V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"A pair of scales hangs in a landscape, suspended from a hook in a block against the upper margin inscribed 'Constitution', the central pivot inscribed ('Equilibrium'). The left scale is weighted only by a document headed 'Acts for the more effectually Sarving' [sic], on the right scale, inscribed 'Prices of Provisions.', are a leg of mutton, a frothing tankard, and a loaf; it is much outweighed by the other, inscribed 'Old England', which descends below the level of the ground into a rocky pit or 'Abyss of Corruption'. On the ground below the right scale lies a starving and half-naked peasant who raises his arm to touch it, crying, "Oh! I shall famish if you don't fall." The 'Acts' enumerated on the scroll are 'Butter and Cheese Laws 56 G 3d--3d Corn Bill 55th G 3d---2d Corn Bill 45th G 3d--1st Corn Bill--' A well-dressed man, his hands on his knees, stoops in profile to the left over the descending scale, saying, "How rich I shall get by plundering the Poor, now my old Master is blind and there is no one to watch me." Over his head, and hanging from the beam of the scales is a ribbon inscribed 'Sir Harry Pare-nail'. He is watched by George III who leans from a crenellated tower inscribed 'Windsor', on the extreme left, with his spy-glass to his eye as in British Museum Satires No. 10019, &c. He wears a round hat topped by a small crown, and shouts: "Heigh! Heigh! Fellow! pull away those d--d heavy Corn Laws, and Butter and Cheese Laws; let the prices find the level & come within the reach of my distress'd people; I say pull them of directly Fellow, d'ont you see Old England is sunk almost out of sight, you thought I could not see did you Fellow Heigh! Heigh!" A face within a sun dipping behind the skyline sheds tears. A scale of (corn) prices explains the tilt of the scales by lines intersecting at the pivot, representing the tilt of the beam of the scales, downwards or upwards; the right end is inscribed with the price, the opposite end by a word expressing its result in social conditions. A double line is horizontal at the price of '40s'; this is 'Well Level'. Below this level the slanting lines are progressively (reading downwards): '38s', '36s', '34s', '32'. These are respectively 'Happily' [corresponding to 38s.], 'Comfortaly' [sic], 'Gloriously', 'Princely', at which point, 32s., the 'Prices of Provisions' would rest on the ground (and the agricultural interest be ruined). Above the horizontal level, the lines slanting upwards from left to right are inscribed (reading upwards) '60s', '80s', '100s', '120s', '140s', '160s'; these correspond respectively to 'Inconvenience', 'Distress', 'Want', 'Misery', 'Sarvation' [sic], 'Total Ruin'. The actual level of the beam is a price of 140s., just short of 'Total Ruin'. The pointer of the beam is along a slanting line inscribed 'Adversity'; with a price of 34s. it would point to 'Prosperity'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political balances, Unexpected inspection, and Good old master takeing a peep into the state of things himself
Description:
Title etched below image; a terminal letter "s" may be etched at the end of the word "balance"., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Text following title: Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. Proverbs., Plate numbered "204" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., and Leaf 59 in volume 3.
Publisher:
By T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Parnell, Henry, Sir, 1776-1842.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate., Date of publication from Grego., Plate numbered "158" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Racing., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 13 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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"A design in six compartments, arranged in two rows. [1] 'A Timber Merchant.' A ragged match-seller, with a basket slung from his shoulder and a bundle of matches in his hand, cries: "Buy my Matches." [2] 'A Turkey Merchant'. A poulterer (dressed like a butcher) sits on a stool beside his stall (right) from which hang two turkeys. A dog takes offal from the table in front of it. (Horne Tooke, according to Rogers, said his father, a poulterer, was a Turkey Merchant, i.e. a member of the Levant or Turkey Company, incorporated in 1579.) [3] 'A Man of Letters'. A man collecting letters hurries along, ringing his bell; he holds a post-bag inscribed 'G. R.' A maidservant stands at a door holding out a letter for his bag. [4] 'A Banker'. A grave-digger stands in a grave piling earth against a tombstone in a country church-yard. [5] 'A Merchant Taylor'. A bearded Jew buying old clothes stands with his sack across his shoulder, two hats on his head and two in his hand. He shouts "Any old Cloaths to shell." A maidservant stands in a doorway (right) holding a coat. [6] 'Master of the Mint'. A gardener, spade in hand, points to his pot-plants. On the right are a frame and the corner of a green-house."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "171" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Grave digger -- Greenhouse -- Timber merchant -- Poulterer., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 24 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1812, by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text in center of image., Probably an alternative title page used for a reissue of Caricature magazine after Woodward's death in 1809. For a later state of the probable original title page to v. 3, see No. 11134 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Six lines of quoted text above title: "Care to our coffin, adds a nail, no doubt, and every grin, so merry, draws one out ...", Text below title: Mirth with thee I mean to live., Numbered "308*" in upper right corner of design., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: Basted Mill 1817., Several short, illegible annotations in ink in a contemporary hand; these include practice lettering (?) in lower left corner of sheet, an attribution (?) below the quoted text above title, and a scribble in upper left part of design., and Title page to volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
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"The three members of the Royal family who had recently been given the Freedom of the City as members of the Fishmongers' Company are represented as Billingsgate porters, carrying baskets of fish on their heads, and being kissed by Billingsgate women. All wear flat round hats and aprons. Prince Leopold has a German sausage (cf. British Museum Catalogue No. 12759) projecting from his coat-pocket, and another is in his basket. A comely woman puts her arms round his neck, saying, "My dear Boy you are Welcome to Billinsgate, come give us a buss!! Charlotte wont be angry." He answers: "Stop my Dear I lay down my Sole, and give you bit de german saucage." Two women (left) hurry up from the left, eagerly wiping their mouths on their aprons. They say: "By Goles he's a nice fellow Come do make haste Poll," and "That's right Bet! if you dont look sharp we shant get a taste." The Duke of Sussex, fat and good-natured, is beset by two women, one, an Irishwoman, kisses his mouth. He says: "You Hussey you'll upset my Cod!" She answers: "By the Powers if I care about that my Jewel! I'll have a taste of your Jowl, and a rare Jolly one it is!!" A paper projects from his pocket: 'Freedom of the City of London'. In the middle distance (right) stands the Duke of Gloucester, silent between three women who say: "Now let me have the first an I'll carry your fish; Give me the first and I'll carry you and fish too my heart I'll have such a smack," and "You have a smack indeed I'm the girl for smacking & know the true Gloucester go." A woman sitting by her basket (right) drinking gin says: "you may smack there I'll smack here! so God Bless the Royal Fishmongers." Behind are masts and sails with (right) the colonnade of Billingsgate Market on the quay-side."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal fishmongers, or, A welcome to Billingsgate, Welcome to Billinsgate, and Welcome to Billingsgate
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from initials present on earlier state: C.W. [Charles Williams]., Later state; printmaker's initials and imprint statement have been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pub. Novemr. 1816 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12815 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Three lines of quoted text following title: "They printed melting kisses, "balmy as Burnetts gin, chaste as Drurys maids, "and keen as longing mothers., Plate numbered "203" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 58 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Name):
Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, and William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
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"Three women fall from a gig, which has fallen backwards, the shafts broken under a heavy load. A fat man, losing hat and wig, holds the head of the kicking horse, at which a dog leaps fiercely. The women are his very fat wife and two comely daughters dressed for an outing; a parasol, bottle, and bundle in a knotted handkerchief lie beside them. The scene is a rough track over a heath. In the air is a balloon much tilted, a man and two flags are in the basket. A woman descends by parachute, surrounded by a flock of birds, with much display of leg, and a man watches her through a telescope from a high round tower which rises above a group of trees in the background (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Balloon hunting
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. October 25th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11791 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "157" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 215., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 12 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"A boyish midshipman (right), wearing uniform with cocked hat, fashionable neck-cloth, and tight white trousers, bargains at the waterside with two prostitutes. He puts his arm round a comely young woman, feeling in his pocket; she extends her hand for payment. Beside her (left) is a hideous negress smoking a pipe. Behind, at the foot of a ladder, crouches a shapeless elderly woman. The ladder leads to a coastal fortification, where look-out men are lounging and smoking near a gun-embrasure. A man ascends the ladder with a basket on his head. Behind (right) is the sea with a man-of-war; by the shore a ship's boat with three sailors waits for the midshipman."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Publish'd March 25th, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf No. 11960 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "140" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 226., and Leaf 83 in volume 3.
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 and Mississ, The Sailor Man has sent word as how the Wessel is ready to swim." The husband, a paunchy 'cit' in old-fashioned dress, stands leaning towards his wife, saying, "Why my Dove--I am loaded with provisions like a tilt cart on a fair day, and my pockets stick out as if I was just return'd from a City Feast." The heads of two geese hang from his pocket. His wife says: "Dont be so Wulgar Mr Dripping--you are now among gentill folks, and must behave yourself--we shall want all the Wickalls on the Woyage depend upon it--bless me how Varm it is, I am all over in a muck"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; place and date of publication have been removed from beginning of imprint statement. For an earlier state missing the final two digits of the year of publication but with the imprint otherwise intact, see no. 11968 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date from Grego., Probably etched on a reused plate; ghost images, scratches, and faint upside-down text are visible in and around the design., Plate numbered "166" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling coloured.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge leaving thread margin., and Leaf 20 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: three figures in appropriate dress representing the stages of making beer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir John Barleycorn, Miss Hop, and their only child Master Porter
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.674., Plate numbered "151" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 6 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Six scenes, arranged in two rows, each with an inscription above the design. The figures are realistic, not 'Lilliputian', as in British Museum Satires No. 11134, &c. [1] 'Lilliput is situated a considerable distance from the Island of Great Britain, and the Natives have many singular manners and customs, one in particular is swearing to give a vote according to conscience with one hand, and receiving a bribe with the other--what a happy thing it is that nothing of the kind ever occured in England.' A scene at the hustings, showing one of the posts inscribed 'St M . . .' indicating the polling-place for one of the Westminster parishes, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10619, &c. An elector takes a book (Testament) from a poll-clerk, while a man slips coins into the hand which he holds behind his back. There are spectators (or voters) outside and inside the hustings; a woman sells a ballad. [2] 'They have a litte [sic] man in Lilliput call'd John Bull, we suppose in humble imitation of that Gentleman so named in our Country but the comparison can never hold good, the Lilliputian John Bull though overburthened with Taxes is continually visited by the collector for more--we well know that is not the case in England!!' John Bull, a fat 'cit', is seated in an arm-chair wearing a hat, with a tankard and pipe on a table beside him. He looks up angrily at a lean tax-collector who stoops towards him, holding an open book. On the wall is a (damaged) picture, 'Liberty', holding her cap on a staff. [3] 'There we frequently see Merit in distress, and Ignorance, rolling in affluence, if such facts were mention'd in England, they would not be believed!! their manners are so different.' A street scene. A small thin man (left), his eyes on the ground, and a fat, vulgar, arrogant fellow walk towards each other on the pavement. The former has his hand in his coat-pocket in which is a pamphlet: 'Poem[s] on var ....' They are identified by two bills on the wall: 'By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain--for the Benefit of Peter Prose authour of several Pieces' and (headed by the Royal Arms) 'Slushbuckett Nightman to his Majesty'. [4] 'In Lilliput it is well known that a Female throug [sic] certain influence has disposed of situations in the Army and Church, what would our John Bull say to that!!' Mrs. Clarke receives her clients seated at a small round table; she holds out her hand to take a money-bag from a parson (O'Meara, see British Museum Satires No. 11258, &c.). Behind, an officer advances, sweeping the ground deferentially with his cocked hat, a money-bag in his hand. The head of a third applicant is on the extreme right. A window and a folding screen form a background. The Duke of York inconspicuously watches from behind the screen. See British Museum Satires No. 11216, &c. [5] 'A certain Nobleman in Lilliput is said to have become a jobber and disposed of a seat in Parliament; a pretty Parliament that must be!! O John Bull you are a happy man!' Castlereagh and another well-dressed man sit facing each other across a small round table. Castlereagh hands over a document, the other a money-bag. [6] 'In Lilliput it is common for a boy of fifteen through interest, to leap over the shoulders of a vetran Hero!--Ay John Bull you may well be suprized--but such things are practiced there we assure you.' A boyish officer poised on the bent back of an elderly one, is about to leap over his head; he wears a fashionable crescent-shaped cocked hat; the elder man's old-fashioned tricorne falls to the ground. In front of them is an open door set in a stone arch, probably that of the Horse Guards. John Bull, a fat 'cit', stands in profile to the right, gazing in astonishment. This long-standing abuse came into notice over the proceedings against the Duke of York, see British Museum Satires No. 11281."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketches of Fairyland, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput. Pl. 1, Comparison between England & Lilliput, and Comparison between England and Lilliput
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Decr. 1810 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "201" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 56 in volume 3.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
