thumb', 'Seven Champions [of Christendom]'; actually these tales were best known in penny chap-books"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preparations for next season
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"A doctor addresses a cobbler who is working in his booth on the pavement, with a woman listening to their conversation."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Grave physician and lively cobler, Grave physician & lively cobbler, and Grave physician and lively cobbler
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '347' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of text below image: Doctor "Bless me what could bring a man of science like you to mend shoes, I shou'd advise you to practice physic, it wou'd be more profitable." ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Cobblers -- Cobbler's Shops.
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Publish'd May 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Lord Moira, a candle in each hand, stands in the doorway of his house. He wears a dressing-gown in place of a coat He has opened the door to a young officer, who steps forward unsteadily raising his cocked hat. An ugly watchman (l.) in Highland dress trudges to the left. holding his staff and lantern; he is the only figure who is caricatured. The architrave is surmounted by an earl's coronet. The dignified doorway is set in a wall of heavy stones and flanked by two windows high above the cobbled street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Fifteen lines of verse in two columns below title: When loud the watchman cry'd the hour and call'd 'till he was hoarse ... Parody upon [the] Red Cross Knight., Temporary local subject terms: Cocked Hat -- Highland Dress -- Lantern -- Watchman -- Door knocker., and Mounted to 45 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 9th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"Lord Moira, a candle in each hand, stands in the doorway of his house. He wears a dressing-gown in place of a coat He has opened the door to a young officer, who steps forward unsteadily raising his cocked hat. An ugly watchman (l.) in Highland dress trudges to the left. holding his staff and lantern; he is the only figure who is caricatured. The architrave is surmounted by an earl's coronet. The dignified doorway is set in a wall of heavy stones and flanked by two windows high above the cobbled street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Fifteen lines of verse in two columns below title: When loud the watchman cry'd the hour and call'd 'till he was hoarse ... Parody upon [the] Red Cross Knight., Temporary local subject terms: Cocked Hat -- Highland Dress -- Lantern -- Watchman -- Door knocker., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 37.5 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 41.5 x 29.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 9th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Title etched below image., 'Argus' is a pseudonym for printmaker and artist Charles Williams., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers., and Watermark: Ansell 1829.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Twelve paired lines of verse, each preceded by the name of a month: January -the first the knot was ty'd which prov'd I thought a happy day..., Plate numbered '373' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The Prince of Wales and McMahon ride side by side (r. to left.) past Carlton House, followed by a groom. The Prince, stout and dignified, sits very upright on a high-stepping horse. McMahon s much smaller mount canters; he rides (on the Prince's l.) with leg thrust forward like Bunbury's examples of mounted vulgarians, see BMSats 7233, 7235, 7242. Behind them runs a ragged little boy in top-hat and tattered tail-coat, apparently assuming the part of a running footman. A detailed representation of part of the screen and façade of Carlton House forms the background; half the gate appears on the extreme left.; beside it is a sentry-bos with a sentry at attention. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched at top of image., Nine lines of quoted verse in two columns below image: "Yet aft a ragged Cowte's been know "to make a noble Aiver ..., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 25th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Modern ms. annotations on mount identify several figures in the print; mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 26th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Lord Petersham sits erect on his horse in profile to the right, a large cocked hat in his right hand, the arm, in a long wrinkled sleeve dropped by his side. A family likeness to his father is stressed by the similarity of pose, see British Museum Satires No. 10294. His shoulders are oddly drawn, his waist pinched."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Noble aide-de-camp
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Leaf 68 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Lord Petersham" in pencil in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Dighton Junr., Charing Cross
Subject (Name):
Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1780-1851
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Dandies, Horses, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Lord Harrington, in uniform, slim and upright, sits his horse in profile to the right. A cane dangles from his right wrist. He has a leopard's skin saddle-cloth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Leaf 67 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Earl of Harrington" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: "We medical gentlemen affirm, nor can it be contradicted Madam, that all bitters are hot or heating"____"Indeed sir! well, I never knew that before : But pray Doctor what do you think of bitter cold weather"____"There indeed Ma'am I'm rather at a loss, I must study that.", Plate numbered '325' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Furniture: curtains -- Musical instruments: Piano -- Music books -- Furniture: chairs -- Alussion to medicine bitters -- Male costume: Hessians -- Expressions of speech: Repartee.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12th, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Napoleon, pushing an officer before him through a pillared doorway, looks back to speak to a monk and a sansculotte, shackled together, who drag a car in which is an imperial crown. They hold a large scroll inscribed: 'Most religious Sovereign - the benefactor of the church - the patron of liberty - the scourge of tyrants, and the defender of our most holy religion; may you long fill the Imperial Chair, and diffuse over a free and happy people all the blessings of your auspicious government.' Demons fly round a tricolour flag which floats from the car. Napoleon holds out a scroll headed: 'Address, &c. &c. &c. The Legions of France congratu - ', saying, "This token of your gratitude, my dear subjects will ever stimulate me to protect your liberties - to promote your happiness - and to preserve my empire from the ravages of war, tyranny and oppression." The officer, with a cynical smile, says: "Patron of Liberty - Defender of our most holy Religion - free and happy People - Ha! ha! ha! - What may we not expect? - Has he not got them under excellent subjection?" On the left is Napoleon's 'Secret Chamber': a table is covered with maps and plans; a large map, partly unrolled, shows Europe from '[En]gland to [Tur]key', including the 'Black Sea'; another map shows 'Suez' and the 'Red Sea'. A demon under the table holds up a large pile of papers: 'Plans against England'; on the floor are similar piles: 'Religion' and 'Treaties'. There are also 'Plans against Germany and Turkey', and a paper: 'Mem. the chance of the conquest of England is worth the sacrifice of one third of the people of France. Item. As Charlemaine not only conquered Italy, but the whole of Germany, and left the Imperial dignity hereditary in the Sovereigns of France, it is indispensably necessary to obtain possession of Germany, in order to support the dignity of the Gallic empire.' On the wall are three pictures: 'Sacking of Rome', 'Dissolution of the National Assembly' [see British Museum Satires No. 9426, &c], and 'View of Cairo' [see British Museum Satires No. 9358, &c.]. Below the design: 'Explanation. The two figures bringing the Imperial crown . . . represent . . . the bitter Enemies of Aristocracy, and the staunch Supporters of the late Monarchial Government, tackled to the National Machine, and reduced to the most abject State of Slavery by the Influence of the Military, whose congratulatory Address Bonaparte has received at the Hand of an Officer, and is introducing him into his Secret Chamber to receive Instructions. The Demons hovering over the Imperial Crown denote Five Years of Destruction; during which Period Bonaparte will overrun and ravage the greater Part of the Continent of Europe, be the Means of nearly depopulating Turkey, and finally be slain with the Sword, be cast out as an abominable Branch, and be left as Dung to rot on the Face of the Earth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress above image., Text above imprint statement: For particulars respecting the ingress, progress and regress of the Gallic Empire, as represented in prophecy, see the publications entitled "The Prophetic Mirror," and "The Emperor of the Gauls," by L. Mayer; to be had at Parson's Library, Ludgate-Hill; and T. Williams, Stationers'-Court., Print was apparently sold separately, but also used as a folding plate in: Mayer, L. The prophetic mirror, or, A hint to England. London : Printed by C. Stower and sold by T. Williams, 1804., and "Price 1s. coloured."--Following imprint.
