A dustman bends over a large woman who has fallen and lifts her by placing his hands under her arms. She looks up angerly and shakes her fist at the dustman's young assistant in an apron who looks on (left) with a smile and hand raised. Two dogs jump around the group
Description:
Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on watermark: 1804.
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Obesity, and Women
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: "Well Robin as you have been to the playhouse, what is your opinion of it?"..., Plate numbered '361' 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 Augt. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
20 stone reduced to mere skeleton and Twenty stone reduced to mere skeleton
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four columns of verse below design: Will Waddle, whose temper was studious and lonely, hir'd lodgings that took single gentlemen only ..., Plate numbered '356' 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 July 12, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
"A kitchen scene. A handsome young cook in her mistress's hat and gown, worn over her own cap and petticoat, with her breast bared, postures in the kitchen before a hanging mirror, holding out a fan. Three amused girls (a woman with two young girls) watch her from behind a door (right). On the floor is a broken dish with a fish on which a cat has pounced, and to the right a rolling pin, fork and spoon. A floured pudding is ready for cooking. On the shelves behind her are plates, platters and mugs; above the door, a small keg, wine bottle, and crocks. On the floor near the door are brooms and buckets
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1806.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Cats, Kitchens, Interiors, Mirrors, Role reversal, Tableware, and Women domestics
"A kitchen scene. A handsome young cook in her mistress's hat and gown, worn over her own cap and petticoat, with her breast bared, postures in the kitchen before a hanging mirror, holding out a fan. Three amused girls (a woman with two young girls) watch her from behind a door (right). On the floor is a broken dish with a fish on which a cat has pounced, and to the right a rolling pin, fork and spoon. A floured pudding is ready for cooking. On the shelves behind her are plates, platters and mugs; above the door, a small keg, wine bottle, and crocks. On the floor near the door are brooms and buckets
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 30.1 x 22.2 cm., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials R & T below., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Cats, Kitchens, Interiors, Mirrors, Role reversal, Tableware, and Women domestics
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of caption text below design., Plate numbered '339' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1803.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A man selling watercress, from a basket, in Hanover Square
Alternative Title:
Watercresses
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Phillips, R. Modern London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note in ink above image: Hanover Square.
Publisher:
Published April 25, 1804 by Richard Phillips, 71 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Hanover Square (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, City & town life, Peddlers, and Vegetables
Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wretched, broken-kneed horse, the legs tied up by five ropes round neck and fetlock or pastern, is violently maltreated by three men. One raises an axe to smite the bleeding neck, another applies a red-hot iron to a sore on the back, the third saws at a hind-leg. These operations are respectively: 'How to cure the Poll-Evil', 'How to heal a sore Back', 'How to cure a Quittors.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1804 reissue by S.W. Fores. For an earlier issue of this later state of the plate, see no. 10341 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1801 with the imprint "Published by S. Howitt, No. 15 Queen Street, Soho". Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 801.11.01.03., and On leaf 69 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Ropes, Axes, Saws, and Veterinary medicine
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below design: "Bless your eye-sight; remember the sweeper, pray do: -Bless your honour's eye-sight." -"Why do you bless my sight? My eyes are very good." -"Yes sir, your eyes are good, but if they should fail, you have no nose to hang your spectacles on.", Plate numbered '337' 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 Feby. 14, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"J.P. Kemble stoops, with hands on knees, while a small and sprightly child, young Roscius, supports himself on his shoulders and is about to leap over his head. He says: "Alas! is it come to this Ah! woe is me Seeing what I have seen Seeing what I see!! Oh Roscious - ". Kemble wears theatrical dress, with a cloak and half-boots. The boy also wears half-boots but is dressed in a childish way, with an open collar and a sash, with no cloak, but with tight pantaloons and boots like those of Kemble. [According to Grego both are dressed 'in the habit then customary for Hamlet'. Kemble is so dressed, except that his cloak is short, not long as in Lawrence's whole length portrait.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published 30 November, 1804, by R. Akermann, No. 103 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874 (William Henry West),
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: Gentlemen I am not going to the further end of the country to prove what I say; the road which I am obliged to pass to my nown [sic] house, is quite unpassable to any thing but a beast ..., Plate numbered '366' in the lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Inkwell -- Burns Justice.
