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 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 scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Kitchens, Cooks, and Pleading (Begging)
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"Trotter walks off from the Bank of England with two sacks under his arm, one inscribed 'I [...] 000. Newland, appearing in the doorway (left), hurries after him, saying, "Hollo sir - where are you going with those bags!" On the opposite side of the s...
Alternative Title:
Abraham Newland alarm'd Abraham Newland alarmed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5, 1805, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Trotter, Alexander, 1750-1830, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Bank of England.
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Trials (Impeachment), Misconduct in office, Money, Pawnshops, and Ethnic stereotypes
"Prince Leopold sits enthroned, flanked by his new subjects; he wears uniform with a crown, and sits on a two-tiered circular dais in a chair of state, the seat of which is covered with giant thorns. Punctured and frightened, he grasps the arms of his...
"The platform extends across the centre of the design. Below are the audience, three-quarter length and half-length, standing and seated. A man in patched clothes stands in the front of the semicircle of men seated on the platform, holding out his emp...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pulished [sic] June 21, 1827, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
British and Foreign Bible Society. and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
A satire on the Peace of Amiens between France and England, with caricatures of national figures (Holland, Russia, Britain, Spain, Turkey and Prussia) dancing to Napoleon's tune. Napoleon stands at right with pipe and tambourine singing 'Ah ci-ira, ci...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Pipes (Musical instruments), Tambourines, and Dance
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
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline with her accusers on the stage of St Stephens with a cast of witnesses from the trial, addressing John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 22, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic], London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Stages (Platforms), Horns (Communication devices), Ethnic stereotypes, Witnesses, Staffs (Sticks), and Signs (Notices)
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline with her accusers on the stage of St Stephens with a cast of witnesses from the trial, addressing John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 22, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic], London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Stages (Platforms), Horns (Communication devices), Ethnic stereotypes, Witnesses, Staffs (Sticks), and Signs (Notices)
"Lord Lansdowne sits at a small writing-table, pen in hand, a number of papers before him. Three Jews (left) stand obsequiously on his right, but he turns with his enigmatic smile towards a French post-boy (right), a grotesque dwarfish man with long q...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1787, by R. Phillips, Southwke., London
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Tables, Writing materials, Boots, and Whips
"Lord Lansdowne sits at a small writing-table, pen in hand, a number of papers before him. Three Jews (left) stand obsequiously on his right, but he turns with his enigmatic smile towards a French post-boy (right), a grotesque dwarfish man with long q...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1787, by R. Phillips, Southwke., London
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Tables, Writing materials, Boots, and Whips
"A magician stands full face with uplifted sabre held over the heads of two figures from the past whom he has called up, and who stand within a magic circle. He displays them to their modern descendants, a tall stout Frenchman plainly dressed, wearing...
Alternative Title:
Review of old times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Williamson, N. 20 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Magicians, Daggers & swords, Globes, Ethnic stereotypes, and Obesity
"A halt for refreshment in the Egyptian desert. The Princess sits on Bergami's knee, her arm round his shoulder, while he caresses her lasciviously. They sit with their back to an ass which brays: "Oh Tempora!!" She is very décolletée and wears trouse...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1821 by R. Fores, 71 Leadenhall
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820
"Napoleon, pushing an officer before him through a pillared doorway, looks back to speak to a monk and a sansculotte, shackled together, who drag a car in which is an imperial crown. They hold a large scroll inscribed: 'Most religious Sovereign - the ...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress above image.
Publisher:
Published by L. Mayer, as the act directs and Bryer, printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, French, Monks, Flags, Ethnic stereotypes, Shackles, Crowns, Columns, Demons, and Maps
Two individually titled images. On the top a Black judge wearing the robes of his office sits on a bench as he shakes hands with the Duke of Wellington. In the image below a magician twirls a wand over the heads of John Bull with the word "Taxation" ...
Description:
Titles from text below images.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Law and legislation, Taxation, Magicians, and Ethnic stereotypes
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
Call Number:
Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing la...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing la...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he hol...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
"Three men stand in the doorway of the coach-house of a posting inn, through which is seen the courtyard with a post-chaise. The elderly French postilion (left) drinks from a large tankard, holding bones and meat in his left hand. He is caricatured; h...
