Two men both with lit candles on their hats and candles in their hands look anxiously around as the walk through a cave, presumably Peak Cavern (also know as the Devil's Arse).
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top, bottom, and right side., Numbered "Plate 92" in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russe 1797.
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to I. Cruikshank from unverified data in local card catalog record., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of eight groups of figures in two rows, with lines of text etched above each group., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Equestrians -- Hyde Park.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augst. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
"A design in two compartments; above, cavalry proceed right to left; below, infantry march left to right. [1] A burlesqued procession of men variously mounted. The leader, dressed as a light horseman and holding up a sabre, rides a horse with blinkers, trampling on a hen and chickens and leaving a dead pig behind him. He says: "Know all Men by these presents that if any accidents happen I do not Consider myself accountable for them after thus publiccally Warning every Person to keep within doors all all [sic] their live and Dead Stock!!" The next horseman, whose hat flies off, turns to shout: "Hollo there, some body be so good as to catch my hat." He is followed by a silent man riding a bull. Next him a man threatens with his sword a ragged boy on an ass: "What are you at you young scoundrel are you going to ride over the Captain keep in your rank you." The boy answers: "What d'ye mean by that I have as much right here as you." A man clasps his horse's neck, saying, "Curse the Horse how he Prances." Behind the ass, the horse of a man in civilian dress falls on its knees, throwing its rider, who says: "D------n the chimney Sweeper I thought he'd be over us." A rider (horse visible) shouts "Take care of the Apple Stall", while an old woman throws up her arms, shouting, "O Dear Mr Soldier dont ride over me." She is in danger from a man in regimentals, gauntlet gloves, and wearing a sword, but whose horse has blinkers. A man turns to him, saying, "D------n me you'll kill the old woman." He answers: "What signifies that charge her to the parish." The last of the procession is a yokel in a smock, on a horse with blinkers and collar. He rides down a pig and poultry; his neighbour turns to him, saying, "Mind what you are hat - you Sir in the Blue Frock if you kill the Pigs it will be actionable." He answers : "Then let them keep out of the way of the Sarvice." [2] An unsoldierly group march with bayoneted muskets, preceded by two boys with fife and drum. The officer, wearing a gorget and holding up a sword, scowls at a man behind him who raises his leg so high as to kick him, saying: "None of your tricks Jack dont Fancy you are in the shop now": the grinning offender is addressed by a man wearing a Grenadier's cap who marches beside him: "Mind what you are about or you will be had before a Court Martial". A man with tipsily closed eyes says, "I'm as giddy as a goose." A short, fat, elderly man in civilian dress says, "Warm work my Masters". His neighbour answers, "Nothing when you are used to it". A man wearing an apron rests his musket horizontally on his shoulder, saying, "This is the way to march"; he spikes the hat of the man behind, who shouts: "What are you at you fellow in green are you going to poke peoples eyes out". A stout man says, "When I kept the tripe Shop in the Borough who would have thought I should have rose to be an Insign." Beside him walks a woman with a bottle and glass shouting, "Does any Gentlemen in the front ranks want a drap of good Gin." A Grenadier marches beside the last couple looking contemptuously at a man in a shirt who says: "By goles this thing [musket] is so heavy it's the best way to drag it along and not carry it." The last man, who is bandy-legged, says, "I donna much like it."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of imprint statement and publisher's advertisement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. January 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: The sorrows of Werter I've read ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Miniatures as jewelry.
Publisher:
Pubd Feby. 6, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead and Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn, London
A satire on the challenges of traveling in a carriage, divided into four scenes
Alternative Title:
The effect of imagination!!
