"An obese and elderly citizen stands almost full-face holding up a (?) turbot, with an expression of intense satisfaction. His left hand holds his head, pushing up his wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with a flapped waistcoat. Between his feet is a shallow saucepan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v 6., no. 7445 for a description of another state published in 1788., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.7 x 22.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"An obese and elderly citizen stands almost full-face holding up a (?) turbot, with an expression of intense satisfaction. His left hand holds his head, pushing up his wig. His dress is old-fashioned, with a flapped waistcoat. Between his feet is a shallow saucepan."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v 6., no. 7445 for a description of another state published in 1788., and Watermark: A Stace [?] 1798.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and India paper sheet 10.9 x 17.5 cm.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 1, 1801 by J. Wheble, Warwick Square
A man with multiple carbuncles on his face holds a map in his hands. Through the center of the map runs 'Rhino Fluvius'. The land is divided into provinces or states with names based on types of wines. Behind on the wall is a shelf with wine bottles, bowls, and glasses
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain probably the pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Later impression, imprint visibly worn.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st 1801 by Mr. Howitt, No. 15 Queen St., Soho
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Publication date inferred from other prints signed Giles Grinagain, published by S. Howitt., See British Museum Catalogue of prints and drawing ... Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10341 for description of 1804 printing by S.W. Fores., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: Horse -- Veterinarian medicine -- Veterinarian quacks -- Tools -- Saw -- Axe -- Heated hot iron --, and Printseller's identification stamp in lower right corner of print: S·W·F.
As she looks directly at the viewer, a short, plump woman dressed in a short dickey bares her breasts as she stands, legs apart, between a dresser and an armchair. A cat with a shocked expression looks up under her short chemise
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 22 cm.
"A Welshman and a Yorkshireman drink together at a table outside a rustic building; one holds a halter, waiting for a horse which a boy in the background is catching. The former says: '"Gots splutter I tell the County where I came from is so fertile that if you were to put in a seive over Night in a Close w [cropped] Hur Knows you would have hard matter to find it in the morning it would be so covered with grass.'' - Yn - "Phoo - thats nothing when compared to a Clos [cropped] is in Yorkshire where you may put in a Horse at Night and not be able to find him next morning.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Three lines of text below ttitle: Gots splutter I tell the Country where I came from is so fertile that if you were to put a seive over Night in a close which hur knows you would have hard matter to find...
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1801 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.3 x 22.9 cm., Printmaker's signature, imprint, and publisher's announcement worn (or partially burnished?) from plate., Publisher's stamp "SWF" in lower right corner of sheet., and Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned professional dress. Behind him (right) stands a senile-looking and spectacled colleague, while a third (left), also in a serjeant's wig, sits in back view in an arm-chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Councillor
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., A companion print to: A money scrivener., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 34.4 x 24.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. With publisher stamp: S.W.F., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiting, one over a prostrate member. An elderly man protests angrily; his neighbour tries to make him sit down. The room is lit by a chandelier hanging from an ornate ceiling. A servant draws a cork, another enters with a punchbowl from behind a screen (right). Bottles stand in a magnificent wine-cooler, round which empty bottles are massed. The members' hats are piled on an ornate chimney-piece; a Jew reaches over a low screen to take a hat, unaware hat a member has risen to denounce him. This screen is in front of a 'Ballotin Box', with two round apertures inscribed 'Nay' and 'yea'. On the wall (left) is a placard: 'Rules to be observed in this Society, Ist That each Member shall fill a half pint Bumper to the first Toast. 2nd That after Twenty four Bumper toasts are gone round, every [sic] may fill as he pleases. 3 That any Member refusing to comply with the above Regulations to be fine a bumper of Salt & Water'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; sheet 43.6 x 55.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With watermark: Russell & Co. 1799., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 16 Feby., 1801, by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Russell & Co. 1799., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 April, 1801, by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 20 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 20.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 68 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub'd. April 2nd, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Publication year from unverified data from local card catalog record., Dated "April 2, 1801" in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.3 x 18 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Probably an earlier reversed version of print published in 1812. Cf. No. 11972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 236., Title, statement of responsibilty, and imprint trimmed and re-mounted below design., Removed from a blue mounting: Formerly part of a shop album?, and Mounted on verso of leaf 70 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 30.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint; printed on browned paper., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publ'd. May 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"An elderly man in old-fashioned dress stands at his desk, his right hand on an open ledger, looking down with a calculating grimace. He wears a night-cap and slippers; a pen is behind his ear. His high stool is behind him. In the background another elderly man writes seated at a desk. Papers spiked on files hang from the wall, and lie on the floor, with folio volumes. An 'Invoice' is pasted on the wall. Above a high shelf is the date '1800' etched over '1787', with 'R. 1788'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Companion print to: A Counciller, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 72 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug
Description:
Title etched below image., Place and date of publication inferred from a reversed copy published by R. Ackermann. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 28.3 x 20.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on verso of leaf 72 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug
Description:
Title etched below image., Date assigned by curator., For similar design see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist v. 2, page 33., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J. Budgen., and Mounted on leaf 73 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
"Social satire: a crowd of impatient, angry squires hustle for their guinea fee, given out by a clerk at a desk."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Special jurymen receiving their fees
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.5 x 26 cm, on sheet 22.9 x 29.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 20, 1801, by Wm. Humphrey, No. 4 Rupert Street & P. Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn
"A handsome young woman, in full dress with feathers in her hair, kneels on one knee, left foot thrust forward, arms extended, apostrophizing an ornate arm-chair on a dais (right). She appeals to Thalia and Melpomene for aid in her profession, asking for enormous rewards for her conspicuous abilities, should she 'ever reach the boards of a London Theatre'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from letterpress text printed below image., Three paragraphs of text below title: Hear me dramatic sisters, gay Thalia, and sublime Melpomone, by guardians to your supplicant, and aid her in her profession ..., Printer's line below lines of text: Spragg, printer, 27 Bow-Street, Convent-Garden., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 19.1 x 23.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of title and letterpress text., and Mounted on leaf 75 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub'd. 10th Augst., 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A man in old-fashioned dress kneels in profile to the right at a high-backed elbow-chair, clutching a bundle of 'Bank Notes'. He addresses the 'Adorable and ancient Lady of Thread-needle Street', asking for wealth, for success to the conductors of the new buildings of the Stock Exchange, and for 'prosperity to the little man in the brown bob wig [? John Bull], for he has much money and little wit, therefore fair game for . . . my profession'. He also prays that he may never be a Lame Duck (a defaulter, cf. BMSat 6273)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from letterpress text printed on same sheet as plate., Three paragraphs of text below title: Adorable and ancient Lady of Thread-Needle-Street, have pity on thy admirer, bless him with thy solid charms, in Bullion, or stamped gold, or if it best pleases thee, let the light texture of thy paper garments float before his enraptured fancy, and animate him to pursue the path that leads to riches in abundance ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 19.1 x 22.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of title and lines of letterpress text., and Mounted on leaf 75 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A fat elderly John Bull kneels in profile to the left, clasping his hands above the seat of a chair on which lies a long tobacco pipe. On the floor is a frothing tankard inscribed 'Golden Lion'. On shelves (right) are small spirit-casks, punch-bowls, &c. He prays to 'Jolly Silenus', asking for success to his 'old Brown Stout', brewed with the help of tobacco and treacle; for success with a certain rich widow, and for 'plenty of smuggled spirits and protection from the Excise-man'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Eighteen lines of letterpress text below title: Jolly Silenus, father of all-inspiring Bacchus ..., Printer's line below lines of text: Spragg, printer, 27, Bow-Street, Convent-Garden., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 46 x 29.4 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 75 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 20, 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"A plump woman kneels with clasped hands in profile to the left before an upright chair. She addresses 'Enchanting Pharaoh' (Faro), asks for ability to pay a debt of £5,000 to Captain Simper, for the frustration of a design upon her virtue, for protection for her Bank and especially for the protection of 'all our Honorable, and Right Honorable Fraternity from the Lectures of L-d K-n [Lord Kenyon], and all the dire horrors of the stocks and pillory!'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Four paragraphs of letterpress text below title: Enchanting Pharaoh, thee I address ..., Bottom edge of sheet trimmed with probable loss of printer's line: Spragg, printer, 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 42.4 x 23.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left and right edges, with probable loss of printer's line., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub'd. August 1st, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A buxom young woman, wearing a straw bonnet and many trinkets, including a miniature, kneels at a chair in profile to the right. Behind her on a table are a punch-bowl, spirit decanter, glasses, and a long pipe; above it is a framed picture of a man-of-war. She prays to Thetis 'from the sign of the Punch-Bowl' for protection to her favourite sailors, now at sea, 'all generous fellows, and bleed freely'. She asks to be enabled to redeem her pawned trinkets, so that she may 'appear lovely in the eyes of the whole fleet'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Two paragraphs of letterpress text below title: Charming Thetis, thou who blushest not at sleeping with the sun ..., and Mounted on verso of leaf 76 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden and Pubd. 20 Septr., 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.6 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 36.2 cm., Publisher's stamp "SWF" in lower right corner of sheet., and Mounted on leaf 77 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 20, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A man, fashionably dressed and vulgar, kneels on one knee, praying to a large framed picture of Fortune. She stands blindfolded on her wheel, empties coins and notes from a cornucopia, and holds out a placard: 'Peter Puffs Lucky Lottery Office'. He begs 'Insurance to my Schemes, so that they may turn up Prizes, and prevent my looking Blank when bowing at thy Altar', and, inter alia, that all old women and children may dream incessantly of the lottery, so shall the nocturnal Visions of old Chairs and Tables be converted into lucky Numbers...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Publisher and date from British Museum catalogue., Four paragraphs of letterpress text below title: Kind and benignant fortune! Aid an adventurer prostrate before thy shrine, ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on side edges with partial loss of exclamation point in the title and printer's line., and Mounted on verso of leaf 77 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden and R. Ackermann
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Three paragraphs of text and printer's line printed in letterpress below title: Generous and exhilarating Bacchus, pour down, I beseech thee, ..., Printmaker from unverified data from card catalog record., 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 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub'd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Printmaker from Grego and from other signed prints in this series., Three paragraphs of text and printer's line printed in letterpress below title: O thou divine little Cupid! ..., 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 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A young jockey in peaked cap and spurred boots, slim and almost girlish, kneels with clasped hands in profile to the left before a plain chair, his riding-whip beside him. On the wall is a picture of two jockeys galloping almost neck and neck. He prays to 'mighty Nimrod' and, in terms of the turf, asks for a wife, 'a filly well-bred'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Three paragraphs of letterpress text below title: O mighty Nimrod! to thee I pray for a helpmate, send me a wife, I beseech thee, such as will suit a lover of the turf and chace, and as I am to be saddled to her for life, let her be gentle in her nature, have a good fore-hand, and go well upon her pasterns ..., 1 print : etching and drypoint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 43.4 x 26 cm., and Mounted on leaf 81 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub'd. Augst. 10, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A young sailor sits on a large sea-chest with folded arms, right leg raised above the chest. He wears short jacket, striped trousers, and buckled shoes, and smokes a short pipe. Behind, rigging and a sail are indicated. He prays to 'Mighty Neptune' for a stout ship, honest messmates, plenty of grog, a good commander, a good prize, brandy, and tobacco. He ends: 'save me from a Guinea-man [slave-ship] and a Tender [used by a press-gang], and I'll serve cheerfully, and sing King George and his Navy for ever. - Huzza! to the end of the Chapter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Three paragraphs of letterpress text below title: O, mighty Neptune! hear an honest British tar ..., and Mounted on leaf 82 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 12, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
"A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see BMSat 9698. A long table, the cloth removed, one end cut off by the left margin, stretches almost across the design, slanting back slightly from the left, where it is in the foreground, and where Fox, grossly corpulent, sits in an armchair asleep, his feet on the table, a pipe in one hand. Nearly opposite his feet is the chair of state, on the table; on the empty seat is the Prince's cocked hat with triple plume, his motto 'Ich Di[en]' within the crown. The chair is backed by an elaborate architectural canopy with ornate pilasters on which swags of fruit and flowers are carved in relief: (left) grapes and lemons (materials for punch), and (right) roses and shamrocks. Above the seat are figures of Britannia and Erin, kissing, standing on a curved base inscribed 'The Union'. On the back of the chair are two clasped hands, elaborately irradiated. The chair is surrounded by broken wine-bottles; its former occupant, the Prince, lies on his back under the table, one arm flung over Lord Stanhope, who lies unconscious, clasping a bottle. On the Prince's stomach rest two feet in shoes with spiked, upcurved toes. In the foreground, opposite the Prince, Norfolk lies with his head against the seat of his overturned chair, looking very ill. All who are not incapacitated or fighting are toasting the Union (except Lansdowne and Parr, see below). On the table sits Moira, dressed as in BMSat 9386, a glass of wine held high above his head, his right leg thrust forward, while he stretches back to take the hand of Lord Clermont, [This is clear from the resemblance to BMSat 9575, and is supported by the shamrock which he and the other Irishmen wear. It is confirmed by 'London und Paris', vii. 80, where it is said that he and Moira were once bitter enemies. He is identified by Grego as General Manners, see BMSat 9288.] seated next Sheridan on the farther side of the table. Facing Clermont and in back view, Camelford sits erect, wearing a Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425) and small round hat, with cropped hair. [The identification (that of Grego) is confirmed by BMSat 9716, Wright and Evans give Burdett, E. Hawkins 'Mr Manners'.] Beside him (right) two waiters bring in a full tub of Whiskey Punch, which they spill; one treads on the face of the prostrate Nicholls. Near the end of the table (right) sits Derby, his large head and crumpled features grotesquely caricatured. In the foreground on the extreme right Montagu Mathew (as in BMSat 9560) and Skeffington (as in BMSat 9557) advance dancing arm-in-arm, with tipsy grace, the former with a bottle in each hand; one reversed, the other, held above his head, splashes its contents over his partner's uplifted glass. (The pair, according to 'London und Paris', vii, 1801, p. 76, were known as inseparables in fashionable London resorts, cf. BMSat 9755.) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse on either side of title: "We'll join hand in hand, all party shall cease, "and glass after glass, shall our union increase ..., Watermark: J. Whatman 1808., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, and Sturt, Charles, 1763-1812
"The resigning Ministers issue from the arched gateway of the 'Treasury', led by Pitt (right) who, with an oratorical gesture, holds out a document: 'Justice of Emancipating ye Catholicks'. Behind him is Dundas (Secretary of State for War), holding Pitt's right arm, and not in the usual Scottish dress (though he wears a tartan waistcoat). He holds a document: 'Advantages of the Union'; from his coat pocket issues a paper: 'Successes in the East'. Next walks Grenville (Foreign Secretary) in peer's robes holding a paper: 'Acquisitions from ye War. Malta, Cape of Good Hope, Dutch Islands' [Ceylon captured 1796]. Behind him walk Spencer (First Lord), holding 'Enemies Ships taken & Des[troyed]', and Loughboroug in his Chancellor's wig. Three heads are dimly visible in the shadow of the archway. From the left the Opposition, in the guise of a plebeian rabble, advance towards the Treasury gate but are held back by a sturdy grenadier sentry at the point of the bayonet. He is back view, with 'G.R' on his busby, and is probably George III, possibly Addington. Facing him, against the Treasury wall, is his sentry-box, placarded: 'G.R Orders for keeping all improper Persons out of the Public Offices'. The rabble are led by Sheridan and Tierney; the former a butcher with cleaver raised to strike, the latter a ragged cobbler wearing a bonnet rouge; he is about to fling a cat which he holds by the tail. Behind them are Jekyll, as a chimney-sweep with brush and shovel, but wearing a barrister's wig and (tattered) gown, Bedford dressed as a jockey and holding out whip and cap (cf. BMSat 9261, &c), Nicholls and Tyrhwitt Jones, both holding up hats with tricolour cockades. At the back are Norfolk, about to hurl a bottle of wine, and Burdett. There is also raised above the crowd an arm which has just hurled a full tankard of 'Whitbread's Entire' [see BMSat 10421]. Other missiles include a lighted squib, a bludgeon, vegetables, and a book: 'Jacobin Charges, Speeches Essays'. Bedford cries: "Push on, dam'me! - work 'em! - its our Turn now!" The sentry answers: "Your Turn! - no, no! - whoever goes out You'll not come in!" In the foreground, on the extreme left, are two dwarfish and ragged little newsboys blowing their horns; on the cap of one is 'Morning Chronicle' [see BMSat 9240]. Below the design: "Men in conscious Virtue bold! "Who dare their Honest purpose hold. "Nor heed the Mob's tumultuous cries; "And the vile rage of Jacobins - despise.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
"In a small space between the House Commons (left) and a rustic alehouse (right) Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head (the features as in BMSat 9200) of Horne Tooke. In this are stuck feathers, five inscribed respectively: 'Deceit, Vanity, Jacobinism, New Morality [cf. BMSat 9240], Envy'. From the neck hang (torn) clerical bands. Camelford in back view, 'profil perdu', wears a rakish hat with curved brim (as in BMSat 9699), a naval officer's coat with sailor's striped trousers, and buckled shoes; from his coat pocket issues a paper: 'Effusion of Loyalty'. He says: "There's a Stroke for you, Messmate! and, if you kick him back, I'll return him again, dam'me! - if I should be sent on a cruise to Moorfields [i.e. Bedlam], for it! - go it, Coz:" Temple, a stout country gentleman, scarcely caricatured, wearing a stiff round hat, prepares to return the stroke vigorously, left fist clenched; he says: "Send him back? - yes, I'll send him back Twenty Thousand times, before such a high flying Jacobin-Shuttlecock shall pearch [sic] it here, in his Clerical band." Both play vigorously with legs astride. Through the wide doorway behind him, inscribed 'St Steevens', is seen the Opposition side of the House of Commons densely packed, the Speaker just visible in his chair, the Clerk staring apprehensively. All the (tiny) members wave red caps to cheer their champion, shouting "The Church for Ever, [?] dem[me]". Sheridan and Fox only are characterized. The alehouse is a primitive thatched building with the chequers sign. On it are two placards: 'The Old Sarum Electors', five pigs in a sty eating from a trough. Below: 'The House of Call for Independent Members'. Against the building are a rustic table and bench. On the ground by Camelford is a 'List of Candidates for Old Sarum, J. H. Tooke, Black Dick [it was reported, though denied by Camelford, that he had declared his intention of returning his black servant if Tooke's election should be annulled], Thelwall' [see vol. vii]. In the background between the buildings is seen a small ruinous village, representing Old Sarum, with a bare, decayed tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens
Description:
Title from text in lower part of image., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 35.9 cm, on sheet 29.0 x 40.1 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"The new Ministers (identified by inscriptions below the design) don the clothes of their predecessors. These are (left to right) the Chancellor (Eldon) on the Woolsack, in back view, wearing the wig, enormously elongated so that it trails on the floor, characteristic of Loughborough (cf. BMSat o. 6796): 'Lord L------gh------h's large Wig'. He says: "O such a Day as This, so renown'd so victorious, \ "Such a Day as This, was never seen!" His feet are pressed against the front bench. The principal figure is that of Addington standing in profile to the right on the 'Treasury Bench', inside an enormous jack-boot, reaching to his neck: over this hangs Pitt's far too large coat (the Windsor uniform, blue with red facings). His forehead disappears in a vast cocked hat, and his wig-bag is enormous. He is 'Mr Pitt's Jack-Boot'. He says: "Well! to be sure these here Cloaths do fit me to a inch! - & now that I've got upon this Bench, I think I may pass muster for a fine tall Fellow, & do as well for a Corporal, as my old Master, Billy, himself!!! - ". In front stands Hawkesbury, youthful, nervous, and almost tearful; he stands within the bulky breeches of his predecessor as 'Ld G - n - le's Breeches'; he says: "Mercy upon me! - what a Deficiency is here!!! ah poor Hawkee! - what will be the consequence, if these d------d Breeches should fall off in thy ''March to Paris", & thou should be found out a Sans-Culotte?" Lord Hobart, a very broad figure, 'Mr D-d-s's Broad Sword', stands full face, a curious divided petticoat (made out of Dundas's kilt) is buttoned under his arms, over a military coat. His head is overweighted by Dundas's large Scots cap; he stands defiantly, left hand on hip, in his right he holds erect a broad-sword dripping blood. He says: "Ay! Ay! leave Us to settle them all! here's my little Andrew Ferrara!!! - was it not Us that tip'd em the broadside in the Baltic? - was it not Us that gave ye Crocodiles a breakfast in Egypt? - I'm a Rogue if it is not Us that is to save little England from being swallow'd up in the Red Sea!!!" In the foreground (right) the fat, elderly, but comely Lord Glenbervie (who succeeded Canning as Paymaster General) sits on the floor in shirt and waistcoat, trying to pull on the pointed slippers which are far too long and too narrow for his gouty feet. He is 'Mr C-n-g's Old Slippers'. He says: "ah, Dam'n his narrow Pumps! I shall never be able to bear them long on my Corns! - zounds! are these Shoes fit for a Man, in present-pay Free Quarters". Behind him stand together the two new Treasury secretaries (John Hiley Addington, brother of the Minister, wearing spectacles, and Nicholas Vansittart). They wear the coats of their predecessors, which trail on the ground, and hold, like muskets at attention, two enormous pens. On the head of each is a vast round ink-pot: 'G. Rose's old Stand' and 'C. Long's old Stand'. They are 'Treasury Ink Stands'. Behind (left), partly hidden by Eldon and Addington, are two unidentified figures: a man wearing a large naval cocked hat, and a lawyer in back view. The former must be St. Vincent who succeeded Spencer at the Admiralty. The latter may be Law who became Attorney General. Between and behind Addington and Hawkesbury is a sulky-looking man in a military coat and an enormous busby in which is a huge pen: 'Wyndham's Cap & Feather'. He is Charles Yorke who succeeded Windham as Secretary of War."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lilliputian substitutes equipping for public service
