"A pretty young woman and a fashionably dressed man sing together seated on upright chairs. She (r.) plays the harp, her head thrown back to look over her shoulder at the music-book which he holds open: 'Duets de l'Amour'. On a round table which supports his elbow as he leans towards her is an open book: 'Ovid' [Art of Love]. She wears clinging draperies. Two cats gambol amorously on music-books on the ground. The elaborate décor of the room stresses the subject of the design. A large wall mirror (l.) hangs above a marble console which is supported on winged heads; a butterfly flies towards its own reflection. Chinese vases containing roses (twin flowers) flank a bowl in which gold-fish swim to meet each other. One vase only is fully visible; it is a scene of courtship. Below the console a heart-shaped vase, decorated with a Sphinx, stands on the floor. An oval picture elaborately framed hangs above the heads of the lovers: a Cupid fires a blunderbuss at two doves billing on a dove-cot. This is flanked by carvings of flowers with (l.) crossed torches (of Hymen) and (r.) the bow and arrows of Cupid. In the foreground (r.) is one corner of a console table supported by a grinning satyr with a cloven hoof; on it is a myrtle plant in an ornamental pot. The luxury of the room is shown by an arcaded wall with pilaster reflected in the mirror, and by a palm-tree pilaster (as in BMSat 10303)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: "Matrimonial-harmonics." and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"The Pope (left), on a small ass decked with trappings, faces John Bull, who stands as toll-keeper before a closed five-barred gate. From the other side of the gate a path leads to a country church on a hill, irradiated, and framed by the semicircular inscription: 'King - Church and Constitution'. The Pope, except that he wears a Papal crown instead of a mitre, resembles St. Patrick in caricature (where he often rides an ass). He is aquiline and bearded, holds a crosier, and wears a cope. His ass has blinkers, on which a satyr's mask is freely drawn. He leans towards John, saying, "Mr Bull, I have been to Paris - and seen all the fine sights there - I now want to have a peep at that little Church on the Hill - therefore let me pass the turnpike." John (right), a fat yokel, looks up at the Pope with a suspicious scowl, pointing over his shoulder at a large open book, 'Test Oath', which is on a book-rest attached to the gate-post. He says: "If you want to go through - pay the Toll, what the devil do you think I keep a turnpike gate for?" Behind the Pope stand four dissenting ministers anxiously watching the interview. Three say sanctimoniously : "Though I boast not gaudy trappings, - nor am I mounted on Ass back, - yet if he goeth through verily I should like to go through also!"; "Verily so should I."; "We should all like to go through".."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Pius--VII,--Pope,--1742-1823--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters., Donkeys., John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons., Quakers., Toll roads., and Tolls.
"A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. From the edge of the ice (r.) projects a post with a notice-board: 'Humane Society - Whereas this Pond is very deep & dangerous, it is requested that no persons will rashly venture to Skait upon it.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing, Elements of skateing :, and Elements of skating :
Description:
One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image, following series title.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (l.), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in the corner of a sofa, crouching away from her, his hand over his ear, food stuffed into his mouth, reading the 'Sporting Calendar'. The pages of her open music-book are headed 'Forte'. Her song is: 'Torture Fiery Rage \ Despair I cannot can not bear'. On the piano lies music: 'Separation a Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniment'; on the floor is 'The Wedding Ring - a Dirge'. She wears a becoming morning gown with cap, but has lost the slim grace of BMSat 10472, and her soft features have coarsened. Behind the piano a boisterous coarse-featured nurse hastens into the room holding a squalling infant, and flourishing a (watchman's) rattle. On the lady's chair is an open book, 'The Art of Tormenting', illustrated by a cat playing with a mouse. Her sunshade hangs from the back of the chair. On the breakfast-table are a large hissing urn, a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, &c., a bottle of 'Hollands' (beside the woman's place), and a (full) dish of muffins. The man's coffee-cup is full and steaming. He wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings and slippers. An air of dejection and ill-nature replaces his former good-humoured sprightliness. Under his feet lies a dog, 'Benedick', barking fiercely at an angry cat, poised on the back of the sofa. A square birdcage high on the wall is supported by branching antlers. In it two cockatoos screech angrily at each other, neglecting a nest of three young ones. Beside it (l.) is a bust of 'Hymen' with a broken nose, and (r.) a thermometer which has sunk almost to 'Freezing'. On the chimney-piece is a carved ornament: Cupid asleep under a weeping willow, his torch reversed, the arrows falling from his quiver. This is flanked by vases whose handles are twisted snakes which spit at each other."