"Holiday-making 'cits' drive, ride, and walk (right to left) on a dusty road, in the direction of a sign-post (right) pointing 'To Wimbledon' (left); the opposite arm points (right) to: 'a near Cut to Batter sea'. [An allusion to the retort to a simpleton: 'You must go to Battersea to get your simples cut.' E. C. Brewer, 'Dict, of Phrase and Fable'. Cf. No. 12831.] On the extreme left is the back of a coach, with outside passengers, one with a huge frothing tankard. A fat man trudges between two women, followed by a bloated dog. A 'cit' on a bucking horse follows. Next is a family party: a fat woman carrying an infant, her lean husband holding a bag and a telescope, and dragging a go-cart in which sit four young children, while a chimney-sweep stands on the back of the cart, followed by another hanging to his coat; a child angrily threatens them with a coral and bells. Two meretricious-looking women walk arm-in-arm, closely followed and ogled by two absurd men in extravagant dandy costume, also arm-in-arm. These have enormous bell-trousers as in No. 12840. Driving beside these two groups is John Bull with his wife and four children in a two-wheeled cart drawn by a lean horse, flogged into a gallop. The cart is inscribed 'J.B Tax Cart N° 1816'. Behind him a would-be dandy drives a lady in a gig. In the background is the front of the procession which has turned to the right on to open common, where are tents, a swing, with a large bonfire to which men are dragging a whole tree, just cut down."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Waterloo review!!!!!!
Description:
Title from caption below image., Temporary local subject terms: Cits -- Crowds -- Families -- Fires -- Tents -- Carriages -- Dustmen., and Watermark: 1801.
"Thomas Raikes sits on a divan between two courtesans, his head in profile to the right. On the right is a round table spread with a luxurious dessert, pine-apple, peaches, decanters, &c. The centre-piece is a figure of Mercury (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7592) poised on a globe and holding up a second globe, perhaps a lamp. A long bill hangs from the table . . . Dr to Mrs Wood--Bed--10-- Brandy 5--coffee 1--Eggs--Brandy 2--Oysters 1--Eggs--20, 0 Ham--10-- Coffee 11--Beds 5--Brandy 2--Bed 1-- to show that the establishment is a brothel run by Mrs. ('Mother') Wood (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13734). On the wall are two pairs of crossed rakes tied with ribbons, and pictures, with punning titles: Siege of Belle Lisle, Wood Deamon [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10796], Babes in ye Wood, The Rakes Progress, Burn em Wood, Deity of the Woods, Wood Pigeon Wood Cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The commercial dandy and his sleeping partners
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Dr. E.D." pseudonym of George Cruikshank?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: male, female, 1821 -- Furniture: round table -- Divan -- Food: pineapple, fruit -- Decanters -- Lighting: candlestick -- Mythology: Mercury -- Rakes -- Mrs. "Mother" Wood, fl. 1821., Manuscript "256" in upper center of plate., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1821 by G. Humprey [sic] 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Raikes, Thomas, 1777-1848
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Courtesans, Dandies, British, and Prostitutes
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Oriental pipes -- Costume: male, Chinese -- Flags: Union Jack -- Swords -- Costume: female, 1816 -- Mandarins -- Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron, 1768-1846 -- Queen Charlotte's snuffboxes., Watermark: W[?]SS, and Manuscript "189" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Sidebotham No. 96 Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857, Hertford, Isabella Anne (Ingream Shepheard), Marchioness of, fl. 1813, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822,, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Sligo, Howe Peter Browne, Marquess of, 1788-1845, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and McMahon, John
"Three dandies (see No. 13029) inspect a velocipede (see No. 13399), which the dealer, bow-legged, horsy, and flashy-looking, holds by the steering-handle. They are outside a stable with an aperture through which look three hungry and startled horses. Above the closed door is a board: 'Stables [scored through] Hobby Horses taken in to mind or Stand at Livery NB a Fine Stud of Real Horses To Be Sold as cheap as dogs meat -- The present proprietor going into the Hobby Line.' A lean stable-hand in patched clothes sits against the wall on an overturned bucket, curry-comb and broom beside him. He glares with a twisted grimace at the velocipede. At his feet is a book: 'Othello's Occupation's gone.' The dealer looks slyly at a dandy (right) who stands with his hands on a cane: "I'll warrant him sound Sir & free from Vice." The other answers: "I can see he has been down once or twice though my lad." A second dandy stoops, hand on knees, to inspect the bar or pole: "He seems to me Jack not to have quite Barrel enough." The third, holding an eye-glass to his eye, says: "Good fore hand by Jupiter." They wear rakish bell-shaped top-hats. In the background a dandy on a velocipede follows a lady, similarly mounted; both wear top-hats; behind them rides a sour-looking groom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image ; the word "hobby" has been inserted above the line, indicated with a carrot, and underlined above the line and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 25th, 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Dandies, British, and Horses
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., A series of six images each with captions below., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1818.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19th, 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
"A section cut from British Museum Satires No. 11888, with alterations. The King (apart from the removal of the coral and bells), Lord and Lady Hertford, and Yarmouth are as before, though the former Hertfords now stand for Conynghams (see British Museum Satires No. 13847), and Yarmouth (presumably) becomes Lord Francis Conyngham. The other adjacent figures are removed. The pavilion is still inscribed 'He[rtford] Nursery'. The design extends from the middle of the left support of the pavilion, which is however removed, except for the head and shoulder of the woman supporting the drapery, to the right edge of the right support of the pavilion, which is as before, with satyrs, infant Bacchus, and nude women; the emblem of fool's cap, &c., is unaltered. The King says to Lady Conyngham: "My dear Coney you are my life, my soul, my only Joy if business did not call me from hence--I would never leave you, what with my Wife and the Cabinet together I have no peace except in your dear arms." She answers: "Really my love you give way to fear take another glass--you have nothing to dread, we shall soon dispose of that vile woman--in my arms you are safe, continue with me at the Nursery, and we will soon form a new Cabinet if it is necessary." The antlered Lord Conyngham, grovelling on the ground behind his wife, says: "I have got into snug quarters, Lady C-- knows how to manage him--he is welcome to occupy my premises as long as he pleases.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Printed on watermarked paper., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Ld. Conyngham," "Lady Conyngham," and "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of one line from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, and Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876
"Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 193. Revellers, some in masks, surround the supper-table, on which a clown dances, knocking against a chandelier of cut glass. A band of Pandean minstrels is in an alcove (r.), all play pan-pipes, some have also other instruments: drum, triangle, bells. Tom, as a Spanish don, sits at the head of the table between a queen and (?) Titania. Jerry, as a huntsman, leans across the table halloing and flourishing a whip. On the bench on the near side of the table are a Harlequin and a lady, a nun seated between a dustman and a fireman; on the r. is a devil. Other characters are a Jew talking to a pig-faced lady, see No. 12630, a Chinese, a sailor, a Don Quixote, prone on the floor and very ill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tom and Jerry larking at a masquerade supper at the opera house
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark. Imprint statement erased from print.
Title from text above image., Print signed with artist's device below artist's initials: A spur., Text below image: "Cineri doloso.", Reissue of no. 14317 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published June 30, 1821, by G. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: The Grand Tour., and Watermark: 1834.
