"Three-quarter length portrait, directed to the right, of a sour-looking and squinting woman, wearing a bonnet and a patterned dress. She holds a book, 'The Four Evangelists'. Beneath the title: 'Swearing at the Old Bailey to Mr J. Beck having Robbed her in Kensington Garden of which charge he was honorably acquitted - multitudes of Witnesses appearing to prove her having made similar Charges against them, in order to extort Money.' On the design: 'Caution to the Unwary! - This Pest of Society is rather of a Tall & Thin form . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 d.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom resulting in minor losses of text in and below the image., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 26.7 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 23.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Septr. 23d, 1799, & sold by all [the] book & print sellers in London
"A bust portrait of Tandy (1740-1803) looking to the left. He wears the double-breasted, high-collared coat of a French officer, with epaulettes. He looks a sick man, his (white) hair is short and unkempt, his face deeply seamed; his drooping, bulbous nose and look of melancholy wariness give an impression of caricature, but the characterization appears to be excellent, cf. a portrait engraved by Heath after J. Petrie, published 1815."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: French officers' uniform., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 32.5 x 23.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A fat country-woman, threatened by a fierce dog, has fallen face downwards in front of a pair of horses, causing them to stop suddenly, and paw the ground. The terrified coachman loses his hat and wig, the footman is flung across the roof of the low carriage towards the box. An elderly lady looks out of the carriage window to call: "John!" He answers: "Coming Ma'm." All are broadly burlesqued. On the door is a coat of arms with an earl's coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Watermark: Edmeads & Co., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"Caricature portrait of John Penn (1760-1834), miscellaneous writer and grandson of the founder of Pennsylvania. He stands in profile to the left, his feet splayed out, wearing a round hat, gloves, wrinkled Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425), pantaloons tied above the ankles, and heelless slippers with spike toes. In his left hand is a cane. He has a vacant expression with gaping, fish-like mouth and receding chin. A flagged pavement, brick wall, and cast shadows form a background. The title continues: '- NB; This Title has no affinity to Pen, as connected with the Goose-Quill; nor has it any allusion to Penguin, a stupid creature between a Fish & a Fowl; - the word is simply derived from Pen, as the Instrument used to express the deep researches of the mind; see the St James's Street chitchat - respecting a Keen Pen; - a Witty Pen; - & a Pen, often Cut, but never mended.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Penetration
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: Jean de Bry coat -- Slippers with spike toes -- Pantaloons., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.1 x 19.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 6th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, N. 27 St. James's Street
"Sheridan stands on the stage dressed as Pizarro (played by Barrymore), gloating over guineas with which his helmet is filled. On the right is a flat consisting of a palm-tree with golden fruit, on the left columns wreathed with roses and decorated with theatrical emblems: tragic masks and spirals of cupids who blow Fame's trumpet, each holding a placard: 'Oracle Puff p ..'; 'Morning Chronicle Puff Puff Puff'; 'Morning Herald Puff' [&c, &c]; 'Courier' [&c, &c, cf. BMSat 9194]; 'Times' [&c, &c.]. In the background is mountain scenery with the mouth of the cave. Below the title: "Honor? Reputation? a mere Bubble! - will the praises of posterity charm my bones in the Grave? - 'psha! - my present \ "purpose is all! - O, Gold! Gold! for thee, I would sell my native Spain, as freely as I would plunder Peru.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Theatres: scenery on stage -- Drury Lane Theatre -- Theatrical costume: Spanish don -- Theatrical emblems -- Puffs -- Money: guineas -- Newspapers: Morning Chronicle -- Morning Herald -- Times -- Courier., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.4 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 41.7 x 29.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Amateur musicians, the design based on 'Ars-Musica', BMSat 9586, altered, and much elaborated. Four ugly and elderly men grouped round a young woman who sits, full face, at a square piano lit by a guttering candle. She lifts her hands to thump, with grim determination. A 'cellist is on her right, a vast gouty leg thrust forward, a violinist on her left. Behind her are two flautists. Behind (left), a young officer and a girl flirt, hand in hand. In the background (right) are visitors: two military officers shake hands, one bowing so that his sword lifts up the petticoats of a fat lady walking off to the right. A dog howls with one paw on a music-book."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Temporary local subject terms: Carpets -- Musicians -- Flautist -- Violinist -- Cellist -- Piano -- Flute -- Violin -- Pianist -- Cello., 1 print : etching with aquatint, engraving, & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.6 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 28.6 x 40.3 cm., Watermark: 1810 J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 52 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 13th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The younger man stands legs astride negligently using a ramrod. A bleeding cock hangs from his waist. His companion leans against a fence, voraciously gnawing a cold chicken, a bottle of 'Porter' beside him. Near him lies a dead cat. Each dog watches his master, the bulldog's collar is inscribed 'John Bull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Recharging, Cockney-sportsmen re-charging, and Cockney-sportsmen recharging
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Third of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution. The audience are in a semicircle facing the lecturer's table, which is covered with apparatus. The lecturer, probably not Garnett but Thomas Young who succeeded him as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Institute in July 1801, and who delivered thirty lectures there between January and May 1802, is experimenting on Sir J. C. Hippisley (left). Holding him by the nose, he applies to his mouth a tube from a series of retorts in which a gas has been made. The result is a violent explosion of flame and smoke from the victim's breeches. Next Young stands Humphry Davy, assistant lecturer to the Institute since July 1801. Holding a pair of bellows with vapour and gas spouting from its nozzle, he watches the experiment with a sardonic smile. Facing the table from the right, Count Rumford (see British Museum Satires No. 9565) stands a little apart from the audience, looking on with a complacent and proprietary smile; he wears an order. On the extreme right the audience are Isaac D 'Israeli, wearing spectacles over half-closed eyes, Lord Gower, watching impassively, and Lord Stanhope, looking intently through an eyeglass. Beside him on the padded green bench is an open book: 'Hints on the nature of Air requir'd for the new French Diving Boat.' (Fulton's submarine was tried in Brest harbour in 1801, and a small vessel was blown up by a torpedo; Stanhope's experiments with steam navigation had been unsucces-ful, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8640.) Two unidentified ladies watch open-eyed. Immediately in front of Stanhope sits Lord Pomfret, enormously stout, his eyes almost shut. These watch from the right. Facing the lecturer sit (right to left) Sir H. Englefield, holding note-book and pencil, and a thin and elderly lady turned in profile, taking notes earnestly, but not watching the experiment. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Experimental lecture on the powers of air
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., and Mounted on leaf 75 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Young, Thomas, 1773-1829, Hippisley, John Cox, 1748-1825, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829, Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814, Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752-1822, Sotheby, William, 1757-1833, Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1768-1830, Denys, Peter, 1760-1816, and Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Nitrous oxide, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Flatulence, Interiors, Lecture halls, Public speaking, Scientific equipment, and Bellows
