"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in at the waist and stomach, with bent knees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter, is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?"--Text below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Throne -- Bowing., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 8th, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806
"The Duke of Bedford stands in a stockyard in profile to the left, the fingers of his right hand dug into the flank of an immensely fat ox. He is not caricatured and is plainly dressed, wearing a round hat and heavy top-boots, holding a stock-whip. He says: "Ah, here's your sort! - here's your Nine-Inch Fat my boys! "O how he will cut up! (as my old friend Burke said!) - "how he will Tallow in the cawl and on the Kidneys!" Behind are three corn-stacks, trees, two other oxen, some very fat sheep (right). In the foreground are geese (left), and a pig (right) eating from a heap of carrots and turnips."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of text spanning both sides of title: To the Society for Improving the Breed this sketch of Tavistock Farmyard is dedicated., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm ; figures identified in ms. note on backing sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 16th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within 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: Couples -- Older man -- Yound wife -- Captain -- Shaking hands.
Publisher:
Pubd. 25th Feby., 1802 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Three women, two standing and one sitting smoking a pipe, converse outside a shop, 'Fine Cordial Gin, two penny & best Virginia'.
Alternative Title:
Gin, two-penny and tobacco
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and From the Renier Collection; on verso ms. notes in black ink 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
Publisher:
Pub. July 25, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Street, Haymarkt
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Carts & wagons, Pipes (Smoking), Stores & shops, Street vendors, Women, and Tobacco
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1798., and Publisher's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Publisher:
Pub. st [sic] July 1st, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"The blacksmith, wearing a parsonic hat, wig, and gown, stands in the middle of his smithy between two couples. He holds the wrist of an elderly and eager woman (left), addressing a young one (right). Beneath the design: 'A Lady of Sixty, and a young woman of seventeen, lately presented themselves with their paramours at Gretna Green. "Hold hold (said the Matrimonial Vulcan to the Virgin) you are young and can wait a little, I see your Grandmother is impatient, let me put on her fetters first.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '282' in lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 15, 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The fat and clumsy William Dickinson stands on gouty legs in profile to the right, outside the open door of the House of Commons, where Addington is speaking. He stoops, holding a cane in his gloved hand, and from his closed and protruding lips issues a cloud inscribed : - "let me see - 25 Millions! how are we Ruin'd? - 10 pr Cent for my Money! - income tax taken off! - well! - well! - well! - ". [further words have been erased], behind him is the hooded chair of the door-keeper. Addington, in profile to the right, makes his budget speech; in his hand is a paper: '25 Mill. Loan'. Behind him is a crowd of undistinguished-looking members, as in BMSat 9843. Hawkesbury sits next Addington's empty seat, holding the 'Treaty [of] Peace'; his fingers are to his face as in BMSat 9843, but to his nose in place of his lip. The corner of the table is on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Despair.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Sir William Addinton's budget speech, April 5, 1802 -- Taxes: income tax.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Dickinson, William, 1745-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Title from text near bottom of plate., Facsimile of Lord Walpole's handwriting etched below image and above title., Frontispiece to: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Mounted on page 134 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 and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 17.1 x 12.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 1, 1802, by the Revd. W. Cox, London
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text at top of image: In love, in war, in drinking., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 22nd, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, Clergy, and Alcoholic beverages
