The interior of a poor wooden house, a parson's family of four gather around a table covered in a tablecloth worn with holes. They are eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone; his wife (left) nurses the youngest child. Behind her on the wall are two shelves of books above which hangs a bird in a birdcage. To her left, the curtains around the canopy bed are also torn. A small cat (foreground) looks up at the parson. On the floor beside the parson's chair lies a sheaf of papers with the title "Charity sermon".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "481" in lower left corner., No. 24 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 Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Canopy beds, Birdcages, Breast feeding, Cats, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, and Poverty
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Companion print to: A sufferer for decency., Temporary local subject terms: Barber shops -- Wig blocks -- Basins -- Soap -- Flat iron., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis above armorial shield
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior; Patients, psychiatric., and Trimmed and mounted.
In seven scenes in a design of two tiers, citizens dispute the oppressive fees imposed by a zealous tax collector who taxes bugs, pets, a bulbous nose and a runny nose, corns on a foot, and a man's skin. In the scene on the upper right, the tax collector penalizes a man whom he accuses of evading tax as he defecates in a bush
Alternative Title:
Taxes as they will be!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank by Krumbhaar., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Black people, Birds, Birdcages, Cats, Defecation, Dogs, Servants, Single women, and Tax payers
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on the ground. Through the door on the right, a fat older man sits on a stool, smoking his pipe as he looks up at another pretty girl. On the wall hangs his gun and game; above them hangs a bird in a cage
Alternative Title:
Bachelor's fare, bread cheese and kisses
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "309" has been replaced, date following artist's signature has been altered from "1813" to "1818," and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12400 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "285" in upper right corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 253-4., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 350 x 247 mm., and Hand-colored.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on the ground. Through the door on the right, a fat older man sits on a stool, smoking his pipe as he looks up at another pretty girl. On the wall hangs his gun and game; above them hangs a bird in a cage
Alternative Title:
Bachelor's fare, bread cheese and kisses
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "309" has been replaced, date following artist's signature has been altered from "1813" to "1818," and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12400 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "285" in upper right corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 253-4., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on the ground. Through the door on the right, a fat older man sits on a stool, smoking his pipe as he looks up at another pretty girl. On the wall hangs his gun and game; above them hangs a bird in a cage
Alternative Title:
Bachelor's fare, bread cheese and kisses
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "309" has been replaced, date following artist's signature has been altered from "1813" to "1818," and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12400 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "285" in upper right corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 253-4., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 95 in volume 4.
"One of a set of eight plates, No. 7 (not mentioned by Grego) being missing, all having the same signatures. They may have been intended to burlesque Wheatley's 'Cries' (1793-7), from which they appear to derive. [The subjects are different from those of Wheatley, and there is no element of copying, but the group, with sentimental or humorous incident and architectural background, was Wheatley's innovation on the traditional single figure representing the 'Cries of London'. Cf. W. Roberts, 'The Cries of London', 1934, p. 12.] A ragged man, with traps of various patterns slung round him, and a trap in each hand, offers his wares to an old man (left) who looks from his bulk or stall, on which are a bird in a wicker cage and a rabbit in a hutch. A little boy and girl, hand in hand, stare intently at the rabbit. A dog snarls at two rats in one of the traps. A woman looks down from a casement window over the pent-house roof of the stall. In the background are a church spire and the old gabled houses characteristic of the slums of St. Giles and Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint border on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 31 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., State with border removed., and Double window-mounted to 34 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Children, Dogs, Houses, Men, Mousetraps, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Rabbits, Rats, and Street vendors