Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below title: (Dedicated to Monsieur Theirs)., Possibly from Punch., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877 and Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons)., Dwarfs, Human curiosities, and Politics and government
A scene of the crowded interior of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trial of Charlotte Corday for the murder of Jean Marat. Corday stands at the bar, her wrists in chains, as she confronts the three judges, grotesque figures -- a barber, a tailor, and a butcher. Marat's body lies between them on a wooden bedstead, his blood stained shirt on a pike
Description:
Title etched above image., One line of quoted text below title: "The noble enthusiasm with which this woman met the charge, & the elevated disdain with which she treated the self created tribunal, struck the whole assembly with terror & astonishment.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Publishd. July 29th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793, Corday, Charlotte, 1768-1793, and France. Tribunal révolutionnaire.
Subject (Topic):
Assassination, History, and Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
Leaf 13. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Cuisine de la poste
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Mr. Bunburys other works, &c. &c., A reduced and reversed version of no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. This version is briefly described on page 42 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box., and Watermark: W[?].
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Interiors, Kitchens, Fireplaces, Poodles, Furniture, and Snuff
Leaf 13. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Cuisine de la poste
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Mr. Bunburys other works, &c. &c., A reduced and reversed version of no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. This version is briefly described on page 42 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box., On leaf 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 7.5 x 44.4 cm., and Censored impression; the three images of Jesus Christ in the background of the design have been cut out and removed from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feb. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand ...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Interiors, Kitchens, Fireplaces, Poodles, Furniture, and Snuff
"Orléans (Égalité), looking to the right, stands on the scaffold dressed as a grenadier of the National Guard. He holds out by the hair the decollated head of Louis XVI, while he waves his cap in his right hand. Behind (left) is the guillotine, with the King's body; streams of blood pour from head and trunk. Below the scaffold (right) are heads and bayonets of the National Guard, and, behind, two large buildings, the windows and roofs filled with spectators; those on the roof wave their hats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Text below title: Behold the progress of our system.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 12, 1793, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793.
Subject (Topic):
History, Guillotines (Punishment), and Decapitations
"The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert in the bedroom of a French inn ; a maidservant enters (left) with a tea-tray. The Prince, yawning and stretching with a dissipated air, is seated on the edge of a table; the revelry of the past night is indicated by an overturned decanter, broken wineglass, and a broken candle. Another candlestick and broken wine-glass lie on the ground, together with the Prince's top-boots. He wears slippers and his stockings are ungartered, the 'honi soit qui mal y' [pense] ribbon hanging round his leg. Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated on the bed, draws on a stocking; her garter inscribed 'Fox' lies on the ground (cf. British Museum satire 7306). The bed is heavily draped with fringed curtains. The Prince's feathered hat hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene on the Continent
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Probably a reissue; the final digit '8' in '1788' in imprint appears to have been altered from '6,' and the publisher's street address seems to have been burnished and re-etched. See British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Wife & no wife, or, A trip to the Continent.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1788, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taverns (Inns), Bedrooms, Draperies, Hats, Servants, and Tableware
John Bull lies on his back in bed, his mouth gaping; Pitt, a goblin creature, sits on his chest in profile to the right, holding above his upturned head a loaf inscribed '13 Pence'. Pitt has a huge head, much caricatured, with starting eyeballs; his hair stands up and the bag of his queue, inscribed 'Taxes', flies out behind him. Through a casement window (left) looks a fantastic French republican, with bulging eyeballs and fang-like teeth, glaring at John Bull; from his neck hangs the model of a guillotine. Behind his head is a waning moon. Beside him are the words: 'Republic War and Famine for Ever.' Beneath the bed is a chamber-pot inscribed 'John Bull'; beside it is a chair on which stands a candle
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire, on the burderns of war and dearth in 1795, alluding to Henry Fuseli's "The Nightmare"., Tentatively attributed to West in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. Augst. 13, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and France
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Hair powder, Taxation, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Chamber pots, and Demons
A cartoon illustrating the first reactions in England to the news of the fall of the Bastille. On the right, the radiant figure of Liberty sits enthroned on the ruins of the Bastille. Kneeling on one knee before her, Louis XVI holds up to her his crown; inscribed below him are the words "A repentant monarch." Following behind him are six figures in chains, each clearly identified: Orléans and Necker, Marie Antoinette, two German counselors, and a figure suggestive of Mrs. Schwellenberg. La Fayette and the ranks of the National Guard bring up the rear. All around them are cheering crowds
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 2 sh. plain.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 3d, 1789, by J. Aitken, N. 14 Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, and Bastille.
