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1. A game at chess [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 January 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.01.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bonaparte (left) and Cornwallis play chess. Bonaparte, not caricatured, alert and military, wearing his large plumed cocked hat, leans forward, pointing to his move; his left arm lies on the table and in his left hand is his sheathed sabre. He says: "Check to your King, remember it is not the first time, and I think a very few Manoeuvres more will completely convince you that I am better acquainted with the Game I am playing than you are aware of." Cornwallis, plump and civilian despite his regimentals and profession, sits without a hat, scratching his head apprehensively. He says: "Curse it I shall lose this Game; You are too much for me." He wears his ribbon and star, 'Honi soit' on his garter. The chairs are symbolical: that of Bonaparte has ormolu laurel wreaths, the legs are formed of fasces and axes; that of Cornwallis, with plain oval back, suggests an English drawing-room."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement below imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: Budgen 1799., and Early gilt paper strips pasted to margins as a mount.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 9th, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805
- Subject (Topic):
- Generals, French, English, Chess, Daggers & swords, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A game at chess [graphic].
2. A merry go-round in honor of the peace [graphic]
- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.00.00.33+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on the Peace of Amiens between France and England, with caricatures of national figures (Holland, Russia, Britain, Spain, Turkey and Prussia) dancing to Napoleon's tune. Napoleon stands at right with pipe and tambourine singing 'Ah ci-ira, ci-ira!'.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication based on reference to the Treaty of Amiens of 1802., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., For a reversed version of this design, questionably attributed to Isaac Cruikshank, see no. 9847 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Pipes (Musical instruments), Tambourines, and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A merry go-round in honor of the peace [graphic]
3. A view near Hyde Park Corner [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [February 1802]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 20. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A half-length portrait of Tattersall in his rostrum, leaning forward on a large open book, his head in profile to the right, his auctioneer's hammer in his (gloved) right hand. He is very bulky and wears a round hat with curved brim. The rostrum is the base of the design; it is pierced by an arched opening to give a view of a jockey on a galloping horse."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 20 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Tattersall" in pencil below plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 1802 by Dighton, Charg. Cross
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Tattersall, Edmund, 1758-1810
- Subject (Topic):
- Horse trading and Animal auctions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view near Hyde Park Corner [graphic]
4. Coming out of a country theatre [graphic]
- Creator:
- Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1802]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 802.11.01.05 Impression 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large crowd of theatregoers file out of a theater and onto the street in a pouring rainfall and high winds that turns umbrellas inside out. One man has fallen and broken his lantern as a woman falls back over him as her shoes are being changed. The audience is a mix of classes, couples, old women, young boys, some carrying laterns, one with a cane
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 46 x 67 cm., Printed on wove paper, hand-colored, and matted to 57 x 74 cm., With the ownership stamp on mount (removed): From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz "Trail-Tree" Glencoe. Item no. 257. With a pencilled note: A rare print seldom met with. Obtained in London thru John Taylor -- ER NY. The original watercolor of this print is included in my collection -- obtained thru Amer. Art at auction, originally in the collection of David Insull., and Attached beneath are collector Joel Spitz's comments on provenance from old mount in pencil.
- Publisher:
- Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street)
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Lanterns, Rain, Theater audiences, Theaters, Umbrellas, Watchmen, and Winds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coming out of a country theatre [graphic]
5. Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the Corn-Exchange [graphic]
- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.00.00.34+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- British merchants and farmers congrete in two groups weeping and sad-faced, bemoan the loss of the high profits that they enjoyed for their domestic produce during the Revolutionary Wars
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication based on reference to the Treaty of Amiens of 1802., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-Row, Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Economic conditions, Prices, Farmers, and Merchants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the Corn-Exchange [graphic]
6. The Gord-ian knot still untied, or, The disapointed [sic] Dido still in despair [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 May 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.05.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two women ..., the Duchess of Gordon and her daughter, weep beside an ornate coffin on trestles decorated with ducal coronets and the arms and crest, 'Che Sara Sara', of the Duke of Bedford. The Duchess, grossly fat and much caricatured, her hands on her hips, stands on the left, saying, "You intended to ha'a him my dear if you cauld thats certain or ony of the Family, but ne'er heed it Chiel I'll take You down to the Abbey [Woburn] and try again." She wears a Scots cap on a wig with short curls. Lady Georgiana (right) stands with both arms extended, staggering backwards, in uncontrolled despair. A miniature on a velvet ribbon has fallen from one wrist, another is about to fall. She exclaims: "Ah me, a luckless Maid, thus crossed in hope & expectation too. quite lost in both Attempts, the one for ever gone the other far too Cold, to feel the genial warmth of mine and Mothers Love. I'll take me to my Weeds & shew the World the ne'er was Love like mine." Her hat and necklace lie on the coffin; her curled wig, flung off by her extravagant gestures, is about to fall on it. Broadside ballads lie on the ground; beside the Duchess: 'There's Nae luck about the House' and 'We'll tuck up our petticoats under our arm and over . . .' Beside her daughter: 'Wither my Love ah Wither art thou gone' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9311] and 'Mad Bessy of Bedl[am]'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Disapointed Dido still in despair and Disappointed Dido still in despair
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 9th, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Bedford, Georgiana Gordon Russell, Duchess of, 1781-1853, and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crying, Grief, Coffins, Obesity, Miniatures (Paintings), Hats, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Gord-ian knot still untied, or, The disapointed [sic] Dido still in despair [graphic].
