Title from item., In margin top right: Imagerie d'Épinal, No. 1156., Date supplied by curator., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Purgatives; Hypochondria; Apothecaries., and UL, LR corners missing. Edges torn and frayed. Creases from folding.
A scene in a bank: actor John Liston as the comic character Paul Pry, quizzing glass raised to his eyes, stands at the desk of a red-faced banker (left) who sits with quill pen in hand, another behind his ear, lower lip jutting out as he glares at his customer. A second customer enters the door of the bank (right) with papers in-hand. Paul Pry is a character from a John Poole farce of the same name. Pry is characterized as a man consumed with curiosity, a busybody unable to mind his own business. Pry wears striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, and carries an umbrella that he leaves behind so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop
Description:
Title from text below image., Possibly by George Edward Madeley. Cf. Mr. Liston as 'Billy Lackaday" in "Sweethears & wives"., Date of publication based the entry for partnership, Ingrey & Madeley whose earliest recorded imprint is 1824 and latest 1829., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithogc. Office, 310 Strand
A portly man, whole length in profile facing right, holds a quill pen, wears a frilly shirt (or jabot), a coat with large cuffs, and a club wig; presumably an employee of a bank
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Identified as v. 6 number 1 in Darly's Comic-Prints, 1776.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act April 17th, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Bankers, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Leaf 94. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A portly man, whole length in profile facing right, holds a quill pen, wears a frilly shirt (or jabot), a coat with large cuffs, and a club wig; presumably an employee of a bank
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., For an earlier state without numbering, see no. 4707 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male costume: Large jabot shirts -- Coat with large buttons and large cuffs -- Quill pens., and First of three plates on leaf 94.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act April 17th, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Bankers, Hairstyles, Wigs, and Pens
"An elderly man stands in profile to the left, holding a looped tricorne in his left hand. He wears a small wig and a buttoned coat, with buckled shoes, his dress being plain, neat, and old-fashioned. He is William Fletcher (1739-1826), banker and bookseller of Oxford, Mayor of Oxford in 1782, 1796, and 1809."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Oxford bankers -- Mayor of Oxford., Leaf 48 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.1 cm, on sheet 30.9 x 25.5 cm.
"An elderly man stands in profile to the left, holding a looped tricorne in his left hand. He wears a small wig and a buttoned coat, with buckled shoes, his dress being plain, neat, and old-fashioned. He is William Fletcher (1739-1826), banker and bookseller of Oxford, Mayor of Oxford in 1782, 1796, and 1809."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Oxford bankers -- Mayor of Oxford.
"Portrait of Sir William Forbes (Banker) with inscription "The Good Shall Mourn A Brother - All A Friend" (obverse) (obverse)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably from: A seris of original portraits and caricature etching by the late John Kay (1842), v. ii, no. 145, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Portrait of Sir William Forbes (Banker) with inscription "The Good Shall Mourn A Brother - All A Friend" (obverse) (obverse),"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877), v. i., Numbered '76' in the lower left corner of image., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A huge pot rests directly on a fierce fire from blazing bank-notes. The scene is outside the Bank of England, the façade being on the extreme right. From it porters are carrying huge stacks of 'Notes' to add to the flames. The pot is inscribed 'Bank Pot' [twice], and 'Cash Payments at the Bottom of this Pot', where it is badly cracked owing to the fire. The pot is filled with Bank Directors, whose heads and arms emerge. They shriek: "I am in a Stew"; "I am sure the Pots Crackd," and "Take care it don't Break." A fashionably dressed man ascends a ladder leaning against the pot (right); he shouts to those inside "have you found the Gold." The fire is being stirred up by (?) Peel; Vansittart, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, uses a mace to push the man up the ladder. Huge clouds of smoke ascend from the fire covering much of the design; they are inscribed 'Smoke' and 'Cash Payments Smoke'. Two spectators stand on the left, watching the hurly-burly. One, a 'cit', says: "There's a pretty Kettle of Fish." The other, a countryman in a smock, answers: "Lord bless you they ban't Fish they be all paper"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Directors in a stew
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "356" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., and Leaf 68 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pub. June 22, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Bank of England., Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