Publisher:
Published by L. Mayer, as the act directs and Bryer, printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, French, Monks, Flags, Ethnic stereotypes, Shackles, Crowns, Columns, Demons, and Maps
Title etched below image., Top margin of print contains the text 'Characters on board' followed by a list of ten names., Two columns of verse below design: So we made t'other tack and lay gunnel to, which soon gave a damp to our joy ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 2, 1804 by John Fairburn, 146 Minories
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Initial portion of printseller's line barely decipherable.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Sold at 168 Aldergate Street & by J.M. Flindall book and printseller, 51 Lower Marsh, Lambeth Surry
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: invalid -- Medical Disease: sleeping sickness -- Furniture: sofa., and Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: "Upon my word Mr. Love-ease, this will never do, here you are enjoying your bottle & nap all the afternoon, while I am fagging every where, I have been these 3 hours with the shop full of customers, & don't know which way to turn."____"I am glad of it friend Dowlas, you know I engaged as a sleeping partner.", Plate numbered '332' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Yawns.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of caption below title: Pray friend did you ever shave a monkey? N-n-no Sir, but -if -if you will -s-s-sit down I'll -t-t-try., Plate numbered '368' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man (l.), pen in hand, crouches in a ranting attitude, addressing an elderly man in old-fashioned dress, who gapes at him in dismay. On the r. a burly maidservant holds a pail of water, prepared to fling its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from the extreme right. The room contains a sloping desk, stool, shelves with papers, large volumes, and a box inscribed '9 to 12'. On the wall is a large calendar: 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Below the design: 'Dramatic Phrensy, to no place confind At freedom roves, and occupies the Mind, The Lawyers Clerk, Old Square-toes will to cross, Who spouts Lothario when he should engross All on a sudden from his writing stoops, My fierce ambitious soul declining droops His simple Master by - cries "whats the matter? Tom's in a fit here - Betty bring some water!' (Tom quotes the dying Lothario in Rowe's 'Fair Penitent', iv. I.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., No. 5 of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Ink well -- Lawyer -- Calendar., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
"scene in a coffee-house or tavern, the tables (l.) separated by the high backs of benches topped by short curtains, leaving a wide floor-space (r.). A young man, fashionably dressed, postures as if terror-struck before two astonished waiters (r.); a broken decanter and spilt wine lie at his feet; the foremost waiter points to the mess. The second waiter holds a punch-bowl. A man seated at the nearest table watches in quizzical amusement. An ornate wall-mirror reflects a lighted candelabra. Below the design:'Like dire Macbeth, - with sudden glare and start, Young Vapid studious o'er the Tyrants part, Like a stuck pig he stares - and trembling stands, Down falls the glass and bottle from his hands, Th' affrighted Waiter saw his tackle broke, While thus his attitude - and thus he spoke "Thou canst not say I did it bloody Banquo? Yes cried the Waiter "by my soul I can though.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue, Number 2 in a series of six plates: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Like dire Macbeth, -with sudden glare and start, young vapid studious o'er the tyrants part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Punch Bowl -- Candelabra., and Watermark: Russel & Co. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A handsome advocate in wig and gown addresses a vast but comely lady who stands full face. They are on a broad pavement outside (?) the Session House, before which marches a sentry. On the left. is an equestrian statue. A brief-bag hangs from his arm; from her wrist dangles a tiny sunshade. Below the title: 'A Celebrated Scotch advocate happening some Years ago to meet Lady W------ [? Wallace, see 'D.N.B.' and BMSat 7405] complimented her Ladyship on looking so well "Lord!" said she "I am as fat as a Whale!" - "I wish I were Jonah."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A tender salute and pleasant reply
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: A celebrated Scotch advocate happening some years ago to meet Lady W- at a public place in Edinburgh complimented her Ladyship on looking so well. "Lord!" said she "I am as fat as a whale!" -"I wish I were Jonah"., Plate numbered '360' in the lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Sunshade -- Advocate -- Sentry -- Session House.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 25, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A fat, ugly woman, seated full face on a commode, in the form of a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., and Possibly a reissue of a plate published by Samuel Howitt in 1801. See British Museum online catalogue.
"Illustration to a song engraved in three columns below the title: A scene on the shore, with a frigate in the offing. A grotesque naval officer, with wooden leg and black patch over one eye, takes the wrist of a young sailor of feminine appearance who holds a pistol. In the background (right) a dead sailor lies across the body of a woman. The song relates that Billy Taylor was taken by a press-gang; his sweetheart dressed as a sailor to follow him, but discovered his inconstancy with 'a lady gay', and shot him With his fair one in his hand. The last verse:'When the Captain com'd for to hear on't He werry much applauded her for what she'd done, And quickly he made her the first Lieutenant, Of the Gallant - Thunder Bomb.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
True and lamentable ballad call'd Billy Taylor
Description:
Title below image, at head of verses., Plate numbered '367' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of text above design: (Sung by Mr. Bannister, of Drury Lane Theathre, Mr. Fawcett, and Mr. Emery, of Covent Garden. &c &c &c.), and Ten numbered stanzas of verse below title: Billy Taylor was a gay young fellow, full of mirth and full of glee, and his heart he did diskiver, to a lady gay and free ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 24, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eye patches, Homicides, Military officers, British, Peg legs, Sailors, Sailing ships, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below design: School Mistress__"Milk a bear, child spell that again."____Child__"These three chil-dren mil-cah bore." School Mistress__"Aye, Aye, Aye, they might milk a boar__go on.", Plate numbered '327' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: School --Kettle -- Eye Glasses -- Birch Rod -- Interior Cottage -- Education: Day School.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12th, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The title is spaced to indicate the persons depicted. In a room in Carlton House the 'Greeks', or Foxites, superintend the obeisance of the Persians' or Grenvilles before the 'rising Sun' of the Prince of Wales. On the extreme left stands Thurlow ('Achitophel'), turning his back on the others with a morose frown. He is bearded, and wears old-fashioned dress with a tie-wig. In his pocket is a paper: 'Secret Advice to his R H No Respecter of Persons to invite Tag Rag & Bobtail to dine'. Next (left to right) stand Foxites: Norfolk, Windham, Fox (with a satisfied smile), and Sheridan who touches the shoulder of the kneeling Lord Grenville, saying, "lower my Lord". Next Grenville is the spectacled Marquis of Buckingham kneeling very low, and pressing down his son, Temple, who kneels immediately in front of the two brothers. Four others, all in back view (as are all the 'Persians' except Buckingham), and all with identical bag-wigs, kneel before the rays of a large sun. These rays are surmounted by the Prince's feathers and strike a solid mass of cloud above which are the (obscured) Royal Arms, supported on a motto: 'Auspicium [meli]oris Ævi'. The Unicorn looks down at the 'Greeks' with pained surprise, the Lion frowns with melancholy anger at the 'Persians'; one says "God save the King", the other "Long live the King". Through a large sash window (left) is seen the screen of Carlton House, and beyond it a railing with the notice: 'Ruspini Dentist to his Royal [Hi]ghness the Prince of Wales.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 29.5 x 37.2 cm, on sheet 30.8 x 39.9 cm., Mounted on leaf 86 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Watermark, trimmed: J. Whatman 1811[?].
