Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: where may be seen the completest collection of caricature prints & drawings in the Kingdom. Admite. 1 s. Just pubd Chesterfields Principles of Politeness in the stile [sic] of Mr. Bunbury. In a few days will be pubd. Frailties of Fashion., Temporary local subject terms: Military: officers -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Guns: pistols -- Highway robbery -- Cowardice -- Environs of London -- Literature: allusion to Chesterfield's Letters To His Son, "Principles of Politeness" -- Allusion to Henry Bunbury, 1750-1811., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Alderman Boydell (half length), wearing a bag-wig, stands in profile to the right, slashing with a knife a small picture on the wall. He glares furtively; the fingers of his left hand are greedily crisped. He says: "There! There! - There's a nice gash! - there! - ah, this will be a glorious subject for to make a fuss about in the News-papers; - a hundred Guineas reward, will make a fine sound: - there! there! - O, there will be fine talking about the Gallery: and it will bring in a rare sight of Shillings for seeing of the cut Pictures; - there! - & there again! - egad there's nothing like having a good headpiece! - here!! - here!! - there! there! - and then these Small pictures won't cost a great deal of money replacing; - indeed one would not like to cut a large one to pieces for the sake of making it look as if People envied us; no! - that would cost rather too much; & my pocket begins - but mum! - thats nothing to nobody - well, none can blame me for going the cheapest way to work: - to [Etched over 'there', erased but just legible] keep up the reputation of the Gallery - there! there! there! - there! there!" ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into the Shakespeare Gallery
Description:
Title etched below image; first five words of title have been scored through but left conspicuously legible., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Shakespeare Gallery -- Vandalism -- Allusion to Renwick Williams, 'The Monster.'
Publisher:
Pubd. April 26th, 1791, by H. Humphry [sic], N. 18 Old Bond Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a son of wealthy brewer and an unidentified young woman separated from her husband who later brought a suit against the brewer
Description:
Titles engraved below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1791, page 243., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Published 1st July 1791 by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to ballad The Neglected Tar. Text of the ballad is printed below the image., Numbered '263' in lower left above text., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ballads: 'The Neglected Tar' -- Sailors -- Jesters -- Musical instruments: tambourine -- Musical instruments: pipe -- Dogs: trained dogs -- Whips -- Bludgeons -- Lorgnettes -- Theatrical costumes -- Symbols: merit -- Symbols: folly.
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1st, 1791, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific and facing the west coast of North American, Pitt stands fishing with a rod baited with a sack labelled "3 million genl. elc." Beside him in the boat is Henry Dundas holding another sack labelled "million gen. elec" and beside him in the back of the boat, a third sack also labelled "million gen elec." Selected points along the shore from the Sea of Kamtschatka and Bristol Bay (north) to New Mexico are identified with no attempt to convey a sense of scale: Nortons Sound, Alaska, Cooks River, Ps. William Sound, Spanish Land, Nootka or King Georges Sound, New Albion, California. Off the coast of Alaska are shown the islands Arako and Foxes Is. Whales surface above the water inside the buoys with flags reading "10 leagues." In the upper left is a galley "Convention." Pitt says "I fear Harry the fishing will never answer." Dundas replies, "Never mind tha Billy the gudgeons we have caught in England will pay for all."
Alternative Title:
Cheap way to catch whales
Description:
Title etched above image., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: The hostile nations view with glad surprise, the frugal plans of minsters so wise, but they the censure of the world despise, sure from their faithfull commons of suplies [sic], convinced that man must fame immortal gain, Who first dare fish with millions in the Spanish Main., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
Title etched in image., Caption below image, quote from Exodus 22d: And it came to pass when he came down from the mount, behold the skin of his face shone., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Mount Coffee House -- Hitching posts -- Allusion to the Carlton House set -- Quizzing glasses -- Expressions of speech: tol de rol de rol -- Male costume, 1791.
Publisher:
Pub. June 28, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Two lines of verse on plate below image: Though parsons often patience teach ..., Illustration to ballad The Patient Parson. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: Just published in this manner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poll and My Partner Joe, and many other esteemed songs and pieces. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Clergy wives --Parsonage -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'Job in his distress' -- Wall clock -- Furniture: dinner table., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
"In the foreground (right) Henry and Augustus Barry are being pushed through a doorway and down a staircase by a servant. In the background (left) is the interior of a room lit by candle-sconces and a hanging chandelier, with persons seated in a semicircle on upright chairs: on the extreme left the Prince of Wales watches the ejection with a reflective smile. Next him sits Lord Barrymore (Newgate), wearing an apron, in the attitude of Scrub in the 'Beaux Stratagem' (see BMSats 7993, 7997), and saying, "Alas I fear it will be my turn next." On his left is a man wearing a star (Duc de la Pienna), saying, "Dehors Dehors"; he puts his arm behind his wife who stands up, saying, "oh Mon Dieu I shall certainly Miscarry if you dont turn out these Ugly Deformed Wretches." A servant in livery, pushing Henry Barry (Cripplegate) by the shoulders, says, "by Gar you ugly Mugs was frighten the Duchess into fits make haste or I was Cripple yow." Barry, who wears a high-crowned hat, answers, clenching his fists and scowling, "Cripple me butt we'll make her Miscarry if Ugly faces will do it." 'Hellgate', who is descending the stairs on the extreme right, looks round to say, "Bl--st my Bl--dy b------g Eyes but we'll be revenged"; he carries a bludgeon. Both brothers wear long and tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle and have cropped hair, cf. BMSat 8040, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pleasure of being kicked out of company
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Subjects identified below image in a later hand., and Matted to 47 x 63 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Hon. Charles Wyndham and Mrs. Hodges
Description:
Titles engraved below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" inthe Town and Country Magazine, 1791, page 99., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st April 1791 by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
