"Half length portrait of an elderly man near-sightedly reading a newspaper in profile to the left."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"Three military men and a dog standing outside a tavern, two at left, one holding up a stick, another in a confused posture at centre; the tavern, with the sign of 'The Crooked billet', at right, a maid standing by the door and a man leaning on the fence, both laughing at the soldiers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Production of an ale house
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly an illustration to James Beresford's Miseries of human life; Cf. Rowlandson's print The production of a post house, no. 10859 in the the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.735., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on verso of leaf 36 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"A pedestrian, flimsily dressed in tail-coat, nankeen trousers, and pumps, struggles against driving rain, turning an agonized face to the spectator. He walks (r. to left.) on a muddy track beside a decayed paling. A raven croaks on a rotten tree. In the background is a dilapidated scarecrow, surrounded by birds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Ms. notes in pencil along lower edge of sheet.
"Interior of the cock pit off Whitehall, a fight in action; two cocks fighting in circular ring, their owners crouching behind them, men surrounding gesticulating wildly at fight."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal Cockpit
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 18., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 123., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 May 1808 at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A countryman (right) in a smock and his wife (left) sit by a table on which is a frothing jug and two full tumblers. She reads the newspaper, and looks up to say: "Why this Bonny-part be making Kings every-day - I should not wonder if thee wast in France, if he made a King of thee John - what wouldst thee do if thee wast a King?" He answers: "Do -! Why I'd swing on a gate and eat fat Bacon all the day long." He is a broad shock-headed fellow, seated with legs astride, a hand on each knee, a smoking pipe in his right. hand. A blazing fire burns in the grate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nature will prevail
Description:
Title etched below image., Date has been mostly burnished from imprint, leaving a gap between "... Published 1" and "by Thos. Tegg, Cheapside." Date of publication from Krumbhaar, who seems to describe an earlier state with intact imprint statement. A date of 1807 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "130" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling."--Lower right corner of design., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 67 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A countryman (right) in a smock and his wife (left) sit by a table on which is a frothing jug and two full tumblers. She reads the newspaper, and looks up to say: "Why this Bonny-part be making Kings every-day - I should not wonder if thee wast in France, if he made a King of thee John - what wouldst thee do if thee wast a King?" He answers: "Do -! Why I'd swing on a gate and eat fat Bacon all the day long." He is a broad shock-headed fellow, seated with legs astride, a hand on each knee, a smoking pipe in his right. hand. A blazing fire burns in the grate."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nature will prevail
Description:
Title etched below image., Date has been mostly burnished from imprint, leaving a gap between "... Published 1" and "by Thos. Tegg, Cheapside." Date of publication from Krumbhaar, who seems to describe an earlier state with intact imprint statement. A date of 1807 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "130" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., and "Price one shilling."--Lower right corner of design.
"A copy of a Rowlandson watercolour, see British Museum Satires No. 11111. Two hideous prostitutes stand at the counter of a gin-shop (or vault), each with a glass. A dog sits at their feet. On the left a third and comparatively handsome woman is drinking. An upturned face with a glass to the lips is on the extreme right. On the other side of the counter a stout man fills a glass from a bottle. Behind him are huge casks, one inscribed 'Booths Best Gin'. The place is brightly lit, with heavy shadows. A bunch of metal grapes hangs from the roof, catching the light."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Illustration to printed verses: A man and wife, both in fur hoods, &c, stand outside a small hut in a snow scene. She threatens him with her fists. In the background a reindeer draws a sleigh
Alternative Title:
Lock'd jaw and frost-bitten nose and Locked jaw and frost-bitten nose
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Text in letterpress immediately following title: (The Music sold by Messrs. Goulding and Co. New Bond Street.)., Three columns of verse in letterpress near lower portion of sheet: A youth took a wife, for joy or for strife..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 502.
Publisher:
Publish'd Dec. 1, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A stout, elderly, well-dressed man walks along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding, reversed, a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe which runs down the adjacent building a black flood drips and streams across the pavement. From an (invisible) upper window hang ragged garments, dripping down the wall. Broken crockery and refuse lie against the edge of the pavement."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Autumn, City & town life, Rain, Streets, and Weather
