"A grotesquely ugly old maid, wearing pattens, walks preceded by a small poodle, clipped in an exaggeration of the French manner, and followed by a black foot-boy in livery, who holds on a skewer a lump of 'Cat's Meat'. He carries an umbrella under his arm. Her dress is blown back against her skinny form; her hands are in a large muff, and she wears a fur tippet over a tight bodice defining shoulders, round to deformity. Her profile is hideously sub-human. She walks with a fixed stare, not looking at a half-naked beggar (right) with a patch over one eye and supported on a crutch who holds out his hat for alms. Behind is a blank wall, above which are a church spire and old-fashioned gabled houses."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., For a later state see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 11973., A 1811 edition described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. ii, p. 237., and Mounted to 49 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Beggars, Dogs, Servants, and Single women
Volume 2, page 90. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A friar standing in a landscape, a walking stick in his left hand and his hat down by his side in his right, a sack slung over his shoulder; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Second published state, after publication line altered"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.823., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale, penetrating, free from all common place ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the Earth, it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this world. Vide Sterne., Illustration to Laurence Sterne's A sentimental journey through France and Italy., and Mounted on page 90 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published March 8th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Leaf 80. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of five clergymen over-indulging with food and drink in the Vestry room. They sit around a large table drinking, one member, with his foot bound with gout sits with his back to the viewer. On the left a footman kicks away a family of beggars from the door and towards the Workhouse, a sign for which may be seen in the background. A line of more malnourished beggars can be seen outside the window of the Vestry."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810639., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 58., and On leaf 80 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hat
Alternative Title:
Scraps thankfully received
Description:
Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom., and For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.
"Portrait of Bampfylde Moore Carew, half-length, standing, directed towards right, facing and looking towards front, with chin-length hair, wearing a tattered coat and a neckerchief, holding a little dog in his right arm, the elbow resting on a table, looking over his shoulder towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below image: From the original picture in the possession of Thos. Carew Esqr. of Crowcombe in Somersetshire., Date and place of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1267., and For further information, consult library staff.
A poor, sad-faced woman in ragged clothes wearing a scarf around her head, carries a small child strapped to her back
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reduced copy in reverse of no. 69 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
Title devised by cataloger., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Byrne, Charles, 1761-1783,, Cranstoun, Geordie, active 1784,, Fairholme, George, active 1730-1800,, McGowan, John, -1805,, and Watson, Alexander,
"Eldon as a street-beggar kneels on both knees on straw placed on paving-stones, wearing a cap resembling those worn by butchers and the rags of a Chancellor's gown over tattered breeches. He supports himself by a staff, and holds out his short powdered wig. Beside him (left) lies an empty and dilapidated bag inscribed The Old Bagg [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12883]. He looks down with a gloomy scowl, and from his closed lips rise the words: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man [cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 13991, 16236]--vide beggars petition, Tricked out of Work by a Soldier. Round his neck is tied a placard reaching below the waist, and inscribed: Pity a poor Old Man out of Place, at the age of 78 [76], and though extremely anxious, for employment, disappointed in, all his expectations of procuring the Same. His pension is only 4.000 P A [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10714] and not a Dinner has been dressed in his house within the memory of man! He has a wife to support, and a Son to provide for, who holds only Eight Appointments! Beside him an emaciated dog stands on its hindlegs holding a begging-dish, with a piteous expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
To a benevolent public
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Charles Fox, with a blindfold signed, "East India Bill," is lead by a small dog with Lord North's face toward a building that may be a debtor's prison. In his left hand, he holds a long spiked staff topped with crown
Alternative Title:
King of the beggars
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22d March 1784 by Wm. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
East India Company, Politics and government, Beggars, and Dogs
