"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
"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
Leaf 5. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two couples dancing a reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable, see British Museum Satires No. 5370, &c. The man on the left is short, ungainly, and very fat, he walks rather than dances. The other man dances with energy, one arm raised. All wear gloves."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., State without plate number. For a variant state with "5" etched in upper left corner, see no. 5374 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and On leaf 5.
"A man, whole length, playing a violin. He faces right but looks over his right shoulder, his mouth open as if speaking. He is doing dancing steps. He wears a rather short coat, and a ruffled shirt. His hair is in an exaggerated macaroni club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "13" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act of Parlt. June 7th by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dance, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Teachers, and Violins
Leaf 76. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man, whole length, playing a violin. He faces right but looks over his right shoulder, his mouth open as if speaking. He is doing dancing steps. He wears a rather short coat, and a ruffled shirt. His hair is in an exaggerated macaroni club."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 5014 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male costume -- Exaggerated club wigs -- Dancing masters., and First of three plates on leaf 76.
In the center a couple in traditional dress dance the fandango holding castanets and accompanied by two men with guitars (right), one standing, the other seated. An elderly woman sleeps in the chair behind the dancers. Four other women sit on chairs along the wall and watch the dancers; the young men stand and watch the dancers, some smoking pipes or holding walking sticks. On the wall hang three views of ships in the harbor and the coastal town. A dog looks on from the lower left
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Audience, Dance, Dancers, Dog, Guitars, and Spectators
"A sailor and a young woman dance a jig on the deck of a man-of-war, watched by a sailor leaning from the forecastle roof (right). They dance side by side, man's left arm raised, holding his hat, woman with hands on hips."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Watermark: GP. 1813.
Title from caption below image., Artist from signature on companion print in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication based on that of the print from which this design was copied. See no. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner., Design consists of ten figures arranged in two rows., A companion print to no. 7229A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Window mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Volume 2, page 55. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A strip design of ten couples in different stages of the minuet, All dance in silence; the expressions of the male dancers denote anxiety, determination, or complacency. All are intended to be ugly, or awkward, or both, but the figures have charm, and even in some cases a certain grace. ... None of the men suggests a parson, most are lean and none corpulent by eighteenth-century standards."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image on second and third plates., Variant state, lacking the text "Bos, Fur, Sus, atque Sacerdos" above image on second plate. Cf. No. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., A single design on four plates., Text in Latin below title, etched on second and third plates: Longa Tysonum Minuit Quid Velit et possit rerum concordia discors. Horace., Mounted on page 55 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink beneath Latin text: Tyson was Master of the Ceremonies at Bath.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
A satire on the Peace of Amiens between France and England, with caricatures of national figures (Holland, Russia, Britain, Spain, Turkey and Prussia) dancing to Napoleon's tune. Napoleon stands at right with pipe and tambourine singing 'Ah ci-ira, ci-ira!'.
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on reference to the Treaty of Amiens of 1802., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., For a reversed version of this design, questionably attributed to Isaac Cruikshank, see no. 9847 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub'd by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Pipes (Musical instruments), Tambourines, and Dance
"Bergami and the Princess of Wales dance vigorously, hand in hand, her right hand in his left; he flourishes his peaked and tasselled courier's cap and heavy whip. He wears smart postilion's dress with jack-boots, as in No. 14176. The Princess is very décolletée, with quasi-Turkish trousers, patterned with roses. Behind, her coach and four stands in a country road, a man and woman attendant stand by it, watching in astonishment. There is a background of low mountains. Below the title: 'How I'd love you all the day, Every Night we'd Kiss and Play, If with me you'd fondly stray, Over the Hills and far away.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Love at first sight
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Digit "7" in publisher's street address "27" etched backwards in imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 6 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Title from text below image., Seven lines of text printed in letterpress below plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: seamen -- Ships: main deck -- Card-playing -- Dancing: reel -- Musical instrument: fiddle.
A man wearing in a nightcap leans out a window from the upper story of his cottage and aims a blunderbuss at a ghostly sprite who dances in the yard outside his front door. The man's face is contorted with anger and concentration as he points his gun
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "315" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12403 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "269" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed with plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 276., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "315" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12403 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "269" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed with plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 276., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.4 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 88 in volume 4.
"A design in six compartments arranged in two rows, each with a title. [1] 'Johnnys reception by "merry Tonkanoo at Negro Ball'. The ball is in an open shed with a negro fiddler seated high on a hogshead; most of the guests watch Johnny, the only white, and 'Tonkanoo' bowing to each other. The latter is a tall negro with huge false moustache and long wig, feathered hat, and wide-cuffed coat in imitation of English dress c. 1740, with breeches and bare legs. A negro behind Johnny disperses flies with a branch. A negro couple is dancing; the ladies are fully dressed, some with tall cylindrical hats. Behind are distant mountains. [2] 'Johnny dancing with Rosa--the Planters beautiful daughter'. At the same ball all the negroes form a background of admiring spectators while Johnny, still wearing his enormous hat, dances with a pretty English girl in conventional evening dress, holding both her hands. Tonkanoo stands with his arms extended towards them. In the foreground (left) is a little naked negro Cupid with bow, quiver, and arrows, pointing to the couple. [3] 'Johnnys Courtship and professions of Love to Rosa'. Rosa reclines on a sofa under a piece of drapery looped from a tree; Johnny (left), hat in hand, kneels at her feet while the Cupid aims his bow at him. A pet monkey sits beside Rosa, and behind her (right) stands a negro girl brushing away flies with a branch. Johnny's servant is behind (left) holding an umbrella. Two cockatoos bill on a branch. [4] 'Johnny and the fair Rosa tripping to the Altar of Hymen'. The pair run hand in hand along a path which winds to a church resembling an English village church. Negro servants run after them, one holding up a large umbrella. Before them run two little negroes; one is Cupid playing a fiddle, the other, Hymen, holds up a lighted torch. In the distance, nearing the church, are the parson and his clerk. [5] 'Nuptial ceremony of Johnny and the charming Rosa'. In a Gothic church the parson with his book stands behind a cylindrical altar on which are two hearts transfixed by an arrow. Johnny puts the ring on Rosa's finger. The congregation are delighted negroes and negresses. Against the altar sit Cupid and Hymen; Cupid wears Johnny's huge hat and plays the fiddle; Hymen blows at his torch. [6] 'Johnny and his fair Bride reveling in Jollity and festive mirth'. Johnny, tipsily jovial, his father-in-law, and Rosa, sit at table, drinking, the men smoking, many bottles of 'Sangaree' on the floor. A man fiddles, and in the background a dance is in progress. Johnny wears his planter's hat, &c., as in British Museum Satires No. 11983, and has always a swarm of flies round his head. Rosa throughout wears her ball-dress, with feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched above image., State before imprint mostly burnished from plate., Plate numbered "180" in upper right corner. Also numbered in upper left: Pl. 2., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and "Price one shilling coloured."
