"The auctioneer is in his pulpit, employed in knocking down an assortment of vehicles to a small but sufficiently eccentric-looking audience. A gouty individual, propped on crutches, is making a bid for an antiquated kind of cabriolet, which the groom is trotting up for inspection; around are curricles travelling carriages, and a general assemblage of the machines on wheels representative of the past."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Rhedarium, for the sale of all sorts of carriages, by Gregory Gigg
Description:
Title etched below image., Text in upper right corner of image: The rhedarium, for the sale of all sorts of carriages, by Gregory Gigg., Date of publication from fifth plate in the series; Grego suggests a date of 1783., Title page to a series of eight etched plates illustrating various carts, carriages, wagons, and horses. See: Yale Center for British Art, call no.: Folio A 2011 80., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : etching on wove paper, with gray wash ; sheet 19.2 x 30.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement from bottom edge., and Formerly mounted on leaf 19 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary le bone Street, Golden Square
"A slim man, standing, 'chapeau-bras', in profile to the right. He is fashionably dressed in a high-collared coat cut back to form tails, and shirt frill; his shoes have very large buckles. His hair is in a queue resembling that worn by the Macaronies c. 1772 but smaller and attached to the back of his head instead of falling on his shoulders. Beneath the title is etched, 'These Species of Insects, of late are become exceeding numerous, (like the Green Louse, when first brought to Amsterdam, from a single one, has proceeded such Swarms as to be of alarming Consequence) their Colours' are various, '& cast their Coats like the Camelion, sometimes to ten different Shades of a day, it is difficult to distinguish the Male of these Reptiles from the Female, as the Voice & Manner approaches nearer to the Feminine than Masculine. Liquor they are peculiarly fond of, and when in a State of Inebriation are so troublesome, that it requires a stout Cane to keep them from stinging you. They are in being all the Year round, are chiefly to be found in the Boxes of the Theatres, Publick Gardens, Concerts, &c. You may hear them long before they come to View, by a shrill squeak of Bern me, Gad Zounds, Blood & Thunder, D------m'd Boar & such Phrases. The celebrated Linneus attributes their Generation to the Putrified Essence of Lavender, Bergamot, Marchalle Powder, Violets, Pomatums, Snuff, Grease &c. &c. Although their first Appearance has a terrible Aspect, they are as harmless and inoffensive, when sober, as New Born Babes. A Buckling of this Species, differs from a Buck, much in the same manner as a Hornet to a Wasp'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Rowlandson from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Probably an early state; price statement, which seems to be partially or completely burnished away in later states, is present here. For a probable later state lacking price, see no. 6718 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., "Price 6d, col[ore]d 1s."--Following imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Fashionable men -- Fashion -- Allusion to Charles Furtado., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 30.4 x 19.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 78 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs, 12th May, 1784, by a Lover of Natural History
In a room reminiscent of a magician's study, the King, dressed in a cloak as Friar Bacon (a necromancer of popular fable), evokes visions of the royal power while the brazen head speaks. Each vision is represented by a large medallion inscribed, "Constitution," and shows a different balance of power between the king and both houses of Parliament. On the left, Fox, Burke, and North, peek in through an open door, appearing alarmed. On the right, a number of men walk down the "back stairs." The first of them, carrying a conspirator's lantern and led by the devil, is Lord Temple
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.2 x 35.5 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 47 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 3d, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Wizards, Magic, and Devil
"A London justice of peace seated behind a table in his office, his hands clasped. On his right and left are three men holding their hats and canes, who may be either justices or visitors. At the end of the table (left), sits the justice's clerk writing with his left hand. On the wall over the presiding justice's head is a placard, "Robbery, Murder ... Beware of Justice"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., The initials "H.W." suggest the design is after Henry Wigstead. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Annotated with price "6 d." in lower right corner, in ink in a contemporary hand., and Formerly mounted on leaf 3 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"A brothel scene. The fat bawd (left) leans back in an arm-chair in a drunken sleep; the contents of a glass in her right hand pour over a dog; a bottle on the ground at her feet spills its contents. There are three couples of revellers, the three women all pretty; one puts her arms round the neck of a man who waves his hat in one hand while with the other he pours the contents of a punch-bowl on to the sleeping woman's head. Another sits on the knee of a very young military officer while she snatches off the wig of the third man (right), old and ugly, who is dallying with the third young woman. The room is lit by a candle-sconce on the wall (left)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from signature on later state: Engrav'd by W.P. Carey., Probably an early (proof?) state before printmaker's signature added., Publication information based on later state with the imprint "London, Publishd. June 24, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street." See No. 6719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 145., and Formerly mounted on leaf 41 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"A coastal scene with a storm coming on; two men hauling in a rowing boat at centre foreground, another carrying off some oars, a woman standing on a hillock by a tree behind, looking out to the sea at left, where a sailing boat is foundering; cottages behind at right, low hills beyond the water at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on impression (different state?) in the Metropolitan Museum signed "T. Rowlandson 1784" and bearing the imprint "Pubd. 1st Octr. 1785 by T. Cornell, Brunton St." Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 56.567.33., Possibly described in Grego as "A sea-coast scene. Cottages by the sea-shore: a storm coming on" and dated to 1787., Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with partial loss of printmaker's signature, and sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Lower right corner of sheet repaired using wove paper., and Formerly mounted on leaf 36 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"Design in an oval. Two men playing cards at a small round table. The man on the right pulls out an ace of spades from the five cards in his hand and shows it with a grimace of satisfaction. His opponent (left), in profile to the right, looks at it with an expression of consternation, frowning and opening his mouth wide. The pack and other cards lie on the table. The men are probably portraits. The successful player is middle-aged, plainly dressed, with a bob-wig; the other is younger, very thin, and more fashionably dressed, with a long pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 17 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Marh. 14th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street, London
"A sketch of fish-wives with their baskets ranged on the pavement (left); behind are the masts and sails of vessels in Billingsgate dock. Facing them is an irate customer with a gouty leg, a fish-wife (right) fastens a flat fish to his wig, while a small urchin tugs at his coat-tails. He clenches his fist and waves his stick, shouting with indignation. Of the women opposite, one holds out a fish towards him, shouting, another laughs with hands on hips, a third lies on the ground drunkenly vomiting, the contents of her basket spilling. Behind stands a woman drinking from a bottle. All are gross and fat, their breasts bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billingsgate
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate; traces of imprint still visible below title., Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Feby. 4, 1786, by E. Jackson, N. 14 Mary le bone Strt., Golden Square." Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.29., and Formerly mounted on leaf 30 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"A sketch of fish-wives with their baskets ranged on the pavement (left); behind are the masts and sails of vessels in Billingsgate dock. Facing them is an irate customer with a gouty leg, a fish-wife (right) fastens a flat fish to his wig, while a small urchin tugs at his coat-tails. He clenches his fist and waves his stick, shouting with indignation. Of the women opposite, one holds out a fish towards him, shouting, another laughs with hands on hips, a third lies on the ground drunkenly vomiting, the contents of her basket spilling. Behind stands a woman drinking from a bottle. All are gross and fat, their breasts bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billingsgate
Description:
Title etched below image., For a reissue with imprint burnished from plate, see no. 6725 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 150., and Formerly mounted on leaf 31 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 4, 1786, by E. Jackson, N. 14 Mary le bone Strt., Golden Square
