A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
"A squarely built young man walks, with an unseeing stare, diagonally towards the spectator and to the left, on a pavement. He wears a round hat, high coat-collar over swathed neckcloth; his double-breasted 'Jean de Bry' coat, see BMSat 9425, is strained across a double-breasted waistcoat horizontally striped. He wears long breeches or pantaloons which drape his legs, and low pumps with cross gartering above his ankles. In his right hand he clutches a tasselled cane, held horizontally."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image. and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm ; penciled annotation identifies caricatured figure as 'Lord Fife'.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., and Watermark: S. Lay.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or waistcoat made in one piece with a pair of pantaloons which reach below his calves where they are tied with bunches of ribbon. A voluminous swathed neckcloth conceals his chin. His powdered hair is frizzed on his head with a long queue. He holds a round hat and a bludgeon in his right hand. She wears in her hair three extravagantly long ostrich feathers, which rise from a small cap or turban and sweep across the design, with an erect brush-aigrette ; long tresses issue from the turban with the feathers and fall below her waist. Her limp high-waisted dress with short sleeves falls from below uncovered breasts, which are decked with a lattice-work of jewels caught together by an oval miniature (cf. BMSat 8521)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray, working from a design by 'Miss Aynscombe.' See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794., Watermark: J Whatman., and Window-mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
In a woodland setting Shelburne and Pitt sit smiling behind a cloth-covered table on which are coins and bags of money. A glum-looking Fox stands several feet distant with hands in pockets. A reference to Fox's exclusion from office while Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Shelburne ministry. The title is a quotation from Paradise Lost
Alternative Title:
Aside he turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyed them askance
Description:
Title from text etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 8913, by Woodward. A fat parson sits drinking beside a small round table. His face is fiery and carbuncled. He wears gown and bands, with unbuttoned waistcoast, and ungartered stocking; his wig is back to front. Opposite him, on a round stool sits Care, a naked man, grotesque, aged, emaciated, with a scraggy beard and long grey hair, and talons on hands and feet; he registers gloomy terror. The parson, with a contemptuous smile, snaps his fingers at Care. On the table are decanter, pipe, tobacco-box, and lemon. On the wall (left) is a 'List of the Tythes for the Parish of Guttledown'. A patterned carpet completes the design. An illustration of the song (illustrated also by R. Cruikshank in 'The Universal Songster', ii, 1826, page 129)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Songs., 1 print : etching with engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 208 x 250 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 16th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Alcoholic beverages, Pipes (Smoking), and Lemons
The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment
Alternative Title:
Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possible remnants of burnished imprint in lower right, with the publisher name "E. D'Achery" faintly visible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
"Bust portrait in an oval. Scarcely a caricature but a study in facial expression of a cornered swindler. A man, fashionably dressed, but with dishevelled hair, gazes fixedly to the left, with pursed mouth and wrinkled forehead. Below the design is a list of eight names ('alias' repeated seven times) beginning: 'Mr Thos Ogle (the Notorious Swindler) - by which Name he Married Two Wives', and ending: 'Vide - his Examinations before the Magistrates of Bow Street in Novr 1801'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from quotation etched above image., Text below title: Townsend, Pole. Officer, Bow Street., Temporary local subject terms: Swindler -- Thomas Ogle -- Major Semple -- William Smith -- Thomas Robison -- Batty -- Captain Johnson -- Thomas Bashford -- Robertson -- Lieut. Colt. Cs. Pullen., and Watermark: J Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publishd. Novr. 18th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street, London
"Lord Wycombe, scarcely caricatured, walks to the left, his head in profile, left hand on hip, right on a club-like walking-stick. His coat is curiously cut, his (striped) waistcoat longer and breeches shorter than the contemporary fashion. He wears a neck-cloth and shoes. His gait is slouching and his dress rather slovenly. Clouds form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text below title: "Whenever I wish to form a proper estimate of a mans mind, I observe his manners & dress." Lord Chesterfield., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: waistcoat -- Breeches -- Literature: quotation from Earl of Chesterfield's (1694-1773) Letters.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, John Henry Petty, Marquess of, 1765-1809
"Two terrified riders meet face to face on Hounslow Heath; each takes the other for a highwayman. One (left) losing his stirrups holds out his purse, saying, "Here is my Money! Spare my Life". The other dropping his whip, puts his hand in his waistcoat pocket, saying: "Ah! - don't Fire! - I'll give all". Both have dropped their reins. A signpost (left) points 'To Hounslow'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north.
Publisher:
Publishd. June 6th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Walking staves -- Literature: quotation from Epitaph on John Gay by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Fox (left), with a fox's head and brush, directs the rays from the dark-lantern of a conspirator upon Shelburne (right), who is wrapped in a cloak, and carries a small sack inscribed "Treasury". Fox, who is out at elbows, his breeches unbuttoned at the knee, his stockings ungartered, his shoes dilapidated with his bare toes protruding, is saying, "Ah! what I've found you out, have I? Who arm'd the high Priests & the People? Who betray'd his Mas------" Shelburne, with a smile of complacent triumph, is saying, "Ha! Ha! - poor Gunpowder's vexed! - He, He, He! - Shan't have the Bag I tell you, Old Goosetooth!" (Cf. BMSat 5843, &c.) The background is shaded to suggest night, Shelburne's head and shoulders being brilliantly lit by the rays of the dark lantern."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Guy Vaux and Judas Iscariot
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Questionable publication information from British Museum catalogue, which supplies the publication line from a probable earlier state: Pubd. Augt. 14th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street., Text following title: Dialogues of the dead: page 1782., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
E. D'Achery?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Lanterns, Foxes, and Clothing & dress
"An elderly woman sits on a stool playing a small harpsichord (right) seen in profile, a music-book upon it. She sings with her head turned towards the spectator, her features twisted, eyes closed. Her hair hangs upon her round shoulders; the curves of her figure and a small waist indicate an attempt to conceal the ravages of time. The line is shaky throughout, to give an impression (especially in the music-book) of an aged, quavering voice."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Here's songs of love and maids forsaken
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Musical instruments: harpsichords -- Music sheets.
"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., Watermark: 1794 J Whatman., and Subject identified in contemporary hand below title.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Rows of French soldiers (left) do infantry drill with muskets seated on the backs of sorry asses (cf. BMSat 9361), with no harness but rope halters. The man in the foreground (the others being concealed by the closeness of the ranks), though smart, is ragged, his foot projecting through the boot. Their officer (right), with raised sword, gives the word of command seated on an ass which brays with outstretched neck at the other asses. He has a saddle and his ass is in slightly better condition. Clouds form a background. See BMSat 9355, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of seven plates on the French Expedition to Egypt, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801-- Military: French soldiers -- Military uniforms: French army, 1798 -- Asses -- Reference to Ibrahim Bey, Chief of Mamelukes (1735-1816).
