"A toilet scene. The Regent stands in profile to the right at his dressing-table, rouging his cheek with a small brush. An attendant, resembling McMahon, laces the stays which in front resemble a waistcoat; he tugs at the lace, standing on a low stool, using one foot as a fulcrum against his master's posterior (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8287), a small buffer ornamented with goats' heads being attached to this foot. On the oval mirror which reflects the Prince's face sits a monkey, holding on its head a wig with a pyramid of curls above the forehead with large side-whiskers attached. The Prince's hair is similarly arranged. The Prince's tail-coat, in back view, is spreadeagled on a stand. On an ornate wall-bracket inscribed 'Bills' and 'Recetts' are two ornamental files, one filled with bills: 'hatters Bill', 'Poulterers Bill', 'Fishmongers B', 'Hair Dresser', 'Taylors Bill', 'Butchers Bill', 'Docters Bill', 'Silve smiths Bill'; the other empty. A bracket-clock, surmounted by a figure of Time shearing a triple ostrich plume, points to two o'clock (reversed). A round wall-mirror and candle-sconce is surmounted by a figure of Bacchus bestriding a cask. On the dressing-table are pots and jars of 'Tooth Powder', 'Rouge', 'Otto of Roses', and 'Secilian Wash for the Skin'. On the floor is a book, 'The Stripes Poem', which a small dog shaved like a poodle is befouling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Regency a la mode
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint statement burnished from plate and mostly illegible; it appears to begin "Pub. Feb. 1st [...?]"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid down on modern laid blue-grey THS Kent paper. Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, and Dionysus (Greek deity),
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier, apparently on sentry duty on a castle rampart, embraces a pretty young woman, holding his cloak round her. He has whiskers and a moustache and wears a busby with aigrette and bag, indicating an hussar regiment. He wears a sword but his bayonetted musket leans against the wall behind him. The girl wears a curiously shaped cap, with two tails hanging down her back. An officer walking past stops to stare and snigger; behind him is a cannon in an embrasure. In the foreground (left) is a pile of cannon-balls."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; first half of imprint statement, including the date, has been removed from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. March 2nd, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "139" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 82 in volume 3.
"A corner of the stage at Drury Lane slants diagonally from left to right, showing part of the orchestra and pit (right) with part of two stage-boxes on the extreme right. The stage manager, Raymond, stands addressing the clamorous audience, while on the left a young man with ass's ears sits on a donkey which flourishes its heels so that they strike the lowered stage-curtain. The donkey brays "Ih ho Ih ho Ih ho," its hind-quarter is branded 'My Pegasus Buz'. Its rider recites: "Nor ever here your smiles would be represt, "Knew you the rival flames that fires our breast, "Flame, Fire and Flame!--sad--woe Neddy! Ladies and Gentlemen, My Papa's Pegasus is so full of fire and spirit that very few are capable of mounting him. for my self I never spoke but once & that was-- Unce logos but if you will give me leave to get on with my Papas Monologue I am positive you will pronounce it the prettiest piece of poetry produced for the purpose." Raymond says: "Ladies and Gentlemen, it was never the intention of the Proprietors to introduce Assess [sic] on these boards but as you seem entertained with their braying if it [is] your wish, we will procure some trainers from the other House as we are really ignorant in the management of thes [sic] Animals." Greeted by derisive cheers from the audience, Dr. Busby, also with ass's ears, leans from the upper stage-box, saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, only hear My Son speak my Monologue written by myself the only one fit to be heard the committee are as ignorant of good Poetry a[s] I am of true criticism. I am a great writer reviews my sons works very clever indeed--writes my own life--well worth reading--my Life of Lucius Otrigger will astonish you now pray hear my Son speak my Monologue!--." A man behind him shouts: "Bravo! Go on! Go, on," and one in the crowded lower box applauds: "Bravo Apollo go on Go . . ." In the foreground a man in the pit shouts pointing to the ass: "Why don't you come down and get up behind don't you see he wants ballast." Six others address the son: "When you have done there--set those Epigrams to Music young Apollo!"; "Off Off Off Off"; "he will be off presently if Neddy kicks so!"; "Go on Go on"; "Speak out you should have brought your Voice with you"; "hear him hear him." The orchestra is empty of performers, but the music scores are headed 'The Judgement of Midas' [O'Keefe's play]. Three large papers lie on the stage inscribed respectively: [1] 'A Lord [Byron] and a Doctor once started for Fame Which for the best Poet should pass The Lord was cried up on account of his name The Doctor cried down for an Ass--' [2] 'Doctor Buz he assures us on Drury new Stage No Horses or Elephants, there should engage But pray Doctor Buz, how comes it to pass, That you your own self should produce there an Ass' [3] 'Old Buz against Quadrupeds, war did wage, And swore on Drury's board's such Mum'ry ne'er should pass But forcing his own Pegasus on Drurys stage The Critic Audience christen'd Buz an Ass.' Behind Raymond is the lower part of the verd-antique pillar which flanked the curtain, and on the right the large ornate lamp, of quasi-Egyptian design in which three hawk-headed monsters support an inverted tripod, the base of a ring of lamp-jets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Poet in a pet : with a chip of the block, mounted on Papa's Pegasus
