V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A design in six compartments, arranged in two rows. [1] 'A Timber Merchant.' A ragged match-seller, with a basket slung from his shoulder and a bundle of matches in his hand, cries: "Buy my Matches." [2] 'A Turkey Merchant'. A poulterer (dressed like...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1812, by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion plate to No. 11983. [1] 'Johnnys reception by "merry Tonkanoo at Negro Ball'. The ball is in an open shed with a black fiddler seated high on a hogshead; most of the guests watch Johnny, the only white, and 'Tonkanoo' bowing to each other...
An old maid with a large chin and lump in her neck kneels in prayer before a simple table as a man looks down at her from a gap in the rafters. On the wall hang two notices entitled "Cupid's revenge" and "Love in a village".
A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
A dejected-looking man stands barefoot, his shirt open, next to a stump of a tree, pulling a louse from his chest. In the distance is a walled city with two church spires
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Duvison [that is, Davison], Alnwick
An austere-looking man with a shaved head and ragged clothes, kneels in prayer before his simple meal, unaware that as he recites his blessing, his cat is drinking from his bowl. On the table is a book on which lay his spectacles; his hat hangs off th...
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behin...
A country woman in an apron and cloak, hands on her hips, laughs as she watches the havoc caused by a sow and her piglets who run in all directions on the road. A horse rears in panic and topples acouple and their buggy. Another man on horseback is pi...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Country life, Robberies, and Swine
The highlander falls back against a table, his one leg held by the 'druid' who sits on a chair made from a barrel as he tends a wound on the Scotsman's calf
A French woman engages in a fist fight with a startled customer as his friend looks on in horror. Her hook-nosed colleague sits at a table and extends an offer of a shellfish (lobster?) the brawlers
"An elderly man in profile to the right sits heavily on a horse which plods slowly with lowered head. He holds the single rein awkwardly; in his right hand is a cudgel. He wears old-fashioned dress with round hat and high-quartered buckled shoes with ...
"An uncouth footman (left) in livery stands in the door of a corner house, taking a tankard from a pot-boy, while he answers an elderly and hungry-looking visitor, who leans towards him with an angry and sceptical stare. Across the street is an old-fa...
Alternative Title:
Dissapointed dinner hunter and Disappointed dinner hunter
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand at bottom of sheet.
A angry old hag sitting in a chair is lowered into a body of water by jeering crowd. A little boy on the right urinates in her direction. A cat in a bowl floating in the water howls in her direction. A calf sits between the large man blowing a trump...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
"A paunchy carbuncled fellow, wearing old-fashioned court-dress, with ribbon, star, sword, and bag-wig, peacocks with hands on hips before an amused group in a narrow 'Whitechaple' street. They are outside the new peer's shop, from which projects a po...
Alternative Title:
Breeches maker become a lord
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Str., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Couples, Dogs, Social classes, Social mobility, Snobbishness, and Tailors
An obese man in elegant dress struts down Fleet Street as his fellow tailors roar with laughter at his pompous attire. In the background, a woman (his wie?) put signs on the sides of the shops advertising breeches and other haberdashery. A dog barks ...
Alternative Title:
Taylor turned lord and Tailor turned lord
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Couples, Dogs, Social classes, Social mobility, Snobbishness, and Tailors
Top design: A group of happy, cheering young men toast each other with wine as they sit around a table, a victory cup and wine caraffes on the table. In the design below "Muck worms" an group of older, sour-looking men over punch and wine, many in sp...
Alternative Title:
Muck worms
Description:
Each title etched below corresponding image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, No 1. James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Eyeglasses, Soldiers, British, and Toasting
