Parson Adams and Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fourth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 130., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Lawyers: country justice -- Domestic servants: cooks -- Furniture: tables -- Slipcovered chairs -- Smoking: pipes -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Drinking glasses -- Night watchmen -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sixth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 233., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Ducking -- Practical jokes: ducking -- Clergy: parsons -- Tubs -- Furniture: chairs -- Stools -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fifth in a series of 8 illustrations to Henry Fielding's The Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... from the 1792 Edinburgh edition, p. 219., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Clergy: parsons -- Dogs: hunting dogs -- Hunters., and Mounted to 20 x 27 cm.
Title from caption below image., Temporary local subject terms: Sports: Angling -- Boats: Punts -- Twickenham: Eel Pie Island -- Furniture: Chairs in punt -- Punting on River Thames., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 24, Old Bond Street
"Fox (right) kneels in profile to the left, firing point-blank from a blunderbuss at a post which roughly suggests George III in back view: it is surmounted by a short wig and a hunting-cap decorated with the royal arms; round a protuberance simulating posteriors a circle is drawn with a bull's-eye at which Fox is firing. He is much caricatured, with large head and short fat legs; he wears a slouch hat with the inscription 'Ca-Ira', and has a pleased and sinister smile. Behind him Priestley (left) and Sheridan (right) face each other in profile with conspiratorial smiles. Sheridan is ramming the barrel of a pistol, saying, "Well! this new Game is delightful! - O Heavens! if I could but once Pop the Post!!! then you and me, - Dear Brother P, - Would sing with glee, - Full merrily Ca-ira! Ca-ira! Ca-ira!" Priestley holds out to him two books: "on the Glory of Revolution and on the Folly of Religion & Order", saying, "Here's plenty of Wadding for to ram down the Charge with, to give it force, & to make a loud Report.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Swedes practising at a post
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden, March 1792 -- Guns: blunderbuss -- Pistol -- Targets: George III as a shooting target -- Toadstools -- Arms: royal arms -- Literature: books by Joseph Priestley satirized -- Music: c̦a ira., and Watermark: Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Title etched below image., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate signed on verso in contemporary hand: John Smith; window mounted to 23 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. & J. Stratfords, No. 112 Holborn Hill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Handguns, Lingerie, and Clothing & dress
"A pugilistic encounter between Pitt and Thurlow, who is seated on the Woolsack. Pitt, stripped to the waist, stands defiantly in profile to the right, saying, "I'll soon kick you from your stool you old hard hearted, brow beating monster". Thurlow, contemptuous of his opponent, sits confidently in shirt and breeches, arms outstretched, saying, "Afraid of him, b------t me, a dried eel skin! an ill shap'd figure of one, b------t me! no, no, I've got some bottom but he's got none" [cf. BMSat 8070]. Pitt's backer is the King, who stoops forward, hands on knees, saying, "Ward off that blow, Billy, never mind his looks, at him again." Behind the Chancellor is the Queen, holding the mace and the bag of the Great Seal; she says, "He never gave a good stroke in his life, dont be afraid of him". Behind her, and on the extreme right, appears the head and shoulders of the Devil, saying, "My Pupil will beat for a Million". Behind the King and on the extreme left is Dundas, holding his nose, and saying, "I have not smelt such a stink since I left Edinburgh! Somebody has dropp'd a daisy I'm sure.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Attack at the Woolsack
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue, Temporary local subject terms: Fighting -- Devils., and Mounted to 38 x 52 cm.
"Groups of dancers practise figures of a cotillion in a ballroom with a small musician's gallery supported on pillars, in which are an oboist, two violinists, and a harpist, playing intently and paying no attention to a man who stands below, with outstretched arms, shouting directions. The room is lit by candles in wall brackets. In the centre of the balcony is an oval medallion: a man plays a lyre and three nude nymphs dance. Several of the dancers hold papers of directions headed 'Cotilion', with a description of figures '1' to '8'. The scene is one of confusion. On the left persons stand inspecting the dancers. One man only is dressed as a blood of the period with cropped hair, high-collared waistcoat, 'hanging collar', and long breeches (see British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c). He stands (left) superciliously inspecting the dancers through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue and The pictures in the image amplify the subject: Nymphs dancing to music of lyre
Alternative Title:
Rehearsing a cotillion
Description:
Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated on lower edge with partial loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on modern secondary support., Watermark., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Emotions: rage -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Cardinal Wolsey -- Great Seal -- Maces: Chancellor's mace -- Fireplaces -- Writing materials -- Government officials: chancellor -- Dismissals: Thurlow's dismissal from Chancery, 1792., and Watermark: Strassbourg lily on crowned armorial shield.