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: "Harmony before matrimony.", Temporary local subject terms: Firepalce -- Musical Instruments: piano -- Furniture: sofa -- Female Costume: Morning gown -- Children's Nurse -- Toys: rattle -- Parasols: sunshade -- Male Costume: Dressing-gown -- Thermometers -- Cupid -- Bell-Pulls., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A justice-room in an old-fashioned country house with uncurtained mullioned window (right), raftered roof from which hangs a wicker bird-cage, and a truckle-bed turned up against the wall (left). A smart officer measures the height of a small thin yokel in a smock, under the inspection of a fat old justice, a similar old man wearing spectacles and in uniform, and a clerk, all seated at a small table. In the doorway stands a fat and pompous constable holding a staff and keeping back a crowd of countrymen who wait their turn outside the door. On the wall behind the measuring-post is a placard: 'Subtitutes [sic] for the Army of Reserve 30 Per Man Bounty.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
For an apparent reissue dated 1815, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 295-6., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title from bottom edge. Title supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1981,U.253., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Five elderly, old-fashioned doctors stand in consultation in a row behind Napoleon (r.), who vomits, saying, "My Dear Doctors! those sacre Anglois have play'd the Devil vun [?] my constitution pray tell me what is the matter with me, I felt the first symptoms when I told Genl Macke I wanted ships, collonies & commerce - Oh! dear - Oh dear! I shall want more ships now; this is a cursed sensation - O I am very qualmish." He drops an 'Extraordinary Gazette 19 Sail of the Line taken by Ld Nelson'. He stands in profile to the right. with flexed knees. The doctor behind him pulls down his breeches and peers towards him; he says: "Begar me have found it out - your heart be in your breeches." The next doctor exclaims: "A desperate case"; the third says: "I recommend bleeding". The two on the extreme left. consult together; one says: "Irrecoverable". They wear tie-wigs with old-fashioned dress: Napoleon wears uniform with large bicorne hat and boots."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Nap Buonaparte in a fever on receiving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets and Nap Buonaparte in a fever on recieving the extraordinary gazette of Nelson's victory over the combined fleets
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A loutish yokel (l.), holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile (r.), her features twisted in a sly grimace. In the background (l.) men reap a corn-field, and corn-stooks cover a more distant hill. Lavinia is framed in foliage, with autumn leaves and a withered tree."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Title etched below image., and Two lines of quoted text following title: "He saw her charming; but he saw not half" "the charms her downcast modesty conceal'd."
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons; a large section of the crowded Opposition benches is shown (r.). Pitt sits alone on the Treasury Bench, his profile only appearing on the extreme left.; the rest of the Ministerial benches are cut off by the margin, behind him is the Speaker's Chair, with the tiny head of Abbot surrounded by a vast wig, appearing just over the table. From the table hangs a scroll: 'Resolutions respecting the Chancellor of the Exchequer - 40000 - Bank of England - Boyd & Benf[ield] - Trotter - Jellicoe - Speculation - Participation'. Fox, corpulent, neat, and composed, stands with his right. hand extended towards Pitt, his left. behind his back and holding a paper: 'Arraignments [sic] for a new Coalition'. His words ascend and are enclosed in a large label in the upper part of the design: '" - Yes Sir, I do assure the Right Honble Gent" \ "though our lives have ever been opposite, though in \ "almost every instance we have disagreed, & though I have \ "constantly blamed the whole of his conduct, yet I should \ "be everlastingly unhappy had it turned out that he had \ "acted wrong or had soiled his hands in the manner we \ "meant to attribute to him; - I do say Sir, that during \ "my whole life, I never did suspect, I never had the least \ "suspicion of any thing dishonorable in the Right Honble Gent" - \ "and from every species of Corruption, I do declare most \ "solemnly, my mind has always most completely \ "acquitted him! - he will be held up to posterity \ "and cited as a bright example of Purity Integrity