Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Pretty well I tank you Mr. Cesar only I aspire too much!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: 1830., Watermark: J Whatman., and Plate numbered in ms. near top of sheet: 237.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fans (Accessories), Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: "Yes sir but she bery petickly engaged in washing de dishes ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject headings: Male costume: 1830., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Eyeglasses, Monocles, Servants, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: Turn away thine eyes from me, Timothy, for they overcome me thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1830 -- Male costume: 1830 -- Lighting -- Shells: conch --Reference to Gilead., and Print numbered in ms. near top edge of sheet: 44.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Chairs, Dogs, Fireplaces, Mirrors, and Vases
Racist caricature lampooning the inept attempt by African Americans to mimic the leisure culture of white high society depicting an African American tea party hosted by "Mr. Ludovico" and "Miss Rosabella." To the far right of the table, "Miss Rosabella" pours steaming hot tea into a cup which tips over and spills onto a startled cat on the floor. To her right, "Mr. Ludovico" attends to the needs of "Miss Araminta" who protests his taking the trouble. Next to them, a disgruntled guest demands "anoder cup" of tea. An African American servant and the other guests, a mother holding her baby and her small son, observe and comment about the spilled tea on the cat and the flirtatious behavior of "Mr. Ludovico."
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1831.
"An obese, elderly, bottle-nosed man stands in his garden, in profile to the left, his knees flexed, in slippers, ungartered stockings, open waistcoat; he shades his eyes and looks up ecstatically. A cloud of flies buzz round his bald head; a panting spaniel looks up at him. A parrot perches on its open cage. The path is bordered by tulips; many butterflies are in the air."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Seasons -- Spring.
"A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Midshipman on half pay
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt. Cf. No. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Tower Hill (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
Leaf 66. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Midshipman on half pay
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt, see no. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 66 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Tower Hill (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes
"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a small top-hat on bunched-out hair, and with a heavy black moustache, and whiskers which meet, projecting from the chin. He inspects the child, looking through an eye-glass in the handle of a riding-switch. The infant is a little replica, heavily bearded, of its father, and holds up a similar switch; it wears a trimmed chemise with spurred boots. The father: Is it possible that I can be the Author of such an Eccentric production. The mother: Oh the little Brute! Who can doubt that when they see the horrid Likeness. The nurse: Brute indeed! why its a perfect angel And the very model of his Pa! Oh who can help Longing to Kiss him. A fashionable interior is indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Two of the figures identified by ms. notes in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
A scene with a group of mourners in a landscape, a palm tree to the left with a monkey watching and pointing to the drama. A man standing to the right reads from a book; three other figures, another man and a woman with a child on her back weep as they watch two men lower the deceased into the grave. The man on the right says, "How precious pale he look in de face." The other man holding the other end of the stretcher says, "Aye-Aye, him be no Moor."
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state of a plate first published by Gabriel Shire Tregear in 1834, the year in which the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. The original print was one of twenty caricatures with the series title 'Tregear's Black Jokes'. The prints developed the theme of the earlier 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures (of which Tregear published copies), lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population. After Tregear's death, the plates for 'Tregear's Black Jokes' passed to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this later state. The three mentions of Tregear's name on the plate have either been changed to Lewis's or simply effaced., Dated 1860 by the Library of Congress, but Hickman suggests that the prints were issued before that date., "Catalogue of prints"--Etched in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
T.C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Graves, Shovels, Grief, Crying, and Monkeys
Title from caption below image., Two lines of dialogue below title: Oh Wigsby my boy, did you ever shave a monkey? No sir, but if you'll just walk in I'll try., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigmakers -- Male hairdressers -- Theaters: Covent Garden -- Reference to monkeys -- Mirrors -- Reference to gas., Watermark: J. Whatman 1830., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 81.
