"An elderly ugly and obese 'cit', seated full face in an arm-chair, yawns cavernously, with closed eyes. He wears a nightcap. His comely and meretricious-looking young wife holds up her fingers above his head, to signify horns (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8809, &c), while she slips a letter into the hand of a handsome young military officer who stands in the doorway behind her, a finger on his nose."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
Also issued separately., Date of publication based on imprint, complete apart from a crossed-out (but still legible) year, on earlier state: Pubd. December 24, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 [sic] Cheapside. Cf. No. 11145 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Later state; beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate might have been published, perhaps in an earlier state, on 24 December 1809. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 168., Plate numbered "290" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Yawns -- Cuckhold., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"Many heads, grotesque and otherwise, are grouped round an oval space ... . The figures along the lower margin are half length, and look upwards. Some seem to be characters in a masquerade. They include (above): an ugly old parson preaching (the centre figure), flanked by a doctor sniffing a medicine-bottle, and a lawyer shouting from his 'Brief'. Above him is the head and arm of a soldier, in violent action, and with a skull (Death) grinning at his unconscious profile. There are also (inter multa alia) a pretty young woman with an infant, a grossly drink-blotched monk holding a bottle, a devil clasping a young woman wearing a small mask across her eyes, a witch with a broom, a Chinese, a Turk. ... This title-page is not used in either of two sets of the [Caricature] magazine inspected."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state.
Alternative Title:
Mirror of mirth
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Date from Grego; the British Museum catalogue suggests a date of 1809., For a proof state before letters, see no. 11458 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Probably a title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?]., and Title from text in image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"The cobbler leans savagely over his wife who is tied to a chair, and with her wrists bound. With his awl between his teeth he pulls at the thread with which he is stitching up her mouth. She is an elderly virago with pendent breasts, who glares up at him, crisping her fingers; their faces are close together. A buxom young woman leans delightedly over the pair, holding up a candle."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Cobblers cure for a scolding wife
Description:
Date of publication from Grego; a questionable date of 1813 is also assigned in the British Museum catalogue for the earlier reissue., For an earlier reissue with the title corrected, the plate number added, and the year of publication in imprint crossed out, see no. 12148 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Later reissue; plate number has been added and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Originally issued without plate number, with the word "wife" in title misspelled "wiff," and with the imprint "London, Pub. Aug. 4, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 809.08.04.01+., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "294" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"Bust of an old man weeping, intended for Heraclitus."--British Museum catalogue.
Description:
Numbered "17" in upper left corner., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Stevens, George Alexander,--1710-1784.--Lecture on heads., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"P. 32"--Upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Markwell, M. Advice to sportsmen, rural or metropolitan, noviciates or grown persons ... London : Thomas Tegg, 1809., Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued., and Title etched above image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A sequence of four designs divided by intersecting lines. 'Spring'. An ugly tailor kneels with clasped hands at the feet of a plain woman, who holds up a fan encouragingly. A card of patterns hangs from his pocket. He says: "Oh you bewitching Angel behold at your feet a Swain as tender as a Veal Cutlet, You are the very Broad Cloth of perfection--have pity on me Adorable Mrs Griskin." She answers: "You enchanting Devil I do not know what to say to you. however Mr Thimble--that Mole between your eye-brows-- put me so much in mind of my poor departed Husband, that I think I cant refuse you." 'Summer'. The pair walk arm-in-arm in a landscape. He has become plump and wears trousers in place of the breeches worn in the other three designs. She flourishes a parasol. A dog follows. He says: "O thou wert born to please me My Life my only Dear." She answers: "Ay now you look a little stylish You are a--Charming Man who would not be married." 'Autumn'. They face each other defiantly, she holds a letter beginning 'Dear Mr Thimble,' and shrieks: "Here you feller here's a pretty commence. An interspected letter from one of your Naughty Women I knew you was going to Gallivant." He answers: "Well Ma'am, since you come for to go to that, who was it Galivanted with Mr Dip the Dyer to White conduit House last Sunday answer me that however I'll have a separation." 'Winter'. The pair are seated each side of a writing-table at which a lawyer sits reading a paper: 'Articles of Seperation between Jeremiah and Tabitha Thimble'. Her hands are in a muff; she says with a painful smile: "I never felt myself so Comfortable in all my Life." He has grown thin and sits with clasped hands, saying, "O Blessed day for Jerry Thimble I hope to pass the next Year in Peace and quietness"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 286., Later state; imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "253" in upper right corner., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Septr. 15th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12407 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Temporary local subject terms: Male Costume, 1814: Trousers -- Fans -- Tailors -- Female Costume, 1814: Fur muff -- Parasols -- Dogs -- Lawyers -- Furniture: Writing-table., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"Scene in a dance-room, which is roughly panelled, has a low platform across one end, and a small gallery (right) with a fiddler and a man blowing a French horn; it is lit by a hanging chandelier. In the centre two men face each other in boxing attitudes; one is stripped to the waist, the other to the shirt. Women stand behind them, alarmed or interested. A woman has fainted and is supported by a man who administers smelling-salts. On the right a wild scuffle is going on: two termagants seize each other by the hair, a third, on the ground, pulls down one of the combatants; they resemble prostitutes of St. Giles. Others are comelier and better dressed. Women and men stand on the platform watching with amused interest; one or two women register alarm or concern; on the right are two ugly old bawds."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Kicking up a breeze at Nell Hammiltons hop and Teggs caricatures ; no. 56
Description:
"Price one shilling."--Following imprint., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 199-200., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Febry. 16, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11796 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Chandelier -- Violin., and Title etched below image; the letter "z" in "breeze" is etched backwards.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Numbered in upper right corner of design: 274., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Publisher and date of publication from Grego., Temporary local subject terms: Food -- Cruet -- Night cap., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"John Bull, a hideously carbuncled 'cit', looks down grinning at a semicircle of men on a much smaller scale who surround his half-length figure. They are (left to right) Napoleon, wearing a huge bicorne, who looks up to say 'Ships. Colonies and Commerce'. A man in military uniform, quite unlike Alexander, his back to Napoleon, says: "Russian Vengeance attend John Bull. A fat Dutch burgher puffs smoke towards John, saying, III eternally smoke him". A scowling man in civilian dress with tousled hair says: "Let him tremble at the name of America". Prussia, a handsome military officer in place of the damaged soldier who after Tilsit represented Frederick William III in English caricature, says: "Beware of Prussia". A similar officer (Francis I) says: "Austria will never Pardon him". A Spaniard wearing a cocked hat says: "Spanish Fury overtake him". A scowling face says: "Let him beware of Denmark". John says: "Dont make such a riot you little noisy Brats, all your bustle to me is no more than a storm in a Chamber pot"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also issued separately., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Plate numbered "131" in upper right corner., Probably a later state; first half of imprint appears to have been burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Prussia -- America., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.