Description:
Title etched in top part of image. and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 28th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Hobart, Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816, Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, and Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834
"Lord Hawkesbury as a drummer boy, very thin and weedy, marches (left to right) in front of John Bull with awkward and shambling aggressiveness; he steps on to a rotten plank inscribed 'Heart of Oak' which connects the shores of England and France. His drum-sticks are a rolled document, 'Preliminaries', and an olive branch. Across his dishevelled bearskin is a ribbon: 'Peace'; from it hangs the end of a fool's cap. From his coat-pocket issues a paper: 'Instructions from Park Place' [Pitt's London address]; [So given in the Royal Kalendar (alphabetical list of the House of Commons). Broadley notes that Malmesbury lived at Park Place, Henley (this was his third country house). The crest on the drum, as well as political probability, supports the Pitt interpretation.] his drum is slung from his neck by a tricolour ribbon, and has on its side the Pitt crest, a stork holding an anchor. His expression is deprecatingly wary; and he looks sideways at John Bull, who is accompanied by a swarm of little English 'Jacobins'. He says: "Allons, Enfans de la Patrie! - now's your time Johnny! - my dear Boys! - did not I promise long ago, to take my Friends by the hand, & lead them on to March to the Gates of Paris? - Allons! vive la Liberta!!" In the narrow Channel which he is about to cross float Britannia's discarded shield, a large money-bag of '£400 Million', and papers inscribed: 'Malta', 'West India Islands', 'Cape of Good Hope', 'Map of Egypt', 'Restoration of French Monarchy', 'List of Soldiers & Sailors Killed'. John Bull (left), a simple yokel, very fat and good-natured, marches after Hawkesbury in high glee waving his hat; over his civilian dress is a sword-belt from which a sword falls to the ground, hilt downwards. He shouts: "Rule Britannia! - \ Britannia Rules the Waves!!! \ Caira! - Caira!" He is being urged forward by a crowd of little figures, members of the Opposition, who wave or wear their bonnets rouges. They vary in scale: the most prominent is Fox who marches along blowing a trumpet; Norfolk drags John forward, clutching his coat with both hands; behind Norfolk Tierney's head appears. Behind Fox is Sheridan pushing John from behind; on Sheridan's right is General Walpole; on his left, Burdett. Behind him on the extreme left is Moira, with a conspicuous whisker. Other persons are represented by arms waving caps. In front and under John's feet are three tiny naked mannikins: Nicholls holdup his eyeglass, his legs attached to his shoulders to show that he is 'nobody', cf. BMSat 5570; the paunchy Derby, blowing a French horn, and, smallest of all, M. A. Taylor blowing a trumpet. Across the water, in France, and on the extreme right, is a ramshackle building, perhaps a ruined church, with a large placard: 'Vive la Liberta'. Before it is planted a Tree of Liberty; a garlanded pole supporting an enormous bonnet rouge, round which tiny simian figures dance, holding hands. They wear bonnets rouges and have tails."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull and his little friends "marching to Paris"
Description:
Title etched in top part of image. and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"Windham, not caricatured, lies in bed dreaming, his right hand extended, his left hand against his head. The coverlet is patterned (inconspicuously) with dragons, &c. The bed is surrounded by solid clouds, supporting visions. At its head (right) is an olive branch bent down by the weight of a vulture, which clutches a bleeding hare, while it savagely croaks 'Peace!' On the left Death, a skeleton on stilts formed of spears (skeleton A stilts coloured red), bestraddles a pile of British trophies; one spearpoint pierces a 'List of British Conquests: Cape of Good Hope Malta Egypt West India [Islands]'; the other rests on a tilted dish inscribed 'Oh! the Roast Beef of Old England', from which a sirloin is slipping. The other objects are steaming pudding, an overturned tankard inscribed 'J. Bull's Old Stout', small cask of 'True British Spirits', spilling its contents; two coronets, a mitre, and a mace. The skeleton, reminiscent of Death in BMSat 6699, by Gillray, is in back view, turning a grinning head towards Windham; ['London und Paris' quotes (p. 319), as probably in Gillray's mind, Milton, 'Paradise Lost', ii. 285-7: 'Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd . . .'] it wears a large bonnet rouge and in the right hand is a cord attached to the dripping blade of a guillotine. This emerges from clouds beside the blazing dome of St. Paul's, from which the ball and cross are falling. On the extreme left is the Tower of London flying the French flag. By the foot of the bed stands a fat demon with barbed tail, webbed wings, and the features of Fox; he plays a guitar and sings delightedly: "Caira! - Caira! - Ca-i-r-a!" [cf. BMSat 10566, where he has discarded the song]. By the near side of the bed sits (on a chamber-pot) a small figure, Justice, with bowed head registering despair, her scales broken and dismantled, her sword, inscribed 'Justicia', broken. Emerging from clouds are four figures: Hawkesbury, with a sulky, youthful profile, writes 'Peace' on Britannia's 'Death-Warrant'. Behind him stands Pitt guiding his hand, a finger to his lips. Near them Bonaparte, scarcely caricatured, stands arrogantly, holding a rope which is round the neck of Britannia, while he points imperiously towards the guillotine on his right. She stands full face, weeping, her wrists shackled, with a broken shield and trident. Behind her is a (captured) fleet, in full sail, with tricolour flags. Above their heads flies a demoniac Fame, blowing two trumpets. Two groups of tiny decapitated figures kneel at the head of the bed, appealing to the sleeper. The French are on Windham's right, those in the front row being evidently (left to right) the Dauphin, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Mme Elisabeth; the King holds out a placard: 'Oh! Remember Our Cause! poor Ghosts of French Ladies and Gentlemen.' Behind, two bishops are conspicuous. On Windham's left are men in peers' robes; their placard is inscribed: 'Ah! See what is to become of Us poor English Men of Consequence'. In the foreground are two groups of (Opposition) politicians with the heads of rats. One eats from a dish of 'Cheese Parings', the other from a coffer of 'Candle Ends', inscribed 'Treasury' [both phrases derive from a speech by Windham in which he is alleged to have derided paltry economies, an old gibe, see BMSat 9515 and 'Windham Papers', ii. 178]. Both are filled with papers inscribed 'Place', 'Pension', 'Sinecure', 'Office'. The former group are identified (in Gillray's hand) [On a slip evidently written for Miss Banks, pasted to an impression from the Banks Collection.] as Erskine, Sheridan, Tierney, Norfolk, and Bedford; the latter are Nicholls, Grafton, Stanhope, and the Earl of Oxford (who is unmistakably Burdett), Sir G. Shuckburgh. Running towards the dish (left) are M. A. Taylor and Derby, (right) Jekyll (resembling Col. Walpole)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 9th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Elisabeth, Princess of France, 1764-1794, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
