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 fat ugly man stands in a dilapidated wash-house, one foot on a rough stool, the other trampling on his wig; he gazes up at a noose hanging from a beam, saying, "Oh! my hard Fate!" / Why did I trust her ever?" / What story is not full of Womans Fals...
Alternative Title:
Cure for love
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in old-fashioned (gold-laced) dress rides a velocipede in front of which on the pole is a seat with arms, for a passenger, occupied by an elderly woman with a cat on her knee. Behind her sits a monkey who stretches backwards to clutch the man b...
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in old-fashioned (gold-laced) dress rides a velocipede in front of which on the pole is a seat with arms, for a passenger, occupied by an elderly woman with a cat on her knee. Behind her sits a monkey who stretches backwards to clutch the man b...
"Two sailors ride (right to left) a velocipede (see No. 13399) with two saddles on the elongated bar. At the back is a seat for two passengers in which are two gaily dressed women. The first sailor says over his shoulder: "D--n it Jack this is rare sa...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Bicycles & tricycles, Dandies, British, Mail wagons, and Sailors
"A giant mushroom reaches the upper margin of the design; in its summit a cask is embedded. The butler stands on a ladder (left) holding out the spigot, and saying to Banks who stands below (right): "here's a pretty "Tale of a tub, all the Wine's gone...
Alternative Title:
View of a fungus lately grown on their own banks
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Sidebotham, 287 Strand & sold also at No. 20 Princes St.
Subject (Name):
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Mushrooms, Barrels, Ladders, Butlers, Staffs (Sticks), Bottles, and Vases
A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregn...
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Gretna Green, Gretna Green (Scotland), and Gretna Green.
Subject (Name):
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Elopement, Breach of promise, Elopements, Ethnic stereotypes, Forge shops, Metalworking, Furnaces, Anvils, and Hammers
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Burdett, young and handsome, stands between two contrasted men. He takes the left hand of a stout good-looking fellow: 'The Genius of Honour and Integrity', and points with a gesture of dismissal to 'The Monster of Corruption', a hideous and grotesqu...
Alternative Title:
Rough sketch of the times as deleniated by Sir Francis Burdett and Rough sketch of the times as delineated by Sir Francis Burdett
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 9th, 1819, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
"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
In a tavern, a group of men, several of them with very large bellies, sit around a table with a large punch bowl in the center; they are smoking pipes, some laughing at their companion who has just been struck with a stick by a large woman; others loo...
Alternative Title:
Special messenger!
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 16, 1794, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Bowls (Tableware), Pipes (Smoking), Taverns (Inns), Waiters, and Wigs
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene on a high-road passing through a village. Those who see their livelihood threatened by mechanical transport (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13427) attack the riders of velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399). In the foreground a dism...
Alternative Title:
Velocipede cavalry unhobby'd
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1819 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Blacksmiths, Dandies, and Veterinary medicine
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene on a high-road passing through a village. Those who see their livelihood threatened by mechanical transport (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13427) attack the riders of velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399). In the foreground a dism...
Alternative Title:
Velocipede cavalry unhobby'd
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1819 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Blacksmiths, Dandies, and Veterinary medicine
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene on a high-road passing through a village. Those who see their livelihood threatened by mechanical transport (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13427) attack the riders of velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399). In the foreground a dism...
Alternative Title:
Velocipede cavalry unhobby'd
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1819 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Blacksmiths, Dandies, and Veterinary medicine
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Regent, very tipsy, one leg on the supper-table, leans back in his chair, putting a hand under the chin of each of two very fat maidservants who stand one on each side. One (left) stands with her back to the fire where a large steak is grilling; ...
Alternative Title:
Beauties of grease, or, Luxuries of the Kremlin and Luxuries of the Kremlin
Description:
Title etched below image; the letters "as" in "grease" have been scored through and the letters "ec" etched above, forming the word "Greece."
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846
"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
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three fat Englishwomen, wearing feathered bonnets, are dressing the fair Circassian, see British Museum Satires No. 13391, &c. One laces a corset-bodice, which covers her breasts and reaches almost to the knee. The victim throws up her arms, exclaimi...
Alternative Title:
British graces attiring the Circassian Venus in the English costume
On a bridge with Oxford in the background, male students riding bicyles with female companions collide, toppling another student and a master who drops a book opened to a page with the title "Tutors assistant".
"A one-masted naval vessel flying an Ensign flag, sails (left to right) along a country road on six wheels. Sailors man the yards and haul at the sails, an officer shouts through a speaking-trumpet. In the background are three similar but smaller vess...
