"An obese butcher (three-quarter length), in profile to the left, leans back from the waist, sucking a long pipe held in his right hand. His ill-fitting wig is perched on a bald head. He wears apron and oversleeves, a steel hanging from his waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Dutchmen -- Tools: butchers' steel.
Title from item., Printmaker's name mostly illegible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in almost complete loss of imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sailors -- Cannons -- Trunks -- Tankards -- Reference to Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson, 1758-1805 -- Reference to Solomon, King of Israel, 1015-975 B.C.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: gaming room -- Manners: gaming room manners -- Gambling: card playing -- Lighting: chandeliers -- Drunkards -- Window curtains -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms.
Title from item., Part of the original imprint to the left of the title burnished from plate but legible., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: doctors -- Trades: undertakers -- Male costume: undertakers' hat -- Death., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Pub. May 25, 1795[?] by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Two lawyers, tied to the backs of skeletons on horseback and facing backwards, are carried to hell by two skeletons whipping their two skeletal horses. Two other skeletons on skeletal horses can be seen in the background. In the center of the image is a large sign post "To Hell" pointing to the left where is shown the flames of hell
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
"Interior with a man kissing the hand of a woman, his staff and hat at his feet, to the surprise of another man opening the door at left; trimmed to image and pasted with inscription separately below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to Act 1, Scene 1 of The Mayor of Garratt by Samuel Foote., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- 'Cits' -- Pictures amplifying subject., Mounted to 33 x 35 cm., and Part of the sheet below image cut off and pasted to bottom of design, overlaping the image
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel state, admittance one shilling. Folios lent., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Fencibles' uniforms -- Military: soldiers as rats -- Food: cheese as fortifications -- Suffolk -- Suffolk Fencibles., Watermark: center of sheet., and Booksellers' stamps: S.W. Fores
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st 1795 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A lean and elderly virago (three-quarter length) with straggling hair, wearing a handkerchief which scarcely covers her breast, stands in profile to the left, glaring fiercely. Her arms are bare to the elbow; she holds her thumb and second finger together, her left hand is on her hip. Etched below her are her words: "What do you know, you B-? -every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?" Her profile is that of Lady Cecilia Johnston as caricatured by Gillray. She had a bitter tongue ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., Three lines of text below image: What do you know, you B-? Every one knows I am a - & a -, and setting that aside who can say black to my eye?, Watermark: J Whatman?, and Mounted to 17 x 13 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
"Three-quarter length portrait of a plainly dressed man standing in profile to the right, holding a purse in his right hand. He says: "I will hold you Ten Guineas of it". He resembles caricatures of Lord Lauderdale."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fool's eloquence
Description:
Title etched above image., By Gillray using pseudonym 'A.S.' See British Museum catalogue., One of a set of eight satirical portraits, each issued separately., One line of text below image: I will hold you ten guineas of it., and Mounted to 19 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