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Two Frenchmen, who have been attempting to domesticate the crocodile, are seized by the angry beasts. A monster seizes in its jaws the leg of the man who has attempted to ride it; the man clasps halter and whip, his saddle lies on the ground together with a large book, 'Sur l'Education du Crocodile', beside which are three plates: 'Planche 1st', a Frenchman rides a crocodile; 'Pl: 2de', a Frenchman drives a high phaeton drawn by a pair of crocodiles; 'Pl: 3me', a small boat is drawn through the water by a crocodile. In the middle distance (right) a crocodile seizes the coat of a terrified man, who drops a book: 'Les Droits du Crocodile' (cf. BMSat 9352). A third crocodile (left) with hungry jaws climbs from the reeds fringing the river."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of seven plates on the French Expedition to Egypt, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801-- Allusion to Institut d'Égypte -- Crocodiles -- Pictures amplifying subject: prints of crocodiles pulling carriage, ship, and used as a mount -- Riding gear -- Books -- Animal attacks.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A lady, ugly and elderly, sits at a piano in profile to the left, playing and singing. Her open music-book shows her 'Song: would you hurt a harm less maid maid I am young and sore afraid afraid'. Beside her in an arm-chair a fat man with short clumsy legs sits impassively. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Lullaby!" Soothe him with a lullaby!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: pianoforte -- Songs: Would you hurt a harmless maid -- Sheet music -- Obesity -- Reference to Kegworth, Leicestershire.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess' [sic] Street
"A mother and daughter face each other in profile. An elderly woman, heavily moustached and bearded, sits at a small rectangular table, her right forefinger accusingly pointed at a young woman (closely resembling her), apparently pregnant, who stands holding a fan with an expression of wary apprehension. Beneath the table is a large crow, one foot raised, turning its head towards the elder woman to say "Oh! too bad". A patterned carpet, plain wall, and door (right) form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Pregnancy -- Expressions of speech: I have a crow to pluck with you.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
"An opera-dancer, Mme Rose Didelot, is poised on her right toe, her head turned in (sharp-featured) profile to the left, holding up a long garland of roses. She wears a pseudo-classical costume, defining her person, the edge of the skirt bordered with roses, a wreath of roses in her hair which is almost short. The scenery is of trees with a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"An ugly man (left) kneels (on a spotted handkerchief) at the feet of a plain old maid seated on an upright chair; he holds her left hand, his right is on his breast. She holds up her fan in a way more encouraging than coy. Both grin broadly. A patterned carpet and plain wall complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Female dress, 1799 -- Furniture: ladderback chair -- Furnishings: carpet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 14th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A very short and corpulent woman stands full face, her handkerchief is raised towards her face as if to mop it, her left arm is clasped by a man of similar proportions, who kneels in profile to the left, looking up at her with a pained expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text in lower right corner below image: Design'd for the Shakespeare Gallery., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Parody on Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue and The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 34 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 and Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Defecation, Monuments & memorials, Putti, and Skull & crossbones
"Burke (left) as a shambling beggar, holds out his hat towards the Duke of Bedford who looks between the folding gates of Bedford House, holding one side to keep them almost closed. Their words float upwards from their mouths: Burke says: ""Pity the Sorrows of a poor old Man, add a trifle to what has been bestowed by Ministry to stop my Complaints: - O give me opportunity of recanting once more! - Ah! remember me in your Golden Dreams! - great Leviathan of liberty, let me but play & frolick in the Ocean of your royal Bounty, & I will be for ever your Creature; - my Hands, - Brains, - my Soul & Body, - the very Pen through which I have spouted a torrent of Gall against my original Friends, and cover'd you all over with the Spray, every thing of me, & about me, shall be yours - dispence but a little of your Golden store to a desolate Old Man". Bedford says: "Hark'ee, old double Face, - its no use use [sic] for you to stand Jawing there, if you gull other people, you won't bother us out a single Shilling, with all your canting-rant, - no, no, it wo'nt do, old Humbug! - let them bribe you, who are afraid of you, or want your help, - your Gossip wont do here: -" Burke wears the red and blue of the Windsor uniform, his dress is tattered, one foot protrudes through his shoe. In his right hand is a sheaf of broadsides: 'Last Dying Speech of Old Honesty the Jesuit' [cf. BMSat 6026, &c.]. On his back is a sack inscribed '£4000 pr Annum' indicating his two pensions. From his back protrudes a book inscribed 'Reflections upon Political Apostacy'. The design is framed by the stone gateway of Bedford House, each side surmounted by a sphinx (cf. BMSat 8639)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Bedford House, London -- Architectural details: stone gateways -- Sphinxes -- Pensioners: Burke as a pensioner -- Military uniforms: Windsor uniform -- Begging -- Allusion to Burke's pensions -- Allusion to Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord, 1796., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 25th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
"A grotesque, obese, and negroid Copt, holding a mace or staff, rides (right to left) an ass which, though led procession-ally by a Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters. The 'Mayor' wears a French military coat and breeches, with a tricolour scarf and cocked hat with large tricolour plumes. He is otherwise naked, and a heavy chain of beads hangs from his ear. The 'Procureur' is naked except for a cocked hat and tricolour scarf; he carries a (?) goad as a staff of office. Behind his ear is a pen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of seven plates on the French Expedition to Egypt by Gillray, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801-- French soldiers -- Military uniforms: French army, 1798 -- Asses -- Inaugurations: Coptic Mayor of Cairo -- Copts -- Procurers -- Staves: goad as a staff of office -- Allusion to Copies of Original Letters From the Army of General Bonapart in Egypt, Intercepted by the Fleet.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Skeffington skips forward (left to right); his sharp-featured profile emerges, grinning, from a sharp-pointed collar and swathed cravat. His hair is swept forward in careful disarray, which, with his heavy whisker, goes ill with the black bag which flies outwards. His dress is a curious hybrid of embroidered court dress and knee-breeches, with the recent fashions of gathered sleeves ('Jean de Bry', see BMSat 9425), bulky neck-cloth, and cut-away tails showing bunches of seals. Below the neck-cloth is a double lace shirt-frill. See BMSat 9440."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
So Skiffy skipped on with his wonted grace
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Birthday Ball. See Morning Herald, Jany. 20th, 1800., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Wigs: bag wig.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Sir Charles Bunbury, a stout, elderly, plainly dressed man, walks in profile to the left, staring with fierce concentration, one hand on his heart, the other deep in his breeches pocket. He steps on a loose flag-stone from which a fountain of mud splashes over his stockings. The background is a stone wall; down it runs a pipe from which a muddy stream gushes on to the pavement. A sign-post points 'To Sthephens Chaple'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Pavement -- Architectural details: gutter spout -- Signs: street sign -- Reference to St. Stephen's Chapel.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Sir Charles Bunbury, a stout, elderly, plainly dressed man, walks in profile to the left, staring with fierce concentration, one hand on his heart, the other deep in his breeches pocket. He steps on a loose flag-stone from which a fountain of mud splashes over his stockings. The background is a stone wall; down it runs a pipe from which a muddy stream gushes on to the pavement. A sign-post points 'To Sthephens Chaple'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Pavement -- Architectural details: gutter spout -- Signs: street sign -- Reference to St. Stephen's Chapel., and 1 print : etching with aquatint and stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.7 x 20 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"The Recording Angel sits full face in the upper part of the design, writing at a long scroll, which rests on a small but very solid rectangular table supported on billowing clouds. He is a sulky-faced naked child, with wide-spread wings and wearing a nightcap. A large tear falls from his right eye. The Accusing Spirit, a bald-headed, elderly man, his face blotched with drink, with wings and wearing a long robe, in profile to the right, holds up to the Angel a paper inscribed "He shall not dye by xxx". The winged heads of a man and woman, poised on the claws of birds of prey, rest on clouds in the upper left corner of the design; he regards her insinuatingly, she grins back. A cherub's winged head flies behind the Accusing Spirit. Rays of light fall diagonally from the right on the Recording Angel. Billowing clouds complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: Dedicated (without permission) to the Revd. Mr. Peters.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Courtenay (right), as the chairman of a tavern club, sits at the head of an oblong table, in profile to the left, smoking. He says to George Hanger, who faces him at the foot of the table: "I say, Georgey how do Things look now?" The words issue from his mouth in a cloud of smoke. Hanger answers: "Ax my Grandmother's Muff, pray do!" He holds a pipe, his wine-glass is overturned. His bludgeon is thrust in his top-boot. On Hanger's right sits Fox, leaning back in his chair, registering extravagant amusement and saying "O charming! - charming!" Opposite Fox sits Sheridan, clasping a decanter of 'Brandy' in one hand, a glass in the other. He says, with a sly smile, "Excellent! - damme Georgey, Excellent." Next him, and on Courtenay's right, sits M. A. Taylor, flourishing his pipe and saying, "Bravo! the best Thing I ever heard said, damme." On the table are decanters of 'Mum' and of 'Champaig[n]'. Above Courtenay's head is a picture of a simian creature in a cap of Liberty, squatting on the ground and smoking a pipe. The frame is inscribed 'Juvenal'. The floor is carpeted, the chairs are ornate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Feast of reason and the flow of soul and Wits of the age setting the table in a roar
Pubd. Feby 4th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, and Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
An elderly man plays a harp on a hillside surrounded by couples and children. In the distance are mountains and a tower
Alternative Title:
Harpist in the mountains, the Welsh bard
Description:
