"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