"Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: "Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral." In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: "I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do", and, "Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney's Crest, a Skull without Brains." A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boney's invincible armada half seas over
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement beneath imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Mounted at the corners: 30 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Coffins, Gunboats, Cannons, Rifles, Skulls, Liberty cap, Drowning, Warships, and British
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Door Knocker -- Sword -- Shoe Scraper -- Spurs -- Jack Boots -- Capt. Birch., and Watermark: C. Ansell 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"Mr. and Mrs. Bull are in their breakfast parlour; she sits beside a table on which is a tray with coffee-pot, &c, he stands booted and spurred, impatient to set off. Through an open doorway (right) a groom is seen holding a saddle-horse. Behind are the houses of a London street. Mrs. Bull reads with dismay the '[M]orning Post'; she cries: "Here Mr Bull here's the Speech of that fellow on the Corn Bill - You must stop and hear this - The Price of Corn is yet Far Below the Price which is universally allowed to be Necessary!!!! why we shall all be starved Mr Bull." He shouts, with outstretched arms: "D------n the Corn Bill! I have not time to think of any thing till the Election is over. - why Liberty and Independence is at stak [sic] - What is Starving to that Mrs Bull!" Both are very fat, and evidently prosperous."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Corn bill, or, John Bull and his hobby, Iohn Bull and his hobby, and John Bull and his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image, lower right., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Counter watermark in center of sheet: A.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 20th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Corn laws (Great Britain), Breakfast rooms, Coffeepots, Doors & doorways, Newspapers, and Obesity
Title from caption below image., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: Alass how changed, no equipage attends, behind with grateful cup no menial bends ..., Text preceding printmaker's signature has been burnished from plate., Later state with new imprint. For earlier state published ca. 1790 by R. Pollard, see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7815., Companion print to: The heir disinherited., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Title from caption below image., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: From chaise and four decends [sic] th' expectant heir, and next his mother lo' usurps a chair ..., Text preceding printmaker's signature has been burnished from plate., Previous imprint statement lightly etched but visible above title., Later state with new imprint. For earlier state published ca. 1790 by R. Pollard, see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7814., Companion print to: The disinherited heir., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
"Three wives of tradesmen dispute their precedence on a visit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '370' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Four lines of descriptive text below title: Three ladies mostly on a visit, a grocer's wife, a cheesemonger's, and a tobacconist's, who perhaps stood more upon the punctilios of precedence than some of their betters ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 22nd, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Title from item., Giles Grinagain is a pseudonym., Temporary local subject terms: Quill -- Sailor -- Justice -- Watch and Chain., and Printseller's identification mark in lower right corner: S·W·F.
"A bird with human face squats on the back of a cow crowing at another fallen bird."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From the series of Laurie & Whittle Drolls., Plate numbered '344' in the upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Three columns of contemporary ms. on mount. Presumably a copy of the verse that normally accompanies a Laurie & Whittle Droll.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 24, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A master advances on a maid in his wife's dressing room, who reaches to touch his chin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '341' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Twelve lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns below title: One day behind my Lady's back, my Lord attack'd her maid, and stole a kiss, which she repaid, and gave him smack, for smack ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London