Title from the first line of the four-line poem printed below the image., Title continues: "... That not a mountain rears his head unsung. And many an amorous, many a humourous lay, which many a bard had changed many a day.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Frontispiece to: Jones, E. Bardic Museum. Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards, v. 2. London : For the author, 1802.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Feb. 20, 1802 by Ed. Jones, in Lord Steward's Court-Yard, St. James's Place
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Harps, Mountains, and Musicians
A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man
Alternative Title:
Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
"A fox (Fox) climbs up a signpost from which hangs the sign of the Crown. The gibbet-shaped post is wreathed with a vine with large bunches of grapes. Fox seizes a branch and gapes greedily for a bunch just within his reach. His left leg is supported on a pile of papers, one bundle of which is inscribed 'Libels'. The topmost paper is an open book: 'Review of the Charges against Warren Hasting[s] Publishd by Stockdale'. In the doorway of the Crown Inn (right) stands Pitt, grotesquely thin except for his head; he wears an apron over the legs of a skeleton. Alarmed at the fox, he drops a tankard of beer on which is a crown. Behind him appears Thurlow, in Chancellor's wig and gown, with an expression of gloomy apprehension."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Stockdale, 1749-1816 -- Alleged libel -- Libellous pamphlets -- Signs -- Signboards -- Inns: Crown -- Gibbet-shaped signpost -- Allusion to trial of Warren Hastings -- Political grapes -- Chequerboards -- Literary allusion to Aesop's fable: The fox and the grapes -- Allusion to John Logan's pamphlet, published by Stockdale: Review of the charges against Warren Hastings -- Allusion to Fox's February 14, 1788 speech -- Chancellor's wig and gown.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18th, 1788, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"A magnificently mounted Turk (right) raises his spear to transfix a ragged French soldier who is about to be thrown by the donkey (cf. BMSat 9357) whose ear he clutches. The Frenchman's musket is awkwardly held and goes off innocuously; defence is impossible."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of seven plates on the French expedition to Egypt by Gillray, purported to have been drawn by a fellow expedition member., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Egyptian campaign, 1798-1801-- Military: French soldiers -- Military uniforms: French army, 1798 -- Asses -- Horses -- Male costume: Turk -- Weapons: spears -- Guns: rifles.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1798, v.1, opp. p. 574., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Paiting materials -- Paintings: portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat., and Mounted to 31 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. December 1s [sic], 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for [the] Anti Jacobin review
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, ca. 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
"Horne Tooke, not caricatured, sits at an easel on which are juxtaposed two canvases, three-quarter length [Horne Tooke described his portraits as 'not whole lengths, and left for some younger hand hereafter to finish . . .', p. 7.] portraits of Fox (Ieft) and Pitt (right); he holds palette and brushes, but looks over his right shoulder at the spectator, saying: ""Which two of them will you chuse \ "to hang up inyour Cabinets; \ "the Pitts, or the Foxes? - \ "Where, on your Conscience, \ "should the other two be hanged?" [Op. cit., final words.] Fox's left hand rests on a pedestal inscribed 'Deceit', on which the head of a fox holding a mask is just discernible. Pitt's right hand rests on a similar but rather higher pedestal inscribed 'Truth'; Truth's head and a hand holding a mirror are just discernible. Their expressions support the two inscriptions. From the painter's pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Sketches of Patriotic Views - a Pension, a Mouth Stopper a Place.' On the ground, resting against a table, is the other pair of portraits, juxtaposed, Lord Holland (left) and Chatham (right), bust portraits, in peer's robes, the family likenesses to their sons, especially in the case of the Foxes, being stressed. Each holds a document: Holland, 'Unaccounted Millions' (he had been styled the public defaulter of unaccounted millions in the City petition of 1769, see BMSat 4296, &c, and cf. BMSat 8622); Chatham, 'Rewards of a Grateful Nation'. On the table is a portfolio of 'Studies from French Masters' from which protrude sketches inscribed 'From Robertspierre, from Tallien, from Marat'. (Cf. BMSat 8437, &c.) The wall, which forms a background, is covered with prints, &c. (left to right): [1] (partly visible) a dagger about to be plunged into a prostrate figure, inscribed '3d Sept [1792]', see BMSat 8122. [2] 'A Sketch for an English Directory', four members of the London Corresponding Society (see BMSat 9189, &c.) seated at a table, the chairman a butcher holding a frothing tankard. (The figures are not quite the grotesque denizens of the underworld represented in BMSat 9202.) [3] A framed half length portrait of Wilkes, squinting violently and clasping two large money-bags: 'Mr Chamberlain Wilkes ci-devant', 'Wilkes & Liberty' (see BMSat 6568); it is labelled: 'The Effect in this Picture to be copied as exact as possible'. [4] A profile in silhouette: 'Shadow of the Abbe Seyes' (see BMSat 9509). [5] A framed picture: 'view of the Windmill at Wimbleton' (from Horne Tooke's house, near Caesar's Camp). The two upper sails are 'Divinity' and 'Politicks', the lower 'Treason' and 'Atheism'. [6] A placard: 'just publish'd The Art of Political Painting, extracted from the works of the most celebrated Jacobin Professors - Pro bono publico.' [7] A bust of 'Machiavel', looking reflectively towards Horne Tooke. [8] Part of a landscape with a small house: 'Parsonage of Brentford' (cf. BMSat 4866, &c)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1798, v.1, opp. p. 574., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: painter's studio -- Paiting materials -- Paintings: portraits -- Busts -- Placards -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Windmills -- Containers: flagon -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Robespierre -- Reference to Tallien -- Reference to Marat., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.4 x 26.2 cm., on sheet 25 x 36 cm., and Watermark: 1798.
Publisher:
Publishd. December 1s [sic], 1798, by J. Wright, Piccadilly, for [the] Anti Jacobin review
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Machiavelli, Bernardo, ca. 1426-1500, and London Corresponding Society.
"Under the title, and from a separate plate, is etched in three columns: 'Description. - One French Soldier putting Hand-cuffs, and another Fetters on the Speaker, whose Mouth is gagged with a Drumstick. The rest of the Members [left], two & two, tied together by the Arms with cords, (Mr Pitt & Mr Dundas by the Leg with an Iron Chain, which has three Padlocks, but the Key-holes spiked up). They are all, dressed in the Uniform of the Convicts of Botany-Bay, to wit, Coats of two Colours, long Breeches [i.e. trousers], no Stockings, & their Heads close shaved; French Guards opposite to the Members, with their Hats on; one of whom carries an Axe, & a Blazon of a Death's Head on his Breast. Two Clerks near him with their Pens in their Ears, hanging their Heads [tied back to back]. Republicans in the Galleries waving their Hats, in which are triple-colour'd Cockades, & clapping their Hands. An English Blacksmith [right], in his Waistcoat & Cap of Liberty, breaking ye Mace in pieces with a fore Hammer, the Statutes tumbled on the Floor, the Cap of Liberty [inscribed 'Egalité'] raised high behind the Speaker's Chair, below which is painted in Capital Letters, " This House adjourned to Botany Bay - sine die." The Chaffers and burning Charcoal continuing to stand in their present places in the House, but filled with red-hot Irons, to sear One Cheek of the Members before they set off; & the Other, if they shall be found Guilty, by the Verdict of a French Jury, of returning to their own Country without Leave of the French Directory in Writing. An English Cobler in the Cap of Liberty, blowing with a Bellows one of the Chaffers the Fuel, the Journals of the House.' [Dalrymple, op. cit. inf., pp. 1-2.] The Speaker holds in his mouth a drum-stick, at each end of which is a bow of parti-coloured ribbon, adding a touch of burlesque. The table lies on its side on the ground and on the heavy cloth lie papers, ink-stand, books: 'Journals of the House' (torn), 'Declaration of Rights', 'Hanover Succession', 'Claim of Rights', 'Magna Charta'. The chained members are on the Ministerial side of the House only, the Opposition side is filled with fierce-looking French soldiers, cavalry (wearing plumed helmets) with drawn sabres, infantry (wearing cocked hats) with fixed bayonets. All have daggers in their belts, except their officer, apparently Bonaparte, who has two pistols in his sash, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword. Pitt and Dundas, chained back to back, stand slightly apart from the other members, guarded by a ruffian with axe and 'blazon' of skull and cross-bones. Three members are chained together by the front bench (left to right): Wilberforce, [?] Lord Mulgrave, Windham. The cobbler and the blacksmith are Fox and Sheridan, much caricatured and scarcely recognizable. [See Dalrymple's prospectus: 'Consequences of the French Invasion', p. vi. He charged Gillray 'not to introduce a single Caricature, or indulge a single sally that could give pain to a British Subject. I had little Occasion to repeat the Advice, for he is a Man of Genius; and, like all such Men, is fair and human'. Dalrymple wrote to Gillray: 'I beg you will not impute what I am going to mention to any Breach of my promise not to interfere in any of the prints. But I confess I wish that the Gag was out of the Speaker's Mouth. It may hurt his feelings as a Gentleman . . .' (n.d.). B.M. Add. 27337, fo. 20. The gag was Dalrymple's idea.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's name and publication date in imprint are scored through with lightly etched lines., "Price, 6 d. Colourd. 1 sh. 3 d.", Smaller plate consists entirely of etched text and is printed below title of plate with image., Three columns of text on lower plate begins: Description. One French soldier putting hand-cuffs, and another fetters on the Speaker, whose mouth is gagged ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Allusion to Consequences of the French invasion, by Sir John Dalrymple -- Uniforms: Convicts of Botany Bay -- Musical instruments: Drumstick as a gag -- Interior of House of Commons -- Threat of French invasion -- Propaganda -- Declaration of rights -- Hanover succession -- Journals of the House -- Blazons: Death's head -- Branding irons -- Allusion to Botany Bay -- Clerks -- Cap of Liberty -- Blacksmiths -- Bellows -- Chafers -- Maces -- Magna Charta -- Fore hammers -- Statutes -- Cobblers -- French Republicans -- Speaker of the House -- Military: French soldiers., With: Gillray, J. "We come to recover your long lost liberties": scene, the House of Commons. London: Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by Js. Gillray, 27 St. James's Street, [1 March 1798]., and Watermark: 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by Js. Gillray, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Mulgrave, Henry Phipps, Earl of, 1755-1831, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Two ladies (left) walk arm-in-arm to the left; a good-looking man, extravagantly dressed, stands (right) legs apart, head turned to inspect them as if they were strange specimens. One, short and fat, wears a round straw cap over a shock of hair which covers her eyes, she holds up a small jointed parasol to shield her face. The other, taller, wears a shovel-shaped scoop of straw tied to her head and projecting far beyond her face. Both have bare arms with long gloves, and transparent draperies which define the figure. The man wears an exaggerated Jean de Bry coat with high inflated sleeves, cut above the waist in front, with tails which show between his legs. A high swathed neck-cloth covers his chin and sets off bushy whiskers. His boots have high tasselled fronts above the knee and elongated toes. There is a background of trees with three other figures similarly dressed, one wears striped trousers of nautical cut instead of boots and pantaloons."