"A squarely built young man walks, with an unseeing stare, diagonally towards the spectator and to the left, on a pavement. He wears a round hat, high coat-collar over swathed neckcloth; his double-breasted 'Jean de Bry' coat, see BMSat 9425, is strained across a double-breasted waistcoat horizontally striped. He wears long breeches or pantaloons which drape his legs, and low pumps with cross gartering above his ankles. In his right hand he clutches a tasselled cane, held horizontally."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image. and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm ; penciled annotation identifies caricatured figure as 'Lord Fife'.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Six members of the society sit in a row, each singing a different song. All are ugly and elderly except one lady who turns to her neighbour singing, "In sweetest harmony we live." The latter, almost bald, sits on the extreme left, singing, "Time has not thinn'd my flowing hair." A fat, ugly lady bawls towards her left hand neighbour: "Encompass'd in [an] angels frame." He sings to her: "Together let us ran[ge] the fields." A man with closed eyes from which tears fall, sings: "Said a smile to a tear what cause have you hear." A gouty, old naval officer on the extreme right sings: "Oh exquisite harmony!! Music has charms to soften rocks and bend the knotted oak." A dishevelled footman with a bottle in his coat-pocket walks from the right, tilting his salver of glasses so that they fall on a squalling cat. He sings tipsily: "From night till morn I take my glass I hopes to forget my Chloe!!" A dog on the left howls
Alternative Title:
Catalanian picnic society at private rehearsal
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Crying, Dogs, Organizations, Rehearsals, Servants, Singing, and Sleeping
Title etched below image., 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: Fur wrap -- Male Costume, 1802., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Pub. Janry. 20, 1802 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Fur garments, Muffs, and Staffs (Sticks)
A man stands on the sidewalk, both hands on his walking stick, as a woman greets him at the open door of her residence on a elegant city street. A dog stands at her feet. The door has a knocker with a beast's head and is numbered '50'.
Alternative Title:
All out
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered '274' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of caption below design: Pray young woman is your master at home. No Sir he is gone out along with my Mistress..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 12, 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched within image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Diseases: Consumption -- Medical Procedures: Pulse Taking -- Medicine Bottle.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 12th, 1802 by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
"Satire: frightened doctor surrounded by ghoulish figures with medical implements, saws and medicines, one bleeding him, another offering a pill; with verse below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a reversed version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., A reversed version of this G.M. Woodward design, etched by Richard Newton and aquatinted by John Hassell, was published by William Holland on 11 November 1792. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.23., Six lines of verse beneath title: Those spectres seam'd with scars that threaten there, the victims of my late ill conduct are; ... Garth's Dispensary, Canto VI., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Garth's Dispensary.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 30, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Phlebotomy, Medical equipment & supplies, and Saws
Title etched below image., Text below title: Graciously dedicated to the Honble. Mrs. R-n, custodi morum &c &c., Six lines of verse below image, three on either side of title: Farewell ye girls! and still alas! As mama bids sad Red Coats shun! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Jamaica: Governor's house in Spanish Town -- Dancing: Jamaican ball -- Farewell for 67th Regt., Nov. 1801 -- Jamaican blacks -- Negro musicians -- Military musicians -- Ball costume, 1802 -- Military uniforms -- Officers uniforms -- Dances: Creoleon Hop -- Ballrooms -- Social customs: Jamaica, 1802., Matted to 56 x 72 cm., and Date in imprint altered in ms. from "1802" to "1803."
Publisher:
Published by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
A "find lady" presumably an anonym of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; she is made as welcome as circumstances will permit; a bottle of wine, the refreshment customary, is ordered, and the stern hearts of the sheriff's men are appealed to, while bail is sent for. It was a well-known practice at the beginning of the century, and earlier, to pay some obscure individual a trifling fee to become security on emergencies. Similar fictitious householders were always in attendance, and producible from the bar-rooms in the neighborhood. In the present case a professional limb, of the Hebrew persuasion, is presented, decently made up for the occasion, to tender himself as bondsman for the lady's due appearance. It is evident, however, that a suspicious recognition is taking place; 'Harry Holdfast, Officer of the Four Counties,' or his deputy, does not, judging from his expression, seem to approve of the surety, and the Jew looks somewhat disconcerted under his inspection. The tears of the unfortunate captive, and the plausible reassurance--as to the respectability of the bail offered--of her chaperone, or duenna, are powerless to move the stoic breast of the experienced catchpole
Alternative Title:
Jew bail rejected
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat wife sits beside him (right) blowing a trumpet to the grotesque inflation of cheek and neck. The eldest daughter (left) plays the double-bass; behind her stands a girl beating a tambourine. The younger children flank the design: a fat little girl (left) plays the triangle, looking up at her sister's tambourine. On the right a little boy sits at his mother's feet beating a large kettle-drum and shouting; he sits on two large volumes: 'Doctor Burneys Musical Travels [i.e., The Present State of Music in France and Italy ... 1771', and 'The Present State of Music in Germany . . . [etc.]', 2 v. 1773]. Mother and daughters are fashionably dressed; the daughters are comely. A howling dog seated on the extreme left adds to the impression of violent noise."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Two women, seemingly courtesans, stand together by an arcade of the Piazza, Covent Garden, a place notorious for brothels. One stands full face her features, hair, and the hat which frames her hair like a halo are intended to suggest a sunflower. She holds up a small parasol with a hinged stick. The other, directed to the left, holds a closed parasol; she wears a cylindrical bonnet projecting over face and neck. Both wear clinging high-waisted dresses, with bare necks, short sleeves, long gloves, and trailing skirts. Behind is a man arranging pot-plants for sale in the market; where are also conifers. The portico of the church and adjacent buildings form a background."--British Museum online interview
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '275' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Parasols -- Sun Flower -- Blue Belle -- Conifers -- Covent Garden.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 12, 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
