"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 the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., and Watermark: S. Lay.
Publisher:
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 the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 30.5 x 22.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Compare: "Here's a health to the Duke of York", "wherever he goes". Cf. No. 8417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., No. 19 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A very short and corpulent woman stands full face, her handkerchief is raised towards her face as if to mop it, her left arm is clasped by a man of similar proportions, who kneels in profile to the left, looking up at her with a pained expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower right corner below image: Design'd for the Shakespeare Gallery., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Parody on Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A very short and corpulent woman stands full face, her handkerchief is raised towards her face as if to mop it, her left arm is clasped by a man of similar proportions, who kneels in profile to the left, looking up at her with a pained expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower right corner below image: Design'd for the Shakespeare Gallery., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Parody on Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery -- Obesity., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 21.4 x 22.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue and The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 34 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Defecation, Monuments & memorials, Putti, and Skull & crossbones
"The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue and The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 30.8 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 32.6 x 22.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Defecation, Monuments & memorials, Putti, and Skull & crossbones
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a nightcap. A large tear falls from his right eye. The Accusing Spirit, a bald-headed, elderly man, his face blotched with drink, with wings and wearing a long robe, in profile to the right, holds up to the Angel a paper inscribed "He shall not dye by xxx". The winged heads of a man and woman, poised on the claws of birds of prey, rest on clouds in the upper left corner of the design; he regards her insinuatingly, she grins back. A cherub's winged head flies behind the Accusing Spirit. Rays of light fall diagonally from the right on the Recording Angel. Billowing clouds complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: Dedicated (without permission) to the Revd. Mr. Peters.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a nightcap. A large tear falls from his right eye. The Accusing Spirit, a bald-headed, elderly man, his face blotched with drink, with wings and wearing a long robe, in profile to the right, holds up to the Angel a paper inscribed "He shall not dye by xxx". The winged heads of a man and woman, poised on the claws of birds of prey, rest on clouds in the upper left corner of the design; he regards her insinuatingly, she grins back. A cherub's winged head flies behind the Accusing Spirit. Rays of light fall diagonally from the right on the Recording Angel. Billowing clouds complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: Dedicated (without permission) to the Revd. Mr. Peters., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 40.9 x 29.8 cm, on sheet 43.2 x 33.1 cm., and Laid in at leaf 7 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a nightcap. A large tear falls from his right eye. The Accusing Spirit, a bald-headed, elderly man, his face blotched with drink, with wings and wearing a long robe, in profile to the right, holds up to the Angel a paper inscribed "He shall not dye by xxx". The winged heads of a man and woman, poised on the claws of birds of prey, rest on clouds in the upper left corner of the design; he regards her insinuatingly, she grins back. A cherub's winged head flies behind the Accusing Spirit. Rays of light fall diagonally from the right on the Recording Angel. Billowing clouds complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: Dedicated (without permission) to the Revd. Mr. Peters., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 41.1 x 29.9 cm, on sheet 43.6 x 32.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man
Alternative Title:
Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man
Alternative Title:
Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 41.9 x 28.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned,) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility. On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance""--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title inscribed in brown ink below image., Date based on published Gillray print., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7894., Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright. London : Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 130., Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray ... / by Thomas Wright, 1851, no. 58., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society.
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, and Constitutional Society (London, England)
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 280 x 496 mm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges, and two holes have been cut from sheet and repaired., Added in contemporary hand in lower right of sheet: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.4 x 50.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The dash preceding "Revolution Society" in title has been clipped from sheet, with a replacement dash written in ink on the piece of laid paper used to mend the hole. Below this is written in a contemporary hand: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
Alternative Title:
Beau 1791
Description:
Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
Two superimposed prints connected at the top edge by a paper hinge. The face of the print on top (Beau 1700) has been cut out to show the face of Beau 1791. Each is fashionably dressed in the respective styles of the period
Alternative Title:
Beau 1791
Description:
Title engraved above images., Sheets trimmed mostly within plate mark., Two lines of verse below Beau 1700: Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders ..., Two lines of verse below Beau 1791: But now the whole's revers'd -- each fop appears ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 22, 1791, by C. Fourdrinier, Junr., Charing Cross
"Three doctors, grinning with satisfaction, stand in conference in an apothecary's shop. One (left), very corpulent, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, holds a bottle labelled 'The Draughts as before Mr Costive'. His vis-à-vis stands chapeau-bras, holding a cane. Both wear old-fashioned dress with tie-wigs. The third, standing behind and between them is more fashionably dressed. On the counter (right) is a pestle and mortar, pill-box, and medicine phials, one labelled going to rest. Behind it are shelves on which are glass jars of varying sizes containing coloured liquids."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "608" in lower left corner., No. 45 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Physicians, and Wigs
"Whole length portrait of a man walking (right to left) with a mincing gait, left toe turned out. He looks through an eye-glass with a frowning grimace. His left hand, holding a bludgeon, is on his hip. His hair is cropped and he has side-whiskers, and is dressed in the manner adopted by the rakes and bloods of 1791, wearing a high-crowned hat, a waistcoat with a high collar at the back; his coat is slipped off his shoulder, showing the upper part of his shirt-sleeve. He wears long breeches or pantaloons and very short top-boots, see BMSat 8040, &c. In the background is a piece of water, trees, and buildings. He resembles Lord Barrymore. In the background is indicated a house (right) with a park wall and trees reflected in water."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: I Taylor.
Publisher:
Pub. Sepr. 1st, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
The interior of barber shop: On the left a man stands before a mirror, face contorted as he wipes his jaw, unaware of the boy behind him pointing and laughing at him as he holds the man's pigtail in his hand. Another customer is shown in the center seated on a chair, the barber behind him about to cut off his pigtail as well. The third man sits in a chair on the right, reading a newspaper; his lower head is also shorn of its pigtail. The room show other customers as well as stands for wigs. Above the door on the right hangs a sign "R. Crop'em, hair dresser", a second sign beneath reads "Shave for a penny. Crop for two penny." Through the window on the left in the back, is a display of ladies' hats
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 8, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Volume 2, page 78. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: Ingrediturq solo & caput inter nubila condit., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 78 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-crowned hat and a long coat with many capes, he holds a riding-whip and a 'List of the Horses' printed in three columns and headed by a print of horses leaving the starting-post. The other wears a cocked hat, powdered hair or wig, and holds a 'Betting Book' and pencil-case in his right hand. Both wear spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '607' in lower left corner., No. 44 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25.2, on sheet 38.6 x 27.1 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-crowned hat and a long coat with many capes, he holds a riding-whip and a 'List of the Horses' printed in three columns and headed by a print of horses leaving the starting-post. The other wears a cocked hat, powdered hair or wig, and holds a 'Betting Book' and pencil-case in his right hand. Both wear spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered '607' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 September 1791]
Call Number:
791.09.02.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A French patriot, wearing a cocked hat with large tricolor cockage, rests his hand on a bludgeon; from his pocket issues the "Rights of Man. Paine". In the background a noose dangles from a lamppost on which is fixed a bleeding head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Septr. 2, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Decapitations, History, Gallows, Nooses, and Street lights
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Bourbon Family Compact treaty, 15 August 1761 -- Berkeley Square: Lansdowne House -- Joseph Jekyll, M.P., as a monkey -- John Morris, M.P., as a bear -- Bears -- Monkeys., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 26, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, and Trained animals
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lorgnettes -- Seals -- Slang: dock., and Mounted to 37 x 20 cm.
