"A young man stands singing on the boards of a theatre; trees form a background. 'Mr Mug', enslaved in Africa by 'a trading blackamoor', became 'his black Mandingo Majesty's white Minister of State'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: By trade I am a Turner, and Mug it is my name; to buy a lot of ivory to Africa I came ..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 495.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1, 1808, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Realistic bust in profile to the left, on a round base, of a man with coarse features, staring eye, gaping mouth."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "3" in upper left corner; number is etched backwards., and Mounted on leaf 44 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. Three old Jews stand in the street, in close consultation. All wear old-fashioned dress with beards, and long buttoned coats, one resembling a caftan. Behind are the old-fashioned houses of 'Dukes Place'; old clothes hang from a shop inscribed 'Solomon'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Two men sit opposite a table strewn with papers in the library lined with bookcases. The one leans over the table, paper in hand, speaking passionately to his companion
Description:
Title from text above image., Originally published: August 25, 1808 by Thomas Tegg. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of publication statement., and Mounted to 10 x 17 cm.
Title from item: a quotation from satirist Thomas Brown's 'Works'., Attribution following title: Vide Tom Brown Works., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Gaming house interior -- Illustrative material -- Literature quotation: Thomas Brown, 1663-1704: Works., Print numbered '28' in ms. above design., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
"Joseph, neatly dressed as an avocat, takes an enormous step from the rail of a desk (right) on which his right toe is poised to a wall 'Map of Spain & Portugal' on a level with his shoulders, where his left toe touches 'Madrid'. His hands are raised above his head to clutch at a mass of fringed cushions on which is the crown of 'Spain', with a sceptre. On the wall is pinned a notice: 'Notary Public Bayonne'. Four clerks sit facing each other at the desk he has left, which has double slopes, divided by the low rail from which he steps. One asks: "Why Joseph wither art thou going"; he looks down answer: "Whither - but to fill my high destiny? And like my noble Brother Sway tne Sceptre of another." The other clerks say respectively: "But proverbs tell of many Slips, Between the tankard & the lips, And really I am apt to give, The proverb credit as I live" and "He must needs go whom the Devil drives and should it cost his Neck; Ownds! what a prodigious step for a Notary's clerk"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 18th, 1808, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
"Half length portrait of a laughing man, full face, shoulders shrugged and hands extended deprecatingly. He is 'all levity and lightness, singing and capering from morning till night ...'."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"A stout man skates towards the spectator, making curves on very cracked ice. Behind are snow-covered hills. Wild geese fly across the sky."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A stout man skates towards the spectator, making curves on very cracked ice. Behind are snow-covered hills. Wild geese fly across the sky."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 20.7 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 24.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Four ladies sit at a round table, two old and ugly, the others young and comely. The ugliest (left) peers through spectacles at a newspaper, screaming, "Mercy on us here is news!! They write from Hanover that when Boney part took possession of that country, he ravish'd all the Women!!" The other, holding up her fan, exclaims: "O! the Wretch". The two younger ladies (right) turn to each other, saying, "It is very true Ma'am it is only a word and a blow with him-Your Honour or your property", and "Well Ma'am if he should come here, at all events I will take care of my property". A young girl, sitting demurely at a little distance from the table, her wrists crossed on her lap, says: "So will I Mamma!" A butler with a tray of glasses enters the door, grinning."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., State with publication date present. For a variant state with publication date lacking, see no. 11465 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "35" in upper left corner., "Price one shilling coulered [sic].", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 289., and Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
