"Social satire; a tall thin man with a tasselled tricorn hat in one hand and wearing a sword, wig, buckled shoes and rings on both hands steps forward towards a large lady with a wreath in her hair, beauty spots, several rings, a cupid's bow and arrow...
"Mrs. Coutts (right), fat, swarthy, and moustached, sits at a table, holding out a cheque for £100.000 to Lord Burford. Her Cheque Book lies on the table. He steps forward, hat in hand, left hand on breast, in profile to the right. She says: Why you s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1825 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
Racist caricature lampooning the inept attempt by African Americans to mimic the leisure culture of white high society depicting an African American tea party hosted by "Mr. Ludovico" and "Miss Rosabella." To the far right of the table, "Miss Rosabell...
"Four card-players at a round table in an old maid's parlour, with expressions that indicate a crisis in the game. A monkey sits on the back of the hostess's chair, about to snatch off her cap. A cockatoo is on a high perch before a tall folding scree...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany 4, 1825 by S.W. Fores, Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, Cockatoos, Interiors, Parlors, Mirrors, and Monkeys
A grotesque racist caricature of a buxom black woman in a white dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet with ribbons, grinning at the viewer and saying 'Don't you think you Fancy me now Massa'. Probably inspired by the "High Life in Philadelphia'' s...
"Four men, much caricatured, fish from a punt which is anchored to a pole. One sleeps, another has hooked a giant frog, which a third is about to scoop up in a landing-net. The fourth registers excitement. In the punt is a chair."--British Museum onli...
"An obese, elderly, bottle-nosed man stands in his garden, in profile to the left, his knees flexed, in slippers, ungartered stockings, open waistcoat; he shades his eyes and looks up ecstatically. A cloud of flies buzz round his bald head; a panting ...
"A pedestrian struggles through deep slushy snow, facing driving snow, with a broken umbrella, the spokes projecting through the cover. He clutches at his cloak and hat; he wears gaiters to the knee with socks over them, and overshoes. Cape and comfor...
Alternative Title:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year in London
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Blizzards, Carriages & coaches, Salutations, Snow, Umbrellas, and Winter
"In an ornate foreshortened bed which is the centre of the design, propped against a frilled pillow, is a lady, dismayed at the sight of a grotesque infant which a nurse (right) holds out to her. Her husband (left) is a grotesque dandy, wearing a smal...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Harrisson Isaccs [sic], Charles St., Soho Square
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Eyeglasses, Fireplaces, Governesses, Infants, Monocles, and Servants
A man sits backwards in his chair at the counter of an shop as he smiles with pleasure as he spoons his ice from his glace. In the background are drawers and a shelf with jars
A young couple face each other as they begin to dance in a hall lighted by a wall sconce with a mirror and a chandelier. Behind them an older woman looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowing, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance parties, and Etiquette
On the left a very thin and would-be fashionable young man stands in profile to the right, smoking a slim cigar. To his right a very broad hackney-coachman puffs at a very long clay pipe. He wears a long greatcoat with capes, over bulging coats and cl...
A view of the Stock Exchange, filled with members; the wall-clock points to 1:30. A few sticks and fists are raised above the crowd, and a hat flies up. In the foreground a horse, led in by two members, is incited by others to kick, a practical joke ...
Alternative Title:
Billy White's poney made a member of the stock exchange Billy White's pony made a member of the stock exchange
"Brougham stands in profile to the left, selling brooms; he holds up one, two are under his left arm. He wears a barrister's wig and bands, with a small conical cap tied under the chin, a tight-fitting bodice, and a full petticoat to the knee, showing...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 13th, 1825, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. St. [sic]
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
"Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy s...
Alternative Title:
Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November
Holding a candlestick, a wife departs from a room, which shows sign of an altercation with a turned over chair and pillow and book on the floow, her back to the viewer turns back looking at her husband
"Hunting scene, hounds in the distance in full cry. In the foreground two riders gallop across a field; one is in pink, the other is a neatly-dressed parson in tricorne hat, and bushy powdered wig. The former: Holloa Hark!--Doctor--d'ye hear that char...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Chas. Hunt, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
A satire showing bishops with the bodies of fish and crabs, under the "waters of agitation" and weeping over their loss of livings and tithes. One holds a bag labelled "Place, £10,000."
Huntsmen and hounds with moutned members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimeny and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. T...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
A figure of a man, Mr. Read (?), shown full-length walking to the right, with a riding crop in his right and wearing a top hat. He has a toothpick(?) hanging from his mouth
"A man sits behind a cloth-covered table, a prey to demons and to little figures enacting scenes that madden, urging to suicide and divorce. He clutches his head, his elbow resting on a book, Werter [cf. BM Satires 7765]; his right fist is on a letter...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. November 1st., 1825 by S. Knight, Sweetings Alley, Ryl. X'Change
Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
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Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
"An effeminate dandy, elongated and with very thin arms and legs, leans back in a chair, one thin arm drooping to the ground, the other curving over his head, his fingers caressing a curl on his forehead. He gazes sideways with a languishing smile at ...
Alternative Title:
Exquisite at his devotions
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. King 23 Chancery Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, Dressing tables, Mirrors, Monkeys, and Rugs
"A scene from a play: a soldier admired by a lady at her dressing table stands before a table of heads and ghosts, with an elderly couple to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monsieur Alexandre in The rogueries of Nicholas
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22nd Jany. 1825 by Wm. Heath at the new Panorama, 15 Grafton St., Dublin, and Henry Heath, London
Subject (Name):
Alexandre, Nicholas Marie,
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Dressing tables, Ghosts, Nuns, and Theatrical productions
"A promenade in Hyde Park. Innovations are that the men have trousers pinched at the knee, hour-glass fashion, their hats have small crowns, truncated cones, like the Petersham hat, some wear flat pumps with bows, and hold small riding-whips. They hav...
Alternative Title:
Monstrosities of 1825
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June 28, 1825, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hats, and Whips
Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors site by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief...
"View of the chapel; the area around it paved, a man pushes a wheelbarrow across paved area, another man stands watching, a dog nearby"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
North east view of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Leadenhall
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published 1 January 1825, by R. Wilkinson, No. 125, Fenchurch Street
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits ...
The King's Bath with the heads of men and women emerging from steaming water. Robert Cruikshank (right) is in profile to the right, addressing a pretty woman, and pointing to 'Blackmantle' who swims (defying the rule), approaching a group of alarmed a...
A woman sits with her hand to her head with a rueful look on her face, a tea setting on the table before her. Behind her to the left, her husband sits slumped in his chair, eyes closed
Design composed of four vignette images, each providing a comic visual pun on the name of the religous sect mentioned in the caption below. The "Jumpers" jump over a stream while being chased by goats; the "Quakers" cower and pray in fright as a donke...
Description:
Title from text centered above images, and from numbering in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Religious groups, Goats, Jumping, Streams, Fear, Donkeys, Fences, Dogs, Fighting, Watchmen, and Lanterns
