"Courtenay (right), as the chairman of a tavern club, sits at the head of an oblong table, in profile to the left, smoking. He says to George Hanger, who faces him at the foot of the table: "I say, Georgey how do Things look now?" The words issue from his mouth in a cloud of smoke. Hanger answers: "Ax my Grandmother's Muff, pray do!" He holds a pipe, his wine-glass is overturned. His bludgeon is thrust in his top-boot. On Hanger's right sits Fox, leaning back in his chair, registering extravagant amusement and saying "O charming! - charming!" Opposite Fox sits Sheridan, clasping a decanter of 'Brandy' in one hand, a glass in the other. He says, with a sly smile, "Excellent! - damme Georgey, Excellent." Next him, and on Courtenay's right, sits M. A. Taylor, flourishing his pipe and saying, "Bravo! the best Thing I ever heard said, damme." On the table are decanters of 'Mum' and of 'Champaig[n]'. Above Courtenay's head is a picture of a simian creature in a cap of Liberty, squatting on the ground and smoking a pipe. The frame is inscribed 'Juvenal'. The floor is carpeted, the chairs are ornate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Feast of reason and the flow of soul and Wits of the age setting the table in a roar
Pubd. Feby 4th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, and Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
On the cobblestone street in front of an elegant house, a man in Scottish Highlander attire uses his back to hoist an obese woman into an awaiting carriage. The coachman stands beside him with a whip in hand; his nose is disfigured (syphilitic?).
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered '204' in lower left of plate., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., One line of text below title: Push on. -- Keep moving., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 25th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book x, page 127 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 61 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed witihin plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: chancellor's robes -- Emblems: Great Seal -- Chancellor's mace.
"An officer walks, on a broad pavement, away from the spectator, his head slightly turned to the left, showing his profile. He wears Light Horse uniform, a plumed helmet, short tunic, sash, and long sabre. The toes of his tasselled boots terminate in spikes. He uses a walking-stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Light Horse -- C. Cunningham, fl. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 66' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Busts: Shakespeare's bust -- Falstaff -- King Lear., and Watermark: E. Vallan(...?). Name partially trimmed off.
Gown metamorphosed into a ghost and The effect of imagination
Description:
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 60' in upper left corner., Placement instructions in upper right corner: Page 137., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Clothes lines -- Yokels., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Handbills.
"A 'cit' smokes angrily over his glass, tilting his chair, while his pretty young wife sits with folded arms. A handsome young officer opens the door, apparently unseen by both. Below the design: 'Husband. - What makes you look so thoughtful my Love, what are you puzzling your Dear Head about now." Wife - Why you said last Night at Supper, that you knew every one in our Street were Cuckolds but one, - And I have been Puzzling Myself ever since to find out who that one could be." - "Husband.-" Oh! Oh! Very well, I have done."'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '202' in lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Cuckolds -- Furnishings -- Furniture.
Publisher:
Published 10th October 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Women, Military officers, Adultery, Mirrors, Pipes (Smoking), and Chairs
New Irish jaunting car, Tandem, or, Billy in his sulky, and Billy in his sulky
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and Temporary local subject terms: Unions: reference to the Union of Ireland and Great Britain -- Resolutions: reference to Irish resolutions, 1798 -- Unions: reference to Irish objections to the union -- Slogans: voice of the people -- Vehicles: sulky -- Signs: singposts -- Bulls -- Paddy Bull (Symbolic character) -- Whips.
"A stout lady wearing a tartan scarf supports the Prince of Wales, who is tipsily waving a lighted (and broken) candle, towards the open door of a bedroom (right). He is dishevelled, with ungartered stockings; his left arm is round the lady's neck. She holds a full wine-glass whose contents are spilling. Behind the Prince's back she snaps her ringers derisively at Lady Jersey, who enters (left), in under-garments and night-cap, saying, "I'll discover the Correspondence in Revenge". The scene is a small ante-room between two bedrooms; in it are a table with bottles and glasses at which is an arm-chair. Behind Lady Jersey (left) is a bed over which is a coronet with the letter 'J', in the other room (right) there is a coronet with the letter 'G' above the bed. Lord Jersey's head and shoulders project from under his wife's bed; he looks towards her, saying, "Upon my Honor I don't think he uses us well after giving me all this trouble for nothing!!" On the wall behind the chair is a circular scrawl indicating a picture inscribed 'D. Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A cure for the heart ache!!
Description:
Title text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of carecatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Interiors: bedrooms -- Ante-room -- Susan Gordon, Duchess of Manchester.
Publisher:
Pub by S.W. Fores, N.50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, and Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805
"A stout lady wearing a tartan scarf supports the Prince of Wales, who is tipsily waving a lighted (and broken) candle, towards the open door of a bedroom (right). He is dishevelled, with ungartered stockings; his left arm is round the lady's neck. She holds a full wine-glass whose contents are spilling. Behind the Prince's back she snaps her ringers derisively at Lady Jersey, who enters (left), in under-garments and night-cap, saying, "I'll discover the Correspondence in Revenge". The scene is a small ante-room between two bedrooms; in it are a table with bottles and glasses at which is an arm-chair. Behind Lady Jersey (left) is a bed over which is a coronet with the letter 'J', in the other room (right) there is a coronet with the letter 'G' above the bed. Lord Jersey's head and shoulders project from under his wife's bed; he looks towards her, saying, "Upon my Honor I don't think he uses us well after giving me all this trouble for nothing!!" On the wall behind the chair is a circular scrawl indicating a picture inscribed 'D. Manchester'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A cure for the heart ache!!
Description:
Title text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of carecatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Interiors: bedrooms -- Ante-room -- Susan Gordon, Duchess of Manchester., Subjects identified on mat below image., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 39 cm cm., and On wove paper, hand-colored, matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Pub by S.W. Fores, N.50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, and Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carecatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Dentists -- Advertisements: Brewers trew English tooth powder -- Furniture: sofas -- Allusion to gambling., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Mounted.
