Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., Above image: Notions of the Agreeable. No.42., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22, Denmark Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Obesity, Kettles, Sick persons, Fireplaces, Cats, and Bells
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Series name in margin above image., Below series name: Happiness to those who wish it to others., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
W. Spooner 259 Regent Street
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Invalids, Obesity, Sick persons, Medicines, Pillows, Crutches, and Bandages
Title in pencil below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication supplied by curator., Inscription in pencil continues: He was the heaviest Man ever known, Died June 21.1809, not quite 40 at Stamford Lincolnshire, He Weighed 52 Stone 12 lbs. -- 14 lbs to the Stone or 740 lbs., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"Social satire; a tall thin man with a tasselled tricorn hat in one hand and wearing a sword, wig, buckled shoes and rings on both hands steps forward towards a large lady with a wreath in her hair, beauty spots, several rings, a cupid's bow and arrow on a ribbon round her neck, a large muff, and a very low decolletage; behind them their two dogs mimic their actions; the man asks "Beauty need note de foraine aid of ornamen but ees ven unadorn adorn de mos.", to which the woman replies "I really cannot resist the pleasing truth of the bewitching Markeee. - - ah! Sweet Sir I yield, ah!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Cruikshank on unverified card catalog record., Imprint burnished from plate. Originally published in 1798., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Song is an allusion to the Roast beef of Old England., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
On the cobblestone street in front of an elegant house, a man in Scottish Highlander attire uses his back to hoist an obese woman into an awaiting carriage. The coachman stands beside him with a whip in hand; his nose is disfigured (syphilitic?).
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered '204' in lower left of plate., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., One line of text below title: Push on. -- Keep moving., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 25th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate plight is apparent in the fixed stare with which she looks up and to the right. By her side (left) is a bottle and glass. A pretty young courtesan, resting her left arm on the back of the chair, leans forward to hold a candle above the leg."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state
Description:
Title from text below image., Early state, before imprint added in lower margin. For a later state with imprint "Pubd. 1st June 1785 by E. Jackson, No. 14 Marybone Street, Golden Sqr.", see Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, RCIN 810132., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate reissued by publisher S.W. Fores in 1792; see no. 8197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 311-12., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skin lesions.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face ... behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée ..., with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Early state of a print published 21 July 1821 by G. Humphrey with the expanded title "A coronation stool, of repentance"; in addition to having a shorter title, this early state lacks the grimace on the Queen's face, the jewelry around her neck and on her hands, and the patterns on her dress and on the carpet beneath her. For the published state, see no. 14197 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Mounted on page 51 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., 1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 26.5 x 19.3 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 99 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Caroline" identified in pencil below image; date "19 July 1821" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"A naked, bald, and grotesquely obese man stands on the tips of his toes about to plunge, or rather topple, into a bath, in which he admires, Narcissus-like, his own absurd reflection. He is poised on a platform projecting over the bath; behind him stands a comely young woman, watching in astonishment. A flesh-brush is beside her, another is on a seat on the opposite side of the bath, where a print of Narcissus is on the wall. An ugly old woman's head looks through a small rectangular aperture up m the wail; she is much amused at the scene. On the wall is a placard: 'Glowcocks Bagnio Cold and Hot Baths Cupping Sweating and otherwise cleansing the body performed here Lodgings for Gentlemen.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed with plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6, 1803, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Narcissus (Greek mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Public baths, Obesity, Therapeutic baths, Bathing, Nudes, and Signs (Notices)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed withing plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: The buisiness of his church he did by proxy and loved al doxies but the orthodoxy., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '21' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Young women -- Furniture: slipcovered love seat.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A fat parson sits on a settee with a young courtesan on each knee
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Two lines of verse below title: The business of his church he did by proxy and loved all doxies but the ortho-doxy., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. Cf. For a later copy, see no. 10671, v. 8., and Watermark: T Edmonds 181[...].
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hideous profile, her mouth wide open; her attitude is theatrical. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable (see BMSat 7099, &c). He looks up at her with a yearning smile. Both are grotesquely caricatured."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Trades: pastry cooks -- Vanhangen, Thomas, 'Captain Rolling-pin.', 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 38.7 x 29.1 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills., and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hideous profile, her mouth wide open; her attitude is theatrical. She wears a high cap and the extended petticoats which had recently been fashionable (see BMSat 7099, &c). He looks up at her with a yearning smile. Both are grotesquely caricatured."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Trades: pastry cooks -- Vanhangen, Thomas, 'Captain Rolling-pin.', and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A portrait-painter painting a family group of a man and wife and their little boy. The group (right) is raised on a low semicircular platform, the couple sit on a high-backed settee without arms, the little boy on a stool in front of his mother. The child, though in his ordinary clothes, is holding a cupid's bow and a sheaf of arrows (reminiscent of the family portrait in the 'Vicar of Wakefield'); a large quiver holding arrows is slung across his shoulders, a wreath is on his head; he yawns violently. The man, in profile to the left, is obese and wears a short bushy wig, a dove sits on his left wrist; only the toes of his shoes reach the ground. His wife sits on his right holding a dove on her right hand; she turns towards her husband, looking straight forward with a fixed and painful smile; she wears ringlets and a cap of lace and ribbons on her high-dressed hair. The artist (left) stands at his easel which supports a large canvas and is placed close to his sitters. He wears spectacles, a bag-wig, and ruffled shirt, and holds a palette in his left hand. He looks towards his sitters with an insinuating smile, which, together with his attitude and the figure of the man sketched on the canvas, shows that he is intent on flattery. High up on the wall behind him are two oval bust portraits, one (left) of a clergyman, the other of a lady. Behind the sitters is a tall screen of several leaves."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1836?], p. 40., A later copy of no. 5921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 10 of a series., Watermark: 1809., and Imperfect; artist's signature mostly erased from lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' materials, Doves, Easels, Families, Group portraits, Obesity, Wigs, and Yawning
Mr. Harley, with a very large belly and a shirt with lace trim, standing full-length in profile to right wearing on his head a cuckold's horns from which hangs a sign "A room to lett unfurnish'd". From his mouth a bubble reading, "I am one of the heads of the city." In his left hand a book open to pages that read, "The city poll dedicated to the Cheese mongers, trunk makers, etc. From his right pocket a letter, "At the court of C.C., it was carried NEM-CON that he was realy & not politically ill."
