V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably dressed man (left) rises from his chair on which is a snarling cat with a kitten. A young woman sitting facing him throws up her arms; both scream. An old man (right) wearing a night-cap looks up from his book in anxious inquiry. A little boy falls on his back. A dog barks."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
Description:
Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below image: "Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!", Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "237" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 13 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Another version of British Museum Satires No. 10848, with the same quotation below the design. A dinner-table scene. Five people are crowded at a small table; all register disgust as a footman bears in a life-like hare on a dish, at which a dog looks greedily. The cook stands in the doorway (left), much amused."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Inviting a friend (whom you know to be particularly fond of the dish) to partake of a fine hare haunch ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Two lines of quoted text below image: "Inviting a friend (whom you know to be particularly fond of the dish) to partake of a fine hare haunch, &c. which you have endeavoured "to keep exactly to the critical moment, but which is no sooner brought in than the whole party with one nose order it to be taken out.", Later state, with plate number added. For earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 11151 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Publisher and date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "244" in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 22 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Two lines of quoted text below image: "Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you have watered him on the road proceeds very cooly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, "without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrances on the subject.", Publisher from Krumbhaar., Date of publication based on date assigned to a similar print with the same title and signatures. Cf. No. 11150 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "287" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.3 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 62 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title (partially damaged) of the design: '[getting up] early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, ta[ble, shovel, tongues,] poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bee[s wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with altered plate number and with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate, of a print published 9 October 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.10.09.01., Date of publication from Grego., Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., "Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 40 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly coxcomb leeringly hands a fan to one of two ladies walking off to the right. Behind (left), the heads of three stooping men collide. On the extreme left is the Prince of Wales, opera-hat under his arm, facing a woman, immodestly décolletée, who ogles him. Two other men and two women stand near them. The scene is the foyer of a theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miseries of high life
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; place and date of publication have been burnished from beginning of imprint statement., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 808.03.01.01.1+., Two lines of text below title: Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs, and this without being the happy man after all. Miseries of Human Life., Plate numbered "222" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling could."--Lower left corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume, 1808 -- Female costume, 1808., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 1 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group playing at cards interrupted by a beadle and watchmen to arrest them for playing past midnight."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with day and year of publication burnished from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, April 6, 1807. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.722., Plate numbered "238" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, no. 775., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 14 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Fifteen figures arranged in two rows, each with a caption: the words of the speaker etched below the name of his country. (1) A white-robed figure, with hands spread deprecatingly: 'Egypt. His extortions are abominable, I wish he was made a Mummy of!' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9352, &c.]. (2) A man, wearing a night-cap and a dressing-gown over Spanish dress, yawns and stretches: 'Spain. Bless me what a long time I've been taking & been dreaming about going to Peru.' (3) A man, wearing a bag-wig and old-fashioned dress, bows obsequiously: 'Italy. I bow to him with submissive respect.' (4) A Chinese in trousers stands impassively in profile: 'China Is not this Boonapar a famous robber.' (5) A man with a long pipe and gouty legs: 'Germany [Austria] I mean a great deal when I shake my head.' (6) A military officer puts a finger to his closed lips: 'Prussia. Mum.' (7) A post-boy, wearing jack-boots and heavily shackled, waves a bonnet rouge: 'France. Long live the Emperor - Vive La Liberté'!! (8) A Turk wearing a jewelled turban: 'Turkey. I quake whenever his name is mentioned.' (9) A man wearing fur cap, fur cloak, and fur-trimmed boots folds his arms: 'Russia I curse him one moment and am friends with him the next.' (10) An elderly military officer, wearing a long sword, stands hands on hips: 'Sweeden. Who's afraid!!' (11) 'A fat Dutch burgher, smoking a pipe, scowls reflectively: 'Holland For my part I dont know what to make of him.' (12) A man wearing a short jacket, trousers, and a long pigtail runs to the right.: 'Portugal I'm Off.' (13) A quaker stands full face with folded hands: 'America. Verily the Spirit doth move me to shake hands.' (14) An Oriental, wearing a turban and long trousers, stands full face: 'Assia I beg he may be kept at a distance.' (15) John Bull, a fat 'cit', stands with his hands in his waistcoat pockets, smiling dubiously: 'England I laugh at him, and defy him. but still I dont much like him'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
National opinions on Bonaparte and National opinions on Buonaparte
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "235" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., "THO" written in open letters in pencil near center of sheet, following the word "Holland.", and Leaf 11 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two wooden shutters, the upper parts of two adjacent doors, hinged on one post between two cottages, are opened inwards, to allow a handsome young couple to lean out and kiss. Behind the young woman (left) stands a bald and aged man, raising an admonishing forefinger. Behind the man an elderly virago screams with a threatening gesture. On a hook on the central post is a cage with two billing birds, which the young man is holding up. A cat clambers up towards the girl; a dog (right) dashes in fury towards a cock which is pecking a hen."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; final digit of "1815" in printmaker's signature appears to have been altered, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "235" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., and Leaf 79 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A mounted hussar receives in his arms a pretty young woman who is climbing down from a high wall. She puts her face to his, and rests her hand on his shoulders while he supports her ample posterior. The horse, directed to the right, is almost knee-deep in water. A corner of a house among trees appears over the wall (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 9, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12149 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "231" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: Hussar., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.9 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 76 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elopement. A fat woman has fallen on her back from a ladder, knocking down her lover, who lies on his back beneath her. He wears military uniform. Both scream angrily, and a dog (left) barks at her. The ladder, one rung of which is broken, leans against a first-floor window (left) from which the husband looks out, holding a candle. Behind (right), a laughing postilion holds open the door of a post-chaise. A full moon with grinning features looks down from clouds. A lamp projects from the corner of the house."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate. For the original issue with the complete imprint "Pubd. Decer. 24, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 [sic] Cheapside," see: Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810732., Date of publication based on the suggested 1812 date for an intermediate state, which has the year crossed out in an otherwise complete imprint statement. Cf. No. 11974 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "289" 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 bottom edge., Temporary local subject terms: Locket -- Lamp -- Post chaise -- Ladder., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.9 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 96 in volume 4.