The scene is the interior of a gothic church, with a view of part of a lateral gallery, the tower arch, and west door (on the right). The foreground and the gallery are filled with couples, in general elderly, ugly, and fashionably dressed, in conversation or bowing to each other. An unicorn on a monument holding an escutcheon is conspicuous. On the right the congregation is crowding towards the open door
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 80' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Year in imprint erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Clothing & dress, Couples, Interiors, and Monuments
"A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner., Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 82' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: thatched overhang -- Old Maiden Head -- Elizabeth I.
Title from item., Artist attribution to Richard Newton from local card catalog record., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Two lines of text below image: A sea captain just come on shore ..., Numbered '181' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: country inns -- Signboards: inn sign -- Dogs: hounds -- Huntsmen -- Sailors -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Bludgeons -- Maidservants -- Dishes: tankards -- Beverages: ale -- Wooden legs.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 10th, 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the background. At the head of the table (left) in a raised arm-chair (in the manner of the chairman at a tavern-club) sits a man in the hat, wig, and gown of the Speaker (Addington) [Identified by Wright and Evans as Loughborough, 'cogitating' between the parties; this is inconsistent with the House of Commons setting and with Loughborough's appointment (26 Jan. 1793) as Chancellor.] holding the mace, which has been transformed into a crutch-like stick. He puffs smoke at both Treasury and Opposition benches. Pitt, on the Speaker's right, holds a frothing tankard inscribed 'G.R' and directs a cloud of smoke at Fox, who puffs back. Before Fox is a tray of pipes and a paper of tobacco, implying that he excels in abuse. On the extreme right Dundas, a plaid across his coat, puffs at the scowling Sheridan seated close to Fox; he has a punch-bowl inscribed 'G.R' in which he dips a ladle. Small puffs of smoke issue from the pipes, great clouds from the smokers' mouths, as in BMSat 8220. The House of Commons is burlesqued as a smoking-club, a plebeian gathering in which quarrelsome members were wont to puff smoke at each other, see BMSat 8220."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Originally issued with the imprint: Pubd. Feby. 13th, 1793, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields., Publication date based on publisher's street address. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the House of Commons -- Pipes -- Emblems: mace -- Tankards -- Tobacco -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Emblems: crown and initials GR on tankard and punch bowl.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Two lines of text below image: A sailor happening to be present ..., Numbered '179' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: country inns -- Signs: inn signboard, 'The Swan' -- Clergy: parsons -- Sailors -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Barrels -- Maidservants., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Published 12th April 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"An actor, ugly and ragged, stands gesticulating, the left arm extended towards Sheridan, who sits in a low chair (right) before a small rectangular table. He fixes Sheridan with a hungry glare, clutching a small cocked hat in his right hand ... In the upper right corner of the design is a quotation from 'Hamlet', III. ii, beginning 'Oh, there be Players', and ending, 'they imitated humanity so abominably'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from Grego., Possibly published by Fores, whose publisher's stamp is on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., Twelve lines of text below title: A candidate for the stage lately applied to the manager of Drury-Lane Theatre for an engagement ..., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.5 x 24.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides; window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 594 (leaf numbered '28' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
"An actor, ugly and ragged, stands gesticulating, the left arm extended towards Sheridan, who sits in a low chair (right) before a small rectangular table. He fixes Sheridan with a hungry glare, clutching a small cocked hat in his right hand ... In the upper right corner of the design is a quotation from 'Hamlet', III. ii, beginning 'Oh, there be Players', and ending, 'they imitated humanity so abominably'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from Grego., Possibly published by Fores, whose publisher's stamp is on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., Twelve lines of text below title: A candidate for the stage lately applied to the manager of Drury-Lane Theatre for an engagement ..., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.[F.]
"The interior of Dulwich College Chapel. A stout man, probably the Master, wearing a gown, stands in a pulpit or desk (left), a large book before him, his eyes and mouth twisted in a sly leer. Below him (right) the figure of Edward Alleyne has risen from a tombstone and stands (half length) holding up the horizontal stone. He is surrounded by clouds. He wears hat, ruff, and a gown which differs from that of the living man chiefly in being furred. The figure is copied (in reverse) from the whole length portrait of Alleyne at Dulwich College. On the stone, beneath a coat of arms, is the inscription, a strip along the left being cut off by the lower margin of the print: 'Sacred | the Memory of | Edward Alleyne | Founder of this | College | Life Nov 26 | 1626 Æ 63 | Likewise | Joan his Dear | Wife who F | race 28 June 1623.' Next the Master is a sour-looking profile, and, below, three choristers (full-face), are grinning broadly."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Place of publication based on location of printmaker John Nixon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Alleyn, Edward, 1566-1626., Alleyn, Thomas, -1805., and Dulwich College
Title from item., From Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of text below title: Here Mrs. Parmesan is Charlotte at the tomb of Werter, shall Miss Dorothy work that ..., Plate numbered '183' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: schoolrooms -- School mistresses -- Pupils -- Pictures amplifying subject: Tomb of Werter -- Pictures amplifying subject: framed sampler -- Parasols -- Spectacles -- Cross-eyedness -- Female dress, 1797.
Publisher:
Published 20th June 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., From a series of eleven plates entitled "Love in Caricature.", One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Not age, with its cramps in full store ..., 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: Couples., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 20.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with loss of printing statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead and Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[20 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.20.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Voluntary contributions for carrying on the war!
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of ten figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: War contributions -- Corruption -- Politicians -- Clergy -- British sailors -- Card playing -- Russian coins., Watermark: E & P 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1797, by W.S. [sic] Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
"Five elderly men dressed in the fashion of youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '196' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Morning Herald -- Literature: reference to Ovid's Art of Love -- Magnifying glasses -- Pince-nez -- Walking staves -- Duelling: crossed foils -- Placards., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Published 22nd August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Older people, Newspapers, Reading, Staffs (Sticks), Signs (Notices), Hand lenses, and Mirrors
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[9 August 1797]
Call Number:
797.08.09.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Taxation -- Taxes: clock tax, August 1797 -- Hosiers -- Emblems: royal crown stamped on hat as proof of paid hat tax -- Male dress: stockings., and Watermark: E & P, with date mostly trimmed off (1794?).