and Honor!' On his seat lies his hat; in this is a large bundle of papers: 'Political Union, to save the Country from Buonaparte and the Doctor'. On the ground beside it lies a large overturned tankard of 'Whitbread's Entire', whose contents froth over the floor. Long narrow labels ascend from other M.P.s. Pitt says "Here! - Here! - Here!!!", touching with his finger the vacant place beside him, inviting Fox to take it. Next Fox's hat and on the extreme right. sits Grey clutching his cocked hat with papers: 'State of . . . Na[tion]'; 'Enquiries into the Public Offices'. He says: "Yes I find they'll be all prov'd Honest, so I'll destroy my Papers too!" Next, partly concealed by Fox, slouches Sheridan; he is silent (opposed to any praise of Pitt, especially from Fox). Next sits Tierney, hands on knees, saying sanctimoniously, "O how I shall enjoy to sit down with him, upon the Bench of Honesty". Next sits Lord Henry Petty, hands folded, feet together, saying priggishly, "an Immaculate Statesman! - just like my own Papa" [Lansdowne, or 'Malagrida']. On the second bench Windham sits behind Fox's empty seat, biting a pen; he holds 'Notes and Speeches for the Political Register', and says: "Why, he deserves a Statue of Gold more than Porcupine himself!" Next, little Wilberforce claps tiny hands, saying, "O he's an Angel of Light! - a Cherubim of Glory!" Beside him is Erskine, saying, "he scorns a dirty Cause, I vow to G-d". The other members are freely drawn and scarcely characterized, though Walpole (behind Windham) is identified by his small size, sharp nose, cocked hat, and regimentals; next him is a stout man in spectacles resembling Lord Temple. Heads look down from the gallery in the upper right. corner of the design."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Erskine, Thomas Erskine,--Baron,--1750-1823--Caricatures and cartoons., Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Grey, Charles Grey,--Earl,--1764-1845--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice,--Marquess of,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons., Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816--Caricatures and cartoons., Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., Walpole, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., Wilberforce, William,--1759-1833--Caricatures and cartoons., and Windham, William,--1750-1810--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A grotesquely dilapidated post-chaise stands outside a ramshackle inn (r.); the driver lashes the horses cruelly, a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, but the wretched animals refuse to move. A barefooted slattern approaches from the r. with a huge red-hot poker. From the post-chaise leans its occupant, who wears a ribbon and star, and a night-cap. His feet have broken through the ruinous chaise; he threatens the driver with his cane; the latter's words are etched after the title: '"------"Forward immediately your Honour; But sure a'nt I waiting for the Girl with the Poker \ "just to give this Mare a burn your Honour, 'tis just to make her start your Honour.' The chaise is roofed with thatch on which a cock is pecking; it is held together by rope, the reins and traces are of rope. The wheels are broken. Above the door of the primitive inn is a placard: 'The New Thatched-House Tavern' [the Thatched House was a fashionable London tavern and club]. On the signboard an eagle attacking a naked infant (Ganymede) is depicted; above is a board: 'Nate Post-Chaise and Whiskey \ Nate \ Entertainment for Man & Beast.' From a brick chimney a little sweep looks out waving his brush. On a bench by the door a man with a crutch and wooden leg sits smoking and drinking, not interested in the departing grandee. In the foreground a lean sow eats from a heap of potatoes; a young pig attempts to suck; another, almost a skeleton, tries to eat potatoes. In the coach-house which is part of the inn, is a second and less-ruinous thatched post-chaise. Beside the road is a stone wall and behind it a signpost, pointing (r.) 'to Ballyragger', (l.) 'to Athlone'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: "Posting in Scotland.", Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835, artist.
"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, saying to the unfortunate traveller: '" - Hald your Haund Mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun! e'n gin you na mind \ "yoursel, youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels! - ' The chaise was drawn by a horse and ass; on the latter, which kicks violently, sits a primitive postilion; the traces are of rope. A shepherd (the muckle laird) reclines in the elbow of the road in the foreground; his dog barks at the chaise, which is followed by a man on a donkey. Horned sheep with tattered fleeces and bare rumps are beside the shepherd (r.). All four Scots are bare-footed, and have bare posteriors, the kilt being a mere apron."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Companion print to: "Posting in Ireland.", Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835, artist.