Description:
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 70' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
"Fox (right), a news-boy (as in BMSat 8458), ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury'. He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard: 'Daily Advertiser' (like those worn by news-boys); his horn is thrust through his belt. He shouts: "Bloody-News! - Bloody-News! - Bloody-News!! - glorious-bloody News for old-England! - Bloody News! - Traitrous- Taxes! - Swindling-Loans! - Murd'ring-Militia's.' - Ministerail-Invasions! - Ruin to all Europe! - alarming - bloody - News! - Bloody-News!!!" The knocker is a ring in the mouth of a Medusa head with the face of Pitt. From above the spiked bars of the closed gate issues a label: 'Lord! Fellow! - pray don't keep such a knocking & Bawling there; - we never take in any Jacobin papers here! - & never open the doors for any, but such as can be trusted: True-Briton's & such!' Under Fox's left arm is a roll of 'Paris-Papers'; in his left hand a large sheet of the 'Daily Advertiser' with three columns of advertisements, headed, 'Places Wanted, Wants Places', and 'Wanted: Wanted, - a Place in the Treasury. Wanted, an Appointment in the Exchequer. Wanted, a Situation at St James's. Wants a Place a thorough-bred Secretary. Wants a Place. A Man of all Work. Wants Employt a true Greek-Patriarch. Wanted, a Place in the Pension-List. Wanted, a comfortable Annuity for Life. Wanted, a snug Sinecure for Life. N.B: The above Mouth-stoppers will be purchas'd upon any Terms; - !!! For particulars apply to the Fox & Grapes in Starvation Lane - or, at the Box & Dice in Knave's Accre'. On the wall behind his head (right) is posted a bill: 'Just Publish'd a new Edition The Cries of the Opposition, or, the Tears of the Famish'd Patriots, dedicated to the consideration of the Ministry.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Two lines of text below title: "--for a dozen years past, he has follow'd the business of a Daily-advertiser ...", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Treasury -- Allusion to French newspapers-- Speeches: Dundas's speech in the House of Commons, 30 Dec., 1796 -- Bonnet rouge -- Door knockers.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 23d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Councils -- Reference to Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797 -- Reference to Admiral Adam Duncan (1731-1804) -- Reference to Admiral Jan Willem de Winter (1761-1812) -- Dutchmen., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pubd Octr. 15, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Croziers -- Bugaboo -- Keys: Papal key -- Military: Austrian soldiers -- Monsters -- Napoleonic Wars.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Charles, Archduke of Austria, 1771-1847, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
"The Duchess of Gordon runs in profile to the left, pursuing a bull which gallops away, out of reach. She holds out a ribbon inscribed 'Matrimony', tied in a bow, in which she wishes to noose the bull. She is stout, florid, and handsome, with tartan draperies hanging from her hair and looped about her dress. A slim daughter (Lady Georgiana) runs beside and behind her, saying, "Run, Mither! - run! run! O how I long to lead the sweet bonny Creature in a string! run! Mither! run. run." The Duchess cries: "De'el hurst your weam, ye overgrown Fool, what are ye kicking at? - are we not ganging to lead ye to Graze on the banks o' the Tweed, & to make ye free o' the Mountains o the North? - Stop! - stop! ye silly Loon ye! stop!, stop, stop." The scene is a bare and slightly mountainous moor. In the middle distance three other daughters of the Duchess dance hand in hand: one is in back view, half of her petticoats removed to show breeches, inscribed 'Manchester Velvet', indicating that she is Susan, who married the Duke of Manchester in 1793, and that she dominates her husband (cf. BMSat 8983). One (right) has a broom thrust through her sash to indicate that she is Louisa, m. Viscount Brome, 17 Apr. 1797. Beside the third (left) dances a spaniel attached to her waist by a ribbon inscribed 'K. Charles Breed', showing that she is Charlotte, who married Col. Lennox, see BMSat 7594 (afterwards Duke of Richmond). The Duchess was renowned for her match-making, in acquiring three dukes and a marquis for four of her five ill-dowered daughters. See Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, iii. 391 ff.; 'Corr. of Lord G. Leveson Gower', 1917, i. 68, 73, 76. The pursuit of the Duke of Bedford was not at first successful, but Lady Georgiana was believed to have been engaged to him shortly before his death in 1803 (ibid. i. 336-7), after which she married, as his second wife, his brother and heir, the 6th Duke."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bonny duchess hunting the Bedfordshire bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Match-making -- Matrimony -- Allusion to the Duke of Manchester -- Allusion to Col. Lennox -- Allusion to Viscount Brome -- Dogs: King Charles's spaniel -- Bulls -- Brooms -- Duchess of Manchester -- Viscountess Brome., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Bedford, Georgina Gordon, Duchess of, 1781-1853, and Richmond and Lennox, Charlotte Gordon, Duchess of, 1768-1842
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[7 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.07.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three unattractive older women, dressed without taste and one of them cross-eyed, smile intently at the viewer
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece from: An Olio of Good Breeding / by G.M. Woodward. London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Clarke ..., [1797]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: hats -- Mythology: the Three Graces -- Literature: quotation from Chesterfield's Letters to His Son.
Publisher:
Pub. May 07, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
