V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Jack Frost, bestriding a bear (left), hurls snowballs at Napoleon, who tries to escape, trudging through snow with skates attached to his spurred and tasselled Hessians. Two strike his back, another has knocked off his plumed bicorne. He holds his nose, looking over his shoulder to say: "By gar--Monsieur Frost this is a much colder Reception than I expected I never experianced such a pelting before--I find I must take care of my Nose as well as my Toes--Pray forgive me this time and I swear by --St Dennis never to enter your -- dominion again." From the angry bear's nostrils issues 'a Northern blast' which strikes Napoleon's posterior; its hindquarters are inscribed 'Northern Bear Ham'. Jack Frost is naked, except for large skates, emaciated, and old, with a wide gap-toothed mouth, beard, and huge moustache. From each glaring eyeball slants a searchlight inscribed 'Northern lights'. In each bony hand is a big 'Snow ball', and another flies through the air. He says: "What--Master Boney--have I caught You at last lie--teach you Russian fare--take that and that as a relish and digest it." In the middle distance the 'Empr Alexander' stands with legs astride on a mound of snow pointing derisively at Napoleon. He wears cocked hat, cloak, and fur-topped boots with huge curving toes, like those of three 'Cossacks' who watch Napoleon from a mound on the extreme left. They have spears but are smoking and one is seated; they grin, content to wait their time. Behind Alexander the spears and fur-capped heads of an army project above the snow, in front of the walls of 'Petersbourgh'. On the extreme right and nearer the foreground are French soldiers crouching in the snow and warming their hands at a fire of sticks inscribed 'Moscow'; fragments of gutted buildings are behind them. The sky is covered with slanting lines indicating a blizzard blowing against Napoleon and the French."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack Frost attacking Boney in Russia
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Elmes in the British Museum online catalogue., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Publised [sic] Novemr. 7th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Napoleon Collection, UW reference no.: E15., Plate numbered "179" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling coloured.", Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 32 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A jovial sailor bestrides a mis-shapen horse with panniers, a foot in each basket. In each basket sits a bedizened prostitute, each holding one of his arms. He grins amorously towards the one on his right who is immensely fat, with a patched face and coarse features. She wears long gloves, holds up a parasol, and a reticule dangles from her arm. The other, who is less repulsive, drinks from a bottle; from her pannier dangles a jar of 'British Spirits'. Both wear feathered hats and low-cut dresses with very short sleeves, necklaces, and ear-rings. They are in a wide cobbled street leading to the Thames, which resembles the sea; behind a corner shop (left), inscribed 'Dealer in Maritime Stores', appears the stern of a ship flying an ensign."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Octor. 29, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12159 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "216" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 74 in volume 3.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sailor stands full-face, legs astride, hands plunged through the bottomless pockets of his jacket; he squints violently, one eye turned on an uproar (left), the other on two termagants (right). His broken pipe, still smoking, lies at his feet. He says: "I am hardup--not a Quid left, or Shot in the Locker--to pay the Fiddler--Mi Eyes--what a Squall, how it whistles trough the Ratlines I must Braill up and Scudd under Bare Poles." A prostitute with a patched face (left) kicks him and is about to bring down a fiddle with broken strings on his head. This she has snatched from a man with a wooden leg and patched eye-socket who lies on the ground at her feet. Another woman (right) yells at him, holding out an enormously long bill on which are such items as 'D°', often repeated, and 'Sundreys', 'Lodgings', 'Grog', 'Fidler'. Behind her an old bawd in the bar points to a chalked-up score, where signs for guineas are marked. On the left a watchman with a lantern enters, springing his rattle, which is inscribed 'St C'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed with the pseudonym "X.Y.Z." Printmaker identified as William Elmes in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Augt. 16th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 11826 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "79" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 25 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Patent sticks for family correction, warranted lawfull!