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text following title: vide opening of New Drury Lane Theatre., and Laid-in to a piece of later paper.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 21, 1812, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Raymond, James Grant, -1817, Busby, Thomas, 1754-1838, Busby, George Frederick, active 1812, Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Interiors, Theater curtains, Theater audiences, and Donkeys
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right side., Printmaker's and artist's name suggested by British Museum catalogue., Numbered "121"., Temporary local subject terms: Pipes -- Covent Garden -- Female costume: 1812., and In contemporary hand in ink: 60.
Title from caption below image., Artist from earlier print of which this is a copy., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A copy in reverse of a plate originally published in: Annals of horsemanship ... / communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.] ... London: Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Description based on imperfect impression; text, probably a statement of responsibility, erased from lower left corner of sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Riding -- Pigs.
"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 spurs. Identified as Thomas Clark of Exeter Change."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gentle ride from Exeter Exchange to Pimlico
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 6 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.1 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Mr. Clark" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"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 spurs. Identified as Thomas Clark of Exeter Change."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gentle ride from Exeter Exchange to Pimlico
Description:
Title etched below image. and Written in lower right corner in red ink: Mr Clark.
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: Corkscrew -- Cresset -- Ghost.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th 1812 by T. Rowlandson No 1 James St., Adelphi
Title from caption below image., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A copy in reverse of a plate originally published in: Annals of horsemanship ... / communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.] ... London: Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Description based on imperfect impression; artist's signature mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A stout lawyer puts his left arm across the shoulders of a lean and distraught client, gripping him with a sinister show of affection, while he scrutinizes his face with the calculating smile of false friendship. He takes a sheaf of 'One' pound notes from his victim's hand. The lawyer is fashionably dressed; a brief-bag is slung from his arm. The client wears old-fashioned dress; his shoes are distended by bunions."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lawyer and his client
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Law -- Brief bag -- Bunions -- Lawyers and clients., Leaf 60 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.4 x 21.2 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"A stout lawyer puts his left arm across the shoulders of a lean and distraught client, gripping him with a sinister show of affection, while he scrutinizes his face with the calculating smile of false friendship. He takes a sheaf of 'One' pound notes from his victim's hand. The lawyer is fashionably dressed; a brief-bag is slung from his arm. The client wears old-fashioned dress; his shoes are distended by bunions."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lawyer and his client
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Law -- Brief bag -- Bunions -- Lawyers and clients.
"A grossly obese bishop, almost spherical, walks with a lean parson, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator. Both wear hat, gown, and bands. Their features are not dissimilar in type, but one is gross, carbuncled, and surly, the other lean and melancholy. One has a ticket for a 'Turtle Dinner' tucked into his waistcoat, the other holds a large Bible in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A master parson and his journeyman
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons., Leaf 54 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808.