A simple-looking countryman scratches his head as he stands between a solicitor and a barrister in front of Westminster Hall; the solicitor, on the left, taps his nose and grins towards the viewer. The barrister with a watch and chain with fobs hanging from his vest holds four documents tied with string in his left hand. Two barristers are seen entering Westminster Hall in the distance (left). In the center of the design, lower edge, the title is represented by musical notations for sharps and flats -- a flat between two sharps
Description:
Title from text below image., Design attributed to Dighton., Verse below title: Law is like a fashion, folks are bewitched to get into it. It is also like bad weather, most people are very glad when they get out of it., Companion print to: A sharp between two flats., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered '605' in lower left corner., Later issue of No. 3763 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., No. 43 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Clothing & dress, Customer relations, and Lawyers
A simple-looking countryman scratches his head as he stands between a solicitor and a barrister in front of Westminster Hall; the solicitor, on the left, taps his nose and grins towards the viewer. The barrister with a watch and chain with fobs hanging from his vest holds four documents tied with string in his left hand. Two barristers are seen entering Westminster Hall in the distance (left). In the center of the design, lower edge, the title is represented by musical notations for sharps and flats -- a flat between two sharps
Description:
Title from text below image., Design attributed to Dighton., Verse below title: Law is like a fashion, folks are bewitched to get into it. It is also like bad weather, most people are very glad when they get out of it., Companion print to: A sharp between two flats., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered '605' in lower left corner., Later issue of No. 3763 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 34 x 25 cm, mounted to 35 x 26 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in partial loss of imprint and plate number., and Music notes below image removed.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Clothing & dress, Customer relations, and Lawyers
"Sir William Chambers sits in profile to the left at a small round table; on it is a house of cards which is falling in pieces. From his pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Art of', scored through, followed by 'Grant of Parlt'. Beside him on the ground (right) is a large book or portfolio: 'Art of Building and Rebuilding or Palladia improved by S---W---C'. Other papers (left) are 'Affidavit It was only a crack signed - Adam [and] Wyat' and 'Bills for the repairing S. H." On the wall are three pictures: (left to right) (1) a rock entitled 'Inigo Jones', (2) a picture in a broken frame: 'The House that Jack built', a view of the north (Strand) front of Somerset House, (3) 'A Ruin A View on the Thames', a picture of the south front of Somerset House in ruins."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great architect modelling, Sr W- in his study, and Sir William in his study
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: House of cards -- Furniture: round pedestal tables -- Pictures amplifying subject: Somerset House -- Parliament grants -- River Thames -- Affidavits -- Reference to cracks in the Somerset House structure -- Allusion to Inigo Jones's work on Somerset House -- Allusion to Robert Adam, 1728-1792 -- Allusion to James Adam, 1730-1794 -- Allusion to Sir John Thynne, d. 1580 -- Allusion to Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials GR below.
Volume 2, page 78. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: In hoc signo vinces., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 78 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 25 Old Bond Street
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: hallways -- Maidservants: chambermaids -- Cooks -- Brooms -- Food: roasting fowl -- Pictures amplifying subject: the Duke of Clarence and Mrs. Jordan kissing., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with monogram IS at bottom.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
Title etched below image., Companion print to: A little tighter., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 80 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 18th, 1791 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Companion print to: A little bigger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 79 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
"The head and shoulders of a woman, caricatured, in profile to the right, singing with upturned eyes, holding up a paper in both hands. A wing, foreshortened, and very freely sketched, extends diagonally across her shoulder, and has some resemblance to a part of her dress; her hair is loosely arranged, but its contour is fashionable; her face is blotched with drink. Clouds and a ray of light are indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Cherubs -- Reference to Matthew William Peters, 1742-1814.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
"The head and shoulders of a woman, caricatured, in profile to the right, singing with upturned eyes, holding up a paper in both hands. A wing, foreshortened, and very freely sketched, extends diagonally across her shoulder, and has some resemblance to a part of her dress; her hair is loosely arranged, but its contour is fashionable; her face is blotched with drink. Clouds and a ray of light are indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Cherubs -- Reference to Matthew William Peters, 1742-1814., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 13.0 x 8.7 cm, on sheet 15.3 x 10.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
"Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconce. He is giving a musical entertainment. In the text he is ridiculed as Petronius Broadgrin, noted for consummate effrontery, and he is recommended the works of Joe Miller as a repertory of jokes. Below the title: 'Wags have at ye.'"--British Museum online catalogue and A description of Dibdin's musical entertainments, Oddities and The Wags
Alternative Title:
Oddity wags have at ye
Description:
Title etched above image. Above title: Attic miscellany., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., For another state published under different title, see: Marmaduke Momus., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. ii, page 197., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
"A whole length satirical portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, directed to the right; in his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal; his right hand is in his waistcoat pocket. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Norfolk dumpling
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Food: allusion to dumplings -- Hair fashion: cropped hair -- Obesity., and Mss. annotations below title.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A whole length satirical portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, directed to the right; in his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal; his right hand is in his waistcoat pocket. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Norfolk dumpling
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Food: allusion to dumplings -- Hair fashion: cropped hair -- Obesity., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.3 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 27.0 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Turkish soldiers, scattered over a wide parade-ground, are being instructed in squads, groups, and as individuals, by French officers. In the foreground a Turkish potentate, the Sultan or perhaps the Grand Vizier, leans against the stump of a tree, turning his head in profile to the left to watch the soldiers. At his feet (left) kneels a Black enslaved person who is filling a long pipe; beside him a fire burns on a tiny tripod. On the right a Frenchman pulls the long moustache of a Turk, striking him with his cane. Next, three awkward Turks are being taught musket drill. On the left a Turk threatens an officer, drawing his sabre. In the middle distance a Frenchman puts his hand on the projecting stomach of an obese Turk, to make his attitude more soldierly. In the background are a marching squad (left) and a firing squad (right) and, beyond, an officer is attacked by three Turks with sabres raised to strike. Behind (left) is a Turkish fort. The officers are not caricatured nor is their dress exaggerated. The Turks wear baggy trousers with either a fez or a turban; all have long moustaches."--British Museum online catague
Description:
Title engraved below image, in two lines., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Richard Bull (1725-1806) attritbutes the print to Isaac Landmann of Woolwich on his undated copy in an album held in the British Museum. See Museum number: 1931,0413.185., This image was first published in Vienna by Hieronymus Löschenkohl and then engraved once again by Johann Martin Will Augsburg in 1783., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with monogram CP at the bottom and countermark Patoh., and Ms. annotation in contemporary hand, numbered '64'.
