Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the...
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Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A fat lady, much décolletée, whose hair is blazing, in her frantic gestures has overturned a chair; tea- and coffee-things lie on the ground. Screaming servants rush in from the right, headed by two footmen; one holds up a table-cloth to fling over...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A doctor (left), grotesquely obese, stands in profile regarding with a satisfied smile his dead or dying patient, who leans back in an arm-chair with closed eyes. The patient, old and emaciated, wears night-cap and dressing-gown over breeches and sto...
"A portrait of George, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (see British Museum Satires No. 9923), standing in profile to the left, with his left hand in his breeches pocket. He is obese, with powdered hair in a small tail, and a dark whisker. He wears an open double-...
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Pubd. Febry. 26, 1812, by H. Humphrey, N. 27 St. James's Street
"The Duke of Cumberland walks in profile to the left, putting his spy-glass to his right eye. He holds hat and cane, wears a high-collared coat with a star, blue with red facings (the Windsor uniform), leather breeches, and spurred top-boots. Behind i...
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Pubd. January 10th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 11924 by Rowlandson, with the same imprint. Lord Petersham stands full-face, as if on a flight of steps, the right foot advanced below the left, right hand on hip, holding a long cane, his hat in his le...
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Pubd. January 10th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"An ugly decrepit old doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, stands with his back to the fire (right) receiving a pair of country-bumpkins, shown in by a servant out of livery, who stands at the door (left), grinning delightedly. The man, a burly fel...
"A family of sweeps sitting before the smoking hearth (at right) in a low hovel, eating, drinking and smoking; all have sooty skin apart from the grotesque mother who leans back, barebreasted and negligently holding a long pipe, against a heap of sack...
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"Two handsome young courtesans coax an enormously obese and carbuncled 'cit' towards the door of a bagnio (right). One (right) takes him by the wrist, throwing back a cloak to reveal her charms; he leers hideously at her. The other takes him by the sh...
"Two men sit in a dilapidated room, the floor completely covered by water in which three pigs wade, ducks swim and dive, and geese run aggressively towards a dog. Their feet rest on boulders. One stout man in a broken chair sits with his elbows on a s...
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Pubd. May 12th, 1812, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"Two men drink and smoke together, a jug of 'Stingo' on the table between them. The more proletarian, who wears a small cap on short tousled hair, turns up his eyes to a large louse on his forehead, saying, "Whats that you say Neighbour? You see a Cre...
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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In a crowded tavern before a large roaring fire, Dr. Syntax sits on a bench smoking his pipe as he engages in debate with three companions. A man leans over the back of the bench and blows a large cloud of smoke into the back of Dr. Syntax's head. The...
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Doctor Syntax, in the middle of a smoking hot political squabble, wishes to whet his whistle
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By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Discussion, Manners and customs, Military personnel, and Taverns (Inns)
"Napoleon lies in bed, with a fat Dutchman seated on his chest, puffing tobacco smoke at his face, and saying "Orange Boven." He grips Napoleon's neck between his legs; the two men face each other in profile, one staring up, terrified, the other looki...
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Dutch nightmare, or, The fraternal hug returned with a Dutch squeeze and Fraternal hug returned with a Dutch squeeze
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Title etched below image; letter "z" in final word "squeeze" is etched backwards.
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Pubd. Novr. 29, 1813, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"Satirical print showing a fat Englishman mocked by a group of Parisians. The Englishman, built along the lines of John Bull, stands at right in his shirtsleeves, clapping his right hand to his forehead in wonder; at left, at least five French people ...
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French people astonished at our improvement in the breed of fat cattle
"Four elderly parsons, grossly fat, apparently Fellows of Brasenose College, are seated in stuffed arm-chairs at a small dinner-table. One (right) carves a capon, another ladles soup from a tureen, the others drink. One servant hands wine, another bri...
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Publishd. by T. Rowlandson, March 20th, 1812, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
"The Powers of Europe toss Napoleon in a blanket. He flies into the air, legs above his head, dropping crown and sceptre, his sword also falls. He exclaims with an agonized expression: "O Misericordé." Three figures hold the front of the sheet, in bac...
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Friends and foes, up he goes : sending the Corsican Munchausen to St. Cloud's
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Pubd. December 12th, 1813, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823., Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844., and Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816
"Napoleon, surrounded by the Powers of Europe who puff smoke at him, dances, frantic with rage and fear, upon the head of a large cask of 'Real Hollands Geneva'. The cask-head tilts under his feet, the contents splash out, and he is on the point of di...
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Pubd. December 6th, 1813, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, and Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Music...
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A hand-coloured print of a portly rector who is suspended above his horse by means of a crane secured to the wall of the rectory. Two women pull on the rope that has heaved the rector into the air whilst a grinning groom stands alongside the horse."-...
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New invented patent crane for the accomodation of rheumatic rump'd rectors
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A plump Jewess leans over the wooden barrier across the street doorway, to kiss a sucking-pig which her husband holds out to her, affectionately putting his arm round her shoulders. He is bearded, with a long coat, with a bag slung from his arm, show...
"Satire on the gullibility of Englishmen travelling abroad; an Italian dealer at right showing a framed painting supposedly by Guido Reni representing Mary Magdalene to a young Englishman and his advisor at left; paintings attributed to old masters on...
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Italian picture dealers humbugging My Lord Anglaise
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Pubd. May 30, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Art dealers, Dandies, Quizzing glasses, and Paintings
"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...
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Pubd. 6 April 1813 by H. Humphries, St. James Street
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"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...
"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 ...
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Designd. & pubd. July 14, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
"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 eld...
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Boney selling stolen goods
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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
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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2
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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...
"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 ...
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Astre brillant, immense, il éclaire, il feconde ...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"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
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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...
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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.
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1
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still image
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"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
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, French horns, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Hunting trophies, and Riding habits
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"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...
"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 proje...
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Pubd. December 4, 1813, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832
"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 b...
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Pubd. Novr. 27, 1813, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"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 bee...
Alternative Title:
Glory and gluttony
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Pubd. November 22, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"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!"; "N...
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 pursuit...
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Pubd. April 2nd, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"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...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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Hopes of the fammily, or, Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays, Hopes of the family, or, Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays, and Miss Marrowfat at home for the holidays
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"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 grotes...
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"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 ...
Alternative Title:
Magistrates mistake
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Title etched below image.
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Published by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Hearing aids, Deafness, Criminals, Ethnic stereotypes, Judges, and Spouses