Depicts Orpheus being pushed out of Hades by a demon, though an arch composed of grotesque creatures. Orpheus is shown as an elderly fiddler with a wooden leg, while his counterpart, an elderly unpleasant-looking woman, is led by another demon in the opposite direction. Pluto and Proserpine are seated on thrones in the background laughing at the scene
Alternative Title:
Orpheus and Eurydice
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Jany. 16, 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Orpheus (Greek mythological character) and Eurydice (Greek mythological character)
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Peg legs, Thrones, Monsters, Demons, and Myths
"A close-up view of the heads of a man and woman asleep in bed, with their arms round each other. They have grotesquely long and turned-up noses. Similar in character to British Museum satires nos. 11128-30."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Octob. 1811 by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur St.
A fashionably dressed woman with elaborate coiffure decorated with ribbons and ostrich plumes, holds a whip in the left hand and reins in the right, as she rides on the back of a corpulent man with horns. He leans on his walking stick, the reins in his mouth, regarding the viewer with a doleful expression. Beneath the title, a quote from 1 Corinthians 7:4: "The husband hath not power over his own body - but the wife."
Alternative Title:
Scripture fulfilled
Description:
Title from item., Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?, and Date conjectured by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Cuckolds, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
A pretty young woman sits on the knee of an officer (left) wearing a gorget and cocked hat. She looks over her shoulder to speak to her elderly husband who leaves the room (right) supported on crutches: "Pray my Dear go and speak to Sir John in the mean while the Captain & I will push the point in this Quarter." He answers: "I'll go this momment. now is the Golden instant so dont be Idle but exert yourselves to have the affair well done & quickly." Over the doorway is a stag's head with antlers. The captain says: "Thanks, Sir. I trust your good Lady will Succeed in her Undertaking
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., State with street address '20 Strand' burnished from plate., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 24, 1802 by T. Williamson, London
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Couples, Horns (Anatomy), Military uniforms, British, Sofas, and Spouses
Five couples, finely dressed men and ladies at an outdoor luncheon party are stampeded by bees. Confusion is made worse by one man who falls backwards from a bench, which he tilts up, clutching the table-cloth and dragging over a bowl of punch. One of the ladies (left) has fainted and is being revived by a gentleman who pours a glass of water on her face. The dog on the right barks at the confusion
Alternative Title:
Picnic party disturbed by a swarm of bees
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to G. Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of second part of imprint., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: It is not that delicate frame ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1797.
A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander, and are making for the Point
Alternative Title:
Coxswain's carousal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
An older man, representing Rev. Madan, is attacked by two women, one of them pulling on his coat and indicating a crying boy standing next to her, the other grasping his wig with her left hand and ready to strike him with a small stool she is holding in her right. Her right foot is propped on a volume entitled "Thelyphthora," his treatise advocating polygamy. Behind her, a third woman is picking his pocket. On the left two women are engaged in a fight; on the right a couple is kissing behind a screen on which is displayed an image of a duel, above it is an image of a prisoner in chains and next to it a body hanging from the gibbet
Alternative Title:
Polygamy displayed and Doctor Madman restored to his senses
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Decr. 1780 by the author
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Madan, Martin, 1726-1790.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Polygamy, Fighting, Children, Couples, and Clothing & dress
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse below title: Cast my love thine eyes aroud [sic] view thine swain upon the ground ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1799.
Publisher:
Published at Akermann's [sic] Gallery, No. 101 Strand, London