Publisher:
Publd. 11th July 1804 by H. Humphrey, St. James's
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Carlton House (London, England),
"The title is spaced to indicate the persons depicted. In a room in Carlton House the 'Greeks', or Foxites, superintend the obeisance of the Persians' or Grenvilles before the 'rising Sun' of the Prince of Wales. On the extreme left stands Thurlow ('Achitophel'), turning his back on the others with a morose frown. He is bearded, and wears old-fashioned dress with a tie-wig. In his pocket is a paper: 'Secret Advice to his R H No Respecter of Persons to invite Tag Rag & Bobtail to dine'. Next (left to right) stand Foxites: Norfolk, Windham, Fox (with a satisfied smile), and Sheridan who touches the shoulder of the kneeling Lord Grenville, saying, "lower my Lord". Next Grenville is the spectacled Marquis of Buckingham kneeling very low, and pressing down his son, Temple, who kneels immediately in front of the two brothers. Four others, all in back view (as are all the 'Persians' except Buckingham), and all with identical bag-wigs, kneel before the rays of a large sun. These rays are surmounted by the Prince's feathers and strike a solid mass of cloud above which are the (obscured) Royal Arms, supported on a motto: 'Auspicium [meli]oris Ævi'. The Unicorn looks down at the 'Greeks' with pained surprise, the Lion frowns with melancholy anger at the 'Persians'; one says "God save the King", the other "Long live the King". Through a large sash window (left) is seen the screen of Carlton House, and beyond it a railing with the notice: 'Ruspini Dentist to his Royal [Hi]ghness the Prince of Wales.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th July 1804 by H. Humphrey, St. James's
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Carlton House (London, England),
"The title is spaced to indicate the persons depicted. In a room in Carlton House the 'Greeks', or Foxites, superintend the obeisance of the Persians' or Grenvilles before the 'rising Sun' of the Prince of Wales. On the extreme left stands Thurlow ('Achitophel'), turning his back on the others with a morose frown. He is bearded, and wears old-fashioned dress with a tie-wig. In his pocket is a paper: 'Secret Advice to his R H No Respecter of Persons to invite Tag Rag & Bobtail to dine'. Next (left to right) stand Foxites: Norfolk, Windham, Fox (with a satisfied smile), and Sheridan who touches the shoulder of the kneeling Lord Grenville, saying, "lower my Lord". Next Grenville is the spectacled Marquis of Buckingham kneeling very low, and pressing down his son, Temple, who kneels immediately in front of the two brothers. Four others, all in back view (as are all the 'Persians' except Buckingham), and all with identical bag-wigs, kneel before the rays of a large sun. These rays are surmounted by the Prince's feathers and strike a solid mass of cloud above which are the (obscured) Royal Arms, supported on a motto: 'Auspicium [meli]oris Ævi'. The Unicorn looks down at the 'Greeks' with pained surprise, the Lion frowns with melancholy anger at the 'Persians'; one says "God save the King", the other "Long live the King". Through a large sash window (left) is seen the screen of Carlton House, and beyond it a railing with the notice: 'Ruspini Dentist to his Royal [Hi]ghness the Prince of Wales.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 103.
Publisher:
Publd. 11th July 1804 by H. Humphrey, St. James's
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Carlton House (London, England),
"A very obese man stands in profile to the right, his hands behind him with a meditative expression. He wears old-fashioned dress, with round, broad-brimmed hat, and buckled shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 29 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '371' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of an alleged citation below title: A copy of a curious advertisement taken from the Clonmell Journal. Run away last night, my wife, Bridget Coole. She is a tight neat body, and has lost one leg ... Aug. 17, Phelm Coole, his X mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 5, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '379' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: Officer "Well Patrick what have you been about?"..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A stout man in riding-dress, followed by a groom (r.) carrying luggage, enters a hall and is greeted by a lady with gestures of amazement. She wears loose draperies and loose tresses of hair. Behind her (l.) a young woman holds an end of her mistress's dress, and puts a handkerchief to her eye. 'Sir John' Agisters distressed astonishment. Below the design: 'Honest Sr John from Shropshire just return'd - To meet his Wife, his anxious bosom burn'd When Lo, she came in Virgin white array'd And like stage Heroines follow'd by a Maid Sweetly she spouted forth each studied word, Illusive shade of my beloved Lord - Patient Sir John attended to the whole, Then shook his head - and cried "Alas poor Soul!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Honest Sr. John from Shropshire just return'd__to meet his wife, his anxious bosom burn'd ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Shropshire.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"Plate 1: One of a set, BMSats 10324-9, all with the same imprint. ['Corner of Sackville St' omitted in BMSats 10326, 10327, 10329.] A fat virago leans across the table, seizing the neck-cloth of her still fatter husband and shrieking in his face. The 'cit' gapes in apoplectic astonishment, still holding knife and fork on which food is speared; the edge of the table-cloth is tucked down his neck. His wig falls off. On the table is a bird; bread-basket and (broken) pitcher lie on the floor, salad-bowl and large cruet are falling. A dog barks. A terrified footman seizes his mistress's shoulders; his are grasped by a rough-looking maidservant. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printmaker and plate number from British Museum catalogue., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Poor Griskins wife, dramatic mad no doubt, of Zaras woes, incessantly would spout..., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Title from item., Printmaker and plate number from British Museum online catalogue., Sixth of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Two columns of verse below design: Hot with the Tuscan grape and high in blood, No mopeing cares, a misrthfull band withstood..., and Temporary local subject terms: Lantern -- Street Light.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Plate numbered '343' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption text below design: Female visitor. "Pray Mrs. Parmesan what do you keep this nasty raven about the house for?"____"Why my dear, it's a very fine young bird, and my old philosopher here says that ravens live 100 years, so we keep Ralpho, to try the experiment.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sitting room -- Hearth -- Couples -- Ravens -- Umbrellas -- Rainbow -- Picture amplifies subject.