Publisher:
Pubd. by Ts. Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Celebrations, Courtship, Dance, Intoxication, Marriage, and Musicians
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
A dustman dances with a black woman as a black musician plays the fiddle and spectators look on. A picture on the back wall and a poster on the chimney shows people hanging from gallows
Alternative Title:
Scene in Tom & Jerry, Scene in Tom and Jerry, and Life in London
Description:
Title from caption below image., Ms. note following date in imprint: '1822', Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Cansell 1818.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Audiences, Dance, Hangings (Executions), Musicians, and Garbage collecting
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 12138 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Apr. 28, 1813, by H. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Election balls -- Lighting: Chandeliers., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 67.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Couples, Dance, and Musicians
In a well-furnished room Tom and Kate waltz gracefully. Logic, at the piano (right), looks over his shoulder at the pair with a delighted grin. Jerry sits on a couch, with a second courtesan (Sue). Both women wear evening dress with long gloves. On a table are decanters, fruit, &c. There are wide folding doors flanked by pictures that amplify the subject
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to: Egan, P. Life in London, page 250., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and State without imprint statement. Cf. No. 14334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Neely, & Jones
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtesans, Dance, Musicians, Parlors, and Pianos
An image of two couples who appear to be dancing. The couple on the left includes a short, stocky man and a large buxom woman. The man is standing on his toes looking up to the woman while she gazes beyond his head. The couple on the right includes a lanky gentleman who is holding onto the index figure of a woman wearing a large plume in her hair
Alternative Title:
Precision & ease and Ardour and dignity ; Precision and ease
Description:
Titles written in ink below each image., William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840., and Sheet has a long crease down the center.
Volume 2, page 101. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man dancing in the centre of a crowd of villagers, waving ribbons in the air and with a tray of his goods around his neck, including toys and ballad sheets, a cottage behind at right; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 101 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published June 1st, 1790, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Toys, Dance, Ribbons, Crowds, and Dwellings
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A series of six scenes arranged in two rows in which a French dancing master attempts to instruct his clumsy English students in the art of dance
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "87" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 30 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A series of six scenes arranged in two rows in which a French dancing master attempts to instruct his clumsy English students in the art of dance
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "87" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Number "111" written in ink at top center of sheet.
Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
Alternative Title:
Frenchified young lady
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 17. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman dances to the violin played by her dancing master while her proud mother looks on.
Alternative Title:
Frenchified young lady
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a variant state with plate number, see no. 4639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Boarding school -- Dancing lesson -- Education: boarding school -- Dancing masters -- Lapdog -- Monkey -- Toys: sword and stick -- Musical instruments: kit -- Furnishings: mirror -- Furnishings: tasselled window curtains -- Music: music book., On leaf 17., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Oct. 19th, 1771, by MDarly, (39) Strand
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dancing-master, playing his small fiddle or kit, dances, facing a stout 'cit' who dances between wife and daughter, holding their hands; another grown-up daughter dances opposite them beside the dancing-master. The 'cit's' leg is extended stiffly. The first daughter says: "Law Pa that's just as when you was drilling for the Whitechaple Volunteers-- only look how Ma and I & sister Clementina does it??--" Pa: "I say Mounseer Caper! don't I come it prime? Ecod I shall cut a Figor!!" The man answers: "Vere vell Sar, Ver Vell you vil danse a merveille vere soon!" On the left a tiny child imitates her father's step, supported by a little sister, while three rather older children dance in a ring. A plainly dressed maiden aunt sits in an armchair (right). A handsomely furnished drawing-room is suggested. The curtains are drawn, candles burn on the chimney piece. On the wall is a bust portrait of an austere-looking man."--British Museum online catalogue, descriptioin of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Bobbin about to the fiddle. A family rehearsal of quadrille dancing, or, Polishing for a trip to Margate, Familly rehersal of quadrille dancing, and Polishing for a trip to Margate
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Williams in description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "390" has been replaced with a new plate number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: London, Pubd. May 1817 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12932 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "194" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Dance, Families, Musicians, and Parlors
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dancing-master, playing his small fiddle or kit, dances, facing a stout 'cit' who dances between wife and daughter, holding their hands; another grown-up daughter dances opposite them beside the dancing-master. The 'cit's' leg is extended stiffly. The first daughter says: "Law Pa that's just as when you was drilling for the Whitechaple Volunteers-- only look how Ma and I & sister Clementina does it??--" Pa: "I say Mounseer Caper! don't I come it prime? Ecod I shall cut a Figor!!" The man answers: "Vere vell Sar, Ver Vell you vil danse a merveille vere soon!" On the left a tiny child imitates her father's step, supported by a little sister, while three rather older children dance in a ring. A plainly dressed maiden aunt sits in an armchair (right). A handsomely furnished drawing-room is suggested. The curtains are drawn, candles burn on the chimney piece. On the wall is a bust portrait of an austere-looking man."--British Museum online catalogue, descriptioin of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Bobbin about to the fiddle. A family rehearsal of quadrille dancing, or, Polishing for a trip to Margate, Familly rehersal of quadrille dancing, and Polishing for a trip to Margate
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Williams in description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "390" has been replaced with a new plate number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: London, Pubd. May 1817 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12932 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "194" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 48 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Dance, Families, Musicians, and Parlors
Title etched below image., Publication date based on date assigned to a similar print entitled "The bolero", of which this print may be a close copy. Cf. No. 13141 the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Scene in a school-room, pupils performing for admiring relations and friends. Eight little girls in party frocks do dance-steps while an agitated dancing-master leans angrily towards them, playing his fiddle. Other little girls watch from a bench (right). Boys sit in two tiers on an improvised platform from which they have stuck pens in the wig of an aged schoolmaster who is greeting a visitor. A dressed-up old woman hands a tray of refreshments to caricatured guests seated on the left, while four dandified men stand on the right. An ugly old woman snuffs a candle while she menaces the group of boys. On the wall are a sampler and drawings perpetrated by the pupils. There is a hanging gas chandelier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 15187 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published Dec. 12, 1826, by S. Knights., and Mounted to 25 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Leaf 3. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title etched above image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 47., and On leaf 3 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", and Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, holding hands, dance around a post surmounted by a bust with the face covered by a volume entitled, "Whole duty of man." A ribbon identifying the bust as "K. Wisdom 3rd," hangs around the post. An owl is perched on the bust's head. Burke, dressed in a monastic garb and a biretta holds a volume open to the title "Little Red Riding Hood", an allusion to one of his speeches. A demon, seated on a rock at the foot of the post, plays the dance tune on his fiddle
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below image: "Let us dance & sing, God bless the King, for he has made us merry men all.", 1 print on laid paper : uncolored., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Dance, Priests, Demons, Owls, and Violins
Design in oval. In a ballroom, Lord North, dressed as a lady in hooped petticoats and wearing his Garter ribbon, is dancing with Charles Fox who holds his hat in his left hand. Behind them sits Lord Chancellor Thurlow playing the bagpipes while at the same time receiving a bag of money handed him by Britannia who sits next to him. Thurlow retained the chancellor's office through two administrations preceding the North-Fox coalition before he was forced by Fox to resign. The bag of money may refer to the pension he was then granted
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by E. Dachery March 29, 1783, St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Dance, Bagpipes, and Clothing & dress
Title etched below image., Tenth plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 18.7 x 25.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. January 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Dance, Balls (Parties), Ballrooms, Chandeliers, and Ballroom dancing
"The clowns Kirby and Chatterley, one dressed in female costume, dancing."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., The one character is identified as William Simmons Chatterley., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on laid paper backing.
Publisher:
Pub. 5th of Jany. 1812 by T. Palser, Bridge Road, Lambeth
Subject (Name):
Chatterley, William Simmons, 1787-1822. and Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Clowns, Dance, and Theatrical productions
"Three fat, bedizened women (? Ladies Hertford, Conyngham, &c.), dance in a ring, holding hands. The background is a curtain hanging in festoons. P. 5: D, for the Devils, with infamy fraught, Who first gave the Archer this cowardly thought ... The Archer had venom enough in his reach, But found the most potent exude from the Leech ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
D, for the devils, with infamy fraught, who first gave the archer this cowardly thought ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Leach, John, 1760-1834., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, and Rosco.
Title written in pencil below image center., Inscribed in plate: Geo Bellows., Date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In pencil at lower right: Geo Bellows., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity; Patients, psychiatric; Hospitals, U.S.A., and In lower margin in pencil: B43 [illegible]; x20 300.
A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse
Alternative Title:
Negroes dance in the Island of St. Dominica
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in French and English., Approximate date of publication from dealer's description. A slightly later date in the 1780s is suggested by the active dates and street address information listed for the publisher Depeuille in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Dedication engraved beneath titles: ... is humbly dedicated to the Honble. Charles O'Hara, Brigadier General of His Majesty's Army in America ... by his most obedt. & dutiful servt., A. Brunias.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, et au Palais Royal au Pavillon près le bassin
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dance, Indigenous peoples, and Musical instruments
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Above title: Scenen aus Wien; No.40., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Wien, im Bureau der Theaterzeitung, Rauhensteingasse No.926
Subject (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, City & town life, Water use, Wells, and Dance
Two men, elderly and grotesque, stand one on each side of a double-bass, playing it simultaneously with great vigour; one (right) is left-handed. Behind the instrument stands a violinist, holding up fiddle and bow in his right hand, giving an agonized scream and stopping his ear with his finger. In the foreground lies a large open music-book: 'Double Bass Hum strum diddle dum'. On the wall is a picture of a little chimneysweep flourishing two brushes like drum-sticks behind the Hottentot Venus (see British Museum satires No. 11577), who capers along, pipe in one hand, staff in the other, her much-exaggerated posterior serving as a drum. A vase of flowers stands on a wall-bracket.'