Publisher:
Published April 3rd, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808
Subject (Topic):
Austro-Turkish War, 1788-1790, Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792, Black people, Clothing & dress, Turkish, Daggers & swords, Hats, Forts & fortifications, Military inspections, Military officers, French, Military training, Military uniforms, Pipes (Smoking), Tableware, Rifles, Soldiers, and Enslaved people
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Dorothy Jordan, 1762-1816 -- Allusion to Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 1755-1793 -- Allusion to Daniel Mendoza, 1764-1836 -- Marriages: Duke of York's marriage, 1791 -- Levees., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pub Novr 24, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818, Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793, Bedford, Frances Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
A lawyer stands in his office between two disconcerted litigants who are turned and walking away from him. As he brings a fork with an oyster on it to his mouth, he offers half of the empty oyster shell to the man on the right. A bald, worn-down looking man (left), looks down at his half of the shell, mouth agap. On the wall behind them are rolls of documents and a shelf of books; other papers are tacked on the wall above the desk. On the desk (right) is an ink well with feather pens. The center of the design at the lower edge is decorated with the musical symbols for sharps and flats
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "604" in lower left corner., Companion print: A flat between two sharps., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 42 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Customer relations, Desks, Inkstands, Interiors, Lawyers, and Offices
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: where may be seen the greatest collectn of caracatures [sic] in the Kingdom, admitce 1 sh, likways [sic] the head & hand of Count Struenzee., Temporary local subject terms: Chelsea, King's Road -- West Bourne Stream -- Factories: Chelsea, Patent Floorcloth -- Plenipotentiaries -- Literature: allusion to Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard -- Turks -- Musicians -- Carriages -- Dogs., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with monogram W at bottom.
Publisher:
Londn. Pub. April 25, 1791, by S. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Duncan, Mary Tufton, Lady, 1723-1806 and Pacchierotti, Gasparo, 1744-1821
Title from item., Attributed to Cruikshank based on George's attribution of a companion print to the same printmaker. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, 6, no. 8028., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Strolling actors -- Poverty.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 22, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title etched above and below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Strolling actors., and Watermark (partial): initial W appended at the bottom of a shield.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 16, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Above title: The Lilliputian world, plate 5., Two lines of verse below title: through Lilliputian realms my banners are unfurl'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputs -- Theatrical costume -- Military uniforms -- Trades: editors -- Walking staves., and Watermark: countermark I V.
"Burke stands full face, frowning; his right arm rests along a high pedestal inscribed 'G.R' which supports a bust of George III. In his right hand is a book: 'Burke on the French Revolution'. His left arm hangs by his side, in his left hand are the staff and cap of 'Liberty'. The right half of his dress is whole, the coat gold-laced, the pockets brimming over with coins. The left half is ragged, his empty pocket hangs inside out. The head of the King, in profile to the right, wears an arrogant frown. In the background is a mountain, evidently Parnassus, crowned with a windmill) on one sail of which Fame is precariously poised. Trees and foliage complete the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: "I preserve consistency by varying my means to secure the unity of my end." Burkes Reflections, p. 354., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Monuments -- Busts: bust of George III -- Mountains: Parnassus -- Buildings: windmills -- Symbols: figure of Fame -- Literature: allusion to Edmund Burke's Reflections On The French Revolution -- Poverty -- Money: coins -- Spectacles.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Burke stands full face, frowning; his right arm rests along a high pedestal inscribed 'G.R' which supports a bust of George III. In his right hand is a book: 'Burke on the French Revolution'. His left arm hangs by his side, in his left hand are the staff and cap of 'Liberty'. The right half of his dress is whole, the coat gold-laced, the pockets brimming over with coins. The left half is ragged, his empty pocket hangs inside out. The head of the King, in profile to the right, wears an arrogant frown. In the background is a mountain, evidently Parnassus, crowned with a windmill) on one sail of which Fame is precariously poised. Trees and foliage complete the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of text below title: "I preserve consistency by varying my means to secure the unity of my end." Burkes Reflections, p. 354., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Monuments -- Busts: bust of George III -- Mountains: Parnassus -- Buildings: windmills -- Symbols: figure of Fame -- Literature: allusion to Edmund Burke's Reflections On The French Revolution -- Poverty -- Money: coins -- Spectacles., 1 print : etching in brown ink on wove paper ; plate mark 27.6 x 17.3 cm, on sheet 28.9 x 18.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Between the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York trips the tiny Duchess of York, holding a hand of each, her arms raised in order to do so. Behind the three stands a colossal man in Highland dress wearing a plaid, sporran (with the Prince of Wales feathers as a crest), and feathered cap. The Prince (left), who is in civilian dress, wearing a round high-crowned hat, says, "My Dear little Sister when you are tired Big Sam shall carry you!" The Duke, handsome in regimentals, turns to her, saying, "come my Love you shall see Papa driving the Pigs & Mama Milking the Cows". He points (right) to a distant scene, where the King in hunting dress chases two galloping pigs with a whip, saying, "Pig wont go", and the Queen is milking a cow."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Neither speech label present on the British Museum copy is printed on the Lewis Walpole copy., Earlier state of No. 7905 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Queen Charlotte as a milkmaid -- George III as a farmer -- Male costume: Highland dress -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms., and The Prince of Wales's speech label added in contemporary hand (possibly Cruikshank's) in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820, and McDonald, Samuel, 1762-1802
Subject (Topic):
Costumes, Scottish, Cows, Farms, Giants (Persons), and Swine
"Lady Mount-Edgcumbe as a lean and ragged witch sits in profile to the right on a rocky mound overlooking the sea, her seat being a bundle of brooms. She supports her chin and nose on her right hand, the elbow resting on her knee. Her left arm is outstretched, pointing, her finger-nails are talons. Her hair blows out behind her from a bald forehead, and is on fire, the smoke rising into the sky. A frog at her feet (right) looks up at her. Behind is the sea with ships in full sail, indicating the view from Mount-Edgcumbe, Plymouth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Witches -- Brooms -- Frogs -- Ships -- Eclipses -- Views: Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth -- Travesty of Henry Fuseli., and Mounted to 30 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 17th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 and Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807