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 16, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Three symmetrically prancing lions (left) and Napoleon (right) as 'The Beast' face each other across a narrow channel. In the background (left) John Bull, an obese citizen, sits surrounded by casks and bales (one marked 'I' or 'L M') under the Tree of the 'Constitution'. This has three branches: in the uppermost is a royal crown, the others (presumably) represent the Lords and Commons, ... Behind him are symbols of industry: men reaping, a bee-hive, a thatched farm-house. Above the tree flies an angel with a flaming sword ... Napoleon's head is scarcely caricatured, but has two horns - on one is poised an imperial crown, on the other the Papal tiara. In his dragon's claws he holds up a dagger and three short chains (for the lions); he is branded '666', and his tail is triply barbed. He has webbed wings, scaly shoulders, and a tiger-like body. Under his feet are broken fragments of crowns, sceptres, and crosiers. ... In the background (right) two demons fly above a breaking staff surmounted with the cap of liberty; at its feet lies a man in chains. A firing squad aims at women and children; buildings are in flames. The (printed) 'Explanation: 'JOHN BULL is sitting under his favourite Oak, supported by Commerce and Industry reaping the Fruits of his Labors, and protected by the power of God, whilst France is enslaved under their Tree of Liberty, which is falling to the Ground - the Honors and Independence of Nations are broken and trampled underfoot, and all the Horrors of War are extending their Ravages with unremitting fury. - Bonaparte is considered as the Dragon, the Beast, and the false Prophet, Rev. xvi. 13, xiii. II, and following verses, xix. 20 - and also as Gog, Ezek. xxxviii. and xxxix. - His brutal and ferocious Dispositions are represented by the Body and Feet of a Tyger; his inordinate Desires, by the Chest, Wings, and Claws of a Dragon, holding out Death or Slavery; his Head with two Horns represents his civil and ecclesiastical Authority; and is intended to point out, that though a Dragon and a Tyger have been the most dreadful and destructive of all real and imaginary Creatures, yet even their horrid Natures are surpassed by the sanguinary and rapacious Dispositions of that implacable Tyrant. - The THREE LIONS represent the united Naval, Regular and Volunteer Force of England, Scotland, and Ireland, watching the Monster's Motions, and springing forth eager to meet him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., "Price 1s. coloured, --6d. uncoloured"--Following imprint., and Illustration to a pamphlet.
Publisher:
Printed by C. Stower, Charles Street, Hatton Garden, for the "Prophetic mirror, or A hint to England" by L. Mayer and Sold by Parsons and Son, Ludgate Hill; Vidler, 349 Strand; and Marsom, 187 High Holborn; Major, Duke Street, West Smithfield; and Fairburn, 146 Monories
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), National emblems, and British
"A procession from the open door of an inn (r.) towards the room destined for the traveller, a fat, ugly, elderly woman with a twisted, appraising profile, holding up a fan in her right. hand, from the little finger of which dangles a parasol; tucked under her left. arm is a lap-dog. She wears a riding habit; over her straw hat is a hood or scarf. After her shambles a lean elderly man, much caricatured, carrying an embroidery frame, bag, and box. Behind him is a man holding up a caged bird, to which he whistles grotesquely, while a cat ensconced in an alcove grabs at the cage. An immensely fat woman, holding a 'Bill of Fare', stands against the wall, watching the visitor. The fat host (l.), napkin in hand, ushers her towards the room, with pointing thumb; it is called 'the Ram', the adjacent door is placarded 'the Union'. Bell-wire meanders over the wall connected with bells belonging to the two rooms; both are jangling. Through the door is seen the sign of the inn: a cock on a pair of breeches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Mounted on leaf 26 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
Title from item., Plate numbered 364 in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Seven lines of descriptive text arranged between two columns below title: Two Bond Street loungers discoursing in Picadilly, one of them said, he wish'd much to go into the country, upon which the other made the following observation ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Hessian Boots -- Spatter Dashes -- Book Shop -- Bond Street.
Publisher:
Published 20th Augt., 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Four French soldiers with hot pincers torturing "Madame Toussaint" by burning her flesh and pulling out her fingernails; Napoleon gloats on a throne to the right
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attribution from George, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 25th 1804 by by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. and Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
"The patient sits on a stool, averting his head from the surgeon who supports his left arm, from which the blood spurts into a bowl. The operator wears spurred top-boots, and has a bucolic appearance suggesting a veterinary surgeon. The patient wears a nightcap and buttoned waistcoat over his shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Veterinary surgeons -- Bleeding -- Top boots., and 1 print : etching with engraving, hand-colored ; plate mark 261 x 200 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The patient sits on a stool, averting his head from the surgeon who supports his left arm, from which the blood spurts into a bowl. The operator wears spurred top-boots, and has a bucolic appearance suggesting a veterinary surgeon. The patient wears a nightcap and buttoned waistcoat over his shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., and Temporary local subject terms: Veterinary surgeons -- Bleeding -- Top boots.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The patient sits on a stool, averting his head from the surgeon who supports his left arm, from which the blood spurts into a bowl. The operator wears spurred top-boots, and has a bucolic appearance suggesting a veterinary surgeon. The patient wears a nightcap and buttoned waistcoat over his shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Veterinary surgeons -- Bleeding -- Top boots., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.3 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 30.8 x 23.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The patient, buttoned up in a coat, sits full face in a water-closet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 20.1 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The patient, buttoned up in a coat, sits full face in a water-closet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives., Watermark: Edmeads & Co. 1809., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The convalescent sits full face behind a small dinner-table. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction, and is about to carve a bird. He wears his nightcap. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, smiling broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Footman in Livery -- Table Settings -- Food: Fowl -- Convalescents -- Medical Procedures -- Dishes: Gravy Boat., and 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple ; 265 x 204 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The convalescent sits full face behind a small dinner-table. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction, and is about to carve a bird. He wears his nightcap. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, smiling broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., and Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Footman in Livery -- Table Settings -- Food: Fowl -- Convalescents -- Medical Procedures -- Dishes: Gravy Boat.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"The convalescent sits full face behind a small dinner-table. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction, and is about to carve a bird. He wears his nightcap. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, smiling broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Footman in Livery -- Table Settings -- Food: Fowl -- Convalescents -- Medical Procedures -- Dishes: Gravy Boat., 1 print : etching with engraving & stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.9 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 23.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, London
