Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses with receding foreheads and chins. The defeated player (left) clenches his fist and raises a bare leg above the chess-board, kicking his shoe into the air. His opponent holds a cane which may indicate a doctor
Alternative Title:
Chess-players
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. Title from British Museum: Chess-players., Dated from ms. note on Lewis Walpole Library impression., A copy after a 1788 print? Cf. [Chess-players] in the British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note added below image: 1828.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below image: A fool to pleasure yet a slave to fame, say what can cause such impotence of mind? ..., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image., and Temporary local subject terms: Monkeys -- Animals in human situations.
Publisher:
Published 1828 by Moon, Boys, & Graves, 6 Pall Mall
"A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two further volumes, and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and a woman, a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the print on which this design is based., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online cat., registration no.: 2006,U.1348., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., A reduced copy of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Similar to and perhaps related to a series of small copies by Rowlandson of earlier Bunbury satires, published in 1803 by R. Ackermann. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 42-43., Watermark: J. Whatman 1828., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from sheet., and A border enclosing the design and shading to the lower portion of the design added in pencil.
A view of Strawberry Hill from the edge of the Thames looking back up towards the house over the lawn. In the foreground, on the left, a man in classical dress sits on the lawn, a woman standing over him and pointing. On the right, three other figures in classical costume stand together, a woman again pointing to the left
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill East front
Description:
Title and printmaker from Gascoigne., Added title from curator., Proof before letters?, and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Estates, and Buildings, structures, etc
Portrait of Lady Selina Meade standing half-length to right, looking to front, holding a small bouquet in her left hand and wearing pearls around her neck; clouds behind her
Description:
Title and publication date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. and Plate to: The Keepsake. London [etc.] : D. Bogue [etc.], 1827-57.
In a tavern diners eat eagerly as they sit crowded around tables each covered in white linen and divided from each other by curtains. A waiter delivers a covered tureen to the table on the right as he crosses pathes with the waitress hurrying to the left with two tankards of beer. The diners' hats hang on pegs around the walls. A chandelier hangs before three casement windows with oval mirrors decorating the walls between. The tavern has been identified as either the Rainbow Tavern or the Wheatsheaf Eating House, both on Fleet Street
Printmaker and title from Grego., Publication date from watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title on the original drawing (now in private hands): The Wheatshief Eating House, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. See Bridgeman Art database., Later reprint in Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. (London, 1836) is titled: Table d'hote., Restrike of a print listed by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v.2, p. 19., Watermark: J Whatman 1828., and Title supplied in unknown hand below plate: Rainbeau Tavern in Fleet Street in 1800.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 9 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 8 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 7 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 6 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets -- Couples -- Fighting.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 5 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 4 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 3 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 23 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 22 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 21 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 20 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 2 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 19 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 18 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 17 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 16 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 15 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 14 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 13 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 12 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 11 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 10 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Numbered '1' in upper right., Number 1 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Dogs -- Puppets -- Clowns -- Stages.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of vers below image: Fools ne'er had less grace in a year for wise men are grown foppish ... Shakespeare., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., and The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image.
Publisher:
Published July 1828 by Moon, Boys, and Graves, 6 Pall Mall
Title from caption below image., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of six groups of figures in two rows, with lines of text etched above each group., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 8., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Cavalry uniforms -- Horsemanship -- Yeomen., and J. Whatman 1828.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 7th, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Title from caption below image., Imprint contains a small "th" etched above the second "2" in "Feby. 22"., Four lines of verse below title: It rain'd a deluge; poor Joseph came home late; long at the bell he tugg'd (at last out popp'd a pate) ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 22th, 1828, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
A beautiful, fashionably-dressed young woman is seated in a chair leaning her elbow on a table as she looks out a window. On the pane abover her head is a sign "An apartment to let for a single gentleman."
Description:
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: J. Whatman.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Kissing -- Soldiers -- City scenes.