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 21t 1813 by H Humphrey, St. James's Street London
In a courtyard of Christ Church (Oxford), undergraduates in cap and gown dance around a bonfire, fueled by doors, chairs, and tables carried from the surrounding buildings. Other students pull at ropes to drag a statute of Mercury towards the flames. From the windows on either side of the gateway students throw objects including a globe and a chamber pot, while another blows a trumpet. Groups of students dance wildly as they drink and riot
Alternative Title:
Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Number three in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc
Description:
Title from text above image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., "No. 3"., Imprint from related 'envelope' prints published by Messrs. Fores., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Messrs. Fores
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Ballet dancers, Dancers, Dance, Postal stationery, and Teachers
Title etched below image., Signed "M." in the lower right corner of design., Publication date partly trimmed; verified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, Butcher shops, Dance, Dogs, Musicians, and Political elections
Leaf 31. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The pair, both very bulky in Highland costume, are back to back. The King (right), wearing a feathered bonnet, a huge sporran, and a sword, stoops to kiss a lady (see British Museum Satires No. 14384), hands clasped behind her neck; he says: "The Sweetest hours that 'ere I spent, it was among The Lasses O! Other ladies eagerly wait their turn. One, behind the King, covers her face with her fan. Curtis, grotesquely obese, and directed to the left, capers, snapping his fingers. He wears a turtle in place of sporran, and in his belt are knife, fork, and ladle. Round his neck is a double chain of sausages. He sings: "Georgie loves good ale & wine And Geordie loves good Brandy And Geordie loves to Kiss all the Girls As sweet as Sugar Candy"-- God save the King Huzza my Boys!! I'm the Boy for a bit of a Jollification! play up Piper!! A piper (left) with bare, thin, and misshapen legs plays and dances. A stout Highlander watches with a grin. Frontispiece, perhaps issued separately, to 'Kilts and Philibegs!! - The Northern excursion of Geordie, Emperor of Gotham: and Sir Willie Curt-his, the Court Buffoon, &c. &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 14389 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 607., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1091., and On leaf 31 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published Sept. 3, 1822, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. The woman (left) wears a pink dress and holds a heart-shaped pruse. She rests her arm on the shoulders of the man as he wraps his arm around her waist
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Mounted on paper the verso of which shows a map of the estate, Ballygorn, of John Henry Keogh, Esq., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Title engraved below image., Below title: Engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith., Attribution to Rennoldson based on companion print: Grown ladies &c. taught to dance., and Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Musicians: violinist -- Ear-trumpets -- Pictures amplifying subject: opera dancer -- Opera dancers: Madame Elastique -- Theatrical costume: opera dancer's costume -- Musical instruments: violin with case -- Music books -- Curl papers -- Placards: dancing lessons advertisement -- Literature: allusion to Works of Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 -- Allusion to Essay concerning human understanding by John Locke, 1632-1704 -- Furnishings: pulley stiles.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, London
A tall, thin old woman receives dance instruction from a small dancing master as he holds a violin in one hand. Above them a painting on the wall shows a monkey and a cat in a similarly engaged. Behind them on the right near the door, two young girls look at the scene smiling and whispering together. The room is empty except for a coat is thrown over a side chair; the wooden floorboards with nails are bare
Alternative Title:
Grown ladies taught to dance
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Cats, Dance, Dancers, Monkeys, and Musical instruments
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of music lie on the floor; a monkey plays with a fan; a little dog capers on its hind legs behind the dancing pair. On the wall behind are two pictures in ornate frames, one of a dancing couple and the other of a bear dancing with its keeper."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publisher identified as Matthias Darly in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,5.80., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Music-books -- Bear-leaders -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume -- Male costume -- Dancers., and Bound in opposite page 79 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego., Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28.3 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. The chandelier and long case clocks are decorated with holly and mistletoe hangs from the ceiling. One man kisses a large, buxom woman who recoils in surprise. Another couple flirt on the right at a table opposite a man who has passed out, playing cards strewn on the floor at his feet. The back wall is dominated by a large cupboard filled with dishes and platters
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Blind man's buff., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Costume: female child's costume -- Furniture -- Trades: dancing masters -- Expressions of speech: tol lol de rol., and Imprint partially altered: publication day changed from '2' to '1' in contemporary hand. '91' in 1791 also appears to have been changed.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Fores, 1 April 1791, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline: John Bull dances holding a card with the Queen of Hearts, while other hearts dance around his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull's trump
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 5 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Published August 1820 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Playing cards, Hearts (Symbols), and Dance
"John Bull (left) capers clumsily to a tune played by Pitt, Dundas, and two others. He has a drink-bloated profile, wears a round hat and old-fashioned buckled shoes. He says: "Lord love ye my good Masters - do give us something new - I be tired of all the old Jigs - I knows the March to Paris by heart, - and as for Indemnity for the Past, and Security for the future, they are as easy to me as my A-B-C - I want something stilish, and grand." Pitt, seated, plays a large 'cello incorrectly drawn and having a rose under the strings which suggests the viol da gamba. He looks up at John Bull jauntily, saying, "I will endeavour to please you if I can, what do you think of this - it is a grand serious-movement called the Deliverance of Europe or Union with Ireland". Dundas (right), wearing kilt and feathered bonnet with legal wig and bands, stands in profile to the left, impassively playing the bagpipes. Two background figures dejectedly play wind-instruments; one is probably Grenville."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Krumbhaar. Attributed to Sansom in the British Museum Catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pub March 21, 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Dance, Musical instruments, and Violoncellos
"Two yokels stand outside a rustic inn, with a sign of fighting cocks; peasants are dancing. The verses relate comic incidents of low life in London: quarrelling, drinking, and fightng. They end: 'Then God bless our noble King George, May his reign be ever so long, And grant, as the Parliament's met, That nothing whatever goes wrong'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Knibs' Pound
Description:
