"Lady Strathmore sits drinking with her servants; she leans back in her chair, a small flagon (indicating gin) in her right hand, a glass in her left; her breasts are bare and are sucked by two cats. A little boy (left) stands beside her chair crying; he says, "I wish I was a Cat my Mama would Love me then". A footman, wearing a nightcap and holding a candle, puts his hand on her arm, saying, "My Lady its time to come to Bed". A number of women-servants are seated at a rectangular table, the most prominent being one whose head and arms have advanced from her body and lean on the table; she holds out a glass to touch that of Lady Strathmore; in her right hand is a decanter; on her lap is a paper: 'Duty of a Ladies Maid, by M. Morgan see Old Baly Chronle'. Four other servants drink in a debauched manner, one holds a broom, another a spit. A man (right) looks round a folding screen, his hand raised in surprise. On the extreme left a man stands with his hands on his hips, spectacles pushed up on his forehead; he looks at a map on the wall of the '[Bowe]s Estate', showing 'Newcastle' and 'Durham', and says, "We'll have it Farmer and nearer". He is either Stoney (afterwards Stoney-Bowes) or some other fortune-hunter. On the wall there is also a picture, 'Messalina'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Injured Count Strathmore
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication surmised to be either 1786 or ca. May 1788. See British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Morgan, Holles Street, Cavendish-Square
Subject (Name):
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800
"Lady Strathmore sits drinking with her servants; she leans back in her chair, a small flagon (indicating gin) in her right hand, a glass in her left; her breasts are bare and are sucked by two cats. A little boy (left) stands beside her chair crying; he says, "I wish I was a Cat my Mama would Love me then". A footman, wearing a nightcap and holding a candle, puts his hand on her arm, saying, "My Lady its time to come to Bed". A number of women-servants are seated at a rectangular table, the most prominent being one whose head and arms have advanced from her body and lean on the table; she holds out a glass to touch that of Lady Strathmore; in her right hand is a decanter; on her lap is a paper: 'Duty of a Ladies Maid, by M. Morgan see Old Baly Chronle'. Four other servants drink in a debauched manner, one holds a broom, another a spit. A man (right) looks round a folding screen, his hand raised in surprise. On the extreme left a man stands with his hands on his hips, spectacles pushed up on his forehead; he looks at a map on the wall of the '[Bowe]s Estate', showing 'Newcastle' and 'Durham', and says, "We'll have it Farmer and nearer". He is either Stoney (afterwards Stoney-Bowes) or some other fortune-hunter. On the wall there is also a picture, 'Messalina'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Injured Count Strathmore
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication surmised to be either 1786 or ca. May 1788. See British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 39.4 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 42.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 37a (i.e. verso of leaf 36) of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Morgan, Holles Street, Cavendish-Square
Subject (Name):
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800
"A press-gang at work in a London street, at the end of which appears the dome of St. Paul's. A sailor (c.) strides towards the spectator, a club in his right. hand, dragging along a lean tailor, who holds up his hands in dismay. An infuriated woman (l.) has seized the sailor by his hair and the right. ear while she pummels him with her knee. Another sailor behind has seized her wrist and raises a club to strike her. A third sailor (r.) holds the tailor by the left. arm. A naval officer (r.) walks beside the party with a drawn cutlass. Behind are other sailors. A woman (l.) wearing stays or jumps' raises a mop in both hands to smite a sailor; an infant clutches her petticoats. A group of spectators (l.) includes a woman carrying a baby. A dog barks at the fray."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.8 x 35.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 15th, 1779, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
"Half length portrait of a good-looking man, dressed in the fashion of the day, standing in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue and "Renwick Williams, who had been identified on 13 June as the mysterious Monster, see BMSat 7648, &c, was examined at Bow Street on 14 June, &c., and was tried at the Old Bailey on 7 July 1790. He was found guilty but judgement was respited till December. This portrait is evidently based on a sketch made at the trial, see BMSat 7730."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments
Description:
Title etched below image., Formerly attributed to Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., Published probably by John Wallis, whose shop was located at this address from 1775-1808. See Maxted, I. London book trades 1775-1800., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 29.8 x 22.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 67 of volume 7 of 12.