"A fat, elderly man, his face contorted, struggles between two men, who try to pull on pantaloons; he puts an arm round the neck of each, nearly throttling the man on his right. A boy stands (right), legs astride. A grinning head looks through a casement window (left). A looking-glass on the wall (right) has been knocked sideways. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 6723."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '203' in lower left of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Male dress: pantaloons -- Furnishings.
Publisher:
Published 13th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Bachelors, Older people, and Mirrors
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.27.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An older man grins broadly as he bows to a woman with a hand-muff who curtsies in return
Description:
Title-page vignette. and Title page from: An Olio of Good Breeding : with sketches illustrative of the modern graces!! / by G.M. Woodward. London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Clarke ..., [1797].
Publisher:
Pubd. May 27, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
"View below the arcade, looking towards the Bank of England; two elegantly dressed women and a child buying goods from street trader, two men on the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement., and Window mounted to 48 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Published July 31st, 1797, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Banks, Commercial facilities, and Arcades (Architectural components)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom and top., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Young Cupid of all makes a prize ..., One from the series of eleven plates "Love in Caricature.", One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Vices: avarice -- Furniture: chairs -- Money: guineas -- Scales: balances.
Publisher:
Pubd Augst 1, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead ; Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
"Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. John is the yokel of BMSat 8141, but no longer bewildered; he stands stolidly, holding out his left hand for the notes, his right hand in his coat pocket. Fox (right), who wears a high cocked hat with tricolour cockade, bag-wig, and laced suit, says to him: "Dont take his damn'd Paper, John! insist upon having Gold, to make your Peace with the French, when they come". Sheridan bends towards John, saying, "Dont take his Notes! nobody takes Notes now! - they'll not even take Mine!" John answers: "I wool take it! - a' may as well let my Measter Billy hold the Gold to keep away you Frenchmen, as save it, to gee it you, when ye come over, with your domn'd invasion." Behind (right) hands of other Foxites are raised in warning, and on the extreme right is the profile of Stanhope. Behind (left), men hasten towards Pitt with large sacks of notes on their heads. The first two, in judge's robes, are Loughborough with a sack of '20 Shilling Notes', and Kenyon with one of 'Five Pound Notes'. Behind is Grenville with a sack of '10 Shilling Notes'. Other sacks whose bearers are hidden are inscribed '5 Shilling No[tes], 2 Shillin No[tes]', and 'One Shilling'. Under Pitt's counter is a row of large sacks of gold, padlocked and inscribed '£'. On the end of the counter, facing the spectator, is posted a bill headed: 'Order of Council to the Bank of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Sacks of money -- Bank notes., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: For this has he left the full pot ..., 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: Couples -- Courtship.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons -- Currency crisis, 1797 -- Bank crisis, 1797., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P below.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 8, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to places and pensions -- Reference to supplies -- Reference to loans -- Red Book -- Reference to London Kalendar.
"A stout officer sits on a charger in profile to the left, his head turned from the spectator, his right arm outstretched, holding a cane, as if directing manoeuvres."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms (Guards) -- Sir Harry Burrard, 1755-1813, or John Reid, 1721-1807.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 15th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's statement following imprint: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: French military uniforms: Bonaparte & soldiers., Mounted to 37 x 47 cm., matted to 47 x 62 cm.; printmaker's and subjects' names printed on mat below image., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book xi, page 149 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 64 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"View on Cockspur Street with the Phoenix Fire Engine Station on the right, a horse-drawn carriage travelling down centre of street and elegantly dressed pedestrians on pavements"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
"Miss Farren (left) sits at her dressing-table, contemplating with rapt admiration an earl's coronet on a wig-block which is a caricature of Lord Derby's head. The voluminous draperies of her dress define a thin and angular figure, with a long thin neck. At her feet is an open book: 'Tabby's Farewell to the Green Room'; near it is a torn paper: 'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. How Lov'd how valued once avails thee not To whom Related or by whom Begot.' A pad for inflating the figure (cf. BMSat 8388, &c.) lies across a stool (right). A 'Genealogical Chart of British Nobility' hangs from the dressing-table; the tree issues from the recumbent figure of 'Willm Conqr'; on it lies a small-tooth comb beside which is an insect. Behind Miss Farren are the closed curtains of an ornate bed, whose valance is decorated with the cap of Libertas and the words 'Vive la Egalite'. On the wall hangs a 'Map of the Road from Strolling Lane to Derbyshire Peak'; the places, from S. to N., are: 'Strolling Lane', 'Beggary Corner', 'Servility Place', 'Old Drury Common', 'Affectation Lane', 'Insolence Green', 'Fool-Catching Alley', 'Derbyshire Peak viz Devils Ar.' A jewel-box, bottles, &c, are on the dressing-table, some inscribed: 'Bloom de Ninon', 'For Bad Teeth', 'Cosmetick', 'For the Breath'. On the ground, under the valance of the table, is a large bottle of 'Holland[s]'. After the title: '"A Coronet! - O, bless my sweet little heart! - ah, it must be mine, now there's nobody left to hinder! - and then - hey, for my Lady Nimminney-pimmenney! [see BMSat 8888] - O, Gemmini! - no more Straw-Beds in Barns; - no more scowling Managers! & Curtsying to a dirty Public! - but a Coronet upon my Coach; - Dashing at the Opera! - shining at the Court! - O dear! dear! what I shall come to!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker's signature is repeated, the second signature located below lower right margin of design and in a slightly different form: Js. Gy. inv. & ft., Additional publication line, with slightly earlier date, is etched below lower left margin of design: Pubd. March 20th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street & St. James's Street., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Hat-stands -- Mirrors -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Cosmetics -- Pincussions -- Female dress: cork rumps -- Genealogy: British nobility -- Maps: satiric map of Derbyshire -- Allusion to Derbyshire -- Allusion to the Green Room -- Spirits: Hollands gin -- Boxes: jewelry boxes -- Furniture: stools -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- Elegies.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, Countess of, 1759 or 62-1829 and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"A small ugly man rides a galloping horse in profile to the left, his leg thrust forward. He wears spectacles, his complexion is dark. There is a background of grass and trees, and in the distance a building with a pediment, evidently the new Knightsbridge Barracks (see 'Gent. Mag.', July 1797, p. 545, pl.)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Hyde Park., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Horseback riding -- Buildings: Knigthsbridge Barracks., and Watermark: Turkey Mills / J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of second imprint below verse., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: O love! What a Proteus thoug art! ..., 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: Couples -- Farmers -- Male dress: smock.
