"An exciseman stands in profile to the left, his lower lip protruding grotesquely; his chest is much thrown out, right hand thrust under his coat, left arm behind his back. From his pocket protrudes an 'Excise Book'. His ink-bottle is attached to his coat; in it is a pen; another pen projects from his cocked hat. A dog (right) befouls his leg."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Excisemen -- Excise books -- Ink bottles., and Watermark: 1814.
George IV, wearing a coat and top hat, punches a plainly dressed Caroline in the face on a dirt street in front of buildings; blood gushes from her nose as she falls backwards from the blow. Lady Conyngham, elegantly dressed, stands behind the King and converses with a soldier on the left edge of the design. Another man, dressed as royalty in a fur-lined cape, stands in a doorway on the right, angrily pointing and yelling at a woman; a sign posted next to the doorway advertises "The Life of King Henry VIII." A dog runs in the foreground on the right, its collar reading "John Bull."
Alternative Title:
A Royal example!, or, A Westminster blackguard illusing his wife, Westminster blackguard illusing his wife, and Westminster blackguard ill-using his wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed twice; "Marks fect." is etched within bottom center portion of image, and "Marks" is etched beneath lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark (mostly trimmed)., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 62 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "George IV," and "Caroline" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; a mostly illegible note, with the date "1820" at the end, is written in pencil in lower right.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Benbow, St. Clemends [sic] Church Yard, Starnd [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Family violence, Mistresses, Soldiers, Doors & doorways, and Dogs
Hogarth shows Sganarelle coming up behind his wife, who is admiring a miniature portrati of a young man which she had innocently discovered on the ground. Sganarelle is making the cuckold's sign with his right hand over his head
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Date based on other work by Van der Gucht., Quotation from book I, line 203 of Virgil's Aeneid etched below image: Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. Virg., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Scots opera / 171., and On page 52 in volume 1.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 7th December 1772.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 79. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family scene of barren discomfort. An elderly man (left) in profile to the right sits in a high-backed wooden arm-chair asleep. Next him his wife sits asleep, her hands clasped, her left elbow supported on a table. At the table sits a boy asleep over a book. On the right, very upright on the edge of her chair, sits a middle-aged woman, wearing a low bodice, her hair dressed high. In the foreground a dog and cat are fighting. The room is lit by one guttering candle which stands on the table. A window and a door are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 79 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 7th December 1772.
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.12.07.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 79. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A family scene of barren discomfort. An elderly man (left) in profile to the right sits in a high-backed wooden arm-chair asleep. Next him his wife sits asleep, her hands clasped, her left elbow supported on a table. At the table sits a boy asleep over a book. On the right, very upright on the edge of her chair, sits a middle-aged woman, wearing a low bodice, her hair dressed high. In the foreground a dog and cat are fighting. The room is lit by one guttering candle which stands on the table. A window and a door are indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 239 x 295 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of image from top edge.
"Full-face portrait of a man walking to right. and looking to his right. His right hand is in his coat pocket, his left thrust in his waistcoat. He wears a looped hat, his hair or wig is in a long queue bound with black ribbon. He wears a sword, laced coat, ruffled shirt and cravat, low buckled shoes. A dog of greyhound type walks in front. He resembles portraits of Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl Temple (1711-79)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., For a later state, see no. 4994 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly accorg. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, and Nobility
Leaf 68. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Full-face portrait of a man walking to right and looking to his right. His right hand is in his coat pocket, his left thrust in his waistcoat. He wears a looped hat, his hair or wig is in a long queue bound with black ribbon. He wears a sword, laced coat, ruffled shirt and cravat, low buckled shoes. A dog of greyhound type walks in front. He resembles portraits of Richard Grenville-Temple, 1st Earl Temple (1711-79)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- The Temple -- ?Greyhound -- Queue wig bound with ribbon -- Little cocked hat., and Second of three plates on leaf 68.
Volume 2, page 35. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An organ grinder turning angrily to left at the sight of a soldier placing his hand on the arm of a beautiful girl from his troupe playing the mechanical organ at left, his dog at his ankles reflecting his sentiment by growling at another at the soldiers feet, behind at left a woman beating a drum and on the right a young girl plays a triangle, two friars stand behind, ogling the organ player, buildings and a church on the street behind; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 35 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 20th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Street musicians, Organ grinders, Drums (Musical instruments), Soldiers, Monks, and Dogs
A view of a barber's shop with images of customers receiving various stages of services: shaving, hair cuts, care of wigs. Two dogs fight over a wig in the foreground
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Copy of no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., No. 1 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
