"The heads and shoulders of three persons fill the design, all studies in teeth, facial expression, and caricature. The profile head of the dentist is close to the fat face of his patient, a woman with a wide smiling mouth, open to show two rows of artificial teeth and gums. He smiles, displaying his own artificial teeth, and holds his patient by the chin. Facing him (right) is a man's head in profile, staring up at the woman through a double lorgnette; his open mouth reveals sparse and irregular teeth, in a grotesque jaw. Above his head is a notice: 'Mineral Teeth Monsier De Charmant from Paris engages to affix from one tooth to a whole set without pain. Mouns D can also affix an artificial Palate or a glass Eye in a manner peculiar to himself. he also distills'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Evidently Dubois de Chémant who introduced porcelain teeth into England (replacing those of bone and ivory) and published 'A Dissertation on Artificial Teeth in general', 1797, 4th ed., 1804. Cf. earlier prints by Rowlandson on false teeth, British Museum Satires Nos. 7766, 8174."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French dentist showing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from top edge. Plate number supplied from impression in the British Museum., "Price one shilling"--Following imprint., Plate numbered "58" in upper right corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: False teeth., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 23.1 x 33.3 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from upper right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Dubois de Chémant, Nicolas, 1753-1824
Subject (Topic):
Dentures, Dentistry, Smiling, Hand lenses, and Signs (Notices)
"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
"An elderly courtier of the 'ancien régime' (left) bows low, in profile to the right, grimacing: 'Je suis voire tres humble Serviteur'. His features are aquiline; he wears a high toupet wig and a large black bag (which flies into the air as he bows) with a solitaire ribbon round the neck. His small tricorne hat is in his right hand, his left hand is on his breast; his fingers are extravagantly pointed. His successor (right) stands in back view, legs astride, hands thrust deep into his coat-pockets, a bludgeon projecting vertically from the left pocket. His head, with blunt, coarse features, is turned in profile to the left, to say: "Baiser mon Cu [sic]". He has shaggy hair with a long pigtail queue, and wears a large cocked hat, one peak on his neck, round which is a clumsy neck-cloth. His coat is loose with broad collar and projecting revers. His breeches are tied beneath the knee, showing striped stockings above very wrinkled boots with grotesquely pointed toes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French gentleman of the Court of Egalité, 1799
Description:
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: French courtier, 1799 -- Wigs: bag wig, 1799 -- Queue wig, 1799 -- Boots., and Matted to 36 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 15th, 1799 by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Admiral Howe stands in a boat formed of a gold shell and drawn by two dolphins (as in BMSat 8469) towards the coast, where there is a stone with a hand pointing to Torbay. He covers his eyes with a hand to protect them from a shower of guineas which fill his boat and which he holds up the skirt of his coat to collect. The dolphins spout guineas. His large Union flag is attached to an upright trident; a blast of coins strikes the flag, tearing a large hole. The coins are blown from the mouths of winged cherubic heads wearing bonnets-rouges (right). They drive Howe's boat away from 'Brest', a fortress on the horizon towards which a French fleet is sailing unmolested. Howe says: "Zounds, these damn'd hail stones hinder one from doing ones duty! - I cannot see out of my Eyes for them! - Ah! it was just such another cursed peppering as this, that I fell inn with, on the coast of America in the last War; - what a deuce of a thing it is, that whenever I'm just going to play the Devil, I am hinder'd by these confounded French storms, or eke, loose my way in a Fog.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French hailstorm and Neptune loosing sight of the Brest fleet
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to America -- Reference to Torbay, Devonshire -- Reference to Brest -- Mythology: reference to Neptune -- Neptune's trident -- Money: guineas -- Boats -- Dolphins -- Flags: Union Jack.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
"A young woman standing to left, gesturing outwards with her right hand, wearing a fitted dress with a dark fringed sash, a shawl around her shoulders, a sprig of flowers tucked into one side and a tall bell-shaped hat with thick plumes and flowers, her hair left loose; in a double frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray. See Briitsh Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.697., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Greek female costume.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
"The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulates with clenched fist, right arm above his head. He frowns, while Mainwaring (right) grimaces insinuatingly, his hands held out deprecatingly. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme left, behind Byng, stands Fox, holding Byng's hat. The other men on the platform, all wearing hats, are freely sketched. On the wooden barrier of the hustings are two bills, the lower part of which is concealed by the heads of the spectators, which reach across the lower edge of the design: 'Mermaid Hackney Meeting of the Freeholders for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detestable, obnoxious, unconstitutional oppressive treasonable . . .' and 'Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Hustings -- Reference to Treasonable Activities and Seditious Meetings bills., Possibly an impression from a worn plate; publisher's street address is lightly printed and barely legible., and Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Byng, George, 1764-1847, and Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821
A caricature of a Jewish broker, standing full-length on the street outside a door. He uses his kerchief to wipe his spectacles. His walking stick is tucked under his right arm and a roll of papers under his left arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1801, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A fashionably dressed man stands in back view, a round hat in his hand, a bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a tail-coat with a large cape-like collar with revers. Above this appears the high stiff collar at the back of his waistcoat. His hair falls on his coat collar and his shoulders are frosted with hair-powder (a fashion of the day), cf. BMSats 7537, 8192. He wears half-boots and breeches tied below the knee with a bunch of strings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "Neck or nothing.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: capes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout stage-coachman, perhaps an amateur, holding a bowl, stands by the door of an inn, taking the chin of the very buxom landlady. He has a team-whip and wears a round hat and many-caped overcoat reaching to the feet. Above their heads swings the (pictorial) signboard: 'Widow Casey at the Sign of the Cock and Bottle' [in reversed characters]. Just within the door stands a young maidservant, smiling at the encounter. Above the door: 'Genteel Accomodations'. On the wall is a bill headed 'York Races'. In the background (right) appears the empty box-seat of the coach with three of the horses, with a groom and dog."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
That's your sort prime bang up to the mark
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. May 5th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11619 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 184-6.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout stage-coachman, perhaps an amateur, holding a bowl, stands by the door of an inn, taking the chin of the very buxom landlady. He has a team-whip and wears a round hat and many-caped overcoat reaching to the feet. Above their heads swings the (pictorial) signboard: 'Widow Casey at the Sign of the Cock and Bottle' [in reversed characters]. Just within the door stands a young maidservant, smiling at the encounter. Above the door: 'Genteel Accomodations'. On the wall is a bill headed 'York Races'. In the background (right) appears the empty box-seat of the coach with three of the horses, with a groom and dog."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
That's your sort prime bang up to the mark
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. May 5th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11619 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 184-6., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 88 in volume 1.
