"A design based on Gillray's 'Maniac Ravings', British Museum Satires No. 9998. Napoleon, scarcely caricatured, but poorly characterized, stands addressing an audience of seated men who listen with varying expressions, the corner of his platform projecting into a sea of heads (left), while on the right a file of soldiers with fixed bayonets or drawn swords is indicated. At his side, the little King of Rome, in officer's uniform, with a plumed bicorne, gapes down at the audience; his over-long sabre trails on the ground, he bestrides a tall military cane; his profile resembles without repeating (as in other prints) that of his father, but remains childish and blank. Napoleon stands in a commanding attitude with his right arm extended, his left hand on the hilt of his sabre, legs apart. He wears military dress with a plumed bicorne in which a tricolour cockade is unusually conspicuous. Behind him (right) his arm-chair, closely copied from the 'Consular Chair' of British Museum Satires No. 9998 and with a similar Medusa head, falls, all its legs in air. Beside it, a damaged terrestrial globe, as in British Museum Satires No. 9998, has fallen, but is directed to the left instead of to the right; it has the inscriptions 'America' and 'Atlantic Ocean'. As before, Napoleon's words radiate from his head as if inscribed on clouds. On the right, reading downward: 'Did I not swear I would destroy Austria? Did I not swear I would destroy Prussia Did I not leave the Russians 1200 pieces of cannon to build a monument of the victory of Moscow Did I not lead 498,000 men to gather fresh Laurels in Russia--Did I not burn Moscow--and leave 400,000 brave soldiers to perish in the snow for the good of the French nation?' On the left: 'Did I not swear I would destroy Sweden Did I not swear "I would have" Colonies & Commerce [see British Museum Satires No. 10439, &c.] Did I not build more ships than you could find Sailors for" Did I not burn all the British produce bought and paid for by my faithful merchants--before their faces, for the good of them and my good people of Paris? Have I not called my troops from Holland--that they might not winter in that foggy climate? [see British Museum Satires No. 12102, &c.] Have I not called my troops from Spain and Portugal to the ruin of the English? Did I not change my religion and turn Turk, for the good of the French Nation [see British Museum Satires No. 9973, &c.]. Have I not blown up [the earliest instance in the 'O.E.D.' of blow up, meaning to scold, is Lytton's 'Pelham', 1827] the Corporal, for blowing up the Bridge [see British Museum Satires No. 12108] Have I not robbed the Churches of twenty flags to send to my Empress, for the loss of my own flags & Eagles? And now for the good of my Empire, Behold! O ye Lads of Paris! I have put the King of Rome in Breeches!!!'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph,--Herzog von Reichstadt,--1811-1832--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Napoleon (right) lies on his face under the sharp teeth of a harrow; two ropes are attached to it, at each of which representatives of three nations are tugging. In the foreground a British sailor hauls behind him a Spanish don in slashed tunic and breeches, feathered hat, cloak, and ruff. The third is a man of nondescript appearance wearing a cap with a drooping peak, probably intended to represent Sicily, which the British had held as an outpost against Napoleon. On the other rope the chief figure is a Prussian hussar; next him is (?) a Swede in a fur cap, and on the end of the rope a man wearing a cavalry helmet of French type is probably intended for an Austrian. These six fill the left of the design. Russia is represented by a bearded Cossack who stands on the right, prodding at Napoleon with his long spear. On the harrow sits a fat Dutchman, smoking his pipe with a fiercely preoccupied expression, with his left hand in his breeches pockets. Napoleon, much distressed, cries: "Oh this heavy Dutchman. O had I not enough to bear before!!!" Two birds swoop down from the left; one says: "I smell Carrion"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A crowded turbulent scene in the market square, Norwich. In the foreground, on trestles, is the carcass of a bull which two butchers are cutting up. Men struggle or clamour for fragments, or gnaw and fight over bones. On the right a huge cask has been broached; women fill pitchers and pails; one lies senseless. In the background a dense crowd is in procession, backed by the houses of the city; a bonfire burns unattended. The cheering crowd moves from right to Ieft, following banners, one inscribed 'Downfall of the Tyrant', and an effigy of Napoleon raised high on a pole and surrounded by pikes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Glory and gluttony
Description:
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "232" in upper right corner., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A Quaker (left), standing on his toes, faces four stout and elderly Commissioners seated at a small table, who register surprise and disapproval. Three of them say: "What an impertinent fellow to keep on his hat before such a dignified Assembly!"; "None of your theese and thous here Sir--come to the point--we know you have evaded certain duties," and, "Pray Sir do you know what we sit here for?" The Quaker, his hands folded, answers: "Verily I do--some sit here for £500 others for a £1000--and more over I have heard it reported that some sit here for two--thousand pounds per annum"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured.", Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "276" in upper right corner., Reissue, with date burnished from imprint statement leaving a gap between "London, Published" and "by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." For earlier state numbered "23" and published 9 July 1807, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.07.09.02.1+., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
An artist with a crazed look on his face paints at his easel the picture of Hebrew prophet (?) with wild hair and clenched fists. The artist is only half-dressed, his foot in the contents of an overturned chamber pot. He is surrounded by other pursuits of genius: a violin, scientific and medical equipment, a Roman bust, a French horn, a pile of books, etc. On the wall are three drawings: an air balloon, a dancer, and a portrait of Peter Jesta. He sits at the foot of a bed where his pretty wife sleeps peacefully, unaware that her young child is pouring out wine into a glass while a slightly older child sits with bellows before a stove, the spout of a kettle dangerously aimed in her direction.