"A violent disturbance in a luxuriously furnished breakfast parlour. The only lady present has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull. The frantic efforts of five elderly men to stop her have produced a sequence of disasters. An urn overturns and pours boiling water on a fat man who puts a large lump of food speared on his fork into his eye. A man behind him, rushing to seize the bell-rope, spears the former's wig with his knife. Crockery cascades to the floor, the contents of a tea-pot falling on a dog, who bites the knee of a man in regimentals; he leans forward, planting his toe on the gouty foot of a man behind. The latter, about to fall, grasps the officer's pigtail, flourishing a knife, his mouth choked with food. A fifth man stands behind the table with raised hands and shrugged shoulders. The fare is boiled eggs, bread, and muffins. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of a fat Cupid firing his bow; his quiver is reversed, and one leg is transfixed with an arrow. The walls of the room are ornamented by gilt pilasters in the shape of palm-trees (as in BMSat 10472). Between them are empty candle-sconces decorated with palm-branches. The men appear to be the suitors of a rich widow. Cf. BMSat 9822."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Temporary local subject terms: Fireplace -- Sconces -- Cupid -- Eggs: Boiled -- Breakfast -- Urn -- Bell Pull -- Carpet., and Watermark: 1832.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A violent disturbance in a luxuriously furnished breakfast parlour. The only lady present has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull. The frantic efforts of five elderly men to stop her have produced a sequence of disasters. An urn overturns and pours boiling water on a fat man who puts a large lump of food speared on his fork into his eye. A man behind him, rushing to seize the bell-rope, spears the former's wig with his knife. Crockery cascades to the floor, the contents of a tea-pot falling on a dog, who bites the knee of a man in regimentals; he leans forward, planting his toe on the gouty foot of a man behind. The latter, about to fall, grasps the officer's pigtail, flourishing a knife, his mouth choked with food. A fifth man stands behind the table with raised hands and shrugged shoulders. The fare is boiled eggs, bread, and muffins. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of a fat Cupid firing his bow; his quiver is reversed, and one leg is transfixed with an arrow. The walls of the room are ornamented by gilt pilasters in the shape of palm-trees (as in BMSat 10472). Between them are empty candle-sconces decorated with palm-branches. The men appear to be the suitors of a rich widow. Cf. BMSat 9822."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Temporary local subject terms: Fireplace -- Sconces -- Cupid -- Eggs: Boiled -- Breakfast -- Urn -- Bell Pull -- Carpet., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 38.1 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 41.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"The 'Gods', Hawkesbury, Addington, St. Vincent, lean down from the clouds to defend the 'Treasury' against the assault of the 'Giants', different groups of the Opposition forming a pyramid in the lower, and larger, part of the design. [These identifications are those of Miss Banks (on a B.M. print) confirmed by Lord Holland, who omits Lord Spencer but adds Tierney, called by Miss Banks 'no particular person'. The identifications of Wright and Evans are in several cases incorrect. Grego substitutes Lord Mulgrave for Dr. Lawrence (or Spencer) and omits Spencer and others. Lord Holland notes that only the portraits of Pitt, Addington, Fox, Norfolk, Buckingham, Grenville, and Derby are like their subjects.] These are grouped on rocks, and are naked or nearly so (with one exception). At the apex of the pyramid are Pitt and Dundas, smaller and less dangerous than Fox in the foreground (left). Pitt, much emaciated, stands with legs astride, looking up, and about to hurl a large bundle of papers: 'Knock-down Arguments'; two similar bundles lie at his feet: 'Death and Eternal Sleep' [cf. BMSat 8350], and 'Coup de Grace'. He wears a military cocked hat, jack-boots, and a sword-belt from which hangs a sabre, indicating his volunteer activities (see BMSat 10113, &c); round his loins is a girdle of grapes and vine-leaves (cf. BMSat 8798). Melville (Dundas), behind and below Pitt, raises a sword inscribed 'True Andrew-Ferrara' and a shield; he wears a Scots bonnet; a tartan plaid and kilt adorn his burly nudity. At Pitt's feet stands Wilberforce, a dwarf, holding a large volume, Duty of Man, and directing upwards a fountain which can never approach the clouds. On the lower part of this rock stands Canning, in an attitude like that of Pitt, prepared to hurl a bulky sheaf of papers: 'Killing Detections'; he registers sly amusement, and wears a girdle of feathers suggestive of a Red Indian. From behind the rock appear two shadowy figures, each with the pen in his mouth that indicates a Treasury secretary; one prepares to hurl a bundle of 'Charges', the other, below him, has a bundle of 'Long Charges'. They are Rose and Long, ex-Treasury secretaries, see BMSat 9722. In the foreground (left) is a lower rocky platform on which the obese Buckingham and his burly brother Lord Grenville hold up Fox by the legs. Fox, bulky and hairy, fires a blast of flame, smoke, and bullets from a blunderbuss', doing more execution than all the others together. He is completely nude; drapery hangs from the shoulders of his two supporters, and the pompous Buckingham wears spectacles and Garter ribbon. All register satisfaction, rather than ardour like the Pittites. Beside their rock, and on the extreme left are supporters of Fox: Norfolk with a kettle-drum slung from his neck on which he is performing with two wine-bottles (cf. BMSat 9261). Behind him is Carlisle, banging a marrow-bone on a cleaver inscribed 'Coalition Roast Beef' [reminiscent of the Foxite butchers at Westminster elections]. The profile of Burdett is on the extreme left; he wears a hat on which is a ribbon: 'no Bastile' [see BMSat 9878, &c], and holds a fringed banner on which are equally balanced scales and the motto 'In hoc Signo Vinces' [cf. BMSat 10416]; on its spear-point is poised a cap of liberty terminating in the bell that indicates Folly. Behind him an arm holds up a trumpet to which is attached a banner inscribed 'Honor Property Ability' [symbolic of the Whig oligarchy and stressing the gulf between Foxites and the supposedly levelling Burdett]. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Giants storming heaven
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: "They never complain'd of fatigue, but like giants refreshed, were ready to enter immediately upon the attack! Vide Lord Ch--c-ll-r's Speech, 24th April 1804. "Not to destroy! but root them out of heaven." Milton., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Long, Charles, 1761-1838, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811
"Two tiers of single English figures expressing appropriate opinions about the coronation of Napoleon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in dealer's description. Questionably attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.188., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image in lower right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 16th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, British, Public opinion, Soldiers, French, Sailors, and British
"Scene in a kitchen. An Irishman wearing smart (spurred) ton-boots, bastes a bird which turns on a spit. A man dressed as a (stage) African prince approaches the fire with clasped and extended hands. Beneath the title: 'Actor, Zounds that Fowl will never be done in time - Irishman, No by St Patrick it will not be done in time for You, you outlandish looking Rascal what do you want here, the Fowl is Roasting for my Supper - Actor, My Dear Sir I dont want your Fowl I am going to play Oroonoko in this House and we cannot begin for want of the Jack Chain.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
No tricks upon travellers
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered "365" in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and Three lines of caption below title: Actor, zounds that fowl will never be done in time Irishman, no by St. Patrick it will not be done in time for you, you outlandish looking rascal what do you want here, the fowl is roasting for my supper ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug't. 20th, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
In the top half of the image, three soldiers in full dress uniform assume exaggerated, ballet-like poses, their rifles in hand; each pose is identified above, left to right: 'shoulder arms', 'present arms', and order arms'. In the lower half, two soldiers also pose: 'charge bayonet' and 'at ease'.