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Explanation of title in lower left corner: *for the origin of the word consult the Johnnesonian dictionary, edition of 1799., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: high-waisted transparent dresses, 1799 -- Female dress: bonnets -- Parasols -- Male dress: tasselled boots -- Male dress: neck-cloth -- Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Kensington Gardens -- Reference to Thomas Johnes (1748-1816) -- Books: Allusion to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary -- Eyeglasses: quizzing glass.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 25th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A stage-coach is driven (left to right) uphill at a gallop, the horses having human heads as in BMSat 7323. The arm of a signpost on the extreme left points 'To the Temple of Honor'. Thurlow drives, lashing furiously. George III, in profile to the right, is seated in the boot at the back of the coach holding a musket with a fixed bayonet. The Queen sits on the roof as an outside passenger, dressed as an old market-woman ; she holds a basket of 'Golden Eggs' on her knee, and another basket at her side in which is a goose which hisses at the King. Within the coach Hastings (left) and Mrs. Hastings (right) sit facing each other; he is in oriental dress; she wears a jewelled turban with a crown, and her neck is covered with jewels. The coach is 'Licens'd by Royal Authority'; on its panel are the royal arms. On the box under Thurlow's legs are a star and ribbon, a coronet, and feathers. The leaders have the faces of Pitt1 and Sydney, the wheelers are Dundas and Pepper Arden. The horses are galloping uphill and the sky is clear, contrasting with the scene in BMSat 7323."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image in lower left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of verse below image: "The very stones look up to see, such very gorgeous harlotry, shaming an honest nation.", Companion print to "Opposition," also by Gillray and published by Fores on the same day. See no. 7323 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Hastings, Anna Maria Apollonia von Chapuset, 1747-1837, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 280 x 496 mm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges, and two holes have been cut from sheet and repaired., Added in contemporary hand in lower right of sheet: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
"The heads and shoulders of three persons fill the design, all studies in teeth, facial expression, and caricature. The profile head of the dentist is close to the fat face of his patient, a woman with a wide smiling mouth, open to show two rows of artificial teeth and gums. He smiles, displaying his own artificial teeth, and holds his patient by the chin. Facing him (right) is a man's head in profile, staring up at the woman through a double lorgnette; his open mouth reveals sparse and irregular teeth, in a grotesque jaw. Above his head is a notice: 'Mineral Teeth Monsier De Charmant from Paris engages to affix from one tooth to a whole set without pain. Mouns D can also affix an artificial Palate or a glass Eye in a manner peculiar to himself. he also distills'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Evidently Dubois de Chémant who introduced porcelain teeth into England (replacing those of bone and ivory) and published 'A Dissertation on Artificial Teeth in general', 1797, 4th ed., 1804. Cf. earlier prints by Rowlandson on false teeth, British Museum Satires Nos. 7766, 8174."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French dentist showing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from top edge. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum., "Price one shilling"--Following imprint., Plate numbered "58" in upper right corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: False teeth., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 23.1 x 33.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from upper right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Dubois de Chémant, Nicolas, 1753-1824
Subject (Topic):
Dentures, Dentistry, Smiling, Hand lenses, and Signs (Notices)
"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
"An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing: 'Je suis voire tres humble Serviteur'. His features are aquiline; he wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) with a solitaire ribbon round the neck. His small tricorne hat is in his right hand, his left hand is on his breast; his fingers are extravagantly pointed. His successor (right) stands in back view, legs astride, hands thrust deep into his coat-pockets, a bludgeon projecting vertically from the left pocket. His head, with blunt, coarse features, is turned in profile to the left, to say: "Baiser mon Cu [sic]". He has shaggy hair with a long pigtail queue, and wears a large cocked hat, one peak on his neck, round which is a clumsy neck-cloth. His coat is loose with broad collar and projecting revers. His breeches are tied beneath the knee, showing striped stockings above very wrinkled boots with grotesquely pointed toes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French gentleman of the Court of Egalité, 1799
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: French courtier, 1799 -- Wigs: bag wig, 1799 -- Queue wig, 1799 -- Boots., and Matted to 36 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 15th, 1799 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Admiral Howe stands in a boat formed of a gold shell and drawn by two dolphins (as in BMSat 8469) towards the coast, where there is a stone with a hand pointing to Torbay. He covers his eyes with a hand to protect them from a shower of guineas which fill his boat and which he holds up the skirt of his coat to collect. The dolphins spout guineas. His large Union flag is attached to an upright trident; a blast of coins strikes the flag, tearing a large hole. The coins are blown from the mouths of winged cherubic heads wearing bonnets-rouges (right). They drive Howe's boat away from 'Brest', a fortress on the horizon towards which a French fleet is sailing unmolested. Howe says: "Zounds, these damn'd hail stones hinder one from doing ones duty! - I cannot see out of my Eyes for them! - Ah! it was just such another cursed peppering as this, that I fell inn with, on the coast of America in the last War; - what a deuce of a thing it is, that whenever I'm just going to play the Devil, I am hinder'd by these confounded French storms, or eke, loose my way in a Fog.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French hailstorm and Neptune loosing sight of the Brest fleet
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to America -- Reference to Torbay, Devonshire -- Reference to Brest -- Mythology: reference to Neptune -- Neptune's trident -- Money: guineas -- Boats -- Dolphins -- Flags: Union Jack.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A young woman standing to left, gesturing outwards with her right hand, wearing a fitted dress with a dark fringed sash, a shawl around her shoulders, a sprig of flowers tucked into one side and a tall bell-shaped hat with thick plumes and flowers, her hair left loose; in a double frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray. See Briitsh Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.697., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Greek female costume.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
"The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulates with clenched fist, right arm above his head. He frowns, while Mainwaring (right) grimaces insinuatingly, his hands held out deprecatingly. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme left, behind Byng, stands Fox, holding Byng's hat. The other men on the platform, all wearing hats, are freely sketched. On the wooden barrier of the hustings are two bills, the lower part of which is concealed by the heads of the spectators, which reach across the lower edge of the design: 'Mermaid Hackney Meeting of the Freeholders for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detestable, obnoxious, unconstitutional oppressive treasonable . . .' and 'Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Hustings -- Reference to Treasonable Activities and Seditious Meetings bills., Possibly an impression from a worn plate; publisher's street address is lightly printed and barely legible., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Byng, George, 1764-1847, and Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821
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., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., 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.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A fashionably dressed man stands in back view, a round hat in his hand, a bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a tail-coat with a large cape-like collar with revers. Above this appears the high stiff collar at the back of his waistcoat. His hair falls on his coat collar and his shoulders are frosted with hair-powder (a fashion of the day), cf. BMSats 7537, 8192. He wears half-boots and breeches tied below the knee with a bunch of strings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Neck or nothing.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: capes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout stage-coachman, perhaps an amateur, holding a bowl, stands by the door of an inn, taking the chin of the very buxom landlady. He has a team-whip and wears a round hat and many-caped overcoat reaching to the feet. Above their heads swings the (pictorial) signboard: 'Widow Casey at the Sign of the Cock and Bottle' [in reversed characters]. Just within the door stands a young maidservant, smiling at the encounter. Above the door: 'Genteel Accomodations'. On the wall is a bill headed 'York Races'. In the background (right) appears the empty box-seat of the coach with three of the horses, with a groom and dog."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
That's your sort prime bang up to the mark
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. May 5th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11619 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 184-6.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout stage-coachman, perhaps an amateur, holding a bowl, stands by the door of an inn, taking the chin of the very buxom landlady. He has a team-whip and wears a round hat and many-caped overcoat reaching to the feet. Above their heads swings the (pictorial) signboard: 'Widow Casey at the Sign of the Cock and Bottle' [in reversed characters]. Just within the door stands a young maidservant, smiling at the encounter. Above the door: 'Genteel Accomodations'. On the wall is a bill headed 'York Races'. In the background (right) appears the empty box-seat of the coach with three of the horses, with a groom and dog."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
That's your sort prime bang up to the mark
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. May 5th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11619 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 184-6., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 88 in volume 1.