Title from broadside printed on the same sheet., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Broadside portion contains three columns of verse constituting the lyrics of a whimsical ballad., and Plate numbered '441' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 22, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Dance, Peasants, Taverns (Inns), Whips, Carts & wagons, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Eight groups or couples display different dances, the names of which are in the lower margin. On the extreme left stands [1] a 'Dancing Master', thin, dandified, stooping, arms dropped, fiddle and bow in left hand, feet turned out. [2] 'Country Dance'. Three couples, 'hands across'. [3] 'Scots Reel' A man in Highland dress dances between two women in a six-hand reel. [4] 'Irish Jig'. Three bandy-legged peasants jig: man (holding up a 'Whiskey' bottle), woman, and small boy who drinks from a glass and holds a large shillelagh. [5] The centre-piece: 'La Minuet'. A very slim man in court-dress, with powdered queue, dances with a lady who holds up the train of a limp gown. Behind them is the musicians' gallery supported on two palm-tree pillars, round which serpents are twined from whose mouths gas-flames issue. A life-like 'Terpsichore' supports the drapery of the box, which is inscribed 'On the light fantastic toe'. The front of the box is decorated with fantastic dancing figures, including a Red Indian, a Harlequin, a Punch; some are in lines and dots (cf. No. 12955). The instruments are flutes, bagpipes, harp, violins, 'cello, oboe, French horn. On the right: [6] 'German Waltz', an ugly couple, her hands on his shoulders, his on her waist. [7] 'French Quadrille'. One man and three ladies face three men and one lady. [8] 'Spanish Boliero'. A couple dance, clicking castanets, the man wears slashed doublet with knee-breeches. [9] 'Ballet Italienne'. Two dancers, each poised on a toe, leg extended, holding between them a long garland of roses. Beside them dances a little Italian greyhound. The wall which forms a background is covered with pictures, flanking the gallery. 'Dancing Dogs': a man with a whip directs five dressed-up dogs on their hind-legs. 'Dancing Bear'. A man holds the muzzled bear on a chain; a dressed-up monkey capers on the bear's head; a boy plays pipe and tabor. 'Dancing Horse'. On the stage of an equestrian theatre a man in light horse uniform, a clown behind him, directs the movements of a horse. 'Rope Dancing'. A woman ascends a slanting tight-rope, while rockets explode around her. 'St Vitus's Dance'. A fat doctor, smelling his cane, holds the pulse of a capering and emaciated invalid. 'Dancing Mad'. Two men leap or prance frantically in rage or despair, while a third capers at the end of a rope by which he hangs from a gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketches of characteristic dancing
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: John Hall 1814.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 31st, 1817, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Musical instruments, Orchestras, and Trained animals
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text above image: Quadrille. Evening fashions. Dedicated to the heads of the nation., Two lines of verse on both sides of title: "Nature, I thought, perform'd too mean a parte, Forming her movements to the rules of art, And Vex'd I found the dandy barbers hand, Had o'er the dancers heads too great command. Prior"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Beards, Couples, Dandies, and Dance
Title from item., First part of title etched above image, the second half below., Date transcribed from card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Depose a la Bibliot. Nat. Rue Montmartre No. 132 et a Londres chez H. Humphrey St. James Street No. 27
"Copy of a French print. Two fantastically dressed couples dance, but in different manners. One pair (left) dance side by side, the man's right arm on his partner's waist, her left arm on his shoulder. The other couple face each other, the lady leaning outwards, hands on her partner's shoulders, while his left hand touches the back of her shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon genre, 1810
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Dépose à la Bibliot. Nat., Rue Montmartre, No. 132, et à Londres, chéz H. Humphrey, St. James Street, No. 27
"One of a set (coloured) by Williams, all with the same imprint (British Museum Satires Nos. 12933-6). An adaptation of British Museum Satires No. 12925. The stout man dancing between two ladies is in military uniform with a large sabre. The room is altered by the addition of a side wall (left) to which the fireplace is transferred. In its place is the square piano under a large mirror. All the figures are altered; a lady in an arm-chair with a man leaning over her has been added. Elaborate gas or oil lighting replaces candles: a hanging chandelier with a circle of globes with chimneys, with similar lamps in brackets on a glass over the chimney-piece, which is surmounted by a standing lamp. There are three whole length portraits of dancers striking attitudes, two being 'Mde H[i]llisburgh' and 'Monr Vestris'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Quadrille dancing pour la pratique
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., "No. 3"--Upper left corner., and Watermark: John Hall.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1817 by S.W. Fores
Subject (Topic):
Dance, Chandeliers, Gaslight fixtures, and Military uniforms
"A country dance; eighteen couples in a strip design in the manner of the 'Long Minuet' (No. 7229), dance with awkward vigour; one of the most active ladies has a wooden leg. The first couple (left) face each other, the lady squinting violently. On the right a man turns eagerly from his elderly and offended partner to a young lady, whose partner also holds the hand of another lady, while an elderly man stands alone on the extreme right, holding his wig, and mopping his bald head. The elder men wear powdered hair with small pigtails, the younger ones have frizzed hair without powder, short or with small tails. Only one or two wear wigs. The women wear simple high-waisted gowns with elbow sleeves and long gloves; one wears a hat and long sleeves. All wear flat-heeled shoes, and have frizzed hair, short, or piled on the head; a few wear feathered bandeaux; one lady only has powdered hair. Some have strange hair ornaments: a fat and very decolletee lady with a lap-dog under her arm wears round her erect bush of hair a circlet from which project barbed zigzags, like lightning flashes. A youngish lady has on her head a bird with a barbed fang; an older one in spectacles wears a small windmill behind two drooping aigrettes. The neglected lady wears a tiny wheat-sheaf, her pretty rival a ship in full sail. Below the title: 'What an elegant Set-What a bustling of Rumps! What a Sweet Toe to Toe-ing of Slipers and Pumps! At the sight my Old Drumsticks are ready to Prance There is nothing I love so as seeing Folks Dance.'':--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption etched below image on third sheet., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Four lines of verse below title: What an elegant set, what a bustling of rumps! What a sweet toe to toe-ing of slipers [sic] and pumps! ..., One continuous design on five plates., Description based on imperfect impression; sheets trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of first sheet., and BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Untrimmed. Artist's signature visible on lower left corner of first sheet. Hand-colored.
Publisher:
Published Aug. 15, 1811, by Robinson, 5 Margaret Street, Cavindish Square & Calnaghi, Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Social aspects, English wit and humor, Pictorial, Social life and customs, and Dance
Volume 1, opposite page [161] Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 21.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 57 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, May Day, Festivals, Milkwomen, Headdresses, Chimney sweeps, Street musicians, Violins, Peg legs, Dance, and Eating & drinking
Volume 1, opposite page [161] Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the
Image Count:
1
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still image
Abstract:
"May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, May Day, Festivals, Milkwomen, Headdresses, Chimney sweeps, Street musicians, Violins, Peg legs, Dance, and Eating & drinking
From a sign on the back wall, a scene in the 'Grand Imperial Lodge of Odd Fellows" in which Burke, Norfolk, Sheridan, and Fox smoke and dance amongst the other club members some of whom wear swords. One man plays the fiddle. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling. In the corner is a dais under a canopy. A dog sits on his hind legs in the foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece to: Attic miscellany, v. 1., and Mounted to 28 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Bentley and Co.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 47 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
A young gentleman and lady dance in the center of a large hall in a grand country home surrounded by other young would-be dancers. The older guests sit in chairs and look on. They dance to music provided by a harpist
Description:
Title etched below image., Added in manuscript in lower right corner below design: B.C. 1790 delt., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted verse below title: "There did the harp the melting music of Erin shed its mellifluent notes.", Mounted on verso of: Plan of the citadel and forts of Antwerp and Dutch works. 1832. Lithographed by J. Netherclift, 54 Leic[este]r Sq. 3rd ed. With the French batteries., and Mounted to 25 x 33 cm.
