"Below the title: '"Why who the Devil have we got here!! - It is only me Massa.' A man starts up in bed clutching the bed-curtain, staring round in horror at a black woman beside him, who grins at him, her right. hand on his right. shoulder. Her appearance, with white eyeballs and gleaming teeth, is sinister, and the man's hair rises through his night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Caption below title: Why "who the devil have we got here." It is only me Massa., and Watermark: C. Ansell 1824.
Title from caption etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Proof copy?, and Possibly later published as no. 10802 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Title from text in image., Artist and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Nine lines of descriptive text located centrally in design: In presenting to your notice these volumes of caricatures, I am desired in the names of the publishers, artists, & also from myself ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Three lines of text inscribed within a banner across the lower portion of sheet: The new music to the popular cotillion of country dance ... Performed with unbounded applause at the Olympic Pavilion, Newcastle Street, Strand. The Melody adapted to the various steps by Mr. Astley Senr., "Sold by all the music sellers in town & country"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A bedroom scene. A plump lady sits in a chair, making gestures of pain with hands and legs, while a hairdresser combs her back hair, and a negress combs a tress pulled forward over the face. Behind (left) another hairdresser combs the tousled hair of a lean man, who registers anguish. Below the design: 'Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair when by poking curiously about on board of Ship, it has become clammed and matted with pitch or tar far beyond all the powers of the comb.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker and publisher from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Bedrooms, Hairdressing, Servants, and Women domestics
Men in various stages of drunkenness sit at a dinner table while others are passed out on the floor. One man in topboots dances on the table as he waves his hat and a bottle. Several of the men of the party are passed out in their chairs or have fallen on the floor. An obese parson leans against the wall as he vomits. Several of them are wearing hunting hats; on the wall are antlers and a hunting-piece
Alternative Title:
While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex ...
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex being under under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day to save your life. Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 17 x 25 cm.
"An old man sitting on a stool, holding a mug in his left hand and spoon in his right, his eyes squeezed tightly shut suggesting that he is blind, his right hand and legs affected by a condition which has reduced them in size."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and portions of statement of responsibility., Description based impression in the Library of Congress, PC 1 - 10696., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published March 1st, 1807 by William Miller, Albemarle Street
Subject (Topic):
Older people, People with disabilities, Stools, and Drinking vessels
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from Krumbhaar., Plate numbered "260" in the upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from Krumbhaar., Plate numbered "260" in the upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 42 in volume 4.
