"George IV (left), covered with orders, flees in terror from a figure (right) composed of rectangular slabs of different size, all inscribed 'Address', except for the head, which is inscribed 'Queen', and the feet: 'Feeling' and 'Sense'. This figure e...
Alternative Title:
S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, that told what a cowardly action deserves ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
In the foreground, two women help a third terrified down the steps of a cabana and into the water. Two other women watch from inside; all are naked except for one of the women who pulls the woman into the water. A similar scene takes place in the di...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Margate (England)
Subject (Topic):
Cabanas, Fear, Health resorts, Nudes, and Swimming
Design composed of four vignette images, each providing a comic visual pun on the name of the religous sect mentioned in the caption below. The "Jumpers" jump over a stream while being chased by goats; the "Quakers" cower and pray in fright as a donke...
Description:
Title from text centered above images, and from numbering in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Religious groups, Goats, Jumping, Streams, Fear, Donkeys, Fences, Dogs, Fighting, Watchmen, and Lanterns
"Two timorous duellists face each other at close quarters in a saw-pit, trembling and dropping their weapons, namely pistol and blunderbuss; each has a heap of weapons at his feet: sabres, rapier, pistol, more blunderbusses. The hair of both rises on ...
Alternative Title:
Direful courage of Dolla Lolla
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1810 by S.W. Fores, Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Fear, Guns, Military uniforms, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
A young man, three-quarters length (left), screams in horror as he gazes on the apparition (right) with large teeth, wearing a night cap and spectacles (clouded so the eyes are hidden),and whose claw-like hand rests on the young man's shoulder
Alternative Title:
Fright
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
"A night scene, lit by a crescent moon. Men and women flee in abject terror from a menacing figure draped in a sheet, apparently on stilts, with glaring eyeballs, long beard, and talons on its outstretched hands. One of the fugitives is on a terrified...
