Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; publisher's name appears to have been removed from end of imprint statement., Numbered "123" in upper right corner of design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., The word "whoring," on the frame of the leftmost picture hanging on the background wall in the design, is mostly erased from sheet., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
"An elopement. A fat woman has fallen on her back from a ladder, knocking down her lover, who lies on his back beneath her. He wears military uniform. Both scream angrily, and a dog (left) barks at her. The ladder, one rung of which is broken, leans against a first-floor window (left) from which the husband looks out, holding a candle. Behind (right), a laughing postilion holds open the door of a post-chaise. A full moon with grinning features looks down from clouds. A lamp projects from the corner of the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with the year of publication crossed out in imprint statement. For the original issue with the intact imprint "Pubd. Decer. 24, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 [sic] Cheapside," see: Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810732., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "289" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A mounted hussar receives in his arms a pretty young woman who is climbing down from a high wall. She puts her face to his, and rests her hand on his shoulders while he supports her ample posterior. The horse, directed to the right, is almost knee-deep in water. A corner of a house among trees appears over the wall (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 9, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12149 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "231" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: Hussar., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34.1 x 25 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
"A travesty of a French print, an apotheosis of Napoleon by Tardieu after Dabos. As in the original, the title is on a piece of fringed drapery between two naturalistic eagles; these flank an arc of the globe, its northern summit, more flattened than in the original. On the globe is a map, with 'France' in the centre, flanked (left) by 'Golfe of Venice' and 'Italy' and (right) 'Espagne' and 'Pologne'. On the north are 'Amsterdam Pres Unie' [sic] and 'Whestphalia'. From the summit of the globe rises a pole supporting the face of Napoleon, copied from the original but with the addition of a melancholy frown and transformed by the pole into a decollated head. It is inscribed 'Polar Star' and enclosed in a circle of writhing serpents which takes the place of a laurel wreath. Rays extend from the circle over the greater part of the design, with inscriptions radiating outwards: 'Assisting in the Assassination of Louis the 16th my Benefactor'; 'Murdering the Citizens of Paris under Roberspierre' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9534]; 'Murdering the Citizens of Toulon' [see British Museum Satires No. 10095]; 'Insulting the Pope robbing and plundering the Churches &c &c.' [see British Museum Satires No. 8997]; 'Poisoning my own Sick Soldiers in the Hospital at Jaffa' [see British Museum Satires No. 10063]; 'Murdering the Duke Danguilme' [d' Enghien, see British Museum Satires No. 10251]; 'Treacherously betraying the king of Spain and his Family' [see British Museum Satires No. 10990]; 'Murdering the inhabitants of Madrid in cold Blood' [see British Museum Satires No. 11000]; 'Murdering Captain Wright in the Temple at Paris' [see British Museum Satires No. 11057]; 'Marrying two Wives and intriguing with the Daughter of one of them' [Hortense, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10362]; 'The Murder of Palm [see British Museum Satires No. 11053] of Hoffer &c &c.'; 'Leading 500000 Frenchmen to perish in Russia by the Severity of the Season 1812' [see British Museum Satires No. 11917, &c.]; 'Loosing another similar Army the following Year in Germany 1813' [see British Museum Satires No. 12093]; 'Writing lying Bulletins' [see British Museum Satires No. 11920]; 'Loosing all the Colonies Commerce and Shipping' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10439, &c.]. At this point, in the upper right corner, an open cask inscribed 'Dutch Comet', divides the inscriptions. A fat Dutchman smoking a pipe sits astride it; he directs the contents of the cask against Napoleon (see British Museum Satires No. 12102). The final inscription: 'And for all these brilliant Exploits am now to be sent headlong to the Devil.' In the original the rays are faintly inscribed 'Marie Louise' and 'Roi de Rome'. The design is surmounted by the head of the Devil wearing a spiky crown inscribed 'Damnation', between two oval shields: on one a heart, 'Heart of a Tyrant', on the other a 'Vulture'. These emblems replace a crown between two shields, one with the Napoleonic eagle, the other with the Habsburg eagle. From this centre-piece flames and smoke (replacing olive branches) stream left and right, with a scourge and a barbed trident. The lower corners are decorated with trophies slanting outwards from the eagles: spears, eagles, axes, &c., one spear supporting a placard: 'Flags manufactured for the Empress'. In the original spears are faintly indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Astre brillant, immense, il éclaire, il feconde ...
