"A domestic interior. A fat and ugly citizen, wearing old-fashioned dress with a small unpowdered wig, stands on the hearth-rug (right), his back to the fire; he is meditatively reading the 'Gazette', headed: 'New Taxes', and 'Bankru[pts]', his left hand plunged in his breeches pocket. Behind him on the chimney-piece is a pair of scales for weighing guineas (see BMSat 5128). His wife, bald-headed, ugly, and stout, leans back in an arm-chair, her hands raised in protest at an unpowdered wig which a grotesquely thin and ragged French hairdresser (left) proffers obsequiously. A fashionably dressed young man with cropped hair looks with imbecile surprise at his reflection in an oval mirror over the chimney-piece. His mouth is half-covered by his swathed neckcloth, he wears a short spencer (see BMSat 8192) over a sparrow-tail coat, and half-boots. A young woman with over-dressed but unpowdered (red) hair looks with dismay at her reflection in a mirror which she has snatched from the wall. On the wall is an oval bust portrait of 'Charles 2d', his tiny head framed in an immense powdered wig."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frugal family saving the guinea
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Charles II in a powdered wig -- Newspapers: 'Gazette' -- Male dress: spencers -- Sparrow-tailed coats.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 10th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Title etched below image., Title above image: Parisian dresses for 1797., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, 1797 -- Fashion, 1797 -- Jewelry -- Quizzing glasses -- Walking staves -- Bludgeons., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 7, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Earrings, Hand lenses, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Lord Barrymore and his two brothers are represented as figurines on the shelf of a chimney-piece, along which the title is etched. Each stands on a circular pedestal inscribed: (left to right) 'A Hell-gate Blackguard', 'A Newgate Scrub', and 'A Cripplegate Monster', the three brothers being known as Newgate, Hellgate, and Cripplegate. In the centre Barrymore, as Scrub, is seated as in Act iii of Farquhar's play, when in conference with Archer: dressed in livery and wearing an apron, his hands on his knees (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6221). On the left Augustus Barry, stripped to the waist and wearing boxing-gloves with a high hat, stands in the attitude of a pugilist, which his extreme thinness makes ridiculous. On the right Henry Barry grins and capers, holding a toy whirligig. He wears the fashionable dress of the bloods of the moment: high hat, long tight breeches reaching almost to the ankle, short wrinkled top-boots with enormous spurs. His coat is slipping off his shoulders and fastened by one button (a caricature of the fashion); all have cropped hair, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c. Over Barrymore's head is the lower part of a bust-portrait of the Prince of Wales in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eighteen lines of verse etched below image: To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mantelpieces -- Pugilism -- Toys: whirligig -- Spurs -- Literature: allusion to George Farquhar's The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 3 -- Barrymore, Richard, 7th Earl, 'Newgate' -- Barrymore, Henry, 8th Earl, 'Cripplegate' -- Barry, Augustus, 'Hellgate' -- Prince of Wales's circle -- Pictures amplifying subject: Prince of Wales'e portrait., and Mounted to 36 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Barrymore, Richard Barry, Earl of, 1769-1793, Barrymore, Henry Barry, Earl of, 1770-1823, and Barry, Augustus, 1773-1818
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Chimneypieces, Figurines, Pedestals, Boxers (Sports), and Toys
"A short fat man, much caricatured, stands directed slightly to the right, looking at the spectator, his fingers spread in a deprecatory gesture. He is grotesquely dressed in an attempt to follow the fashion. His long breeches reach almost to his ankles, and resemble trousers. He wears a bulky ill-fitting spencer (see BMSat 8192) over his coat. His hat is round with a curved brim, his swathed neckcloth terminates in a bow. His short striped waistcoat does not reach below the ends of his neckcloth. From it hangs a ribbon in place of a watch and seals. Under his left arm is a bludgeon. Beside him (right) is a small dog. Beneath the title: 'Did you ever see such a Fool as my Wife has made of me?'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Variant state, with artist's name and expansion of printseller's address added to the plate. Cf. No. 8760 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1, 1795, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
A satire on women's fashion. Three women stand outside and strike poses that show off their attire: dresses that expose their breasts and/or legs, and extravagant headdresses adorned with pearls or large feathers
Alternative Title:
Lunatics out of Bedlam!
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's street address and date of publication have been mostly removed from end of imprint statement; month and day of publication from Alexander., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Clothing & dress, Women, Fans (Accessories), and Feathers
"A satire on high-waisted dresses. A lady (left) stands holding an infant in a long robe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8897). She wears a round hat of masculine shape trimmed with three small feathers. Her dress hangs in straight folds from a line across, or above, her breast; behind appears the end of a train. Beside her stands a lady in back view: a transparent curtain veil hangs from her small hat. Her dress and a loose train held over the right arm hang from the shoulders. A stone wall forms a dark background to the light figures. See British Museum Satires No. 8896, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
A lady sits in an armchair, her head titled back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose high-waisted dress, giving the appearance of pregnancy, her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. Long locks of hair escaped from the turban, and she holds a fan in her right hand. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom edge., and Manuscript note below image identifies the sitter as Lady Charlotte Cambell.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 22d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
"A satire on high collars and voluminous neck-cloths. A good-looking young man stands full face, holding out in his (gloved) left hand a round hat and bludgeon. His right hand is behind his back and under his coat, which is open to display a double-breasted waistcoat with wide lapels, within which is another collar and a swathed neckcloth tied in a bow. The high collar of his tail-coat adds to the numerous swathings round his neck. His (powdered) hair hangs loosely on the collar of his coat. He wears striped stockings and low shoes with rosettes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: "A back view of the cape.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: neck cloth.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1792?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 17 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two fashionably dressed poets sit at a table ladling a drink into small glasses. Twelve lines of verse below design: No more shall we sneak, or fearfully speak, lest coffee house critics should snap off each nose, for all shall be witty, ingenious and pretty, the bays are our own, since we've got some new cloathes!! What tho! we want coin, let us never repine (tis one of a bards hereditary woes) so I'll fill up each glass, then quick let them pass, and a fig for the rest, since we've got some new clothes!
Alternative Title:
New clothed poets!!
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Date inscribed in graphite pencil below image: 1792., Attributed to Woodward., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Coffeehouses, Eating & drinking, and Poets
