"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 spa...
"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 ...
Alternative Title:
Astre brillant, immense, il éclaire, il feconde ...
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-de...
"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 a...
"In a goblet-shaped glass vessel on the top of a cylindrical 'German Stove' a little Napoleon is being heated to dissolution point. Two retorts are connected with this vessel inscribed 'Intrigue and Villainy' and 'Ambition and Folly'; four others issu...
Alternative Title:
Dissolving the Rhenish Confederacy
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. December 14, 1813, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844., Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823., and Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816
"A handsome young military officer, seated in an armchair, drinks wine with two Jewish money-lenders, who sit facing him across a round table. He listens with a reckless smile to one of the Jews; the other peers through spectacles at 'Title Deeds'. Th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Eyeglasses, Soldiers, British, Usury, and Wine
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A mountainous woman, with traces of comeliness, sits squarely in an arm-chair, plying a fan, between her husband (left) and a servant who stands (right), his hat under his arm and his hands in his coat-pockets. The latter says: "An please you Master ...
A scene in a hunting lodge with tired hunters are relaxing on comfortable chairs and sofas, surrounded by their hunting dogs. A woman in a riding habit blows a French horn as one of the huntsman grasps her around the waist. On the wall are a hunting t...
Alternative Title:
Fox-hunters relaxing
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, French horns, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Hunting trophies, and Riding habits
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In the foreground is a low cliff or bank overlooking the sands; from this four elderly men are eagerly and delightedly looking through telescopes at naked ladies disporting in the sea. An angry woman (right) tugs at the coat-tails of one of them; she...
