Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from countermark. Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials R & T below and countermark Ruse & Turner 1806 (countermark partially obscured by design and coloring)., Two images etched on one plate., Reissue of No. 7883 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Flight to Varennes -- Recapture of Louis XVI -- French revolutionaries -- Black-shoe -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- Emblems: French revolutionary cockade., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials R & T below and countermark Ruse & Turner 1806 (countermark partially obscured by design and coloring).
Publisher:
Pubd. June 28, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Cooks, Jockeys, People associated with commercial & service activities, Soldiers, French, and Tailors
"Soldiers discovering brandy in women's bustles by the Paris gates."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Brandy-rumps detected
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution by repository: Henry Kingsbury., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved beneath the title, three lines of explanatory text: Two fashionable females contrived to fill bladders wtih brandy which they substituted for rumps, and thus equipped in the most outré prominence of the mode passed several times unsuspected through the gates of Paris, smuggling no inconsiderable quantity of brandy. The frequency of their excursions caused suspicion among the officers who attempted to touch their garments but were repulsed with affected modesty. They however with the points of their swords [?] pierced what now-a-days is usually made of cork, when lo! a fountain of brandy played from each orifice, to the great diversion of the spectators, and the no small confusion of the Fair ones., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costumes -- Derrières -- Bosoms., Watermark in center of sheet: L., and In manuscript at top of sheet: 54. On verso: Offset of un-identified musical score.
Publisher:
Pub'd May the [...] 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. E [sic] Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, French, Military uniforms, Monks, and Gates
"Custine stands on the scaffold beside the guillotine (left). Four ragged ruffians are about to bind him to the plank on which he is to lie; one says, "By Gar so we will serve all de Generals who do not conquer de whole World, and give them de Libertè". Custine says, "Pardon me Heaven for having been leagued with such a set of Blood hounds". A stout soldier pushes a weeping priest, who says "Let us Pray", down the steps (right) which lead up to the scaffold, saying, "Go to de diable & Your Prayers both". Below (right) stand republican soldiers with fixed bayonets much caricatured. On the extreme left a man kneels at the guillotine holding his hat in place of the usual basket; he says, "Begar I will have a Drink of de blood.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French gratitude and Republican rewards for past services
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 'N' in 'Custine' reversed., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. Sepr. 16, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Custine, Adam Philippe, comte de, 1740-1793
Subject (Topic):
Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), Priests, Soldiers, French, and Sansculottes
A French officer, wearing blue, towers above a British officer, wearing scarlet. The French officer extends his arm above the head of the British officer
Description:
Title from item., In ink below image: "Jany 13. 1822. Pub. by G. Thanphrey St. James Street"., Richard Dighton, English painter and caricaturist, 1795-1880., and For further information, consult library staff.