Description:
Title etched below image., "J.B. Gearing" unidentified; fictitious name?, Printseller's announcement following imprint: "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.", Dedication below title: "Dedicated to the volunteer associations of Great Britain by their obedient humble servant J.B. Gearing.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman 1794.
Title from item., Plate numbered '352' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: This is an excellent tap of small beer, I wish the servants to be saving of it, but how will you manage that John. Why my lady I don't know a better method than by placing a good barrel of ale by the side of it., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A fat elderly man in hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak-tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gipsy woman, who reads his hand. He listens, surprised and delighted, while another gipsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his Pocket. Behind (l.) stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood; in the distance two huntsmen are galloping."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Mounted on leaf 27 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Two designs placed side by side, the title so arranged that 'The Contrast' applies to both, the first four and last two words to the two designs respectively. [1] A scene outside Jaffa where the French flag flies from a fort on a rock at whose base are hospital tents (left), in which the sick can be seen. In the foreground Napoleon (a poor portrait) points with an imperious gesture to a bottle of 'Opium' in the hand of a distressed doctor in civilian dress. He says: "Don't talk to me of Humanity & the feelings of a generous heart, I say Poison those Sick dogs they are a burthen to me, & can no longer fight my Battles!!! I say destroy them - As for those Turks, them up in the Garrison, turn all the Guns upon them, Men, Women, & Children & blow them to atoms, they are too bold & resolute for me to suffer them to live, they are in my Way." In the middle distance (left) is a body of Turks, their arms tied behind them, guarded by a French soldier who points at Napoleon. Behind Napoleon two French officers exchange glances, acutely dismayed at the orders." ... [2] Two black soldiers, in neat regimentals, prepare to kill three haggard French officers. One raises an axe to smite a bound prisoner. Two British officers (left) interpose with outstretched arms; one says: "We know they are our Enemies, & yours, & the Enemies of all Mankind, nevertheless Humanity is so strongly planted in the Breast of an Englisman [sic], that he can become an humble beggar, for the lives, even of his enemies, when they are subdued." The other adds: "A mercy unexpected, undeserved surprises more."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Contrast to English humanity
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Mounted on a 19th-century blue album sheet. On the verso are newspaper clippings on a variety of topics: Sir Lionel Darell and the benevolence of the King to grant him land for his greenhouses in Richmond Park; "Observations on the rot of sheep"; Poem entitled "Leamington Spa"; "Balloon Ascension" an extract from a letter from Bristol, dated Sept 26.; an report of the death of Simon Southward, a miller who was a prisoner for 43 years for debt and the delusion of being the Earl of Derby.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Flags, French, Forts & fortifications, Tents, Military medicine, Sick persons, Soldiers, Physicians, Opium, Military officers, Prisoners of war, Turkish, British, Physical restraints, and Axes
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: French Poodle -- Blunderbus., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
"An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (left) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., and Temporary local subject terms: Glasses: Tumbler -- Medicine Bottles.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Steet
Subject (Topic):
Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
"An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (left) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Glasses: Tumbler -- Medicine Bottles., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 255 x 192 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Steet
Subject (Topic):
Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
"An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (left) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Glasses: Tumbler -- Medicine Bottles., 1 print : etching with engraving & stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 30.6 x 22.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Steet
Subject (Topic):
Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Sabre -- Trident -- St. Vincent., Watermark: A. Stace 1797., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d., 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Pitt, looking terrified, stands in a barrel inscribed 'Perquisites of Office'. He is surrounded by dogs who all look up at him. On the left is a dog with the collar 'Greyhound Breed'; he says to Pitt: 'Don’t be alarmed I shall only pretend to growl - keep quiet and I'll bring you through. Next to the greyhound is 'Wy[n]dhaminian or Bull Dog Breed'. To the right of the barrel is 'Fox Breed', 'Norfolk Breed' and one other dog without an inscription on its collar
Alternative Title:
Great man badger'd!! and Great man badgered!!
