Title from caption within image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: IIT.
One hundred fifty claimants to the throne of Great Britain
Description:
Caption title., Letterpress text discussing the line of succession above an etched geneological chart (plate mark 27.9 x 26.5 cm) which illustrates the line of succession, following the reign of George IV, probably published in response to the death of Princess Charlotte in 1817 and before the birth of Victoria in 1819. However, the text also references "the present Princess of Wales", but further evidence that this was issued in response to her death is the dark black border around her name., and Imprint etched at top of chart. Date from letterpress: "The following is a brief sketch. A.D. 1818."
Publisher:
Printed & publish'd by W. Finch, No. 5 Charlotte Place, New Cut, Lower Marsh, Lambeth
Receipt for White's "Sketches of Characters ... illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex", showing three figures carrying a fourth on their backs, lettered below with '4 Logger heads or / B - e Triumphant'.
"A country barber, his assistant, and a boy, are engaged in shaving and wig-dressing. An elderly rustic sits full-face and well-lathered in an arm-chair in the centre of the shop, while a lean and tattered barber holds the bowl. A stout farmer in top-boots (left) with a stubbly face dubiously contemplates a wig, which he holds on a tall wig-block. On the right a fat barber painfully shaves an old man, while a younger customer stanches a cut over a basin. A young boy in front of them holds two elaborately curled legal wigs. A long judge's wig, uncurled, hangs from a wig-block. Behind (left) a prim, elderly man in a newly dressed wig adjusts his neck-cloth at a small mirror; a coachman in back view puts on his tightly curled wig. There are also two dogs, two cats, a magpie taking part of a wig from a box on the floor, and another bird in a cage. Above the door (right) are fishing-rods and a creel. On the wall are four prints: a naval battle (framed); a view of the 'County Gaol'; an execution scene; and a skeleton fiddling to exulting demons. There is also 'A Calendar of the Prisoners to be Tried. . . '. The room is ramshackle with a casement window, bricks showing through the plaster. From the roof hang a ham and a bundle of turnips and carrots."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with partially scored-through imprint of H. Humphrey burnished from plate. Cf. No. 11779 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate dated in lower left corner below image: London, January 9th, 1811., Text above image, preceding publication line: The last work of the late James Gillray., and Mounted on leaf 85 of volume 11 of 12.
Publisher:
Now first published May 15th, 1818, by G. Humphrey, nephew and successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Scene at the corner of a street leading to Cavendish Square, which is indicated by the equestrian statue of the Duke of Cumberland (erected 1770), immediately outside a ground-floor window at the corner of 'Union Street'. A handsome well-dressed woman holding up a parasol, raises her skirt, displaying her leg above the knee, at the same time so stepping on a loose paving-stone that a shower of mud is directed against a footman who is leering up at her through the bars protecting a basement window. An elderly man stares from the window above."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published May 14, 1818 by E. Brooks, Panton St. London
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: RD Monds 1813.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sitting rooms -- Tables -- Wine -- Firescreens -- Mantels.
Title from caption below image. and Ten lines of verse below image: A lad who goes into the world dick like me, should have his neck tied up, you know, there's no doubt of it ...
"A dandy, much burlesqued, stands full-face, his head, which has a bird-like profile, turned to the left; his hair is brushed up at the back behind his hat to resemble the tail-feathers of a cock. He wears puffed-out breeches and top-boots with enormous spurs, and holds an umbrella (see No. 13060). A narrow coat-tail hangs between his stick-like legs. His thin arms in tight sleeves project awkwardly, and he wears short yellow (chicken-skin) gloves; a broad patterned strip hangs from his fob, with seals and watch-key. A sign-post among shrubs points 'To Chalk Farm' [Hampstead]. The dome of St. Paul's (left) appears in the distance, and in the middle distance (right) are new suburban houses."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New thing for the ladies
Description:
Title from caption above and below image. and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 6th, 1818 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