Publisher:
Published 10th Septr., 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of caption arranged in two columns: "I am glad to see you well" -"O' faithless breath ..., Plate numbered '359' 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 July 23, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A prosperous farmer, who leans on his walking stick as he stands over his chubby, young worker who is caught resting under a tree; he scratches his head as he leans up on his elbow. His scythe is half-hidden in the left foreground. On the right in the distance, a woman and two other young men rake the hayfield. The farmer's dog sniffs the ground, right foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '351' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two lines of caption below title: Farmer. You lazy rascal what do you do here, why don't you work? such a fellow as you does not deserve the sun to shine on him. Haymaker. Indeed Master I thought so, therefore I've lain myself down in the shade., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Farmers, Hay, Laziness, and Raking (Sweeping)
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Twelve lines of text arranged in two columns below title: From the white blossom'd sloe, my dear Chloe requested..., Plate numbered '354' 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 June 23, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Heading to a song printed in four columns. An old maid's tea-table overturns, owing to a quarrel between her two cats and the dog of her visitor (left), an elderly hunchback. Tea-urn, tea-pot, &c, fall to the ground, scalding the guest. Below the title: 'Being a Companion to that excellent Song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." To the tune of "Away with these Queer Married Fellows", in the "Gay Deceivers"; by Mr Bannister'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from broadside printed on same sheet., Printmaker and imprint data from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of text and four columns of verse following title in letterpress., and Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Tea Urn -- Reference to "Gay Deceivers" -- Pictures amplify subject.
"A lumbering wagon drawn (l. to r.) by eight asses is stuck fast, up to the axles in water; the asses strain hard to drag it up a steep slope to dry land. Its dilapidated tilt is much patched and is labelled 'British State Waggon 1804'. The wagoner, Addington (r.), kneels on an adjacent bank, and shouts to a fat and jovial John Bull, dressed as a volunteer, who stands on the opposite bank of the deeply sunken lane, his bulldog beside him. Addington wears a smock, but his powdered hair is in a black bag. He holds his long whip and his hat in his right. hand, and extends his left. arm, shouting, " - help, Johnny Bull! - help! - my Waggon's stuck fast in the Slough! - help! help." John, who holds his bayoneted musket, looks down at Addington, pointing behind him with outflung r. arm at thirteen horses with human heads above and behind him on rising ground. He answers: " - stuck fast in the Slough! - ay to be sure! - why dost'nt put better Cattle to thy Wain? - look at them there Horses doing o' nothing at all! - what ether they matches in Colour, if they do but drag the Waggon out o' the Mud! - don't ye see how the very thoughts o' being put into Harness makes 'em all love and nubble one another?" The horses, [The identifications (most being self-evident) are those of Miss Banks, the alternatives in brackets being those of E. Hawkins. Wright and Evans arrange them differently and omit Spencer and Lansdowne.] though close together, are in groups. On the extreme left., and rather behind the others, Lord Spencer (or Carlisle) rubs noses with Carlisle (or Lauderdale), Erskine (in wig and bands) with Wilberforce. In front of this group the bulky Lansdowne (or Norfolk) lies on the ground, asleep, his back to the others. Next, Grey turns his head towards the haughty Buckingham, who wears spectacles and a Garter ribbon. Their backs are turned to the main group of four: Fox, with a foreleg placed on Grenville's shoulder looks up affectionately at the latter, who responds with a complacent smile. Pitt watches the pair with haughty benignity; Canning, behind, watches them intently. On the extreme right. Sheridan (a plump piebald), scowling fiercely, kicks up his heels at Windham, who retorts with a blast of excrement, his head turned towards Fox and Grenville. In the foreground (l.) is the stage-wagon (the slowest form of transit), drawn by its eight undifferentiated asses. The tilt is open at the back, showing it crammed with bundles, &c. The centre-piece is a bulging sack: 'Budget for 1804', from which project papers inscribed 'Taxes'. A treasure-chest is inscribed 'Treasury'; coins pour from a hole in its side. It is flanked by two bundles: 'Secret Service Money' and 'Family Pickings'. A bundle of 'Pensions' consists of bulky papers inscribed 'Sinecure'. Large volumes tied together are 'New Acts of Parliament'. Other papers are 'Defence against Invasion'; 'State of Ireland'; 'East Indies'. A bundle of 'Loans for / 84' [sic] contains 'Navy Bills' and 'Exchequer Bills'. There are also three tiny barrels of 'Gun Powder' and a bundle of muskets inscribed 'Volunteers'. From the side of the wagon hangs a basket of 'Family Medicine' containing two bottles labelled 'Broth[er] Bra[gge]' and 'Brother Hiley'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
State wagoner and John Bull, Waggon too much for the donkeys!, and Wagon too much for the donkeys!
