Royal hobby's [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Royal hobby's [graphic].
- Creator
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [9 April 1819]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Apl. 9th, 1819, by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"Two adjacent designs. [1] The Regent tipsily bestrides a fat and ugly cook, who is on her hands and knees; he flourishes a bottle of 'Royal Max' [gin] and a glass and shouts: "Ha! ha! D--me! this is glorious! this is Princely!!--better fun than the Hertford Hobby [see British Museum Satires No. 13213]--Kitchen stuff & Dishclouts for ever I say D--me!!--If the rascals caricature me, I'll buy em All up d--me." The cook, still holding the broken dish from which a huge cod's head has fallen, exclaims: "Oh! Master do let me alone & see! you've thrown the Cods head & Shoulders all in the dirt!" In the background, Lady Hertford, wearing a coronet, looks angrily from a doorway. On the floor in the foreground are a 'Royal Greas Pot', rolling-pin, and a ladle, with a playbill: 'Brighton--under the Pub [Patr]onage of [the Princ]e Regent--High Life below Stairs Principle Character--G P R'. See British Museum Satires No. 13208, &c. [2] The Duke of York, very erect, rides a velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399) in profile to the right, with Mrs. Carey behind him in a little seat over the back wheel, her hands on his shoulders. He wears Windsor uniform of military cut, with breeches, spurred top-boots, and a top-hat, which he raises. Across the pole hangs a fat purse inscribed '10,000 pr annm Custos [Personae Regis]' which serves as saddle. He says: "I say Carey: this Windsor job, is a devilish snug concern & this saddle bag makes it very pleasant riding!--I wish our army had been mounted on these Hobby's in Flanders;--I don't mean Waterloo--" She answers: "I know what you mean;--but it is a good joke, to think while the Establishment of the Father is redud at Windsor: the sons Establist is increas'd at Fulham--tis properly coming York over John Bull." In the background John Bull, a sturdy fellow, stands with folded arms outside a miserable thatched hut where women and children are crouching. He says fiercely: "£10,000 a year for a son to do his duty to his Father!!!!!! whilst my Children are starving!!!--"Fie out! O Fie 'tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank & gross in nature posess it merely." ['Hamlet', I. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Three lines of quoted text following title: "De gustibus non est disputandum; that is, there is no disputing against hobby-horses." Tristram Shandy.
Plate numbered "341" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 52 in volume 5. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 - Subject (Topic)
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Subjects
-
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12899923
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192616