"Six women, all with inviting glances or gestures: arranged as in British Museum Satires No. 11143. 'Pigs Pettitoes', an ugly woman with toes turned in. 'Scrag of Mutton', a hideously lean and angular woman, her hands in a muff. 'Leg of Lamb', a comely woman with an umbrella, her petticoats kilted up displaying leg. 'Poloney', an ugly plump woman, rather sausage-shaped. 'Cods Head and Shoulders', a grossly fat and ugly woman. 'Lamb Chop and Mint Sauce', a pretty young woman holding a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate reissued in 1809; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 167., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 25, 1808, by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Three ramshackle two-wheeled carts drawn by wretched horses race (right to left) against a background formed by the clouds of dust which they have raised, with a row of gabled houses (right) inscribed 'St Giles', terminating in a church spire (left), and probably representing Broad St. Giles. The occupants of the carts are Irish costermongers typical of St. Giles. The foremost horse gallops, urged on by the shouts of a standing man brandishing a club. The other occupants, two women and a man, cheer derisively the next cart, whose horse has fallen, one woman falling from it head-first, another lies on the ground. The driver lashes the horse furiously. The third cart, of heavier construction, is starting. The horses are partly obscured by the clouds of dust, but denizens watch from casement windows and a door. Two ragged urchins (right) cheer the race; a dog barks."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier version
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate sometimes included in the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See Catalogue of books illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson., Later version of a Rowlandson print from 1789. Cf. No. 7607 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman Turkey Mills 1818., and Mounted on verso of leaf 42 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Half length portrait of a man full faced with raised arms and frenzied expression, waving a hat with a large election favour, a second favour on his coat, and a medallion hung from his neck."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "10" in upper right corner., and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Three men sit at a round table over punchbowl, lemons, glasses, decanter, and jar of 'Tobacco'. Above the design is the title of the glee: 'How shall we Mortals spend our Hours'. A handsome young man (left), wearing top-boots, sings with an ecstatic expression: 'In Love!' An old naval officer, wearing a cocked hat, with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye smokes a long pipe, and sings: 'In War'. The third, a gaping dishevelled sot (right), sings 'In Drinking'."--British museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
How shall we mortals spend our hours?
Description:
Title etched below image., Date follows place of publication and precedes publisher's statement in imprint., Plate numbered "41" in upper right corner., "Price one shilling col[oure]d.", For a later state with beginning of imprint burnished from plate, see no. 11141 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 168-9., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Napoleon plays a double bass, stooping forward, and looking with an agonized expression towards a music-book on a high stand, the pages headed 'Conquest of / Spain & Portugal' and ending in 'Volti Su . . . .' He says: "Plague take it! I never met with so difficult a 'passage' before - But if I can once get over the 'Flats', we shall do pretty well for you see the 'Key' will then change to B sharp." Behind Napoleon and on the right stand the Russian bear on his hind legs, muzzled, and blowing a French horn. He says: "Why that is 'Natural' enough brother Boney though this 'French horn' of yours seems rather out of Order I think." Napoleon, who wears a large bicorne, stands on a 'Map of the Continent' showing 'Spain' and 'Portugal'. Behind him are a drum and a roll of 'Boney's Orations Vol. 10th'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boney playing base on the Continent and Boney playing bass on the Continent
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark, mostly trimmed: J. Whatman., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 24, 1808, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Plate sometimes included in the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See Catalogue of books illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills., and Mounted on verso of leaf 41 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Probably a copy of a Rowlandson watercolor. See nos. 11111-7 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Markwell, M. Advice to sportsmen, rural or metropolitan, noviciates or grown persons ... London : Thomas Tegg, 1809., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Bust of a handsome, alluring woman, elegantly dressed."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"An elderly man, in profile to the right, pompously stressing his argument by enumerating points on his fingers."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man wise in his own conceit
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "9" in upper left corner., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