Opposite page 11. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A., and
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1
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still image
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"Medley print with a portrait of and verses by Alexander Pope. In the centre, a portrait of Pope in informal dress, presented as if lying above other prints, anti-clockwise from right: a coin of Quenn Anne; an extract from "The Rape of the Lock" with an illustration of "The Fop"; an extract from "Windsor Forest" with a view of formal gardens; decorative scroll work, lettered, "[G A] Delin. Sculp. 1731"; two columns of verse headed "An Encomium on Mr Pope and his Poems by his Grace ye late Duke of Buckingham"; country people dancing around a may-pole. Beneath lie a sheet of music, a sheet printed in gothic letter; two sheets of engraved lettering only partly visible."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Encomium on Mr. Pope and his poems / by his Grace [the] late Duke of Buckingham
Description:
Title from engraved text beneath portrait at center of design., Later state of a print published in 1731 by Henry Overton. Cf. No. 1880 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., "Sayer acquired the stock of Henry Overton II c.1764. This print must have been published after 1766 when Sayer's address changed to No.53 Fleet Street, but before 1774 when he went into partnership with John Bennett."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2000,0930.45., Mounted to 29 x 22 cm., and Bound in opposite page 11 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Nichols, J. Bibliographical and literary anecdotes by William Bowyer ...
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744,, Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714,, and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, British, Poets, Coins, Gardens, May poles, and Dance
"Three opera dancers, holding a garland of roses, are dressed alike in short transparent petticoats partly covered by a shorter apron. The centre dancer holds out her left leg horizontally . Mme Rose [Parisot] is in back view, her sharp features in profile to the right. On each side of the stage is a column on the plinth of which stands a figure: (left) a satyr holding a mask; (right) a woman wearing a clumsy undergarment, in the attitude of the Venus dei Medici. In front of the stage are the musical instruments of the orchestra, including a violin on which is a cap perhaps intended for a bonnet-rouge. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dance a l'eveque
Description:
Title etched below image, in lower left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: 'Tis hard for such new fangled orthodox rules, that our opera-troop should be blam'd ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Theatre: stage -- Opera: dancers -- Musical instruments -- Stage lighting -- Devil -- Dancing -- Newspapers: reference to Morning Herald.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Interior of the Pantheon on Oxford Street, during a masquerade; the hall crowded with figures in costume dancing and making merry; a band plays on the stage; other figures on balconies to left and right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 60., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 215.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st March 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Men and women eating in the open air, at a table, some sitting, others standing. In the background are the tents of a camp; in the middle distance (right) eight men and women holding hands are dancing in a ring. A man of grotesque appearance, one eye covered with a circular patch, sits full-face, plying a knife and fork. Behind him stands Wilkes, who is chucking a pretty maid-servant under the chin so that she spills the wine which she has just poured out. This attracts the amused attention of a man standing behind Wilkes, and of one sitting at the table. The other figures are indicated only by their heads, which are perhaps portraits: there are two women of attractive appearance, one, whose high-dressed hair is decorated with feathers, the other with a hat trimmed with a cockade and feathers; a grotesque-looking old man with unkempt hair who is drinking wine; an old man with a grenadier's cap. A man seated on the bench shows only a wig and a broad back. On the bench is also a sucking-pig which a dog is seizing. On the ground are bottles, a pile of plates, and a brimming punch-bowl. Two cocks (right) are fighting. Beneath the title is engraved "Oh what a charming Thing is eating"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Ttrimmed within plate line on top and bottom.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Eating & drinking, Cockfighting, and Dance
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Gaetan Vestris (right) giving a dancing lesson to a gigantic goose with a human head and long pigtail queue. They face each other in profile. Vestris stands with his legs together, chest thrown out, his arms curved. "Regardez-moi" was his characteristic admonition. On a stool behind the goose is an open book inscribed "Electrical E. E. L."; on the ground at its feet is another inscribed "The Torpedo. Dedicated to Ld------C------. My Lord, I take the Liberty------ The greatness of whose Parts are known. . ." . This indicates that the goose is Lord Cholmondeley (1749-1827), "The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel addressed to Mr John Hunter Surgeon" and "Dedicated to . . . Lord Cholmondeley," 4th ed. 1777, was a coarse and scurrilous poem, three lines of which are, "What tho' Lord Ch--lm--d--ly may conceal A most enormous length of Eel Admir'd for Size and bone:"In the wall which forms the background are two sash-windows and a door (left) round which a grinning youth, probably a servant, is looking. On the wall are half length portraits: three in ovals of elderly ladies in profile, one of a clergyman, full-face, wearing a biretta, his left hand on a book. There is also a picture of Fox, with a fox's head, seated opposite Cholmondeley; they are throwing dice. Fox appears satisfied, the other clenches his fist and exclaims in anger. A devil is climbing on the top of the frame and holds out a claw to grab the head of Fox. On the picture are the words "A Nick by God". Like Fox, see BMSat 5972, Cholmondeley held a faro bank at Brooks's. G.E.C., 'Complete Peerage'."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at bottom of image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vestris, Gaëtan, 1729-1808, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"Groups of dancers practise figures of a cotillion in a ballroom with a small musician's gallery supported on pillars, in which are an oboist, two violinists, and a harpist, playing intently and paying no attention to a man who stands below, with outstretched arms, shouting directions. The room is lit by candles in wall brackets. In the centre of the balcony is an oval medallion: a man plays a lyre and three nude nymphs dance. Several of the dancers hold papers of directions headed 'Cotilion', with a description of figures '1' to '8'. The scene is one of confusion. On the left persons stand inspecting the dancers. One man only is dressed as a blood of the period with cropped hair, high-collared waistcoat, 'hanging collar', and long breeches (see British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c). He stands (left) superciliously inspecting the dancers through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue and The pictures in the image amplify the subject: Nymphs dancing to music of lyre