Description:
Title etched below image. and Two lines of verse below title: Want is the scorn of every wealthy fool, and genius in rags is turn'd to ridicule. Juvl. Satires.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St. Adelphi
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
"The cobbler leans savagely over his wife who is tied to a chair, and with her wrists bound. With his awl between his teeth he pulls at the thread with which he is stitching up her mouth. She is an elderly virago with pendent breasts, who glares up at him, crisping her fingers; their faces are close together. A buxom young woman leans delightedly over the pair, holding up a candle."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Cobblers cure for a scolding wife
Description:
Date of publication from Grego; a questionable date of 1813 is also assigned in the British Museum catalogue for the earlier reissue., For an earlier reissue with the title corrected, the plate number added, and the year of publication in imprint crossed out, see no. 12148 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Later reissue; plate number has been added and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Originally issued without plate number, with the word "wife" in title misspelled "wiff," and with the imprint "London, Pub. Aug. 4, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 809.08.04.01+., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "294" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Numbered in upper right corner of design: 274., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Publisher and date of publication from Grego., Temporary local subject terms: Food -- Cruet -- Night cap., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Hopes of the family, or, Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays, Hopes of the fammily, or, Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays, and Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays
Description:
Also issued separately., Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "293" in upper right corner., Probably a reissue; date appears to have been burnished from end of imprint statement., Temporary local subject terms: Fire place -- Blacks -- Musical mandolin -- Butcher., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"An elderly old-fashioned doctor, holding his gold-headed cane, sits bending forward to inspect the tongue of his agonized patient. The latter, grotesquely obese, sits in a low arm-chair (right) with his lean and hideous wife beside him; a thin grotesque footman, his hair standing on end, stands behind the doctor's chair, leaning towards his master. All three put out their tongues, and all register dismay; the equally ugly doctor gapes in unhelpful concern. The grotesque heads are closely grouped against a high window. A grandfather clock (left) shows that the time is 2.22. A thermometer hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Toadstools mistaken for mushrooms
Description:
"Price one shilling coloured."--Lower right corner of design., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 254., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. September 1st, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12145 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "210" in upper right corner., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Thermometer -- Doctor -- Clock., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A gouty 'cit' (right), using an ear-trumpet, sits in an arm-chair facing a delinquent in Highland dress, who bows low. One swathed leg rests on a stool, on the other foot is a slashed shoe. At his right hand is a table with writing-materials; on the other side of this sits a bedizened wife, holding a fan against her hideous profile. Behind the Scot stands a fat constable holding a long staff. The Scot: "I own your Worship-- I was a little inebriated but your Worship knaws "Nemo Mortatium [sic]-- Omnibus / "Hooris Saupit [horis sapit]!!" The Justice: "What's that you say fellow about Whores in a Saw Pit--a very improper place to go with such company--I wonder you are not ashamed to mention such a thing and before my Wife too!!--but however as it is your first offence I will discharge you this time--but never come here with such a story again!!"."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Magistrates mistake
Description:
"Price one shilling coloud.", Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "150" in upper left corner., Reissue, with date burnished from end of imprint statement and plate number changed. For an earlier state numbered "33" in upper left and with the date "15th Decr. 1807" at end imprint, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals., Ethnic stereotypes., Gout,--depicted, Judges. , and Spouses.
