"Lady Buckinghamshire (left) and Lady Archer (right) stand side by side in the pillory, heads and hands closely confined, their heads in profile to the right, weeping angrily. Both wear tall feathers in their hair and large pendent ear-rings. Lady Buckinghamshire is forced to stand painfully on tip-toe, a short petticoat exposes her fat legs. On the front of the platform is a placard: 'Cure for Gambling Publish'd by Lord Kenyon in the Court of Kings Bench on May 9th 1796'. This is raised above the (freely sketched) heads of the crowd, with grinning upturned faces in the foreground. Eggs, a cat, &c. fly through the air; the pillory and the dresses of the victims are bespattered. On the right is a house with spectators in the windows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Pillories -- Jewelry: earrings -- Allusion to 'faro-banks' -- Cards: faro -- Reference to Lloyd Kenyon, Baron Kenyon, 1732-1802.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Cards: faro -- Gambling -- Pillory -- Mrs. Sturt, fl. 1796 -- Mrs. Concannon, fl. 1796., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. May 16, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Cards: faro -- Pillory -- Mrs. Sturt, fl. 1796 -- Mrs. Concannon, fl. 1796., Watermark: countermark E & P., and Printseller's stamp in the lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. May 16, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Way to make one pair of stockings do the business of two
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate on right side., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: 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: Male fashion: pantaloons -- Male costume: stockings., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
"A scene in Lady Jersey's bedroom. Lady Jersey as an old hag (cf. BMSat 8806) lies in a magnificent bed. Lord Jersey, carrying the Prince of Wales on his back, supports himself by resting his hands on the foot of the bed. The Prince, very fat in his famous Light Horse uniform (see BMSat 8800), wearing helmet, gloves, and spurred boots, and the Garter ribbon, holds Jersey's scraggy queue in the manner of a rein; he holds up two fingers, saying (as in BMSats 8809, 8816), "Buck! Buck! - how many Horns do I hold up?" Jersey, who is very thin, leers towards the Prince out of the corners of his eyes, saying, "E'en as many as you please!" Both are in profile to the right; the Prince's eyes are hidden by the brim of his helmet as in BMSat 8816. The Princess's coronet, with its triple plume, is conspicuous on a circular close-stool (left) which is decorated with a large 'J' and earl's coronet. On the wall above it, in an ornate oval frame, is a picture of Cupid piping to an old sow who dances on her hind-legs. The fringed pelmet of the bed is decorated with earl's coronets from which spring horns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: close-stools -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Cuckolds -- Symbols: coronets with horns -- Emblems: Princess of Wales's coronet -- Furnishing: bed curtain -- Military uniforms: Prince of Wales's Light Horse uniform -- Pictures amplifying subject: Cupid with an old sow -- Furnishings: carpets -- Obesity., and Mounted to 39 x 29 cm..
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
"A whole length portrait of the corpulent Prince Frederick William Charles of Wurtemberg, standing 'chapeau-bras' in profile to the right, wearing a ribbon; his right hand on his waistcoat, his left on the hilt of his sword. He has a very heavy double chin, thick lips, staring eye, high narrow head, and an expression of good-natured surprise."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketch'd at Wirtemberg
Description:
Title etched at top of image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 24th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Str
"A whole length portrait of the corpulent Prince Frederick William Charles of Wurtemberg, standing 'chapeau-bras' in profile to the right, wearing a ribbon; his right hand on his waistcoat, his left on the hilt of his sword. He has a very heavy double chin, thick lips, staring eye, high narrow head, and an expression of good-natured surprise."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition and "A later state with the same inscriptions. The contour of the Prince is altered: he is very obese, his head bulges slightly at the back, and his legs are thicker. The position of his right hand is altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sketch'd at Wirtemberg
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with changes to the plate. Cf. No. 8827 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J Whatman., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 24th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Str
Dressed in the garb of a wizard, King George III sits in a chair, arms across his chest holding a long stick in one hand and legs also crossed; his eyes are closed, but he faces the large bust with the head of Pitt, its eyes also closed. The caption below the title continues: "And Friar Bacon made unto himself a head of brass to answer difficult questions and Friar Bacon watched it incessantly day and night, but it skake not a word. At length the Friar with overwatching fell asleep and the people without were much enraged thereat, as the question was an important one, vix. War or peace!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Richard Newton from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below title: And Friar Bacon made unto himself a head of brass to answer difficult questions ..., Watermark: fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 35 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, Sleeping, and Wizards
"The Prince of Wales (right), rising from his chair, kicks over a tea-table, the crockery sliding to the ground, and lying broken on the floor. The Princess sits on a settee on the opposite side of the table, her infant in her arms. She is comely, and melancholy, with downcast eyes, and plainly dressed except for the three feathers in her hair. Behind the Prince (right), Lord Jersey, with horns on his head, opens a door, pointing behind him to Lady Jersey, who lies on a sofa in an indecorous attitude. He says: "My Wife is waiting for you in the next room". The Prince grasps a document in each hand; the inscription on one has been erased, on the other (left) it is 'Thoughts on Despotism'. From his coat-pocket issues 'A Map of Jersey' (cf. BMSat 8807), under his feet are papers: 'Joe the Dustman', 'The History of Kings', 'Marriage a La Mode', 'The Tender Husband a Farce'. He says: "Marriage has no restraints on me! no Legal tie can bind the will - tis free & shall be so ------ " The Princess says: "Obey, Alass the Task's Seviere how can the Female Mind with pleasure yield when every look's a Frown!!! Alass poor Babe!!!" On the wall is a picture of the King and Queen on horseback, with a signpost pointing to Windsor, apparently copied from 'The Constant Couple', BMSat 6918, except that the Queen is in back view, her head turned to the King. On the frame: 'The little Wants, dislikes, preferences, antipathies, fancies, whims, & even impertinence of Women must be officiously attended to, flattered & if possible guesed at, and anticipated by a well bred Man.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of love in high life
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Cuckold's horns -- Separation between the Prince and Princess of Wales -- Interiors: sitting rooms -- Dishes: tea service -- Furniture: sofa -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Footstools., Watermark: J Whatman., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 31, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