Title from item., Publication date from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Magic lantern shows.
"Lord Kenyon (left), in wig and robes, flogs with great vigour the scarred back of Lady Buckinghamshire, whose wrists are tied to the back of a cart. He has a scourge in the right hand, a birch-rod in the left; from his pocket issues a paper: 'Laws against Gambling'. His head is in back view. His fat victim wears a feathered turban and fashionably dressed hair; her profile and gestures indicate shrieking protest. The horse plods (left to right) away from the spectator. On a pitchfork lashed to the cart is a placard: 'Faro's Daughter's Beware'. Behind is a crowd, divided between those (right) who watch the cart, grinning, in front of whom stands a constable with his staff, and those in back view who surround a pillory in which stand two ladies, closely confined, under a rain of missiles flung by the mob. Both wear feathers in their hair, one (left) has a profile somewhat resembling that of Lady Archer, but is perhaps Lady Elizabeth Luttrell; the other is probably Mrs. Concannon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: carts -- Punishment: flogging -- Scourge -- Birch-rod -- Pillory -- Constables -- Judges -- Reference to gambling -- Mrs. Concannon, fl. 1797 -- Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, d. 1799 or Sarah, Baroness Archer (1741-1801).
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. Jamess [sic] Street
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Seamstresses -- Cribs -- Washer tubs -- Crowns -- Bonnet rouge., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Two men, one a parson on horseback, the other a lawyer walks by his side. They closely resemble each other in profile and appearance except that the latter is thin and angular. The ungainly horse walks slowly (left to right) along a country road, beside which is a milestone: 'Derby II. Leicester 17. London 116'. In the distance is a village church
Alternative Title:
Pair of portraits
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr.11th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Lawyers, and Traffic signs & signals
Title from item., Two lines of verse below title: The sweeping scythe's keen edge he wets ... Vide page 15 line 91., Above image: Select poets., and Plate from: Cooke's Select poets.
Engraved titlepage with vignette from: The poetical works of Robert Dodsley [Cooke's edition] London : Printed for C. Cooke, and sold by all the booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, [1797]. and Temporary local subject terms: Milkmaids -- Young men.
Set of 12 engravings depicting Lady Emma Hamilton performing tableaux in Greek costume., Cover title, on engraved label: Lady Hamilton's attitudes., A re-engraved imitation of the original plates. The originals engraved by Tommaso Piroli. The title page of this edition has a long ess in the word permission, and there is no period after Hamilton., May have been issued 1802 or later. Various leaves of plates in both British Art Center copies have a duty stamp dated 1802. In BAC copy 1, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1799; in copy 2, the plates are mounted to paper watermarked 1802., Title page and plates printed on stained orange paper; each mounted on larger paper., Engraved throughout., BAC : British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 in original wrappers, with engraved title label. Also bears bookseller's label on front cover: "Sold at Dunford's, Great Newport Street, London." Inscribed E. Saunders. Copy 2 also in original wrappers, with engraved title label. The title page for the London, Random & Stainbank, 1800 edition of this work (title: Lady Hamilton's attitudes. Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples) has been laid in. This title page was aquatinted by G. Shepheard after F. Rehberg., and Lacking cover title, with engraved label. Two prints with British customs stamps for tinted paper on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 12th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street. Prints & drawings lent out on the plan of a circulating library
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top, bottom and left., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Observe how I step in the line ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in J. Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Drunkards.
Publisher:
Pubd March 15, 1798, by Hooper & Wigstead ; printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212, High Holborn
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in partial loss of imprint., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: O say thou delight of Dukes place ..., 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: Couples.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 21, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead ; printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
"French men-of-war are tossed helplessly by huge waves, which are lashed to fury by blasts from the mouths of (left to right) Pitt, Dundas, Grenville, and Windham, whose heads emerge from clouds. Fox is the (realistic) figure-head of 'Le Révolutionaire' (right) which, with broken masts, is about to founder. He receives the full strength of the blasts from Pitt and Dundas, and looks up despairingly, his head against the tricolour stripes which encircle the mast. Playing-cards float in the water by the ship. On the left 'L'Egalité' is wrecked by a blast from Grenville, which shatters a flag-staff, with a flag inscribed 'Vive . . Egalité'. Behind, a vessel disappears in a whirlpool. In the foreground (left) 'The Revolutionary Jolly Boat' is being swamped under the influence of a blast from Windham; the occupants throw up their hands despairingly: Sheridan, standing in the stern, is still unsubmerged; the others (left to right) are Hall the Foxite apothecary, [So Wright and Evans. He has perhaps more resemblance to Dr. Towers.] Erskine, in wig and gown, M. A. Taylor, and Thelwall, washed overboard, with a paper: 'Thelwall's lectures' (see BMSat 8685). [Wright and Evans put Dr. Lawrence's name between that of Sheridan and Erskine; he is not depicted.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Destruction of the French Armada
Description:
Title etched below image., Another signature etched in bottom right portion of image: Js. Gy. des. et f., Another publication line etched in lower left but mostly obscured within margin of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Fleets: French fleet -- Storms: gale.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 20th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, and Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 72' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: inns -- Inns: 'The Bull's Head' -- Signs: inn sign -- Signs: 'Licensed to deal in post horses' -- Clergy: parsons -- Male dress: spencer, 1797 -- Loughborough -- Horsemen.