Alternative Title:
Rehearsing a cotillion
Description:
Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated on lower edge with partial loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on modern secondary support., Watermark., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
"Scene in an assembly room. A mountainously fat woman stands fanning herself, as she talks to a stout man in old-fashioned dress. She says: "Dear me it is perdigus Hot! which would you advise me to do take a Rubber or Dance." He answers: "Dance first! Madam, and take the Rubber afterwards." A fashionably dressed but vulgar-looking man stands by, looking quizzically at the lady. In the background (left) is a high musicians' gallery, and below it four people dance a (?) country dance. There is a cut-glass chandelier. Through an ornate arched doorway four people are seen playing cards."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers
Description:
Title etched below image., Argus is a pseudonym for Charles Williams., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: Cassell.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Fans (Accessories), Dance, and Chandeliers
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
"One of a set of prints on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, see BMSat 6924, &c. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) and the Prince of Wales dance; she holds out her apron in her right hand, his left arm is raised as if dancing a Scots reel; he appears about to take her left hand. The musicians are Burke, Weltje, and Hanger: Weltje, wearing a hat, sits (left) on a low stool, beating a pistol upon a warming-pan which he holds between his knees. Burke stands behind him holding a gridiron in the manner of a violin and with a pair of tongs as bow. He says, "Oh Burn the Pan it is not Beautifull". Weltje answers, "Damme but 'tis Sublime" (one of many allusions to Burke's book). George Hanger stands (right) beating the heavy end of his bludgeon on a salt-box; he is stamping and dancing, his hat is on the ground at his feet. Through an aperture in the wall behind his head is seen an ornate bed, decorated with triple ostrich plumes; behind the pillows is a cross. Two pictures, both inscribed 'Hamlet', are on the wall: on the left the Lord Chamberlain with his wand (Lord Salisbury as Polonius) approaches George III, saying, "I will be brief your noble son is mad". On the right Laertes addresses Ophelia, saying: "He may not as inferior persons do carve for himself for on his choice depends the sanity [sic] & health of the whole state." On the floor, in the foreground, lie two books and a paper inscribed respectively, 'Bold Stroke for a Wife' [Mrs. Centlivre]; 'Clandestine Marriage' [Colman and Garrick]; and 'I'll have a Wife of my own'. Beneath the title is engraved, 'As performed at the Theatre Royal, C------n [Carlton] House for the Benifit of the Widow Wadman'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Follies of a night
Description:
Title from item below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Edmund Burke's On the sublime and the beautiful -- Parody of Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Salt-box Pictures amplify subject -- Catholic Church -- Travesties., and Watermark in center of sheet: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published 1st April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Cooking utensils, Dance, Firearms, Floor coverings, Marriage, Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, and Sofas
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Signed "M." in lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Election music: 'Ancient British music' -- Marrowbones -- Cleavers -- Election favors -- Butcher's steels., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 26 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Butchers, Canvassing, Chimney sweeps, Dance, Minuet, Political elections, and Politics and government
Depicts on the right the German dancing master Jansen playing the fiddle, as his pupil faces him with raised right arm and hat in left hand, a smaller youth standing sleepily on the left
Alternative Title:
Maitre de ballet allemand
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Published May 4, 1818, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., nephew & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1770-1840, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Caricatures and cartoons., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Dance, Obesity, Military uniforms, Drinking vessels, Musical instruments, Dogs, and Pipes (Smoking)
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "At Winchester there was a wedding"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 67. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Winchester (England)
Subject (Topic):
Weddings, Marriage, Love, Ballads, English, Broadsides, and Dance
"The Duke of York (right) dances a jig or hornpipe with a housemaid wearing a mob-cap and apron, who holds up a broom. The mistress of the house sits on a settee against the wall, watch-them with gestures of rage and indignation. Two men, blowing wind-instruments, watch from a musicians' gallery (left), on which is inscribed 'Horns! Horns! Horns!' Under the gallery persons are indicated turning their backs on the dancers. After the title is etched: 'Hic est, cujus amans hospita capta dolo est.' Beneath are the verses:'See See the fair one by her Guest betray 'd, By York deserted - rivall'd by her Maid T-r-n-l, lovely Bride, no longer mourn His love, since Spider Brushers serve his Turn, The Cook maid next will strike this loving Man With Kissing Crusts, & Meat sops in the Pan.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Ralph Juvenal alias for Ralph Hook? See British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse in two columns below title: See see the fair one by her guest betray'd. By York deserted, rivall'd by her maid ..., and Mounted to 41 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sep 9, 1788 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Tyrconnel, Sarah Hussey
In the center of a panelled ballroom, a couple dance together, an older man standing behind his younger, pretty partner holds her outstretched hands by the finger-tips. She looks serious; he leers towards her. On each side of the room seated elderly spectators are in conversation pointing to, or looking at, the dancers. On the right a fiddler and a flute-player in a small musician's gallery play to the dancers and spectators below. Lighted candles are in carved sconces on the wall
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Couples, Dance, Evening gowns, Musicians, Sconces, and Spectators
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[April 1829]
Call Number:
829.04.00.17+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"George IV, seated on the throne, watches a display of jovial fraternization between John Bull and Pat, who dance, holding hands, each holding up a hat decorated respectively by rose and shamrock. A lanky garland of (thornless) roses and giant shamrocks drapes the crown on the back of the throne; one end is held up by Wellington (right), on the King's left, the other by Peel on his right, so that the King is framed by it. John Bull is an obese and drink-blotched "cit", with a snuff-box inscribed 'Irish' in his waistcoat pocket. Pat is a ragged Irish peasant, his bare legs swathed by twisted straw; his shillelagh lies on the ground; he looks with a broad but appraising grin at J. B., who sings: "Together reared together grown, Oh! let us now unite in one, Let friendship rivet the decree, Nor bigots sever Pat and Me!!!" Two discomfited 'bigots' depart on the left; one is a gouty parson using a crutch, with a 'Petition against Concession' hanging from his pocket, cf. British Museum Satires No. 15661, &c. The other is a Catholic bishop in robe and mitre. They say: 'It's time for us to be off.' Above their heads flies a figure of Discord, her hair consisting of snakes which spit flame towards J. B. The King, with extended arm, says: 'No more let Bigotry distract the Nation, Nor Priestcraft nurture lawless passion, Henceforth let rage and tumult cease, As brothers live and die in peace!!!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Glorious march of intellect
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Budgen 1823.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1829 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Anti-Catholicism, National characteristics, Irish, Irish question, Gout, Ethnic stereotypes, Thrones, Crowns, Dance, Obesity, Roses, Shamrocks, Crutches, Clergy, Petitions, Bishops, and Miters
In the tradition of May Day celebrations, Lord North and Charles Fox, in sooty clothes, holding brushes and dust pans, dance around the "Ways & Means" pyramid made of fishes and loaves and decorated with the royal crown on top
Alternative Title:
State sweeps
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 3d. 1783 by W. Dent, No. 116 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Chimney sweeps, Dance, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 54. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A middle-aged gentleman, looking to his left and holding out his left hand, advances towards the viewer, knees bent, in the steps of a dance
Alternative Title:
Cotillion dancer run mad - in Bath
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dances: Cotillion -- Dancing -- Bath., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 26 x 19 cm., and Imperfect; volume and plate numbers have been erased from upper corners of sheet.
Leaf 54. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A middle-aged gentleman, looking to his left and holding out his left hand, advances towards the viewer, knees bent, in the steps of a dance
Alternative Title:
Cotillion dancer run mad - in Bath
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dances: Cotillion -- Dancing -- Bath., and Second of two plates on leaf 54.
Thomas Powys, sleeping in a chair on the left, and Charles Marsham, with a tankard, two of the country gentlemen urging the union between Fox and Pitt, preside over a maypole dance in front of the "St. Albans" tavern, their meeting place. The maypole is decorated with a sleeping head of George III. Dancers include members of the Coalition cabinet, pictured with devil's horns: Charles Fox, with a fox's body, Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, and the Duke of Portland, and members of the preceding cabinet, pictured with haloes: Lord Thurlow, in a judge's robe, a smiling Lord Shelburne, and the Duke of Richmond. They are watched on the left by the "nurse North," with horns, holding baby Pitt, with a halo, and on the right, by the Prince of Wales, dancing to his own tune he is playing on a pipe and a drum
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800., and Romney, Charles Marsham, Earl of, 1744-1811.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), May poles, Dance, and Clothing & dress
A group of women and girls perform a folk dance in a wooded landscape. The figures are numbered 1-7.
Description:
Title etched below image., A plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 31., Copy of A. de La Mottraye's Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., On page 14 in volume 1., and Ms. note at top margin in Steevens's hand: Copy.
Depiction of the dance probably performed by the Illinois to strengthen peace between the tribes. The Calumet, a large pipe, was usually presented to the honoured guest. The tribe surrounds the circle in which two men dance with arrows above their heads; the circle includes arrangements of bows and arrows and tomahawks
Description:
Title etched below image., From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture: The mariner's marvellous magazine, or, Wonders of the ocean; containing the most remarkable adventures and relations of mariners in various parts of the globe. [London] : Published by Thomas Tegg ..., 1809., Numbered '21' in upper right corner from:, and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Dance, Pipes (Smoking), Rites & ceremonies, and Tomahawks
Title from caption below image., Heading above design: The minuet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Violin -- Dancing instruction -- Children.
Engraved t.-p., On cover: Eleventh edition., and Possibly the Thomas Wilson, dancing master at the King's Theatre in the early part of the 19th century, who wrote several works on dancing. cf. C.W. Beaumont. Bibliography of dancing. London, 1929.
Publisher:
Page & Son
Subject (Name):
Professor of dancing from the King's theatre and Wilson, Thomas, dancing master
In a tavern, sailors in uniform are carousing; one dances with a woman in the centre, as another plays a violin on the left in front of diamond-patterned casement windows; others are drinking (mugs in hand) or smoking clay pipes. A couple kiss and embrace in the background. A ship model hangs from the ceiling. A fat dog (or cat?) lies at the feet of the musician
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verses. Missing text and sheet dimensions supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.1068., Below title is a song of sixty-nine lines in three columns 'A Sailor's life's a life of woe, ... And swig the flowing Can., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 21st April 1791 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dance, Eating & drinking, Kissing, Model ships, Musicians, Sailors, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Alternative Title:
Oddities. Song
Description:
Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
Depicts a fox (Charles James Fox) hanging from a gibbet around which dance members of the Conway family, headed by a blindfolded General Conway who is led by the nose by Shelburne. The Conways are all depicted as rats, with the exception of General Conway and his brother Lord Hertford. Shelburne is shown Janus-like with two faces, his own and that of the Devil. Refers to the resignation of Fox after Shelburne's appointment and Conway's support of the latter. A sequel to British Museum satire 5966
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Hon. Edward Conway, Cannon of Christ Church, 1757-1785 -- Ministries: fall of Rockingham's ministry --Literature: allusion to Little Red Riding Hood -- Conway family as rats -- Mottoes: sic transit gloria mund.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 2d, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Rats, Foxes, Blindfolds, Gallows, Devil, and Dance
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image., Image size including ruled lines: 245 x 345 mm., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Caricatures and cartoons, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Leaf 43. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.808., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 363., and On leaf 43 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
