Waterton (right) sits erect and composed astride a Cayman (South American alligator) holdings its forelegs twisted backwards as a bridle. He is barefooted, wearing white shirt and trousers, with a knife in his belt. Four Indians and three black enslaved men haul at the rope attached to the bait which the creature has swallowed. Behind is the river with a long canoe lying against the shore. On the opposite bank are dense trees, some with hammocks slung between them. See British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below title: "Vide Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton Esqr. Page 232"., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1831.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1827 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
South America,
Subject (Name):
Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865, and Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Subject (Topic):
Indians, Enslaved persons, Black people, and Alligators
"Scene in a ramshackle garret. A dandy in a late stage of decay crouches over the fire (where an iron is heating) on a small stool, holding out his shirt, befrilled and collared, but sleeveless. He wears tightly laced stays over bare flesh, which is ravaged by insects or skin-disease, with ragged drawers and socks. Other ragged garments hang from a string across the fireplace, others project from a crock (right) where they are being washed. Boots, blacking, &c., are on the floor. Coat, hat, trousers, and eyeglass lie on a makeshift bed; an overcoat hangs on a coat-hanger. His hair is brushed upwards from the neck with one lock arranged over the forehead. His whiskers are on a stand on the table, with broken combs, tooth-brush, &c. On the wall hang his umbrella, a pair of bootsoles, and a red herring. On the chimney-piece, with medicine-bottle, tea-pot, &c., is a ballad headed by a gibbet with corpses. On a box which forms a head to the bed are band-box, cane, cracked mirror, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
A young woman is shown full-length in a huge head-dress and "fashionable" dress elaborately decorated with flowers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Introduce me to your female friends for whom, by taste, I was designed., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Treguar 106 St. Martins Lane Chairing Cross
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Variant state with altered title. Cf. no. 13420 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, vol. 9., and Watermark.
"George IV sits on a sofa holding the plump and pretty 'Mrs Q' (see British Museum Satires No. 13889) on his knee; they kiss each other. Objects of burlesqued chinoiserie surround them. Above his head, in a frame decorated with dragons, pagodas, and mandarins, is a view of the Pavilion: 'The Palace of Fum'. [See Moore's 'Morning Chronicle' verses 'Fum and Hum, the two birds of Royalty', reprinted 'Fudge Family', 1818.] An obese mandarin wearing a hat topped with antlers, and with half a crown (see British Museum Satires No. 13826) depicted on his paunch, is 'The great Fum', i.e. the King. This figure rests on the head of an obese dragon. Another figure of a squatting mandarin is on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from signature "I.R. Ck." on later state in the British Museum. A questionable attribution to William Heath is also suggested in the British Museum catalogue entry for that state, likely based on the "Argus" signature; see page 799 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Early state, before printmaker signature added after imprint statement. For a later state that includes this signature, see no. 13897 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Printed on watermarked paper., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 105 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Mrs. Quintin [sic]" identified in ink below image; date "21 Oct. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 21, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Quentin, Georgina, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
"Scene in Assembly Rooms. Three dandies (cf. No. 13029), with the heads respectively of ape, ass, and dog, walk arm-in-arm towards a buffet in a recess (right). The first wears tight evening pantaloons and carries an opera-hat, the others wears hats, trousers (one gathered at the ankle, the other short and wide), and spurred boots, and carry canes. Two pretty and elegant ladies, arm-in-arm (left), watch with amused contempt; one looks through a lorgnette, saying, "What things! non descripts, brought here by the Discovery Ships, Esquimeaux." Below the title: 'Behold ye Dandies, scum of manly race An Ape, an Ass, a Puppy, dress'd like Beaux So in a Glass, Face answers unto Face, That here, each Dandy his own Portrait Shows.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dandy tribe
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist identifiedy by symbol resembling a "phi.", Four lines of text below title: Behold [the] dandies, scum of manly race, an ape, an ass, a puppy, dress'd like beaux ..., "Price 1s.", and Watermark: J. Whatman Tunbridge Wells 1818.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1818 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "318" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Dundann.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "318" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., 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 24.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 15 in volume 5.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Basted Mill.
