Two prostitutes stand on a street identified as the notorious Gunpowder Alley; the one woman on the right with crossed-arms turns her head to talk to a short man. On the left, a man in a shop with a sign over the door "Booth's Best British Gin" pours...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 7th, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman slee...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four designs on one plate. All have punning titles. [1] A young calf, led by a butcher, runs off, throwing the man to the ground. A dog barks, an amused woman watches from a casement window. Scrawled on the cottage wall is 'H Soak for ever.' 'Pluck',...
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four designs on one plate. All have punning titles. [1] A young calf, led by a butcher, runs off, throwing the man to the ground. A dog barks, an amused woman watches from a casement window. Scrawled on the cottage wall is 'H Soak for ever.' 'Pluck',...
"A domestic scene; a grotesque elderly woman sits at her toilette, pointing to a mirror on which a mobcap hangs, and looking upwards as a wig decorated with ribbons and a feather is about to be placed on her head by a young maid standing at right, who...
Alternative Title:
My aunt and my uncle and Couple of antiques
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1807, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Mirrors, Older people, Servants, Spouses, and Wigs
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of an apothecary's room: jars on shelves; a counter with drawers, pestle and mortar, flasks, &c. A bust of Galen stands on the lintel of the door (right). An alarmed undergraduate in cap and gown stands clasping his stomach. The doctor f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Galen
Subject (Topic):
Statues, Medicine, Medical equipment & supplies, Mortars & pestles, Pharmacists, Physicians, Students, Interiors, and Drugstores
"Fox, in a diver's dress which leaves his face and hands bare, stands on the bed of the ocean, speaking, through a tube inscribed 'Haul up', to his assistants in a boat; these haul on a pulley attached to the mast of the boat, but cut off by the upper...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1, James St., Adelphi
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Barrels, Diving suits, and Shipwrecks
A "find lady" presumably an anonym of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; she is made as welcome as circumstances will permit; a bottle of wine, the refreshment customary, is ordered, and the stern hearts of the sheriff's me...
Alternative Title:
Jew bail rejected
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"A countrywoman (right), wearing a cloak apron, and pattens and holding out a volume of 'Wesleys Hymns', addresses a jockey standing before the door of 'The Ram Inn' (left): "Pray Young Man--- are there any Meetings in this Town?" He answers: "Yes Ma'...
Alternative Title:
Sport and piety, Mistake at New Market, or, sport and piety, and Mistake at Newmarket, or sport and piety
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 5, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Gambling, Horses, Racing, and Taverns (Inns)
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A small ugly man trots (left to right) deprecatingly beside his wife, a large, over-dressed, scowling termagant, on their Sunday outing. He carries her umbrella, cloak, pattens, and a bundle in a check handkerchief. She holds a fan. An elderly man (r...
"A sailor and his pregnant fiancée stand at left before a clergyman in a white surplice who stands at right, reading from papers inscribed 'Matrimony', and asking 'Wilt thou take this Woman to be thy wedded wife'; the sailor responds in affronted man...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brides, Clergy, Grooms (Weddings), Pregnant women, Sailors, British, and Weddings
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A parson, just arrived at an inn, a grosser Dr. Syntax (see British Museum Satires No. 11507), makes advances to a comely and willing chambermaid, who holds warming-pan, lighted candle, and saddle-bags, and is conducting him to his room. They are at ...
An angry, bare-breasted young woman in a night dress and cap enters the door of a sitting room from a bedroom (seen through the open door on the right). She scowls at the white-haired man relaxed in an armchair in front of a fire; he smokes a pipe and...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1806, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"Frontispiece to 'All the Talents', 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus', i.e. E. S. Barrett, attacking the late Ministry. The print (Hogarthian in manner) has little relation to the verses, and is probably adapted from an earlier satire, perha...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 18th, 1807, by I. I. Stockdale, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Apes, and Pipes (Smoking)
"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities inc...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Two designs on one plate. Design on top: A fat woman sits in a nightgown on the edge of a curtained bed while her husband (right) yawns in an armchair, glass and decanter beside him. He has dropped a (broken) pipe and his book: 'Memoirs of an Amorous...
Alternative Title:
Abroad and at home
Description:
Two distinct designs on one plate each titled separately.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feb. 28, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Two designs on one plate. Design on top: A fat woman sits in a nightgown on the edge of a curtained bed while her husband (right) yawns in an armchair, glass and decanter beside him. He has dropped a (broken) pipe and his book: 'Memoirs of an Amorous...
Alternative Title:
Abroad and at home
Description:
Two distinct designs on one plate each titled separately.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feb. 28, 1807, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke ap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 7 April, 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke ap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
"Two men with double butterfly nets chase butterflies in a formal garden with box-edged flower-beds set in gravel. One tramples over a bed of tulips to the horror of two ladies who stand in the doorway (right) and an old man in a night-cap who leans f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1806, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Topic):
Butterfly nets, Butterflies, Flower gardens, and Greenhouses
A group of four academics sit at a table playing cards; a fifth stands to the right in front of an open door. A thin serving woman (left) brings in a bottle of wine and a glass of wine on a tray. A portrait of a smiling man hangs on the back wall, on ...
