Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Pitt dressed in a Elizabethan-style costume, with a large feathered hat on his head, faces the viewer. He gesters with his left hand and holds a stick in his right
Alternative Title:
Honorable Spruce Billy Beau prime minister of Lilliput
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Richard Newton., and Two lines of verse below title: A Tory I am and a very young man ...
Publisher:
Pubd. June 20 1791 by W. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from countermark. Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials R & T below and countermark Ruse & Turner 1806 (countermark partially obscured by design and coloring)., Two images etched on one plate., Reissue of No. 7883 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Flight to Varennes -- Recapture of Louis XVI -- French revolutionaries -- Black-shoe -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- Emblems: French revolutionary cockade., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials R & T below and countermark Ruse & Turner 1806 (countermark partially obscured by design and coloring).
Publisher:
Pubd. June 28, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Cooks, Jockeys, People associated with commercial & service activities, Soldiers, French, and Tailors
"A design in two compartments, one above the other, the figures in both being three quarter length. [1] A ragged French barber, in profile to the right, gesticulating and capering, says to six terror-stricken companions: "O sacre dieu! de King is escape! de King is escape". The foremost listener is a tailor, his shears stuck through the string of his apron, a measuring-tape round his shoulders, but wearing a cocked hat and sword. On the extreme left is a diminutive postboy. All are much caricatured with expressions denoting dismay. The barber wears a bag-wig, with a comb stuck in his hair; the others wear tricolour cockades in their hats. [2] Another group of ruffians listen with delight to a cook (left) who says, taking a pinch of snuff, and capering, "Aha! be gar, de King is retaken! Aha! Monsr Lewis is retaken! Aha!" In his cap is a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'; he wears over-sleeves, a spoon and fork are stuck through his apron-string, a string of frogs hangs from his belt. His most prominent listener is a shoe-black with a grotesquely wide grin, who stands, shoe in one hand, brush in the other. These much-caricatured ragamuffins are typical of the French republicans depicted by Gillray: at once ludicrous and horrible."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
National Assembly revivified
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Flight to Varennes -- Recapture of Louis XVI -- French revolutionaries -- Trades: barbers -- Cooks -- Tailors -- Jockeys -- Black-shoe -- French soldiers -- Emblems: bonnet rouge -- French revolutionary cockade.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 28th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Possibly by Henry Wigstead or William Holland. See British Museum catalogue., Plate slipped on top half., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Whitworth -- Horse throughs -- Phlebotomists -- Medical procedures: bleeding -- Medical equipment -- Allusion to London hospitals -- Artisans -- John Taylor, 'Doctor John.', and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 20, 1791, by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
"The Duchess of York (left), full face, dances a minuet with a partner whose figure and profile suggest the Prince of Wales. He faces her, his left forefinger touching her left forefinger, his right arm outstretched, holding his hat. Her dress is cut very low and she displays her tiny feet (cf. BMSat 7930, &c), showing her leg to the knee in a way then considered immodest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter 'k' in 'York' seems to have been etched on the plate as 'y' and altered by hand after printing., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Dancing -- Dances: minuet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 14th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
"The Duke and Duchess of York receive the address of the City on their marriage, the Mayor, &c, being represented as bulls on their hind legs, wearing livery-gowns. A braying ass on the extreme right reads the 'City Address to their Royal Highness . . .' The Duke stands on the edge or the dais, making an extravagantly low bow, looking through his legs away from the deputation; the Duchess on his right sinks in a curtsey so low tha her petticoats take the form of a circular cushion from the centre of which her head emerges. Behind them (left) is a chair of State surmounted by crown."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
City-loyalty amply rewarded
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Marriages: Duke of York's marriage, 1791 -- Furniture: chair of State -- Crowns -- Members of Common Council -- John Hopkins, Mayor, 1791 -- Rose, Recorder, 1791 -- Horned cattle -- Asses -- City address to the Duke and Duchess of York -- Curtsies: Duchess of York's curtsy.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 27th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
Title from item., Frontispiece to Garrick's adaptation of Ben Jonson's "The Alchemyst" in Bell's British theatre, v. 2, no.2., Four lines from Scene 3 below title: Drug [i.e., Abel Drugger] - this one please your worship ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Alchemists -- Alchemists' workshops.
Chivalry revived by Don Quixote de St. Omer & his friend Sancho
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's statement following imprint: ... where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures [sic] in the Kingdom, also the head & hand of Count Struenzee admittance one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: five-headed 'Beast of Rome' -- Clergy: Catholic bishops-- Literature: allusion to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution -- Processions -- Societies: allusion to Revolution Society -- Coaches: cradle-shaped coach -- Medallion of William III -- City corporations -- Oppression -- Allusion to aristocratic privileges -- Weapons: swords -- Books as shields., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Janry. 31, 1791, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
"Pitt, very thin and elongated, poises on one toe on a tight-rope; he holds a long balancing-pole in both hands, on one end (left) sits the Sultan, on the other (right) Catherine II. The Turk, whose end of the pole is slightly the lower, clutches it desperately, saying, "My dear Billy, do help me to make another push, & I'll give you - half of my Seraglio". The fat Empress sits with her hands on her hips; she wears a crown, in her right hand is a sceptre, in her left a paper inscribed 'New Russian Conquests'. She says "Both Billy - the Flat, & yourself may do your worst you circumcised dog! get me down if you can! - I'll match you all, & swallow Thousands more!" Pitt stands with his head raised arrogantly in profile to the right; he says, "The old Hag cannot move me, & Seraglios cannot bribe me: - I have nothing to do with these matters - my Pole will always remain level - ". On the ground beneath the rope stands a dwarfish Sheridan (right) in profile to the left, grotesquely caricatured as a clown; he wears trousers and long sleeves which cover his hands and hang down. He says: "O! the Devil! the Devil! The Cow leaps over the Moon! And if I could once get up on the Rope, Lord! I'd fill my Pockets soon: - I mean, I would soon bring her down: fol der lol, fol der ol"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Posterity of the immortal Chatham turned posture master
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with added plate numbering. Cf. No. 7846 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Date of printing based on that of Bohn's Suppressed plates., Plate probably from: Bohn, ii, 8, Suppressed plates., Text following title: Vide Sherridans speech., Sheet trimmed to plate mark, and the number "8" has likely been erased from sheet., and Temporary local subject terms: Circus performances: walking on rope -- Allusion to Russian conquests -- Clowns -- Allusion to Sheridan's speech in the House of Commons, 15 April, 1791 -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