Description:
Title etched in upper left corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 14th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
"A lumbering wagon drawn (l. to r.) by eight asses is stuck fast, up to the axles in water; the asses strain hard to drag it up a steep slope to dry land. Its dilapidated tilt is much patched and is labelled 'British State Waggon 1804'. The wagoner, Addington (r.), kneels on an adjacent bank, and shouts to a fat and jovial John Bull, dressed as a volunteer, who stands on the opposite bank of the deeply sunken lane, his bulldog beside him. Addington wears a smock, but his powdered hair is in a black bag. He holds his long whip and his hat in his right. hand, and extends his left. arm, shouting, " - help, Johnny Bull! - help! - my Waggon's stuck fast in the Slough! - help! help." John, who holds his bayoneted musket, looks down at Addington, pointing behind him with outflung r. arm at thirteen horses with human heads above and behind him on rising ground. He answers: " - stuck fast in the Slough! - ay to be sure! - why dost'nt put better Cattle to thy Wain? - look at them there Horses doing o' nothing at all! - what ether they matches in Colour, if they do but drag the Waggon out o' the Mud! - don't ye see how the very thoughts o' being put into Harness makes 'em all love and nubble one another?" The horses, [The identifications (most being self-evident) are those of Miss Banks, the alternatives in brackets being those of E. Hawkins. Wright and Evans arrange them differently and omit Spencer and Lansdowne.] though close together, are in groups. On the extreme left., and rather behind the others, Lord Spencer (or Carlisle) rubs noses with Carlisle (or Lauderdale), Erskine (in wig and bands) with Wilberforce. In front of this group the bulky Lansdowne (or Norfolk) lies on the ground, asleep, his back to the others. Next, Grey turns his head towards the haughty Buckingham, who wears spectacles and a Garter ribbon. Their backs are turned to the main group of four: Fox, with a foreleg placed on Grenville's shoulder looks up affectionately at the latter, who responds with a complacent smile. Pitt watches the pair with haughty benignity; Canning, behind, watches them intently. On the extreme right. Sheridan (a plump piebald), scowling fiercely, kicks up his heels at Windham, who retorts with a blast of excrement, his head turned towards Fox and Grenville. In the foreground (l.) is the stage-wagon (the slowest form of transit), drawn by its eight undifferentiated asses. The tilt is open at the back, showing it crammed with bundles, &c. The centre-piece is a bulging sack: 'Budget for 1804', from which project papers inscribed 'Taxes'. A treasure-chest is inscribed 'Treasury'; coins pour from a hole in its side. It is flanked by two bundles: 'Secret Service Money' and 'Family Pickings'. A bundle of 'Pensions' consists of bulky papers inscribed 'Sinecure'. Large volumes tied together are 'New Acts of Parliament'. Other papers are 'Defence against Invasion'; 'State of Ireland'; 'East Indies'. A bundle of 'Loans for / 84' [sic] contains 'Navy Bills' and 'Exchequer Bills'. There are also three tiny barrels of 'Gun Powder' and a bundle of muskets inscribed 'Volunteers'. From the side of the wagon hangs a basket of 'Family Medicine' containing two bottles labelled 'Broth[er] Bra[gge]' and 'Brother Hiley'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
State wagoner and John Bull, Waggon too much for the donkeys!, and Wagon too much for the donkeys!
