Two men shown full-length face each other. The man on the left is very fat and stands with his hands in his pockets beside his huge belly. The man on the right is very thin and holds a basket and a walking-stick
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Title from item., Date etched below design on the right, following the title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermarks: IV ; Strasburg lily LVG.
"The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - "let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! - ". [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the door-keeper. Addington, in profile to the right, makes his budget speech; in his hand is a paper: '25 Mill. Loan'. Behind him is a crowd of undistinguished-looking members, as in BMSat 9843. Hawkesbury sits next Addington's empty seat, holding the 'Treaty [of] Peace'; his fingers are to his face as in BMSat 9843, but to his nose in place of his lip. The corner of the table is on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Despair.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Sir William Addinton's budget speech, April 5, 1802 -- Taxes: income tax., 1 print : etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 30.6 x 23.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 44 of volume 5 of 12.
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Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Dickinson, William, 1745-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
"The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - "let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! - ". [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the door-keeper. Addington, in profile to the right, makes his budget speech; in his hand is a paper: '25 Mill. Loan'. Behind him is a crowd of undistinguished-looking members, as in BMSat 9843. Hawkesbury sits next Addington's empty seat, holding the 'Treaty [of] Peace'; his fingers are to his face as in BMSat 9843, but to his nose in place of his lip. The corner of the table is on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Despair.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Sir William Addinton's budget speech, April 5, 1802 -- Taxes: income tax.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Dickinson, William, 1745-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Title from caption below image., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
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Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Caption in design: Here they are my lasses the English guineas! Monopoly has been the order of the day in England, and now I am in Paris huzza for a monopoly of French charmers in pettitcoats!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Lord Kirkcudbright stands at a dressing-table on an immense baron's coronet which serves as a foot-stool, regarding himself in a draped mirror. He wears a court suit and sword with an immense bag to his wig, which sticks out from his humped back. His left arm is akimbo, fingers outspread, right arm bent and holding a small tricorne in a swaggering pose that exaggerates his deformity, which is further accentuated by a shirt frill. His profile is almost concave; the mirror reflects a satisfied full face. On the table are toilet appliances and a large bottle labelled 'Velno', a quack venereal remedy, see BMSat 7592. He says: '"Methinks I'm now, a marv'lous proper Man, - "I'll have my Chambers lin'd with Looking Glass, "And entertain a score or two of Tailors, - "To study Fashions to adorn my body, - '."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 64 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Soldiers in double file march (left to right) in a Paris street diagonally across the design. They are led by a fat debauched-looking monk who leers at a nun by his side; both carry drawn sabres. A fiddler capers in front of the pair. Next is a drummer; the soldiers are correctly dressed and carry bayoneted muskets. A man with a long loaf of bread waves his hat frantically. In the foreground (left) is a shoeblack who, gazing at the monk and nun, applies his brush to the stocking of his enraged customer. Other spectators are a lawyer, an officer arm-in-arm with a coquettish girl. On the extreme right a 'limonadier', his vessel strapped to his back, turns its tap into the glass of a dwarfish boy or man. The lower part of buildings abutting on the street forms a background: a church wedged between a house (left) and a barber's shop (right) indicated by wigs and implements painted on the shutter, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by William Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
Title from caption below image., Artist identified as Abraham James, an army officer who had been stationed in Jamaica for the previous three or four years. See entry in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: -- Jamaican table settings -- Food -- Fruit -- Pineapples -- Beverages -- Wine -- Wine glasses -- Social customs: Jamaica, 1802 -- Cigar smoking -- Chairs -- Lighting: Candle sconces -- Chandelier -- Military Uniforms, 1802.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 12, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
"Three women seated at a round table listen intently to a fourth who reads 'The Monk' by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. One, full face, is old and ugly, the others young and comely; they register excited horror. The reader sits in profile to the left, elbows on the table; from an ornamental clasp at her waist hangs a watch, showing that the time is 12.45; a younger sister, hardly grown up faces her. The room is lit by a single candle on the table; beside it lie smoking snuffers in a tray. Curtains are draped across the window, a fire burns in the grate (right). Heavy shadows are thrown. The ornaments on the chimney-piece (the right of which is cut off by the right margin) are a Gorgon looking down at the women, a skeleton from which snakes emerge, and a dragon. On the fireplace is a carving in relief: Pluto carrying off Persephone in his chariot. There is a picture of a man in armour carrying off a protesting young woman, with rape and slaughter indicated in the background. The room is luxuriously furnished, the women are elaborately dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Literature reference: The Monk by M.G. Lewis.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"Three women seated at a round table listen intently to a fourth who reads 'The Monk' by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. One, full face, is old and ugly, the others young and comely; they register excited horror. The reader sits in profile to the left, elbows on the table; from an ornamental clasp at her waist hangs a watch, showing that the time is 12.45; a younger sister, hardly grown up faces her. The room is lit by a single candle on the table; beside it lie smoking snuffers in a tray. Curtains are draped across the window, a fire burns in the grate (right). Heavy shadows are thrown. The ornaments on the chimney-piece (the right of which is cut off by the right margin) are a Gorgon looking down at the women, a skeleton from which snakes emerge, and a dragon. On the fireplace is a carving in relief: Pluto carrying off Persephone in his chariot. There is a picture of a man in armour carrying off a protesting young woman, with rape and slaughter indicated in the background. The room is luxuriously furnished, the women are elaborately dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Later state, with text added above image. See British Museum catalogue., Dedication etched above image: This attempt to describe the effects of the sublime & wonderful is dedicated to M.G. Lewis Esqr. M.P., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1st, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
