A grotesque racist caricature of a buxom black woman in a white dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet with ribbons, grinning at the viewer and saying 'Don't you think you Fancy me now Massa'. Probably inspired by the "High Life in Philadelphia'' series by Edward Williams Clay between 1828 and 1830 mocking supposed racial differences and modeled after George and Robert Cruikshank's Life in London
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: An image of a hand, palm facing the viewer., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Pasted on a blue album sheet at corners: 21.5 x 18 cm.
"Pushed by Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, George IV, more corpulent than in other prints, walks in an ornate circular stand or support on castors (as used for toddling children, cf. British Museum satires no. 7497) towards Virginia Water (right), his fishing-rod against his shoulder. He wears a hat with a wide curving brim inscribed á la Townsend [cf. British Museum satires no. 10293], double-breasted tail-coat, breeches, and pumps; his right arm rests on the ring of the stand, in his hand is a small book: Old Izack [Walton]. From the stand dangles an ornate reticule: Fish Bag; the base is decorated with two fat squatting mandarins. Lady Conyngham looks over her right shoulder at the King, puffing from her effort, but singing Rule Britannia; the crossbar at which she tugs is a sceptre. She wears an enormous ribbon-trimmed bonnet and décolletée dress; the hook from the King's line has caught in her dress which strains across her vast posterior as she leans forward. Knighton wears a court-suit with bag-wig and sword. He pushes with both hands with great concentration, singing, Send him Victorious. In his coat-pocket are a clyster-pipe and a paper: Petition of the Unborn Babes. A signpost terminating in a realistic hand points To Virginia Water. There is a background of trees and water."--British Museum online catalogue and A later impression [i.e. state] of British Museum Satires No. 15413 ... A scroll has been added beside Knighton's coat-tails inscribed with his 'places of profit': Clerk of Stannaries Recr Genl Duchy of Cornwall, Privy Purse &c &c &c. See Diary of H. Hobhouse, loc. cit. A border has been added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 27th, 1827, by S.W. Fores, Pciadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Bonnets, Fishing & hunting gear, Mistresses, Obesity, Physicians, British, Pulling, Scepters, Medical equipment & supplies, and Traffic signs & signals
An imitation of the celebrated Paris sign-board of the restaurant Au Boeuf à la mode, rue de Valois, of which there is a French print. ... A cow wearing a hat, cravat, and shawl gazes to the right. On hind-legs (left) are boots of Hessian type, on the fore-legs cross-gartered slippers; a miniature of a bull hangs from her neck. Rowlandson's design has more resemblance to and probably derives from another version of this subject, engraved by Leclerc after Laucon ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publishd Febry. 14, 1800, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Bonnets, Cows, Jewelry, Signs (Notices), and Slippers
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
Octr. 28, 1777.
Call Number:
777.10.28.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A very corpulent couple facing left, promenade arm in arm. The gentleman, behind the woman, wears a military coat, ruffled shirt and a tricorne hat with a bow on the front. He carries a walking stick, and the pommel of his sword is just visible behind the voluminous dress of his wife, whose face is nearly hidden in an enormous calash hat of the period
Alternative Title:
Captain Calipash and Mrs. Calipee
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., Signed in lower left image M.D. i.e. Matthias Darly?, MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered '35' in ink on upper mount.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 19 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mother dressed in a poke bonnet and long loose-fitting white dress holds the hand of her young daughter who wears a blue sash and feather plumed hat. The child says "Mamma I want some money to buy cakes" while her mother responds "How can you be so vulgar child, have not I told you a hundred times I never wear pockets!"
Description:
Signed by the artist; title from caption in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Hurrah for the bonnels so big!! and Hurrah for the bonnets so big!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title begins: It having been represented to the city authorities that Temple Bar was not wide enough for the ladies bonnets to pass through ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1828 by John Fairbun [sic], Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Two women sit in chairs facing one another, discussing the animal costs of fashion. The woman on the left wears a bonnet and has one hand inside the large muff on her lap
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St., Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue., One of a series of lithographs published by W. Soffe: Whims & oddities., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 30.5 x 21 cm., Printed on wove paper., and Imperfect; series number erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 37 Box D210
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A monkey wears a white bonnet and sits on a chamber pot with arms crossed across her lap in imitation of an elderly woman facing opposite with her dress raised sitting upon a 'closet stool'. The pair stare and grin at each other
Description:
Title from inscription below image in the artist's hand., Date devised by cataloger., and Attributed to Woodward.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Monkeys, Imitation, Bonnets, Women, Urination, and Defecation
"Leach (right), the Vice-Chancellor, dressed as a woman, with a trimmed bonnet over his wig, sits on a corded chest inscribed Commissio[n] ; against this leans a book: Justifia et honor. He grasps a moneybag inscribed 10,000, and holds the ear of a fox which crouches against his knee. He faces John Bull who is stripped to the waist, with a gigantic leech on his back. John, a countryman in patched breeches, registers angry terror and pain; he looks over his shoulder, exclaiming: "D--me what a monstrous Leech! it not only sucks blood but honor also!" Leach says: "I am not plain, Leech, Sir, but by vulgar denomination--I am called Miss Leech if you please--." Beside J. B., and pointing menacingly towards him, are the muzzle of a cannon, a sheaf of bayonets in a chest inscribed 'G R' and 'Steel Lozenges' [see British Museum Satires No. 13513]. Against this lie shackles inscribed 'Bandages', and cannon-balls inscribed 'Bolus' and 'Iron Pills'. On a hill behind a large cap of 'Liberty' dangles from a gibbet against which leans a ladder. Leach's fox turns its head towards John, saying: "In Law. what plea so tained [sic] and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Observes the evil? There is no Vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts Shak Mer of Ven--Act 3 Scene 2." Behind Leach, and on the extreme right, is a second chest inscribed 'French and Italian Monkey[s]'. A monkey wearing a fool's cap crouches on it, grinning at his reflection in a hand-mirror."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 39 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "John Bull" and "Sir John Leach" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "July 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of eight lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Smolky, 18 Rupert Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Leach, John, 1760-1834
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Cross dressing, Bonnets, Chests, Foxes, Worms, Parasites, Cannons, Cannon balls, Bayonets, Shackles, Ladders, Gallows, Liberty cap, Monkeys, Mirrors, and Fools' caps
"Alderman Wood, dressed as an elderly woman (as in British Museum Satires No. 13858) in bonnet with a lace frill, worn over a cap, and tippet, comes out of his house in South Audley Street, grasping in a gloved hand a large bottle inscribed 'Popularity'. He stands, directed to the right, between the pillars of the porch; above the porch in large letters: 'Refuge for the Destitute'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed only with Robert Cruikshank's name, but a collaboration with George Cruikshank is noted in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 26 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
