"Social satire; a tall thin man with a tasselled tricorn hat in one hand and wearing a sword, wig, buckled shoes and rings on both hands steps forward towards a large lady with a wreath in her hair, beauty spots, several rings, a cupid's bow and arrow on a ribbon round her neck, a large muff, and a very low decolletage; behind them their two dogs mimic their actions; the man asks "Beauty need note de foraine aid of ornamen but ees ven unadorn adorn de mos.", to which the woman replies "I really cannot resist the pleasing truth of the bewitching Markeee. - - ah! Sweet Sir I yield, ah!""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Cruikshank on unverified card catalog record., Imprint burnished from plate. Originally published in 1798., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Song is an allusion to the Roast beef of Old England., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Recruits., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from watermark., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Originally issued in 1805. Cf. No. 10487 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title etched below image., Attributed to Cawse in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later printing, with Fores's imprint burnished from plate. Cf. No. 9655 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Horseback riding -- Starvation -- Reference to Hyde Park -- Male dress, 1800., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title etched below image., Place of publication and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Originally issued in 1804. Cf. no. 10330, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Abbey -- Kent Sculptor -- Shakespeare's monument -- Reference to Napoleon., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title below image., Imprint mostly burnished from plate. Printing date from watermark., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Pipe -- Tankard., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 4th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Imprint statement mostly burnished from plate., Publication information from local card catalog record and from visible trace of imprint statement on print., Four lines of Shakespearean prose inscribed below title: Where be his quidits now? his quillets? his cases? his tenures? and his tricks? ... Hamlet., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
"Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388., Publication date from watermark., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printseller's identification blind stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title from item., Part of the original imprint to the left of the title burnished from plate but legible., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: doctors -- Trades: undertakers -- Male costume: undertakers' hat -- Death., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Pub. May 25, 1795[?] by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
