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 being attacked by a snake, lion and crocodile while highly stereotyped and racist depictions of the local population are seen cannibalizing the family and burning down their home
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"., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered twice in upper margin; "No. 2" is centered, and "366" is in the upper right corner., For a companion print entitled "A strong proof of the flourishing state of the country, exemplefied in the proposed emigration to the Cape of Good Hope! ...", see no. 13267 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two dandies from 1519 and 1819 stand full length in profile, contrasting the fashions of their respective time periods
Alternative Title:
Dandies
Description:
Title etched below image., Sometimes attributed to William Heath., Plate numbered "328" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two dandies from 1519 and 1819 stand full length in profile, contrasting the fashions of their respective time periods
Alternative Title:
Dandies
Description:
Title etched below image., Sometimes attributed to William Heath., Plate numbered "328" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., 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 ; plate mark 25.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 29 in volume 5.
Title etched below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two lines of text following title: This silly innovation which they've borrow'd from the Turks ..., For a reversed version of this design published in Dublin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.872., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1816 -- Picture: Bazaar in Baghdad, enslaved persons., and Watermark: Basted Mill.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Sidebotham, 96 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Chimney sweeps, Dandies, Markets, Slave trade, Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
"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 Falsehood?" At his feet is a letter: 'You old Fool if you ever [? trouble] me again with your Stupid epistles I will expose you in the public Papers Peggy Perkins.' Below the title: 'No Cure no Pay.' Below the design are eight lines of verse, beginning and ending: 'The one end of a Rope fasten over a beam And make a slip noose at the other extreme, . . . The cricket [stool] kick'd down let him take a fair swing And leave all the rest of the work to the string."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cure for love
Description:
Title from caption below image., Traces of an earlier imprint following statement of responsibility., "London" mostly burnished from plate following imprint., and Eight lines of verse below image: The one end of a rope, fasten over a beam and make a slip noose at the other extreme ...
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 by the nose, while a second monkey perched on the back of the machine tugs at his pigtail, and waves his victim's laced cocked hat. From the front of the pole, under the woman's seat, hangs a cage containing a parrot. A lap-dog tied to the back of the machine is dragged along in the dust. There is a landscape background. The woman is the typical old maid of caricature. The rider is probably her footman or coachman."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Family party taking an airing
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "334" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
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 by the nose, while a second monkey perched on the back of the machine tugs at his pigtail, and waves his victim's laced cocked hat. From the front of the pole, under the woman's seat, hangs a cage containing a parrot. A lap-dog tied to the back of the machine is dragged along in the dust. There is a landscape background. The woman is the typical old maid of caricature. The rider is probably her footman or coachman."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Family party taking an airing
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "334" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 39 in volume 5.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker's signature has been burnished from lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Waterloo Place -- Carlton House -- Male costume: top-hat, 1819 -- Coronets -- Female costume: 1819., and Manuscript "141" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M. Clincl [i.e. Clinch] No. 20 Princes Street Soho
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Gordon, Charlotte
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners.
"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 sailing without a wind!" The front wheel collides with a dandy (left), who has dropped his steering-bar (which has dropped to the ground) and is about to fall off. Jack answers: "A very pretty invention Tom! D--n it we shall run down the Dandy!" The dandy (cf. No. 13029) shouts: "Curse you you tarpaulins Wy don't you mind how you steer." One of the women holds a bottle and glass; she looks back saying: "Vy Poll this beats the Dilly [diligence]!! Vy Poll it' s capsized!!" Poll sits back with folded arms, one leg resting on the second sailor's shoulder. She answers: "And we have capsized a Dandy!!" In the background (right) a mail-coach lies on its side; men, women, and luggage from the outside are on the ground; an inside passenger tries to climb from the window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date supplied in contempory hand., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
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!!" Sir Joseph stands in back view, capering delightedly; he holds up both arms, a stick in the left hand, and says with head thrown back: "It is a most Glorious discovery cut it down & send it to the Museum had the Wine been Bottled, it wod not have been half so Interesting." Against the wall of the cellar are wine-bins, stacked with bottles, four inscribed respectively 'Curious Tinta'; 'Cypress'; 'Very Curious'; 'Wine drank by the Grt Mogul'. Flasks on the top of the bins are 'Nile Water' and 'Water from Tombuctoo'. On the ground (left) is a two-handled covered vase: 'A small portion of the Sabine left by Horace at his death contained in this Vase preserved for dinners of the R S.'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Below the title: '--Dedicated to the worthy President--Sir Joseph Banks having a Cask of Wine rather too sweet for use, he directed that it shod be placed in a Cellar that the Saccharine matter it contain'd might be more perfectly decomposed by age--At the end of three years he directed his Butler to ascertain the state of the Wine, when on attempting to open the Cellar door he was prevented by some powerful obstacle--the Door was therefore cut down & the Cellar was found to be completely fill'd with a firm fungus vegetable production--the Cask was Empty & carried up to the deling where it was supported by the surface of the Fungus.--(vide Monthly Magazine).'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of a fungus lately grown on their own banks
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
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 pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
Alternative Title:
More legitimates
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printed on paper watermarked "1818".
