V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Bishop of Durham strides across the footlights on to the stage, his left foot on the shoulder of one of the orchestra below. He wears a mitre and holds his crosier in both hands, as if to attack four danseuses holding garlands of roses who pirouette derisively. He says: "Avaunt the Satan, I fear the not assume whatever shape or form thou wilt I am determined to lay the thou black Fiend." The heads of some of the orchestra appear behind his left leg. A profile head on the extreme left says "Thats right down with them". Against the wall (left) are a carved satyr and a playbill: 'The Divil of a Lover - Hes much tlame' [to blame] and 'Peeping Tom' (by O'Keefe, 1784). The first was a musical farce played once only on 17 Mar. 1798, the second was first played on 13 Feb. 1798. Genest, vii. 360, 361."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Durham mustard too powerful for Italian capers, or, The opera in an uproar and Opera in an uproar
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue of a plate originally published ca. March 1798 by J. McQuire; original imprint statement has been scribbled over with etched lines and Tegg's imprint statement added below it. See British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Watermark: Basted Mill., and Leaf 62 in volume 1.
The rivalry between Fox and Pitt is shown in a series of seven images beginning with the portraits of each of them. In the third image, Fox and Pitt fight for a Twelfth Cake, with Fox winning. In the fourth, Nobody (i.e., the King), gives Lord Temple, carrying dark lantern, a note supporting Pitt's claim to the Cake. In the fifth image, a grocer complains about Fox's actions against smuggling. In the sixth, on his return from the Grocers' Hall on February 28, Pitt participates in a riot. He is opposed by a diminutive Jeffery Dunstan, the popular 'mayor of Garrett" and Fox's supporter. In the seventh, Pitt and his companions are thrashed by men with sticks
Alternative Title:
Young statesman's ramble
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. 24th March 1784 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, and Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Devil, Smuggling, Riots, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Budgets & loans so thick we see ..., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Gibbets -- Doghouses -- Treasury: allusion to Treasury -- Emblems: bonnet rouge., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
"A theatre seen diagonally from the pit, with the stage on the right, two side boxes forming a background. On the stage a man in quasi-classical dress holds a dripping dagger, a woman lies at his feet; through an open door the prompter is seen. The audience is much disturbed: in the foreground a stout citizen holds a smelling-bottle to the nose of his (apparently) fainting young wife; she takes a note from a young man on the bench behind her. Behind stands a bearded Jew. In the stage-box two seated figures resemble the King and Queen, a man standing behind resembles Pitt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., One of a series of Drolls., Plate numbered '163' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Theatrical performances -- Reference to adultery -- Medicine: salts., Watermark., and Publication year corrected in manuscript from '5' to '6.'
Publisher:
Publish'd 12 Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Interiors, Theaters, and Theatrical productions
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '230' in lower right corner., Three lines of text below title: Frenchman: begar my country be ver de ver in de invention of de modes and de fashions ..., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Frenchmen -- Englishmen -- Male dress: French, 1799.
Publisher:
Published April 8th 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Two columns of verse below image: Smoak [sic] is the order of the night, this a tete a tete enjoyment , but smoaking is my friends delight / When he has no great employment ..., Plate numbered '222' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: table -- Lighting: chandelier -- Dishes: tankards.
Publisher:
Published August 21st 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A lady, partly hidden by a sheaf of corn, reclines against a tree. The Duke of York, wearing regimentals and a mitre, prods her with the end of his crozier. She holds an open book inscribed 'Monody on the Death of the D- of R-d' [Rutland]. In the middle distance and on the extreme left a military officer stands on guard holding a sword and pistol: he says, "I am allways ready to Pimp or Bully."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Babes in the wood with Rawheadon, bloody bones
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, and Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, Marquess of Hastings, 1754-1826.
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 72' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: inns -- Inns: 'The Bull's Head' -- Signs: inn sign -- Signs: 'Licensed to deal in post horses' -- Clergy: parsons -- Male dress: spencer, 1797 -- Loughborough -- Horsemen.
