"A justice-room in an old-fashioned country house with uncurtained mullioned window (right), raftered roof from which hangs a wicker bird-cage, and a truckle-bed turned up against the wall (left). A smart officer measures the height of a small thin yokel in a smock, under the inspection of a fat old justice, a similar old man wearing spectacles and in uniform, and a clerk, all seated at a small table. In the doorway stands a fat and pompous constable holding a staff and keeping back a crowd of countrymen who wait their turn outside the door. On the wall behind the measuring-post is a placard: 'Subtitutes [sic] for the Army of Reserve 30 Per Man Bounty.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1981,U.253., For an apparent reissue dated 1815, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 295-6., Title written in ink in a contemporary hand below image., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
"A dying and aged man reclines in an arm-chair, facing his lawyer who is writing at a table, evidently on the will; beside him is a treasure-chest. A pretty young woman leans over the scarcely conscious man, taking his chin, while her lover, a young military officer wearing a cocked hat, watches her through an eye-glass from behind the curtains of a bed."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Will of her own
Description:
Title etched below image., A copy of a Rowlandson watercolor. See British Museum catalogue., Later state, with a darker and thinner aquatint border replacing a lighter border that had probably worn from the plate. For an earlier state, see no. 11117 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Published by Reeve and Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt., Novr. 1, 1808." See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 408., and Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
"Two men lie in the small truckle-beds (i.e., trundle bed) of a cheap lodging-house, one (left) asleep. An old woman holding a candle kneels at the foot of the other bed, and tugs at the wooden leg of its occupant. She says: "There is nothing like looking after Servants I always like to see that my lodgers are comfortable. --Aye here's a pretty careless trick--the warming pan left in the gentleman's bed I declare". Its owner, an angry sailor, shouts: "Hollo --Avast heaving Zounds dont pull off my timber--I went to bed half seas over and forgot to stow it alongside the hammock"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Careful landlady
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson and artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue of a print apparently first published 10 May 1809; in this reissued state, the day and year of publication in imprint are heavily scored through but still legible. For a later state with beginning of imprint burnished from plate, see no. 11466 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "300" in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.1 x 33.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May [10th, 1809, by] Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"A design in two compartments, separated by a vertical line. [1] Napoleon stands on the dais in front of a chair of state addressing rows of (burlesqued) Senators and Deputies, who listen with hostility and scepticism; some close their eyes, two take snuff. The Devil, a winged monster, clutches the back of Napoleon's chair, and leans towards him like a gargoyle-bird of prey, inspiring the speech. The dais is supported on crowns of varying patterns. The Emperor is in profile to the left, extending both arms in a propitiatory gesture; he wears plain military uniform with boots. His words are in a large label across the design ... This label hides the upper part of two pictures on the wall: a battle-piece (left), and (above Napoleon's head) '20 Flags Presented to the Empress': tiny obsequious figures present the flags, see British Museum Satires No. 12111, &c. [2] Napoleon, in profile to the right, kneels abjectly before the Allies, presenting to them a collection of crowns, including the Pope's tiara, and a sheaf of flags; these are on the ground with his cocked hat and sword; he keeps one crown tucked under his right arm. The Allies stand menacingly on the right. They are (left to right): John Bull, a fat 'cit' pugnaciously clenching his fists; a morose-looking Spaniard; a Cossack, his right hand on his sabre; an (?) Austrian officer, his sword in his left hand, and on the extreme right a Dutchman in bulky breeches, with a long pipe in his mouth. Other heads are indicated behind. Napoleon's words are in a large label ... Behind Napoleon is Talleyrand supported on a crutch; he leans forward obsequiously, saying, "What my Master has said is true So help me G--d Amen"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Devils imp praying for peace
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 1 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1814, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
"A skeleton, Death (left), seated on a cannon, his elbows on his knees, faces Napoleon, not caricatured, in a similar attitude on a drum. The 'two Kings' gaze fixedly at each other, Death menacing, Napoleon as if trying to read a terrifying riddle. Death's left foot rests on a cannon-ball, the right on the broken shaft of an eagle. Behind is a symbolical representation of the battle. The Allies advance from the left in regular formation with bayonets levelled at fleeing French soldiers. Four flags, with the eagles of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and the Swedish cross, are held up by standard-bearers in the third rank: they recede in perspective from left to right. On the left wing are two hussars, riding down the fugitives. The main French army is streaming in wild confusion up and over a hill, diminishing in perspective. Other soldiers, pursued by hussars, flee down a hill behind Napoleon (right). Bodies of Frenchmen lie on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For an earlier state lacking the etched title and serving as the heading to a printed broadside entitled "The two kings of terror," see no. 12093 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., and Mounted on leaf 2 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. [Bottom image]: A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word 'Paris'. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram's head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Titles etched below images., Variant state lacking year in artist's signature. For a state with "1814" etched after both instances of John Nixon's "J.N." initials, see nos. 12409 and 12410 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate, each with individual title and statements of responsibility etched below., Plate numbered "236" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheets 16.1 x 23.4 cm and 16.5 x 23.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet cut into upper and lower halves that are mounted separately, and plate number has been trimmed away from upper half., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Household goods are being piled into an open cart, which stands beside a corner house, the door being partly visible on the extreme right. The cart is already stacked high with mattresses, tables, &c. A burly muscular man stands inside it, taking things from a fat and slatternly but comely woman (right). She hands up a child's commode and is laden with bellows, warming-pan, chamber-pots, gridiron, &c. A pretty girl (left) brings a trap containing a mouse and a cage containing a bird. A pretty young woman is in the doorway. In the foreground two burly children play with a monstrous cat, surrounded by goods ready for transport. These are cooking utensils, mop and pail, flat-irons, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Clearing the premisses without consulting your landlord and Clearing the premises without consulting your landlord
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "318" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Jany. 30th, 1814. Cf. No. 12399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 274., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 37.5 x 25.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A confused scene. A beadle, cane in hand, grasps the side of an overturned barrow, from which a basket, scales, and black puddings (coloured green) have fallen. A powerful young woman grasps his nose, and prepares to use her fist; an older woman clutches his back and belabours him with a basket. Both are shrieking termagants with bare breasts. A dog between the beadle's legs barks. The spectators, all close to the fray, are amused: a butcher, shouldering a tray of meat, stands outside his stall (left), which is immediately behind the combatants; from it dangle large joints and a carcase. A woman passes, pushing a barrow (left). A man's grinning face watches from the right. Behind (right) is a shop placarded 'Bob Giblet Poulterer', its ancient front hidden by bunches of hares and turkeys."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Barrow women basting a beadle
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "310" has been replaced with a new number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. Feb. 10th, 1814, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12401 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "283" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 274-6., Temporary local subject terms: Butcher -- Poulterer -- Beadle., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.9 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 38.1 x 26.3 cm., Watermark: 1818., and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese, elderly sailor stands atop a fortified battlement looking out to sea through a telescope. Beside him a young woman turns to kiss a handsome young military officer as she holds up her wind-swept parasol. In front of him, at his feet, another young woman looks down at a sailor who gazes up at her with admiration. An old man shivers in the wind beside a sentry who stands with his back to the sea, smiling at the scene before him
Alternative Title:
Stolen kisses sweetest
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "313" has been replaced with a new number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 14, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12402 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "279" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 275-6., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.2 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 37.1 x 25.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "315" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from upper right. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Watermark: J. Larking., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
