"Portrait of William Wilberforce, MP, half-length seated at a table on which stand the 'Parliamentary Register' and 'Debates', holding folded in his hand the 'Slave Trade Abolition Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Painted by the late John Russell Esqr. R.A., crayon painter to the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York ; engraved by James Heath A.R.A., Proof before all letters. For a lettered state with the imprint "Published Novr. 26, 1807, by William Faden, Geographer to the King &c., Charing Cross, John Hatchard, Bookseller to the Queen, 190 Piccadilly, and William Russell, 17 Newman Street," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1899,0805.4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 512 (leaf numbered '107' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Later ink annotation below print, on mounting sheet: William Wilberforce (Slave Abolitionist).
Copy of Basire print after Hogarth: A portrait of Thomas Morell, a classical scholar and friend of Hogarth's, shown "in the character of a Cynic Philosopher"; behind him, an organ aprtially hidden behind a curtain; in front of him on a table is an ink well, brush, and a pile of books; he sits at the table, pen in hand poised above a sheet of paper. On the wall near the door hangs a watch on a ribbon; over it a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
Thomas Morell
Description:
Title, date, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no 2., Plate for: Nichols, J. Genunie works of Hogarth. London : Longman [etc.], 1807., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 239., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand under image: Copy., and On page 195 in volume 2.
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Grego., Six lines of quoted verse below design: "After supper of heaven I dream, but that is fatt pullets & clouted cream ..., Companion print to: The holy friar., 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 22.6 x 17.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probably loss of plate number in upper right corner., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly an early state before letters., Questionable date of publication based on that of another print by Rowlandson after Bunbury on the subject of foreign travel. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 78-79., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 4732 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and A border enclosing the design and shading to the lower portion of the design added in pencil.
"A yokel puts his head through a trap-door (left), holding up a lantern and pitchfork. He gapes in horror at the sight before him. Two witches (right) sit over a fire burning in a bowl; one holding a broom gazes grimly towards the creatures they have called up: two bodies, one old, the other young, both winged, one having wings of flame, terminate together in the crouching hind-legs of a beast of prey; with these are the head and neck of a monstrous bird. Two grotesque goblins emerge from clouds (left), and a serpent hisses at the women."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '18' in upper right corner., and Later state issued around 1813. Cf. No. 12150, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9 for description with different plate number.
Publisher:
Published April 29, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"A yokel puts his head through a trap-door (left), holding up a lantern and pitchfork. He gapes in horror at the sight before him. Two witches (right) sit over a fire burning in a bowl; one holding a broom gazes grimly towards the creatures they have called up: two bodies, one old, the other young, both winged, one having wings of flame, terminate together in the crouching hind-legs of a beast of prey; with these are the head and neck of a monstrous bird. Two grotesque goblins emerge from clouds (left), and a serpent hisses at the women."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '18' in upper right corner., Later state issued around 1813. Cf. No. 12150, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9 for description with different plate number., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.7 x 32.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of plate number., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published April 29, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
A couple dance in the middle of the floor of a tavern
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of plate: RA., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dance, Dogs, Eating& drinking, and Taverns (Inns)
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A husband and wife have an argument across a table
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "N. 13" has been replaced with a new plate number, and year of publication has been burnished from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapsid [sic], Feb. 25, 1807. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.35., Plate numbered "256" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, no. 1258., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 38 in volume 4.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 13., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A party of men and women round a table look at caricatures of themseves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "N. 10" has been replaced, and first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Published Jany. 10, 1807, by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.33., Plate numbered "116" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Jewelry., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 55 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A party of men and women round a table look at caricatures of themseves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "N. 10" has been replaced, and first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Published Jany. 10, 1807, by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.33., Plate numbered "116" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Jewelry.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 10., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Twelfth Night., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Published Janr. 10, 1807, by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Title from broadside printed on same sheet., Header to broadside: In answer to Captain Morris's celebrated song of "Country life" written by the late Mr. Hewerdine., Ten stanzas of verse printed in letterpress: As town-bitten bards, bred in fashion and noise, the country decry, and its health yielding joys; let us fairly examine the preference due to the smoak-smother'd town, o'er the villa's clear view ..., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '465' in the upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 15, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Uniform with the series of 'Drolls', imprint and number cropped. Heading to printed verses (16 ll.): 'Sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Fawcett, in the New Comic Opera of "Two Faces under a Hood"'. Fawcett as Paris, in Spanish costume, sits on a rock, holding the apple, surrounded by three young women wearing limp high-waisted gowns; Pallas has a bonnet shaped like a light-horse helmet, and holds a parasol. Beside him is his dog with a collar inscribed 'Paris'. In the background (r.) a fat officer and a taller lady walk arm-in-arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title from verse., Publisher and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sixteen lines of verse arranged in two columns: To know which was the smartest girl, three goddesses, one day, set off to Paris, thinking that wou'd be the nearest way ...
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
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., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; 243 x 158 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
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., and Mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
"Portrait caricature of the murderer Thomas Simmons, a young man in shackles; whole length, standing in prison yard in profile to right, hand in pocket of coat; five prisoners standing, sitting and conversing in front of cells behind; after a drawing by Angelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
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., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.3 x 15.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 67 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Simmons, Thomas, -1808 and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Prisons, Murder, Criminals, Prisoners, and Shackles