Alternative Title:
A wet on the road English and French postillions
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, and Women
"A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
"A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
"A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline, in sixteen small scenes, each with a character from the case and the words they have spoken."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Characters in the new piece now performing at the Theatre Royal Cotton Garden 1820
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Leach, John, 1760-1834, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Military officers, Lawyers, Crowns, Bags, Gallows, Dandies, Justice, Scales, Brooms & brushes, Worms, and Ethnic stereotypes
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline, in sixteen small scenes, each with a character from the case and the words they have spoken."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Characters in the new piece now performing at the Theatre Royal Cotton Garden 1820
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Leach, John, 1760-1834, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Military officers, Lawyers, Crowns, Bags, Gallows, Dandies, Justice, Scales, Brooms & brushes, Worms, and Ethnic stereotypes
"Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who take...
Alternative Title:
Stock-brokers outwitted Stockbrokers outwitted Chevalier D'Eon returned
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
An illustrated manuscript leaf in an 18th-century hand. In the upper portion of the recto side is a large vignette of a man in traditional Jewish garb, seated at a table, weighing coins as they spill from two cornucopias, one to each side and held by ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice in literature, Antisemitism, Avarice, and Ethnic stereotypes
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 October 1834]
Call Number:
834.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled. In the upper left and reading across, "Daddy Longlegs" shows a very think, long-legged man poised to smash the insect on his wall. To the right, on top "The itinerant chance...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, and sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, Wiseheart, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
"Perceval, as Don Quixote, stands in front of the Treasury, giving his orders for the forthcoming session. Facing him, Ministerial members (right) stand at attention, clasping rolled documents, all inscribed 'Ministerial Military Exercise Aye & No', a...
Alternative Title:
Don Quixote, comander in chief, reviewing his troops previous to the campain Don Quixote, commander in chief, reviewing his troops previous to the campaign
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1810 by Walker, 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836, Quixote, Don (Fictitious character), and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings,, Ethnic stereotypes, Military officers, Armor, Flags, Trumpets, Chests, and Money
Page 184. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dutch officer / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (56 x 83 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Dutch officer, by Miss Conway.
"The candidate, stout and plainly dressed stands on a cask, bawling with outstretched hand at his audience, who are grouped below him, their heads only appearing, except for figure in the foreground. Here a lady (three-quarter length), a veil hanging ...
Alternative Title:
Lord-Iginal faisant sa motion
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, rue de Coq
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Political elections, and Women
"Satire on the English: a party of tourists climb into a diligence, with the ship behind from which they have just disembarked."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Debarquement d'anglais a calais pour paris
Description:
Title etched above and below image.
Publisher:
Chez Mme Ve. Chereau rue St Jacques no.10
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Families, Ethnic stereotypes, and Tourists
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bear representing England sits at the left side of a table brandishing a knife over a huge roast beef and plumb pudding, beside an enormous tankard of ale. Opposite him a green rat-like animal, (possibly a monkey) representing France and wearing a r...
Alternative Title:
England, roast beef and plum pudding France, toad stools & garlick
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1775 accy. to act by M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Bears, Rats, Drinking vessels, Plum puddings, and Interiors
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bear representing England sits at the left side of a table brandishing a knife over a huge roast beef and plumb pudding, beside an enormous tankard of ale. Opposite him a green rat-like animal, (possibly a monkey) representing France and wearing a r...
Alternative Title:
England, roast beef and plum pudding France, toad stools & garlick
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1775 accy. to act by M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Bears, Rats, Drinking vessels, Plum puddings, and Interiors
Page 183. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
English officer in his morning dress / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a four of hearts playing card (57 x 85 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: English officer in his morning dress, by M...
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, and Ethnic stereotypes
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
"George IV dressed as Falstaff, and followed by a shambling rabble, advances towards the Queen (right) holding sword, and a round shield on which is a device of four wine-bottles and cork-screws. He stares with apprehensive defiance. She says with a d...
Alternative Title:
Contents of the green bag in propria persona
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. July 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cooke, William, 1757-1832, Leach, John, 1760-1834., and Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
Subject (Topic):
Witnesses, Ethnic stereotypes, Shields, and Daggers & swords
Trade card for the Dawbarn family grocery warehouse, situated in Aldermanbury, London. It shows a man wearing typical Chinese dress, sitting on boxes on the banks of a river. Behind him looms a large pagoda, and to his right a box, an urn, and a baske...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
T. Dawbarn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Grocers, Ethnic stereotypes, Pagodas, Rivers, and Ships
"Caroline rejects 'the bribe' (see British Museum Statires No. 13730), protected by John Bull, Sandy, and Pat. The King, with his mistress, tramples on Religeon, Decency, &c. In a picture of Jupiter and Europa the naked Queen (presumably) rides a bull...
