"A country barber, his assistant, and a boy, are engaged in shaving and wig-dressing. An elderly rustic sits full-face and well-lathered in an arm-chair in the centre of the shop, while a lean and tattered barber holds the bowl. A stout farmer in top-boots (left) with a stubbly face dubiously contemplates a wig, which he holds on a tall wig-block. On the right a fat barber painfully shaves an old man, while a younger customer stanches a cut over a basin. A young boy in front of them holds two elaborately curled legal wigs. A long judge's wig, uncurled, hangs from a wig-block. Behind (left) a prim, elderly man in a newly dressed wig adjusts his neck-cloth at a small mirror; a coachman in back view puts on his tightly curled wig. There are also two dogs, two cats, a magpie taking part of a wig from a box on the floor, and another bird in a cage. Above the door (right) are fishing-rods and a creel. On the wall are four prints: a naval battle (framed); a view of the 'County Gaol'; an execution scene; and a skeleton fiddling to exulting demons. There is also 'A Calendar of the Prisoners to be Tried. . . '. The room is ramshackle with a casement window, bricks showing through the plaster. From the roof hang a ham and a bundle of turnips and carrots."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with partially scored-through imprint of H. Humphrey burnished from plate. Cf. No. 11779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate dated in lower left corner below image: London, January 9th, 1811., Text above image, preceding publication line: The last work of the late James Gillray., and Mounted on leaf 85 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Now first published May 15th, 1818, by G. Humphrey, nephew and successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A grotesque dandy walks in a landscape in profile to the right, bending at the waist, sucking a cane, left arm hanging stiffly. His features and dress are inscribed with the names of food, e.g. his red carbuncled rose is 'Currant Jelly', his shallow broad-brimmed hat (an eccentricity) is 'Calves Head Jelly' and 'Pancake'; the cravat which covers neck, cheek, and chin is 'Puff Paste'; his loose short trousers are 'White Sugar Bags'; his handkerchief 'Blow Monge'; his long spurs 'Gilt Gingerbread'. See British Museum Satires No. 13029. A companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 13057 with the same signature."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Exquisite dandy. Prodigious!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from text above image: An exquisite dandy. Prodigious!!!, Production of the print was apparently a joint effort by Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank, according to the note "By my brother I.R.C. assisted a little by G.C" to the impression in the collection of W.T. Spencer (1931). See British Museum catalogue., Perhaps a different state from that described in the British Museum catalogue; the latter seems to lack any text in the upper margin. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.288., and Companion print to: A nice lady, or, An incomparable!!!!
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 12th, 1818, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Staffs (Sticks)
Published May 4, 1818, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., nephew & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Princess of England, 1770-1840, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Caricatures and cartoons., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, and Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Dance, Obesity, Military uniforms, Drinking vessels, Musical instruments, Dogs, and Pipes (Smoking)
"A fantastic scene takes place in a cobbled street between two buildings: a large house (left) with the words 'London / Coffee / House' in huge letters above the ground, first, and second floors respectively; and (right) 'The London Tea House' on a façade above the shop-front of the 'Genuine Tea Company' [at 23 Ludgate Hill]. From a centre first-floor window of the latter steps a winged figure resembling Fame, blowing a trumpet from which issue the words 'No Adulteration'. A Chinese, resembling the figures on the trade-cards of tea-dealers, who seems to have walked out of the shop, holds a firebrand inscribed 'Pro Bono Publico' to an open tea-chest inscribed 'Chinese Gunpowder', the contents of which are exploding in flashes inscribed 'Genuine Tea' and terminating in black clouds, so as to tilt over a huge kettle inscribed 'Steam Engine' (which fills the greater part of the design and against which also Fame directs her blast), from which rise clouds of steam surrounding many little men who