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
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
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A tall lean parson bestrides a velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399) outside a small thatched cottage (left) built against the slope of a mountain. His wife with four children, all five bare-legged, watch the (perilous) departure; she say...
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. 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:
"Kean as Richard III, in the usual costume of the part, see British Museum Satires No. 12325, &c., postures on Bosworth Field with drawn sword and declaims: "Methins [sic] there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I kill'd to day instead of him;!...
Alternative Title:
New reading, or, Shakespeare improved, Shakspeare improved, and Shakespeare improved
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Bucke, Charles, 1781-1846., and Richard II, King of England, 1367-140.