"A grossly obese bishop, almost spherical, walks with a lean parson, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator. Both wear hat, gown, and bands. Their features are not dissimilar in type, but one is gross, carbuncled, and surly, the other lean and melancholy. One has a ticket for a 'Turtle Dinner' tucked into his waistcoat, the other holds a large Bible in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A master parson and his journeyman
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Parsons.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two sailors, one a negro, both stripped to the waist, are seated astride a long chest, inscribed 'Arm Chest GR.', to which they are lashed, facing each other with clenched fists. Other sailors look on, amused, or fiercely intent. Behind the white pugilist stands a buxom woman clasping a bottle; she says: "Now Jack--Brail up his Peepers or Mungo --will tip you Yankey-dodle-do." A naval officer wearing a cocked hat, rests his elbow on her shoulder. All the others are rough-looking sailors and their women. In the foreground a grinning negro sailor kneels near a sailor (left) who sits on a gun smoking and drinking. The latter is the only sailor with a pigtail; it reaches below his waist. A woman looks down at the fight from a hammock. On the right two disreputable-looking women are fighting, egged on by two sailors. In the background a sailor dances with two women; he says: "I love a bit of hop--Life is ne'ar the worse for it. When in my way do drop--a Fiddl--thats your sort [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073]." A one-legged man sitting on a gun plays a fiddle. In the foreground (right) stands a can of 'Grog.' Hammocks are slung from the roof."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with date removed from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, July 13th, 1812. Cf. No. 11981 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Imprint statement separated into two halves, one on each side of title., Plate numbered "164" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Bottom center of design., Temporary local subject terms: Hammock -- Negro -- Fiddle -- Wooden leg -- Pugilist., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 18 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two sailors, one a negro, both stripped to the waist, are seated astride a long chest, inscribed 'Arm Chest GR.', to which they are lashed, facing each other with clenched fists. Other sailors look on, amused, or fiercely intent. Behind the white pugilist stands a buxom woman clasping a bottle; she says: "Now Jack--Brail up his Peepers or Mungo --will tip you Yankey-dodle-do." A naval officer wearing a cocked hat, rests his elbow on her shoulder. All the others are rough-looking sailors and their women. In the foreground a grinning negro sailor kneels near a sailor (left) who sits on a gun smoking and drinking. The latter is the only sailor with a pigtail; it reaches below his waist. A woman looks down at the fight from a hammock. On the right two disreputable-looking women are fighting, egged on by two sailors. In the background a sailor dances with two women; he says: "I love a bit of hop--Life is ne'ar the worse for it. When in my way do drop--a Fiddl--thats your sort [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073]." A one-legged man sitting on a gun plays a fiddle. In the foreground (right) stands a can of 'Grog.' Hammocks are slung from the roof."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with date removed from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, July 13th, 1812. Cf. No. 11981 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Imprint statement separated into two halves, one on each side of title., Plate numbered "164" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Bottom center of design., and Temporary local subject terms: Hammock -- Negro -- Fiddle -- Wooden leg -- Pugilist.
Title etched below image., Letter "M" etched in lower left corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For a possible earlier state from 1806, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 63.
A sailor grasps the ears of his horse as he is hurled forward over its neck, just as they reach the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. In the distance is a ship at full mast. Behind them on a cliff is a castle (Dover Castle?).
