"The rival candidates swarm up a pole, inscribed 'Westminster Election', in front of the hustings in Covent Garden. At the top is Burdett with the body and beak of a goose ... He is precariously poised on one webbed foot, the right leg. hanging down, dripping blood from a wound in the thigh (from Paull's bullet), but he is supported by a pitchfork held against his rightump by Horne Tooke, or the Devil, who stands astride the roof of the hustings. Tooke has webbed wings inscribed 'Deceit' and 'Sedition', cloven hoof and barbed tail, with round hat, coat, and clerical bands. Burdett's wings are 'Conceit' and 'Vanity'; his neck is stretched out towards an irradiated sun in the upper right. corner of the design, at which he is hissing, 'ssss [&c]' issuing from his beak. On the disk is a crown on a cushion; it is encircled by the words: 'The Sun of the Constitution'. Just below the goose is Cochrane, wearing the cocked hat and coat of a naval officer with striped seaman's trousers. He is active and agile, one hand on the pole, and one leg round it. In his right. hand he holds up a bludgeon: 'Reform', shouting fiercely to the mob below; his right. foot rests on the cask which encloses the paunchy body of the man below (Elliot), who is falling backwards. From his pocket issues a paper: 'Charges against St Vincent.' Below him legs and arms wildly outflung emerge from the cask which is inscribed 'Quassia' ... The head of the falling cask, inscribed 'Elliots Home Br[ewed], drops off, and its foaming contents pour down. Elliot drops a paper: 'Sixpenny Jack's Address'. Below Elliot, Sheridan, in his Harlequin suit (see BMSat 9916), enormously fat, grasps the pole with arms and legs, making no progress. Below him Paull falls head foremost and in back view to the ground; he is dressed as in BMSat 10725 and his (wounded) left leg breaks above the top-boot. He drops his shears and a cabbage. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Republican-goose at the top of the polle and Republican-goose at the top of the pole
Description:
Title etched below image., The second 'l' in 'polle' in alternative title is etched above the line, inserted into the word 'pole' using a caret., Text following title: Vide Mr. Paul's letter, article: Horne Tooke., Four lines of text below title: Also, an exact representation of Sawney McCockran flourishing the cudgel of naval reform ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.3 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 39 x 28.1 cm., and Price and identities of figures added in margin in Gillray's hand.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1807, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Paull, James, 1770-1808, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860, and Great Britain. Parliament
"Satirical print showing a fat Englishman mocked by a group of Parisians. The Englishman, built along the lines of John Bull, stands at right in his shirtsleeves, clapping his right hand to his forehead in wonder; at left, at least five French people stand together within his buttoned up waistcoat, gesticulating festively; behind at left, a fat woman admired by sketchily drawn thin onlookers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French people astonished at our improvement in the breed of fat cattle
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigs -- Male costume, 1812 -- Walking-sticks --Waistcoat., and In contemporary hand in ink: 231.
"Satire on the royal divorce: George IV as Falstaff in armour facing a motley assemblage of testifers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Witnesses arrived
Description:
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., and Mounted on page 20 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. June 20, 1820, by H. Fores, 16 Panton Str., Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
A macabre caricature divided into two compartments, The Dandy and The Dangle. On the left, a strutting dandy ties his neckcloth in front of a mirror saying: 'I declare these large Neckcloths are monstrously handy, They [serve] for a shirt too and make one a Dandy.' The right hand image is of a dandy, head covered in a cloth, dangling from a wooden beam with a tie around his neck. Behind him is a town square and in the foreground, a crowd looks on. The image is accompanied by the text: 'When a man comes to this there's little to hope, His neat Dandy Neckcloth is changed for a Rope'.