Alternative Title:
Infamous proposal rejected
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June 13th, 1820, by J. Fairburn, 2 Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Bribery, Crowns, and Ethnic stereotypes
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
Page 181. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
French officer and English alehouse man Officer francois / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Officer francois, by Miss Conway.
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, French, Ethnic stereotypes, Drinking vessels, and Obesity
A Scotch man and woman ride on an ass led by a monk walking to the left and holding its halter on which is supsended a copy of a newspaper "London evening post". The Scotch man is holding a glass in one hand and waving his cap with the other as he sho...
Alternative Title:
Headpiece for The Jacobite's journal
Description:
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27; 1781, by Rd. Livesay, at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Cityscapes, Donkeys, Ethnic stereotypes, and Newspapers
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
Feby. 24th, 1835.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 15 Box 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-six small images, each individually captioned below, arranged in nine rows of four. The images are comic scenes illustrating the captions, which might be song titles or lyrics
Description:
Title from text within banner at top of design.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Drake, 12 Houghton St., Clare Market and S. Lingham, printer
"A witch-like old woman floats in the air in profile to the left, playing an Irish harp. An infant is at her back, supported by her cloak. Beneath her is a pleasant landscape with a waterside town and a background of low mountains. Under the title: 'T...
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Ireland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Harps, Leprechauns, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, and Witches
"A witch-like old woman floats in the air in profile to the left, playing an Irish harp. An infant is at her back, supported by her cloak. Beneath her is a pleasant landscape with a waterside town and a background of low mountains. Under the title: 'T...
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Ireland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Irish, Harps, Leprechauns, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, and Witches
"A grotesque figure, resembling Punch, kneels in profile to the left, with a large thistle in the foreground (right). He bestrides a sack or bundle which rests on the ground, one end forming the 'Mull of Galloway', the other 'St Abbs Head'. The coast-...
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Scotland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Scots, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, Scottish, and Maps
"A grotesque figure, resembling Punch, kneels in profile to the left, with a large thistle in the foreground (right). He bestrides a sack or bundle which rests on the ground, one end forming the 'Mull of Galloway', the other 'St Abbs Head'. The coast-...
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Scotland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Scots, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, Scottish, and Maps
Leaf 31. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The pair, both very bulky in Highland costume, are back to back. The King (right), wearing a feathered bonnet, a huge sporran, and a sword, stoops to kiss a lady (see British Museum Satires No. 14384), hands clasped behind her neck; he says: "The Swe...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Sept. 3, 1822, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829
Page 182. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
German officer / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a nine of spades playing card (60 x 86 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: German officer, by Miss Conway.
"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 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
"Satire: an Englishman falls while reaching out for a side of meat; in the background a wall with mock advertisements."--British Museum online catalogue
Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with changes: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably the creditor, hono...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
St. James's (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Bailiffs, City & town life, Dandies, British, Dogs, Debt, Ethnic stereotypes, Lampposts, Occupations, Puppets, Rake's progress, Sedan chairs, and Street lights
"Piracy of plate IV of Hogarth's Rake's Progress with considerable differences: a scene in St James's Street with the Rake (here named Ramble) emerging from a sedan-chair to be arrested for debt; figures in the foreground include a Welshman, probably ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
John Bowles
Subject (Geographic):
Saint James Westminster, London, England : Parish),
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Debt, Ethnic stereotypes, Lampposts, Law enforcement, Puppets, Rake's progress, Sedan chairs, and Street lights
"Satire on the English: a family in descending order of height, the father in military uniform, the daughter an identical version of her mother, and the smallest boy dressed as a jester.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Genty, rue St. Jacques, No. 14
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Fools & jesters, Ethnic stereotypes, and Families
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tatt...
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tatte...
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title from caption below image
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
An Irishman, wearing tattered clothing and holding a cudgel, converses with three well dressed men at a table in front of a poor box, the words "Guardians of the Poor" faintly visible on the wall behind them. The Irishman appears obstinate, and the th...
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Poor persons, Poor boxes, Charity, and Writing materials
"John Bull, as a burly and ugly sailor, sits enthroned (right), listening to Melville's plea of innocence. Melville, in Highland dress, and wearing a feathered bonnet, stands in profile to the right. with clasped hands and flexed knees; he says: "Inde...