Subject (Topic):
Liberty, History, and Foreign public opinion, British
"The base of the design is a dunghill from which rises the head of Napoleon as a young republican officer, not caricatured. His head is covered by a large cup-shaped fungus, decorated with a tricolour cockade and resembling a Cap of Liberty; from its apex ascends a curving stalk, terminating in the large yellow rosette of a sunflower, centred by the head of Napoleon as Emperor, larger than that of the base, and representing an older man; like the lower one it is directed slightly to the right. Below it, leaves project from the stalk, balancing the design. On Napoleon's head is an arrangement of stamens in the form of an imperial crown. These unite to form the long scraggy neck of the third Napoleon, a head in profile to the right, emaciated and desperate. On this head is a larger fungus than that below, projecting like an enormous hat. From it ascend the stems of a bunch of violets, copied from No. 12511, but with the addition of more flowers, and on a larger scale. It contains the profiles of Napoleon, Marie Louise, and the King of Rome, arranged exactly as in British Museum Satires No. 12511. Smaller fungi sprout from the dunghill, some flat and some conical, like caps of Liberty; on the latter tricolour cockades are indicated. Four little figures are on a slope (left) leading towards the dunghill, prepared to clear it away. In front are Blücher and Wellington, running forward, and talking to each other; one holds a spade, the other a broad hoe. Behind them is the Tsar, shouldering a pickaxe. Behind again stands Louis XVIII, with splayed gouty legs, supported on a crutch. He waves his hat to cheer them on."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pedigree of Corporal Violet
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: First as a Consular Toadstool, rising from a Corsican Dunghill, then changing to an Imperial Sun Flower, from that to an Elba Fungus and lastly to a bunch of Violets, which are disposed as to represent a whole length of profile of Buonaparte, with a bust of Maria Louisa, and her son the Prince of Parma., and Companion print to: A view of the Grand Triumphal Pillar.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey June 9th, 1815 - No. 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 1742-1819, Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832., Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847., and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Political satire, French, Politics and government, Mushrooms, and Flowers
"The head and shoulders of Fox (like Christian in 'The Pilgrim's Progress') emerge from a pool of liquid mire; he looks despairingly up and to the right, his (half-submerged) hands raised in supplication. On his back is a bundle inscribed 'Contents French Gold, French Loyalty, French Daggers [cf. BMSat 8285, &c.], And Crimes, more num'rous than the sands, upon the Ocean's shore.' His hat has fallen off, the tricolour cockade and motto 'Ca ira' are half submerged. His large club rises from the slough: 'Patriots Staff - i.e. Whig Club' [cf. BMSat 8987, &c.]. Before him floats an open book: 'Gospel of Liberty by the four Evangelists St Paine St Price St Priestly St Petion [see BMSat 8122] \ Fly to the Wrath to come." Fox says: "Help! Help! - will no kind Power lend a hand to deliver me ? - Oh! what will become of me ? - all my former Friends have forsaken me! - if I try to go on, I sink deeper in the Filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the Mire, that I can not get back, 'tho I try; - Ah me! - this Burden upon my Back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! - I shall Rise no more! - I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!" From the slough a hill ascends up which a straight path leads to a fortified gateway in a castellated wall inscribed: 'Knock, & it shall be opened. The Straight Gate: or the way to the Patriots Paradise.' From it flies a flag of 'Libertas', surmounted with the cap of Liberty. Within the wall is a ladder slanting towards a waning moon. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress quoted to the right of title: "This miry slough is such a place as can not be mended ...", and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804., Pétion, J. 1756-1794. (Jérôme),, and Price, RIchard, 1723-1791.
