Title from time., Four images on a single plate, each separately titled below image, each with series name and sequentially numbered; each containing separate imprint statements., With: A medical marksman / Williams fecit -- A medical bill well paid / Williams fect. -- Medical consolation / Williams fecit., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satiress.
"Plate 3: A street scene at night beside a corner shop adjoining a passage leading to an archway, inscribed [Cliffo]rds Inn, under the first floor of a tall house. The shop has a curved window filled with cakes, jelly-glasses, &c, and sweetmeats in elegant glass jars. The shop-woman looks out at a tall well-dressed man who walks away from a courtesan, who puts a hand on his arm, pointing to the door of the house between shop-front and archway, on which is Hotel. She is well dressed and handsome. Just behind her a watchman sits on a stool, watching the couple and ringing a hand-bell; he holds up a placard inscribed Beware of Bad Houses on which his lantern hangs. Light falls on the figures and pavement from shop, street lamp, and lantern. Above the shop-window . . . I at Home | Button | S . . ."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above and below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 14591 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Plate numbered "Pl. 3" in upper right corner.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., Three lines of verse after title: He that is robb'd not wanting ..., Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth, Mary Anne, (Hanson), Countess of (afterwards Mrs. Alder), fl. 1823 -- Whips., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Manuscript "262" above the center of the plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Alder, Daniel, fl. 1823-1824. and Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, Earl of, 1767-1853.
"Scene in a broad London street parallel with the west front of St. Paul's which tops the houses. A burly sailor, pointing with his thumb to St. Paul's, and holding a watch and seals, addresses a Jew old-clothes man who approaches him cringingly. The Jew is bearded, wears three hats, holds a sack on his shoulder, one (thin) leg in a dilapidated Hessian, the other in a top-boot. Below: Give me a pound for Her, will you; I'll see you D--n first, why I set Her by that big 'un Last night & she's out sail'd Her by 7 Hours."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of dialogue below title: Give me a pound for her will you; I'll see you d--n first ...
Publisher:
Pub. May 29, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond Street
"In a wheeled car, Louis XVIII careers down a wooden track (as on the Montagnes Russes in Paris), laid on a steep grass slope, towards a monster formed of a guillotine, from which diabolical talons extend, ready to clutch him. The car is partly throne, partly bath-chair; the King has the usual swollen flannelled legs and wears an old-fashioned court-suit. He is blindfolded by a fool's cap with a long peak which streams behind him, showing the rapidity of the descent. In his right hand he holds out a spluttering firebrand, or Holy Candle, in the left is a sword with a serrated blade inscribed Sword of Justice, to which heavy fetters are attached. On the right of the track is a wide doorway, inscribed Chamber of Deputies, whence soldiers with fixed bayonets are pouring out. The two foremost drag between them a deputy, Manuel. The King turns his head to the right, shouting: War! War! war! war with Spain is indispensable. We will carry our measures at home & abroad with the point of the Bayonet, The Bourbons must be absolute monarchs, the people must be slaves!! His car is pushed behind by a band of simian Frenchmen, having the legs of apes, in court-dress with orders, wearing fool's caps like that of the King, the two foremost having their faces completely covered with the caps. The first pair, evidently Villèle and Chateaubriand, shout War! war! war! and War! war! Vive l' Roi. Those behind shout Shove away Shattebrain [cf. BM Satires 12614]; this is a Glorious cause. Vive l' Roi. Manuel, dignified and determined, makes a speech: "Let others seek to debase the National character: they have no doubt a guilty interest in doing so: I will do every thing in my power to preserve it's virtue. I do not expect an act of Justice; it is to one of Vengence [sic] that I resign myself. Sent to this Chamber by the will of those who had the right to send me here, I shall only leave it through the Violence of those who have not the right to exclude me; and if this resolution on my part may draw on my head the gravest dangers, I console myself that the field of Liberty has sometimes been fertilized by generous blood." Soldiers (right) watch the ejection, their hands resting on the barrels of their muskets, the butt ends being on the ground. They differ from the ejectors in wearing bearskins in place of cocked hats, gaiters in place of jack-boots, and they have a flag inscribed National Guard. One (Mercier) says: We will not Obey the Order to expel M. Manuel. Comrades, what say you to the Right about? In the foreground (left) two ghosts emerge from clouds, looking up at the madly careering king. Napoleon, a profile bust portrait, says: Silly Bourbon! Remember the Consequences of my interfereing with Spai. Louis XVI, his neck hidden by cloud, holds out his decollated head; he wears a shirt patterned with fleur-de-lis. He says: O! Brother, Brother, be warned by my unhappy fate!! The guillotine-monster is topped by a cap of Liberty with two tricolour cockades for glaring saucer-eyes. The base of the cap forms a gaping mouth; from it issue the words: What are you at!! what are you a'rter!!! I am really surprised at your Blind Stupidity! My appearance Here, I assure you, is with the most friendly intentions, to warn you of your impending danger. But if you are bent upon your own destruction, why come along!! C'a [sic] ira c'a ira c'a ira."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hint to the blind and foolish and Bourbon dynasty in danger!
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Purchased with gift funds from Robert Pirie.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th 1823 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Four images on a single plate, each separately titled below image, each with series name and sequentially numbered; each containing separate imprint statements., With: A medical marksman / Williams fecit. -- A Shropshire bargain, or, The doctor bit / Williams -- Medical consolation / Williams fecit., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satiress., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Sick persons -- Bedrooms -- Families -- Cottages.
Four images on a single plate, each separately titled below image, each with series name and sequentially numbered; each containing separate imprint statements., With: A medical bill well paid / Williams fect. -- A Shropshire bargain, or, The doctor bit / Williams -- Medical consolation / Williams fecit., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satiress.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1823 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of dialogue are inscribed on either side of title: What would this nut say if it could speak? D--n it give us none of your jaw!
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