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
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Variant state with altered title. Cf. no. 13420 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, vol. 9., and Watermark.
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 grotesque old man who departs to the right, clutching money-bags. Above Burdett's head: 'Look here upon this picture, and on this, And then Judge for Yourselves'. He wears a ribbon like a Garter ribbon inscribed 'MAGNA CHARTA Bill of Rights'. Against the head of 'The Genius of Honour' are inscriptions: 'A sound Mind'; 'An Eye ever watchful to the Welfare of his fellow Citizens.'; 'A Tongue that never belied a good Heart'. On his shoulder: 'A Shoulder that never shrinks in trouble'. A placard across his chest: 'An Upright Breast and an Honest Heart'. On his paunch: 'A Lover of Peace and Plenty A Plain Liver'. His pocket: 'Pocket ever open to the Necessities of his Fellow Creatures'. Knee: 'A Knee to Religion'. Leg: 'Legs ever steady in his Country Cause'. In his right hand, inscribed 'Hand of Justice', he holds a paper: 'A Staunch Supporter of the Bill of Rights An Advocate for a Fair Representation of the People An Enemy to Bribery and Corruption'. 'The Monster' has a large grotesque head; his bald scalp is inscribed 'Professions and Promises'; the eye-socket is covered with a white disk: 'An Eye to Interest'; his projecting nose: 'A Scent for Interest'; his projecting toothless jaw: 'A Mouth of Guile'. He wears a 'Collar of Corruption'. The arm: 'Arms of Power'; hand: 'Hands of Extortion', holding a bag: 'Pensions Reversions Perquisites of Office'. In the left hand: 'Bag of Bribery'. On his chest: 'A Cringinge Soul'. On his paunch: 'Pampered Appetite'. His coat-pocket bulges with 'Secret Service Mony'. His right leg: 'Legs of Luxury'; his left thigh: 'A Rotten Borough'; shoe: 'Feet of Connivance'."--British Museum online catalogue
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., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with publication year "1810" altered to "1819" in imprint statement. See British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., "Price one shilling couloured [sic].", and Leaf 15 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 9th, 1819, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1 s.", Temporary local subject terms: Augusta, of Hesse-Cassel, Duchess of Cambridge, 1797-1889 -- Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850 -- Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Princess of Solms-Braunfels), Duchess of Cumberland, fl. 1819., and Manuscript "79" above plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
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 placed his cane between his legs; tied to the handle in a handkerchief are books of patterns, which are blowing away, like his wig, hat, and the child's bonnet; his coat, with tape-measure, streams behind him ..." (Source: George)
Alternative Title:
Embarras des richesses
Description:
Title from caption below image., Anchor symbol is the artist's mark of Frederick Marryat., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Drawn from the life on the Cliff Brighton., Five lines of verse from Byron's Bride of Abydos inscribed below title: Through rising gale and breaking foam and shrieking sea birds warned him home ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
"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 resting on a heap of straw and dung (left); he turns to a file of agonized visitors who are picking their way on stones, saying, "Here's a charming lot of dung for you -- Now tho' you would not think it I made every bit of this dung myself since I came here! & you know that's not long!" A little boy, standing on the heap with a pitchfork, points to a pool, saying, "Yes & that pond was'nt there when papa first came; Papa made all that water too, all himself!" The foremost visitor registers astonishment; the other three are concerned only with the mud. A frightened boy watches the procession. On the right a woman tries to help her husband, a dandy, from mire that is sucking off his boot, and who holds by the hand (but disregards) a small child who has fallen deep in the muck, terrified at the onset of a menacing duck followed by ducklings. The fat hostess, standing before an unmistakable garden-latrine (right), takes his shoulder, saying, "Never mind my husbands nasty dung--come this way Mr B, & I'll show you my Grotto & Waterfall!" She points to water gushing into a pool from a tiny artificial cave on which stands a Venus pudica. This is flanked by little arbours (each surmounted by a flower-pot which indicates the scale) and each containing a seat. A dove-cot is surmounted by the figure of Harlequin or Mercury holding a purse. Behind are small trees, a haystack, and the roof of the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., An anchor is the symbol of artist Captain Frederick Marryat., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Lines of text below title: (ie) being dragg'd through mud & mire ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Chickens -- Farms -- Obesity.
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 look up in alarm while still others continue to read. In preparing for another strike she accidentally hits the innkeeper wearing an apron behind her as he brings in another punch bowl, which spills as raises his arms. Above the fireplace is picture of a man racing a horse; another print of a horse hangs above the door. Their hats hang on pegs on the walls around the room
Alternative Title:
Special messenger!
Description:
Title from caption 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 Watermark: 1819.
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
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "327" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject tersm: Mirrors -- Dandies -- Serums -- Rugs.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "327" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject tersm: Mirrors -- Dandies -- Serums -- Rugs., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 90 in volume 5.