look out of the (lidless) kettle. The spout is inscribed 'Exchequer' and from it men (tea-dealers) are being poured head first into a china tea-pot (left) on which is a Chinese pattern: a tree with two branches, one inscribed 'To the Ks Bench', the other (in reversed characters) 'To Newgate'. One exclaims: "There was No Tea in the composition!!!!! yet they fined me £2320!!!" Another: "It's never too late to mend." Round the tea-pot lie bundles inscribed respectively: 'Clover & Ash'; 'Sloe leaves'; 'Verdigrease'; 'Potatoe Parings'; 'Dutch Pink'; 'Elder leaves'. Behind the spout is the word 'Bohea'. Other tea-dealers are falling from the kettle; one says: ""I wish to retrieve my Character" / "and I think that it is fair we / should All be Tarred" / with the same Mop.!!" vide report of the Meeting." Another: "We have been togathe [sic] & we'll go togather." In the centre of the tea-dealers emerging from the kettle is one represented by a chair with human head and arms, showing he is their Chairman (one Bedwells) and that a meeting of tea-dealers is represented: he holds out a paper: 'Tea paper Resolved--00000 Resolved--00000'. He says: "Gentlen, Unless we can make our Tea, a little better, depend upon it, we shall all go to pot! I am quite affected by it already-- but I hope I shall go to Bed-well." Beside him is a canister inscribed 'Ludgate Hill Gas'; on this sits a bird, chirping up at him. One of his audience says: "Aye, aye, we shall all be Dished"; another asks: "who calls, me a-ber-y." A man answers: ""I, said the Sparrow" vide Cock Robin." A man with an axe for head (? Axford): "I wish to Ax, if anybody can afford to sell cheaper?" The other speakers appear also to indicate their names: "Sharps the word"; "I'll be Secretary, for I'm the Man for a Brown Study"; "who talks about sloes & black Berries"; "Come down with your Dust: I'm Treasurer"; "This is a bad Day for us--O, it will play the devil with us this Winter"; "Let's Marshall ourselves against this new Tea Compy"; "I lament this exposure, it makes me as melancholy as a Gibbs [the s scored through] Cat." Some look from the right of the kettle towards the new shop: one (? Shaw) says: "who cares a Button?--'Shaw!"; others: "Let's throw as much dirt at Concern [sic] as we can"; "Take care you don't splash your self"; "That's right! [? Wright] pelt away, never mind dirtying ourselves." Other speeches rising in the steam are: "Mr Chair man I consider this a Second Gunpowder plot it is evidently so as they opened on the 5th of November"; "Suppose we meet in Holborn"; "Although the Names of certain persons have been suppressed in the public prints there is no doubt but the Commissioners of Excise will give facility to the exposure of every delinquent coming under thier notice--see report of the Meeting." A little boy stands below looking up at the kettle; he says: "My eye! how the scum bubbles up to the top!" On the ground (right) sits a street-seller with a large bundle of papers under her arm inscribed 'Resolutions of the T. Trade--&c &c.' Beside her are other papers: 'Resolutions, &c.' and 'Tea Paper'. She holds out a straw, saying, "Who'll buy my ha'porth of Straw?-- for my part, if I could get good Tea I should not care a straw who I bought it of!" Customers enter the shop of the 'Genuine Tea Company'. One lady on the pavement meets another, saying, "I am going to mak a purchase of this New tea Company." Her friend answers: "I have just been we may now I think ask each other to a Cup of Tea!" A grotesque dandy, in short loose trousers over high boots, inspects the shop through a glass, saying, "Excellent! establishment pon honor!!", while an old woman in a red cloak hurries in at the door, saying, "Now for a Good Cup of Tea once more." A dog of dachshund type with 'Tim' on its collar barks at this group."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tea trade in hot water! and Pretty kettle of fish!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text above image: "The nefarious & abominable practice of mixing teas with various cheap ingredients of the most poisonous qualities, has already been sufficiently exposed; "!!!--" because their practices are calculated to produce disease, if not death" - vide Observer, Novr. 8th, 1818., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 14th, 1818, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Title etched below image., Image size including ruled lines: 245 x 345 mm., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.6 x 36.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Caricatures and cartoons, Jig (Dance), Couples, Dance, Kissing, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album., and On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
