"A family of sweeps sitting before the smoking hearth (at right) in a low hovel, eating, drinking and smoking; all have sooty skin apart from the grotesque mother who leans back, barebreasted and negligently holding a long pipe, against a heap of sacks; a man sitting alongside and smoking a long pipe leers at her, another beside him; four children lie or sit on the floor eating with spoons from bowls, at one of which a cat also sits; on the rafters, above the billowing smoke, a caged black bird and an uncaged white bird."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Sweeps regaling
Description:
Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly a companion print to: Love and dust., Probably a reissue of a plate first published in 1802; the year etched above Rowlandson's signature might have originally been "1802," and was seemingly modified to "1808" and then possibly "1812" before being mostly obscured with crosshatching. See Grego., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: J.B.W. Esqr. delin. ; T. Rowlandson etchd., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Proof state of a plate from: McCringer, J. A Compendious Treatise of Modern Education. London : Smeeton, 1802., Publication information based on lettered state with the imprint "Pubd. May 10th, 1802, by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Street, Adelphi." Cf. Impression of the lettered state in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation., and Title from lettered state.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher., and Williams, J. B., active 1802, artist.
"A young man sprawls on a sofa, his right forefinger on his lip; from his left hand a newspaper, 'Morning Herald', dangles. He wears slippers and his breeches are unbuttoned at the knee. He has queer dreams after too much claret, rises at one, is dressed by half-past three, sees himself in a 'Caricature Shop', goes to the play, loses all his money at Hazard."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One paragraph of letterpress text below title: Queer dreams-thought poll untrue, and fifty other Meagrims, ..., Statement from a more complete impression in the British Museum., and Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"A young woman half reclines beside a breakfast-table, on which are urn, tea-pot, and two cups. A book is in her right hand. She 'Dreamt of the Captain . . . Breakfasted at Two . . . dined at Seven . . . went to the Opera . . . my ci-devant husband in the opposite Box.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One paragraph of text printed in letterpress below title: Dreamt of the captain-certainly a fine man-counted my card money ..., Printmaker from Grego., and Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"Heading to a broadside, printed in three columns: the lengthy speeches (evidently by Woodward) of the two pleaders, 'Snip' and 'Galen Glauber'. A fat citizen, the judge of the court, sits in an armchair on a low dais, a gouty leg resting on a cushion; he holds his nose in pained disgust. On the left a tailor in shirt-sleeves snips his shears angrily at the doctor, who stands (right) hat in hand holding up a pair of breeches on the end of his cane. On the wall (left) are bulky volumes: 'Game Laws', 'Folio XI', 'Vagrant Act', 'Penal Laws', 'Blackton [sic] Vol 2'. The tailor complains that the doctor refuses to pay for the breeches, the doctor answers 'this precipitate Maniac', asserting that the tightness of the waist-band induced a complaint which rendered them 'too foetid for further Use'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title from broadside printed on same sheet.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Williamson, T, publisher.
Three older ladies and one gentleman in military uniform sit at a table playing cards. Speech balloons from the ladies berate him for his lack of card playing skills.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Williamson, T., publisher.
A "find lady" presumably an anonym of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; she is made as welcome as circumstances will permit; a bottle of wine, the refreshment customary, is ordered, and the stern hearts of the sheriff's men are appealed to, while bail is sent for. It was a well-known practice at the beginning of the century, and earlier, to pay some obscure individual a trifling fee to become security on emergencies. Similar fictitious householders were always in attendance, and producible from the bar-rooms in the neighborhood. In the present case a professional limb, of the Hebrew persuasion, is presented, decently made up for the occasion, to tender himself as bondsman for the lady's due appearance. It is evident, however, that a suspicious recognition is taking place; 'Harry Holdfast, Officer of the Four Counties,' or his deputy, does not, judging from his expression, seem to approve of the surety, and the Jew looks somewhat disconcerted under his inspection. The tears of the unfortunate captive, and the plausible reassurance--as to the respectability of the bail offered--of her chaperone, or duenna, are powerless to move the stoic breast of the experienced catchpole.
Alternative Title:
Jew bail rejected
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat wife sits beside him (right) blowing a trumpet to the grotesque inflation of cheek and neck. The eldest daughter (left) plays the double-bass; behind her stands a girl beating a tambourine. The younger children flank the design: a fat little girl (left) plays the triangle, looking up at her sister's tambourine. On the right a little boy sits at his mother's feet beating a large kettle-drum and shouting; he sits on two large volumes: 'Doctor Burneys Musical Travels [i.e., The Present State of Music in France and Italy ... 1771', and 'The Present State of Music in Germany . . . [etc.]', 2 v. 1773]. Mother and daughters are fashionably dressed; the daughters are comely. A howling dog seated on the extreme left adds to the impression of violent noise."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak. and Title etched below image.
"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in at the waist and stomach, with bent knees."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter, is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?"--Text below title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
"A view of the House of Commons showing only the Ministerial benches immediately beside and behind the Speaker's Chair, and, on the extreme right, the Speaker and the Clerk with part of the Table. Addington, scarcely caricatured, but wearing gloves, is the principal figure. He stands in profile to the right, right hand extended; in his left is the 'Treaty of Peace with ye Democratick ['Democratic' was then used as an equivalent of Jacobin, cf. BMSat 8310.] Powers'; from his pocket issues a paper: 'List of the new Administration'. On the front bench (left) next Addington's seat, marked by his hat, sits Hawkesbury, nervous and deprecating, legs crossed, crouching forward, holding his chin. Next him is a very fat man with gouty legs, his head concealed behind Addington, identified as Dickinson, see BMSat 9854. Just behind are Nicholls, clutching his cane, and Tierney (not caricatured), both gazing intently at Addington's back. Behind Nicholls is Wilberforce, much caricatured. A fat, youngish man, standing full face (right), resembles Lord Temple. Of the other heads gazing fixedly at Addington only Tyrwhitt Jones (see BMSat 9401 and Index) can be identified: according to 'London und Paris', Jekyll and Whitbread are there. The Speaker, Abbot, is dwarfishly too small for the Chair; in front of him sits the Clerk, with a melancholy expression, holding a pen, his hands folded."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Dickinson, William,--1756-1822--Caricatures and cartoons., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt,--Sir,--1765-1811--Caricatures and cartoons., Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson,--Earl of,--1770-1828--Caricatures and cartoons., Nicholls, John,--1745?-1832--Caricatures and cartoons., Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons., Tierney, George,--1761-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., and Wilberforce, William,--1759-1833--Caricatures and cartoons.