Description:
Title from text in image., Two lines of text below image: Astre brillant, immense, il éclaire, il feconde, et seul fait, a son gré, tous les destins du monde, 'Vigée.', Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue; Grego gives a date of 14 December 1813., "Deposée a le Bibloteque Impereale [sic]."--Below lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
"A street scene at the corner of 'Petticoat Lane' (left) and 'Smock Alley' (right). An ugly and bedizened woman wearing pattens, holding an umbrella and kilting up her skirt, walks painfully over the cobbles, bending forward; her stockings heavily spattered with mud; her breast and arms are bare except for a scarf looped over her shoulders. Heavy slanting rain descends; it pours from the hat of an old woman (left), who stoops over a heavy basket she is carrying. Above her head a woman leans from a window, emptying a chamber-pot. Behind (right), two scavengers shovel mud into a cart. The houses are old and dilapidated, with casement windows. The lantern-sign of a penny-barber (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7605) hangs from a pent-house projection, inscribed 'Shave . . .' There is no pavement, but a solid post (left) protects a large grating let into the cobbles."--British museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered title and imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 February 1812 by Hannah Humphrey. For the earlier state entitled "Wet under foot," see no. 11956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 225., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two designs on one plate, divided by the first title (Mock turtle). The first design shows the profiles of an ugly, elderly couple (he has a large carbuncular or bulbous nose) sticking out their tongues to touch; between them is a large bowl and above their heads two doves bill on a branch. The second design below, titled 'Puff paste', is an image of a fat cook, smiling contentedly, rolling out puff paste, while a hideous footman caresses her. To the left of the pastry on the table-top is a bowl of apples labeled 'Codling tart'; to the right, a bag labeled 'Apple Dumpling' and a tied bag labeled 'Batter Pudding' in a bowl
Description:
Titles from text below images., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 20, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11639 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheets 15.9 x 22.7 cm and 16.1 x 22.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet cut into upper and lower halves that are mounted separately, with series title and numbering trimmed away from upper half., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
"Napoleon stands in profile to the right on a low platform at a desk on which he leans, his auctioneer's hammer in his right hand, the left hand extended. The Allies are crowded together on or beside a bench facing a second bench on which are four elderly French officers. One of these, rather younger than the others, identified in Van Stolk as Marshal Berthier, stands holding up a crown above his head. A Spanish don stands extending both arms towards the crown with a gesture of dismissal; he says: "That a CROWN! It's not worth half a Crown." Napoleon, who wears uniform and a cocked hat and is scarcely caricatured, says: "What no bidding for the Crown of Spain Then take the other crowns and lump them into one lot." The two most prominent figures on the front bench, and the nearest to the rostrum, are a fat Dutchman smoking a pipe and turning his head in profile, and a rough British sailor who sprawls behind him, one hand protectingly on the Dutchman's shoulder, the other pointing to Napoleon. John's back is to the other Allies; the obese King of Würtemberg, with a conspicuous flowered waistcoat, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12114, is immediately behind him. The others are a Cossack and a Prussian hussar with the Spanish don. The French officers watch with rage or intense melancholy. Stepping on to Napoleon's little platform is Marie Louise (left), holding in her arms the little King of Rome with the face of a monkey, wearing military uniform with a cocked hat. He says: "I suppose daddy will put us up for sale." The Empress is one of Rowlandson's buxom English girls. Napoleon leans on a large document which is on his desk: 'Speedily will be sold the Thirteen Cantons of Switserland.' In the foreground (left) in front of the rostrum the goods for sale are piled. There are three crowns and a papal tiara, a sheaf of flag-staffs, with a paper: 'Lot 2 Twenty flags the property of the Empress' [see British Museum Satires No. 12111, See.]; a sheaf of Eagles with a paper: 'Lot of Useless Eagles', with other papers inscribed respectively: 'Kingdom of Bavaria', 'Kingdom of Prussia', 'Saxony' [see British Museum Satires No. 12096], 'Kingdom of Westphalia' [see British Museum Satires No. 12549], 'United Provinces'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boney selling stolen goods
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. December 25th, 1813, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847, Berthier, Louis-Alexandre, 1753-1815, and Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816
"A fat woman laden with basket, bottles, bundle, &c. descends steps to the waterside, blown by the wind and beset by five bawling watermen, who point towards their boats. Behind (right), other men hail an approaching passenger. The bows of two Thames wherries are on the left; in one a young waterman stands punting his boat. The watermen wear short full-skirted coats with knee-breeches and have large oval badges on the arm. Part of an old timber building forms a background to the group on the stairs. It has a large placard: 'Wapping Old Stairs'. From a projecting upper floor a man and girl look down, amused, the man smoking a long pipe. In the foreground (right) a chubby fisherman's boy sleeps in a dinghy on a pile of nets. There is a background of ships at anchor, a riverside church flying a flag, and a timber building with a large beam projecting over the water from which hangs a barrel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: Entering upon any of the bridges of London, or any of the passages leading to the Thames, being assailed by a groupe of watermen, holding up their hands and bawling out. Oars Sculls. Sculls. Oars Oars., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Fish nets -- Watermen., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.9 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Designd. & pubd. July 14, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A vast and hideous negress (left), almost spherical, is embraced by a lean and elderly military officer with a long pigtail. They are on the ramparts of a heavily fortified castle, indicated by a massive pillar and a raised portcullis beyond which is another lean officer, in back view but looking over his shoulder. In the background are cannon and a sentry. Behind the woman's head is a placard: 'Voluntary Subscription for a Soldiers Widow the smallest donation will be gratefully received--By Rachel Ram Part'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "145" in upper right corner; the digit "5" is etched backwards., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling couloured [sic]."--Lower right corner of design., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.3 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 36.2 x 25.8 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 9 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
"An unidentified portrait. A very stout man with small neat features rides a well-bred horse in profile to the right; his obesity forces him to lean backwards. He wears a cylindrical hat, double-breasted coat, frilled shirt, Hessian boots, and holds a hunting-crop."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 April 1813 by H. Humphries, St. James Street
