"Pitt, very thin and elongated, poises on one toe on a tight-rope; he holds a long balancing-pole in both hands, on one end (left) sits the Sultan, on the other (right) Catherine II. The Turk, whose end of the pole is slightly the lower, clutches it desperately, saying, "My dear Billy, do help me to make another push, & I'll give you - half of my Seraglio". The fat Empress sits with her hands on her hips; she wears a crown, in her right hand is a sceptre, in her left a paper inscribed 'New Russian Conquests'. She says "Both Billy - the Flat, & yourself may do your worst you circumcised dog! get me down if you can! - I'll match you all, & swallow Thousands more!" Pitt stands with his head raised arrogantly in profile to the right; he says, "The old Hag cannot move me, & Seraglios cannot bribe me: - I have nothing to do with these matters - my Pole will always remain level - ". On the ground beneath the rope stands a dwarfish Sheridan (right) in profile to the left, grotesquely caricatured as a clown; he wears trousers and long sleeves which cover his hands and hang down. He says: "O! the Devil! the Devil! The Cow leaps over the Moon! And if I could once get up on the Rope, Lord! I'd fill my Pockets soon: - I mean, I would soon bring her down: fol der lol, fol der ol"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Posterity of the immortal Chatham turned posture master
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with added plate numbering. Cf. No. 7846 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Date of printing based on that of Bohn's Suppressed plates., Plate probably from: Bohn, ii, 8, Suppressed plates., Text following title: Vide Sherridans speech., Sheet trimmed to plate mark, and the number "8" has likely been erased from sheet., and Temporary local subject terms: Circus performances: walking on rope -- Allusion to Russian conquests -- Clowns -- Allusion to Sheridan's speech in the House of Commons, 15 April, 1791 -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Caption title from ballad: The Barber's wedding. The text of the ballad is printed in letterpress below the plate (plate mark 17.7 x 24.9 cm.)., Publisher's announcement at the bottom of sheet after imprint: ... where may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: barbers -- Barber shops -- Trades: fishwives -- Fish baskets -- Public houses -- Drunkenness -- Pictures amplifying subject: playbill for Romeo and Juliet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from caption below images., Design consists of twenty-seven figures in three horizontal rows, with a caption etched above each figure., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Manners -- Robes -- Bowing -- Learning -- Students -- Preaching., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr. 8, 1791, by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
"A ragged cobbler (not caricatured) wearing an apron stands full face on his low bench in the attitude of a preacher. He holds out a dilapidated shoe in one hand, a strap in the other. Behind him (right) are listeners: a stolid man and two elderly and agitated crones. On the bench behind him are his tools; beside it (left) is a tub in which a shoe is being soaked, a hammer, &c. Beneath are etched in two columns twenty lines of verse beginning: 'Behold the Man of Whom 'tis True The Mending Trade, He doth Persue'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Two columns of verse below image: behold the man of whom tis true ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: cobblers -- Preachers -- Cobbler's tools.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1791, by S.F. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Cornwallis, [It has been suggested that he is William Monson (1760-1807), then serving under Cornwallis, but as a captain in the 52nd he was not of sufficient note in England for caricature and Cornwallis's star removes all doubt of his identity. 'Monsoon' is not a pun, see BMSat 7938.] mounted on an ass, flees terror-stricken from a fortess (right) from behind the battlements of which the grinning Tipu Sultan, holding a sabre, urinates a devastating stream upon the fleeing British soldiers (right). Two cannon belch fire and smoke from loopholes. Cornwallis, wearing his Garter star, gallops past the bodies of dead soldiers, he drops his sabre and his reins, holding up his arms; his hat flies off. His ass is muzzled by a long nose-bag."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Retreat from Seringapatam
Description:
Title from text in top part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of text below image: "Whats the matter, Falstaff." What's the matter! Here be four of us, have taken a city this morning. ..., and Temporary local subject terms: India -- Wars: 3rd Mysore War, 1790-1792 -- Cornwallis's retreat from Seringapatam, December 1791 -- Newspapers: satire on Cornwallis's letter in Gazette, Dec. 2, 1791 -- Literature: altered quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4, 177 -- Military uniforms: general's uniform -- Soldiers -- Flags: Union Jack -- Fortresses -- Gun salutes -- Weapons: swords -- Asses -- Nose-bags.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805 and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
"A large bed, its head surmounted with the Royal Arms (sketchily burlesqued), and with loosely draped curtains, extends almost across the design. In it the Duke of Clarence lies asleep, Mrs. Jordan sits up with a rapt air, saying, "What pleasant Dreams I have "had To-night! methought I was in Paradise, upon a bed of Violets & Roses, "and the sweetest Husband by my side! . . ." [&c. &c] a quotation from Coffey's play 'The Devil to pay: or, the Wives metamorphosed'. Nell Jobson the cobbler's wife finds herself (temporarily) in the place of Sir John's lady. See Baker, 'Biog. Dram.', 1812, ii. 161. On a chair (left) are the Duke's naval coat and a pair of breeches; on a stool (right) a petticoat and pair of stays. Under the bed is a chamber-pot inscribed 'Public Jord[an] open to all Parties'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wife metamorphos'd, Wife metamorphosed, and Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eleven lines of quoted verse, in three columns, etched below image: "Ten thousand transports wait, to crown my happy state ...", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: royal beds -- Chairs -- Stools -- Female costume: corset -- Naval uniforms: Duke of Clarence's uniform -- Sleeping -- Expressions of speech: jordan -- Allusion to Richard Ford, ca 1759-1806, Mrs. Jordan's husband -- Literature: quotation from Charles Coffey's (d. 1745) The Devil To Pay, Or, The Wives Metamorphosed -- Chamber pots.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 24th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Eleven lines in 3 columns quoted below design: ten thousand transports wait ..., Numbered '19' in lower right corner of plate., Reissue of No. 7908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: royal beds -- Chairs -- Stools -- Female costume: corset -- Naval uniforms: Duke of Clarence's uniform -- Sleeping -- Expressions of speech: jordan -- Allusion to Richard Ford, ca 1759-1806, Mrs. Jordan's husband -- Literature: quotation from Charles Coffey's (d. 1745) The devil to pay, or, The wives metamorphosed.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 24th 1791 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
"Eight pairs of persons in conversation, arranged in two rows, words etched above the head of the speaker. The flatterer gains approval or material benefit from his (or her) words, however gross the flattery. Appearance, charm, judgement of horsemanship, literary merit, generosity (in a miser) are praised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., For possible later state with different imprint, see no. 8541 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Watermark: Finch.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 21st, 1791, by W. Maynard, printseller & frame-maker, No. 14, Tavistock Row, Covent Garden
"Lady Archer sits in profile to the right before her dressing-table, applying rouge to her cheek with a brush. Her notoriously painted cheek is blotched with drink. She is dressed for driving, wearing a coat of masculine cut, and a skirt which is short enough to show stockings above laced half-boots. A high-crowned hat trimmed with feathers is poised on her hair; on her vulture-like nose glasses are perched, her profile being reflected in the draped mirror. Through an open window (left) appears her high phaeton."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 37 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 29th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
