"A middle-aged man in gold-laced coat and waistcoat, with powdered hair and pigtail, bows stiffly in profile to the left. with a grimace of pleased surprise. He puts his right. hand across his breast, holds a tricorne hat at arm's length, and extends a pointed r. toe. A boarded floor and a wall form a background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"A stout officer sits on a charger in profile to the left, his head turned from the spectator, his right arm outstretched, holding a cane, as if directing manoeuvres."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"John Bull is a sailor, stripped to the waist, his trousers turned up, who stands arms akimbo in the English Channel. He looks at Napoleon, whose head peers over the top of a triple fortification on the French coast, bristling with guns, at the base of which small gun-boats are drawn up, on a low cliff rising from the sea. Napoleon, wearing his feathered cocked hat, haggard and alarmed, says: "I'm a com'ing! I'm a' coming!!!" Beside him flies a tricolour flag inscribed 'Vive la Liberta.' John, brawny and contemptuous, asks: "You're a' coming"? - You be d-n'd! [see BMSat 10110] If you mean to invade us - why make such a rout? - I say, Little Boney - why don't you come out? - yes, d-n ye, why don't you come out?" The words of both float upwards in large labels. On a cliff behind John is a fort flying the Union flag."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker's signature present in lower right corner of design but mostly obscured by etched lines. and Title etched in top part of image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., and Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A more elaborate version of British Museum satire no. 5611 drawn with more freedom. A joint of beef hangs on the wall behind John Bull; a bundle of frogs behind the Frenchman. The Frenchman holds an open snuff-box instead of a bowl of soup; a laced hat is under his arm; he wears a bag-wig. John Bull's tankard is inscribed "John Bull the Buttock of Beef. . ." Beneath the design is etched: "With Porter Roast Beef & Plumb Pudding well cram'd, Jack English declares that Monsr may be D------d. The Soup Meagre Frenchman such Language dont suit, So he Grins Indignation & calls him a Brute.""--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Another publication line, "Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, London," has been nearly obliterated at bottom of plate by several etched lines forming the lower border., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., CtY-LW, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), National characteristics, English., and National characteristics, French.
The interior of a room in the floor of which is sunk a circular bath. A lady (Lady Worsley), holding a little drapery, steps into it. Through a window high in the wall behind her (right) appear the head and shoulders of Captain Bisset. Outside the building (right) Sir R. Worsley stands on tip-toe holding Bisset, who sits on his shoulders; his hat is on the ground, and by it lies a paper inscribed "My Yoke is Easy & my Burden light". Bisset is saying, "Charming View of the Back Settlements Sir Richard". On the farther side of the bath (left) stands a maid-servant of attractive appearance, holding her mistress's clothes; she holds up her right hand saying, "Good lack! My Lady the Captn will see all for Nothing". On the back wall is nailed a 'Map of the Isle of Wight'. The ceiling of the room has a circle inset in the rectangle which may support a dome. See British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
A version in reverse, with several alterations, of No. 6109 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Bisset, Maurice George,--1757-1821--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., Worsley, Richard,--Sir,--1751-1805--Caricatures and cartoons., and Worsley, Seymour Dorothy,--Lady--Caricatures and cartoons.
