"The full face of Clifford, based on a fashionably swathed neck-cloth and high coat-collar, fills the design. The mouth is open as if shouting. The eyes and part of the cheeks are covered by circles representing huge spectacles. Each contains a symmetrical view of Covent Garden Theatre seen from the stage, showing pit, three tiers of boxes, and the centre of the two galleries (the 'pigeon-holes' not appearing), all crowded. The views differ only in the performers on the stage, two actors on the right (one clearly Kemble, probably as Macbeth), and on the left two actors and a file of soldiers. Superimposed on the middle of each circular design is a large 'O' (left) and 'P' (right). Round the broad rims of the spectacles: (left) 'Old House Old Prices & No Private Boxes' and (right) 'Old House Old Prices & No Pigeon Holes'. On the bridge across the nose: 'N.P.B.' (No Private Boxes, see British Museum Satires No. 11421)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print made collaboratively by Isaac and George Cruikshank, with the latter responsible for the tiny figures in the spectacles. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clifford, Henry, 1768-1813, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Covent Garden Theatre,, and Covent Garden Theatre
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Eyeglasses, Theater audiences, Actors, and Theatrical productions
"Mrs. Clarke, in profile to the right, runs with extended arms towards a Quaker, saying, "Stop my Darling and go along with me". She is a siren, not resembling Mrs. Clarke (see No. 11216, &c). The Quaker walks stiffly from her, clasping his gloves to his breast; he says: "Woman avaunt, I am not to be tempted, and be it known also I am a married man, therefore what little business I do in thy way it is not worth dividing"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread marings on two sides., Plate marked "83" in upper left corner., and Mounted to 29 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 24th, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
"The Duke of York (right), blowing a horn, sits in the boot of a coach driven by a lawyer, probably William Adam (left), who says: I thought we should bring him through. On the roof is a bush supporting a placard: Acquitted Glorious Majority of 82. Inside the coach are three lawyers, as in British Museum Satires No. 11269, who are not characterized. The coach is surrounded by a cheering mob. Mrs. Clarke, a termagant with streaming hair, holds up clenched fists towards the Duke. Next her is a fat parson, who says: I always said he was Innocent. A man shouts Huzza Glorias News for Old England. Next him is a bearded Jew in a long gown with a sack on his shoulder inscribed Left of Regimentals. A man shouts: That's right-go it my Darling [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11228]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumph of innocence
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Variant state lacking series number in upper left corner. Cf. No. 11274 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Mounted to 30 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 30th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852, and Adam, William, 1751-1839
"Mrs. Clarke stands just within the House of Commons triumphing over her opponents and victims. She strikes a member (Croker) with a rapier, while holding up in her left hand a letter headed My dear Mrs Clark. She tramples on a military officer who lies prone; a paper under his hand is inscribed Genl [Clav]ering. Her antagonists have dropped their swords, which lie broken on the floor. Her large muff lies beside her with a bundle of Love Letters. Croker tries to escape, exclaiming, By Jasus she'll give us 100 Cuts in 60 thrusts. Perceval rushes off, with a mutilated hand, saying, I am Struck dumb, and lost my thumb! I Percieve all. Another (the Attorney-General) exclaims: Oh! dear! Oh dear! she has cut off my Ear Ex officio. A little man whose nose has been cut off, exclaims: What dreadfull blows--Witness my Nose, my Honeys. In his pocket is a paper: Memorandum for Mr Hague [see British Museum Satires No. 11211]. A tall man (Yorke, see British Museum Satires No. 11535) shouts, raising his arms: Take her into custody--She will be to much for us--send her to York Jail. Shadowy figures watch the encounter. A corner of the gallery is seen, crowded with eager spectators. Two men watch from the lobby (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1809, by Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834, Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820, Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1759-1850., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Fighting, Daggers & swords, Military officers, British, Wounds & injuries, and Muffs
Caption title, below image., "Extracted from the Monthly mirror-new series, no. XIV.", Place of publication follows street address., Plate numbered: 484., Plate mark: 18.6 x 22.4 cm., Letterpress poem below engraved image begins: A comely young lad liv'd, a few years ago, in a street in the city of Seville, who took by the nostrils full many a beau, and soon brought their chins to a level ..., Watermark: Ivy Mill. Countermark: 1809., and Date of printing: 1809?