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London], [1836?], page 41., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 28 x 39 cm., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower right corner of sheet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Shaving, and Shaving equipment
The new ministry is depicted on a large carousel, erected in front of the "Crown and Royal Bob" Inn. The structure is supported by a center pole held in place by pegs labelled "Treasury," "Navy" and "Army" terminating at the top with the head of the King in the form of a wig block. Fox, with a fox's head and tail, leads the procession, holding a bag of money. Behind him, Lord North on a horse with its legs cut short, loses his wig; Burke in Jesuit's habit and on a similarly lame horse, has partially turned into a skeleton due to his economical reform; Admiral Keppel behind him is desperate to remain seated on his donkey. Lastly a Scotsman labelled "President" signifies Scottish influence over the Crown. Watching from a seat before the Inn, a complacent John Bull mouths slogans of liberty, unaware that his house is being plundered behind him
Alternative Title:
New state whirligig
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text above image in upper left: Poor John Bull's house plunder'd at noon day., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), Merry-go-rounds, Wigs, Flags, British, Robberies, and Clothing & dress
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., and Identifications of the two figures added in ink in a contemporary hand -- Morland and Rowlandson; secondary border line around design also added in ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
"Design in two compartments; the left-hand side, a judge declaiming with eyes directed upwards, while another seated beneath his gaze, in the foreground r, exchanges money with a desperate-looking man; the right-hand side, a night-watchman armed with truncheon and rattle, oblivious to two men putting a ladder to a window at left, and an officer embracing a young woman in a sentry-box to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two designs on one plate., Described in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 328 with the additional subtitles 'A court of justice - a watchman', and dated 15 June 1796., 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 ; sheet 35.8 x 51.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted to 40 x 57 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 10 July, 1800, by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- John Burges, 1745-1807., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 17.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Dr. Burgess" in pencil in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 3d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burgess, John, 1745-1807 and Royal College of Physicians of London.
"A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- John Burges, 1745-1807.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 3d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burgess, John, 1745-1807 and Royal College of Physicians of London.
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
"Lord Clermont (left) gallops (right to left) on a white pony, closely followed by a tall trooper with a drawn sword on a large horse. A little chimney-sweep has fallen on his back by the trooper's horse, dropping his brush and shovel. Behind are rails and a green slope."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Clear the course and Virtue in danger
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state; original imprint not scored through and later imprint of H. Humphrey not present. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Military uniforms -- Chimney sweeps -- William Henry Fortescue, Earl of Clermont, 1722-1806., and Mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Harris, July 1, 1800, No. 29 Gerrard St., Soho
"Lord Clermont (left) gallops (right to left) on a white pony, closely followed by a tall trooper with a drawn sword on a large horse. A little chimney-sweep has fallen on his back by the trooper's horse, dropping his brush and shovel. Behind are rails and a green slope."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Clear the course and Virtue in danger
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with added imprint statement; original imprint scored through but visible: Publish'd by J. Harris, July 1, 1800, No. 29 Gerrard St., Soho. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Military uniforms -- Chimney sweeps -- William Henry Fortescue, Earl of Clermont, 1722-1806., Pencilled note in modern hand on backing sheet: Probably by W.H. Bunbury., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 26th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed: 'Eye of Straw & toe of Cade ... For the ingredients of our cauldron'. Facing them (right) sits the Devil enthroned, holding a trident, with a three-headed scaly monster beside him; he says: "Pour in Streams of Regal Blood Then the Charm is firm & good." Burning pamphlets feed the fire under the cauldron; they are being heaped up by Horne Tooke, from whose mouth issues a label: 'H - T. Tis time tis time tis time'. The next, stirring the contents, says "Thrice! and Twice King's Heads have fallen". The third (? Dr. Towers), [Perhaps Dr. Parr; Towers died 20 May 1799.] flourishing a broom-stick, says, "Thrice the Gallic Wolves have bayed"; he holds an open book: 'Lying Whore \ False Swearing'. Behind the wizards is a procession of the Opposition. The first three (abreast) are Bedford, Norfolk, and Lord Derby. They say respectively: "Where are they! - gone Pocketed the Church and Poorlands The Tythes next" ..."Oh fallen Sovereingty degraded Counseller" ...; "Poor joe is done No test or Corporation Acts" ... The next three are Fox, Erskine, and Tierney; they say respectively: "Where can I hide my secluded Head" ... "Ah woe is me - poor I" ... "Would I had never spoke of the Licentiousness of the Press". Behind them is Burdett, saying, "What can I report to my Friends at the Bastile" .... Behind there is an undifferentiated crowd entering the cave and headed by Thelwall holding a volume of 'Thelwalls Lectures' ... exclaiming, "Tm off to Monmouthshire". The procession is watched by a snaky monster (left). Above their heads and resting on clouds are small figures: the King, allegorically depicted, holding a serpent in each hand. Behind him are Pitt, saying, "Suspend their Bodies", (?) Grenville, (?) Windham, saying "Almighty God has been pleased to grant us a great Victory", and Kenyon, saying "Take them to the Kings Bench & Cold Bath fields" ... The divine ray is inscribed: 'Afflavit Deus et dissipantur \ Your Destruction cometh as a Whirlwind \ Vengeance is ripe.' Four winged demons fly off (right) in the smoke of the cauldron, three have collars on which their names are engraved: 'Robesp[ierre]', 'Voltaire', and 'Price'. An ape dressed as a newsboy, with 'Courier' on his cap (..., blows his horn towards the cauldron. Behind him, in the extreme right corner, is an open book: 'Analitical Review \ Fallen never to rise again.' The seditious papers which feed the fire are: 'Equali[ty]'; 'Blasphemy Sedition'; 'Sophims' [sic]; 'Heresy'; 'Atheism'; 'Resistance is Prudence'; 'Belshams History'; 'Whig Club'; 'The Vipers of Monarchy and Aristocracy will soon be strangled by the Infant Democracy' ... 'Fraud'; 'Third of September' [see BMSat 8122]; 'Rights of Nature' [by Thelwall, attacking Burke, 1796]; '21st of January' ... 'Frends Atheism'; 'Quigleys Dying Speech'... 'O'Connors Manifesto' ... 'Oakleys Pyrology'; 'Deism'; 'Kings can do good Joel Barlow'; 'Uritaranism' [sic]; 'Sedition'; 'France is free'; 'Duty of Insurrection'; 'Darwins topsy turvy Plants and Animals Destruction' [cf. BMSat 9240]; 'Kings are S------TS' [serpents, as in Barlow's 'Conspiracy of Kings', pub. J. Johnson, 1792]; 'Political Liberty'. 1 February 1799 Etching and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Press: attack on radical press -- Potions -- Allusion to the Whig Club -- Reference to Kosciuszko uprising, Poland, 1794 --Reference to Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Reference to Jack Straw and Wat Tyler -- Reference to the Great Rebellion, 1381 -- Reference to the Duke of Bedford's family
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint altered: 'J. Wright, Piccadilly' after publication date burnished from plate., Frontispiece from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v. 2., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 1st, 1799, for the Anti Jacobin Review, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Caves, Devil, Demons, Monkeys, Monsters, Vice, and Wizards
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Two lines of text within image: That's for comtempt in court you scoundril ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: riding habit -- Yokels., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 30 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of series title and number., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
In an outdoor setting, Lord North and Charles Fox are shown embracing. Fox, taller of the two, his face expressing satisfaction, nearly lifts the perplexed-looking North off the ground in an attempt to kiss him on the mouth saying, "I perfectly agree with your Lord Ship." To their right, under a tree, a fox and a clumsy-looking dog with a collar inscribed "North" sniff at each other. In the background on the left stands a small figure of Lord Shelburne saying "Risum teneatis Amici."