Alternative Title:
Christmas academics, playing a rubber at whist
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1 April, 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, and Teachers
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two designs on one plate. Above, two rows of burlesqued yokels (with two comely women, and an ugly old one), seated behind the orchestra and backed by a rough brick wall, register intense amusement. A fiddler stands up to snuff a single wall-candle. ...
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Manners & customs, City & town life, and Theater audiences
"Two designs on one pl. Above, two rows of burlesqued yokels (with two comely women, and an ugly old one), seated behind the orchestra and backed by a rough brick wall, register intense amusement. A fiddler stands up to snuff a single wall-candle. Be...
Alternative Title:
Tragedy in London
Description:
Titles etched below each design.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Manners & customs, City & town life, and Theater audiences
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman a...
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
A angry old hag sitting in a chair is lowered into a body of water by jeering crowd. A little boy on the right urinates in her direction. A cat in a bowl floating in the water howls in her direction. A calf sits between the large man blowing a trump...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[October 1807]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Falstaff is carried to bed by three men and a woman. To the left his bride arranges her cap in the mirror on a bureau. To the right a maid holds a candlestick and in her other hand a bed warmer. The large bed is covered in bed curtains; the room is de...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published October 1807, by R. Ackermann, Respository of Arts, 101 Strand
Top design: A group of happy, cheering young men toast each other with wine as they sit around a table, a victory cup and wine caraffes on the table. In the design below "Muck worms" an group of older, sour-looking men over punch and wine, many in sp...
Alternative Title:
Muck worms
Description:
Each title etched below corresponding image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, No 1. James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Eyeglasses, Soldiers, British, and Toasting
Three older ladies and one gentleman in military uniform sit at a table playing cards. Speech balloons from the ladies berate him for his lack of card playing skills
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10, 1802, by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
"The interior of a loft stacked with sacks, an angry countryman ferociously prods one with a pitchfork, while a handsome young woman tries to stop him, clutching his hair and arm, and attempting to trip him up. From the sack, inscribed 'Hemp Seed', pr...
Alternative Title:
Rogue in grain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1807, by R. Ackermann, No., 101 Strand
"The interior of a loft stacked with sacks, an angry countryman ferociously prods one with a pitchfork, while a handsome young woman tries to stop him, clutching his hair and arm, and attempting to trip him up. From the sack, inscribed 'Hemp Seed', pr...
Alternative Title:
Rogue in grain
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1807, by R. Ackermann, No., 101 Strand
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearing a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointi...
Alternative Title:
John Bull making observations on the comet
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
"On the left: An old sailor with a long pigtail, and wearing an old-fashioned blue coat with gold lace, points with a pointer at a large decoration by Thornhill. He leans against an iron railing, standing on raised stone flags. A corner of the decorat...
Alternative Title:
John Rosedale, mariner
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Etched & pub. by T. Rowlandson, April 26, 1807, No. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Name):
George, Prince, consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1653-1708, Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734., and Rosedale, John (Mariner)
"The Pope (left), on a small ass decked with trappings, faces John Bull, who stands as toll-keeper before a closed five-barred gate. From the other side of the gate a path leads to a country church on a hill, irradiated, and framed by the semicircular...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 15, 1805, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820. and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Quakers, John Bull (Symbolic character), Donkeys, Toll roads, and Tolls
Illustration at the top of the letterpress broadside. "Mrs. Siddons leans back in her chair, majestically resentful. She addresses Harris, [Grego suggests Topham, whom he does not resemble, and who was living in Yorkshire.] patentee and manager of Cov...
Alternative Title:
Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below etching.
Publisher:
Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, for Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, sho...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Melville, in Highland dress (left), stoops, holding open a sack from which issues an endless procession of pigmy Scots, receding in perspective to disappear under a high Gothic doorway, inscribed 'Saint Stephens'. The little Scots march out of the ba...
Alternative Title:
Johnny Maccree, opening his new budget
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1st July, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Saint Stephens (ed. and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Clothing & dress
"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned...
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"Below the title: 'The Woman who shews General Guise collection of Pictures at Oxford'. She stands directed to the left., holding a pointer with which she slyly points to a picture of Suzanna and the Elders. She is old and grotesquely ugly, wearing a ...
"Five elderly, old-fashioned doctors stand in consultation in a row behind Napoleon (r.), who vomits, saying, "My Dear Doctors! those sacre Anglois have play'd the Devil vun [?] my constitution pray tell me what is the matter with me, I felt the first...
Alternative Title:
Nap Buonaparte in a fever on recieving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets and Nap Buonaparte in a fever on receiving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets
Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standin...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 20 March 1803, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Dogs, Eyeglasses, Fishing, and Pipes (Smoking)
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two pilgrims meet, one (left) debonair and jaunty, the other in a crouching position, and with an anguished expression. Both wear hats turned up with cockle shells, and necklaces hung with shells, long belted gowns with rosaries. Each holds a staff s...
