"Five Germans seated at a round table, gormandize savagely on cabbage and sausages. Three are grossly fat and coarse-featured and plebeian; one of these (r.) has tucked the table-cloth round his neck (cf. BMSat 8145). A lean military officer sits in back view plying spoon and fork with elbows raised; a lean dog laps from his plate, one paw on his knee the other on the table. Cocked hat and sword are on the ground beside him. A thin and elderly man of more polished appearance puts down his head to the mound of greenery on his plate, which he shovels up with spoon and fork; his knife lies on the table-cloth. His hat and gold-headed cane are under his stool. A fat cook enters (l.) carrying a large steaming dish piled high with sauerkraut and sausages. On the table are a 'Vinegar' bottle and fragments from over-full plates. On the wall are a map of 'The Mouths of the Rhine', showing the 'German Ocean'; an oval bust portrait of 'Arch-Duke Charles' [see BMSat 8835], with a gross profile resembling that given by Gillray to the Duke of Clarence; a picture of a row of pigs whose heads emerge from sties to feed in a trough. On the floor are large tankards, a broken pipe, a pile of used plates which a cat is licking, a 'Bill of Fare - 1st Course Sour Krout - 2d Course Sour Krout - 3d Course Sour Krout - Desert Sour Krout.' Tankards and plates are inscribed 'Weyler Castle Street.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Germans eating sauerkraut
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Title from item, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered 'No. 6' un upper right corner., Price information in upper left corner: Price 1/col., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Feb., 1803 by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three Bonapartes leap from one to another grass-topped rock set in the sea. There are six, from Corsica, the smallest to Dover, the broadest. The first makes a 'Hop' from 'Corsica' to 'France'. The second stands arms akimbo, head turned in profile to the right., the 1. foot on 'Ambition', the r. planted on a higher rock: 'Power'. This is 'Step'. The third has made a 'Jump' into the air from 'Calais', and descends on to the sword-point of John Bull, who is firmly planted on 'Dover'. Napoleon wears an enormous cocked hat (which flies off in his final leap) with tricolour cockade and plume, tricolour sash over his military coat, tight breeches, and boots. Below the three stages of his progress: '[1] From indigence in Corsica To Affluence in France. [2] From aspiring Ambition To the summit of Power. [3] From Calais to Dover Where little John Bull does the Corsican over'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a second reissue of a plate first published ca. July 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Original imprint statement, "Pubd. by Roberts 28 Middle Row," is still visible beneath title. Plate was first reissued by Thomas Tegg in 1807; the year "1807" is seemingly present at the end of Tegg's imprint statement but has been obscured by etched lines. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges; probable loss of plate numbering from top right corner., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 55 in volume 1.
"A group of men and women seated in a circle, with a standing man going round them looking for the slipper."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '303' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: Hunt the Slipper.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1st, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"John Bull, as a gigantic sailor, clasping both sides of a small boat, peers like an angry ogre at three French ships off the French coast, indicated by a cliff. The ships are in a row, their bows cut off by the left margin. Napoleon stands on the poop of the nearest, pointing at John. He says: "mercy on us what a monster he'll swallow all my ships at a mouth-ful, I hope he dont see me." John roars: "Upon my word - a very Pretty light Breakfast."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull peeping into Brest
Description:
Title from item. and Artist and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, Middle Row
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, and Ships
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull sits holding against his knee Napoleon, an elongated puppet, in the position of a bass viol (viol da gamba). His left hand holds the elongated neck; in his right. is a sword, which he draws like a bow across his instrument's body. Napoleon is in profile, facing John, his mouth wide open, as if throttled; he holds a sword limply in his left hand. He wears military uniform with large feathered bicorne. John's hat and wig lie on the ground; he is a prosperous 'cit' in old-fashioned dress, and looks towards the spectator with a satisfied smile. 'Britons strike home' is engraved above his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull playing on the base villain
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803; Roberts's imprint statement has been crossed out but is partially legible in lower left corner of design. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "259" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Leaf 84 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 1, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Irishmen in volunteer uniform are mounted on galloping bulls; each faces the animal's tail. They hold shillelaghs, wear pouches inscribed 'Potatoes', and fling potatoes towards a small band of ragged sansculottes (right) from whom they are galloping away. These Frenchmen advance, firing muskets; the most prominent fires a cannon. The foremost volunteer, that is, the farthest from the enemy, shouts: "Stop! Stop! ye Scoundrils we shall Soon be after coming up wit ye." The second: "By Jasus if we follow them up at this rate we shall soon see the Tieves out of sight." The third: "Hubbubboo! how the Rogues run their's no overtaking them." The bulls are making for a chasm (left) into which one in the middle distance leaps. In the background are some who have reached comparative safety, but continue to hurl potatoes."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Irish volunteers advancing at the siege of Dublin
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Probably a later reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. August 1803 by Piercy Roberts. See British Museum catalogue., Beginning of publisher's statement, including date, has been burnished from plate. A publication date of 1807 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue for an earlier reissue numbered "K 2" and having the more complete imprint "London, Pubd. Jany. 1, [1807], by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapsid [sic]." Cf. No. 10081 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "288" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Cf. Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, no. 541., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 64 in volume 4.
"John Bull (right), a fat citizen wearing spectacles, holds aside a curtain, revealing Napoleon and Joséphine enthroned, side by side. He stands in profile to the left, a large pistol under his left arm, his left hand in his coat-pocket. He says: "Boney - Boney, that wont do - You must not Play my King & Queen." Napoleon, wearing a huge bicorne, a drawn sabre in his right hand, frowns at John. Joséphine wears a crown, holds sceptre and orb and looks complacently to the left. Both sit with right foot planted regally on a stool, and left leg arrogantly thrust forward."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johnny Bull on the lookout and Bonaparte detected drilling his rib at the play of King & Queen of England
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered "314" in lower left corner., and On verso in brown ink is the collector's stamp of Nick Knowles: A pair of crossed skis.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 12, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Draperies, Handguns, Thrones, Daggers & swords, Crowns, Scepters, and Stools