The third print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set at Sadler's Wells. "A dyer and his wife walking with their dog beside the New River; the wife holds a fan with a design of Aphrodite and Adonis, the husband carries a small child, a somewhat older boy stands behind them in tears because his sister is demanding the gingerbread figure he holds; behind them is a young woman holding a shoe and a cow being milked by another woman; to the right is a tavern with the sign of Sir Hugh Middleton's Head, two women and a man are in the tavern garden, other figures are visible through the window, and a grape vine is climbing up towards the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 148., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published December the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Facsimile of a sketch with hand-written descriptions, with outlines of Garrick and Quin from the back, next to a scale of feet, with profiles of a 'short proportion' to the left of Quin, and a 'tall proportion' to the right of Garrick
Alternative Title:
Facsimile of a letter and Facsimile of the proportions of Garrick and Quin
Description:
Title engraved above image., Also lettered with a facsimile hand-writing, including the date "Oct 21 1746", and signed "W H" [i.e., William Hogarth]., Dobson records “from a drawing belonging to Mr. Stevenson or Norwich, after to J. P. Kemble. See Dobson, A. William Hogarth., Copy of no. 2808 in v. 3, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Formerly on page 108 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1797 by Robert Laurie & James Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
British.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Quin, James, 1693-1766
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Design consists of eight pairs of figures in two rows, with lines of dialogue etched above each pair.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 12th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Title from item., Publication date based on that of companion print: Spiritual Lovers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: 'Tis an adage most true without doubt ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, not recorded in Grego or British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Kissing.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 30 x 19.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Mounted on verso of leaf 76 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted on page 96.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book x, page 121 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 60 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"Pitt, a naked spectral creature, advances menacingly towards Fox, who is scarcely caricatured, and who holds his ground, right leg raised as if about to kick, snapping his fingers in Pitt's face. Pitt (left) is very thin and tall, with large head and glaring eyeballs. Fox holds out his three-cornered hat in his left hand as if speaking in the House of Commons; his waistcoat is unbuttoned, allowing his shirt to escape."--British
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being the from book xi, page 158 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 58 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"Two officers on high stools face each other at the counter of a fruit-shop and confectioner's. One (right), tall, lank, and elderly (identified as Captain Birch, see BMSat 9037), devours a jelly; empty jelly-glasses strew the counter beside him. The other, a mere child, his legs dangling, eats from a large cornet of 'Sugar-plumbs'. A buxom woman behind the counter brings a tray of jellies in glasses. In the doorway (right) a third officer, extremely fat and grotesquely knock-kneed, stands with his hands clasped behind him watching a coroneted coach driving past with two footmen in feathered hats standing behind. The officers wear large plumed cocked hats, spurred jack-boots, and sabres. Each pane of the large shop window (left) is decoratively filled with fruit, jars, jelly-glasses, &c. A pottle of strawberries and a partly peeled orange lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Guard Day at St. James's
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Shops: Kelsey's fruit shop -- Food: jellies -- Sugar plums -- Exotic fruits -- Capt. Birch, fl. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Ten ladies, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes etched beneath the design, their proposed offices etched above their heads. ... '(1) First Lady of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.' The 'Duc - ss of Gor-n' (Pitt's friend), wearing a tartan drapery, sits at a writing-table. Facing her, with outstretched right arm, is '(2) President of the Council and Duc-ss of Ric-nd.' '(3) Lady High Chancellor is the Coun-ss of Buc-s-e', very short and fat, in wig and gown and holding the purse of the Great Seal. Facing her is '(4) Chamberlain', who is 'Margr-ne of Ans-h', wearing a coronet and feathers, and holding a long wand of office. '(5) Mistress of the Horse' holding a whip is 'Lady Arc-r.' '(6) First Lady of the Admiralty' is 'Mrs Jo-n', with her arms folded, in profile to the right, as if playing the part of Priscilla Hoyden in 'The Romp', see British Museum Satires No. 6875, but wearing a naval cocked hat, emblem of her liaison with the Duke of Clarence, see British Museum Satires No. 9009. Facing her is '(7) Secretary of War & Capn of the Guards, La-y Wa-ce' (sister of No. 1); she wears a military cocked hat and coat with epaulettes, her hands placed truculently on her hips. (Her friendship with Dumouriez is perhaps hinted at.) '(8) Mistress of the Buck Hounds', is 'March-ss of Sa-ry', thin and weatherbeaten, holding two hounds on a leash, '(9) Ranger of Hyde Park', is 'La-y La-e' (wife of Sir John Lade) wearing a riding-habit and holding a riding-switch. '(10) Post Mistress General and Inspector of Mis-sent Letters' is 'La-y Je-y'. She sits at a round table on which are many letters and appliances for opening and re-sealing them, including a spirit-lamp inscribed 'Hot water'. She holds a lighted candle and peers through spectacles at a sealed letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and With illegible monogram, perhaps a collector's mark, written in brown ink in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Lady Wallace, -1803, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Lade, Letitia, Lady, -1825, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being the frontispiece in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 57 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription' (cf. BMSat 9240). Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan, left, with Bardolph's fiery face, cf. BMSat 7528, &c, holds his glass and looks delightedly at Morris, as does Fox (as Falstaff), who says: "Come sing me a Boosey-Song, [A misquotation from 'I Henry IV', III. iii, where Falstaff says, "Come, sing me a bawdy song; make me merry."] to make me merry". Part of the face of a fourth man appears on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Wine bottle and glasses -- Spirits: brandy -- Literature: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I -- Allusion to the secession of the Opposition.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Morris, Charles, 1745-1838
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., State with new imprint and with alterations to the portrait and to the image of the estate. For a proof state before these alterations and with a 1796 publication line, see Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 6., and "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with new imprint statement and with the plate reduced in size on all four edges, of a print issued with the imprint: Published as the Act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 7., and "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate.