"Burdett (right) declaims a speech whose heads are inscribed on a gigantic scroll held out to him by Fox. Fox raises his arms high to hold the scroll, one end of which falls behind his head and shoulders. The other end, still rolled and blank, is held by Sheridan who stands on the extreme left behind a writing-table over which the scroll passes. Horne Tooke, seated full face behind the table, an inkpot in one hand, writes on the scroll with a sourly inscrutable expression. Burdett, with arms thrown wide, hat in right hand, stands with legs astride on a large tattered volume: 'List of them London Corresponding Society'. He says: "There! - there! - see the causes of all our Woe! - Oh! my ruin'd Country! - Enslav'd! - ah Traitors! - Expiring Liberty! - precious, Aristocratic Villains! - Oh Unaccounted Millions! - murder'd Myriads! oh, Gallows! - Block! - Guillotine! - Caira! Caira!" Sheridan, the theatrical expert, leans forward delightedly to say: "Bravo! - Bravo! - but it should give more Emphasis to the beginning of the last Line of Exclamation." Fox, very corpulent and gouty, his gloomy face shaded by the scroll, says: "Bravissimo! - Encore the Unaccounted Millions! - Encore! - " The scroll is inscribed: 'Ministerial Crimes & Misdemeanours. - Ist Espousing the Cause of Loyalty & Old England. - 2d Making War against the Enemies of Loyalty and Old England. - 3d Destroying the Navy of the Enemies of Loyalty & Old England - 4th Capturing Malta, & all the foreign Possessions of the Enemies of loyalty and Old England. - 5th Ruining the Commerce of the Enemies . . . [ut supra]. - 6th Paying off the National Debt, in spite of the well-wishers to the Enemies . . . [ut supra]. 7th Uniting & Defending our Irish Brethren, when Invaded by the Enemies . . . [ut supra]. 8th Refusing to break Faith with the Allies of Loyalty . . . [etc.] 9th Holding out to the last, & Fighting single-handed with all the Enemies . . . [etc.] 10th Rejecting the profer'd Reconciliation with the Enemies of Loyalty and Old England, until Peace could be ratified upon Honorable Terms.' Much that follows is obscured by folds in the scroll; a few words stand out: '. . . French Principles and destroying Democratic P ... 16th Extirpating [?] the Hydra of [?] Faction .. . Loyalty & Old England.' The words again become clear where the scroll rests on the table, and enfl under the pen of Horne Tooke: '18th - Destroying all hopes of a Revolution & leaving the Enemies of Loyatly [sic] & Old England to Despair & to hang themselve . . .' [see BMSat 9258, &c.]. Under the scroll lie other papers: 'Last dying Speech . . . Aristocratic Ministry' and 'Scheme of Ministerial Equality.' Against the wall and forming a background to Sheridan, Horne Tooke, and Fox is a high book-case, the books covered by a curtain, parted to reveal to inscribed 'Thel[wall]', 'Revoluti[on]', 'Cromw[ell]', 'Machiavel'. On the top three busts partly decapitated by the upper margin: 'Tom Paine, Abbé Seyeis', and 'Rob'spear'. Their positions imply that they are the 'doublures' (cf. BMSat 9261) respectively of Sheridan, Tooke, and Fox; for Fox as Ropespierre see BMSat 8450; for Tooke and Sieyes cf. BMSat 9270. On a small cabinet behind Burdett stands a model of a guillotine. Tooke wears a bonnet rouge with tricolour cockade, a dressing-gown with (torn) clerical bands (cf. BMSat 9716)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Private rehearsal of "The ci-devant Ministry in danger".
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Bonnet rouge -- Guillotine -- Quill Pens -- Ogle Swindler., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 36.0 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 4th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
"An elderly man, with a satisfied smile, in profile to the right, drives himself in a small, two-wheeled chaise for one person, which resembles a Bath chair perched high on wheels. The hood is raised, and the apron fastened over the open front. An 'M' decorates the chaise and the blinker of the clumsy, plodding horse. The scene is a sandy track across open country."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in ink in a contemporary hand at top of image., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 9 of 12.
"An elderly man, with a satisfied smile, in profile to the right, drives himself in a small, two-wheeled chaise for one person, which resembles a Bath chair perched high on wheels. The hood is raised, and the apron fastened over the open front. An 'M' decorates the chaise and the blinker of the clumsy, plodding horse. The scene is a sandy track across open country."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in ink in a contemporary hand at top of image., Printmaker and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.1 x 33.7 cm, on sheet 32.7 x 37.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45a (i.e. verso of leaf 44) of volume 10 of 12.
"The bulky Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827) stands in profile to the left. He wears a small round hat with long powdered hair tied back, and a whisker; a double-breasted coat over a double-breasted waistcoat, striped breeches, striped stockings, and wrinkled top-boots with heavy spurs. He holds a glove in his (gloved) left hand. In his right hand is a small cane. A double chin, heavy, paunchy figure, and wrinkled dress give an impression of physical slackness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Mental energy.", 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 26.3 x 20.1 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Watermark: 1804 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827
"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807)., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 36.0 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 40.2 cm., Watermark, partially trimmed: Ruse & Turners., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
"Sir William Hamilton, old and bent, inspects his antiques. He stands in profile to left, looking through spectacles held in his right hand and reversed. He wears a round hat, a spencer over his coat and spurred top-boots, a stick in his (gloved) left hand; an expressive glove issues from his coat pocket. The objects at which he gazes are on a cloth-covered table. In the centre is a bust of 'Lais', the head that of Lady Hamilton, with fashionably dressed hair, but with nose, mouth, and chin broken away. Next it is a nude and headless Bacchante holding up a bunch of grapes (this was one of his wife's famous attitudes). Behind is a term with the head of a bull inscribed 'APIS'. Other objects are a weeping Cupid with a broken arrow, a grotesque goblet, a cracked chamber-pot on which nude figures dance. Against the wall (right) stands a mummy-like figure of 'MIDAS', with ass's ears. Other grotesque and broken objects stand on the carpet. On the wall are four pictures (left to right): 'Cleopatra', Lady Hamilton, three-quarter length, indecently décolletée and holding a bottle of 'Gin'; 'Mark Antony', Nelson, three-quarter length, a sea-fight in the background; a volcano in eruption; 'Claudius', a profile half length of Hamilton turning his back on the other pictures, the frame decorated with a stag's head."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cognocenti contemplating the beauties of the antique and Cognoscenti contemplating the beauties of the antique
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Antiques -- Literature reference: Hamilton, Sir William, 1730-1803: Observations on Mount Vesuvius., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.0 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 29.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 47 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its pointed toe rests on the foot of Mathew's spurred top-boot. Both wear round hats of slightly differing shapes. Skeffington's dark hair is short, falling over his forehead; he has a large whisker. Mathew's fair hair is long and powdered, and tied by a ribbon at the tips; he has a small whisker. Round the two boots are grouped blacking materials. A large open book (left) is 'Essay on Blacking'; by it are bottles labelled 'Mr Broomhills Recipe' and 'The Princes Recipe', and a mixing-pot. Two volumes (right) are 'Chemistry'; on them are bottles labelled 'Pine Apple' and 'Spirit of Salt'. There are also two brushes, a polishing pad, a cake of 'Holdsworth's' blacking, and a broken bottle of 'Royal Blacking'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.7 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 29.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Corporeal stamina.", 1 print : etching with roulette & stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 31.3 x 23.4 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills 1817., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two grooms follow behind and a coach drives past in the opposite direction
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 68.0 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 68.5 x 29.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 50 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A caricature of Hamilton, in back view, in the form of a porcelain vase standing on a (chipped) base inscribed: 'D AM.N.Q.V.I.Σ.Σ.Ω.N'. The wig, with black bag, forms the cover of the vase. The shoulders are enormously wide and curved, with large projecting epaulettes. The curved body of the vase, broadened by the arms, dwindles to the coat-tails, and rests on a stem consisting of two short and bulging legs terminating in ungainly buckled shoes. See BMSat 9753."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From Sir William Hamilton's collection
