Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: Wild beasts of both sexes, here ladies & gemmen, Is the Royal tiger from Bengal, as tame as a lamb, will suffer you to put your head in his mouth, but not take it out again. Also the silver bear form Siberia. And the finest he lion in Europe, he is a remarkable beast, Eats his dinner with a spoom, like hasty pudding, and speaks Greek to a charm. Walk in. Walk in, Ladies & Gemmen., Plate numbered '159' in lower left corner., One of a series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Animal cruelty -- Fear.
Publisher:
Published 4th Sepr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Animal shows, Bears, Lions, Monkeys, and Spectators
"Half length portrait, scarcely caricatured, of a woman in profile to the right, smiling. She has a long nose and projecting chin, and wears a muslin cap, her hair hangs down her back with the ends looped beneath its heavy mass. Her neck is much swathed and she wears a fichu over her dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: fichu -- Cap.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Title from text above image., Publication information from earlier state described in the Calabi and de Vesme catalogue with imprint: London, Published October 1st, 1795, by John Jeffryes ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Five lines of verse etched below title: The Arch-angel Uriel, regent of the sun, Satan bowing low, down from th' ecliptick ... Paradise Lost, Book III.
"Four ladies stand displaying burlesques of the most recent fashions; their dresses all hang from a line slightly below the neck and, though varying in length, display the ankles. That of a very fat lady has a globular contour. The sleeves, all long, vary considerably; two have large puffs to the elbow. Hats and hairdressing are also satirized, showing the fashion for hair hanging down the back, or falling on the shoulders and looped up. Bunches of straw (see BMSat 8756) trim two of the hats. The slippers are heelless or low-heeled. A lady (left) whose dress reaches only to the calves and defines her legs, wears cross-gartered stockings, imitating the French shoes 'en cothurne'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
No bodys of 1795 and Nobodies of 1795
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Nobodies -- Female dress, 1795: high-waisted dresses -- Headdresses, 1795 -- Allusion to frocks of waggoners., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augst. 4, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Variant state, without words "Ich dien" on Princess of Wales's headdress. Cf. No. 8667 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to mulatto -- Furniture: dressing table -- Pictures amplifying subject: miniature of the Prince of Wales -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Dishes: water bowls., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate, mostly cut of: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which the print was issued., Plate from: Lysons, D. The environs of London. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell), MDCCXCV [1795], v. 3, title page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 11 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Cadell & Davies
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Lord Howe sits full-face in an armchair, reading a 'Gazette' headed 'June Ist 1795'. He wears naval uniform, with a hat, smokes a long pipe and scowls meditatively. A dog with the head of Sir Roger Curtis grovels at his feet, kissing his right toe; he has a collar inscribed 'Black Dick's Dog'. Behind Howe is a row of windows close together, with a view of the sea and ships. Beneath the windows is a broad shelf on which are wine-bottles, a sextant, and a punch-bowl. On a table at Howe's right hand are a glass of wine and a plan of Torbay."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
What a Curtis
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: Done from an original drawing by a British officer & publish'd as a guide to preferment., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: ship cabin -- Newspapers: Gazette -- Glass: wine bottles -- Glass: wine glasses -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Naval instruments: sextants -- Maps: map of Torbay -- Chamber pots -- Pets: dogs -- Smoking: pipes -- Naval uniforms: admiral's uniform -- Furniture: armchair.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799 and Curtis, Roger, Sir, 1746-1816
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB [B etched over N] folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Male fashion, 1795: cropped hair -- Allusion to the Bedford Level -- Allusion to the Duke of Bedford -- Allusion to freemasonry -- Glass: decanter with a label., and Watermark: countermark E & P.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"The interior of the House of Commons showing part of the Speaker's chair on the extreme left, and the adjacent Opposition bench on the right with a corner of the gallery. On the floor between the table and the front Opposition bench a large cask, resting on trestles, is exploding violently from the bung-hole. The inscription on the cask forms the only title to the print. In the explosion are the words: 'Reform', 'Peace', 'Liberty', 'Equality', 'no Slave Trade', 'Peace'. Part only of the Speaker's hat and wig are visible; his left hand is extended and the words 'Order Order' issue from his (invisible) mouth. Three occupants of the front Opposition bench cover their faces, two others flee from the explosion."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from text in image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Third of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., For a variant state with plate number "3" etched in upper left corner, see no. 8638 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Interiors: House of Commons -- Motion for peace with France, 27 May 1795 -- Allusion to Samuel Whitbread, 1764-1815 -- Containers: Casks.