Alternative Title:
Coalition betwixt the fox and the badger and Honey moon of their happy union
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act by W. Humphry [sic], No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Kissing, Dogs, Foxes, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
"The pair, seated in a gig, drive (r. to left.) along a country road, preceded by a mongrel dog carrying a large bone. The man drives the miserable hack with the air of an expert, flicking a heavy lash over the animal's neck. He is smartly dressed with side-whisker, swathed neck-cloth, high collar, and top-boots. His almost spherical wife takes his arm. She holds a little closed parasol, and wears gloves above we elbow. The feather and trimmings of her hat float behind her in the wind. On the side of the gig is a pestle and mortar, showing that the man is an apothecary. The emaciated and decrepit horse has broken knees and gaping wounds under the collar and harness; one pastern is swollen. Birds fly towards it, scenting carrion. A broken milestone (r.) is inscribed 'Miles from London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cockney and his wife going to Wycombe
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Two lines of quoted text emphasizing a lingual accent follow title: "Vednesday vas a week, my vife & I vent to Vest Vycombe, & vhether it vas the vind, or vhether it vas ...
Publisher:
Publish'd June 10th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"Sir William Hamilton, old and bent, inspects his antiques. He stands in profile to left, looking through spectacles held in his right hand and reversed. He wears a round hat, a spencer over his coat and spurred top-boots, a stick in his (gloved) left hand; an expressive glove issues from his coat pocket. The objects at which he gazes are on a cloth-covered table. In the centre is a bust of 'Lais', the head that of Lady Hamilton, with fashionably dressed hair, but with nose, mouth, and chin broken away. Next it is a nude and headless Bacchante holding up a bunch of grapes (this was one of his wife's famous attitudes). Behind is a term with the head of a bull inscribed 'APIS'. Other objects are a weeping Cupid with a broken arrow, a grotesque goblet, a cracked chamber-pot on which nude figures dance. Against the wall (right) stands a mummy-like figure of 'MIDAS', with ass's ears. Other grotesque and broken objects stand on the carpet. On the wall are four pictures (left to right): 'Cleopatra', Lady Hamilton, three-quarter length, indecently décolletée and holding a bottle of 'Gin'; 'Mark Antony', Nelson, three-quarter length, a sea-fight in the background; a volcano in eruption; 'Claudius', a profile half length of Hamilton turning his back on the other pictures, the frame decorated with a stag's head."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cognocenti contemplating the beauties of the antique and Cognoscenti contemplating the beauties of the antique
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Antiques -- Literature reference: Hamilton, Sir William, 1730-1803: Observations on Mount Vesuvius., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"George III (three-quarter length) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The half length, looking to the right, in armour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapin's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all (cf. BMSat 8091). The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth are exaggerated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: candlesticks -- Paintings: miniatures -- Reference to Samuel Cooper, 1609-1672., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 18th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
"An obese and carbuncled barrister stands in profile to the left, shouting with raised fingers; in his left hand is a sheaf of papers. He wears the wig of a serjeant-at-law, with its black patch (cf. No. 5900), and his gown drapes his old-fashioned professional dress. Behind him (right) stands a senile-looking and spectacled colleague, while a third (left), also in a serjeant's wig, sits in back view in an arm-chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Councillor
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and A companion print to: A money scrivener.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A lady (left) sits at a piano, in back view, playing and singing. Beside her is a man playing the cello. Both sing: "Beviamo tutti tie" [sic]. Two men sit side by side, in profile to the left, one playing the violin, the other the flute. A little girl lying on the floor tilts dangerously the chair of the violinist, who watches intently the couple at the piano. A loutish youth in top-boots (right) plays with a dog whose collar is inscribed 'Anne Jon'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Evenings entertainment in Sussex
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments: piano -- Cello -- Violin -- Flute -- Furniture: ladderback chairs -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Songs: Beviamo tutti tie -- Children -- Pranks.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843. and Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818
A man lies on his back in bed, his face set in grim resignation, as his wife leans over him lecturing him, "Yes you base man --you dont you eat drink and sleep comfortably at home and still you must be jaunting abroad every nigth. I'll find out your intrigues-- you may depend upon it." A small dog sits at the foot of the bed yelping at the couple while a larger dog sleeps on the floor, his eyes squeezed shut
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Earlier state, with date in publication line. Cf. No. 9627 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state of print described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 16.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, 101 Strand
"An officer walks, on a broad pavement, away from the spectator, his head slightly turned to the left, showing his profile. He wears Light Horse uniform, a plumed helmet, short tunic, sash, and long sabre. The toes of his tasselled boots terminate in spikes. He uses a walking-stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Light Horse -- C. Cunningham, fl. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cited in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.7, as a companion print to no. 9466., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: dasher -- Military: cavalry officers -- Placards -- Playbills -- Literature: Reference to Bon Ton by David Garrick (1717-1779) -- Reference to A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger (1583-1640) -- Reference to Bow Street -- Dress: driving dress, 1799 -- Parks: reference to Rotten Row, Hyde Park -- Prisons: reference to King's Bench -- Offices: sheriff's officer's office -- Expressions of speech: 'road to ruin'., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 24 x 37 cm., Printmaker's name burnished from plate., and Watermark: E & P 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1799, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
"Fox, a ragged sansculotte with bloodstained hands and a dagger dripping blood thrust in his belt, sings "Ca ira!" He capers, right hand on his hip, left hand held up; expression and attitude suggest quasi-intoxication, a blast issues from his posteriors. On his forehead is a patch of sticking-plaster. He is unshaven and his body has a subhuman hairiness. He wears the ill-fitting wig of an artisan, with a tricolour cockade."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reason & philosophy
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to French Revolution -- Emblems: tricolor cockades -- French democrats -- Sansculottes -- Jacobins -- Expressions of speech: c̨a ira -- Weapons: daggers.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"Pitt, Hastings, and Thurlow sit at a circular dinner-table on which is the King's head in a large dish. The dish is ornamented with a crown and the words 'Mal. y . Pense'. Pitt (left) sits in profile to the right cutting off a piece of the tongue with a knife and fork. Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, faces him, using two large spoons greedily (cf. BMSat 7166), he is taking brains from a hole in the King's forehead. Hastings, in oriental dress, sits between them gouging out an eye with a spoon and fork. Besides Pitt is a sauce-boat inscribed 'Sauce', beside Thurlow a bottle inscribed 'Vinegar'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Oriental costume -- Royal motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense., and Inscribed in ink below signature in an unidentified hand: Gillray's early feigned signature.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 28th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat lady, much décolletée, whose hair is blazing, in her frantic gestures has overturned a chair; tea- and coffee-things lie on the ground. Screaming servants rush in from the right, headed by two footmen; one holds up a table-cloth to fling over her head, but is hampered by his companion, a negro, who flings the liquid contents of a (?) large flowerpot in her face, but stands on the cloth. A fat cook follows; a pretty young woman kneels on the ground throwing up her arms, a dog howls. Four older servants look through the doorway. Two candles, the cause of the disaster, blaze on the chimneypiece where a clock shows that it is 2.25."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Miss Fubby Fatarmin's wig caught fire
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. September 20th, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12147 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Text following title: Vide Bath guide., Plate numbered "212" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower right corner of design., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 255., Temporary local subject terms: Negro., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 69 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat lady, much décolletée, whose hair is blazing, in her frantic gestures has overturned a chair; tea- and coffee-things lie on the ground. Screaming servants rush in from the right, headed by two footmen; one holds up a table-cloth to fling over her head, but is hampered by his companion, a negro, who flings the liquid contents of a (?) large flowerpot in her face, but stands on the cloth. A fat cook follows; a pretty young woman kneels on the ground throwing up her arms, a dog howls. Four older servants look through the doorway. Two candles, the cause of the disaster, blaze on the chimneypiece where a clock shows that it is 2.25."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Miss Fubby Fatarmin's wig caught fire
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. September 20th, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12147 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Text following title: Vide Bath guide., Plate numbered "212" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower right corner of design., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 255., and Temporary local subject terms: Negro.