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. May 8th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Amateur musicians, the design based on 'Ars-Musica', BMSat 9586, altered, and much elaborated. Four ugly and elderly men grouped round a young woman who sits, full face, at a square piano lit by a guttering candle. She lifts her hands to thump, with grim determination. A 'cellist is on her right, a vast gouty leg thrust forward, a violinist on her left. Behind her are two flautists. Behind (left), a young officer and a girl flirt, hand in hand. In the background (right) are visitors: two military officers shake hands, one bowing so that his sword lifts up the petticoats of a fat lady walking off to the right. A dog howls with one paw on a music-book."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Temporary local subject terms: Carpets -- Musicians -- Flautist -- Violinist -- Cellist -- Piano -- Flute -- Violin -- Pianist -- Cello., 1 print : etching with aquatint, engraving, & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 28.6 x 40.3 cm., Watermark: 1810 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 52 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A fat country-woman, threatened by a fierce dog, has fallen face downwards in front of a pair of horses, causing them to stop suddenly, and paw the ground. The terrified coachman loses his hat and wig, the footman is flung across the roof of the low carriage towards the box. An elderly lady looks out of the carriage window to call: "John!" He answers: "Coming Ma'm." All are broadly burlesqued. On the door is a coat of arms with an earl's coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Watermark: Edmeads & Co., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Two terrified riders meet face to face on Hounslow Heath; each takes the other for a highwayman. One (left) losing his stirrups holds out his purse, saying, "Here is my Money! Spare my Life". The other dropping his whip, puts his hand in his waistcoat pocket, saying: "Ah! - don't Fire! - I'll give all". Both have dropped their reins. A signpost (left) points 'To Hounslow'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 26.0 x 36.4 cm, on sheet 28.1 x 41.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Three brothers, with similar but identical profiles, sit squeezed together in a small rustic phaeton drawn (left to right) by three prancing goats, two being wheelers. The driver is nearest the spectator; all have leeks in their round hats; that of the driver has also the motto 'Ich dien'. On the phaeton are the initials 'WWW'; at the back is a large trunk. In the background is a craggy mountain on which goats are standing. A signpost (left) points 'To Wynnstay'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Welsh tandem
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 56 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840, Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 1775-1850, and Williams-Wynn, Henry Watkin, Sir, 1783-1856
"A fat and vulgar woman, indecently décolletée, stands with right hand on her hip, a fan in her left hand, looking arrogantly up and to the left. She wears a large paradise plume in her hair with a small bunch of flowers. Her head is framed by an erect frill or ruff; her trained dress defines her clumsy figure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lioness
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 57 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A box-like room is suspended in the sea by ropes on pulleys, a shaft ascending from its roof. There is no front wall, enabling sea-monsters to attack the occupants, who are four terrified little men, naked except for breeches. In each of the three walls is a barred window; through one (right) a large fish has pushed its head to seize the head of a man in its jaws, while water gushes in."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 58 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 19th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A fat citizen (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair, endures an operation upon the carbuncles of his bloated nose. The operator (left), thin and high-shouldered, holds the patient's forehead and applies a small pointed instrument (a metallic tractor) causing flames to gush from nose and nostrils. On a small table (left) are a decanter of 'Brandy' with a jug and steaming glass, lemon, and sugar, the patient's pipe lying across a newspaper: 'The True Briton. Theatre Dead Alive. Grand Exhibition in Leicester Square, just arrived from America the Rod of Æsculapius. Perkinism in all its Glory - being a certain Cure for all Disorders, Red Noses, Gouty Toes, Windy Bowels, Broken Legs, Hump Backs. Just discover'd, the Grand Secret of the Philosopher's Stone with the True way of turning all Metals into Gold, pro bono publico.' On the wall (right) is a picture of an infant Bacchus, astride a cask, holding out a decanter and a glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Metallic tractors -- Perkins, Elisha., and Mounted on leaf 59 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 11, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Quacks and quackery, Quacks, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Pipes (Smoking), Newspapers, and Dogs
"A young and very smart officer lunges forward, pointing his tasselled cane at one of a line of soldiers who stand rigidly at attention full face, but with 'Eyes right' (the words inscribed at the end of the cane). He shouts: "Hold up your Head that Man there!" He holds his (sheathed) sword, attached to a sword-belt, in his left hand. The soldiers wear plumed shakos, long gaiters, and shoes with very pointed toes. Behind is a row of spectators, men and women, and one little boy. Some are fashionably dressed; one is a fat butcher."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 60 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 12th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from quotation etched above image., Text below title: Townsend, Pole. Officer, Bow Street., Temporary local subject terms: Swindler -- Thomas Ogle -- Major Semple -- William Smith -- Thomas Robison -- Batty -- Captain Johnson -- Thomas Bashford -- Robertson -- Lieut. Colt. Cs. Pullen., 1 print : etching, aquatint, & stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 34.2 x 27.6 cm., Watermark: J. Ruse., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"Eight elderly topers with pipes and glasses surround a small oblong table, on which are punch-bowl, wine-glasses, tobacco, &c. All are much caricatured; some sing, a parson sleeps, a dog howls. The room is lit by a chandelier; a bracket-clock points to 3.40, on it is carved a Bacchanalian figure of Time astride a cask. A bust portrait of Anacreon holding pen and paper is on the wall (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text above image: "Whilst, snug in our club-room, we jovially 'twine the myrtle of Wenus with Bacchus's wine.", Watermark: Turkey Mills J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Mrs. Billington, directed to the right, sings with head thrown back, right hand on her breast, left arm extended. She is stout and majestic, wears many jewels and quasi-contemporary dress, with four tall feathers and jewelled aigrette in her hair, from which hangs a long drapery."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mandane
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Watermark: J. Ruse., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 22d, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two grooms follow behind and a coach drives past in the opposite direction
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
On the right a Jewish stockbrocker with a very large belly stands in the door way of his establishment; the sign over the door identifies him as "Solomon Stock broke[r]". He addresses two jolly-looking 'cits'; their dog barks angrily at the stockbroker who looks sternly at the two having clearly been interrupted in his work because his feather pen is tucked behind his ear
Description:
Title engraved above image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Lacks any text apart from title; sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned professional dress. Behind him (right) stands a senile-looking and spectacled colleague, while a third (left), also in a serjeant's wig, sits in back view in an arm-chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Councillor
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and A companion print to: A money scrivener.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., After Rowlandson., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Crutches -- Amputated legs., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and S.W. Fores; ownership stamp located in bottom right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"An elderly man in old-fashioned dress stands at his desk, his right hand on an open ledger, looking down with a calculating grimace. He wears a night-cap and slippers; a pen is behind his ear. His high stool is behind him. In the background another elderly man writes seated at a desk. Papers spiked on files hang from the wall, and lie on the floor, with folio volumes. An 'Invoice' is pasted on the wall. Above a high shelf is the date '1800' etched over '1787', with 'R. 1788'."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture -- Desks -- Male costume -- Night-cap -- Slippers -- Money scrivners -- Scrivner's shops., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: 1801 -- Mops -- Kitchen utensils -- Brooms., and Watermark: Taylor 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 5th, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., No. '254' in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Chandois Street.