"Lady Mount-Edgcumbe as a lean and ragged witch sits in profile to the right on a rocky mound overlooking the sea, her seat being a bundle of brooms. She supports her chin and nose on her right hand, the elbow resting on her knee. Her left arm is outstretched, pointing, her finger-nails are talons. Her hair blows out behind her from a bald forehead, and is on fire, the smoke rising into the sky. A frog at her feet (right) looks up at her. Behind is the sea with ships in full sail, indicating the view from Mount-Edgcumbe, Plymouth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Witches -- Brooms -- Frogs -- Ships -- Eclipses -- Views: Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth -- Travesty of Henry Fuseli., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 20.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 17th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 and Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807
"Alecto, a fantastic hag (as in BMSat 7721), stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel (as in BMSat 8141), a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. ... John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. ... Sheridan stands between Alecto and John Bull. ... Fox is much larger than Sheridan, both wear French Grenadier's caps. On his drum is the head of a Medusa (Discord) with snaky locks. He smiles, watching John Bull with a stare of eager calculation. ... Behind him and on the extreme right. Stanhope runs off to the right, stooping as if to conceal himself; in his right hand is a letter: 'To Lord Stanhop[e] from W. Pitt.' ... The door of the Crown & Anchor Tavern is immediately behind Fox and Alecto. From it issue flames and smoke in which imps and demons are flying."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John-Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Watermark: Hall & Taplin 1804.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 4th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Alecto, a fantastic hag (as in BMSat 7721), stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel (as in BMSat 8141), a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. ... John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. ... Sheridan stands between Alecto and John Bull. ... Fox is much larger than Sheridan, both wear French Grenadier's caps. On his drum is the head of a Medusa (Discord) with snaky locks. He smiles, watching John Bull with a stare of eager calculation. ... Behind him and on the extreme right. Stanhope runs off to the right, stooping as if to conceal himself; in his right hand is a letter: 'To Lord Stanhop[e] from W. Pitt.' ... The door of the Crown & Anchor Tavern is immediately behind Fox and Alecto. From it issue flames and smoke in which imps and demons are flying."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John-Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 377 x 469 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges with some loss of top portion of image. Mounted to 40 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 4th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Alecto, a fantastic hag (as in BMSat 7721), stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel (as in BMSat 8141), a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. ... John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. ... Sheridan stands between Alecto and John Bull. ... Fox is much larger than Sheridan, both wear French Grenadier's caps. On his drum is the head of a Medusa (Discord) with snaky locks. He smiles, watching John Bull with a stare of eager calculation. ... Behind him and on the extreme right. Stanhope runs off to the right, stooping as if to conceal himself; in his right hand is a letter: 'To Lord Stanhop[e] from W. Pitt.' ... The door of the Crown & Anchor Tavern is immediately behind Fox and Alecto. From it issue flames and smoke in which imps and demons are flying."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John-Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 38.9 x 44.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 4th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
Subject (Name):
Bruce, James, 1730-1794
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
"A bull (John Bull) in profile to the right sinks, snorting with distress, under the weight of five persons. The foremost, astride the animal s neck, is the Emperor Leopold; he holds the legs of Catherine II, a stout virago, who sits on his shoulders, brandishing her orb and sceptre. She says, "Where's all your boasting now my old Bull! by St George I knew I could bring you upon your knees! ay, and before I have done riding you I'll make you knock under." Behind Leopold sits George III, saying, "Don't mind, don't mind, don't mind [a parody of the King's manner of conversation], he'll soon recover, It's all sham, his stumbling". Frederick William of Prussia sits behind George III, wearing regimentals with jack-boots. Behind him sits a fat Dutchman (Holland) smoking a pipe. Behind, and on the left, is a group of three persons on a smaller scale. Pitt, in profile to the left, seizes by the collar a lean and ragged British citizen (John Bull), saying, "No grumbling, you rascal! You must pay the Piper to be sure. What the devil, surely you couldn't expect the great folks that represent you to contribute a shilling! Besides you are a damn'd saucy fellow, master Bull, and you must be tam'd." Bull answers, "Tam'd: why, good God, Sir, I have scarcely a morsel of bread to eat, and even the Small Beer is Tax'd above my purchase!" On the extreme left a lean man kneels, blowing a trumpet and looking up at Pitt; he is perhaps an ironical representation of Fame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Who pays the piper?
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, imprint and publisher's advertisement. Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to H.W., i.e., either Henry Wigstead or William Holland, in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Russian Armament -- Bulls -- Crowns -- Scepters -- Walking staves -- Musicians: pipers -- Musical instruments: pipes -- Smoking pipes -- Holland.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 11, 1791, by Willm Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Great Britain, and Politics and government
Fox hides under a four-poster bed hung with curtains, his hand resting on his chin with a speech balloon above his head: "They'll do nothing at last!" A bare-breasted woman [Catherine II of Russia] wearing a nightdress, a crown on her head, and pearls at her throat, holds a dagger in her hand as she addresses Pitt who stands before her: "Which you please, young man. If your instrument entered it would make no impression that I'd care a fig for." Pitt also in a nightdress and holding a dagger, asks, "Shall we or shall we not?"
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Richard Newton. See The Lewis Walpole Library card catalog., The female figure was formerly mis-identified as Britannia (?). For correct identification of Catherine the Great see: Dawson, R. Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century, page 160., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. For copy after George Moutard Woodward published 15 June 1791, see British Museum Registration number: 1948,0214.468., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis and countermark I V.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20, 1791, by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Bedrooms, Daggers & swords, Canopy beds, and Sleepwear
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 September 1791]
Call Number:
791.09.02.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full length view of a very sad looking French aristocrat, facing the viewer with his hat under his left arm and a copy "Burke on the French Revolution" in his right hand. From his right pocket, a paper entitled "Capture of the French King." In the foreground left, a pile of medals and ribbons (symbols of royal orders) is labeled "Sacred to the National Assembly."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from companion print: A Democrat., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Countermark: I A.
