Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[13 January 1803]
Call Number:
803.01.13.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: Velno's Vegetable Syrup -- Vegetable cordial -- Restorative pills -- Animals: Dog -- Female costume: Muff -- Advertisements., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13, 1803, by W. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Expressions of Speech: 'Son of a gun'., Watermark: 1814., Date in subtitle altered in m.s. from 1802 to 1792., and Date in imprint altered in m.s. from 1803 to 1793.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12th, 1793, by Whittle & Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street
"Lord Galloway, standing in profile to the left., extends both arms in order to clap vigorously. The words "Bravo! - Bravo!" issue from his tightly-closed lips. His aged face is wrinkled and he wears a curiously shaped powdered wig terminating in a small pigtail; a tight-fitting coat, with his famous star (see BMSat 10161), and a frilled shirt. The front of the box is indicated on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Opera., Identification of "Lord Galloway" in ink on former mount (37 x 28 cm), which was removed by conservator in 2017., and Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Addington and Hawkesbury, in the gateway of the Treasury (inscribed 'Granary'), snare three bats with the heads of Grey, Sheridan, and Tierney. Addington kneels on one knee holding out a dark lantern and a hat with a tricolour cockade filled with papers inscribed 'Sinecure', 'Place', 'Annuity', 'Pension', 'Post'. Hawkesbury, standing behind him, holds out a net supported on two sticks in which to catch the creatures which fly, like harpies, straight towards Addington, dazzled by the lantern's rays. Grey's eyes are fixed on the lantern, those of Tierney and Sheridan, the last with an expression of eager greed, on the papers in the hat. Beside Addington is a sack of 'Sterling British Corn', overflowing with guineas. After the title: '"Bat-catching, (says Buffon,) does not require much art, for, flying always in the Night, they are easily attracted by a Dark-Lanthorn & being always hungry, may be easily caught, by a few Cheese-Parings, or Candle Ends; - they are so rapacious, that if they once get into the Granary, they never cease devouring, while there is any thing left." - Vide. Buffon's Nat: His. Article Birds of Night.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted to 32 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19, 1803, by J. Gillray, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
Leaf 82. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Restrike. For possible earlier issue of the plate, published 1 March 1803, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 42., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A copy of no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 82 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
Leaf 41. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Restrike. For possible earlier issue of the plate, published 1 March 1803, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 42., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A copy of no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 41 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
"A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from a smaller version of this design published 1 Mar. 1803 by R. Ackerman. See Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 42., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London : Publisher not identified, 1836?], p. 41., A copy of no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower right corner of sheet., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 26 x 39 cm
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Billiard rooms, Billiards, Dogs, Servants, and Pictures
Title etched below image., Possibly issued in 1798 as a triptych; here the middle portion has been omitted., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"The interior of a carcass-butcher's slaughter-house, the carcasses of animals suspended from the wall. Through the doorway (l.) is seen a rock rising from the sea on which stands a bellowing bull; at the base of the rock is a British fleet. Napoleon, the butcher, with cleaver and knife, makes frantic efforts to reach the (distant) bull, but is restrained by Talleyrand who holds him round the waist. He wears top-boots, one inscribed '7 Leagues', with apron, and rolled-up shirt-sleeves, showing 'R T' [? 'Returned Transport'] branded on his left. arm. On one flap of Talleyrand's oddly shaped cocked hat is a cross, to indicate the ci-devant Bishop of Autun. The head of the Russian bear looks in at the door, gazing menacingly at Napoleon. In the foreground lies a bulky body from which head, hands, and feet have been chopped; to it is skewered a paper: 'Germanic Body'; the severed r. hand lies on a paper inscribed 'Hanover'. On the extreme left. is a round wicker cage surmounted by the Papal tiara, inscribed: 'From Rome and Not worth Killing'; it contains a fox and other small animals. On the extreme right. is a dog-kennel inscribed 'Prussia' and 'Put up to Fatten'; from it a lean greyhound on a short chain puts out its head to lap greedily at a trough of 'Consular Whipt Syllabub'. Behind this is the butcher's block, on which lies a cleaver; blood drips from it into a receptacle inscribed 'Treasury'. Behind Napoleon, in a trough inscribed 'Jaffa Cross Breed', are the bodies of six turbaned Moslems; blood gushes from the trough into a tank inscribed 'Glory'. On the wall hang carcasses, &c. (l. to r.): a ram ticketed 'True Spanish - Fleec'd'; a bleeding calf's head, a simian creature with a tail labelled 'Native Breed'; an ass, ticketed 'From Switzerland', a bloated pig 'From Holland'. Below the title: 'New Style - No Quarter Day!' The verses are a dialogue between 'Boney and Talley' on the possibilities of plunder and conquest. Talleyrand restrains Bonaparte from a mad rush at the bull, regardless of the intervening water. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Corsican carcase-butcher's reckoning day
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably a later state of a plate originally published with the imprint: Published by J. Ginger, Piccadilly., Text below title: New style-- No quarter day!, Plate serves as a heading for a broadside poem of twenty-nine verses arranged in three columns. The text of the broadside, printed in letterpress below the plate, begins: Says Boney, the butcher*, to Talley his man, one settling-day as they reckon'd ..., Another edition of the broadside, in different type, was also printed in 1803. This edition bore the publication line "Published by J. Ginger, 169 Piccadilly" and the printing line "Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, SOHO." See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all letterpress text. Title and broadside verses from the Beinecke Library impression., and Mounted to 33 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838