Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 1"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 14 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 1"--Upper right corner., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 12.4 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 12.7 x 17.7 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 8 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With pencil annotation "of the Queen" following title.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate line., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., One line of quotation below title: 'Tis application makes the ass. Gay., Subjects identified below image and dated "Anno 1756" in two different hands., Watermark., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23 x 31 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn in the Strand [i.e. Edwards & Darly]
Subject (Geographic):
Mahón (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, and Byng, John, 1704-1757
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate line., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., One line of quotation below title: 'Tis application makes the ass. Gay., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn in the Strand [i.e. Edwards & Darly]
Subject (Geographic):
Mahón (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, and Byng, John, 1704-1757
"Carriages approach the east front of Buckingham House (left), watched by spectators. The first coach is stopped by a monster who stands on the shoulders of two beefeaters, wearing a cap inscribed Gout; flames issue from broad nostrils, barbed darts from his mouth; he has talons for hands and feet. He says: You may all return from whence ye came, and lay up your court dresses in Lavender; for, by the King's Great Toe I swear, you shall not enter here. High up under the pediment of the façade, stands a demon or blue devil, legs astride, who shouts: You have not got him all to yourself Signor Pinchtoe!! A beefeater holds up a placard on a pole: Bulletin. Notice Drawing Room postponed. Precisely at twenty two minutes five seconds past four this morning it was discovered (by a Lord of the Bed-Chamber) that the left side of his Majesty's Great Toe, on the right foot had suffered a slight accession of Inflammation--it is not yet accurately known to the faculty wether it is a bite from a Blue Devil [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14598] a Whitlow, or the Gout. Signed Tierney Halford. The foremost coachman, wearing cocked hat, powdered wig, and nosegay, reins in a pair of heavy horses and gapes at the monster; ladies put feathered heads from the coach windows; one addresses a fat elderly man who stands by the coach: It's not pretty behaviour however to disapoint so many merely on account of a trifling Pinch of the Great Toe. He answers: My dear Lady! it would be quite contrary to Etiquette for a King to be seen limping into a Drawing Room upon crutches with a swelled Foot and a big Shoe. The two footmen behind are run into by the horses of the next carriage, which has men in plain livery; one turns to strike at the horses. The lady looks out to say: Its very provoking to be hoax'd in this manner after being put to all the Trouble and Expence! Two Irishmen stand together in the foreground, one says: By Jasus i'll be after bringing a Bill into the House to enable his Majesty to see company in his slippers, does'nt ould King Louis hold a Drawing Room with both his legs bound up in flannel? The other answers: Poh! Sir Pheligm! it comes with keeping bad company, has'nt he caught the complaint of the Ould City Baronet [Curtis] think you? Two liveried chairmen (right) have grounded their sedan-chair; one raises the roof, the other addresses the lady within; he points over his shoulder with his thumb, saying, They say as how there is a Bul-let-in and he has trod upon his Majestys Great Toe, and that makes all the botheration my Lady! She says: It's an Irish Bull then I am certain!! Behind the Park railing (right) are tiny spectators."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Birthday hoax, or, The gout at court and Gout at court
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Additional attribution to Robert Cruikshank from ink annotation "I.R. Cruikshank fecit" on Yale Medical Library impression., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils & demons.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 28th, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Carriages & coaches, Monsters, Honor guards, Crowds, Sedan chairs, and Servants
Leaf 122. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the times
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., Motto below title: Si populus vult decipi, decipiatur., "Later state." See No. 1611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Numbered "23" in lower right corner of image., and Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet. Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Cf. No. 6025 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to attack on Gibraltar -- Gibraltar as a castle in the moon -- Spain as Don Quixote -- Holland as Sancho -- France as a monkey -- Literature: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Title from item., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., "To ye tune of ye Black Joke"--Lower right corner of plate., Opening words: Whence comes it that ye shining great, to titles born and awful state ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, volume1., Watermark: countermark E., and Annotation in an unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, recto.
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's statement following publication information: To be had [the] corner of [the] West Passage of [the] Royal Exchange in Castle Alley., Two lines of verse below image: Since honesty is but an empty name, He that cheats the least is most to blame., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Abbey -- Westminster Quay -- Westminster Hall -- Slang: cole (money)., and Ms. annotations in an unidentified contemporary hand at bottom of sheet identifying subjects.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