Description:
Title etched below image., Date assigned by cataloger., A reduced copy of a print with the same title that was etched by Gillray and published 27 November 1782. Cf. No. 6123 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "133" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 94 in volume 2.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A vast and hideous negress (left), almost spherical, is embraced by a lean and elderly military officer with a long pigtail. They are on the ramparts of a heavily fortified castle, indicated by a massive pillar and a raised portcullis beyond which is another lean officer, in back view but looking over his shoulder. In the background are cannon and a sentry. Behind the woman's head is a placard: 'Voluntary Subscription for a Soldiers Widow the smallest donation will be gratefully received--By Rachel Ram Part'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "145" in upper right corner; the digit "5" is etched backwards., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling couloured [sic]."--Lower right corner of design., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 86 in volume 3.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The small, nimble Napoleon plays leap-frog with the larger and more solid personifications of Holland, Spain, and Hanover, who stand with bent backs and hands on knees. Having leapt over the bent backs of a fat Dutchman (left) and then a Spanish don in feathered hat, ruff, and cloak, he bestrides the shoulders of Hanover, a German soldier wearing a cocked hat and jack-boots. The Dutchman, his hat and broken pipe on the ground, says with a scowl: "He has left the Swiss and Italian a Mile behind - and as for me he ha s Knock'd my hat off and broken my pipe - pretty encouragement this to play at Leap Frog". The Spaniard: "By St Iago - my back is almost broken." The Hanoverian: "Why did I submit to this." Napoleon, wearing his enorrnous cocked hat with tricolour plume, says: "Keep down your head Master Hanoverian my next leap shall be over John Bull." John (right), a fat citizen wearing a cocked hat, faces him with a clenched fist, saying, "I'll be d-----d if you do Master Corsican"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Leapfrog
Description:
Title etched below image., Later reissue by Tegg of a plate first published ca. June 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint, "London, Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn," is scored through but mostly legible in lower left; Tegg's imprint has been added to the right of Roberts's crossed-out imprint. See British Museum catalogue., Year of publication has been burnished from end of imprint statement. Date of publication based on earlier reissue with the crossed-out (but legible) year "1807" at end of imprint. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "285" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 60 in volume 4.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sequence of six scenes in compartments arranged in three pairs. [1] A foal lies beside its dam. [2] The owner leads the high-stepping animal across a race-course; behind (right) is the weighing-post. [3] Ridden by a huntsman he takes a flying leap over a wall; hounds run beside the animal. [4] He is one of a pair of galloping horses in a post-chaise, ridden by a postilion. An ugly couple sleep uneasily in the chaise. [5] As an emaciated pack-horse he plods along a rough track, thrashed by a coarse old peasant woman. [6] A huntsman stands on his dead body, cutting off the flesh for the hounds; carrion birds hover."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Septr. 25th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11811 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "90" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 211-2., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 84 in volume 2.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Elba is represented by a flat-topped rock emerging from the sea only a little above the waves. Napoleon, much burlesqued, sits on a huge chamber-pot inscribed 'Imperial Throne'. He is ragged and bare-legged but wears a large (damaged) feathered bicorne; under his arm is a clyster-pipe. He turns his head in profile towards a demon rising from the sea (left) who holds out a large pistol, saying, "If! you have one Spark of Courage left! take this." Napoleon answers: "Perhaps I may if you'll take the flint out." The demon is nude and emaciated, with a spiky backbone; flame issues from his mouth. Behind Napoleon is the trunk of a decayed tree; on a branch hang (right) a (torn) pair of breeches and two tattered stockings. On the trunk, above Napoleon's head, a crow is spreadeagled to represent the imperial eagle; from its splayed legs hangs a gorget inscribed 'Imperiel Crow'. On the ground by Napoleon's throne are a large jar of 'Brimstone', an open book: 'A Triti [sic]--on the Itch! by Doctor Scratch', a small-tooth comb, a pipkin, and three medicine-bottles. On the right is a cannon made out of a jack-boot as in British Museum Satires No. 12255, and mounted on a gun-carriage. A pole topped by a turnip and two carrots has a little wooden sword tied to it, in imitation of a trophy. At its base lies a syringe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "331" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 32 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A night scene, broadly burlesqued. Napoleon, in profile to the left, strides in furtive haste towards a massive gate, directing the beam of a dark lantern against it. From between his coat-tails a long white feather (see British Museum Satires No. 12613) floats behind him, emerging from a cluster of shorter ones. He wears an enormous bicorne, with a plume set in an ornament composed of a crown and olive-twigs (as in British Museum Satires No. 11998), a sash and sabre over his long coat, tasselled Hessians with huge spurs. A head wearing a night-cap looks through the bars which form the top of the gate under a stone arch, to say: "Rap--Rap--Ra--Who comes there--what Midnight disturbers are you." An officer (actually Caulaincourt) crouches at the gate holding the knocker which is set in a great lion's mouth, and beckons towards Napoleon, answering, "It's only Count Vincen"--Alias--Little Boney. the Imperial Fugitive--returned from Victory." The gate-keeper: "Alias-- who"--Alias the Divil you mean." In front of Napoleon's foremost foot a large frog leaps forward; behind him a lean fierce cur barks: "A Russian Cur-- Bow--Wow--Wow." A large label floats back from Napoleon's mouth, inscribed: "hist--is that the Croaking of Frogs I hear--I mistake--its' only the Sycophant Lads in Paris--hurra-ing at My unexpected and precipate [sic] return. thank my Luckey Stars--I have got out of the clutches of them Damd Cossack Curs"--or I should have been food for Bears--long before this time." Beside the gate is a sentry-box, in which a sentry completely muffled up and wearing a night-cap, sleeps, seated with folded arms, clasping his musket. A frog looks from behind the box."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Little Boney sneaking into Paris
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "186" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shillin [sic] coloured.", Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 39 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Caulaincourt, Armand-Augustin-Louis de, duc de Vicence, 1773-1827