Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 7, 1799.
Call Number:
799.11.07.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Old bachellors in the next world chang'd into post horses with old maids driving them! and Old bachelors in the next world chang'd into post horses with old maids driving them!
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old men as post horses -- Old women -- Scourges.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Volume 4, after page 582. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sheridan, a candle in each hand, shambles before the royal party, ushering them through the theatre and looking over his shoulder with an expression of exasperated anxiety. The King, in back view, turns to the Queen, saying, "I like the Author very much - took him for a Jacobin - no such thing - quite a different man - brim full of loyalty - I'll certainly come again!!" Behind the pair Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain, walks stiffly, holding his staff and wearing his gold key. He is followed by one of the Princesses (Augusta Sophia), walking with the Prince of Orange, whose portly contour and sulky profile with closed eye appear on the extreme left. Through the door (probably that from the box lobby) Fox is seen holding a constable's staff and saying to the crowd, anxious to see the arrival: "Stand away there, don't stop up the passage you pack of Jacobin Rascals"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted after page 582 (leaf numbered '12' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, N. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840, William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Anxiety, Candles, Sconces, Interiors, and Theaters
"Pitt (caricatured), dressed as Rolla, addresses a group of chieftains (left); the ranks of the Peruvian army with erect spears watch from the background. Below the (printed) title is printed Rolla's patriotic speech from 'Pizarro', II. ii, beginning 'My brave Associates', 'and ... we serve a Monarch whom we love . . .' (see British Museum Satires No. 9436). He stands with both arms outstretched, head turned in profile to the left, pointing rhetorically across the sea to the Spaniards, whom Sheridan (in this speech) equates with French republicans, and who are here represented by the Foxites. The Peruvians wear feathered head-dresses and feather kilts in the manner of Red Indians, except Dundas, who wears tartan and feathered head-dress. Dundas (caricatured) sits on the ground holding bow and shield, and looking with cunning scepticism at Pitt; he is the only one of the ministerial group of five who can be identified, though others may be presumed to be Grenville, Portland, and Windham."--British Museum online catalogue and From the printed British Museum catalogue: "(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) The Foxites, who 'fight for power, for plunder and extended rule', and follow 'an Adventurer whom they fear', all wear or carry bonnets-rouges and have tricolour flags, one inscribed 'Libertas'. They are small comic figures headed by Fox, who urges them towards the water. The others (left to right) are Lauderdale with a flag, Derby with a shield, Bedford wearing a jockey cap, Erskine in wig and gown, Norfolk holding his Earl Marshal's staff, Tierney holding pistols (see BMSat 9218, &c), Burdett, and two unidentified figures. For Pizarro see BMSat 9396, &c. The scene is burlesqued and altered from the play, where it takes place in the Temple of the Sun. The patriotic speech of Rolla (cf. BMSat 9436) made the fortune of the play and was reprinted as a broadside or placard in 1803, see BMSat 9397."
Description:
Title from letterpress text above image., Watermark: 1794., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834., Windham, William, 1750-1810., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
Subject (Topic):
Public speaking, Armies, Peruvian, Headdresses, Shields, and Spears
Title from item., Printmaker identified based on unverified card catalog record., 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: Buildings: farm cottage -- Fences: gate -- Scare crows -- Female dress, 1799 -- Female dress: poke bonnet -- Male dress, 1799., and Mounted.
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Two lines of verse below title: Here vulgar nature plays her courser part. And eyes speak out the language of [the] heart ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Drinking vessels, Hats, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Rings, and Wine
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego., Two lines of verse below title: Here like the fly, vice flirts the painted wing without, all saint within, a venomed sting! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: headdress -- Male costume: night-cap-- Dishes: coffee service -- Coffee cups without handles, 1799., and Watermark: Russell 1798.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Eyeglasses, Jewelry, Older people, and Young adults
"One of the Directory, stripped to the waist, is chained by the wrists to a post inscribed 'Tree of Liberty' and surmounted by a bonnet-rouge (cf. BMSat 9214, &c). Suvóroff holds him by the hair and ferociously raises a whip to strike. He wears a fur-bordered cap (with skull and cross-bones as in BMSat 9387), tunic, cloak, and boots, and says: "This is the new Dance a la Carmagnole!" The other four Directors (see BMSat 9387), full-face, but looking sideways in horror at the Russian, wait their turn; one (left) kneels in supplication. They wear their official dress (see BMSat 9199); the cloak and hat of the victim are on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched within image. and Temporary local subject terms: Napoleonic wars, 2nd Coalition: reference to Suvorov's victories in Italy, 1799 -- Punishments: lashing -- Male costume: habits of the French Directors -- Male dress: Russian dress.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, kni︠a︡zʹ Italiĭskiĭ, 1730-1800