Publisher:
Pub. Sepr. 2, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Captivity, History, Foreign public opinion, British, and Upper class
"The head of Pitt, gazing up in profile to the right, is travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which are three satellite toad-stools. Clouds and landscape, slightly indicated, form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Toadstool upon a dung-hill
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 20h [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"The head of Pitt, gazing up in profile to the right, is travestied as a fungus; his long neck represents the stalk, which grows out of a crown resting on a dunghill on which are three satellite toad-stools. Clouds and landscape, slightly indicated, form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Toadstool upon a dung-hill
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.7 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 24.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 20h [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A colossal figure of Catherine II steps from 'Russia', a rocky mound on the extreme left, to 'Constantinople', her toe resting on the horn of a crescent which surmounts a spire on a group of buildings, with a dome and a minaret. Her head is turned in profile to the right; in her left hand is an orb, in her right she holds out a sceptre over Constantinople, at which she looks with a determined frown. Beneath her petticoats, and strung out between 'Russia' and 'Constantinople' are the heads and shoulders of seven sovereigns, gazing up at her. On the extreme left is a man wearing the cap of the Doge of Venice, saying, "To what a length Power may be carried". Next is the Pope wearing his triple crown, saying, "I shall never forget it". Next is the King of Spain, saying, "By Saint Jago, I'll strip her of her Fur!" Louis XVI says "Never saw any thing like it". George III says "What! What! What! What a prodigious expansion!" The Emperor says "Wonderful elevation". The Sultan says "The whole Turkish Army wouldn't satisfy her"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
European powers
Description:
Title etched within image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Publisher's advertisement below image: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitce. one shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. April 12th, 1791, by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Manin, Lodovico, 1726-1802, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, and Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808
"The fat Mrs. Hobart (three-quarter length) sits directed to the left, fast asleep, her mouth open, her hands folded at her waist. Her face is blotched with drink; she wears a small hat from the back of which hangs a veil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "At the opera.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Sleeping -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 4th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Str
"The fat Mrs. Hobart (three-quarter length) sits directed to the left, fast asleep, her mouth open, her hands folded at her waist. Her face is blotched with drink; she wears a small hat from the back of which hangs a veil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "At the opera.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Sleeping -- Obesity., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 12.8 x 7.8 cm, on sheet 13.7 x 8.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 4th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Str
"Lady Cecilia Johnston, a thin and elderly lady (three-quarter length) much caricatured, in profile to the right, sits very alert and erect, her arms folded. Her hair is decorated with feathers and ribbons."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "At church.", and Temporary local subject terms: Theater audience.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 4th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Lady Cecilia Johnston, a thin and elderly lady (three-quarter length) much caricatured, in profile to the right, sits very alert and erect, her arms folded. Her hair is decorated with feathers and ribbons."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "At church.", Temporary local subject terms: Theater audience., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 12.3 x 7.9 cm, on sheet 22.6 x 16.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 4th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed resulting in loss of plate mark on top and sides of illustration., Illustration to ballad Bachelors' Hall written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The Oddities. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, price 6d. plain, 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Greenwich Pensioner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibdin and others. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly, may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., and Temporary local subject terms: Huntsmen -- Buildings: country houses -- Architectural details: outdoor stairway to country house -- Male costume: riding costume, 1791 -- Bachelors -- Horse whips -- Hunting horns.
Publisher:
Pub. Aprill [sic] 30, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, and Musical entertainments
"The Prince of Wales reclines on a sofa, half-sitting, half-lying, and leaning against Mrs. Fitzherbert. He is intent on a circular box or 'bandelure' at the end of a string which he holds round the second finger of his raised right hand, playing with the toy revived in the twentieth century as Yo-yo. Sheridan leans over the back of the sofa, embracing Mrs. Fitzherbert and thrusting his hand inside her decolletage. She puts her left hand on Sheridan's cheek, her right arm is round the Prince. The expressions of all three excellently indicate their preoccupations. On the left a fire blazes in the grate; above it is a decorative panel of a horse-race. On the shelf above is a bust of 'Claudius Rom: Imp:', a dice-box and dice, and the figure of an infant Bacchus, astride a cask and holding up a glass. On the wall behind Sheridan's head is a picture of 'Joseph & Potiphers Wife'. Behind him and on the extreme right is an open door showing a staircase. The Prince is stouter than in earlier prints; he wears his star, but his wrinkled stockings and slippers, like his pose, suggest indolence and domesticity. Mrs. Fitzherbert wears a tiara inscribed 'Ich dien', with three ostrich feathers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of quoted verse on each side of title: "Thus sits the dupe, content! "Pleases himself with toys, thinks Heav'n secure ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge and sides., and Temporary local subject terms: Busts: Claudius, emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D. -- Images amplifying subject: Bacchus as an infant -- Images amplifying subject: depiction of horse race on mantelpiece -- Pictures amplifying subject: Joseph and Potiphar's wife -- Toys: bandalore (yo-yo) -- Gambling: dice and dice-box -- Interiors: sitting rooms -- Furniture: sofas -- Fireplaces -- Morganatic marriages: George IV to Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Allusion to Bible: Genesis, 39.7-12 -- Emblems: frivolity (bandalore) -- Prince of Wales's feathers -- Mottoes: Prince of Wales's motto -- Literature: quotation from Sir Richard Blackmore.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 28th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"The Prince of Wales reclines on a sofa, half-sitting, half-lying, and leaning against Mrs. Fitzherbert. He is intent on a circular box or 'bandelure' at the end of a string which he holds round the second finger of his raised right hand, playing with the toy revived in the twentieth century as Yo-yo. Sheridan leans over the back of the sofa, embracing Mrs. Fitzherbert and thrusting his hand inside her decolletage. She puts her left hand on Sheridan's cheek, her right arm is round the Prince. The expressions of all three excellently indicate their preoccupations. On the left a fire blazes in the grate; above it is a decorative panel of a horse-race. On the shelf above is a bust of 'Claudius Rom: Imp:', a dice-box and dice, and the figure of an infant Bacchus, astride a cask and holding up a glass. On the wall behind Sheridan's head is a picture of 'Joseph & Potiphers Wife'. Behind him and on the extreme right is an open door showing a staircase. The Prince is stouter than in earlier prints; he wears his star, but his wrinkled stockings and slippers, like his pose, suggest indolence and domesticity. Mrs. Fitzherbert wears a tiara inscribed 'Ich dien', with three ostrich feathers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of