Alternative Title:
Ttrip to sea
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., No. 7 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
In the center an auctioneer, hammer in hand, stands behind a podium having sold a pack of hounds with the human faces; Sheridan holds the hounds leashes. One dog sleeps on the floor as another urinates on its bone. On the left, a grey horse neighs as it is lead to the auctioneer. A clerk taking notes at a small desk to the left of the podium looks up at the auctioneer
Description:
Possibly by Williams, based on style., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., In pencil along bottom edge: Grey. P of W. Sheridan., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 17th 1812 by Wm. Holland No 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family conclave. A pretty young woman sits holding an infant in long clothes with curiously adult features; she turns towards an elderly man beside her (left); her sailor husband, who has risen from his chair, stares warily at his father. The old man, who wears a seaman's short jacket with knee-breeches, scowls towards his son, saying, "Why d'ye see I am an old Seaman and not easily imposed upon--I say that cant be my Son Jacks child why he has been married but three months and during that time he has been at sea--the thing is impossible you may as well tell me that my ship Nancy goes nine knots an hour in a dead calm, and now I look again its the very picture of Peter Wilkins the Soap Boiler." A dog sits beside him, much interested. The woman says: "My dear Father-in Law, Ill make it out very easily--Jack has been married to me three months--very well--I have been with child three months--which makes six--then he has been to sea three months has not he?-- and that just makes up the Nine!!" The husband: "Father, Farther [sic],--dont be too hard upon Poll--I know something of the log book myself--and d--m me but she has kept her reckoning like a true Seamans wife"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "London, Pubd." and "by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." For an earlier state with "15 July" etched in that space, see no. 11965 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication from descriptions of earlier states in the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "275" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 231., and Leaf 3 in volume 4.
"A design in six compartments arranged in two rows, each with a title. [1] 'Johnnys reception by "merry Tonkanoo at Negro Ball'. The ball is in an open shed with a negro fiddler seated high on a hogshead; most of the guests watch Johnny, the only white, and 'Tonkanoo' bowing to each other. The latter is a tall negro with huge false moustache and long wig, feathered hat, and wide-cuffed coat in imitation of English dress c. 1740, with breeches and bare legs. A negro behind Johnny disperses flies with a branch. A negro couple is dancing; the ladies are fully dressed, some with tall cylindrical hats. Behind are distant mountains. [2] 'Johnny dancing with Rosa--the Planters beautiful daughter'. At the same ball all the negroes form a background of admiring spectators while Johnny, still wearing his enormous hat, dances with a pretty English girl in conventional evening dress, holding both her hands. Tonkanoo stands with his arms extended towards them. In the foreground (left) is a little naked negro Cupid with bow, quiver, and arrows, pointing to the couple. [3] 'Johnnys Courtship and professions of Love to Rosa'. Rosa reclines on a sofa under a piece of drapery looped from a tree; Johnny (left), hat in hand, kneels at her feet while the Cupid aims his bow at him. A pet monkey sits beside Rosa, and behind her (right) stands a negro girl brushing away flies with a branch. Johnny's servant is behind (left) holding an umbrella. Two cockatoos bill on a branch. [4] 'Johnny and the fair Rosa tripping to the Altar of Hymen'. The pair run hand in hand along a path which winds to a church resembling an English village church. Negro servants run after them, one holding up a large umbrella. Before them run two little negroes; one is Cupid playing a fiddle, the other, Hymen, holds up a lighted torch. In the distance, nearing the church, are the parson and his clerk. [5] 'Nuptial ceremony of Johnny and the charming Rosa'. In a Gothic church the parson with his book stands behind a cylindrical altar on which are two hearts transfixed by an arrow. Johnny puts the ring on Rosa's finger. The congregation are delighted negroes and negresses. Against the altar sit Cupid and Hymen; Cupid wears Johnny's huge hat and plays the fiddle; Hymen blows at his torch. [6] 'Johnny and his fair Bride reveling in Jollity and festive mirth'. Johnny, tipsily jovial, his father-in-law, and Rosa, sit at table, drinking, the men smoking, many bottles of 'Sangaree' on the floor. A man fiddles, and in the background a dance is in progress. Johnny wears his planter's hat, &c., as in British Museum Satires No. 11983, and has always a swarm of flies round his head. Rosa throughout wears her ball-dress, with feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched above image., State before imprint mostly burnished from plate., Plate numbered "180" in upper right corner. Also numbered in upper left: Pl. 2., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and "Price one shilling coloured."
Publisher:
Pubd. by Ts. Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Celebrations, Courtship, Dance, Intoxication, Marriage, and Musicians