"An ogre (left) holds a large knife and fork in each hand; in the left hand he clutches also the petticoats of a young woman, who hangs horizontally, face downwards but raised in profile to the right, screaming with terror. Her legs and posteriors are exposed, but fastened to the latter is a round shallow pot serving as a shield. The Monster has a large head with raised eyebrows and starting eyeballs, his mouth is wide open as if about to bite his captive. His body diminishes in size and terminates in small feet, planted wide apart. Two young women (right) flee from the Monster, looking back and screaming. The petticoats and foot of a third fugitive appear on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Porridge-potts preferable to cork-rumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: L. Munn., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Str
"An ogre (left) holds a large knife and fork in each hand; in the left hand he clutches also the petticoats of a young woman, who hangs horizontally, face downwards but raised in profile to the right, screaming with terror. Her legs and posteriors are exposed ... The Monster has a large head with raised eyebrows and starting eyeballs, his mouth is wide open as if about to bite his captive. His body diminishes in size and terminates in small feet, planted wide apart. Two young women (right) flee from the Monster, looking back and screaming. The petticoats and foot of a third fugitive appear on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with altered title and removal of the pot shielding the woman's posterior, of a print originally issued with the title: The monster disappointed of his afternoons luncheon, or, Porridge-potts preferable to cork-rumps. Cf. No. 7727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Watermark: L. Munn., and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Strt
Subject (Name):
Williams, Renwick.
Subject (Topic):
Monsters, Forks, Knives, Women, Fear, and Screaming
"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
"A scene in Carlton House. The Prince of Wales, seated in a chair, holds a stout, good-looking lady (Mrs. Sawbridge) across his knees and chastises her with upraised hand; she holds out her arms imploringly. Alderman Sawbridge (right) faces her in profile to the left, playing a fiddle and dancing; from his pocket hangs a piece of music inscribed 'The Reform', a new Motion. On the extreme left Lady Archer stands in profile to the right, holding a driving-whip, and pointing angrily at the injured lady. A little girl (Sawbridge) stands full-face, clasping her hands in horror at the treatment of her mother. Behind are a number of onlookers: a very fat lady in profile to the left is Miss Vanneck. Mrs. Fitzherbert watches, not displeased; Fox, his arm round her shoulder, gazes amorously at her. George Hanger stands in profile to the left. The other figures are less characterized but a profile head (right) resembles Lord Derby. On the wall (right) is part of a three quarter length portrait, the head cut off by the upper edge of the design, inscribed 'Sir G° Van-Ne[ck]'. Beside it is a stag's head on which hangs a man's hat, just above Sawbridge. ... In the background (right) are persons dancing."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Sawbridge's delight
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Variant state, with different title, or a print entitled: The royal joke, or, Black Jacks delight. Cf. No. 7306 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 25, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
"John Palmer (left), striding across a miniature circular tower surrounded by a moat, falls back under the attacks of two men on the other side of the moat. He wears pseudo-Elizabethan dress, with a cloak; his feathered hat falls off. On his arm, in place of a shield, is a document inscribed 'Licence . . . Wild-moat'; he drops from his right hand a paper inscribed 'Tower Privilege'. Cornwallis, saying, "I am down again". Miniature cannon are firing from the tower. Facing him, one foot on an upturned tub inscribed 'For the Use of Cov: Gar. Wardrobe', is a man wearing nightcap, dressing-gown, and slippers, with an apron, who is about to hurl a bar inscribed 'Castile Soap', saying, "I am a Gentleman, you Vagabond"; on his left arm, in place of a shield, is a paper inscribed 'An Act for regulating the Stage'. He is probably George Colman. Beside him, his left arm in a sling, a young man (? Colman the younger) discharges at Palmer a blast from a pistol inscribed 'Breach of Articles'. Three spectators stand close together on the right, saying, "Mr Palmer, we must oppose: we told you so at Christmas!" They are Sheridan and probably his partners, Linley and Dr. Ford. In the background (right) is a building inscribed 'Circus', in front of which a man stands on one toe on the back of a galloping horse, while a monkey stands on its head on the back of a pig; the pig's saddle is inscribed 'Jacko'; from its mouth issues 'ABC', representing Astley's, General Jacko, and the Learned Pig (see BMSat 6715, &c); a scroll issuing in a curve from Astley and Jacko is inscribed 'We shall all Play'. In the moat are frogs and the bodies of two tiny women, Tragedy and Comedy, one holding a cup and dagger, the other a mask."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Pseudo-Elizabethan -- Male costume: night clothes -- Unlicensed theatres: Royalty Theatre -- Allusion to Covent Garden -- Learned pigs -- Castile soap -- Lighting: rushlights -- Slings -- Body of Tragedy -- Body of Comedy -- Moats -- Guns: Pistols -- Miniature cannons -- Stage properties: tub -- Horace Walpole refers to print -- Towers -- Circuses: Astley's Circus -- Performing monkies: General Jacko., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 16.4 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 17.7 x 25.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Palmer, John, 1742?-1798, Astley, Philip, 1742-1814., Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805., Colman, George, 1732-1794, Colman, George, 1762-1836, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Linley, Thomas, 1733-1795, and Ford, Edward, 1746-1809