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. Feby. 1804 by W. Holland, Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834., Windham, William, 1750-1810., and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespeare's Hamlet., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Printseller's identification mark located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '331' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of descriptive text below design and between curly brackets: Volunteers much inconvenience feel, when skin and bone 'twixt guts and bowels wheel., Military commands placed on either side of curly brackets: Eyes right ; feel your left., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 24, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: E & P 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. June, 1804 by W. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"An Irishman sits beside a table, smoking, while a comely maidservant shows him two dishes of meat. His bundle is tied to a stick; a dog sits beside him. On the wall is a (framed) 'Game of the Goose': three concentric ovals divided into small sections with a goose in the middle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Eight lines of verse arranged in two columns below title: An Irish-man came late unto the Inn, and ask'd the maid what meat there was within ..., Plate numbered '346' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Irishman -- Urn.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 7, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Fox to various groups of the Opposition, [With one or two exceptions the identifications are those of Miss Banks; the characterization is excellent, and most are unmistakeable.] in which the arrangement has political and social significance. Three Grenvilles bow to the host and hostess; the Marquis of Buckingham, wearing his ribbon, holding hat and gold-headed cane and showing a gouty leg and foot, bends low. Next is Lord Grenville, clasping his hat to his breast, more ingratiating but less obsequious than his brother. Next is the stout Lord Temple, awkwardly imitating his uncle's gesture. Fox, wearing a sword, returns Buckingham's bow, his hand on his heart; on his right. stands the fat Mrs. Fox, curtseying, and ogling Grenville. She holds a fan on which is a profile portrait of 'Napoleone Ist'; from her pocket projects a flask of 'French Brandy', indicative of her antecedents (cf. BMSats 7370, 10589) as well as her sympathies, cf. BMSat 9892). On the extreme right. is the Prince of Wales, in back view, the greater part of his figure cut off by the margin, but unmistakable. From his pocket projects a paper: 'Henry IV. Sc. I [sic] Pr of W -l know you all, & shall . . . while.' A short fat man gazes up at him admiringly, obsequiously amused; he is identified by Miss Banks as 'Mr [i.e. General] Fitzpatrick', but resembles M. A. Taylor. Beside him is a dog, his collar inscribed 'Tommy Tattle' [? Thomas Tyrwhitt]. Mrs. Fitzherbert sits, in semi-state, in the corner of a sofa, holding a fan on which are the Prince's feathers and 'Ich Dien'; she is about to take a ticket, 'Coalition Masquerade', proffered with ingratiating vivacity by Lord Carlisle. Next Carlisle behind the sofa stands the Duke of Clarence, facing the Prince, and cruelly caricatured. Mrs. Jordan takes his right. arm, but is reading Jobson & Nell [characters in 'The Devil to pay] with the Farce of Equality' [see BMSat 7908, &c.]. Behind the pair are Col. McMahon, sly and furtive, and a large man, resembling the Duke of York. [Identified by Miss Banks as 'Mr. Tyrwitt', but Tommy Tyrwhitt was noted for his small size. ] Behind Mrs. Fitzherbert, Erskine, in wig and gown, delightedly holds up a large paper (the words partly obscured): 'Arraignments for the new Broad-Bottom'd Administration [cf. BMSat 10530], Citn Volpone [see BMSat 9892] . . . Lord Pogy [Grenville] . . . Madame Volpone .. . Cit . . . Ego [Erskine, see BMSat 9246], Lord High [Chancellor], Greyhound [Grey], H . . . Tooke . . ., Tierney' [imaginatively legible]. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Grand cooperative meeting at St. Ann's Hill
Description:
Title etched below image., Text following title: Respectfully dedicated to the admirers of a "Broad-Bottom'd administration.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 18th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Gordon, Jane Maxwell Gordon, Duchess of, d. 1812, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
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 Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Marching -- Resting -- Drinking -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann, June 8, 1804, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym, probably for Samuel Howitt., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Gin -- Hyson Tea., Watermark: J Ruse 1802., and Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title from item., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of caption following title: Macb: Tell me thou unknown power, 1st Witch: He knowes thy thought hear his speech but say thou nought., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespeare's Macbeth., and Mounted to 32 x 35 cm.
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '340' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Fifteen lines of verse in two columns below title: With lowly suit and plaintive ditty, I call the tender mind to pity..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Mar. 12, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '376' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four numbered stanzas of verse below title: I'm Doleful Dumps, that sobs and mumps, just tumbled into love, Sir ..., Song attribution below title: Written by George Waldron., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Six lines of caption below title: Quoth Lubin to Janet, "I am much to blame, I've been guilty of somewhat I hardly dare name ..., Plate numbered "350" in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Illustration at the top of the letterpress broadside. "Mrs. Siddons leans back in her chair, majestically resentful. She addresses Harris, [Grego suggests Topham, whom he does not resemble, and who was living in Yorkshire.] patentee and manager of Covent Garden, who stands before her (l.), hat in hand. Between them stands the much taller J. P. Kemble, his left hand on his sister's shoulder. Mrs. Siddons leans one elbow on a table (r.) on which are three books: 'Salary Benifi[ts]', 'The Right of Woman', 'Duty of Man', and a bust of (?) herself, looking reproachfully towards the group. On the wall (r.) is part of a print: 'Propagation of a Lye', six figures from Bunbury's well-known plate, BMSat 7230 (1787). The text is a debate (printed in full by Grego): Mrs. Siddons complains to Harris of neglect on account of 'your Blind Bargain and Infant Roscius'. Harris, 'First Monarch', answers: 'if John Bull chooses to feed on slink calf, instead of substantial roast beef, yet consents to pay for the roast it is not for me to complain. . . . you have had your day. . . .' He reminds her of her good salary. Kemble, 'Second Monarch', supports him, and ends: 'Public taste ... is now in second childishness; and when mere oblivion takes place, then you shall make a sally, and should the Town require a filip [Philip] I will be at your elbow.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below etching., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: E & C T Russell 1797.
Publisher:
Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, for Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Illustration at the top of the letterpress broadside. "Mrs. Siddons leans back in her chair, majestically resentful. She addresses Harris, [Grego suggests Topham, whom he does not resemble, and who was living in Yorkshire.] patentee and manager of Covent Garden, who stands before her (l.), hat in hand. Between them stands the much taller J. P. Kemble, his left hand on his sister's shoulder. Mrs. Siddons leans one elbow on a table (r.) on which are three books: 'Salary Benifi[ts]', 'The Right of Woman', 'Duty of Man', and a bust of (?) herself, looking reproachfully towards the group. On the wall (r.) is part of a print: 'Propagation of a Lye', six figures from Bunbury's well-known plate, BMSat 7230 (1787). The text is a debate (printed in full by Grego): Mrs. Siddons complains to Harris of neglect on account of 'your Blind Bargain and Infant Roscius'. Harris, 'First Monarch', answers: 'if John Bull chooses to feed on slink calf, instead of substantial roast beef, yet consents to pay for the roast it is not for me to complain. . . . you have had your day. . . .' He reminds her of her good salary. Kemble, 'Second Monarch', supports him, and ends: 'Public taste ... is now in second childishness; and when mere oblivion takes place, then you shall make a sally, and should the Town require a filip [Philip] I will be at your elbow.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below etching., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sheet 23.3 x 24 cm., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, for Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
