A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above print., Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.6 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 23.9 x 21.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above print., Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Title from text in image., Publication date based on watermark., Certainly published after 1794, date in which Robert Laurie and James Whittle formed their partnership., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved rhymed letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "macaroni" by an image of macaroni, "lady" by an image of a woman dressed in a macaroni style., Later state by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5079 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Lewis Walpole prints 799.10.21.02: Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript., Temporary local subject terms: Hieroglyphs -- Letters., and Watermark: Horn with monogram JM below.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 1770, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"Five ladies play musical instruments; all stand, except a performer on the triangle who is seated (right) in profile to the left. Next her a vast lady, perhaps Lady Buckinghamshire, raises a massive fist to thump a tambourine. The centre figure, who plays the cymbals with graceful energy, her head turned to the left to show a classic profile, may be Lady Charlotte Campbell .... A fat performer on the French horn inflates her cheeks grotesquely. On the extreme left a thin woman, of gipsy-like appearance, plays the true hurdy-gurdy or vielle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Musical mania of 1799
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: Edmeads & Pine.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 24th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
Subject (Topic):
Savoyards, Bracelets, Clothing & dress, Chairs, Cymbals, French horns, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Tambourines, and Women
"Fashionable town loungers (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8377, &c), badly damaged in dress and limb, walk on a broad pavement. In the foreground are five figures, three in back view; all have one arm in a sling, two have a leg supported at the knee, two have bandaged eyes. Their coats and hats are riddled with holes and rents. The man on the extreme right is Skeffington, copied in reverse from British Museum Satires No. 9440, but wearing a large cocked hat. He looks round at Penn, copied in reverse from British Museum Satires No. 9441. From Penn's pocket issues a paper: '[word illegible] for Boxing'. Under the foot of the man on the extreme left, who is gazing at a lady through an eye-glass, is a paper: 'Leakes Pills' (absent in British Museum Satires No. 9447 a). Next him is Lord Kirkcudbright. Behind are other members of the 'Battalion', freely sketched and similarly damaged."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hospital staff from Holland!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: ... where folios of carecat[ures] lent for the ev[ening]., Temporary local subject terms: Bond Street -- Male dress: coats, 1799 -- Reference to Holland -- Medicine: reference to Leake's pills -- Sholto Henry (Mclellan) Kirkcudbright (1771-1827)., and Watermark: Meutum[?] 1796
"The answer. An hieroglyphic epistle from a modern fine (lady) to a macaroni DescriptionHieroglyphic letter. An answer to BMSat 5079. The same etched figures, reversed, ornament the title.D(ear) delec(table) S(eye)r (Ewer) (letter) (eye) (saw) And the (heart) of a Rock (ewer) mis(Fortune)s wou'd thaw (Eye) Pitied (ass) soon (ass) your (lines) met my (eyes) And (Yew) may at (pea)resent w(eye)th me Sym(pea)athize For (eye) in a (tree)aty of Marr(eye)age of Late Had come (toe) Conclus(eye)on with Lord Awkward (Gate) The L(eye)cence (pea)rocur'd and the Marr(eye)age gone thro (Toe) re(pear) (toe) h(eye)s (house) w(ass) the next th(eye)ng (toe) do (Butt) my (head) w(ass) so h(eye)gh and his door w(ass) so low T(hat) in(toe) the (house) I was (knot) a(bell) (toe) go My Lord (eye)n a (pea)et h(eye)s Instr(yew)ct(eye)ons X(pea)rest T(hat) my (head) (shoe)ld in f(yew)t(yew)re (bee) otherw(eye)se Drest (Butt) before (eye) wo(yew)ld my (pie)ramid Lower (Eye)d lose (coach) and 6 and hus(band) and Dower For (eye)ll tell (Eve)ry Mod(urn) drest (Maid)en or w(eye)fe The h(eye)gher her (head) the (grate)er (eye)n l(eye)fe T(hen) (ladies) (toe) Sh(eye)ne (yew) Must learn (toe) (bee) Vain Of the Mount on (ewer) (head) and the length of (ewer) Train S(eye)nce Equal Mis(Fortune)s on (bee)oth have at(10)ded Our (4)ces let's Jo(eye)n (ass) our Troubles are (bee)lended (Eye) am (grate)ly Agreea(bell) Sr (ewer)s Awkward (Gate)"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from first line of text., Publication date based on partnership of publishers. Partnership of Robert Laurie and James Whittle formed in 1799. See Maxted, I. London book trades., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved rhymed letter in the form of rebus. The following words within title are represented by a rebus: "lady" by an image of a woman dressed in macaroni fashion, "gentleman" by an image of a man dressed in macaroni fashion., Restrike, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5080 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: Horn with monogram JM below., and Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 17[...], by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street
"A show-room in which ladies are being fitted with various types of underclothing, specimens of which hang from the walls. An elderly man of quasi-clerical appearance fits a very fat lady with knickerbockers and braces; he looks over his shoulder at the spectator; from his pocket issues a roll of 'Complieations'. She is the central figure and regards herself with admiration in an ornate wall-mirror which reflects her face. Her stockings are held up by cords issuing from a disk on each hip. A lady and little girl (left) walk eagerly into the room. A shopman offers two false breasts to a wizened knock-kneed hag wearing knickerbockers. On the right a complacent lady in knickerbockers is having her suspenders fastened by a kneeling shopman. Another, seated on a chair, pulls on knickerbockers; other bulky garments to tie at the knee hang on the wall (left). On a shelf are wigs on stands (see BMSat 9313, &c), and from it hang garments having some resemblance to the modern brassiere (or soutien-gorge) to which braces are attached. There are also suspenders. Beneath the design: 'Dr Trussup takes the liberty to acquaint the Ladies, that he has by dint of intense Study, Astronomical . . . [&c. &c] Calculations, Discovered an immense variety, of Convenient, Comfortable, and Captivating Articles for the Ladies, first, his warm & well contrived Drawers, which will in all weathers, keep warm . ... in spite of the rage for thin covering, they are made of flannell, Cotton, fleecy hose & various other commodities . . . Dr Trussupp has from much observation and reflection, prepared commodious Spring Garters [ ? suspenders] . . . . without that banefull ligatue above the Knee, which makes the Ancle so inelligantly thick & Clumsy, also his wonder-full Wigs . . . but above all, his favourite & accommodating Circassian Vests, alias Bosom Friends, which permits free respiration, prevents all pressure on the chest, raises the languid Breast to the appearance of a Juvenile heaving Bosom. . . . NB resolves all sorts of lawful & unlawful Questions .... Casts Nativeties, and in short is the only Man in existance, caperble [sic] of treating on all Subjects in the Habitable World.'"-British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Three columns of text below image: Chevr. [sic] Trussup takes the liberty to acquaint the ladies that he has by dint of intense study, astronomical, geographycal, clerical ..., Cf. No. 9456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: poking hat --
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Two young women fashionably attired in high-wasted dresses, turban-like hats, and carrying large fur muffs, shown full-length walking from the left. On the right a heavy-set women kneels with her back to the audience. When backlit, the undergarments of the ladies are revealed
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 17th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
