Full length depiction of the Duke of Wellington, in uniform with hat in his right hand and sword at his left side, left hand extended and a look of distress on his face
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed with the initials of unidentified printmaker "J.W.G." in lower right., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published by Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Distress, Daggers & swords, and Hats
A man with a large nose and holding a walking stick walks arm-in-arm with a fashionably dressed young lady who holds a umbrella over her head. A woman holding the hands of two children walk toward them from the right; they all wear hats and the woman has her nose in the air. Behind the couple (left) is a man who holds a basket and makes a mocking gesture at the couple
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse pasted on sheet: Now, whether his nose had two corners or three, unlucky! I did not heed them but I thought, form its length, the better 'twould be as a handle by which to lead him., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Hats, Noses, Teasing, Umbrellas, and Walking
A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
Alternative Title:
Cudgeller caught
Description:
Title from item., Restrike probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Ediburgh: Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1837-1838., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Restrike of no. 6691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
A well dressed man, holding a walking stick up to his mouth, converses with another man who is holding a hoe; the latter tips his hat and winks at the former
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St., Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue., One in a series of prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 31 x 23 cm., Printed on wove paper., and Imperfect; series number erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Jack Fletcher, nearly whole length, seated to front in the kitchen of the Revd Henry Frinsham, looking towards the viewer, smoking a pipe, holding a mug in his right hand, leaning on a table on which lies a bottle, wearing hat, 'Foul-Weather Coat' of Berkshire, shirt and breeches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.78., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1735-1740; see British Museum online catalogue., Twenty-three lines of biographical information etched below image: Jack Fletcher was perhaps as extraordinary a being as ever nature formed ..., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 226., and On leaf 62 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, Jack, active 1735,
Subject (Topic):
Pipes (Smoking), Drinking vessels, Hats, and Coats
published according to act of Parliament, April 18, 1765 [that is, approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Quakers showing a woman and two men in a pew; the man in the centre, bare headed and in the throes of an earnest speech, clutches a handkerchief; the other man, his hat low over his eyes, rests his chin on a heavy walking stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 4129 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?], and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Pews, Public speaking, Handkerchiefs, Hats, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 77. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Repos a l'allemande
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike; plate originally issued no earlier than 1800, which is the publication year for the print by Gillray of which this is a reversed copy. Cf. No. 9510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 77 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, German, Beds, Pipes (Smoking), Daggers & swords, Hats, Portraits, and Chamber pots
A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
Alternative Title:
Cudgeller caught
Description:
Title etched below image., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Numbered in lower left of plate: 47., and Restrike of no 6691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"A section of the deck of a small sailing vessel, seen from outside; cockneyfied passengers, depicted with a sailor's contempt, hang over the rail in misery or walk on deck. The helmsman (left) stands impassively in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Reproduction of an etching by George Cruikshank, after a drawing by Frederick Marryat; Cruikshank's "etched by G.C." signature and Marryat's artist's device (an anchor tilted diagonally) are reproduced and legible beneath the design, as is the original imprint "London, Pubd. June 5th, 1824, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street.", Orignal etching was presumably an early state of a plate more widely published with the title "To Calais." For the state following the title change, which has the same G. Humphrey imprint and lists the same publication date, see no. 14719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. The plate retained this latter title when it was reissued in: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., A companion print entitled "From the West Indies" has the same signatures and imprint statement as the original etching; see no. 14718 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 2036., and Cf. Reid, G.W. Descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1249.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Decks (Ships), Motion sickness, Hats, and Smoking
