Watercolor drawing of a caricatured tailor standing in profile to the left revealing an enormous paunch. He stands before a railing on a boardwalk with the ocean waves below. He desperately clutches a small girl in his left arm, a cane between his legs, and fumbles with an umbrella as a forcible gale blows away the remainder of his possessions including a pattern book, wig, hat, the child's bonnet, and tape measure. A dog crouches on his side in the lower left
Alternative Title:
Embarras des richesses
Description:
Title from ms. caption inscribed below drawing., Artist from British Museum catalogue., and Original drawing for a print by the same name etched by G. Cruikshank and published by G. Humphrey. Cf. no. 13435 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England),
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Girls, Sewing equipment & supplies, Tailors, Wigs, and Winds
Title from item., One plate printed on two sheets, each of the sheets with its own title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from first state published print 1 Jan. 1790 by Bentley & Co. as: Magentic dispensary., Date surmised from publication date of Magazine., Above left half of the joined image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Reissue, with altered title, of no. 7748 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Machines for magnetic cures -- Bag-wig -- Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Animal magnetism -- Dr. Yeldell.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797 and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Temporary local subject terms: Cits -- Tradesmen -- Cockney sportsmen -- Allusion to 'country box' -- Guns -- Parasols.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 11th, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24, Old Bond Street
A young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair are kitchen implements, poker, tongs and shovel, a mop, broom, etc., and, in the center, a large wheel of cheese infested by mice. Various vegetables are assembled around the cheese, while a dog and cat confront one another below it.
Description:
Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells., "Price one shill."--Lower margin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and price. Imprint from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 13 June 1776 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Women domesticss, Wigs, Hairstyles, Cooks, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Mops & mopsticks, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cats, Apes, Cheese, and Vegetables
"Eldon as a street-beggar kneels on both knees on straw placed on paving-stones, wearing a cap resembling those worn by butchers and the rags of a Chancellor's gown over tattered breeches. He supports himself by a staff, and holds out his short powdered wig. Beside him (left) lies an empty and dilapidated bag inscribed The Old Bagg [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12883]. He looks down with a gloomy scowl, and from his closed lips rise the words: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man [cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 13991, 16236]--vide beggars petition, Tricked out of Work by a Soldier. Round his neck is tied a placard reaching below the waist, and inscribed: Pity a poor Old Man out of Place, at the age of 78 [76], and though extremely anxious, for employment, disappointed in, all his expectations of procuring the Same. His pension is only 4.000 P A [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10714] and not a Dinner has been dressed in his house within the memory of man! He has a wife to support, and a Son to provide for, who holds only Eight Appointments! Beside him an emaciated dog stands on its hindlegs holding a begging-dish, with a piteous expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To a benevolent public
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Title from caption above image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered in ms. upper edge of sheet: 47., and Mounted to sheet 22 x 16 cm.
Publisher:
T. Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing and dress, Dogs, Firearms, Sleepwear, and Wigs
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Print from: The attic miscellany, v. i, p. 121., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1790 -- Female costume, 1790 -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Animal magnetism -- Dr. Yeldell., and Mounted to 25 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Bentley & Co.
Subject (Name):
De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797 and Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812
"A broadside satirising the Jacobite Alderman William Benn, who was involved in a drunken fight with another alderman at a London City feast because the former had proposed to the health of the Young Pretender; with an etching showing in the foreground Benn on the ground, holding in his right hand a bottle, his wig is pulled off by a dog, on the right another alderman, attacking Benn with a raised bottle, in the background a group of people looking on; with engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in three columns, and with two vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wars broke out in the city
Description:
Caption title., Broadside illustrated with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20.3 x 33.1 cm)., First line: Draw near, ye sober citizens., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: dog wearing a collar "Charls's [sic] Breed" and chains -- Drunken battle with wine bottles -- Bottles: wine bottles used as weapons -- Hospitals of Bethlem and Bridewell -- Gold chains -- City of London feast -- Ass's ears on William Benn -- Envelope -- Aldermen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. and Benn, William, 1702-1755
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Jacobites, Dogs, and Wigs
"Two men sit beside a blazing fire in a well-furnished room, overcome by drink, and fast asleep. One, a stout officer in regimentals, wearing a cocked hat, seated in an arm-chair (right), has thrust his wooden leg into the fire, where it is burning. The ashes of his pipe fall on to the tail of a dog asleep under his chair. His companion sits (left) supporting his head on his elbow, which rests on a round table on which are a punchbowl, glasses, and a candle, in which his wig is burning. On the wall (left) is a framed plan of fortifications."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon companions
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified by the repository based on the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of 'Drolls.', and Watermark (partial): fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 15th, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: playing cards -- Domestic service: manservants -- Dishes: teacup and saucer -- Lighting: candlestick -- Furniture: card tables -- Jewelry: earrings.