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with new imprint statement and with the plate reduced in size on all four edges, of a print issued with the imprint: Published as the Act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 7., "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate., Mounted on page 3 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : etching & engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.9 x 11.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint statement along lower edge; heavily foxed paper.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.27.07 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A grotesque demon-like figure looks toward the viewer with terror in his huge eyes; his left thumb in his mouth. In front of him is a raging fire in a pot and a snake with a barbed tongue and sharp teeth who raises its head towards the demon's right arm. Below the pot are two lines: Let thy eyes, little saucers be, Frigthen all the world but me!
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 5' in upper left corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Olio of good breeding. London : Printed for the author, [1797]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 27, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
A family of peddlers camp beside the road. A boy sleeps while an old woman heats a cauldron over an open fire. A man standing beside a donkey leans on a walking stick
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top, bottom and right side., Numbered 'Plate 97' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Plate 71 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Four stage-coach interiors as above. The occupants, by holding the straps by the windows or above the seats, and planting their feet in different positions, are taking the best means to protect themselves against the four types of jolt depicted in BMSat 9133."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 71' in upper left corner., and Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my Red Cap, & a bit of a Gun - why, I thinks I should make a good stockey Soldier!" The shop is that of 'Billy-Black-Soul [Pitt], Hatter, & Sword-cutler \ Licenced to deal in Hats and Swords.' Above the door (right) are the royal arms and 'Stamp-Office' (the tax on hats being levied by a stamp). Within the window are crossed swords and military cocked hats with a number of stamps bearing the royal arms. In the foreground (left) is a pile of dead cats with a paper: 'List of Cats Killed for making skin caps 20000 Red 5000 Tabb ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
"The Duke of Clarence drags his three children (left to right) in a go-cart. His waistcoat is open, a handkerchief under his hat drapes his head, perspiration pours from his forehead. The boy, an infant replica of his father, holds a pair of reins which are attached to the duke's pocket, and flourishes a whip. Beside him are a little girl hugging a dog, which hides her face except for the eyes, and a crying infant whose features, though infantine, are those of her father. The crest on the cart is a chamber-pot (cf. BMSat 7835, &c.) surmounted by a crown. From the duke's pockets project a toy battleship, a coral and bells, a toy windmill, and a doll. Mrs. Jordan, in a dress of masculine cut, walks beside the cart, intent on the part which she is studying from an open book ('The Spoil'd Child', see BMSat 7835): 'Act IIId enter Little Pickle'. A signpost (right) points (left) 'From Richmond', (right) 'To Bushy'. A sandy bank with trees forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Toys -- Pets: King Charles spaniel -- Literature: Bickerstaff's Farce of the Spoil'd Child.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street's
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Munster, George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, Earl of, 1794-1842
"Two London lawyers quizzing a clever countryman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '182' in lower left of plate., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Two lines of text below image: Two London attorneys overtaking a waggoner on the road ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: country inns -- Buildings: country churches -- Signs: inn signboard, 'The Crescent Moon' -- Countrymen: waggoner -- Vehicles: waggons -- Waggoner's whip -- Quizzing glasses.
Publisher:
Published June 10th, 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The Prince of Würtemberg (right) bends forward, kissing the Princess Royal on the right cheek. Her figure is matronly, his is corpulent. He wears two ribbons, many stars on his coat, while the jewels of orders dangle from his button-holes (cf. BMSat 9007)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of quoted verse below title: "Heav'n grant their happiness complete, and may they make both ends to meet, in these hard times., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 15th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street & St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1754-1816 and Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828
"Fox (right), a hairy French ruffian, lunges fiercely forward, to aim a pistol inscribed 'La Mort' point-blank at a target symbolizing the British constitution (see BMSat 8287, &c). In his left hand he holds behind him a dagger, its blade inscribed 'Fraternite'. He is coatless and wears a French cocked hat inscribed 'Liberte', with a tricolour cockade. A miniature bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Egalite' hangs from the lapel of his waistcoat. From one pocket hangs a paper: '2 7bre Certificat de Civisme'; from another: 'Delenda . . . Carth[ago]'. His shirt-sleeves are rolled, the right sleeve in tatters, his breeches torn and unbuttoned at the knee, his stockings hang in festoons round his ankles. The target hangs by a ribbon from the gnarled branch of an old oak (left), the bull's-eye is the crown, the inner ring is inscribed 'Lords', the outer 'Commons'. There is a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of text following title: This print, copied from the French original, is dedicated to the London Corresponding Society., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Constitutions: British Constitution -- French liberty -- Societies: London Corresponding Society -- Bonet rouge -- Shooting targets.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 24th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Title engraved below image., At head of title: Parisian dresses for 1797., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, 1797 -- Fashion, 1797 -- Jewelry:earrings -- Walking staves -- Bludgeons -- Pickpockets -- Assignats: promesse de mandat territorial., and Watermark: Ruse & Turner 1806.
