"Portrait of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, three-quarter length, standing slightly to right, his right hand on his hip, holding hat and walking stick in his left hand; wearing braded coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; curtain and colum...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published February 1st, 1819, by T. & H. Rodd, 17, Little Newport St., Leicester Sq.
A grotesque caricature attacking the much-debated 1820 settlement scheme which encouraged English people to settle in South Africa, where they were promised fertile land and a pleasant climate. In the print, a working-class English family are shown be...
Alternative Title:
Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and Blessings of emigration to the Cape of Forlorn Hope
Description:
Title etched below image. The word "Forlorn" in title is scored through and the word "Good" has been inserted above the line with a caret, forming the correct place name "Cape of Good Hope".
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 7, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
South Africa
Subject (Topic):
Emigration and immigration, Emigration & immigration, Indigenous peoples, Ethnic stereotypes, Cannibalism, Snakes, Lions, Crocodiles, and Fires
"A burlesqued tailor with a huge paunch and small legs stands in profile to the left, facing a gale and rain, encumbered with a little girl clinging to his neck, and by large roll of cloth under the right arm; he tries to open his umbrella, having pla...
"Below the title: '(i e) Being dragg'd through mud & Mire by your Cockney friend, (who has lately taken-- a -- seat in the Country) to show the improvements! & his ignorance in Farming.' The fat 'cit', wearing top-boots, stands deep in mire, his hand ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25th, 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Strt
"Folding frontispiece to "A Political Lecture on Heads, alias Blockheads!! A Characteristic Poem: . . .Drawn from Craniological Inspection, after the Manner of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim, of Vienna. By Don Juan Asmodeus. London. Printed for the Author...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
John Fairburn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
"A scene in Hyde Park. Two dandies (see No. 13029) approach a woman in grotesquely fashionable dress, one from the left, the other from the right; she walks in back view through an opening in the rails, in the direction of a sign-post pointing 'To the...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 30th, 1819 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Parks
"The three musicians walk disconsolately across the cobbles of a fashionable London square. Behind them (left) is a large house with a manservant standing truculently in the pillared porch, watching the departure; a lady stands on the veranda. A littl...
Alternative Title:
Savoyards
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1819 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.