Title from item., Two columns of verse below design: By little cupids warmest passion led, when Daddy and Momma were gone bed ..., One of six plates in a series: Specimens of dramatic phrensy., Temporary local subject terms: Military Uniform: Regimental -- Male Costume: Cocked Hat -- Furniture: Bed -- Female Costume: 1804 -- Female Costume: Feathered Hat -- Male Costume: Night Shirt -- Male Costume: Night Cap -- Weapons: Blunderbuss -- Lighting: Lantern., 1 print on laid paper : etching, stipple, & roulette ; sheet 29 x 37.5 cm, Watermark: J Whatman., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Januy. 1st, 1804 by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bird shooting -- Hunters -- Guns: muskets -- Male dress: hunter's dress -- Dogs: spaniels., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. July 4th 1795, by S.W. Fores, corner Sackville Street, Piccadilly
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Creditors -- Debts: George IV's debts -- Hats: calash -- Courtesans -- Bawds -- Glasses: jelly-glass -- Gout -- Birch-rods -- Male dress, 1795: spencers -- Ballads -- Allusion to 'The Black Joke.', and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Pub. April 3, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Creditors -- Debts: George IV's debts -- Hats: calash -- Courtesans -- Bawds -- Glasses: jelly-glass -- Gout -- Birch-rods -- Male dress, 1795: spencers -- Ballads -- Allusion to 'The Black Joke.', Watermark: J Whatman., and 1 print on wove or laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 27 x 42.7 cm., on sheet 30 x 48 cm., matted to 47 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 3, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
An African woman known as 'Sartje' or the Hottentot Venus stands, left, in profile, a smoking pipe in her mouth and tall staff in her right hand. She has an enormous posterior and stands nude except for a pair of garters around her calves, a thin girdle round her waist, a beaded headdress and beaded necklace. Grenville stands behind her but looks back over his shoulder at her. Dressed in formal court dress, he too is depicted with an enormous posterior. Grenville says: Well I never expected Broad Bottoms from Africa! but one should never dispair! Mind Sherry dont let your Fireey nose touch the Venus for if theres any conbustibls about her we shall be blown up!!" In his pocket is a paper inscribed Chaselor [sic]. Between them, half-kneeling, Sheridan measures her bottom using a compass and answers: I shall be carefull your Lordship! but such a spanker it beats your Lordship's hollow."
Description:
Title from item/, Artist and imprint information based on a close copy with same title and same dialogue with misspellings. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 11578., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
Publisher:
Walker Cornhill?
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Court of Chancery
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, Khoikhoi (African people), Africans, and England
Title from item., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the London Corresponding Society's meetings near Copenhagen House in Islington, October-November 1795 -- Reference to the Convention Bill -- Crowns: royal crown -- Bonnet rouge., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. No. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
A parody on Book 8, lines 487-9 of John Milton's Paradise lost. A lean, spectacled man stands by a bed as he welcomes a drunken trollope who staggers into the room holding a glass and a bottle labelled Geneva (gin). He exclaims, parodying Milton, "On she came-such ad I saw her in my dream, Geneva was in all her steps --Geneva in her hand and every gesture-reeling ripe for fun!" Outside on the landing, a pretty young woman looks on with amusement
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '33' in upper left corner., "Price one shilling col[oure]d.", Quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost, below title: On she came-such ad I saw her in my dream, grace was in all her steps-Heaven in her eye in every gesture-dignity and love., Cf. No. 11142, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of variant state., Temporary local subject terms: Spectacles., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 17[??]., and Printseller's identification stamp in extreme lower right corner of sheet: S·W·[F].
Publisher:
Pub'd. July 4th, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 10., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Published 10, Janry, 1807 by Thomas Tegg, Cheapside
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Not dated in Krumbhaar., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Gout -- Beverages: port -- Glass decanter -- Food: candies -- Fish -- Domestic service: footmen -- Furniture: armchair -- Sofa -- Furnishings: patterned carpet.
