"View of the interior of a hall in which a lottery is taking place; at centre on a raised stage, five men seated at a table, in front of and beneath which are seated more men; to either side, in front of tall, open receptacles each topped with a crown, is a man reading a piece of paper, a woman holding up an empty hand, and a seated man watching proceedings; at the front, many spectators watching from rows of counters on which are laid broad sheets of paper."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 53., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 193., 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.4 x 26.9 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 34.1 cm., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Feby. 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Interior of the cock pit off Whitehall, a fight in action; two cocks fighting in circular ring, their owners crouching behind them, men surrounding gesticulating wildly at fight."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal Cockpit
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 18., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 123., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 May 1808 at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View of the Great Court of Somerset House, on the Strand; a large statue in centre of courtyard with surrounding ballustrade; a group of elegantly dressed figures give money to a beggar in foreground, other small groups of figures in space."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 73., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 86., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st June 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View of the repository, near Hyde Park Corner, at time of sale; a horse is paraded in front of a row of gentlemen on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 83., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 172., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. Septr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"The Archduke Charles of Austria, directing military operations, stands on a bluff in profile to the left, right arm extended, his left hand rests on his sword. He wears laced coat and waistcoat, with a star, and spurred jack-boots. He has a long pigtail queue; in his enormous cocked hat, one point of which hangs before his face, the other over his shoulders, is an olive-branch. In the background clouds of smoke rise from an invisible battle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archduke
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Olive branch.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 15th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"A drunken debauch in the new Union Club, see BMSat 9698. A long table, the cloth removed, one end cut off by the left margin, stretches almost across the design, slanting back slightly from the left, where it is in the foreground, and where Fox, grossly corpulent, sits in an armchair asleep, his feet on the table, a pipe in one hand. Nearly opposite his feet is the chair of state, on the table; on the empty seat is the Prince's cocked hat with triple plume, his motto 'Ich Di[en]' within the crown. The chair is backed by an elaborate architectural canopy with ornate pilasters on which swags of fruit and flowers are carved in relief: (left) grapes and lemons (materials for punch), and (right) roses and shamrocks. Above the seat are figures of Britannia and Erin, kissing, standing on a curved base inscribed 'The Union'. On the back of the chair are two clasped hands, elaborately irradiated. The chair is surrounded by broken wine-bottles; its former occupant, the Prince, lies on his back under the table, one arm flung over Lord Stanhope, who lies unconscious, clasping a bottle. On the Prince's stomach rest two feet in shoes with spiked, upcurved toes. In the foreground, opposite the Prince, Norfolk lies with his head against the seat of his overturned chair, looking very ill. All who are not incapacitated or fighting are toasting the Union (except Lansdowne and Parr, see below). On the table sits Moira, dressed as in BMSat 9386, a glass of wine held high above his head, his right leg thrust forward, while he stretches back to take the hand of Lord Clermont, [This is clear from the resemblance to BMSat 9575, and is supported by the shamrock which he and the other Irishmen wear. It is confirmed by 'London und Paris', vii. 80, where it is said that he and Moira were once bitter enemies. He is identified by Grego as General Manners, see BMSat 9288.] seated next Sheridan on the farther side of the table. Facing Clermont and in back view, Camelford sits erect, wearing a Jean de Bry coat (see BMSat 9425) and small round hat, with cropped hair. [The identification (that of Grego) is confirmed by BMSat 9716, Wright and Evans give Burdett, E. Hawkins 'Mr Manners'.] Beside him (right) two waiters bring in a full tub of Whiskey Punch, which they spill; one treads on the face of the prostrate Nicholls. Near the end of the table (right) sits Derby, his large head and crumpled features grotesquely caricatured. In the foreground on the extreme right Montagu Mathew (as in BMSat 9560) and Skeffington (as in BMSat 9557) advance dancing arm-in-arm, with tipsy grace, the former with a bottle in each hand; one reversed, the other, held above his head, splashes its contents over his partner's uplifted glass. (The pair, according to 'London und Paris', vii, 1801, p. 76, were known as inseparables in fashionable London resorts, cf. BMSat 9755.) ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse on either side of title: "We'll join hand in hand, all party shall cease, "and glass after glass, shall our union increase ..., and 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 30 x 44.2 cm, on sheet 31.0 x 46.9 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 21st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804, Nicholls, John, 1745?-1832, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Walpole, George, 1761-1830, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Kirkcudbright, John Maclellan, Lord, 1729-1801, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Jones, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Sir, 1765-1811, and Sturt, Charles, 1763-1812
"Three allied generals (left) hold the long handle of a shovel (peel) on which is a dish containing a tiny Napoleon. This they try to push into a baker's oven, but are hindered by the Austrian emperor, who holds the door of the oven, feigning to be trying to open it, but actually holding it at an angle which prevents the entry of the dish. The leading baker is Blücher, wearing an apron over his uniform, and without a hat; he looks sternly at Francis, saying, "Pull away Frank! you Keep us waiting!" General Mikhail Woronzoff, young and handsome, immediately behind Blücher, pushes hard, saying, "In with it Blücher." On the extreme left is Bernadotte, one hand on Woronzoff's shoulder, saying, "I tell you what, Woronzow, the Hinges want a little Russia Oil." Francis I, who like the others wears uniform with jack-boots, but has (baker's) over-sleeves to the elbow, says with an expression of startled alarm: "This door Sticks! I dont think I shall get it open?!" A weathercock surmounts his cocked hat. Wellington comes up (right), poking him in the back with his baker's tray on which are two pies. He says: "Shove alltogather [sic] Gentlemen! D-me shove door & all in!" His two pies are 'Soult Pie', with two spurred jack-booted legs projecting through the crust, and a pie with spires and other buildings, with a flag inscribed 'Bourdeaux'. He wears an apron and the order of the Golden Fleece as well as the star of the Garter. A fat, grotesque Dutchman sits on a flat cushion gazing up at the oven; he holds, but does not use, a pair of bellows. In his conical hat is a tobacco-pipe. The fire under the oven is filled with broken eagles and fragments of weapons. Among the debris in the recess for ashes is a crown. Above the oven is the inscription 'Allied Oven' surmounted by a crown and cross-bones. In the shadow formed by the half-open door, a skull (Death) waits to receive Napoleon, who lies on his back, kicking violently, and shouting "Murder! Murder!!"; he wears a large plumed bicorne. The stone wall in which the oven is built forms the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Corsican toad in the hole
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist "G.H." identified as George Humphrey in the British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1814, by H. Humphrey, St. James St.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844, Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Soult, Nicolas-Jean de Dieu, 1769-1851, and Voront︠s︡ov, Mikhail Semenovich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1782-1856
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Emperors, Ethnic stereotypes, Generals, Kings, Military uniforms, Ovens, and War allies
"Interior of the grand hall; six Ionic columns supporting room, presumably two further columns behond viewer; a small fireplace at far end with two armchairs; a slim red carpet crosses hall, a man leads two military men across carpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 15., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 107., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Interior view; watchmen assembling for their nocturnal rounds, wearing heay brown coats, black caps, holding lanterns."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Watch House, St. Marylebone
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 91., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 217., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Marylebone (London, England), London (England), England, and London.
"View from the river of the West India Docks, near Blackwell, with ships lined up by the docks on the left, small row boats at mid-stream."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 92., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 218., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