Alternative Title:
Going to hobby-horse fair
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 10th, 1819 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene in a cake shop, with two ladies taking their departure after eating from two dandies, both of whom declare themselves unable to pay the bill."--British Museum online catalogue
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene in a cake shop, with two ladies taking their departure after eating from two dandies, both of whom declare themselves unable to pay the bill."--British Museum online catalogue
Dickinson is half-standing with his feet turned outwards and his left hand resting on his chest; a monkey stands on a ledge at the base of a large column; a book and an inkwell lie on the table
In the center two black eunuchs stand on either side of a door which stands open to reveal the Circassian with a raised veil, eager to receive her visitors. From the left a pair of dandies, Lord Yarmouth and Lord Petersham dressed in wide trousers and...
Alternative Title:
Vain attempt to get a peep at the fair Circassian
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquis of, 1777-1842, Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1780-1851, Beaufort, Henry Charles Somerset, Duke of, 1792-1853, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young officer in smart regimentals clasps the hand of a pretty girl who leans from the window of a rustic cottage; he points as if to make an assignation. On the wall is a placard: 'The Wolf and the Kidd'. An old man (right) trudges off to the righ...
Alternative Title:
Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen ...
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young officer in smart regimentals clasps the hand of a pretty girl who leans from the window of a rustic cottage; he points as if to make an assignation. On the wall is a placard: 'The Wolf and the Kidd'. An old man (right) trudges off to the righ...
Alternative Title:
Captain Careless shot flying by a girl of fifteen ...
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A procession of characters riding fantastic velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399), in profile to the right, each an isolated figure, arranged in two rows divided by a horizontal line. Each machine is an appropriate object mounted on two ...
Alternative Title:
Everyone his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 24, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A procession of characters riding fantastic velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399), in profile to the right, each an isolated figure, arranged in two rows divided by a horizontal line. Each machine is an appropriate object mounted on two ...
Alternative Title:
Everyone his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Ap. 24th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Jews, Bicycles & tricycles, City council members, Ethnic stereotypes, Hobbyists, Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Dandies, and Sailors
"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
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Scene in a dormitory in which curtained four-post beds are ranged on each side of the room receding in perspective. Three school-mistresses encourage resistance to a police-officer with a warrant. The pupils are mature young women in plain décollete...
Design consists of male figures from various social classes, professions, ethnic groups, all caricatured, arranged in four horizontal rows all riding two-wheeled bicycles. Below four columns of verse commenting on the various types depicted: parson, l...
Alternative Title:
Four and twenty hobby-horses all of a row
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1819, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Clowns, Ethnic stereotypes, and Occupations
"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.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Friendly thumps, or, A reciept for terminating family quarrels, Friendly thumps, or, A receipt for terminating family quarrels, Reciept for terminating family quarrels, and Receipt for terminating family quarrels
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Friendly thumps, or, A reciept for terminating family quarrels, Friendly thumps, or, A receipt for terminating family quarrels, Reciept for terminating family quarrels, and Receipt for terminating family quarrels
"Lord Grantham, in military uniform, wielding the club of Hercules, inscribed 'L G his cane', stands with legs astride, threatening Wooler (left), a tiny 'Black Dwarf, as in British Museum Satires No. 12892, who registers extreme rage or terror. Grant...
Alternative Title:
Lord G- & the printers devil, Lord Grantham & the printers devil, Lord Grantham and the printers devil, and Giant Grumbo and the black dwarf
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859 and Wooler, T. J. 1786?-1853 (Thomas Jonathan),
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Clubs (Weapons), Dwarfs, Hides & skins, and Ethnic stereotypes
"A John Bull rides a 'Velocimanipede', see No. 13411, round the basin in Bushey Park, which is realistically depicted, with its baroque centre-piece. He is a fat 'cit' mopping his forehead; his wig and hat are on a stick fixed in front of the steering...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Cyclists, Bicycles & tricycles, Dandies, British, Families, Fountains, Lakes & ponds, and Obesity
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) sits with folded arms in a four-wheeled gig on high springs, with a (lowered) hood, a coat of arms on the panel; beside him sits a lady eclipsed by an enormous bonnet. The gig is drawn (left to right) by...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published May 19th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) sits with folded arms in a four-wheeled gig on high springs, with a (lowered) hood, a coat of arms on the panel; beside him sits a lady eclipsed by an enormous bonnet. The gig is drawn (left to right) by...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published May 19th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
"Portrait of George IV, half-length, slightly turned to the left, in gold-laced military uniform buttoned to the neck, an aiguillette and lace epaulette on his shoulder, a riband across his chest and the Order of the Golden Fleece on a ribbon about hi...
Alternative Title:
His Most Excellent Majesty George IV
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 4th, 1819, by W. Skelton, 1 Stafford Place, Pimlico
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One dandy rides forward on a 'hobby', see British Museum Satires No. 13399, full-face, legs straddled, elbows akimbo. Another rides right to left, leaning back, just avoiding the former's back wheel, but striking the pole of his machine against the c...
