"Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., and Watermark: S. Lay.
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Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A young man (left) takes with his left hand the right hand of a young woman, who bows towards him, holding her limp skirt delicately between finger and thumb. Both wear burlesqued versions of the newest fashions. He wears a striped sleeveless vest or waistcoat made in one piece with a pair of pantaloons which reach below his calves where they are tied with bunches of ribbon. A voluminous swathed neckcloth conceals his chin. His powdered hair is frizzed on his head with a long queue. He holds a round hat and a bludgeon in his right hand. She wears in her hair three extravagantly long ostrich feathers, which rise from a small cap or turban and sweep across the design, with an erect brush-aigrette ; long tresses issue from the turban with the feathers and fall below her waist. Her limp high-waisted dress with short sleeves falls from below uncovered breasts, which are decked with a lattice-work of jewels caught together by an oval miniature (cf. BMSat 8521)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray, working from a design by 'Miss Aynscombe.' See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1794 -- Female costume, 1794., Watermark: J Whatman., and Window-mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
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Pubd. May 7th, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 6015, Gillray's 'Ahitophel in the Dumps'. Liverpool, emaciated and despairing, and much caricatured, rides an ass along a road on a desolate heath towards a gibbet (left), to which carrion birds are flying. His arms are folded, his head sunk on his breast; from his pocket hang a noose of rope and a paper: 'Paines & Penelties' [sic]. The bag to his wig is a green bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, and to the ass's tail is tied a clyster-pipe, emblem of Sidmouth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed ...
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 35 of: George Humphrey shop album.
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Pubd. Jany. 31st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Ahithophel (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Despair, Donkeys, Vultures, Nooses, Gallows, Bags, and Medical equipment & supplies
In a woodland setting Shelburne and Pitt sit smiling behind a cloth-covered table on which are coins and bags of money. A glum-looking Fox stands several feet distant with hands in pockets. A reference to Fox's exclusion from office while Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Shelburne ministry. The title is a quotation from Paradise Lost
Alternative Title:
Aside he turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyed them askance
Description:
Title from text etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Pubd. Dec. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
"Fourteen small children amuse themselves uproariously in a small space. Four little girls in party-dresses, dance holding hands round a lady who tosses an infant; two of them hold up dolls. A fat and grinning cook stands in the doorway with a tray of jelly-glasses, cake, and fruit. The biggest boy rides a rocking-horse, giving a view-hallo; another boy with an overturned chair for horses, drives in a professional manner a high-slung rectangular cradle (left) in which sits a little girl holding a doll and an open umbrella. A little boy with a wooden sword tries to storm a table, defended by two others, with drum, trumpet, and Union Jack. These children are dressed up to suit their parts. In the foreground (right) two children build a card-house on the floor, with skipping-rope, toy soldiers, and horse and cart beside them. On the left are a top and whip, and an Eaton Latin Grammar. On the wall is pinned a caricature of Dr Syntax [see BM Satires 11507, &c] with birch-rod and book."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Masters & Misses Twoshoes Christmas party and Masters and Misses Twoshoes Christmas party
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Imprint date altered in mss. to 1825.
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Pubd. Jany. 3d 1826 by S. Knights Sweetings Alley Royl. X'Change
"An imitation of British Museum Satires No. 8913, by Woodward. A fat parson sits drinking beside a small round table. His face is fiery and carbuncled. He wears gown and bands, with unbuttoned waistcoast, and ungartered stocking; his wig is back to front. Opposite him, on a round stool sits Care, a naked man, grotesque, aged, emaciated, with a scraggy beard and long grey hair, and talons on hands and feet; he registers gloomy terror. The parson, with a contemptuous smile, snaps his fingers at Care. On the table are decanter, pipe, tobacco-box, and lemon. On the wall (left) is a 'List of the Tythes for the Parish of Guttledown'. A patterned carpet completes the design. An illustration of the song (illustrated also by R. Cruikshank in 'The Universal Songster', ii, 1826, page 129)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Songs., 1 print : etching with engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 208 x 250 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Publishd. June 16th, 1801, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Alcoholic beverages, Pipes (Smoking), and Lemons
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Below image left: 15., Verse below image: Begone you old wretch, with one leg in the grave,\ Do you think I would wed you? besotted old knave,\ You daily are getting more drunken and worse,\ And would now wish to get a young wife for a nurse., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Taking medicine; Foot baths; Coryza.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fever, Alcoholism, Sick persons, Medicines, and Basins (Containers).
Drawing of a young woman, full-length, turned slightly right, wearing a her hair in a cap; she holds a wicker basket in the crook of each arm, filled with strawberries and cherries, She stands on a wooden platform in front of a fence constructed of tree branches in front of dense hedge of greenery
Description:
Title written below image. From a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu 23 June 1750: We minced seven chickens ... which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp ... She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 52., and Bound in as page 220 in volume 2 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Title from letterpress caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: There has been a great outcry lately about the "beer grievance," and public attention has been specially invited ..., No. II in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet., and Temporary local subject headings: Beer -- Spousal abuse -- Wives -- Husbands -- Children -- Poverty.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand