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1. The bosky magistrate [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ziegler, J. C., active 1796-1799, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Novr. 25, 1796.
- Call Number:
- 796.11.25.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a well-furnished room with an open door (right) through which a dove-cote and trees are visible. By the fire (left) in an arm-chair is a gouty magistrate, tipsily somnolent, with twisted features. In his left hand is a glass spilling its contents, in his right a smoking tobacco-pipe; his right foot is supported on a cushioned stool. Beside him (right) is a table with books and writing-materials behind which sits his clerk, pen in mouth, spectacles on forehead, scrutinizing a group of three: a constable with a long staff between a fashionably dressed and drunken reveller and a young woman, whose dress hangs from just below her bare breasts. The constable, looking at the clerk, points to the woman. In the doorway a dog looks out and a sow looks in. On the wall over the clerk's head is a picture of an ass kicking over a statue of Justice (a 'Justass', cf. British Museum satire no. 8187); in the background St. Paul's and the Monument with other buildings indicate London. On the table by the justice a punch-bowl stands on 'Burn's Justice'. The chimney-piece is supported by two carved satyrs. Above it is a framed (?) almanack. A cat sleeps by the fire. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Three lines of text below title: Custos. Nemo. Comes. Testis. Sus. Bosque. Canisque. rules for the Gender of Nouns. Custos. the Constable. Nemo. [cf. BMSat 5570] alluding to the Lady having no Waist [cf. BMSat 8569]. Comes, her Companion. Sus. a Sow Worried by a Dog. Testis, described by the Constable as Witness against the two Delinquents. Bosque, the Magistrate half Drunk or Bosky. Canisque, the Dog, referring to the Guardian of the Night in the Act of making a Seizure., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1805.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors and Judges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bosky magistrate [graphic]
2. Complaint [art original].
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1799 or 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 2 Box D170
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A trio of servants with hats removed meekly approach a magistrate to register their complaint: '... Mr. Sparemalt and Mr. Doublechalk charge us four pence a pot for porter'. The seated, bespectacled magistrate haughtily challenges their grumbling and proclaims, 'that great men may combine and charge you poor wretches what they please ...'
- Description:
- Title from heading inscribed in ink above image, in artist's hand., Date based on events depicted. See St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England, January 2, 1800 - January 4, 1800)., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Complaints (Rhetoric), Complaining, Judges, Coach drivers, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Complaint [art original].
3. Thimble accusing his foreman for - before the justices [art original].
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 52 Box D305
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A prisoner (the foreman) bound in chains and 'Thimble' stand before two justices, writing furiously in open volumes, and respond to the exclamation "You're upon oath Sir!"
- Description:
- Title from pencil inscription in the artist's hand below image. and Date supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Topic):
- Judges, Courtrooms, Judicial proceedings, and Prisoners
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Thimble accusing his foreman for - before the justices [art original].
4. [A woman swearing a child] [art original].
- Creator:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1790]
- Call Number:
- Drawings W87 no. 11 Box D175
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pregnant woman holds a bible in one hand and rests her other hand on her protruding stomach while 'swearing a child' before a shocked looking magistrate. The alleged father(?) is kneeling beside the woman with clasped hands and his hat removed and resting on the floor. Completing the scene a clerk apperas to be loudly advising the magistrate and a solemn looking constable stands off to the side
- Description:
- Title and date supplied by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Paternity, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Judges, Law & legal affairs, and Bibles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A woman swearing a child] [art original].
5. Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1812?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A scene in court, with the Chief Justice (Ellenborough) seated between two other judges. In front and below are three counsel and two clients. A barrister stands to examine a witness, a stout man, well dressed but countrified (right): "Well Sir, you are a witness in this Cause, eh? You look like a very knowing fellow to be sure! pray now do you know the difference between the Mortgager and the Mortgagee?" The man answers: "To be sure I do, for example now! I nod at you, then I am the Noder and you are the Nodee." All except the questioner smile; a distressed usher (right) exclaims "Silence there!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Brow-beater badger'd and Brow-beater badgered
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "176" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 28 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtrooms, Judges, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].
6. Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1812?]
- Call Number:
- 812.00.00.02+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A scene in court, with the Chief Justice (Ellenborough) seated between two other judges. In front and below are three counsel and two clients. A barrister stands to examine a witness, a stout man, well dressed but countrified (right): "Well Sir, you are a witness in this Cause, eh? You look like a very knowing fellow to be sure! pray now do you know the difference between the Mortgager and the Mortgagee?" The man answers: "To be sure I do, for example now! I nod at you, then I am the Noder and you are the Nodee." All except the questioner smile; a distressed usher (right) exclaims "Silence there!"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Brow-beater badger'd and Brow-beater badgered
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "176" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Manuscript "92" in upper center.
- Publisher:
- [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtrooms, Judges, and Lawyers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].
7. Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- 820.06.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c., is transformed into a hillock covered with grass and foliage, but keeping the contour of a sack; it is inscribed in large letters: 'Commons Green Bag'. On the left it is watched by a group of Ministers, on the right by the Queen and her supporters. The foremost of the latter is Brougham, in wig and gown, who points a rod inscribed 'Queens Attorney General' towards the bag; a mouse crouches in a little hollow at its base. Under his arm is a large document inscribed 'Resolution ..... [Ma]jesty'. The Queen, her hands extended towards him, turns to a second barrister who stands in back-view, saying, "I should make a brave Queen to be frightened at a Mouse." The barrister, Denman, the Queen's Solicitor-General, answers: "A good Conscience is a Wall of Brass, your Majesty will not shrink at a Royal Tiger." On the extreme right, Wood, in an alderman's gown, is speaking to a lady, evidently Lady Ann Hamilton. On the extreme left is a curtain from behind which the King, his head and most of his person being hidden, speaks to Lord Eldon (who like his colleagues is gaping at the bag-mountain): "Why Bags! what's all this!" Eldon, in wig and gown, holding a large document and the Purse of the Great Seal, answers: "The Cat's out of the Bag Sire thats all." Canning exclaims: "Pro-di-gi-ous! as my Friend Domine Sampson [in Scott's 'Guy Mannering', 1815] says!" Castlereagh, very scared, says to Sidmouth: "Doctor could you not prevented [sic] this untimely Birth!" Sidmouth stoops forward, squirting a clyster-pipe at the mouse; in his right hand, like a doctor's gold-headed cane, is a constable's staff. He exclaims: "A Delivery without Nurse or Doctor by Heaven." From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Foreign Circular' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13282]. After the title: 'When mountains cry out, people may well be excused the apprehension of some prodigious Birth, this was the case the Public were all at their wits end, to consider what would be the Issue, and instead of the dreadfull Monster that they expected, out comes at last a contemptible Mouse--The Moral. Much ado about Nothing.-- Reflection. What are all the extravagant attempts and enterprises of weak Men, but morals more or less of this Fable what are mighty pretences without consideration or effect, but the vapours of a distemper, that like sickly Dreams have neither issue nor conection. and the dissapointment is not all neither, for men make themselves ridiculous instead of Terrible, when this Tympany shall come to end in a Blast, and a Mountain to bring forth a Mouse, vide L'Estrange's Esop.--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mountain in labour
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top edge.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 28th, 1820, by Richd. Fores, 74 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Draperies, Wigs, Judges, Robes, Medical equipment & supplies, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
8. Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c., is transformed into a hillock covered with grass and foliage, but keeping the contour of a sack; it is inscribed in large letters: 'Commons Green Bag'. On the left it is watched by a group of Ministers, on the right by the Queen and her supporters. The foremost of the latter is Brougham, in wig and gown, who points a rod inscribed 'Queens Attorney General' towards the bag; a mouse crouches in a little hollow at its base. Under his arm is a large document inscribed 'Resolution ..... [Ma]jesty'. The Queen, her hands extended towards him, turns to a second barrister who stands in back-view, saying, "I should make a brave Queen to be frightened at a Mouse." The barrister, Denman, the Queen's Solicitor-General, answers: "A good Conscience is a Wall of Brass, your Majesty will not shrink at a Royal Tiger." On the extreme right, Wood, in an alderman's gown, is speaking to a lady, evidently Lady Ann Hamilton. On the extreme left is a curtain from behind which the King, his head and most of his person being hidden, speaks to Lord Eldon (who like his colleagues is gaping at the bag-mountain): "Why Bags! what's all this!" Eldon, in wig and gown, holding a large document and the Purse of the Great Seal, answers: "The Cat's out of the Bag Sire thats all." Canning exclaims: "Pro-di-gi-ous! as my Friend Domine Sampson [in Scott's 'Guy Mannering', 1815] says!" Castlereagh, very scared, says to Sidmouth: "Doctor could you not prevented [sic] this untimely Birth!" Sidmouth stoops forward, squirting a clyster-pipe at the mouse; in his right hand, like a doctor's gold-headed cane, is a constable's staff. He exclaims: "A Delivery without Nurse or Doctor by Heaven." From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Foreign Circular' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13282]. After the title: 'When mountains cry out, people may well be excused the apprehension of some prodigious Birth, this was the case the Public were all at their wits end, to consider what would be the Issue, and instead of the dreadfull Monster that they expected, out comes at last a contemptible Mouse--The Moral. Much ado about Nothing.-- Reflection. What are all the extravagant attempts and enterprises of weak Men, but morals more or less of this Fable what are mighty pretences without consideration or effect, but the vapours of a distemper, that like sickly Dreams have neither issue nor conection. and the dissapointment is not all neither, for men make themselves ridiculous instead of Terrible, when this Tympany shall come to end in a Blast, and a Mountain to bring forth a Mouse, vide L'Estrange's Esop.--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mountain in labour
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top edge., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24.8 x 35.2 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 29 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV," "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Brougham," "Queen Caroline," and "Denman" identified in black ink below image; date "28 June 1820" added in lower right corner. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 28th, 1820, by Richd. Fores, 74 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Draperies, Wigs, Judges, Robes, Medical equipment & supplies, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
9. [A satire on 'Vice and Folly'] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.111+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on prostitution set in a brothel in which all the men have been given the heads of apes and the women those of cats. In the centre of the room a prostitute sits on the knee of an old man who fondles her, her legs splayed; she holds a glass in one hand and a flask in the other. A magistrate wearing a lace edged hat and holding a large candle stands over them. Constables with staves stand in the open door, behind which the prostitute's pimp (referred to as her bully in the verse beneath) is hiding; he is dressed as a grenadier. On the right, the brothel-keeper holds up a tally-board pointing out one of the symbols to three men who are startled at the entry of the constables; one is seated at a table holding a glass, another holds a large candle. On the table is a large flask, another rests on the floor beside a big jug, and another lies broken in pieces. In the background on the right a couple peer from being the curtains of a large bed. Hanging from the ceiling is a large birdcage on which a bird is perched."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title supplied from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Sayer of a print published anonymously around 1730. See no. 1860 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Terminal date of publication based on publisher's street address; according to the British Museum online catalogue, Sayer moved from his "opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street" premises in 1760. A later date is also possible, as the series that included this print was advertised in Robert Sayer's catalogue for 1766; see no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Alas! poor whore, thourt fairly trap'd, Tho' by thy spark so sweetly lap'd; And for thy midnight vice and folly, Your fate is now to mill your dolly ...
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Animals in human situations, Interiors, Prostitutes, Military uniforms, Judges, Watchmen, Canopy beds, Birdcages, Doves, Wine, and Bottles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A satire on 'Vice and Folly'] [graphic]