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hideous profile, her mouth wide open; her attitude is theatrical. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable (see BMSat 7099, &c). He looks up at her with a yearning smile. Both are grotesquely caricatured."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Trades: pastry cooks -- Vanhangen, Thomas, 'Captain Rolling-pin.', and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above print., Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
"The royal party on board a vessel which, though the sail is inscribed 'Southampton Frigate', resembles a fishing-vessel. They are seated in the stern in the worst throes of sea-sickness: the King (centre), his hat tied on with a handkerchief, clasps his stomach. One of the princesses, holding a smelling-bottle, supports the Queen. The helmsman is impeded by a fat lady who drinks from a bottle. A princess (left) droops despairingly, another (right) appeals to Heaven for mercy. A sailor (left) carries off a bucket, holding his nose. Below the deck appear the heads of two beef-eaters, vomiting."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Southampton Frigate
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., and Temporary local subject terms: Southampton frigate -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Sails -- Beefeaters -- Sea sickness.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augst. 4, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
"One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie or sit, legs in the air."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fundamental error in the art of skating, Elements of skateing : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting, and Elements of skating : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title etched 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., Temporary local subject terms: Put -- Male dress, 1799 -- Yokels., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 34 cm., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Published by Rowlandson. See Grego., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: wine cellars -- Lighting: hanging oil lamp -- Ghosts -- Armors -- Glass: wine bottles -- Military uniforms.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three men sit at a round table over punchbowl, lemons, glasses, decanter, and jar of 'Tobacco'. Above the design is the title of the glee: 'How shall we Mortals spend our Hours'. A handsome young man (left), wearing top-boots, sings with an ecstatic expression: 'In Love!' An old naval officer, wearing a cocked hat, with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye smokes a long pipe, and sings: 'In War'. The third, a gaping dishevelled sot (right), sings 'In Drinking'."--British museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How shall we mortals spend our hours?
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "41" has been replaced with a new number, and the place and date of publication have been removed from beginning of imprint statement., Publication date based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9., Plate numbered "221" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold."--Lower left corner of design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Basted Mill.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three men sit at a round table over punchbowl, lemons, glasses, decanter, and jar of 'Tobacco'. Above the design is the title of the glee: 'How shall we Mortals spend our Hours'. A handsome young man (left), wearing top-boots, sings with an ecstatic expression: 'In Love!' An old naval officer, wearing a cocked hat, with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye smokes a long pipe, and sings: 'In War'. The third, a gaping dishevelled sot (right), sings 'In Drinking'."--British museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How shall we mortals spend our hours?
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "41" has been replaced with a new number, and the place and date of publication have been removed from beginning of imprint statement., Publication date based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9., Plate numbered "221" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold."--Lower left corner of design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 81 in volume 3.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and stockings. Behind him are the curtains of his bed (right). At his side is a round table with a bowl, medicine-bottle, and a paper: 'Prescriptions, Bolus, Blisters'. On the ledge of a casement window is a close array of medicine-bottles. The doctor says: "My Dear Sir you look this Morning the Picture of health I have no doubt at my next visit I shall find you intirely cured of all your earthly infirmitys." He wears old-fashioned dress, with tricorne hat and gold-headed cane. A fat woman stands in the doorway (left), her hands clasped."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A going! A going!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For an earlier reissue with imprint intact except for a scratched-out year of publication, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 813.06.10.01.1+. For the earliest state with imprint completely intact (the year "1809" not obscured) and with the variant plate number "95" etched in upper left, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 10., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "291" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., and Leaf 66 in volume 4.
"Grenville (left) stands in St. James's Park in profile to the right, firing a gun with a wide barrel at a group of winged money-bags, &c, flying in the upper right corner of the design, rising on smoke issuing from the chimneys of 'Buckingham House'. A pen in his round hat indicates his Secretaryship. Dead game hangs from his person: a hare whose body is a money-bag inscribed 'Secretaryship of State £7000 pr Ann.', a goose, whose similar body is inscribed 'Sinecures £9000pr Ann.', and two goslings, respectively 'Private Pension £4000' and '£3000 pr Ann.' The central bird at which he fires at close range is a winged document: 'Ranger of the Park'; winged bags are '75000 pr Ann', '3000 pr Ann', and '7000 pr Ann'. All these he hits. A winged ducal coronet is flying up towards the line of fire. A group of dogs with human faces surrounds him; they lick his boots, look up at him expectantly, or watch the shot; one has a collar inscribed 'Whitehall'. The southern part of the east front of Buckingham House fills the right part of the design. Behind Grenville are trees. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billy Ranger the Game Keeper in a fine sporting country
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of text below title: He shoots a good shot; it will do a mans heart good to see him; he will charge you & discharge you ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dogs: hounds -- Ministers as hounds -- Buildings: Buckingham House -- Sinecures -- Lord Grenville's sinecures as Ranger and Keeper of St. James's and Hyde Parks -- Bags of money -- Hunting: bird shooting., and Watermark: Armorial shield with fleur de lis above and initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
A torrent of taxes gushes from the mouth of Lord Henry Petty, chancellor of the exchequer, emptying into the "Unfathomable Sea of Taxation" in which John Bull is drowning in full view of greedy cormorants representing members of the Grenville ministry which was formed after the death of William Pitt
Alternative Title:
John Bull swamped in the flood of new taxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A copy of a print by Gillray. Cf. No. 10564 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and With stamp of S.W. Fores in the lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, and Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855
Subject (Topic):
Taxes, John Bull (Symbolic character), Fountains, Cormorants, and Rowboats
"Lord Moira, a candle in each hand, stands in the doorway of his house. He wears a dressing-gown in place of a coat He has opened the door to a young officer, who steps forward unsteadily raising his cocked hat. An ugly watchman (l.) in Highland dress trudges to the left. holding his staff and lantern; he is the only figure who is caricatured. The architrave is surmounted by an earl's coronet. The dignified doorway is set in a wall of heavy stones and flanked by two windows high above the cobbled street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Fifteen lines of verse in two columns below title: When loud the watchman cry'd the hour and call'd 'till he was hoarse ... Parody upon [the] Red Cross Knight., Temporary local subject terms: Cocked Hat -- Highland Dress -- Lantern -- Watchman -- Door knocker., and Mounted to 45 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 9th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James Street
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Charles Fox, sitting in a 'pass-cart' reserved for paupers forced to return to the place of their origin, is transported to Malmsbury, the borough he represented until his election for Westminster in 1780. Lord North, standing under a tree, expresses his regret over this situation. A reference to Fox's expected defeat in the 1784 Westminster election
Description:
Title from text above image. and Questionable attribution to J. Barrow from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 02 [i.e. 20], 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Carts & wagons, and Clothing & dress
"A companion print to BMSat 8659. Grenville seated in an ornate armchair peers near-sightedly at a map of 'The Globe' in two hemispheres which he holds up to his face. The eastern hemisphere, at which he is not looking, shows an exaggeratedly large tract of 'French Conquests'. His posteriors and legs, very solid in BMSat 8659, are thin. He sits before a light rectangular table on which are ink-stand and pens and two books, 'Court Calender' and 'Locke on Human Understanding' (as in BMSat 8659). On the wall are two pictures, the subjects merely indicated: 'The Treasury' (left) shows the arched gate and stone wall of many satires; 'Brittania Triumphant': Britannia seated with spear and shield. A patterned carpet completes the design. Grenville fixes his attention on scarcely visible successes in the W. Indies, ignoring the French conquests in Europe. The 'Court Calender' and 'The Treasury' indicate eagerness for the perquisites of office, cf. BMSat 8061 (1792)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Inkstands -- Maps -- Shortsightedness -- Pictures amplifying subject: View of the Treasury building -- Pictures amplifying subject: Britannia's chariot -- Literature: reference to John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 8th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"A companion print to BMSat 8656. Grenville stands on a hearth-rug, his back to a blazing fire (right), holding up to his face an open book inscribed: 'Fundamental Principles of Government for 1795', at which he looks sideways and near-sightedly. He raises his coat-tails to warm his bulky posteriors, his left hand in his breeches pocket. On the chimney-piece lie two books: 'Court Cookery' and 'Locke on Human Understanding'. Hanging above it is a 'Map of British Victories on the Continent' on which confused scrawls are depicted. On the back wall (left) is a bracket supporting a bowl of gold-fish, above which is a picture of the 'Treasury Bench': three Ministers seated as if in Parliament, in back view with their coats drawn aside to show their bulky posteriors; the wall of the Treasury forms a background. ...."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Nine lines of verse in two columns below title: "Lord-Pogy boasts no common share of head ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Fireplaces -- Furniture: shelves -- Fish bowls -- Shortsightedness -- Wall maps -- Pictures amplifying subject: Treasury bench -- Literature: Reference to John Locke's Essay on human understanding -- Furnishings: carpets.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"The head of a lady in profile to the right, yawning violently. A mob-cap perched on her hair has long lappets which fall on her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray by Wright., and Temporary local subject terms: Yawns -- Female hats: mob cap.
