"John Bull (left), a benevolent 'cit', and a Spaniard (right), stand in front of piles of military stores. John's right hand is deep in his coat-pocket, in his left hand is a cudgel of 'Oak'. He says, smiling at the Spaniard: "My good Friend you see I have brought you Clothing for Ten thousand men Viz Cheese Shoes stockings belts and small Clothes besides Arms and Amunition, and if that wont do Ill bring you Gully and Gregson and the Devil is in it if they wont do!" The Spaniard, with his hands on his hips, and an expression of stern resolution, answers: "We thank thee Johnny for all thou hast brought, and if thou cans't bring the other two we shall be more obliged to thee." At John's feet are guineas and a bag of 'Gold'; the stores behind him are cannon-balls, packages of 'Coats', 'Shirts', 'Belts', piles of cheeses inscribed 'Stilton Cheese' [on top], 'Cheshire Cheese', 'Gloucester Cheese', 'Cambridge Cheese', 'Yorkshire Cheese', 'Leistershire Cheese', 'Cottenham Cheese', and 'Bath Cheese', 'Wiltshire Cheese', 'Cream Cheese', 'Derbyshire Cheese', partly hidden by a great pile of shoes. Beside the Spaniard are swords, pistols, a package of 'Stockings' a cask, and bayoneted muskets."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: RA., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3, 1808, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
"Half length portrait, poised on a pedestal of a coarse-featured man directed to the left, a patch over one eye, bludgeon under his arm."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., First half of artist's name in signature is lightly printed and barely legible., 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 43 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"The male counterpart of British Museum Satires no. 11166. A half length figure leaning forward in profile to the right, shouting, with raised arm and clenched fist. He is coarse-featured and spectacled, with a mop of hair."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 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., Numbered "12" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 30th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
"A bust, similar to British Museum Satires no. 11158, in profile to right of a foppish and effeminate young man, with naturalistic curls."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist's signature and imprint statement are lightly printed and barely legible., 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., Numbered "4" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 43 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
"Half length figure of a preacher emerging from a cask, hands together, eyes turned up sanctimoniously."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's name at beginning of imprint statement is lightly printed and illegible. Publisher 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., Impression from a worn plate; beginning of imprint statement is lightly printed and only partially legible., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"A man, hat in hand, sits on a cat, which was on a low chair beside the fire. His hostess, a lean and ugly old maid, tugs angrily at a bell-rope; another cat sits on the back of her armchair; a dog barks. An ugly (?) maid-servant of similar type enters the room. Before the fire is a round table with work-basket, &c. Against the wall hangs a bird in a cage."--British Museum online catalogue
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Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Page 214"--Upper right corner., Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Wha[tman] 18[...?]., and Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A bedroom scene. A fat woman in night-cap and (short) night-dress drinks from a jug taken from the wash-stand (right); the water flows in a stream over her shoulder to the floor. Within a curtained four-poster (left) an aged man is asleep, his feet projecting from under the bed-clothes towards the spectator. On the floor are his hat, shoes, and breeches on which sleeps a cat. There is a high-backed armchair (left) which is also a commode. Over the fireplace hangs a blunderbuss."--British Museum online catalogue
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Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst, eagerly blundering in the dark to the washing stand and there finding the broad mouthed pitcher which you lift to your lips ..., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Mounted on verso of leaf 31 in volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Cupboard in the parlour in which you are making love ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: A cupboard in the parlour in which you are making love, with the consquent perpetual intrusion of one prying servant after another ..., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Probably one of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on verso of leaf 31 in volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Two ladies, fashionable and pretty, stand by the door of a neo-Gothic lodge or gate-house. One addresses a gardener who tugs at his hair; two elderly men (left) walk off to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
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Necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: The necessity of sending a verbal message of the utmost consequence, by an ass, who, you plainly perceive, will forget (or rather has already forgotten) every word you have been saying., Illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life, 1806. See no. 10815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., "Page 287"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on leaf 37 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A scene on the shore. A fat woman is in the water, her skirts floating round her. A man tries to pull her up, a young woman tugs at his coat-tails, both in the water. Beside them is a boat (right) from which a man has fallen head first; a boatman clutches his foot, another uses a boat-hook; a man with a sunshade and a girl scream and gesticulate. A dog swims. Behind is the sea or a tidal estuary, with smaller figures in the background (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
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Stepping out of a boat at low water on a slippery causeway ...
Description:
Title etched in bottom part of image., Text below image: Stepping out of a boat at low water on a slippery causeway, upon a stone which slides under you and you descend in the mud up to the chin., One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Mounted on verso of leaf 36 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