Publisher:
Published 8th Jany., 1801, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Plate numbered '253' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd 8th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Number 255 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Picture caption: Now Father I'll give you a specimen of college learning --What we call logic---by which I make these two fowles three ..., and Plate numbered '255' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 12th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiting, one over a prostrate member. An elderly man protests angrily; his neighbour tries to make him sit down. The room is lit by a chandelier hanging from an ornate ceiling. A servant draws a cork, another enters with a punchbowl from behind a screen (right). Bottles stand in a magnificent wine-cooler, round which empty bottles are massed. The members' hats are piled on an ornate chimney-piece; a Jew reaches over a low screen to take a hat, unaware hat a member has risen to denounce him. This screen is in front of a 'Ballotin Box', with two round apertures inscribed 'Nay' and 'yea'. On the wall (left) is a placard: 'Rules to be observed in this Society, Ist That each Member shall fill a half pint Bumper to the first Toast. 2nd That after Twenty four Bumper toasts are gone round, every [sic] may fill as he pleases. 3 That any Member refusing to comply with the above Regulations to be fine a bumper of Salt & Water'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched above image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '256' in lower left corner., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Picture caption: Oh! my dear Doctor I am very bad. I do not know what is the matter with me. I eat well, drink well and I sleep well ..., Artist from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Family physicians -- Chinese Buddha statue -- Medical procedures -- Taking pulse -- Medical implements -- Cooking in fireplaces -- Fireplace equipment -- Tongs -- Dentelated mantels.
Publisher:
Published 20th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A man springing out of his bed in a garret with a candle and finding a black cat hissing at him."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Poor Paddy and the black cat
Description:
Title etched above image., Number 257 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '257' in lower left corner., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Some ghosting of text occurs near the bottom of the plate., Three columns of verse below image: Then gently stepping from his bed, and peeping round, o'erwhelm'd with dread! Behind the door, low couch'd he spies, A huge black cat with saucer eyes! ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 24th Jany. 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of the title., Annotations on mounting sheet identify George III and Pitt in the print., Temporary local subject terms: Lance -- Spurred boots., Mounted to 27 x 46 cm., and Ms. note on the mounting sheet: Malta surrendered to the English in Sept. 1800 after a blockade of two years ...
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Malta.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Title from item., Artist supplied by cataloger., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of dialogue inscribed below design: Good lack a day John, what are you doing? you have broke all the tea things. "I can't help it Ma'am, that nasty cur[?] of yours has bit my lef." Bit your leg! has he? dear me; I hope the pretty little creature won't be sick after it!!, Numbered '259' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Spilling tea service -- Tea trays -- Tea tables -- Birdcages -- Birds: parrot -- Domestic service -- Liveried Manservant.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 4, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Artist from unverified data in local card catalog record., Number 258 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '258' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Welshmen -- Inns: Pack Horse -- Sign Boards -- Signs: Pack Horse -- Welsh ponies -- Horseshoes on door -- Innkeepers -- Welsh names.
Publisher:
Published 4th Feby., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, London
"A bedroom scene. Lady Hamilton, grotesquely fat, but with traces of beauty in her features, rises from a curtained bed, arms and one leg extended in a burlesqued gesture of despair. She wears a nightgown and lace-trimmed cap. Behind her in the shadowed depths of the bed the night-capped head of her elderly and (?) sleeping husband, rests on the pillow. She looks, weeping, towards an open sash-window through which is seen a fleet sailing towards the horizon. In the window (left) is a cushioned window seat on which (besides a stocking) is an open book: 'Studies of Academic Attitudes taken from the Life'; on one page is a nude woman lying in sensual abandonment. On the right against the curtains of the bed is a dressing-table on which, besides toilet-articles, are a flask of 'Maraschino', a 'Composing Draught', and a pot of 'Rouge à la Naples'. On the carpeted floor (right) are objects from Sir W. Hamilton's collection, with an open book: 'Antiquities of Herculaneum Naples Caprea &c. &c.'; on the right page is a satyr chasing a nymph. They include an oval gem, a figure of a squatting monster, headless, the base inscribed 'Pri[apus]', a laughing bust of 'Messalina', statues of a Venus and a Satyr, coins or medals, one inscribed 'Ovid', another 'Tibertius'. In front of Lady Hamilton are the slippers she has kicked off, and a garter inscribed 'The Hero of the Nile'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse, two on either side of title, etched below image: "Ah, where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone? "He's gone to fight the Frenchmen, for George upon the throne. "He's gone to fight [the] Frenchmen, t' loose t' other arm & eye. "And left me with the old antiques, to lay me down & cry., "Dido" is a reference to a character from Virgil's Aeneid., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and BAC: British Art Center copy is hand-colored. Bound with (as frontispiece): A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature (London: H. Humphrey, 1807).
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James Street, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[6 February 1801]
Call Number:
801.02.06.02++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lillipution figures
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement below image in lower right: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., One of a set of eight plates, each composed of three bordered horizontal strips, that were evidently intended to be cut up to form a border., and Watermark: Fellows 1823.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
Feb 8, 1801.
