"George IV, with a swathed and gouty leg, stands in front of the throne, supported by Lady Conyngham and a crutch, his arm round her shoulder. Peel stands partly hidden by a curtain and immediately behind Wellington, his mouthpiece; he speaks into a speaking-trumpet, the stem of which passes from Wellington's ear to his mouth from which the trumpet projects. From this mouthpiece issue the words: I feel happy in being allowed thro any medium, however degrading to communicate my expressions of sincere devotion TO-- The King interrupts him: PLACE--hat will do Arthur, always keep between me and that fellow -- he rings such a peil in our Ears. Lady Conyngham turns to the King, pointing to the trumpet: This is a contrivance of my own -- I hate the sight of him & now your M-y can keep him at a distance. She wears a towering coiffure of loops of hair decorated with flowers. Beside Peel: To join with Christian Jew or Turk In doing any dirty Work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 174.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Three officers dine at a small round table, waited on by two young soldier-servants. one ,standing stiffly, holds a bottle of wine behind his back; an arm (in uniform) extends from a curtain to take it.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; imprint partially erased with possible loss of publication date., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With: Eyes right.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication 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 Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1828]
Call Number:
828.04.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Eight of the select vestry of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, dine in the Vestry Room, while the beadle blocks the doorway on the extreme right, saying, You can't come in now--the "Select" are engaged. A parson, identified as Dr. Richards, is in the chair at the head of the table; mopping his bald head he says blandly: "Dont be afraid of the viands, Gentlemen--although our fatigues are great, I hope we shall convince the parishioners we can do our duties at the table if we do not at the Board. Decanters of Port and Sherry, a ham, and a turkey are on the table; a dwarfish footman brings in a dish of ducks. A second footman oafishly holds out a glass of wine to the chairman, spilling the contents of a soup plate on to the head of a guzzling fellow gnawing a bone, who is identified as Alderman Winchester. The latter's neighbour eats with a knife; all but the parson-chairman appear ill-bred; one turns aside to vomit. The parson's vis-à-vis, identified as Mr. Staunton, leans back in his chair, asleep with food on his fork, while a spectacled doctor, identified as Dr. Morgan (not a guest) proffers a bottle of Rose Water. From the pocket of a gross and carbuncled man, identified as Mr. Thompson, hangs a paper: Hush-Money from certain Brothells, Flash-Houses &c &c. He drinks, putting his foot on that of a small man, 'Fentum', who stares at him knowingly. On the left is a large scroll: Items of Expences--for visiting the pauper Children --Dinner & dessert--£9"9"0, Lemon--0"1"0 Ten bottles Bucellas--3"0"0. Two do Sherry--0"12"0 Punch--0"12"0 Four bot: Champagne 2"8"0 Soda-- 0"16"0 Rose Water 0"2"0 Ice for Wine--0"2"0 12 bots Port--3"12"0 5 bots Sauterne 2"0"0 Broken Glass--0"5"6 Tea & Coffee--1"7"0 3 Servants food 0"7"6 Waiters 0"9"0 Coaches 8"11"6--34"12"6. On the wall hangs a large notice: Select Resolutions. Ist Resolved That when the minds of the Select" are engaged in Parochial affairs thier bodies must also be supported. 2nd. That, the "Select" shall have absolute power over their fellow parishioners to impose any rate or tax on them (the parishioners) which they (the "Select") shall think proper. 3rd. That, the Selet [sic] shall not submit their books to the inspection of the parishioners, nor render any account in any manner for the waste & expenditure of the aforesaid parishioners Money. By order of the "Select Anthy Absolute (Secty) On the wall are also a clock, pointing to 5.50, and a framed picture of a smallish house: British Pauper Children Asylum."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1826.
"A complicated piece of machinery fills the centre of a room in a fashionable establishment; an open door (right) leads into a shop where, in the background, a pretty and extravagantly dressed woman (in the costume of c. 1828) presides at a counter; above the door is a model of the machine, 'Patent Shavograph!!!' Through a window (left) is seen the 'Ladies Hair Cutting Room': another machine operates on seated ladies, whose long hair is raised perpendicularly into the mechanism. Above the window is an erection of erect loops of hair, burlesquing the fashion. A dandy, waiting his turn, ogles the ladies through his monocle. Another, sitting on a chair (left), reads a newspaper, 'Herald'. The 'Shavograph' operates from right to left upon the customers who sit on a circular bench, each with his head held firm in a wedge cut from a millstone-like disk (B) at the back of his seat. The razor has just sliced off the nose of an officer who stands gesticulating wildly, putting his hand before splashing blood while one dismayed neighbour rises from his seat, and the other shouts 'Stop! Stop!' Four men on the left, waiting their turn for the razor, &c, to reach them, are unconscious of the accident. One is having his head pressed into position by a rod held by a fashionably dressed man (H) who is also working a lever. Below the design, in the border of the print: 'EXPLANATION. AAA a circular form on which the shavees sit. BBBBBB wheels that govern the position of the head. CC [cog-wheels] the machinery which moves the brush in every required direction. D a resevior [sic] of water [above the brush], boiling hot E a pipe [connecting F and D] filld with patent double compress'd shaving powder, through which the water is forced to forme a lather in the brush F. GGG [cog-wheels] the machinery which moves the razor H the Engineer with his directing rod. (Note) it is indispensible that the sitter should be firm & steady, it will be percived [sic] the neglecting this by looking after the Shop woman has cost one his nose, but he only pays the penalty of his own imprudence. "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.' (This phrase is attributed to David Copperfield (1849) in the Oxford Dict, of Quotations, but Micawber was evidently quoting."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Shortshanks in the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text below image begins: Explanation. AAA a circular form on which the shavees sit ..., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily publishing.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication based on watermark., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?], [1836?]., A reduced copy of no. 5084 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 sheet., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
Leaf 53. 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 unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike. For an earlier issue of the plate, published ca. 1828, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 772.12.07.04., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A reduced copy of no. 5084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Chairs, Candles, Books, Sleeping, Dogs, and Cats
Title from caption 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 Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
