Print shows a caricatured Jewish peddlar or pawnbroker purchasing a pair of breeches from a young soldier on street corner. The jewish man holds up the breeches for inspection, grinning at the soldier who holds out his hand for his purchase money
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A vast and hideous negress (left), almost spherical, is embraced by a lean and elderly military officer with a long pigtail. They are on the ramparts of a heavily fortified castle, indicated by a massive pillar and a raised portcullis beyond which is another lean officer, in back view but looking over his shoulder. In the background are cannon and a sentry. Behind the woman's head is a placard: 'Voluntary Subscription for a Soldiers Widow the smallest donation will be gratefully received--By Rachel Ram Part'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state; beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered "145" in upper right corner; the digit "5" is etched backwards., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., "Price one shilling couloured [sic]."--Lower right corner of design., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 86 in volume 3.
"Popular print, satire, after print published by Laurie & Whittle in 1794 (British Museum satires no. 8596): five men sit at a small square table on which are glasses and an empty punch-bowl, all have expressions of deep melancholy: one reverses his glass, another breaks his pipe, the bowl of which still smokes, the third weeps, the fourth looks down with a gesture of deprecating misery, the fifth looking towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Eating & drinking, Tables, Pipes (Smoking), and Sadness
"A tall and elegant officer walks left to right and slightly towards the spectator, his hand on the hilt of his sword. He wears cocked hat, high tasselled Hessian boots; gold aiguillettes hang from his right shoulder below the waist. Donald Macdonald, of the 55th Foot, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort William, was commissioned Lieutenant-General in 1810."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lieutenant General Macdonald
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher tentatively identified as Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1848,1221.44., Leaf 73 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808.
A satire on London hunters: A hare crouching in long grass beside an old tree at left while a young man runs forward dragging his gun, and holding out his hat to throw it over the animal. Two dogs follow behind him and a second man squats down with his gun to watch
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac and by British Museum record for another popular print by Davison., A copy of Gillray's print "Cockney-sportsmen finding a hare", published 12 November 1800. Cf. No. 9599 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
A young huntsmen with a barnyard rooster hanging from his waist, negligently uses a ramrod. His pot-bellied companion leans against a fence, voraciously gnawing a cold chicken, a bottle of 'Porter' in front of him. Near him lies a dead cat. The men are accompanied by two dogs
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac and by British Museum record for another popular print by Davison., A copy of Gillray's print "Cockney-sportsmen re-charging", published 12 November 1800. Cf. No. 9598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Two 'cits' are shown out for a day's sport in the countryside. One is rather thin and fashionably dressed, while the other is an older, fat John Bull type. The younger man leaps a low fence, firing his rifle at a flight of birds, his clipped poodle leaping beside him. His fat companion stands on the far side of a ow stile, gun in hand, an eager bulldog at his side; he tries to catch his hat which his friend has knocked off
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on range of years in which Davison produced caricatures. See: Isaac, Peter. Some Alnwick caricatures. Wylam : Allenholme Press, 1965., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., A copy in reverse of Gillray's print "Cockney-sportsmen shooting flying", published 12 November 1800. Cf. No. 9597 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
May the devil take them that brought you and me together
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 30 x 21 cm., and Mounted on: Map of the lands of Kilbradran in the county of Limerick, the estate of the knight of Kerry / J. J. Byrne. Dublin: Forster & Co., 1852.
A family of three on horseback riding down a country road, seen from behind with the man in the centre and flanked by the two women in a baskets, in plain, house in the left middle distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac., Plate numbered "25" in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., After a print entitled "Me my wife & daughter," designed by Henry Bunbury and originally published in his "Annals of horsemanship.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.