Call Number:
801.02.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese man in a floral waistcoat and large lace collar rides his horse down a lane, his dog following behind
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Sir William Hamilton, old and bent, inspects his antiques. He stands in profile to left, looking through spectacles held in his right hand and reversed. He wears a round hat, a spencer over his coat and spurred top-boots, a stick in his (gloved) left hand; an expressive glove issues from his coat pocket. The objects at which he gazes are on a cloth-covered table. In the centre is a bust of 'Lais', the head that of Lady Hamilton, with fashionably dressed hair, but with nose, mouth, and chin broken away. Next it is a nude and headless Bacchante holding up a bunch of grapes (this was one of his wife's famous attitudes). Behind is a term with the head of a bull inscribed 'APIS'. Other objects are a weeping Cupid with a broken arrow, a grotesque goblet, a cracked chamber-pot on which nude figures dance. Against the wall (right) stands a mummy-like figure of 'MIDAS', with ass's ears. Other grotesque and broken objects stand on the carpet. On the wall are four pictures (left to right): 'Cleopatra', Lady Hamilton, three-quarter length, indecently décolletée and holding a bottle of 'Gin'; 'Mark Antony', Nelson, three-quarter length, a sea-fight in the background; a volcano in eruption; 'Claudius', a profile half length of Hamilton turning his back on the other pictures, the frame decorated with a stag's head."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cognocenti contemplating the beauties of the antique and Cognoscenti contemplating the beauties of the antique
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Antiques -- Literature reference: Hamilton, Sir William, 1730-1803: Observations on Mount Vesuvius., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title, printmaker, and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint line., and Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Landsdowne, William Petty, 1st Marquis of, 1737-1815., Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
"Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticulating with his right hand; he has lost his left arm. Both are neatly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: wooden leg -- Greenwich Hospital pensioner -- Chelsea Hospital pensioner -- Pensioners., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospitals -- Chelsea Hospital., and Provenance identification in contemporary hand near bottom of print.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Title from item., First plate in the series of 12., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prins [sic] and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Printseller's stamp in the lower right corner of the print: S·W·F.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prins [sic] and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Plate 2 in the series: Symptoms of the shop., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Printseller's stamp in the lower right corner: S·W·F.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prins [sic] and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printseller's identification stamp located in the lower right corner of the print: S·W·F., Plate 3 in a series: Symptoms of the shop, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Printseller's identification stamp located in the lower right corner of the print: S·W·F., Plate 5 in a series: Symptoms of the shop, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
"Two heads emerge from the highly-polished boots of their respective owners, which face each other. They are finished portraits of Skeffington and Montagu Mathew, inseparables, see BMSat 9699. Skeffington's boot (left) is a tasselled Hessian; its pointed toe rests on the foot of Mathew's spurred top-boot. Both wear round hats of slightly differing shapes. Skeffington's dark hair is short, falling over his forehead; he has a large whisker. Mathew's fair hair is long and powdered, and tied by a ribbon at the tips; he has a small whisker. Round the two boots are grouped blacking materials. A large open book (left) is 'Essay on Blacking'; by it are bottles labelled 'Mr Broomhills Recipe' and 'The Princes Recipe', and a mixing-pot. Two volumes (right) are 'Chemistry'; on them are bottles labelled 'Pine Apple' and 'Spirit of Salt'. There are also two brushes, a polishing pad, a cake of 'Holdsworth's' blacking, and a broken bottle of 'Royal Blacking'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Mounted to 56 x 37 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850 and Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
"Fox stoops to support on his back Horne Tooke, who is about to climb into the window of 'St Stephe[n's] Chap[el]', the name on a slab over the door, partly cut off by the right margin. The door is being closed by Lord Temple, who says: "He shall not pollute this holy Temple". Tooke rests his right foot on Fox's back, his hands grasping the sill; his left toe is in a cranny in the wall above a placard headed: 'Old Sarum Dilly takes only one at the Brazenface'. He looks down at Fox, saying, "don't give way I am not quite in Yet". Fox, his head towards the door, one foot supported on a book: 'Powerfull Reasons for Non attendance', says: "Come on with you!! and mind and button your great Coat to hide the Old Cassock." Tooke's greatcoat hangs open, showing his coat, and the skirt of a short cassock over knee-breeches. On the wall beside him is a torn placard: 'A New Edition The Diversions of Purley by the Rev John H...' The keystone of the arch over the door, on the extreme right, is a satyr's head, leering at Tooke with protruding tongue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "Westminster" is etched backwards., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement beneath lower right corner of image: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: W. Elgar[?] 179[?], and Figures identified in pencil below plate mark in contemporary hand: Horne Tooke ; Lord Temple.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839
"In a small space between the House Commons (left) and a rustic alehouse (right) Lord Temple and Lord Camelford play battledore and shuttlecock with the head (the features as in BMSat 9200) of Horne Tooke. In this are stuck feathers, five inscribed respectively: 'Deceit, Vanity, Jacobinism, New Morality [cf. BMSat 9240], Envy'. From the neck hang (torn) clerical bands. Camelford in back view, 'profil perdu', wears a rakish hat with curved brim (as in BMSat 9699), a naval officer's coat with sailor's striped trousers, and buckled shoes; from his coat pocket issues a paper: 'Effusion of Loyalty'. He says: "There's a Stroke for you, Messmate! and, if you kick him back, I'll return him again, dam'me! - if I should be sent on a cruise to Moorfields [i.e. Bedlam], for it! - go it, Coz:" Temple, a stout country gentleman, scarcely caricatured, wearing a stiff round hat, prepares to return the stroke vigorously, left fist clenched; he says: "Send him back? - yes, I'll send him back Twenty Thousand times, before such a high flying Jacobin-Shuttlecock shall pearch [sic] it here, in his Clerical band." Both play vigorously with legs astride. Through the wide doorway behind him, inscribed 'St Steevens', is seen the Opposition side of the House of Commons densely packed, the Speaker just visible in his chair, the Clerk staring apprehensively. All the (tiny) members wave red caps to cheer their champion, shouting "The Church for Ever, [?] dem[me]". Sheridan and Fox only are characterized. The alehouse is a primitive thatched building with the chequers sign. On it are two placards: 'The Old Sarum Electors', five pigs in a sty eating from a trough. Below: 'The House of Call for Independent Members'. Against the building are a rustic table and bench. On the ground by Camelford is a 'List of Candidates for Old Sarum, J. H. Tooke, Black Dick [it was reported, though denied by Camelford, that he had declared his intention of returning his black servant if Tooke's election should be annulled], Thelwall' [see vol. vii]. In the background between the buildings is seen a small ruinous village, representing Old Sarum, with a bare, decayed tree."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old Brentford shuttlecock between Old-Sarum & the Temple of St. Steevens
Description:
Title from text in lower part of image., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm., Collector's annotations on mount., and Identifications in contemporary hand written below plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"The invalid, unshaven, in a nightcap, and wearing a dressing-gown over unfastened waistcoat, breeches, and ungartered stockings, stands as in British Museum Satires No. 9584, grimacing with disgust at a cup of medicine, the bottle in his left hand. In place of the fireplace is a table on which are medicine bottles, pill-box, and a small case inscribed 'Tractors', see British Museum Satires No. 9761. Behind him is a commode. A strip of bed-curtain appears on the extreme right. A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 9805. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 10304, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., An imitation of Gillray's print of the same title; cf. No. 9584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Physic -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Close stools., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives -- Toilet facilities.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Laxatives, Tractors, Metallic, Medicines, Medical procedures & techniques, and Sick persons
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Plate 7 in the series: Symptoms of the shop., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Plate 8 in the series: Symptoms of the shop., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Printseller's stamp located in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Plate number twelve in the series., Sheet has thread margins., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Prints and drawings lent on the plan of a Library. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
"Two connoisseurs, one holding a monocle, admiring a new acquisition of a monstrous grimacing figure in a harlequin costume, the speech of the owner above their heads: 'There neighbour Jenkins, what do you think of my new purchase - theres Taste for you - Mr. Bronze bought it for me - I think he calls it a Chinese Goss or Joss or something like that ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub'd. April 2nd, 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Publication year from unverified data from local card catalog record., Dated "April 2, 1801" in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Courtship -- Older couples.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 3rd, 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Lord Clare (1749-1802) walks in profile to the left on a pavement. He is erect and alert, inclining slightly forward, holding a slim cane erect. He wears round hat, short unpowdered wig, dark coat, gloves, and spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Corporeal stamina.", Figure identification pencilled in contemporary hand below plate. Numbered above: 509., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"The bulky Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827) stands in profile to the left. He wears a small round hat with long powdered hair tied back, and a whisker; a double-breasted coat over a double-breasted waistcoat, striped breeches, striped stockings, and wrinkled top-boots with heavy spurs. He holds a glove in his (gloved) left hand. In his right hand is a small cane. A double chin, heavy, paunchy figure, and wrinkled dress give an impression of physical slackness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Companion print to: "Mental energy.", Figure identification in pencil in contemporary hand below plate mark., and Mounted to 39 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 13th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827
