V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A father leaves his tearful wife and daughter to go to Uxbridge by canal, on "veighty business", with striped trousers to make him look like a sailor, and having made his will in case of accident; his wife begs him to "mind the nasty hedges, and the hugly Coal barges"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a second reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published (by Piercy Roberts?) ca. 1803. For first state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.713., Year of publication in imprint has been obscured with etched lines. Date of publication based on earlier reissue with the year "1807" unobscured. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.182., Plate numbered "281" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., 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 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 58 in volume 4.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two columns of text below design refer to figures in print: Well seated. Those that are in will grin. ; A hard case. Those that are out will pout., Plate numbered '306' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 16, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sturdy bull-dog, its padlocked collar inscribed 'Iohn Bull', mauls a lean dog with the head and collar of Bonaparte. The latter lies prostrate, his head in profile to the left, mouth wide open, under the paws of John Bull, who savagely bites his back."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803. Roberts's imprint, "Pubd. by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn," is present in lower left but has been mostly obscured with etched lines; Tegg's imprint has been added above title. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges; plate number obscured by binding., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 44 in volume 4.
On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 40 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A footman leads a parson and six prospective suitors that have arrived in response to an advertisement for a husband posted by an 'old maid'. The bachelors include a Welshman, a Scotsman, and a doctor that offer flatteries while waiting, "Splutter hur, how pretty she looks, she pe [sic] a nice wench", "Leave a Scotch laddie alone for carrying off the sillar", and "From my conscience, she looks like a Venus of medicine!" respectively. The footman leans forward to shout into the elderly woman's ear trumpet, "Please your ladyship all these gentlemen be[?] come about an advartisement [sic] for a husband and to lose no time they have brought the Parson with them; please your Virginship what am I to say to em?" The elderly woman responds, "Say to them, why the men are mad, if I was so inclined do they think I would marry six husbands at once!!" A hissing cat followed by a litter of kittens stand beside the woman's chair
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Publication line inscribed in ink below image for possible later print: London, Pubd. Jany. 1, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street.
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Cats, Hearing aids, Marriage proposals, Older people, and Single women
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[13 January 1803]
Call Number:
803.01.13.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: Velno's Vegetable Syrup -- Vegetable cordial -- Restorative pills -- Animals: Dog -- Female costume: Muff -- Advertisements., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13, 1803, by W. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, removed from Oxford Street
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Expressions of Speech: 'Son of a gun'., Watermark: 1814., Date in subtitle altered in m.s. from 1802 to 1792., and Date in imprint altered in m.s. from 1803 to 1793.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 12th, 1793, by Whittle & Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street
"Lord Galloway, standing in profile to the left., extends both arms in order to clap vigorously. The words "Bravo! - Bravo!" issue from his tightly-closed lips. His aged face is wrinkled and he wears a curiously shaped powdered wig terminating in a small pigtail; a tight-fitting coat, with his famous star (see BMSat 10161), and a frilled shirt. The front of the box is indicated on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Opera., Identification of "Lord Galloway" in ink on former mount (37 x 28 cm), which was removed by conservator in 2017., and Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