quoted verse on each side of title: "Thus sits the dupe, content! "Pleases himself with toys, thinks Heav'n secure ..., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge and sides., Temporary local subject terms: Busts: Claudius, emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D. -- Images amplifying subject: Bacchus as an infant -- Images amplifying subject: depiction of horse race on mantelpiece -- Pictures amplifying subject: Joseph and Potiphar's wife -- Toys: bandalore (yo-yo) -- Gambling: dice and dice-box -- Interiors: sitting rooms -- Furniture: sofas -- Fireplaces -- Morganatic marriages: George IV to Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Allusion to Bible: Genesis, 39.7-12 -- Emblems: frivolity (bandalore) -- Prince of Wales's feathers -- Mottoes: Prince of Wales's motto -- Literature: quotation from Sir Richard Blackmore., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 29.8 x 39.7 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 28th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"From a cylindrical stone vat filled with steaming liquid protrude the legs and arms of a negro, who is being held under the surface by a fierce-looking overseer with the handle of a scourge. The overseer stands on a ladder (right), saying, "B-t your black Eyes! what you can't work because you're not well? - but I'll give you a warm bath, to cure your Ague, & a Curry-combing afterwards to put Spunk into you." On the wall above his head are nailed up, in a row with a bird, a fox, and ferrets (vermin), a black arm and two ears. Through a doorway (right) palm-trees are suggested. Beneath the title is etched: 'Mr "Frances [sic] relates "Among numberless other acts of cruelty daily practised, "an English Negro Driver, because a young Negro thro sickness was unable to "work, threw him into a copper of Boiling-Sugar-juice, & after keeping him, "steeped over head & Ears for above Three Quarters of an hour in the boiling "liquid, whipt him with such severity, that it was near Six Months before he "recover'd of his Wounds & Scalding"------Vide Mr Frances Speech, corroborated by Mr Fox, Mr Wilberforce &c &c.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Barbarities -- Barbarities to blacks -- Overseers -- West Indies -- Enslaved people -- Motion to abolish slave trade, April 18, 1791 -- Allusion to Charles James Fox, 1749-1806 -- Allusion to William Wilberforce, 1459-1832 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818., Matted to 36 x 49 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"From a cylindrical stone vat filled with steaming liquid protrude the legs and arms of a negro, who is being held under the surface by a fierce-looking overseer with the handle of a scourge. The overseer stands on a ladder (right), saying, "B-t your black Eyes! what you can't work because you're not well? - but I'll give you a warm bath, to cure your Ague, & a Curry-combing afterwards to put Spunk into you." On the wall above his head are nailed up, in a row with a bird, a fox, and ferrets (vermin), a black arm and two ears. Through a doorway (right) palm-trees are suggested. Beneath the title is etched: 'Mr "Frances [sic] relates "Among numberless other acts of cruelty daily practised, "an English Negro Driver, because a young Negro thro sickness was unable to "work, threw him into a copper of Boiling-Sugar-juice, & after keeping him, "steeped over head & Ears for above Three Quarters of an hour in the boiling "liquid, whipt him with such severity, that it was near Six Months before he "recover'd of his Wounds & Scalding"------Vide Mr Frances Speech, corroborated by Mr Fox, Mr Wilberforce &c &c.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: Barbarities -- Barbarities to blacks -- Overseers -- West Indies -- Enslaved people -- Motion to abolish slave trade, April 18, 1791 -- Allusion to Charles James Fox, 1749-1806 -- Allusion to William Wilberforce, 1459-1832 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 38.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A dog with the head of Sheridan is being chased out of the gate of Devonshire House by the Duke of Portland and other leading whigs. He flees 'To Carlton House', a signpost (left) pointing the way. His collar is inscribed 'G.P.', to his tail is tied a large architectural drawing of Drury Lane, showing the new front to Bridges Street added to Garrick's theatre by R. and J. Adam. The foremost of the pursuers is Portland, about to hurl a stone; Fox follows, holding out his hands pleadingly to the fugitive. Burke holds a club inscribed 'Shelaly', and clenches his fist fiercely. Next him is the short Lord Derby (left), and on the right the Duke of Norfolk. Lord Stormont holds up his hat as if to hurl it. Along the (Piccadilly) wall of Devonshire House broadsides and papers are hung up for sale."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bardolph badgered and Portland hunt
Description:
Titles etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Whigs -- London: Devonshire House -- Road signs -- Allusion to Drury Lane Theater -- Allusion to Carlton House.
Publisher:
Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
"A dog with the head of Sheridan is being chased out of the gate of Devonshire House by the Duke of Portland and other leading whigs. He flees 'To Carlton House', a signpost (left) pointing the way. His collar is inscribed 'G.P.', to his tail is tied a large architectural drawing of Drury Lane, showing the new front to Bridges Street added to Garrick's theatre by R. and J. Adam. The foremost of the pursuers is Portland, about to hurl a stone; Fox follows, holding out his hands pleadingly to the fugitive. Burke holds a club inscribed 'Shelaly', and clenches his fist fiercely. Next him is the short Lord Derby (left), and on the right the Duke of Norfolk. Lord Stormont holds up his hat as if to hurl it. Along the (Piccadilly) wall of Devonshire House broadsides and papers are hung up for sale."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bardolph badgered and Portland hunt
Description:
Titles etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Whigs -- London: Devonshire House -- Road signs -- Allusion to Drury Lane Theater -- Allusion to Carlton House., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.2 x 42.8 cm, on sheet 30.5 x 44 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
"The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a letter 'To D------ of M------' [Marlborough] are on the table beside him. Miss Gunning holds a pack of cards (the ace of spades uppermost) to her lips, saying, "I Swear that I never wish'd or tried directly or indirectly to get a Coronet; that I never saw or writ to Lord B------[Blandford] or Lord L--------- [Lorne], in all my Life; - that Men are my aversion; - & that I never had any thing to do with, with the Groom, in all my born days; - Will that do, Dad?" He answers, "Well done, Bett! we'll get thro' the Business I'll warrant you; - we can write with all sorts of hands, we've got all kinds of Seals, & with the assistance of our old Friend under the Table, we shall be able to gu them yet daughter but I must be Mum". Through a hole in the boards under the table the Devil emerges, surrounded with flames, he holds up a torch exultantly, saying "Swear!" Gunning melts his sealing-wax in the torch, the right is an open hearth over which hangs a cauldron full of coronets. Beside it (left) sits Mrs. Gunning, blowing the fire with a pair of bellows formed of a book: 'Letter to the D------ of A' (see BMSat 7983). She says: "That's right, my sweet innocent Angel! say Grace boldly! make haste my dear little lovely Lambkin! - I'll soon blow up the Fire, while Nauntee-Peg helps to cook up the Coronets; we'll get you a nice tit-bit for Dinner, before we've done, my dear little deary." Opposite her and on the extreme right an old woman, dressed in rags stands over the cauldron with a spoon, saying, "Puff away, Sister! the Soup will soon boil - law's me, how soft the Green Peas do grow, & how they Jump about in the Pot when you Puff your Bellows!" Behind her is a placard: 'Waltham Abbey - by Peg Niffy'. (Mrs. Gunning, née Minifie, was said in the Press to have written a novel called Waltham Abbey, this she denied. 'Letter . . .', p. 89.) On the wall behind Miss Gunning is a print of the pillory (the punishment for perjury) and a bill: 'Affidavit of Eliz: Canning.' Behind her father are 'The Life of a Soldier', 'The Man of Honor a Catch', and 'The useful Groom a new song'. Through a door (left) behind Gunning is seen a groom holding a horse; he says, "I'm ready to ride, or swear, or any thing". A signpost points 'to Blenheim'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough -- Allusion to George Spencer, 5th Duke of Marlborough -- Literature: allusion to Susannah Gunning's Waltham Abbey -- Interiors: cottage -- Pictures amplifying subject: title page of Waltham Abbey -- Pictures amplifying subject: pillory -- Furniture: tables -- Military drums -- Coronets -- Utensils: ladles -- Inkpots -- Seals -- Sealing-wax -- Minifie, Margaret "Auntee Peg"., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis on top and initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
