"A stout man skates towards the spectator, making curves on very cracked ice. Behind are snow-covered hills. Wild geese fly across the sky."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item: a quotation from satirist Thomas Brown's 'Works'., Attribution following title: Vide Tom Brown Works., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Gaming house interior -- Illustrative material -- Literature quotation: Thomas Brown, 1663-1704: Works., Print numbered '28' in ms. above design., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
Two men sit opposite a table strewn with papers in the library lined with bookcases. The one leans over the table, paper in hand, speaking passionately to his companion
Description:
Title from text above image., Originally published: August 25, 1808 by Thomas Tegg. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of publication statement., and Mounted to 10 x 17 cm.
"A young man stands singing on the boards of a theatre; trees form a background. 'Mr Mug', enslaved in Africa by 'a trading blackamoor', became 'his black Mandingo Majesty's white Minister of State'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: By trade I am a Turner, and Mug it is my name; to buy a lot of ivory to Africa I came ..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 495.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 1, 1808, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
1808.
Call Number:
808.04.15.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below item., Variant of no. 11976 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires v. 9., and Plate marked "42" in upper right corner.
Title from song printed below on the same sheet., Plate numbered '482' in upper left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Thirty four lines of verse printed below image: I be come up to London, that whirligig place, To see Mother Goose on an odd wild-goose chase; so I quitted Tadcaster, and took to my heels, in the new flying waggon, that flies on broad wheels ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 1, 1808, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5 a boarded floor indicates an interior. [1] With folded arms and bowed head he approaches from behind a hideous and grinning negress who holds a tobacco-pipe. Above: Smitten with the charms of Mimbo Wampo a sable Venus, daughter of Wampo Wampo, King of the Silver Sand Hills in Congo. [2] Bare-legged he sits in a chair, his bare foot held by the negress who sits on the ground at his feet. Above: Delicately declaring his Love to the aimable Mimbo Wampo, while she is picking his Cheqoes. "You lub me Massa" eh! eh!? [3] Johnny and an old negro wearing only breeches face each other. Beside the latter is a large jar inscribed Feathers, Grave Dirt, Egg Shells, &c. Above: Consulting Old Mumbo Jumbo the Oby Man, how to get possession of the charming Mimbo Wampo. "Lets me alone for dat Massa." [4] He kneels at the feet of the negress taking her hand; she sits on a stool smoking a pipe. Four comparatively handsome women stand in a row watching, two are black, two are white but negroid. Above: Mr Newcome happy, Mimbo made Queen of the Harem. [5] He embraces Mimbo; two other negresses stand behind her, one holding two pale-skinned black-haired infants, the other with a third infant held on her head in a tray. Two other children stand by their mother. Above: Mr Newcome taking leave of his Ladies & Pickaneenees, previous to his departure from Frying Pan Island to graze a little in his Native land. [6] Portrait heads of the children, numbered I to 9, arranged in three rows. Above: A few of the Hopeful young Newcomes. Below the whole design: J. Lucretia Diana Newcome, a delicate Girl very much like her Mother; only that she has a great antipathy to a pipe, and cannot bear the smell of Rum. 2 Penelope Mimbo Newcome. 3 Quaco Dash Newcome prodigiously like his father. 4 Cuffy Cato Newcome. 5. Caesar Cudjoe Newcome. 6 Helena Quashebah Newcome. 7 Aristides Juba Newcome. 8 Hector Sammy Newcome, a child of great spirit, can already Damnme Liberty and Equality and promises fair to be the Toussaint [see No. 10090] of his country. 9 Hannibal Pompey Wampo Newcome
Description:
Title engraved above image., Companion print: West India luxury!!, and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill. Countermark: 1825.
Publisher:
Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
As the result of the Convention of Cintra, French general Junot is shown vomiting, with great effort, a large booty of gold coins, candlesticks, church plate, watches, and other valuables while a Portuguese kneeling in front of him attempts to catch as many items as possible into an already-disgorged silver basin. To Junot's right stands John Bull in sailor's clothes and ill-fitting wig. He is holding the general's head in order to help him rid himself of his plunder. Three French officers on the left watch the above scene with dismay and anger
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 17, 1808 by R. Ackermann, N 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Junot, Jean Andoche, duc d'Abrantès, 1771-1813.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Convention of Cintra, Military officers, French, Military uniforms, Vomiting, and War destruction & pillage
"Joseph Bonaparate, the newly crowned King of Spain, stands at centre wearing doublet, slashed breeches, crown, medallion and cloak, and turned in beseeching attitude to left, where four Spaniards are standing; Joseph says, 'For this kind and flattering reception much thanks. behold the Brother of the great Napolean come to reign over you for your goods.' One of the Spanish men, with a long sword, says to another whose hand is on his dagger, 'yes Comrade and for our Chattels too if I guess right.'; behind them, a woman holding a dagger says to another, 'He was bred an Attorney and w'eel soon eject him from Spain'. Behind Joseph at right stand his French supporters, one holding a flag lettered 'Vive le Roi' over Joseph's head, and angrily crying, 'Will no one Huzza - - will no one ring the Bells - if you dont make a noise you shall all fall by the Royal Bayonet.', a cry of 'Vive le Roy Huzza' arising from a pike-carrying crowd behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Year of publication precedes publisher's statement in imprint., Plate numbered "53" in upper left corner, with the digit "3" etched backwards., A pair to "King Joes retreat from Madrid, published on the same date with the same plate number. See Curator's comments in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Paper damaged with loss to the word "flattering" in King Joe's speech bubble, upper left. Mounted to 28 x 38.1 cm.