Alternative Title:
Figure that appeared in a Mazarine gown
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: October 10, 1768, the date of the masquerade., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 148., and Mounted to 30 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford Magazine
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City council members, Horns (Anatomy), Masquerades, and Obesity
"Pushed by Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, George IV, more corpulent than in other prints, walks in an ornate circular stand or support on castors (as used for toddling children, cf. British Museum satires no. 7497) towards Virginia Water (right), his fishing-rod against his shoulder. He wears a hat with a wide curving brim inscribed á la Townsend [cf. British Museum satires no. 10293], double-breasted tail-coat, breeches, and pumps; his right arm rests on the ring of the stand, in his hand is a small book: Old Izack [Walton]. From the stand dangles an ornate reticule: Fish Bag; the base is decorated with two fat squatting mandarins. Lady Conyngham looks over her right shoulder at the King, puffing from her effort, but singing Rule Britannia; the crossbar at which she tugs is a sceptre. She wears an enormous ribbon-trimmed bonnet and décolletée dress; the hook from the King's line has caught in her dress which strains across her vast posterior as she leans forward. Knighton wears a court-suit with bag-wig and sword. He pushes with both hands with great concentration, singing, Send him Victorious. In his coat-pocket are a clyster-pipe and a paper: Petition of the Unborn Babes. A signpost terminating in a realistic hand points To Virginia Water. There is a background of trees and water."--British Museum online catalogue and A later impression [i.e. state] of British Museum Satires No. 15413 ... A scroll has been added beside Knighton's coat-tails inscribed with his 'places of profit': Clerk of Stannaries Recr Genl Duchy of Cornwall, Privy Purse &c &c &c. See Diary of H. Hobhouse, loc. cit. A border has been added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 27th, 1827, by S.W. Fores, Pciadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Bonnets, Fishing & hunting gear, Mistresses, Obesity, Physicians, British, Pulling, Scepters, Medical equipment & supplies, and Traffic signs & signals
"Sheridan (l.) sits in an arm-chair at his writing-table, pen in hand. He slouches forward, peering at a large playbill in his left hand. 'Tom Hickathrift \ and the \ Giants \ a new Growlo Drama \ with \ Wittington \ and his \ Cat \ a Pur-letta \ in which a real \ Cat and Mice \ will be Introduced \ - Due Notice will be given \ of Mr Carlo's next \ Performance.' He says: "Now I have got my head down Water I am determined to go on Swimmingly." The Newfoundland dog 'Carlo' (his massive padlocked collar so inscribed) who played in 'The Caravan', faces Sheridan holding in his mouth a basket labelled 'Raw Materials for New Subjects'; these are rolled MSS. inscribed: 'Dog-Matical Essays', 'Bark-shire Poems', 'Bones to Pick'. Fox (r.), immensely fat stands beside Carlo, in profile to the left., r. hand on the dog's head, l. in his coat-pocket. He says: "You are a very good Dog Namesake - a very good Dog indeed - I wish you would Spin me a little Money thes hard times - it would be very acceptable." Behind Sheridan are book-shelves; from a shelf inscribed 'Glass Slippers as good as New' two slippers dangle. The titles of the (bulky) books are: 'Jack the Giant Killer', 'Goody Two Shoes', 'little Red Riding Hood', 'Tom Thumb', 'Seven Champions [of Christendom]'; actually these tales were best known in penny chap-books"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preparations for next season
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"An elderly general rides a high-stepping horse in profile to the left, posed like an equestrian statue. He wears a high cocked hat with cockade and plume; his sword-belt is buckled over his sash, which girds a heavy paunch. In his right hand is a cane. He is Lt.-General Richard England of Lifford, co. Clare, Colonel of the 5th Foot and Lt.-Governor of Plymouth, father of Sir Richard England (b. 1793). He was a veteran of the American War, and had been one of the first colonists of Western Upper Canada."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, with minimal loss of image from right edge., Leaf 71 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808.