Publisher:
Pub. May 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Notorious rakes and gamblers ride or run furiously towards rays descending from a sun in the upper left corner of the design inscribed 'Chance'; its centre, a segment of which is visible, is composed of the letters on an 'E.O.' (roulette) table (cf. British Museum Satires No. 5928). The foremost pair are the Duke of Clarence and the Prince of Wales; the Duke, slightly ahead, wears a chamber-pot on his head marked with an anchor (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7909) and sits behind Mrs. Jordan, who cries, "Push away! that's your sort!" He cries, "Straight Sailing! that's your sort!" Both the horses have human heads; that of the Duke says, "I'm the Sort for Leading; that of the Prince is Fox." The Prince's hat with feathers and the motto 'Ich dien' flies from his head, two women sit behind him; the one holding his waist (? Mrs. Crouch) says, "No Jealous Fitz - that's your sort!" The other, seated behind her, holds the end of the Prince's shirt, she has a large fox's brush and is probably Mrs. Armistead; she says, "Well done Charley! That's your sort!" The Prince says, "I'm the sort for a Widow - she's done over!" Mrs. Fitzherbert has fallen from the horse into a stream and holds out her arms towards the Prince. From the water emerges a post inscribed 'Styx', a bridge or culvert beside it is 'Hazard'. Behind this group the Duke of York runs forward, wearing a hat made of playing-cards surmounted by a teetotum inscribed 'ABC....' In his right hand he holds out a dice-box inscribed 'Oat - ' shaking from it two dice inscribed 'la' and 'nds' (he had recently bought Oatlands); in his left is a tennis racquet. He wears regimentals; the ribbon across his shoulder is formed of playing-cards; at his back is a knapsack full of 'Tennis Balls' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7903) which resemble guineas. He says, "I'm the sort! for running out!" For his gaming see British Museum Satires No. 7301 (5), &c. Just behind him ride three bloods with cropped hair, wearing the high hats, long breeches, and coats with shawl collars hanging away from the neck which such young men affected (see British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c). The one nearest the spectator rides a horse with a bandage over his eyes inscribed 'Lottery Hack'; he looks up, regardless of the fact that he is riding into a pit, and points with his long whip to a castle resting on clouds inscribed 'Illegal Insurance' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7750); he says, "That's your sort - I'm in for it - I shall do the deep Ones!" The other two shout, "Go it! Dam'me! that 's your sort!" and "Dam Trade! Life and a Racer! that 's your sort." Behind this group is a couple on a galloping horse: a stout jovial woman wearing breeches rides astride, waving her whip, behind her sits an anxious-looking elderly citizen, wearing petticoats. He says, "We're the wrong side of Temple Bar, my dear, we are only the sort to be laughed at"; she answers, "Peace good Mr Jerry Candle-wick, its life! and Life and the Breeches! thats the sort." By their horse's head is a signpost inscribed 'Rotten Row', with a pointing hand inscribed 'Hoyle' (on Whist), the vertical post inscribed 'Crim. con.' The last rider is a stout woman, probably Mrs. Hobart (noted for her faro-table, see British Museum Satires No. 8167), on a rocking-horse inscribed 'Faro'; she carries on her arm a wicker cage containing pigeons and says, "Unplucked Pidgeons! that's the sort." In the foreground on the extreme right an elderly Jew sits on a bank watching the mad race with a smile; he says, "50 per Cent! dats de sort! if dey ride to de Devil, dey leave coot Security behind, Ah! Security! dot's de sort." Near him is a card house; at his feet is the Knave of Clubs. In the front of the design and near the Duke of York are other playing cards (left to right): four aces, the two of diamonds, King of Hearts, and (?) Queen of Diamonds, the last two having some resemblance to George III and Queen Charlotte."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Dent
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Crouch, Anna Maria, 1763-1805
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Social life and customs, Horses, and Playing cards