Alternative Title:
Modern neckcloths
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from dealer's description., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary manuscript correction in ink of the leftmost speech bubble, with the omitted word "serve" inserted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Great Britain, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Dandies, Mirrors, Neckties, and Hangings (Executions)
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
First panel: Fieschi, an obese man holding a small glass and a cigar, is slumped down in a chair in front of a table on which a bowl of "infernal soup" sits; an officer and a monk stand over him; second panel: Beresford kneels and prays to a tall demon figure materializing from a cloud of smoke; the demon stands within a ring created by bags of money while wearing a crown of skulls and holding a staff with a skull and crossbones at the end
Description:
Titles from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of first panel of design., Probably a print from the series The political drama, which was published ca. 1833 by G. Drake; see British Museum online catalogue., Design consists of two panels side by side, each individually titled., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Sheet trimmed with probable loss of imprint and series statement. Conjectured to be no. 125 in the series based on the number "125" written in brown ink in lower left corner of first panel of the design., Mounted on green paper backing., and No. 125.
Publisher:
G. Drake
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Fieschi, Joseph, 1790-1836 and Beresford, James, 1764-1840
"A promenade in Hyde Park. Pelisses heavily trimmed with fur, large muffs, and feathered hats are conspicuous; skirts, slightly trained, reach the ground. One woman wears a much-patterned and flounced dress, without a wrap, and a bonnet surmounted with realistic flowers. The leaning back attitude in walking (see British Museum Satires No. 14438) is that of one woman only; she takes the arm of a dandy in frogged coat and inflated white trousers. A man in a tight-waisted overcoat with large buttons worn with boots, breeches, and a checked neck-cloth, his hands in his pockets, is conspicuous: the lady taking his arm wears much ermine, with a muff and a hat which is a base for towering roses and a dangling lace veil. Uniforms are absent."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spring fashions for 1824 and Monstrosities of 182[4]
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Imperfect; the digit "4" in "1824" at end of title has been changed to a "6" in manuscript, and the digit "4" in "1824" in text above image has been added in manuscript. Obscured text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. March 14, 1824, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Muffs, and Hats
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout ugly woman stoops admiringly towards a child who stands uncertainly, with raised arms, on splayed-out and rickety legs. He wears a little frock and a feathered hat of quasi-military shape. She wears a mob-cap and a flowered gown looped over a quilted petticoat. She says: "Sweet little Baby! how it toddles along--Of Bless those pretty legs of thine I am sure thee wilt become Lord Mayor, and may-hap a Member of Parliament"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Febyy. [sic] 1810 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11616 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "215" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 48 x 31 cm.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout ugly woman stoops admiringly towards a child who stands uncertainly, with raised arms, on splayed-out and rickety legs. He wears a little frock and a feathered hat of quasi-military shape. She wears a mob-cap and a flowered gown looped over a quilted petticoat. She says: "Sweet little Baby! how it toddles along--Of Bless those pretty legs of thine I am sure thee wilt become Lord Mayor, and may-hap a Member of Parliament"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Febyy. [sic] 1810 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11616 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "215" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.8 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., Speech bubble for the child added in ink, with "You old fool" written inside it in a contemporary hand., and Leaf 73 in volume 3.
"A lank-faced dissenter with squinting upturned eyes, and open gap-toothed mouth, sits up in bed, chanting: "O Lord what makes the fleas to bite / I never did them harm / At first they came by twos & three's / But now how they do swarm." His shirt is ragged and lank hair pokes through his night-cap. On the pillow beside him (left) is the sleeping face of a plump woman, framed by a cap-frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Psalm singer and Flea bites, or, The ballad singer
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from the Lewis Walpole Library impression, on which the word "psalm" has been erased and replaced with "ballad" in manuscript., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In addition to the alteration to the title, the word "Lord" in the speech text has been erased and changed in manuscript to "Dear".
A full-length view of a woman in an elaborate costume, with feathers and on her dress and flowers in her big hair
Description:
Title etched above image., Text following title: To be continu'ed., Four lines of verse below image: To see our feather'd nymph appear in all her flaunting glittering gear ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and printmaker's signature., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Signed in contemporary hand on verso: ...[?] Porter.
