Title from caption below image., First issued 15 Oct. 1821, by G. Humphrey. Cf. No. 14289 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
"An imitation of Patriotick Meteors, British Museum Satires No. 4887 (1771). Three heads, with rays or fire streaming from them, dart downwards and to the right into the gaping jaws of a monster from which issue the flames of Hell (cf., e.g., British Museum Satires No. 10011), inscribed Gulf of Oblivion. Alderman Wood is foremost, from his neck hangs a rolled document: Queen's Will. His trail of fire expands behind him from the end of his tiny pigtail, and is inscribed Wisdom [see British Museum Satires No. 13899, &c.]. Next is the profile head of Sheriff Waithman; the fiery trail expands from the end of his black bag, and is inscribed Inquest. Last is the head of a horse, with a black bag and tail like that of Waithman, inscribed Queen's Mayor [Thorpe]. Double civic chains hang from the necks of the last two."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Exitus acta probat
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 105 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Waithman" and "Wood" identified in ink below image; date "14 Sept. 1821" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of sixteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Waithman, Robert, 1764-1833, Thorp, John Thomas., and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Meteors, Monsters, Wills, Sheriffs, Municipal officials, and Horses
"A tall man in uniform holding out one arm horizontally, that passes above the head of a standing soldier; on the table beisde him a huge hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Giantism -- The French Giant.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons), Human curiosities, Military uniforms, and Hats
Title from caption below image., Originally published by George Humphrey in 1821. Cf. British Museum catalogue no. 14297., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Variant state lacking imprint statement. Cf. no. 14297 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Portrait of an elderly man in profile facing to the right and gazing sternly through his spectacles. In his hand he holds a sheaf of papers; another stack of papers fill the pocket of his coat. He stands on boards, perhaps a platform. He is identified in the British Museum catalogue as the merchant Robert Pulsford who died ca. 1835; he and his brother were merchants at 7 Great St. Helens
