"Twelve single figures arranged in two rows, their complacent soliloquies etched above their heads, e.g. [3] An ugly woman dressed in a travesty of the fashion, with one large feather in her hair, large ear-rings, and an enormous oval miniature slung from her neck, holds up a small parasol, projecting at an angle from its clumsy stick. She says: "True happiness undoubtedly consists in an elegant taste for the Bon Ton." [4] A stout ugly woman says: "Though I am none of your flan dan Ladies I believe I can buy one half of them." One of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 15., and Restrike. Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Jewelry, Military uniforms, and British
"A realistic bedroom scene; the bed (right) in a curtained alcove. A man reclines in a long oval (portable) bath, full to the brim; seemingly of tin, with handles, with a pillow to support the head. One man shaves him, another massages his foot, while a coffee-tray floats on (or stands in) the water. He holds a delicately balanced spoon. A wig, simulating natural hair, stands on a tall wig-block; another stand supports a coat; a dandy's trousers lie on a chair. There is a small dressing-table with shaving materials and stoppered bottles. The room is otherwise bare, with no suggestion of luxury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 19th 1824 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's St.
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 3., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Eating and drinking -- Wine -- Flurtations -- Couples., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
"A young man in civilian dress, Battier, and two officers of the Tenth Hussars, are having their shaved heads inspected by six grotesque practitioners of phrenology, two to each. On the wall, besides pendent skulls, is a placard : Craniums examined and fitness developed.-- 1. Penetration--2. Folly--3. Insolence--4. Conceit--5- Benevolence--6. Ideality--7. Civility--8. Self Love 9. Brutality 10. Pride with Ignorance! Battier is identified by a paper at his feet, To Co . Bat**; he has a head of ideal shape; one expert says to the other: No, wont do for the 10th to omuch of No. 1-- 5 and 7--. One officer (left) sits in back view, he has a grotesquely misshapen head with lateral protuberances; the inspecting expert says to his colleague: No. 9 Conspicuously. The other (right) sits in profile; he is without a forehead, with an absurdly extended back to his head. One phrenologist, smelling his cane, says: No 3 and 4 very clear. The other adds: Heres the 10th the 10th the 10 to a demonstration."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Science practically developed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Battier, William, active 1824
Subject (Topic):
Phrenology, Physicians, Head, Hussars, Costume, Military uniforms, Skulls, and Baldness
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A drawing-room scene. A dwarfish hunchback holding out a book approaches a tall elegant lady in evening dress, holding a closed fan, who looks over her shoulder to answer. Below: Pray Madam what is a Note of Interrogation? Tis a little Crooked thing that asks Questions. [Pope by tradition evoked this answer.]"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Riddle
Description:
Title etched below image; alternative title from the British Museum catalogue., Attribution to William Heath based on the "W.H." initials etched on all other prints in this series; Cf. Nos. 14733-4, 14736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Watermark: J Whatman 1832.
Publisher:
Pub. March 19, 1824 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
"Satire; at right, a thin man and his caped friend, guns in their hands, facing a robust military gentleman standing at centre, with four guns in his belt and a blunderbuss to hand; the three are much concerned at the appearance at left of a doctor with two saws and a large medical chest, a man carrying a coffin, and a gravedigger setting to his work; a man stands behind, balancing a box labelled 'razor blades and bullets' on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print of which this is a copy
Description:
Title from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827]., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray published 13 July 1799 by H. Humphrey. Cf. No. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 265., Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Punch.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Drinking vessels, Eating & drinking, Floor coverings, Alcoholic beverages, Intoxication, Living rooms, Medicine, Songs, and Singing