Description:
Title etched in upper left corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.6 x 36.9 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 40.7 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 14th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
"Scene in a breakfast parlour. The table, at which a lady and two girls are seated, is drawn close to an open sash-window (right). A boy, wearing a large two-peaked cocked hat and quasi-military double-breasted tail-coat, stands angrily, having overturned his chair and dashed his cup and saucer to the ground. His mother tugs at his coat-tail, pointing to the two girls."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spoiled child
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Six lines of caption under the heading: Mama speaks to her son Antony., Plate numbered '349' in the 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: Breakfast Parlour -- Urn -- Carpet -- Curtains.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The Duke of Clarence stands full face, realistically depicted but cruelly caricatured, with porcine features. He wears a cylindrical hat with curved brim, a double-breasted coat with star, cut away to show the lower part of a double-breasted waistcoat, and top-boots. In the (gloved) r. hand is a cane, the left hand is behind his back. He stares straight before him out of pig's eyes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint statement nearly illegible obscured, Text at top of image: Post tot naufragia tutus., and Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 26th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of caption below title: "If you had seen us t'other day in Hyde Park, we charged in such a stile [sic], that Colonel told us it was impossible for any core to make a better charge." --"Bless! you sir, your core knows very little about charging when compared to mine, we excel even the Loyal Lawyers." --"What is your Core?" --"The Taylors, at your service.", Plate numbered '334' 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 Feby. 12, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms, saying, "against Heaven - and before thee, and am no more worthy------" (the words fade out). George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and dishevelled, his pocket hangs inside out, the garter at his knee - 'Honi soit' - is loose. Behind the King stands the Queen on the door-step, half-smiling, her arms outstretched. Two pleased princesses look over her shoulder. Just outside the door stand Pitt and Moira watching the reconciliation, Pitt with a benign expression, Moira more doubtfully; both wear footmen's court-livery, of military cut; Moira wears jack-boots. Pitt holds a paper: 'New Union Act Britains best Hope', implying that he is the author of the 'Union'. Moira holds Pitt's arm. Beside the house (right) are a tree and a balustrade, against which grow a rose-bush and a thistle."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the Gillray print of which this is a copy and "A close copy by Williams, with additions, apparently ante-dated ... Behind the Prince Lord Dartmouth, Lord Chamberlain, stands full face, holding his wand, his gold key attached to his coat. Pitt and Moira turn their eyes slyly towards each other: both weep large burlesqued tears, as do the Queen and Dartmouth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Copy of a print by Gillray; see British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with slight loss of text., Text following title: And he arose and came to his father, and his father saw him & had compassion, & ran & fell on his neck, & kissed him. Read the Parable, verse 16th to 24th., and Watermark. With residue of blue paper on verso, formerly mounted in an album?
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 18, 1804, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840, Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1770-1840, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, and Dartmouth, George Legge, Baron, 1755-1810
"The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms, saying, "against Heaven - and before thee, and am no more worthy------" (the words fade out). George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and dishevelled, his pocket hangs inside out, the garter at his knee - 'Honi soit' - is loose. Behind the King stands the Queen on the door-step, half-smiling, her arms outstretched. Two pleased princesses look over her shoulder. Just outside the door stand Pitt and Moira watching the reconciliation, Pitt with a benign expression, Moira more doubtfully; both wear footmen's court-livery, of military cut; Moira wears jack-boots. Pitt holds a paper: 'New Union Act Britains best Hope', implying that he is the author of the 'Union'. Moira holds Pitt's arm. Beside the house (r.) are a tree and a balustrade, against which grow a rose-bush and a thistle. After the title: '"And he arose and came to his Father, and his Father saw him, & had compassion, & ran, & fell on his Neck, & kissed him. - Read the Parable. Verse 16th to 24th.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Biblical Quotation: Parables, 'Prodigal Son', verses 16-24 -- Emblems: Rose-bush and thistle -- Reconcilliation: George III and Prince of Wales, Nov. 12, 1804 -- Acts: Union, 1784., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"The King steps forward to embrace the Prince of Wales, who throws himself into his father's arms, saying, "against Heaven - and before thee, and am no more worthy------" (the words fade out). George III wears court dress, the Prince's dress is tattered and dishevelled, his pocket hangs inside out, the garter at his knee - 'Honi soit' - is loose. Behind the King stands the Queen on the door-step, half-smiling, her arms outstretched. Two pleased princesses look over her shoulder. Just outside the door stand Pitt and Moira watching the reconciliation, Pitt with a benign expression, Moira more doubtfully; both wear footmen's court-livery, of military cut; Moira wears jack-boots. Pitt holds a paper: 'New Union Act Britains best Hope', implying that he is the author of the 'Union'. Moira holds Pitt's arm. Beside the house (r.) are a tree and a balustrade, against which grow a rose-bush and a thistle. After the title: '"And he arose and came to his Father, and his Father saw him, & had compassion, & ran, & fell on his Neck, & kissed him. - Read the Parable. Verse 16th to 24th.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Biblical Quotation: Parables, 'Prodigal Son', verses 16-24 -- Emblems: Rose-bush and thistle -- Reconcilliation: George III and Prince of Wales, Nov. 12, 1804 -- Acts: Union, 1784., and Ms. annotations along the top margin identfiy figures within the print; mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Five numbered stanzas of verse below title: 'Twas on a winter's evening & fast came down the snow, and keenly o'er the wide heath the bitter wind did blow ..., Plate numbered '355' 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 2, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
"Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388., Publication date from watermark., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printseller's identification blind stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
"A tall man and a short man swap insults while trying to reach the bell above a door."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of caption below title: "Cannot you reach the handle of the bell; what use are such little monkey's as you?" -"Why for such great monkey's as you to wait upon.", Plate numbered '372' in the lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. B. 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Catholic emancipation., Watermark partially visible., Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner: S·W·F., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Heading to an engraved song of four verses. The Devil, with hooves and bat's wings, flies through the air carrying a tailor who has a roll of cloth under his arm. Beneath them is a landscape (l. to r.): on a hill is a gibbet with a corpse; a man drowns in a river beside a water-mill; the cottage of 'Snip Taylor', with a woman at the door; on a hill in the background a row of weaving-sheds. Below the title: 'A much admir'd Song - Sung by Mr Chas Johnston, & proper to be sung at all Musical Clubs.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miller, weaver, and little tailor
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., One line of descriptive text below subtitle: Scene_"The Devil flying away with the tailor, with the broad cloth under his arm., Sixteen lines of verse above imprint: In good King Arthur's days, he was a worthy king..., Plate numbered '378' in the lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Water Mill -- Devil -- Gibbet -- Song.
Publisher:
Publish'd Dec. 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A master advances on a maid in his wife's dressing room, who reaches to touch his chin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '341' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Twelve lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns below title: One day behind my Lady's back, my Lord attack'd her maid, and stole a kiss, which she repaid, and gave him smack, for smack ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A bird with human face squats on the back of a cow crowing at another fallen bird."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From the series of Laurie & Whittle Drolls., Plate numbered '344' in the upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Three columns of contemporary ms. on mount. Presumably a copy of the verse that normally accompanies a Laurie & Whittle Droll.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 24, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: Quill -- Sailor -- Justice -- Watch and Chain., and Printseller's identification mark in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
"Three wives of tradesmen dispute their precedence on a visit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '370' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Three ladies mostly on a visit, a grocer's wife, a cheesemonger's, and a tobacconist's, who perhaps stood more upon the punctilios of precedence than some of their betters ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 22nd, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from caption below image., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: From chaise and four decends [sic] th' expectant heir, and next his mother lo' usurps a chair ..., Text preceding printmaker's signature has been burnished from plate., Previous imprint statement lightly etched but visible above title., Later state with new imprint. For earlier state published ca. 1790 by R. Pollard, see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7814., Companion print to: The disinherited heir., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
"France, a savage virago, dandles a tiny Napoleon seated on her right. hand and wearing a royal robe over his military dress. Above her head she holds a rattle with bells surmounted by a crown. She grins at the mannikin, singing: "There's a little King Pippin "He shall have a Rattle & Crown, Bless thy five Wits my Baby "Mind it dont throw itself down! Hey my Kitten, my kitten &c &c. Below the design is a note: '"False of Heart, light of Ear, bloody of Hand, "Fox in Stealth, Wolf in Greediness, Dog in Madness, "Lion in Prey: - bless thy Five Wits" - vide Shakespeares King Lear' Beside her (l.) is the plain wicker cradle from which she has snatched Napoleon, who points eagerly at the crown on the rattle, holding up a sceptre. She wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, a loose dress defining her figure, and sits in a small armchair, decorated with little decollated heads and a guillotine. Hand, dress, and the heads on the chair are blood-stained. Beside her are her spear, dripping blood, and shield; this is tricolour; on it is the bleeding head of Louis XVI above a reversed crown, with the inscriptions: 'Vive la Republique' and 'The Last of Kings'. Pose, shield, and spear suggest a comparison (and contrast) with Britannia."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 26, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Title from caption below image., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: Alass how changed, no equipage attends, behind with grateful cup no menial bends ..., Text preceding printmaker's signature has been burnished from plate., Later state with new imprint. For earlier state published ca. 1790 by R. Pollard, see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7815., Companion print to: The heir disinherited., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Title below image., Imprint mostly burnished from plate. Printing date from watermark., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Pipe -- Tankard., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 4th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"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
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
"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
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
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
"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.
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
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.
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., Temporary local subject terms: Miniature -- Gretna Green., Watermark: Russell & Edmeads., and Printseller's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F.
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., 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