A groggy surgeon-apothecary, awakened by knocking below, shouts down from an open window to an unseen patient requesting a night visit. He wears a nightcap and has a burning candle beside him. Two cats scurry away from the commotion, causing flower pots to tumble off the ledge. On the wall of the building, to the left of the window, is a depiction of a mortar and pestle as well as a sign reading "Hand in Hand Assurance" beneath two hands joined together (the emblem of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Office). The sign beneath the window reads "Cawdle, Accoucheur & Apothecary. NB. Bleeding, Cupping, Tooth Drawing &c. &c."
Description:
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three lines of dialogue below title: Who are you? (Damn the cats!) What d' ye want young woman, hey? Oh, Sir, master begs you'll step over directly as Missus, if you please sir, is taken very bad in a a a !!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 333 x 205 mm.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Midwives, Obstetrics, Drugstores, Windows, Flowerpots, Cats, and Signs (Notices)
A groggy surgeon-apothecary, awakened by knocking below, shouts down from an open window to an unseen patient requesting a night visit. He wears a nightcap and has a burning candle beside him. Two cats scurry away from the commotion, causing flower pots to tumble off the ledge. On the wall of the building, to the left of the window, is a depiction of a mortar and pestle as well as a sign reading "Hand in Hand Assurance" beneath two hands joined together (the emblem of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Office). The sign beneath the window reads "Cawdle, Accoucheur & Apothecary. NB. Bleeding, Cupping, Tooth Drawing &c. &c."
Description:
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three lines of dialogue below title: Who are you? (Damn the cats!) What d' ye want young woman, hey? Oh, Sir, master begs you'll step over directly as Missus, if you please sir, is taken very bad in a a a !!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Midwives, Obstetrics, Drugstores, Windows, Flowerpots, Cats, and Signs (Notices)
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Five lines of text below title: A a y'r place 'll not do for me Mum the bed's not long enough! ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Hunt, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text on either side of title: Blush not flower of modesty. Shakspear. 'Tis manners makes the gentleman and want of them the fellow. Pope., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watt, W. H. (William Henry), 1804-1845, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[June 1828]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait; short half-length standing facing front, looking away to left, arms slightly extended, wearing a dark double-breasted coat with a high collar, dark cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar and a monocle on a ribbon around his neck; in an oval frame; after Newton; scratched open-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title in open letters below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page viii (leaf numbered '10' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published June 1828 by W.H. Watt and Printed by McQueen
A scene in a restaurant: A large, red-faced landlord in an apron stands before a man who is about to eat his meat. A little dog eats his meat at the side of the customer. Below the image: Capital Joint this Landlord 'pon my Soul, Here's Cut and Come again. Yes, Sir ther's Cut, to be sure, but I'll be--- if ever You shall Come again
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Six lines of text below title: Capital joint this landlord 'pon my soul ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Hunt, 18 Tavistock Stt., Covent Garden
Title from caption below image., Text above image: I'd be a butterfly., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below images., Design composed of two panels separated by a space with text: Wide as the poles asunder., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to temperance -- Representation of evils -- Virtues., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 70.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and A. Ducotè lithog. 10, St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Families, Fish, Fishing, Gin, Vice, and Water
The Duke of Wellington stands before the King who sits on his throne, his right foot resting on a footstool. Dressed in uniform and standing very erect, Wellington holds out a large cross-hilted sword at an angle between himself and the King. From his plumed cocked hat, which he holds behind him, hangs a piece of paper with the words "Military commission to throw dust in John Bull's eyes." Projecting from his back pockets, are two papers labelled "Church patronage" and "Army patronage." A lady, Lady Conyngham, is seen peaking between the curtains behind the throne of the puzzled-looking King. The crown is on a table behind Wellington
Alternative Title:
Throne in danger
Description:
Title etched above image., Figure of a man with an open umbrella is one of artist's devices used by William Heath., and Below design: "There is a power before the throne & a power behind the throne -- greater than the throne itself."