Publisher:
Pub. June 24, 1797, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Title etched below image., Title above image: Parisian dresses for 1797., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, 1797 -- Fashion, 1797 -- Jewelry -- Quizzing glasses -- Walking staves -- Bludgeons., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 7, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Earrings, Hand lenses, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title above image: Parisian dresses for 1797., Below title: Engraved from the originals in the possession of the publisher., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., 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, 1797 -- Male dress, 1797 -- Fashion, 1797 -- Hats: bonnets -- Walking staves.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 7, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
"Fifteen officers sit round a roughly made table on which are decanters and fruit. A stout officer (? Captain Dottin [Identification on print. Abel Rous Dottin was captain in the and Life Guards. 'Army List', 1797.]) right, in an arm-chair, gives the toast 'The King', all raise their glasses with varying expressions. The Duke of York, spilling his wine, looks tipsily towards Dottin. Only one man stands, straddling across the seat of his chair, a decanter of 'Tokay' in his left hand. Captain Birch, [James Birch was lieutenant in the First Life Guards, Thomas Birch a captain in the Sixteenth Light Dragoons. Ibid., 1797.] caricatured as in BMSat 9068, sits on the Duke's left. The officer on the extreme left, looking down slyly, resembles General Davies, see BMSat 9442. Next him, a very fat officer is smoking a pipe, a paper of tobacco on the table in front of him, a bottle of 'Gin' under his chair. The third profile from the left resembles that of Prince William of Gloucester. Wright and Evans add Col. Jekyl: the profile on the extreme right has a family likeness to that of Joseph Jekyll, none resembles the Col. Jekyll of BMSat 7330. All wear cocked hats. The decanters or bottles on the table are labelled 'Champa[gne]', 'Claret', 'Burgundy'. Under the table are more bottles, and empty bottles lie on the ground, with broken glasses, a pineapple, and an orange. The floor is boarded and the table roughly made, but the chairs are ornate and decorated with ormolu."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: mess-rooms -- Glass: wine bottles -- Wines: Tokay -- Champagne -- Claret -- Burgundy-- Fruit: pineapples -- Peeled oranges -- Grapefruits -- Furniture: chairs -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms (Guards).
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 14th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834, and Davies, Thomas, approximately 1737-1812
A satire showing caricatured figures, full-length, demonstrating different styles of making speeches. Above each figure a humorous parody of maiden speeches
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text above upper left figure begins: I remember Sir a few years ago I vent vith my vife and darter to Calais ..., Design consists of four figures on one plate, each with several lines of text etched above., One of two plates with same title on the same theme published on the same day by William Holland., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Later printing based on watermark: 1809.
A satire showing caricatured figures, full-length, demonstrating different styles of making speeches. Above each figure a humorous parody of maiden speeches
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text above upper left figure begins: The humourous gontlemon who spake last may amuse the sellie few at a public hoose, but his mearth at prassant is ill timed ..., Design consists of four figures on one plate, each with several lines of text etched above., One of two plates with same title on the same theme published on the same day by William Holland., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turner.
A group of men explore a cave Peak Cavern (in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales), some with candles in their hats, most with candles in the hands. One holds a quizzing glass to his eye as he looks up at the ceiling of the cave. They stand on the edge of an underground lake. One man lays on his back in a small rowboat on the lake and gazes at the ceiling above; a dog sits at his feet
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 94' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A line of men cross an underground river in Peak Cavern (in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales). Some of the men are riding on the backs of their companions while others lead the way holding lit candles in their hands or wearing them in their hats. Stalactites hang from the ceiling of the cave
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., Numbered 'Plate 96' 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: Russell & Co. 1799.
"Pitt, a colossal figure (cf. BMSat 8980), bestrides the Rotunda of the 'Bank of England'. His arms and legs are very thin, but his body is formed of a (transparent) sack distended with gold coins and inscribed '£'. His elbows are akimbo, his hands grasp the sides of the sack; from the little finger of his left hand hangs a key, 'Key of Public Property'. Round the mouth of the sack is a heavy chain clasped by a padlock inscribed 'Power of securing Public Credit'. From the sack emerges the pipe-like neck down which coins are passing. Pitt looks arrogantly to the right, a blast issues from his closed lips of many paper notes inscribed 'one'. Near his mouth are a few gold coins which he is presumably inhaling. He wears a crown formed of 'one' pound notes; through it project his ass's ears. The near side of the Rotunda is removed, showing a descending shower of paper and an ascending cluster of coins which are being drawn upwards to join those in the sack. Little figures in and around the rotunda, under Pitt's legs, hold up their hands in dismay at the shower of £1 notes. Among them is a John Bull wearing a smock. Two men hold papers inscribed 'Dividend'; a Jew walks off (left) with 'Scrip'. On the left, behind Pitt's right foot, is the sea-shore; large reeds at its edge blow towards him; among these are five heads wearing bonnets-rouges, each with a label issuing from his mouth: 'Midas has Ears'. They are Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, M. A. Taylor, and (?) Grey. They diminish in size from Fox to Taylor. Across the sea is 'Brest', from which a fleet is setting out. Behind it are black clouds, and an explosion rises from them in which are swarms of tiny figures holding daggers and wearing bonnets-rouges. This spreads behind Pitt's head who appears unconscious of it. He looks down towards three almost naked winged figures: Grenville (left) and Dundas (right) hold up between them a scroll: 'Prosperous state of British Finances. & the new Plan for diminishing the National Debt - with Hints on the increase of Commerce'. Between and above them is Windham, Secretary-at-War, a pen behind his ear. He waves his cocked hat, Grenville his coronet, and Dundas his Scots cap. Beneath the title: 'History of Midas, - The great Midas having dedicated himself to Bacchus [cf. BMSat 8651], obtained from that Deity, the Power of changing all he Touched - Apollo fixed Asses-Ears upon his head, for his Ignorance - & although he tried to hide his disgrace with a Regal Cap, yet the very Sedges which grew from the Mud of the Pactolus, whisper'd out his Infamy, whenever they were agitated by the Wind from the opposite Shore - Vide Ovid's Metamorposes.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Midas transmuting all into paper
Description:
Title etched below image. 'Gold' in title scored through., Three lines of text below title: History of Midas -- The great Midas having dedicated himself to Bacchus ..., Temporary local subject terms: Money: coins -- Bank notes -- Cupids -- Brest -- French fleet., and Mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Bank of England.
