Design in an oval; a copy of British Museum satire no. 7790 with the title "a beau". A half-length portrait of a man directed to the left but looking to the right with a slight smile on his face. His hair is very frizzed out beneath his hat and tied in a queue. He wears a coat with a high collar, a fringed cravat tied in a bow. His coat is buttoned at the waist. His right hand is gloved and holds a single eyeglass to his right eye. Under his left arn is a small cane or riding-whip
Description:
Title from text below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of plate numbering and date erased from sheet. Plate number and publication date supplied from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '364' in lower left corner., No. 17 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"Lord Stanhope, stooping in profile to the left, hurries furtively from an open doorway into the street, his right hand raised, his left hand holding his hat behind his back. Rolled documents project from his pocket inscribed 'Toasts'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., Series title and number from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of series title., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 395., and With a literaturea llusion to Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret and referencing the Revolution Society.
"A foppishly dressed man stands full face, holding a cane against his left shoulder. The fingers of his right hand are extended to display a large ring on the fourth finger. He wears a high-crowned hat, a voluminous swathing round his neck apparently of spotted gauze; a high collar at the back of his head reaches his hat-brim. His breeches are high in the waist and long in the leg where they are tied; low wrinkled top-boots show striped stockings. His coat is cut away to form tails. Beside him is a small dog with a ruff-like collar."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: 'Whoe,er, with curious eye, has rang'd Through Ovids tales, has Seen, How Jove, incens'd, to Monkies chang'd A tribe of worthless Men, The Brute with Contempt the man surveyd Nor would a name bestow, But Woman lik'd the motley breed And Calld this thing a Beau.', and Watermark (partial): initials G R below shield.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 29, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, and Rings
"The enormously fat Mrs. Hobart sits in profile to the left in a small armchair, her right foot on a stool, her leg exposed. She places round its grotesque girth a ribbon garter, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring. Perched on her hair is a small straw hat with a high silk crown from which a veil hangs down her back. On the wall behind her is a picture: 'Nina', a small thin man kneels before the stout and terrified Nina (who believes him to be the ghost of her lover)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Van-Buchells garters
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Martin Van Butchell, 1735-1812 -- Literature: allusion to Berkeley's Nina, or, The Madness of Love -- Pictures amplifying subject: Nina -- Furniture: armchairs -- Foot stools -- Clothing: garters.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Title from item., Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to either Henry Wigstead or William Holland., Publisher's advertisement below title: In Hollands exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitce one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Shakespearian costume -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 3 -- Dogs -- Allusion to debate Fox vs. Burke, in House of Commons, 6 May, 1791., and Mounted to 35 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Six caricatures of a lawyer arguing a case in various manners: 1) Influencing the judge, 2) A knock me down argument, 3) A funny case, 4) A forcible argument, 5) A maiden case, and 6) An honest pleader. In the last four vignettes the lawyer holds a scroll with text alluding to: Crim con., a "scondrel of a Jew", and "Black Harry alias Diving Dan ..."
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 20, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Inscribed in the plate: Vide Fontaine's tales, p. 131., Plate from: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated (1st ed.), 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at bottom of print and continuing under print: From John Ireland's Hogarth illustrated., and On page 199 in volume 2.
"Louis XVI sits fatly at a table, carving large pieces from a roast bird, a rolled paper in his pocket inscribed 'Route de Melz'; he turns back to an obsequiously grinning officer wearing a wig and ruffled collar and sleeves, who approaches from an open door to right, bowing and presenting an 'Ordre of la municipalite poor l'Arret de Monsieur Louis de Bourbon', the king saying 'Je me f- de tout cela Laisse moi manger tranqillement'; in the doorway are seen a short man with the fleur-de-lis on his arm and a whip who comments, 'Voila but for his dam guts we had been safe out of their reach', and five heavy-looking soldiers, all with skull-and-crossbone motifs on their bearskin hats. To left, Marie Antoinette stands looking in a mirror, adjusting her neckerchief and saying 'Come my dear Louis havn't you finish'd your two Turkeys & drank your six bottles, you know we shall dine at Mont medy', a fine hat on the chair in front of her. Behind to left, the Dauphin sits grimacing on a water-closet, clutching at himself; his nurse approaches him with a beaker and spoon, saying 'aha! mon Petit Bourbon de shi-ten luck be de good Luck'. On the wall, three frames, the first, titled 'Louis 14', shows a preening figure, nude to the waist with a fistful of thunderbolts, standing on the back of a prostrate figure with several others abject at his feet, a temple to right; the second lacks a picture, but has an upside-down notice stuck in it, reading 'Par le roy'; the third, 'Juillet 14 1789', is the storming of the Bastille."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures [sic] in the world, admita[nc]e 1 shilling., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 41 x 56 cm., Watermark., German translation of title in contemporary hand at bottom of sheet., and Numbered in ms. in lower left corner of sheet: 369.
Publisher:
Pub. July 24, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVII, of France, 1785-1795, and Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