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
"A man in quasi-fashionable dress with spurred top-boots and knee-breeches gapes oafishly at a print-shop window, while a little boy, respectably dressed, takes a purse from his breeches-pocket, having already twitched a handkerchief from the coat-tail pocket which hangs inside out. Behind (right) a lady stares through an eye-glass. In each pane of the curved window of a corner-shop (Berthoud's?) is a print. One of the Devil faces a portrait of the 'Duke of Wellington'; these are 'The Pair Half a Crown' [cf. BM Satires Nos. 13826, 15646]; 'Up to every thing' is a tall soldier, taking the hand of a woman at a first-floor window; 'A Loan' is BM Satires No. 14993; 'Man of Taste' is a man at the counter of a ham and beef shop (cf. BM Satires No. 13127); 'Remember the Post Boy your Honor', scene in an inn yard. There are other prints, one is a double sheet: 'Joe Lisle Play upon words'. There is a Paul Pry (not resembling Liston, cf. BM Satires No. 15138), and against the pickpocket's head is a print of an empty gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Boys, City & town life, Merchandise displays, Pickpockets, Prints, Stores & shops, and Witnesses
A monkey dressed as an artist, wearing with a soft cap, jacket, and apron, works on a bust with chisel and mallet in hand. Other tools of his trade as a sculptor are in a basket behind him and at his feet
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Dean & Co., Threadneedle Street
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Chisels & mallets, Monkeys, and Sculptors
"Codrington, wearing the star of the Bath, sits on a gun-carriage on the deck of his ship, looking sternly up at an old scarred and pigtailed sailor who addresses him with an expression of consternation: Please your Honor's Glory there's something wrong in the wind, for they've clapt a Marine at the Helme of Old England, and He and the other lob lollies have made Sombody (God bless Him) to call our Glorious Victory an UNTOWARD EVENT And when they where told to belay their jawing tackel they shifted the wind and began to blow another way. Codrington answers Aye Aye Jack they or we must be fools. In his right hand is his sword, the point resting on the deck, the blade inscribed with Nelson's Trafalgar signal: England expects every Man to do his duty. He holds a document: Treaty of London. His back is to the sea where a rocky promontory (right) forms Wellington's profile, looking towards Codrington, a row of tiny gun-emplacements forming a grim smile (cf. BM Satires No. 15691); on the rock is a flag at half-mast, topped by a spurred Wellington boot, upside down."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal speech
Description:
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 221.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
A caricature of a man astride a steam-generated, three-wheeled vehicle shaped like the body of a horse. Two fashionably dressed ladies in elaborate hats look on with disgust at the exhaust. In the background (left) a man leans on his shovel in front of three bags of coal labelled "Feed". In the background (center) a man feeds coal into the furnace of another vehicle
Alternative Title:
H. Alken's Illustration of modern prophecy, or Novelty for the year 1829 and Illustration of modern prophecy, or Novelty for the year 1829
Description:
Title from item., Title above image: H. Alken's Illustration of modern prophecy, or Novelty for the year 1829., and Quote above title, below image: Faugh the filthy fellow my Dear, the wretch feeds his horse with common coal.
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 1828 by S. & J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place
A satire on Wellington's dismissal of the Duke of Clarence. A pyramid built of large stones stands in a open field. At the apex is inscribed the word "King" at the base left "Lords" and right "Commons". Kneeling on either side in his robes is a peer facing a simply dressed M.P. Between them on the ground are the heads of a unicorn and a lion which is being gnawed by a crow and a rat. Wellington in full uniform straddles the two men who support him. Between his legs a plaque on the pyramid reads: "Multum in parvo, or the British Constitution formerly consisting of the three estates, King, Lords, Commons, abridged into an elegant extract in one volume!"
Description:
Title from caption etched below image. and Attributed to Charles Williams in the Brit Mus. Cat.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 1828 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837., and Great Britain. Admiralty.
Titles from text above each design., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Animals in human situations -- Pharmacies -- Bottles -- Herbs -- Skeletons.
