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
