"A grotesquely hideous man, lean and elderly, sits in an armchair addressing a comely young woman who stands demurely (l.), her pose accentuating her pregnancy. Behind them is an empty fireplace; on the chimney-piece is a Venus pudica flanked by cupid...
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Publish'd Feby. 2d, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 6015, Gillray's 'Ahitophel in the Dumps'. Liverpool, emaciated and despairing, and much caricatured, rides an ass along a road on a desolate heath towards a gibbet (left), to which carrion birds are flying. ...
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And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed ...
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Pubd. Jany. 31st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Ahithophel (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Despair, Donkeys, Vultures, Nooses, Gallows, Bags, and Medical equipment & supplies
"A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or...
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Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or...
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Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across t...
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Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
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Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across t...
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Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
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Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
A grotesque caricature attacking the much-debated 1820 settlement scheme which encouraged English people to settle in South Africa, where they were promised fertile land and a pleasant climate. In the print, a working-class English family are shown be...
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Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Forlorn Hope
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Title etched below image. The word "Forlorn" in title is scored through and the word "Good" has been inserted above the line with a caret, forming the correct place name "Cape of Good Hope".
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Pubd. Septr. 7, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
South Africa
Subject (Topic):
Emigration and immigration, Emigration & immigration, Indigenous peoples, Ethnic stereotypes, Cannibalism, Snakes, Lions, Crocodiles, and Fires
A young girl holds a bouquet of flowers in her right hand with a basket of more flowers over her right arm. She clutches her apron with her left hand. She stands facing the viewer wtih a little dog at her feet looknig up at her
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Published Novr. 1, 1812 S. & J. Fuller at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place
"A squarely built young man walks, with an unseeing stare, diagonally towards the spectator and to the left, on a pavement. He wears a round hat, high coat-collar over swathed neckcloth; his double-breasted 'Jean de Bry' coat, see BMSat 9425, is strai...
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Pubd. May 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
