"A kitchen scene [with a satire based on the fable of the "catspaw"]. A monkey with Wood's head squats beside a plump cat with the head in profile of Queen Caroline. She sits gazing at the fire with an eagerly expectant smile. He puts his left hand on her shoulder and takes her right paw which is supported on his knee, looking fixedly at her with greedy expectation. Between the bars of the grate are four chestnuts like large potatoes. These are inscribed respectively: 'Privileges', 'Rights', 'Liturgy', 'St Catherines'. Beside the grate and attached to a chain is a 'Kettle of Fish'. Behind the cat is a big trap with steel teeth inscribed '50 000 per Annum'. Behind it is a dresser, neatly arranged above a cupboard inscribed 'Lately from St Omers' [see British Museum Satires no. 13730]. On the dresser are a teapot and butterdish, each with a bust portrait of Bergami, and two cups, inscribed 'BB'. There are also pans inscribed 'Hash' and 'Stew', a 'Tinder' box and bottle of 'Brim-Stone'. On the chimneypiece, with other utensils, is a box of 'Matches'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of the woods and the cat-o'-mountain
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and monkey tired of play, Basking before the fire lay, Pug in the fire a chesnut spied, Puss, lend me your paw, he slyly cried! And we the booty will divide!!! - Gay., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 7 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29.6 x 20.9 cm., and Third exclamation point after "divide" and dash before "Gay" not present in verses below title; these characters either did not print from the plate or represent slight changes made to the plate after this impression was taken.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Cats, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Kitchens, Mantels, Monkeys, and Tableware
"The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert in the bedroom of a French inn ; a maidservant enters (left) with a tea-tray. The Prince, yawning and stretching with a dissipated air, is seated on the edge of a table; the revelry of the past night is indicated by an overturned decanter, broken wineglass, and a broken candle. Another candlestick and broken wine-glass lie on the ground, together with the Prince's top-boots. He wears slippers and his stockings are ungartered, the 'honi soit qui mal y' [pense] ribbon hanging round his leg. Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated on the bed, draws on a stocking; her garter inscribed 'Fox' lies on the ground (cf. British Museum satire 7306). The bed is heavily draped with fringed curtains. The Prince's feathered hat hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene on the Continent
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Probably a reissue; the final digit '8' in '1788' in imprint appears to have been altered from '6,' and the publisher's street address seems to have been burnished and re-etched. See British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 42.3 x 51.9 cm, on sheet 45.6 x 57.6 cm., Watermark: Weatherley & Lane 1820., and Mounted on leaf 48 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1788, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taverns (Inns), Bedrooms, Draperies, Hats, Servants, and Tableware
"The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert in the bedroom of a French inn ; a maidservant enters (left) with a tea-tray. The Prince, yawning and stretching with a dissipated air, is seated on the edge of a table; the revelry of the past night is indicated by an overturned decanter, broken wineglass, and a broken candle. Another candlestick and broken wine-glass lie on the ground, together with the Prince's top-boots. He wears slippers and his stockings are ungartered, the 'honi soit qui mal y' [pense] ribbon hanging round his leg. Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated on the bed, draws on a stocking; her garter inscribed 'Fox' lies on the ground (cf. British Museum satire 7306). The bed is heavily draped with fringed curtains. The Prince's feathered hat hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene on the Continent
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Probably a reissue; the final digit '8' in '1788' in imprint appears to have been altered from '6,' and the publisher's street address seems to have been burnished and re-etched. See British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1788, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taverns (Inns), Bedrooms, Draperies, Hats, Servants, and Tableware
On the right a balding man sits at a well-laid table opposite a parson. The bald man has his arm around the waist of a pretty young woman who stands to his right with her one hand on his head. The parson toastst the couple. A dog sits on the floor near the table on the left. In the background are two pictures that amplify the subject of the print: above the hearth is a picture of a horse, and on the wall to the left (beside a ornate mirror) is a portrait of a bald man in an oval frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: If I live to grow old, for I find I go down. ... And a clearly young girl to rub my bald pate', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Two lines of quote below image: The blood & vitals from her wounds he drew, and fed the hounds that helped him to pursue. Dryden., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.385., Temporary local subject terms: Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, Southwark -- Weapons: dagger., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
J. Almon
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gout, Crutches, Surgery, and Tableware
Title from item., Two lines of verse on plate below image: Though parsons often patience teach ..., Illustration to ballad The Patient Parson. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: Just published in this manner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poll and My Partner Joe, and many other esteemed songs and pieces. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Clergy wives --Parsonage -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'Job in his distress' -- Wall clock -- Furniture: dinner table., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
A rotund rector with a caricatured, grinning face sits at his dinner table in his comfortable upholstered arm chair. He gestures to his manservant, who wears an equally pleased look on his face, to place the roasted pig on the table. A dog sits at the rector's feet, looking up expectedly
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, Swine, Tableware, and Tithes
Young cub attended by the clerks of the Admiralty at Arthurs
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication place and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to a letter describing Charles James Fox's gambling proclivities while in the post of the Lord of the Admiralty., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 28., and Temporary local subject terms: Clubs: Arthur's -- Domestic service: scullion boy -- Reference to the Lord of Admiralty -- Admiralty clerks -- Reference to Hoyle.
A view of the Wedgwood shop with customers looking at the wares
Alternative Title:
Wedgwood and Byerley
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text preceding title: For No. 2 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Plate 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. signature in contemporary hand across back of sheet.
"A kitchen scene. A handsome young cook in her mistress's hat and gown, worn over her own cap and petticoat, with her breast bared, postures in the kitchen before a hanging mirror, holding out a fan. Three amused girls (a woman with two young girls) watch her from behind a door (right). On the floor is a broken dish with a fish on which a cat has pounced, and to the right a rolling pin, fork and spoon. A floured pudding is ready for cooking. On the shelves behind her are plates, platters and mugs; above the door, a small keg, wine bottle, and crocks. On the floor near the door are brooms and buckets
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1806.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Cats, Kitchens, Interiors, Mirrors, Role reversal, Tableware, and Women domestics