7. The broken commode [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- Sepr. 6, 1802.
- Call Number:
- 802.09.06.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A large woman, her dress thrown up revealing her legs and part of her bottom, crashes to the floor, having broken her commode The contents of the commode spills out much to the anger of a lap dog and the terror of a cat who flees by climbing a curtain. To the left, another older woman, probably the maid, with a look of alarm, rushes towards the falling woman
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly by Isaac Cruikshank, who produced (often anonymously) many of Williamson's prints around this time. See British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Published by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Washstands, Falling, Dogs, Cats, Draperies, Women domestics, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The broken commode [graphic].
8. The peace soup shop [graphic]
- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. March 1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.03.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull sits full face holding a bowl of soup, between Addington, the cook, and the protesting Windham on the extreme right. On the left Pitt sits in profile to the left before an enormous kitchen fire, over which hangs a giant cauldron; he blows the fire with bellows, saying, 'I dont know how it is - but I manage this Soup business rather awkwardly - I suppose it is from being so much used to the stewing and Broiling line.' Addington, who wears the Speaker's wig with apron and over-sleeves, and holds a long ladle, says: 'Though I say it that made it - you never tasted better soup in your life'. Windham (right) stands in profile to the left his knees flexed, saying, 'O' Mr Bull - Mr Bull - if you have any regard for your Constitution - dont touch it - the Cayen of Jacobinism flavours every spoonful - and the Fire that boil it I consider as a Funeral Pile for all your well wishes - do Johnny take some of my Cheese-parings - they are very wholesome, and easy of Digestion.' John says, his eyes turned towards Addington, his spoon raised to his mouth: 'I don't mind what he says - my Hearty I say it's very good Soup - and a d------d deal better [word erased] than your Gin. I should like a little more bread for all that, and it would be quite as well - if it did not taste so strong of the Ceylon pepper.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Watermark in center of sheet., and Early gilt paper strips pasted to margins as a mount.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Bowls (Tableware), Soups, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Kitchens, Cauldrons, Fireplaces, Bellows, Aprons, and Cooking utensils
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The peace soup shop [graphic]
9. The restive Pegasus, or, The dramatic author foiled in his endeavor to ascend Parnassus [art original].
- Creator:
- Grinagain, Giles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1802]
- Call Number:
- Drawings G867 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man in ragged but quasi-fashionable dress rides (right to left) an ass through a river which flows past a steep mountain. The animal jibs, with ears set back; the rider raises a whip in each hand. He wears, and uses, three pairs of spurs, and attached to his shoulders and to the ass is a monstrous pile of bladders inscribed respectively 'Repartee', 'Nonsensical Verses', 'Catastrophe', 'Sentiment', 'Blasphemies', 'Puns', 'Duels', 'Double Entendres', 'Metaphors', 'Ghosts', 'Melting Speeches', 'Squibs', 'Dialogue', 'Daggers Poisons'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the print engraved after this drawing and A rough pencil sketch of the same design but lacking much of the detail on the verso
- Alternative Title:
- Dramatic author foiled in his endeavor to ascend Parnassus
- Description:
- Title written below image, in the artist's hand., Unsigned; artist attribution from statement of responsiblity "Giles Grinagain in. et f." present on the print made after this drawing., Date surmised from that of the print based on this drawing., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., and Original design for a print first published by S. Howitt in 1802 and then reissued by S.W. Fores in 1804. Changes in the printed version include the replacement of the word "endeavor" in the title with "attempt," and the elimination of the speech bubble emanating from the man. Cf. No. 10334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, British, Donkeys, Literature, and Spurs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The restive Pegasus, or, The dramatic author foiled in his endeavor to ascend Parnassus [art original].