"The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a letter 'To D------ of M------' [Marlborough] are on the table beside him. Miss Gunning holds a pack of cards (the ace of spades uppermost) to her lips, saying, "I Swear that I never wish'd or tried directly or indirectly to get a Coronet; that I never saw or writ to Lord B------[Blandford] or Lord L--------- [Lorne], in all my Life; - that Men are my aversion; - & that I never had any thing to do with, with the Groom, in all my born days; - Will that do, Dad?" He answers, "Well done, Bett! we'll get thro' the Business I'll warrant you; - we can write with all sorts of hands, we've got all kinds of Seals, & with the assistance of our old Friend under the Table, we shall be able to gu them yet daughter but I must be Mum". Through a hole in the boards under the table the Devil emerges, surrounded with flames, he holds up a torch exultantly, saying "Swear!" Gunning melts his sealing-wax in the torch, the right is an open hearth over which hangs a cauldron full of coronets. Beside it (left) sits Mrs. Gunning, blowing the fire with a pair of bellows formed of a book: 'Letter to the D------ of A' (see BMSat 7983). She says: "That's right, my sweet innocent Angel! say Grace boldly! make haste my dear little lovely Lambkin! - I'll soon blow up the Fire, while Nauntee-Peg helps to cook up the Coronets; we'll get you a nice tit-bit for Dinner, before we've done, my dear little deary." Opposite her and on the extreme right an old woman, dressed in rags stands over the cauldron with a spoon, saying, "Puff away, Sister! the Soup will soon boil - law's me, how soft the Green Peas do grow, & how they Jump about in the Pot when you Puff your Bellows!" Behind her is a placard: 'Waltham Abbey - by Peg Niffy'. (Mrs. Gunning, née Minifie, was said in the Press to have written a novel called Waltham Abbey, this she denied. 'Letter . . .', p. 89.) On the wall behind Miss Gunning is a print of the pillory (the punishment for perjury) and a bill: 'Affidavit of Eliz: Canning.' Behind her father are 'The Life of a Soldier', 'The Man of Honor a Catch', and 'The useful Groom a new song'. Through a door (left) behind Gunning is seen a groom holding a horse; he says, "I'm ready to ride, or swear, or any thing". A signpost points 'to Blenheim'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough -- Allusion to George Spencer, 5th Duke of Marlborough -- Literature: allusion to Susannah Gunning's Waltham Abbey -- Interiors: cottage -- Pictures amplifying subject: title page of Waltham Abbey -- Pictures amplifying subject: pillory -- Furniture: tables -- Military drums -- Coronets -- Utensils: ladles -- Inkpots -- Seals -- Sealing-wax -- Minifie, Margaret "Auntee Peg"., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 37.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):
Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
Title from item., Attributed to Cruikshank by cataloger based on other works of this artist in collection., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Budget: Pitt's budgets -- Taxes -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to Babel tower., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below and countermark J But[...]nshaw., and Mounted to 40 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
"A comic map of England formed by an old woman seated in profile to the left on the back of a dolphin-like monster, whose open mouth (right) represents the 'Thames', the two points of its tail being 'Lands End' and 'Lizard Point'. She holds a trident in her left hand. Her right hand (on which is a dove) and right foot form the north of Wales and the north of the the Bristol Channel. The peak of her cap is 'Berwick'. Many other names are inscribed round the coast. The sea forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Gillray from the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 9 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 25th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The interior of Drury Lane Theatre which is collapsing during a performance. The theatre is seen from the side of the pit, the stage and curtain being on the extreme left, and the orchestra receding diagonally in perspective from left to right. Large blocks of stone fall from the roof, with men and women clinging to them; others have already fallen and are crushing the occupants of the pit, who try to escape. On the right a gallery falls from the roof, covered with falling figures and shattered by blocks of stone. The pillars of the tiers of boxes which form a background are breaking. Tiny figures in the boxes are freely sketched in attitudes of terror. On the stage (left) is an actress holding out a goblet; an actor in Roman armour falls into the orchestra under a huge block of stone."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Two lines of verse etched below title: Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften bricks and bend the knotted oak!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Charlie Boy crying for the loss of his political father
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as William Dent in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1990,1109.89., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: Allusion to debate Fox vs. Burke, May 6, 1791, on the French Canadian constitution., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 37 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Title engraved below images on second and third sheets., Text below title: This plate, from an original drawing by Samuel Collings Esq., is dedicated with submission to the Right Honorable Philip Stanhope ..., Later state with altered imprint statement and added captions in lower margins; originally published by S.W. Fores on Nov. 16, 1790., Caption added to this later state in lower margin of first sheet: The graces, the graces., Caption added to this later state in lower margin of fourth sheet: Remember the graces., Thirteen designs on four plates, each individually captioned., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A companion print to BMSat 8279. An elderly man, obese and grotesque, stands on a rostrum (right), reading through a single eye-glass held in his right hand. His audience (of men and women, with one small boy who eats an apple) sit and stand: a bench stretches across the foreground on which three persons (left) sit in back view, the other seven, full-face, turn their backs on the reader. Two elderly men, much amused, sit with their backs against the rostrum; the other listeners are standing. The design is crowded, with thirty-seven figures, nearly all fully characterized, some slightly caricatured. On the back wall is a print of John Gilpin losing his hat and wig, cf. BMSat 6886, &c. On the rostrum is a placard: 'Select Poems from | Peter Pindar | Don Quixote & | Tristam [sic] Shandy.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Companion print to: Tragic readings., and Added in later hand above title: June 1[8]10.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 25, 1791, by C. Knight, Brumpton [sic], and W. Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 8, 1791, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Boredom, Cemeteries, Churches, Couples, Obesity, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Eight figures in two rows are depicted reading Thomas Paine's pamphlet The Rights of Man, each gesturing dramatically and each with a lengthy quote above his head either praising or denouncing the ideas expressed. On the top row are Edmund Burke (reading the passages referring to himself), Charles Fox, George III, and Charles Jenkinson. In the second row, Queen Charlotte, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, William Pitt, and Richard Sheridan seem to address each other in a similarly lively debate of contrasting responses to Paine's arguments
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to F.G. Byron. See An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age .../ Iain McCalman. Oxford : Published by Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 20., Below image on right: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitte. on shilg, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., For further information, consult library staff., and Pencil annotations identify each of the caricatures, but identifies Mary Wollstonecraft as Hannah More. Questionable printmaker attribution in local card catalog: R. Newton f.?