Title engraved below image., Traces of earlier, burnished imprint visible., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 49 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 20, 1797 by I. Evans, Long Lane, West Smithfield
"John Bull (right) stands in profile to the left, gaping in terror at four little demons, grotesque, naked, and senile, who approach him with calculating and complacent grins. His knees bend, his hands are thrust in his coat pockets; he says: "What do you want you little Devils - an't I plagued with enough of you already more pick poket Work, I suppose!!" Their leader stands forward with a mock deprecatory gesture; the next demon holds a large book. They say: "Please your Honor we are the assess'd Taxes.""--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on the tripling of the assessed taxes proposed by Pitt in his famous budget speech, 24 Nov. 1797. These were taxes on persons according to their expenditure (inhabited houses, male servants, carriages, &c.); it was an attempt at direct taxation, heavily graduated to tax the rich at a higher (five-fold) rate and with exemptions and abatements for small incomes. This was Pitt's 'plan of finance' to support the war without recourse to loans, intended to demonstrate to Europe England's determination and unity: 'to check a little the presumptions of Jacobins at home and abroad.' ... See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Assess'd taxes and Assessed taxes
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Richard Newton in the British Museum catalogue., and If etched by Newton, it must be after the design of someone else, possibly Woodward. See Alexander, D. Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s,
An old woman, the prude, is standing near a crowd of people huddled around a bonfire in Covent Garden. She is crossing Covent Garden Piazza, disapproving of the amorous scenes outside the notorious Tom King's Coffee House. The print shows the morning and is part of a series representing the progress of the day
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 146., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2357., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published August the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Children, City & town life, Couples, Crowds, Fighting, Food vendors, Kissing, Prostitutes, Quacks, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
Title from heading to letterpress text below image., Publication date extrapolated from business dates of Edward Wallis and Thomas Davis. See British Book Trade Index online., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and within plate mark on sides., Plate above letterpress, restrike, originally published: London : Published Jany. 17th 1797 by John Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Overturned coaches -- Spilled food -- Allusion to John Gilpin -- Literature: Cowper, William, 1731-1800, John Gilpin -- Mrs. John Gilpin.
Publisher:
Printed for Edward Wallis, No. 42 Skinner Street, Snow
A monkey wearing a military uniform and holding a sword and a flag "Volunteer cavalry" sits astride an ass. From a basket hanging from the saddle hang a portrait of Fox with the caption "In place" and a portrait of Fox with the words "Out of place"; below the portraits can be seen a papers, the top the words "Tantararara rogues all" . The ass stands in a trunk with bundles of newspapers and paper hanging off the sides or in the lid, identified with the words: Telegraph, Parliament speeches, Gazettes extraordinary, Fashionable occurrences, Independent [sic] elections, Law suits. On the ground around the trunk are papers with titles: Speech of Mr. Deputy Did[...], 20 s. notes, Examination of Faro's daughters before the Justice
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: I Taylor 1801.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10, 1797, 12 Charg. Cross
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Baskets, Donkeys, Military uniforms, Monkeys, and Newspapers
A copy of the fourth print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day", set at the intersection of Rummer Court and Charing Cross. Le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I can be seen in the background. It is the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"). In the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man. Behind them a man pours gin into a keg. To the left a barber is seen at work through a window; each pane of the shop window contains a lit candle. From a window above the barber shop, a chamber pot is being emptied onto the top of a wooden shelter under which a man and woman sleep. Beside them, a link boy crouches as he blows on the flame of his torch. Behind and to the right of the freemason, the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed and overturned while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; the passengers reach out the window of the coach, alarmed looks on their faces.Two men look on, one of whom appears to be a butcher. Shop and tavern signs include the barber's which is decorated with oak leaves and advertises "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"; the Rummer Tavern; the Earl of Cardigan; and, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 149., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published February the 1.st 1798 by G.G. & J. Robinson Pater-noster Row London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England.
Subject (Name):
De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
Subject (Topic):
Liquor laws, Freemasons, Jacobites, Accidents, Barbering, Butchers, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Children, Fires, Intoxication, Liquor, Prostitution, Sleeping, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
A copy of the second print in William Hogarth's series "Four Times of the Day": Set outside St Giles's-in-the-Fields. On the right an elegant crowd leaves the French Huguenot church; they are dressed in the height of French fashion. Two women kiss on the far right in the customary French way. They are contrasted with Londoners on the left. The two groups are separated by a gutter down the middle of the road; a dead cat lies in the gutter foreground. The Londoners stand outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head); a woman and man in the second-storey window look surprised as the contents of her bowl are tossed out the window. In the foreground, left, under a sign with John the Baptist's head on a platter and reading "Good Eating", a black man embraces a servant girl and a small boy (evidently intended by his curly red hair to be identified as one of the Irish inhabitants of the area) cries because he has broken a pie-dish. A little girl squats as she eats the fallen pie off the ground. The clock in the steeple in the background reads 12:30.
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 147., Signed bottom left hand corner: Designed by Wm. Hogarth. Signed bottom right hand corner: Engraved by T. Cook., Plate also issued in a collection entitled Hogarth restored, first published by G.G. & J. Robinson in 1802., and Watermark: 1794 J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published October the 1st, 1797, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, London
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, Irish, Blacks, Children, City & town life, Churches, Couples, Crowds, Crying, Kissing, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book xii, page 205 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 59 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Puns -- Puzzles: picture puzzles -- Reference to the failure of peace negotiations, 1797 -- Reference to George III -- Reference to William Pitt, 1759-1806., and Watermark: Budgen 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 14, 1797, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"Eight puzzle-pictures arranged in two rows, in general of a punning character, e.g., 'Specimens of Poetry', 'A' lying across two walking-sticks (acrostics). The first, however, 'An Obstruction to Peace', is the collar and shoulders of a coat, the blue with red facings of the Windsor uniform, together with the title, indicating the King (or perhaps Pitt), with perhaps the implication that he lacks a head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Earlier of the two plates with this title published by Fores. See British Museum catalogue, and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 27th, 1797, by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France., France, and Great Britain.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book vii, page 25 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 69 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