Publisher:
Publish'd Mar. 15, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
"Wright the upholsterer and Wardle face each other in profile. Wright (left) is fashionably dressed, wearing tasselled Hessians, and leans forward insinuatingly but with an alarmed expression, holding the end of a long scroll (his bill) which rests on the ground: 'Gullam Waddle Esqr to Wright--Red Turkey Carpet--Convex Mirror--Chandeliers--Side Boards--Bed Furniture--Chairs and Tables--Vases Celerets &c &c--Egyptian Furniture--a Sofa A La Clarke--A Bed-stead after the same pattern'. He says: "Mr Gull-em, Waddle I have brought you in a small Bill for goods, delivered for the Cleopatria of Westbourne place [see No. 11238],--and as you are a true patriot you can have no possible objection to the Bill of Wrights". Wardle, in regimentals and boots, his hands deep in his breeches pockets, leans angrily, saying: "What do you talk about patriotism, I tell you I have left off practice. D------n the Bill of Wrights!--It is all a mistake, about West-Bourne place, you shoud have taken it to Gloucester Place! [see No. 11222] there--you would be sure to have had your Money!!"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Patriot alarmed
Description:
Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified by George., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., Plate numbered "101" in upper left corner., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1806.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 30, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852. and Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833.
"The Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke in bed; his arm is round her neck, and he gazes at her, saying, "Ask any thing in reason and you shall have it my dearest dearest dearest Love". She answers: "Only remember the promotions I mentioned I have pinn'd up the list at the head of the Bed". Above their heads: 'List for Promotion-a Bishoprick for Dr O Leary, a Commissariat for Dicky Dowlas-A Generalship-Cl Clackwrng-A Majority-[?] 2d Lieutenant for my Foute Boy' [see British Museum Satires No. 11223]. At the foot of the bed are two chairs, one (left) a commode, on which is a large mitre, with a crosier behind it, on the other (right) are the Duke's breeches."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., A possible earlier state lacking series number. Cf. No. 11227 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on one side., and Mounted to 42 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 26, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852
Title from caption below item., Two lines of text below title: No vestage in print or manuscript was preserved, except a single copy in compliance with the act of Parliament..., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24th, 1809 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
"A view of a narrow section of the auditorium of Covent Garden theatre, with the 'pigeon-holes' along the upper margin, and the heads and shoulders of persons in the pit forming a base to the design. The audience is proletarian. In two pigeon-holes are a few elderly persons trying to hear or see, in another sit birds resembling owls or spectacled old men, with broad collars inscribed 7/s (reversed). From the fourth box a bird with a similar collar is flying. The two-shilling gallery below is absurdly low and constricted. One man vomits from it on to the head of a sub-human creature in the box beneath. In the third tier (the hated 'Private Boxes') couples kiss or drink together; there are two fat liveried servants. Occupants of the two lower tiers are rowdily ill-mannered. Two men and two women in the pit are engaged in a scuffle; other men are dour and ill-tempered, except one, who prods with his umbrella the posterior of a young woman in a box. There are various decorative emblems on the spaces between the boxes: A cupid and a large key (see No. 11421), bull's horns enclosed in a wreath, a cock and a hare, a satyr fighting with women, and, above the lowest tier, a fat man dragging an unwilling ass, inscribed 'From N to O [New Prices to Old] Jack [Kemble] you must Go'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist's attribution 'Opie' is a pseudonym used by Thomas Rowlandson. See British Museum catalogue., Artist's attribution inscribed as mirror image on print., Temporary local subject terms: Theatres: Covent Garden -- Male costume, 1809 -- Female costume, 1809 -- Umbrellas., and Print numbered '177' in ms. near upper edge of sheet.
Publisher:
Pud. Decr. 12, 1809 by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James St. Adelphi
"Two watchmen holding up lanterns on poles stand one on each side of the door of Mrs. Clarke's house in 'Gloucester Place' [see British Museum Satires No. 11222]. Between them stands a man holding a pole, supporting a board: 'Beware of Bad Houses And Naughty Women'. This obstructs access to the house, where a couple are seen through a window embracing each other (right). On the left an officer and a parson who have been approaching, retreat in dismay. On the right a burly termagant clenches her fists. One of the new gas-lamps, see British Museum Satires No. 10798, &c, projects from the corner of the house, its globe inscribed 'Light & Heat Company'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Lanterns: Gas lamp.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 9th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