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1791 by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, Jenkinson, Chalres, 1727-1808., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, and Politics and government
Title from item., Attributed to Newton by curator based on other works of this artist in the collection., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published in London on May 26, 1791, by W. Holland., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: satire on Paine's The Rights of Man -- Reading -- Readers., and Watermark: name (illegible).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Jenkinson, Charles, 1727-1808
A sheet full of dozens of images of men and women's caricatured heads, after Hogarth's Characters ; Caricaturas?
Description:
Title from quotation etched below image., Frederick Birnie was active in London from 1787-1792. See British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A sheet full of dozens of images of men and women's caricatured heads, after Hogarth's Characters ; Caricaturas?
Description:
Title from quotation etched below image., Frederick Birnie was active in London from 1787-1792. See British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Volume 2, page 75. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: Te veniente die, te decedente canebam., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 75 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Print shows Priestley walking right to left, diagonally away from the spectator; his face, turned in profile to the left, has a sinister smile. He holds out, as firebrands, two burning papers: 'Political Sermon' and 'Essay on Government'. From his pockets other papers project inscribed: 'Revolution Toasts, Essays on Matlin [sic] Spirit' and 'Gunpowder'. He tramples on books and papers, including an open book: 'Bible explained away.' Cf. British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Possibly executed by Samuel Collings, who is believed to have employed the pseudonym Annibal Scratch for some of his prints., Questionable attribution to John Nixon from unverified data in local catalog record., Text above image: Attic miscellany. Political portraiture no. 4., and Plate issued as an illustration in: Attic miscellany. London : Printed for Bentley and Co., v. 2, no. 22 (1791), page 369.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by W. Locke
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Title from caption etched below image., Possibly by Cruikshank., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Mistresses -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume, 1791., and Reference to the description of this event in The bon ton magazine in an unidentified hand on mat below image; matted to 47 x 63 cm.
A view of the interior of a busy English barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (left); beside her, one soldier brushes his britches while another adjusts his helmet. A second woman (center) carries a child on her back as she hands a drink to a soldier who sits on a bunk; a basket of rolls (?) hangs from her arm. A third woman (left) stands at a washing tub wringing out clothes as she looks up approvingly at a young boy dressed as a soldier; beside her a handsome, well-dressed solder holds a baby who smiles at the scene
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: French barracks., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Army
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Arms & armament, Barracks, British, Breast feeding, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Laundry, Soldiers, English, and Women
A view of the interior of a busy English barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (left); beside her, one soldier brushes his britches while another adjusts his helmet. A second woman (center) carries a child on her back as she hands a drink to a soldier who sits on a bunk; a basket of rolls (?) hangs from her arm. A third woman (left) stands at a washing tub wringing out clothes as she looks up approvingly at a young boy dressed as a soldier; beside her a handsome, well-dressed solder holds a baby who smiles at the scene
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: French barracks., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 38.3 x 47 cm., and Mounted on leaf 35 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Army
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Arms & armament, Barracks, British, Breast feeding, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Laundry, Soldiers, English, and Women
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Pacchierotti; Muse seated next to a monument, holding a laurel crown in her right hand, touching a lyre on the monument with her left; after Edward Francis Burney; open-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.294., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf numbered 1 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Pacchierotti; Muse seated next to a monument, holding a laurel crown in her right hand, touching a lyre on the monument with her left; after Edward Francis Burney; open-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.294., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page numbered 3 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., and 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 8.7 x 10.2 cm.
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: English barracks., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
A view of the interior of a busy French barracks shows a more domestic than military atmosphere although weapons and other gear adorn the walls and lay scattered on the floor. The scene includes a woman nursing a baby (right) as another child plays at her feet. Beside her another woman holds up a mirror so that an officer can admire his reflection from both the front and back. A third woman (left) cuts an officers toe nails as a barber dresses his long queue; another officer has his hair powdered. In the background a man in his night shirt sits on the side of his bed as he stretches his arms and yawns
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: English barracks., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 38.6 x 47 cm., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Aug. 12, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
France. Armée
Subject (Topic):
Barracks and quarters, Foreign opinion, British, Arms & armament, Armor, Barbers, Barracks, French, Breast feeding, Canopy beds, Cats, Children, Dogs, Grooming, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, Soldiers, Women, and Yawning
"Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette seated on chairs at Varennes while an armed and ferocious mob invades the room through an open door (left); the approach of an angry crowd is suggested by a sea of heads, above which weapons are raised. The King sits full face, the Queen beside him in profile to the left and on the extreme right. One ruffian presents a blunderbuss at the Queen, another, yelling, threatens the King with a pistol and sabre. A soldier (left) advances with his musket cocked towards the little Dauphin, who has fallen on his back at the King's feet, having apparently been pushed over by the soldier's bayonet. A man wearing only a bonnet rouge and a shirt advances with a dagger in each hand; behind him is a man with a raised hammer in one hand, a broom in the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French democrats surprising the royal runaways
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Invasion of Varennes -- Allusion to French Revolution -- French democrats -- Fugitives -- Weapons: sabres -- Guns: blunderbass -- Muskets with bayonettes -- Daggers -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- French revolutionary cockade -- Brooms -- Hammers.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 27th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVII, of France, 1785-1795, and Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
"Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette seated on chairs at Varennes while an armed and ferocious mob invades the room through an open door (left); the approach of an angry crowd is suggested by a sea of heads, above which weapons are raised. The King sits full face, the Queen beside him in profile to the left and on the extreme right. One ruffian presents a blunderbuss at the Queen, another, yelling, threatens the King with a pistol and sabre. A soldier (left) advances with his musket cocked towards the little Dauphin, who has fallen on his back at the King's feet, having apparently been pushed over by the soldier's bayonet. A man wearing only a bonnet rouge and a shirt advances with a dagger in each hand; behind him is a man with a raised hammer in one hand, a broom in the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French democrats surprising the royal runaways
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Invasion of Varennes -- Allusion to French Revolution -- French democrats -- Fugitives -- Weapons: sabres -- Guns: blunderbass -- Muskets with bayonettes -- Daggers -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- French revolutionary cockade -- Brooms -- Hammers., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 38.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 67 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 27th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVII, of France, 1785-1795, and Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
A political satire with Burke depicted as Mercury carrying on his shoulders Marie Antoinette who in turn carries Louis XVI
Alternative Title:
Grand monarque and the rights of kings supported in a sublime and beautiful manner
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication from known location of William Dent: London, 116 Strand., Hand-colored by Dent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Hand-coloring extends well beyond the plate line in this impression. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pub. by Wm. Dent
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
