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.
Title from text above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Caricatured heads.
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
"Satire against Barnave as a Janus-headed figure, holding the civil list as a tied sack in his hand, with 3-line verse below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Homme du peuple 1789
Description:
Title from item., "Janus" etched below image in lower left; "Brutus" etched below image in lower right., Illustration from an unidentified book with another portion of an illustration on verso., Text below image begins: Tantot froid, tantot chaud, tantot blanc ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Declaration of Rights of Man -- Mythology: reference to Janus -- Literature: allusion to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- Allusion to French Revolution., Watermark (partial); probably fleur-de-lis in an oval frame., and With a stamp of Bibliotheca Lindesiana in lower right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Barnave, Antoine, 1761-1793
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Janus (Roman deity), and Bags
Title from caption below image., Above the image: Attic miscellany., and Temporary local subject terms: Mastiffs -- Weapons: bludgeons -- Ruffians -- Orders: Star of the Thistle -- Norfolk.
Title from text below image., Cf. No. 7958 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Dogs: mastiffs -- Weapons: bludgeons -- Ruffians -- Orders: Star of the Thistle.
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.
Title from captions above or below each image., Date of publication based on that of a similar print with the same title published 25 Mar. 1791 by W. Dickinson. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.465., Three designs on one plate, each individually titled., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text below image in lower right, possibly the printmaker's signature., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