Alternative Title:
Hobbies, or, Attitude is everything, Attitude is every thing, and Attitude is everything
Description:
Title etched below image; the second letter "e" in "every" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"One dandy rides forward on a 'hobby', see British Museum Satires No. 13399, full-face, legs straddled, elbows akimbo. Another rides right to left, leaning back, just avoiding the former's back wheel, but striking the pole of his machine against the c...
Alternative Title:
Hobbies, or, Attitude is everything, Attitude is every thing, and Attitude is everything
Description:
Title etched below image; the second letter "e" in "every" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret.
"Three fashionable dandies (see No. 13029) in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutenist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an o...
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 15, 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, and Parlors
"Two designs, side by side, each with title. [1] John, a very fat and jovial 'cit', leans back in an arm-chair holding up a glass of port. On the table beside him (right) are a decanter of 'Port', round of beef (pushed aside), pipe, tobacco-box. An em...
Alternative Title:
John Bull in clover, John Bulll done over, and Iohn Bulll done over
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany 9, 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A magistrate, identified as 'the Hon. Sir Thomas McKenny', Mayor of Dublin, sits at a table on a small dais, giving instructions to constables. On the wall behind is a crowned Irish harp. Beside him sits a clerk, pen in hand. Two ladies watch the pro...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 25, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 13397. The Mayor and clerk sit as before. The two constables have brought in three naked bathers, who modestly try to screen their persons with hat, handkerchief, and a basket inscribed 'Sprats from the Royal Ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 30th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
"Probably a copy of a French print. An elderly and ugly couple in old-fashioned dress, stand close together, but turning aside with expressions of angry resentment. There is a companion plate, 'Le Raccamodement Making up'."--British Museum online cata...
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A midshipman (left) dressed as a dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) braces hands and feet against a mast on the extreme left, while four sailors, standing on a turn-table (right), wind up by a windlass a rope attached to his stays (cf. Brit...
Alternative Title:
Lacing in style, or, A dandy midshipman preparing for attraction!!, Dandy midshipman preparing for action, and Dandy midshipman preparing for attraction
Description:
Title etched below image; letters "attr" in "attraction" are crossed out but still legible.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A midshipman (left) dressed as a dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) braces hands and feet against a mast on the extreme left, while four sailors, standing on a turn-table (right), wind up by a windlass a rope attached to his stays (cf. Brit...
Alternative Title:
Lacing in style, or, A dandy midshipman preparing for attraction!!, Dandy midshipman preparing for action, and Dandy midshipman preparing for attraction
Description:
Title etched below image; letters "attr" in "attraction" are crossed out but still legible.
"A procession headed by John Ross extends from the coast (right), where Esquimaux dogs swim ashore from a boat, to the gate of the British Museum, part of which is on the extreme left ..." (Source: British Museum catalogue). Print shows items brought ...
Alternative Title:
Results of the polar expedition!!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 18, 1819, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856, Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862, Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883, Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820, Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836, and British Museum
"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.
"An elderly and ugly couple in old-fashioned dress turned towards each other and embracing, though standing apart, the woman tall and leaning down to the short, portly man, whose wig slips from his head; probably a copy of a French print."--British Mu...
A very thin man in spectacles sits in a chair before a small fire, absorbed in his reading. Books rest on the mantel above him and on the floor surrounding him
"The title continues: "Forth from the Goal Starts the favorite hob -and on his back Firm sits light load, the Dandy, Jerkin'd spruce' Dandies race on the new elocipede. In the foreground three are bunched together, taking enormous strides. The forem...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published 23 Feby. 1819 by John Hudson 85 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Bicycle racing, Bicycles & tricycles, and Carriages & coaches
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men run furiously on velocipedes on a country road. A fat drink-blotched fellow, like a John Bull, is slightly in front, he wears old-fashioned dress; his paunch rests on the bar of the machine. The other is a dandy, with grotesquely high collar ...
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men run furiously on velocipedes on a country road. A fat drink-blotched fellow, like a John Bull, is slightly in front, he wears old-fashioned dress; his paunch rests on the bar of the machine. The other is a dandy, with grotesquely high collar ...
A Hyde Park scene illustrating the development in costume since the plate for 1818 (See British Museum satire 13055). The figures seem to be portraits as well as types. The men wear exaggerated hats. A dandy on the left has his hands in his trouser po...
Alternative Title:
Monstrosities of 1819 and 1820
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29th, 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Duke of York rides a velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399), taking long strides, on a country road from London, indicated by St. Paul's, the Monument, &c. in the background, towards Windsor Castle on a hill (left). He wears a mitre an...
Alternative Title:
Penny saved a penny got
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 8th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