"Sir Francis Burdett, scarcely caricatured, is being drawn (r. to left.) by his supporters in his carriage towards the hustings, past a densely packed and cheering mob. He bows gracefully, his tricorne (with a tricolour cockade) under his arm. On the three panels of the barouche are depicted (1) a bird with an olive-branch, and the scroll 'Egalité'; (2) a hand emerging from flames holding up a fire-brand, with a scroll, 'The Torch of Liberty') a frothing tankard on which is a bust portrait of 'Buonaparte', the scroll 'Three Pence a Pot'. The first and third panels have the motto the 'Peace &\ Plenty'. The driver is Horne Tooke; he flourishes his whip over the heads of his team, and smokes a long pipe. In his hat are a tricolour cockade and a blue and orange (buff) favour. From his pocket issues a stream of election literature, part of which has reached the ground: 'Speeches for Sir Fra[ncis] on ye Hustings'; 'Hints'; 'Speech from the Hustings'; 'Speeches for the Crown & Anchor Dinner'; 'Sir Fra[ncis's] Address to the Mob'; 'Bills for all the Pissing Posts [cf. BMSat 9886]; 'Hints for the Democra[tic] Newspapers'; 'Sir Francis's Patriotic Speech on the Defence of the Country' [see BMSat 10054]; Bills for Hackney Coaches'; 'Important Fact - Pitt the Supporter of Justices'; 'No Begging Candidate'; 'No Squinting Representative'; 'A Squeese for the Contractors.' The last lies besides a dog over whose body the hind-wheel passes makine a wound from which guineas are pouring. Its collar is inscribed 'A Cur-tis' (Sir W. Curtis, a contractor, cf. BMSat 7676, was one of Mainwaring's chief supporters). Behind the carriage, in place of footmen, stand Sheridan Erskine, and Tierney. Sheridan, a favour inscribed 'no Govr Aris' in his hat, holds up a fringed pictorial banner, inscribed 'Governor Aris [the name almost obliterated] in all his Glory': Pitt violently scourges Britannia, whose hands are confined in a pillory. Erskine (in wig and gown) holds up a banner 'The Good-Old Cause' (a republican slogan of the seventeenth century), surmounted by a cap of Liberty with a tricolour cockade. Tierney holds up a huge key tied to a pole and labelled 'No Bastille'. Ten or more men drag the carriage by ropes; the wheelers are Fox as a ragged chimney-sweeper with a brush under his arm, and Norfolk, wearing a striped shirt and an apron and mopping his forehead. In front of these are Derby, as a jockey, and Lansdowne. The next pair are the Duke of Bedford as a farmer in a smock and (?) the Duke of Northumberland, wearing an apron. In front of these are Lord Carlisle as a tailor, with a pair of shears and a measuring tape, and Grey with shirt-sleeves rolled up. Near him is Lord Spencer. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 75 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 7th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855, Curtis, Roger, Sir, 1746-1816, and Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym probably for Samuel Howitt., Temporary local subject terms: Moses -- Carbuncle., and Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[27 January 1804]
Call Number:
804.01.27.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Rector's hopes confirmed by John Bull's discovery
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker 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., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Chair -- Costume: Clergy Rector -- John Bull -- Male Costume: 1804 -- Port -- Furniture: Table -- Biblical Reference: Ezekiel 35.1 -- Medical: Dermatalogical Disease., and Watermark: G. Jones 1803.
Title from item., Later state with S.W. Fores imprint replacing C. Knight imprint [scratched through]., Publication date inferred from earlier state., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Chair -- Costume: Clergy Rector -- John Bull -- Male Costume: 1804 -- Port -- Furniture: Table -- Biblical Reference: Ezekiel 35.1 -- Medical: Dermatalogical Disease.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below design: Arrah! but this is hard work for us both Smiler, if it keeps on pelting in our faces in this manner to the end of our journey, surely the wind will change when we return., Plate numbered '357' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 16, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Messengers, Horseback riding, Rain, and Churches
Title from item., Plate numbered '345' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of descriptive text below design: An excellent comedian, in Staffordshire had played the part of Risk, in 'Love Laughs at Locksmiths,' with much applause...Vide Montlhy Mirror for Feby., 1804, page 133., Five numbered verses of a song "The bailiff" arranged in the lower potion of the print:. Sung to the tune of "Miss Bailey.", and Temporary local subject terms: Bailiff.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: Miniature -- Gretna Green., Watermark: Russell & Edmeads., and Printseller's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title etched below image., Place of publication and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Originally issued in 1804. Cf. no. 10330, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Abbey -- Kent Sculptor -- Shakespeare's monument -- Reference to Napoleon., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Menageries.
A horseback rider is stuck in a slough as a farmer worker (clown) looks on.
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '377' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Thirteen lines of verse arranged in three columns below title: A clown he spied; and thus bespoke : "Is bottom hard of yonder place?" ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: John W & E 1804.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Townsend, the Bow Street Officer, stands in profile to the right, left hand on a tall stick, pointing with right forefinger. He is neatly dressed, with broad-brimmed top-hat, long coat over a long waistcoat, and short loose trousers, with high-quartered tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Townsend
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 3 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Townsend" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement follows imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Pineapple -- Decanters -- Candleabra -- Opposition., and Modern ms. annotations on mount identifies most figures in print; mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 12th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Three women stand in a library; two converse as the third looks through the catalogue discussing the titles as the man behind the counter looks on as a dog lies curled up at her feet. A second man stands on a ladder reaching for a book; he has several tucked under his other arm. The shelves are labeled with the subject or genre of the material
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '369' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Five lines of caption below title: "Pray, my dear Mr. Page," cried a pretty lisper, looking over a catalogue "will you let me have that dear Man of Feeling, I have so long waited for..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: "Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral." In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: "I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do", and, "Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney's Crest, a Skull without Brains." A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boney's invincible armada half seas over
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement beneath imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Mounted at the corners: 30 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Coffins, Gunboats, Cannons, Rifles, Skulls, Liberty cap, Drowning, Warships, and British
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Door Knocker -- Sword -- Shoe Scraper -- Spurs -- Jack Boots -- Capt. Birch., and Watermark: C. Ansell 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"Mr. and Mrs. Bull are in their breakfast parlour; she sits beside a table on which is a tray with coffee-pot, &c, he stands booted and spurred, impatient to set off. Through an open doorway (right) a groom is seen holding a saddle-horse. Behind are the houses of a London street. Mrs. Bull reads with dismay the '[M]orning Post'; she cries: "Here Mr Bull here's the Speech of that fellow on the Corn Bill - You must stop and hear this - The Price of Corn is yet Far Below the Price which is universally allowed to be Necessary!!!! why we shall all be starved Mr Bull." He shouts, with outstretched arms: "D------n the Corn Bill! I have not time to think of any thing till the Election is over. - why Liberty and Independence is at stak [sic] - What is Starving to that Mrs Bull!" Both are very fat, and evidently prosperous."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Corn bill, or, John Bull and his hobby, Iohn Bull and his hobby, and John Bull and his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image, lower right., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Counter watermark in center of sheet: A.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 20th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Corn laws (Great Britain), Breakfast rooms, Coffeepots, Doors & doorways, Newspapers, and Obesity