Publisher:
Published by T. Flint, 28 Burlington Arcade and Rittner Boulevard, Montmarte Paris and Printed by C. Hullmandel
Title from caption below image., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text below title: "T'was post meridian half past four.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly and Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.)
Title from text above center design., Five designs on one plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate from book with the same title published by Tregear., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mirrors -- Dandies -- Fashion.
An aspirational dustman in ragged clothes, a monocle hanging from his hat, and smoking a cigar, sits in a chair before the hearth reading a book, "An introduction to the pleasures of ... schince by Barnart Botherum [...] dedicated to the majesty of the people". On the table are bowl, a goblet and a bottle of Port. On the wall hangs a landscape and on the mantel a bust of Shakespeare. The dog at his feet stares at the fire, the bones of fish dinner on a plate beside him. A large bell sits on the floor beside the dustman
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 1"--Upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published April 1828 by S. Maunder, 10 Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Garbage collecting, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Interiors, Fireplaces, Smoking, and Reading
"Fantastic scene at a London street corner which abuts on open country, the roadway deep in mud. A coach and pair advances left to right; the coachman has laid down reins and whip to read the Times through spectacles, the footman standing behind is deep in a book. A ragged but monocled street-sweeper on stilts sweeps towards a small child half-submerged in mud, and a lady in a monstrous hat who picks her way through the slough. On the foreground pavement a butcher and a dustman play chess, holding the board between them. One sits on a great joint of beef, the other on a bag; a dog runs off with a bullock's heart. A ragged ballad-singer plays a guitar, screeching operatically; her small child holds up a parasol. Two climbing boys with misshapen legs argue with each other, one uses a handkerchief. Two servants in livery walk arm-in-arm, one smoking a huge pipe (like the footman in BM Satires No. 15779). An apple-woman seated against a lamp-post reads Byron, while a boy sneaks an apple. The lamp-post is topped by a flaming sun, presumably of gas. A dust-cart is drawn by two asses tandem, with a postilion on the leader; the dustman, seated on his load (instead of walking with it) plays a 'cello. On the opposite pavement are three tiny street musicians: a fashionably dressed woman sings from a sheet of music to the accompaniment of a harpist and flautist with music-stand. In the background is steam-traffic: (1) a steam carriage for two with three wheels, a tall smoking funnel, and a pendent coal-scuttle, all but the last much as 'Mr D. Gordon's New Steam Coach, illustrated and described', Observer, 30 Dec, 1827. (2) A large steam lorry on which soldiers with bayoneted muskets sit in rows. A small carriage with a steersman and two passengers is drawn by a kite (a kite-drawn carriage was displayed in Regent's Park, Jan. 1828, described by Pückler-Muskau, Tour in England, 1948, p. 218). Behind is a narrow channel crossed by a suspension bridge linking Dover to Calais; another branch of the Channel is crossed by The . . . Tunnel (oddly drawn), the top of which collapses under the impact of a ship, so that water pours down. An aerial battleship supported by two balloons attacks three ships immediately below; they sink under a rain of flame and cannon-balls. There are also an ordinary balloon, a flying-machine drawn by wild geese, and an aerial vessel which collides with the moon. The foreground buildings are one vast shop-window and the adjacent house; over the window: Business of this Shop on a larger scale than any other house in London. The window is filled with draperies and ladies' huge hats (cf. BM Satires No. 15628). A lady, with a giant hat, pin-point waist, and vast sleeves, stares in. The adjoining house of the same height is three stories high, the principal floor with street-door, bow-windows, balconies, and awning is at the top; passengers are being hauled up to it by a man using a windlass to hoist chairs up a vertical chute from the street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 23 1828 by G. Humphrey St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Steam, Storefronts, and Street vendors
Title from caption below image., Two lines of verse below title: Frankenstein wanted to make man & so Sir he tried this first attempt upon a grocer! T. H., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 1, 1828 by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
