"A stout and comely lady stands at the door of an ornamentally rustic cottage, shaking a cloth from which tiny officers leap out, holding money-bags. The cloth is inscribed in large letters 'Pin Money instead of Allowance'. She says: "This is a profitable Plan of his and pays me a Devilish deal better than he can, besides the Patronage!!" Five elderly officers of normal size (right) watch their pigmy rivals with consternation. One looks through his glass, saying, "To waste ones health in unwholesome Climates an then fail of promotion because we cannot fee ****** or Army Agents Agents.!!" Another says: "Mother Careys Chickens by - then we shall have a storm indeed!" A third exclaims: "What to spend our lives in the service of our Country, and to be thus degraded by a parcel of Boys!!" He has a wooden leg and a patch over one eye. Another had lost his right arm, and the group seem hardly fit for active service. The 'boys' wear fashionable crescent-shaped cocked hats with plumes, the others old-fashioned hats with cockade, loop, and button. Over the door is inscribed in large letters '... mus Cottage'. It has the ornamental Gothic windows with leaded panes and thatched roof of fashionable rusticity. Beside it is a weeping willow. Below the title: 'NB these Birds have lately been seen hovering about the Horse Guards'. Below the design: 'a Storm Finch, or stormy petterel (the Mother Careys Chickens of the Sailors). Procellaria Pelagica of Linnaeus. is seldom or never seen but in the great Ocean, and then when observed flying near a Ship, is the sure prognostication of a Storm, the analagy [sic] of effect has induced modern Naturalists to class these, with the Pelagica of Linnaeus, tho differing in plumage'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Imprint statement etched within upper portion of image., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners. Small tears along the right edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., Great Britain. Army, and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Promotions, Recruiting, enlistment, etc, Military officers, British, Amputees, Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Eye patches, Mistresses, Peg legs, and Uniforms
"In a bare but neat ale-house room three Greenwich pensioners are in deep and heated discussion at a table before the fire. They point to fragments of pipe stem, arranged to show the position of ships in some engagement. Two sit, one stands; two have peg-legs. A fourth man (left) watches intently. The host (right) enters with frothing tankards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Leaf 77. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike, with title and border added. For an earlier state lacking title, perhaps published ca. 1800, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 792.05.01.03., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A reduced copy of no. 8205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and On leaf 77 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Title from verse written below image. "Some write for pleasure, some for spite; But want of Money makes me Write.", Alternate title supplied by curator., From: The Passions Hummoursly Delineated by Timothy Bobbin, Esq., London: Edward Orme, 1810., Design trimmed from page and mounted., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub June 4 1810 by Edwd. Orme. London
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Amputees, Crutches, Peg legs, Poor persons, and Beggars
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., Below title: "She loved him for the dangers he had pass'd/ He loved her, that she did pity them." Shakespear., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1823, by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place
A sailor on crutches, one trousers leg pinned up where his left leg is missing, stands in the grounds of a large building, possibly a veterans' hospital
Alternative Title:
We've still got a big job to do!
Description:
In margin lower left: 1943-O-564207., In margin lower right: Official Navy Poster, Industrial Incentive Division, 4--80M., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Industrial Incentive Division and U.S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, War casualties, Amputees, Rehabilitation, Employment, Sailors, Wounds & injuries, and Crutches
A man with a caricatured face, shown with a protruding lower jaw, missing teeth, warts, and hooked nose, is shown in left profile. He wears a long wig decorated with curls and a small tricorne hat on top of it. He appears to be missing his left arm. In his right hand he holds a sheet with a song and seems to be singing
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, August 12th, 1771, by Picot & Delattre in St. Martin's Lane
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
"An illustration to the song 'By Mr. Dibdin' which is engraved beneath the title. The old pensioner with a wooden leg, a pipe in his left hand, a cudgel under his left arm, stands, directed to the left, pointing across the Thames at the river front of Greenwich Hospital, but looking towards the spectator. The stern of a ship with partly furled sails is visible on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image and above verses., Probably after Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.35., Text below title: By Mr. Dibdin., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Verse in four columns below title: 'Twas in the good ship Rober, I sail'd the world around ... Altho I'm quite disabled And lie in Greenwich tier, The King, God bless his royalty, Who saved me from the main, I'll praise with love and loyalty, But ne'er to Sea again., Numbered "601" in lower left corner., No. 40 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