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull makeing a naval enqury John Bull making a naval enquiry
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1805, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811., and Trotter, Alexander, 1750-1830
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, British, Thrones, Ethnic stereotypes, and Pleading (Begging)
A minister, possibly the Chancellor, holds out a large magnifying glass in his right and and gestures with his left hand. He is wearing a long coat and a long powdered wig. He addresses John Bull: Look through this glass Mr Bull and behold your future...
Alternative Title:
John Bull peeping into futurity
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, English, Colonies, John Bull (Symbolic character), Hand lenses, and Ethnic stereotypes
"Two elderly Scots discuss the Melville case; one, wearing old-fashioned court dress with a sword, takes snuff from the other's ram's-horn mull; he says: "Touch the Sillar!!! - T'is a on disgrace on aw Scotland!" They have sly, twisted expressions. Me...
Alternative Title:
Johny Mac-Cree in the dumps!! Johnny Mac-Cree in the dumps!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published April 12 - 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
An Irish schoolmaster-priest, sits in a chair taking a pinch of snuff from an open snuff box as he catechizes a dwarfish Irish peasant, ragged and barelegged, who answers with a sly grin: 'O'C -- for O'Connell thats right--now Pat what does MP stand f...
Alternative Title:
Irish MPs
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Crucifixes, Ethnic stereotypes, Peasants, Priests, Snuff, and Teachers
"John Bull (left), wearing a star centred by a heart: 'Queens Order of Knighthood', furiously kicks Italian witnesses from a quay into the sea, where (right) a boat waits to take them to a packet-boat. His bull-dog is about to bite, and he raises a ma...
Alternative Title:
Kick from Harwich to Holland
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published July 1820 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Leach, John, 1760-1834
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Witnesses, Ethnic stereotypes, Boats, Dogs, Staffs (Sticks), Demons, Nooses, Gallows, Daggers & swords, Handguns, Keys (Hardware), Bags, Lawyers, Sailors, and British
"An Irishman sits beside a table, smoking, while a comely maidservant shows him two dishes of meat. His bundle is tied to a stick; a dog sits beside him. On the wall is a (framed) 'Game of the Goose': three concentric ovals divided into small sections...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 7, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"An archaic iron-studded door, with posts and lintel of solid but ancient oak, represents the door of the 'COMMONS' [inscription on lintel]. Above: '"They of Rome are enter'd in our Counsels Sh.' ['Coriolanus', I. ii]. An old-clothes' man stands at th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Freedom of religion, Catholic emancipation, Jews, Emancipation, Jesuits, Turks, Doors & doorways, Ethnic stereotypes, Knocking, and Monks
A companion plate to Le Départ (British Museum satire no. 12362), satirizing the haste of the English to visit France in 1814 and their gluttony and bad dressing. The Frenchman who cooks a cat is a subject of English caricatures on the favourite theme...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Doves, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, and Mail steamers
"A handsome young Highland officer walks arm-in-arm with a slightly taller young woman. Her hair under her flat feathered hat is in a small bag or net of tartan. Behind these walk in single file the family descending in height. First, a youth in Highl...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Genty, rue St. Jacques, No. 14
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dogs, Ethnic stereotypes, Families, and Kilts
Six designs, arranged in two rows, each showing a mother, father, and child from different cultures. The figures wear their native dress and appear in front of landscapes, buildings, and animals found in their region of the world
Alternative Title:
Six national figures
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Families, Africans, Chinese, English, Khoekhoe, Native American, and Sami (European people)
"The Englishman, grossly obese, walks from the door of the inn (left) supporting his paunch on a wheelbarrow which the cook of British Museum satire no. 12361 helps to drag, exhausted by the effort, and mopping his face with his cap. A plank leads fro...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, Mail steamers, and Obesity
"A woman, elderly, short, and broad, with swarthy Jewish features, stands, her head turned in profile to the right, holding a goose perched on her forefinger. In her right hand is the end of a ribbon attached to its leg. She says: "Say little foolish ...
"Satire: an English couple standing arm-in-arm in outdoor clothes, he wearing a long coat and half-moon hat, she with a feather in her hat and an umbrella."--British Museum online catalogue
A visualization of the racist folk song, "Coal Black Rose", one of the earliest songs to be sung by a man in blackface, popularized in July 1829. The lyrics of "Coal Black Rose" tells of a fight between two black men, Sambo and Cuffee, rivals for the ...
Description:
Title from text below image, which are lyrics from the song sung by the depicted figures: Lubly Rose Oh! Coal Black Rose. Tank you Sambo yes I cum. Dont you hear the banjo tum, tum. Oh! Rose the Coal Black Rose.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blackface minstrel music, Black people, Banjos, Ethnic stereotypes, and Minstrel shows
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[6 March 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.03.06.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on French pretensions: a coachman standing in profile to left; he has a curled moustache, laced coat and a large bag wig, and holds a long whip and taking snuff."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs 6th March 1772 by I. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"Majocchi stands shoulder deep in a transparent jar, inscribed 'Urinal', his feet resting on a sealed green bag, 'The Green Bag' (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), in front of which is a leech, 'Horse Leech', with Leach's head, see British Museum...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published August 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, and Leach, John, 1760-1834
On the left, a meagre Scotchman shown full-length in rags, scratching between his fingers and scratching himself against a sign-post. In the distance is on a hill is Edinburgh Castle. To the right, under a tavern sign with a picture of an ox and the ...
Alternative Title:
North and South of Great Britain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June the 11th 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse, No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and I. Thane
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, England., England, and Scotland.
Subject (Topic):
Relations, Ethnic stereotypes, and Signs (Notices)
On the left, a meagre Scotchman shown full-length in rags, scratching between his fingers and scratching himself against a sign-post. In the distance is on a hill is Edinburgh Castle. To the right, under a tavern sign with a picture of an ox and the ...
Alternative Title:
North and South of Great Britain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June the 11th 1781 at the Ancient & Modern Print Warehouse, No. 28 in the Hay Market by A. Torre and I. Thane
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, England., England, and Scotland.
Subject (Topic):
Relations, Ethnic stereotypes, and Signs (Notices)
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 6th, 1749.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
Collection Title:
Plate 33. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 33. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
At the Gate of Calais, a fat monk is shown poking a very large side of beef carried by a thin cook; the label indicates that the beef is intended "For Madm Grandsire at Calais." On either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of th...
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England Roast beef of old England
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 6th, 1749.
Call Number:
Sotheby 33++ Box 310
Collection Title:
Plate 33. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 33. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
At the Gate of Calais, a fat monk is shown poking a very large side of beef carried by a thin cook; the label indicates that the beef is intended "For Madm Grandsire at Calais." On either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of th...
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England Roast beef of old England
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 6th, 1749.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Plate 33. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 33. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
At the Gate of Calais, a fat monk is shown poking a very large side of beef carried by a thin cook; the label indicates that the beef is intended "For Madm Grandsire at Calais." On either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of th...
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England Roast beef of old England
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 6th, 1749.
Call Number:
Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
Collection Title:
Plate 33. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 33. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
At the Gate of Calais, a fat monk is shown poking a very large side of beef carried by a thin cook; the label indicates that the beef is intended "For Madm Grandsire at Calais." On either side are two French soldiers, one of whom spills his bowl of th...
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais, or, The roast beef of old England Roast beef of old England
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
Engraving of William Hogarth’s 1748 painting ‘O the Roast Beef of Old England’ (London, Tate Britain), which he had himself published as a print. The scene is set at the Gate of Calais (after the painting in the Tate Gallery) with a fat monk prodding ...
Alternative Title:
Gate of Calais
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, French, Artists, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, and Religious processions
"An Irishman seated on a bull which is galloping across open country towards London, seen in the distance on the right., St. Paul's being visible. He wears a short jacket and ragged knee-breeches, his legs and feet are bare. His hair is dishevelled an...
"An Irishman seated on a bull which is galloping across open country towards London, seen in the distance on the right., St. Paul's being visible. He wears a short jacket and ragged knee-breeches, his legs and feet are bare. His hair is dishevelled an...
A series of crude (and in some cases explicitly racist) lithographed cards numbered 1-16, with scenes relating to political reform on both sides of the Atlantic. On British side, they cover the reforms to the franchise made by the 1832 Reform Act, pok...
Description:
Title from dealer's description.
Publisher:
W.F. Wodson, lith., Pavement, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Ethnic stereotypes, Poverty, and Racism
"One of a set of four: see British Museum Satires No. 7176. France, as an elderly and ugly petit-maître (right), his hat under his arm, holds out obsequiously an empty purse and a snuff-box towards Holland, a stout peasant who kneels at his feet, weep...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1787 by T. Harmar, No. 164 (opposite Bond Street) Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Sailors, British, Military uniforms, Prussian, Rifles, and Bayonets
