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
"Robson speaks in the House of Commons, with outstretched arms: "We're all ruinated, Sir! - all diddled, Sir!! - abus'd by Placemen, Sir!!! - Bankrupts all, Sir! - not worth Sixteen Pounds, Ten Shillings, Sir! - ". From his coat pocket project bundles of papers: 'Ignorance of ye Old Administration'; 'Stupidity of ye New Administration'; 'Charges against the Ministry'. In his hat, on the seat behind him, are other bundles: 'Ministerial Tricks', 'Plunders', 'Blunders', 'Collusion'; 'Impeach[ment]'; 'Punishm[ent]'. Behind him, and next his vacant seat, sits Tyrwhitt Jones, listening with a fierce scowl, a pen in his mouth, his hat beside him; he holds a bulky sheaf of 'Notes'. Behind these two are Horne Tooke and Burdett (right), listening intently, Burdett turning towards his mentor. The other Opposition benches within the design, which shows a corner of the table on the extreme left, are empty."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Hope.", Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons -- Bankruptcy -- Robson's Speech, March 4, 1802., Note from local card catalog record: Bowditch version has slightly faded aquatint indicating it was pulled later in the life of the plate., and Mounted to 37 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in at the waist and stomach, with bent knees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Alternative Title:
Docto Convex and Lady Concave and Doctor Convex and Lady Concave
Description:
Title etched below image; the three letters "n" are all etched backwards., Printmaker attribution and date of publication from a nearly identical print with the signature "Rowlandson inv." and the imprint "Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand"; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.593. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 41., "Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter, is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?"--Text below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in at the waist and stomach, with bent knees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter, is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?"--Text below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Throne -- Bowing., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 8th, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806
Two men shown full-length face each other. The man on the left is very fat and stands with his hands in his pockets beside his huge belly. The man on the right is very thin and holds a basket and a walking-stick
Description:
Title from item., Date etched below design on the right, following the title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermarks: IV ; Strasburg lily LVG.
"The Duke of Bedford stands in a stockyard in profile to the left, the fingers of his right hand dug into the flank of an immensely fat ox. He is not caricatured and is plainly dressed, wearing a round hat and heavy top-boots, holding a stock-whip. He says: "Ah, here's your sort! - here's your Nine-Inch Fat my boys! "O how he will cut up! (as my old friend Burke said!) - "how he will Tallow in the cawl and on the Kidneys!" Behind are three corn-stacks, trees, two other oxen, some very fat sheep (right). In the foreground are geese (left), and a pig (right) eating from a heap of carrots and turnips."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of text spanning both sides of title: To the Society for Improving the Breed this sketch of Tavistock Farmyard is dedicated., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm ; figures identified in ms. note on backing sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 16th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title etched 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., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Older man -- Yound wife -- Captain -- Shaking hands.
Publisher:
Pubd. 25th Feby., 1802 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Three women, two standing and one sitting smoking a pipe, converse outside a shop, 'Fine Cordial Gin, two penny & best Virginia'.
Alternative Title:
Gin, two-penny and tobacco
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and From the Renier Collection; on verso ms. notes in black ink 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
Publisher:
Pub. July 25, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Street, Haymarkt
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Carts & wagons, Pipes (Smoking), Stores & shops, Street vendors, Women, and Tobacco
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1798., and Publisher's identification stamp in lower right corner: S·W·F.
Publisher:
Pub. st [sic] July 1st, 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