Publisher:
Pub. 22 May 1788 by H. Humprey [sic], N. 51 New Bond St.
A "find lady" presumably an anonym of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; she is made as welcome as circumstances will permit; a bottle of wine, the refreshment customary, is ordered, and the stern hearts of the sheriff's men are appealed to, while bail is sent for. It was a well-known practice at the beginning of the century, and earlier, to pay some obscure individual a trifling fee to become security on emergencies. Similar fictitious householders were always in attendance, and producible from the bar-rooms in the neighborhood. In the present case a professional limb, of the Hebrew persuasion, is presented, decently made up for the occasion, to tender himself as bondsman for the lady's due appearance. It is evident, however, that a suspicious recognition is taking place; 'Harry Holdfast, Officer of the Four Counties,' or his deputy, does not, judging from his expression, seem to approve of the surety, and the Jew looks somewhat disconcerted under his inspection. The tears of the unfortunate captive, and the plausible reassurance--as to the respectability of the bail offered--of her chaperone, or duenna, are powerless to move the stoic breast of the experienced catchpole
Alternative Title:
Jew bail rejected
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"A lady sits in back view before a tall pier-glass, twisting a piece of drapery round her head. Two young women (right) hold up festoons of the immensely long drapery, the end of which trails across the floor and is worried by a small dog, shaved in the French manner. The glass is surmounted by an earl's coronet and decorated by triple ostrich plumes, suggesting that the lady, who wears a loose wrapper, may be Lady Jersey. The mirror is lit by two candles. Through a window (right) is a crescent moon, sinking into clouds. The second attendant wears a hat, suggesting that she is a milliner. Both are dressed in the short-waisted fashion of the day (cf. BMSat 8571). An elaborate bowl of flowers stands on a pedestal or small ornate table. A patterned carpet covers the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: mirrors -- Crowns: earl's coronet -- Claw-foot table -- Furnishings: flower arrangements -- Window curtains -- Emblems: Earls of Jersey ostrich feathers -- Pets: dogs -- Lighting: candle holders on mirror -- Trades: milliners -- Female dress: drapery headdress.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly judge holding a large open book, 'Law . . . Statutes', addresses a juryman, who stands facing him in the jury-box, where the rest of the jury are registering disgust. He says: "Mr Juryman-- you have requested permission to retire for a few moments--I have been looking some time for a precedent, and have at last found by the 25th of William Rufus, Chap 531, that a Juryman on any urgent occasion may retire backwards for the space of ten minutes only--therefore you may withdraw." The juryman answers that it is no longer necessary. Between judge and juryman are three grinning barristers."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Lamentable case of a juryman
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "347" has been replaced with a new number, and most of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. March 10th, 1815, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12647 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "240" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 290., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 18 in volume 4.
A scene in a crowded coffee house with a mad dog on a table and terrified customers scrambling for cover. On the wall, a broadside titled: For the brasiles the Cerberuse Capn. Popitner ... bruden ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mad dogs., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; 273 x 381 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides (top, right and left).
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1809, by Thos. Rowlandson, No 1. James Street, Adelphi, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Crowds, Dogs, Fear, Eating & drinking facilities, and Interiors
A scene in a crowded coffee house with a mad dog on a table and terrified customers scrambling for cover. On the wall, a broadside titled: For the brasiles the Cerberuse Capn. Popitner ... bruden ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mad dogs., and Mounted to 49 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1809, by Thos. Rowlandson, No 1. James Street, Adelphi, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Crowds, Dogs, Fear, Eating & drinking facilities, and Interiors
"Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Seven lines of quoted verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: "Ne'er may his whiskers loose their hue, "chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! ... vide Anti-Jacobin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: quasi-military -- Male fashion: sideburns -- Walking staves -- Literature: Quotation from the Ode to Lord Moira, by George Ellis (1753-1815) -- Periodicals: Anti Jacobin Review, no. XI.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated waist (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7352). He places one toe on the body of a fish-woman who lies on her back, her legs much exposed. His outstretched right leg is poised above a crouching woman who tries to protect her barrow of vegetables. Two men holding muskets precede the officer; one tramples on the face of an infant. The officer is followed by a man carrying a pike, behind whom march six soldiers in double file carrying muskets with fixed bayonets. All march ruthlessly, eyes front, regardless of the havoc they are causing. A porter lies on the ground clutching a broken wooden case faintly inscribed 'Mr . . . Silversmith'; from it pour plate and jewels. The porter's knee is badly damaged, and his knot has been knocked from his shoulders. A milliner or courtesan lies on her back clutching the hair of a barber who clasps her leg. On the extreme right a prostrate woman tries to protect her infant, and a newsboy with his horn and a sheaf of the 'Morning Herald' tries to escape from the trampling soldiers. Other victims between the soldiers and the wall are a woman with a crutch, a shoeblack, a man with a tray of rolls. A pair of beseeching hands and two female legs (right) waving in the air add to the turmoil, which is accentuated by the writhing forms of the fish which fall from the fishwoman's basket. The background is formed by the wall of a stone building with two elaborately barred niches, and by the window of a silversmith's shop (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Abuses: military marches, 1787 -- Newspapers: Morning Herald -- Architectural details: barred niches -- Trampled victims -- Guns: muskets with fixed bayonets -- Protection of the Bank, 1787 -- Military march, double file -- Children: abused infant -- Shops: exterior of a silversmith shop -- Silversmith's box -- Vegetable sellers -- Fishwomen -- Allusion to the Strand -- Allusion to Cheapside -- Allusion to Fleet Street -- Porter's knot -- Newsboys -- Milliners., and Watermark: Hall & [...]plin 1804 on the right side of sheet; Strasburg bend on the left.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
"A scene in the Assembly Rooms, Bath. The stout Master of the Ceremonies brings up an elderly man (right) who bows, chapeau-bras, with an ingratiating smile, to an elderly lady seated against the wall in profile to the right. She looks at him with a disparaging expression. In the foreground (left) a young man is talking ardently to a pretty young woman who inspects the room through an eye-glass. In the background (right) couples are dancing with great vigour and display of leg, probably in a cotillon (cf. BMSat 7441). Above them and on the extreme right is the musicians' gallery. The wall is decorated by large oval mirrors and candle-sconces. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printsellers announcement following imprint: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: musicians' gallery -- Bath Master of the Ceremonies -- Bath Assembly Rooom -- Balls -- Lighting: candle sconces -- Chandeliers -- Furnishings: mirrors -- Dancing., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Published Novemberr [sic] 24, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
