"George Walpole stands defiantly, head in profile to the right, feet splayed awkwardly. He wears Roman armour with medieval greaves and a huge sabre; in his left hand is a large oval shield, in his right he supports a vertical tilting-lance, the head of which is cut off by the upper margin. His fantastic helmet is partly a cocked hat with a tricolour cockade; on it crouches a simian demon with webbed wings and long barbed tail, wearing a cap like the cornucopia of BMSat 9374, and spitting fire. Behind him (left) is a gobbling turkey-cock. Clouds form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., No. 2 in a series of six prints with a frontispiece entitled: New pantheon of democratic mythology., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Roman armor -- Demons -- Birds: turkey -- Weapons: tilting lance -- Swords -- Shields -- Bonnet rouge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 20.4 cm, on sheet 33.6 x 24.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 13 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 33 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man lies on his back in bed, his face set in grim resignation, as his wife leans over him lecturing him, "Yes you base man --you dont you eat drink and sleep comfortably at home and still you must be jaunting abroad every night. I'll find out your intrigues-- you may depend upon it." A small dog sits at the foot of the bed yelping at the couple while a larger dog sleeps on the floor, his eyes squeezed shut
Alternative Title:
Curtain lecture!!
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Three-quarter length portrait, directed to the right, of a sour-looking and squinting woman, wearing a bonnet and a patterned dress. She holds a book, 'The Four Evangelists'. Beneath the title: 'Swearing at the Old Bailey to Mr J. Beck having Robbed her in Kensington Garden of which charge he was honorably acquitted - multitudes of Witnesses appearing to prove her having made similar Charges against them, in order to extort Money.' On the design: 'Caution to the Unwary! - This Pest of Society is rather of a Tall & Thin form . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 d.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom resulting in minor losses of text in and below the image.
Publisher:
Publishd. Septr. 23d, 1799, & sold by all [the] book & print sellers in London
"Three-quarter length portrait, directed to the right, of a sour-looking and squinting woman, wearing a bonnet and a patterned dress. She holds a book, 'The Four Evangelists'. Beneath the title: 'Swearing at the Old Bailey to Mr J. Beck having Robbed her in Kensington Garden of which charge he was honorably acquitted - multitudes of Witnesses appearing to prove her having made similar Charges against them, in order to extort Money.' On the design: 'Caution to the Unwary! - This Pest of Society is rather of a Tall & Thin form . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 d.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides and bottom resulting in minor losses of text in and below the image., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 26.7 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 23.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publishd. Septr. 23d, 1799, & sold by all [the] book & print sellers in London
"A jovial citizen leaning on his tall cane in profile to the right addresses another, who walks off to the right, turning his head to scowl at his interlocutor. The former says: "How do you do my Old Friend - pretty warm by this time I suppose, - a long time in business. - how much might you clear now in the course of last Year?" The other answers: "Whats that to you - skant tell - keep no books, what you want to come the Inquisition rig I suppose, an be d------d to you!" He is obese and is stuffing a 'Banke[rs] Book 17[98]' into his coat-pocket. His dog 'Surly' looks round with contempt at the first speaker, and befouls his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on the income tax., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: T. Edmonds 1817.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Income tax, Law and legislation, Conversation, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A bust portrait of Tandy (1740-1803) looking to the left. He wears the double-breasted, high-collared coat of a French officer, with epaulettes. He looks a sick man, his (white) hair is short and unkempt, his face deeply seamed; his drooping, bulbous nose and look of melancholy wariness give an impression of caricature, but the characterization appears to be excellent, cf. a portrait engraved by Heath after J. Petrie, published 1815."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: French officers' uniform.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A bust portrait of Tandy (1740-1803) looking to the left. He wears the double-breasted, high-collared coat of a French officer, with epaulettes. He looks a sick man, his (white) hair is short and unkempt, his face deeply seamed; his drooping, bulbous nose and look of melancholy wariness give an impression of caricature, but the characterization appears to be excellent, cf. a portrait engraved by Heath after J. Petrie, published 1815."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: French officers' uniform., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 26.3 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 32.5 x 23.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"A woman sits up in bed, holding up a crying infant. Her lank husband stands stiffly beside her holding an infant's commode and lighted taper. Beneath, the incident is related in biblical language: 'And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha the Wife of my Bosom awoke, . . . [&c, &c.]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '229' in lower left corner., Four lines of text below title: And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha, the wife of my bosom, awoke and said unto me, Arise Nathaniel speedily ..., and From the Laurie and Whittle series of drolls.
Publisher:
Published 9th April 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Emblematical title-page to a set of prints on the Opposition. A fire burns on an altar of quasi-classical shape, on which is the title; apes' heads take the place of rams' heads, and a garland of laurel is bound with tricolour ribbon. At the base of the altar lies a cornucopia in the form of a bonnet-rouge transformed into a fool's cap terminating in a bell (cf. BMSat 8644). From it pour emblems of gods and goddesses: Thunderbolts tied with tricolour, an owl, grapes, caduceus, bow and arrows, hammer and pincers, trident, lyre, club, two doves on a shield with the head of Medusa. The arc of a pilastered wall forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Frontispiece to a series of six prints, each with the series title: New pantheon., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Pantheon -- Altars: sacrificial altar -- Cornucopias -- Emblems of gods and goddesses from Greek mythology -- Fool's cap as bonnet rouge -- Fool's cap as cornucopia -- Fire.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
