"A tall pillar, supporting an allegorical design of Britannia and covered with figures and objects in high relief, stands upon a rock in a stormy sea, waves dashing against it. The square base is supported by figures of Fortitude, with a lion, her left hand on a broken pillar, and Justice, with an ostrich, her scales not balanced. Between them is inscribed: 'To Perpetuate the Destruction of the Regicide Navy of France, and the Triumph of the British Flag'. It rests on two slabs of stones inscribed with the names of admirals: (below) 'Howe', 'Parker', 'Nelson', 'St Vincent', 'Bridport'; (above) 'Duncan', 'Gardiner', 'Keith', 'Hood'. On the summit tritons blowing horns support a shell in which stands Britannia with shield and trident. In her right hand stands a tiny figure of Victory. Beside her an angry lion grasps a globe showing the British Isles and 'le Mer'. The capital of the pillar is formed by the feathers in the hats of republican soldiers who dangle from it, still holding blood-stained daggers. Other objects on the pillar are a sailor wearing wooden shoes, broken weapons and nautical instruments, a tricolour flag inscribed 'Egalité' with a broken shaft, a small decapitated figure of 'Libertas', holding up a bonnet-rouge. On the horizon (left) is a fort; above are dark clouds from which issue many flashes of lightning. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Britannia victorious
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse above image: "Nought shall her columns stately pride deface; "the storm plays harmless round the marble base ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Navy: Admiralty -- Monuments: Naval pillar., Imperfect; top portion of sheet measuring 3.6 x 29.6 cm has been trimmed and reattached below title., and Mounted to 57 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
A hungry boy (left) holding the string of a bag over his shoulder, scratches his hair under his hat, as he looks in a window. On the otherside of the window, a grinning cook holds up a large plum pudding on a platter
Description:
Title etched above image., “No. 7”--Upper right corner above image., Three lines of text below image: Various are the ways this passion might be depicted, in this delineation the subjects chosen are simple -- a hungry boy -- and a plumb pudding., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29.7 x 23.4 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate number erased from sheet., and Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
A pretty, young woman (right) sleeps, head in profile to the left, leaning against the back of a chair. An elderly man leans towards her, inspecting her avidly through his quizzing glass. The figures (three-quarter length) are cut off by the side margins. Beneath the design: Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as above represented in the delineation of the Old Beau, & the sleeping Lady
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 7' in upper right corner., Seventh plate in a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: Female attraction is frequently the cause of this passion, as above represented in the delineation of the old beau & the sleeping lady., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Publisher's stamp 'RA' in lower right corner of design.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Feb. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Leering, Older people, and Young adults
"Two juxtaposed but unrelated half length figures, a man (right) and woman, with expressions of angry despair, anger prevailing in the woman's face. Beneath the design: 'A disappointed Old Maid & Bachelor, are selected as proper Subjects to represent the Passion of Despair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 20' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: A disappointed old maid & bachelor are selected as proper subjects to represent the passion of despair., Watermark: Russell & Co 1799., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: RA.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Feb., 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Despair, Older people, and Single women
Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Possibly a copy of a print by Rowlandson after Woodward under the same title, published by S. W. Fores in 1796. Cf. Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, p. 328)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Domestic service: footman -- Letters: love letters -- Writing implements: inkstand -- Infidelity -- Jealousy.
Publisher:
Pub. by Kaygill, Windmill Street, Tottenham Cor. Road
Dick the butcher and Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint., Copy of a print by J. Coles, published by Thomas Macklin in 1795, after a drawing by H.W. Bunbury., Six lines of text from the play in two columns below image: Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read / and cast accompt. Cade. O monstrous! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, iv.2 -- Street scenes -- Trades: Butchers -- Weavers -- Clerks -- Writing implements: Ink bottle on ribbon -- Weapons: Pikes -- Executions: Public hangings., and Watermark: CMD.
Leaf 83. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two subjects are printed on one sheet, with a space between. Above: A middle aged woman points to her eye and seems to mesmerize man with a skull-like head. Below: one man waves a smoking pipe under the nose of another to wake him up, watched by a smiling woman who holds a foaming tankard."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each individually titled., Attribution to Rowlandson from the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Restrike, with added titles and with nudity in the top image etched over. For an earlier state before these changes to the plate, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.753., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1800?; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Temporary local subject terms: Prudery., and On leaf 83 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Eyes, Clergy, Pipes (Smoking), and Drinking vessels
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre in the market place; the person of the ingenious charlatan is decked out in a fine court dress, with bag wig, powder, sword, and laced hat complete, the better to excite the respect of his audience; he is holding forth on the marvellous properties ascribed to the nostrums which he is seeking to palm off on the simple villagers as wonder-working elixirs; while his attendants, Merry Andrew and Jack Pudding, are going through their share of the performance. One branch of the mountebank physician's profession was the drawing of teeth; an unfortunate sufferer is submitting himself to the hands of the empiric's assistant. The rural audience is stolidly contemplating the antics of the party, without being particularly moved by Dr. Botherum's imposing eloquence, these vagabond scamps being frequently clever rogues, blessed with an inexhaustible fund of bewildering oratory, and witty repartee at glib command. Leaving the quack, we find plentiful and suggestive materials to employ the humourist's skilful graver scattered around. In the centre, a scene of jealousy is displayed; the beguilements of a portly butcher are prevailing against the assumed privileges of a slip-shod tailor, who is seemingly tempted to have recourse to his sheers, to cut the amorous entanglement summarily asunder. On the left, the promiscuous and greedy feeding associated with 'fairings,' is going busily forward, and on the opposite side are exhibited all the drolleries which can be got out of a Jew pedlar, his pack, the diversified actions of customers he is trying to tempt with his wares, and the bargains for finery into which the fair and softer sex are vainly trying to beguile the cunning Hebrew on their own accounts. It seems probable that Rowlandson in his print of Doctor Botherum may have had a certain Doctor Bossy in his eye, a German practitioner of considerable skill, who enjoyed a comfortable private practice, said to have been the last of the respectable charlatans who exhibited in the British metropolis. This benevolent empiric, as Angelo informs us, dispensed medicines and practised the healing art, publicly and gratuitously on a stage, his booth being erected weekly in the midst of Covent-Garden Market, where the mountebank, handsomely dressed and wearing a gold-laced cocked hat, arrived in his chariot with a liveried servant behind. According to the old custom, the itinerant quack-doctor, with his attendant gang, was as constant a visitor at every market-place as the pedlar with his pack."--Grego
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse below image, six on either side of title: High o'er the gaping crowd, on market day, while Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks -- Tooth Extraction -- Dr. Bossey., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 373 x 433 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
