"Heading to printed verses: 'A Burlesque Ballad* - Tune "Billy Taylor was a brisk young Fellow". A man and woman in bed in an attic. A figure, draped in a sheet, stands at the foot of the bed, holding up a lantern. The man reaches for his wooden leg which is by the bed. The verses relate that the cobbler courted Nancy Viggins 'All for the lucre of her gold', then threw her into a river. She was saved by a sailor, and attempted to frighten the cobbler by appearing to him as her own ghost: 'Dick swore he heeded not sprites nor ghostesses, "I'll cure ye, madam, of them there airs;" Then seized his vooden leg vith wengeance, And sent her headlong down the stairs.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Downfall of Miss Nancy Wiggins and Dicky Day, the cruel cobbler
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses., Other prints in the Laurie and Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Broadside text consists of sixteen verses of a song arranged in three columns below title: O! ponder vell, [the] fickle lovyers, listen to this tale of voe ..., and Plate numbered '452' in the upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 18, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Incledon, in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality.' A countryman stands full face, reflectively leaning on his spade. Behind is a rustic scene with a cottage. A dog guards his master's coat. The first and last lines: 'Come Measter I be's going to sing, - At least I be's going to try, ... Some dig for ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
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., One line of text directly below title: Sung by Mr. Incledon in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality., Twenty four lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns above imprint statement: Come Measter I be's going to sing, at least be's going to try ..., and Plate numbered '451' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 16, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The undergraduate advances dejectedly, raising his cap to a Fellow wearing cap and gown and gaiters, who walks with another wearin clerical wig and bands with a cocked hat, long coat to the ankles, and gold headed cane. The former points angrily at the gaiters which the undergraduate (like himself) is wearing. The scene is the side of a College Court showing an edge of grass in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress at the university. No. 4
Description:
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Fourth of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"An elderly 'cit' sleeps in a low, upright chair, leaning back till his profile faces the ceiling. His hands are clasped over his chest, his wig dangles from his coat-collar, and he puffs from tightly shut lips. The room is bare with a boarded floor. On a round table are a jug and glass, and the sleeper's pipe lying on 'Cobbett's Political Register'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Campanion print to: "Wide-awake.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Daniel Lambert sits on a bergere holding a very thin and elongated woman seated on his left knee which forms a broad and soft cushion. She wears a fashionably clinging dress that flows onto the patterned carpet
Description:
Title from item. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. April, 1806 by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur St.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print published originally by S.W. Fores in 1800., Part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by S.W. Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Place and date of publication from other prints in the series., Reduced copy. Cf. no. 9592, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds -- Fences -- Food: chicken -- Ginger bread -- Beverage: bottle of wine., and Watermark.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Land of Promise -- Fishing nets., Watermark: A. Stace 1803., and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 25, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
"Heading to engraved verses ... Liston as Flourish, a Quaker, stands primly, thumbs together, beside Ruth, a Quakeress, who points alluringly to a distant grove, behind him is a signpost with three arms, one inscribed '5. Miles'. He relates his discomfiture by another suitor. The song ends: 'And kick'd me Ruthlessly behind With his Toe Turn Ti.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Finger post
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '440' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Twenty-four lines of verse arranged in two numbered columns in lower portion of plate: Yea! I fell in the pit of love, Ti Tum Ti ...
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 30, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Two adjacent designs: on the left Sheridan drink-sodden and blear-eyed, stoops obsequiously, right hand on heart, hat held low, directed to the right. He says, slyly, "Gentlemen, it is with the most unfeigned submission I present myself to Your Notice, most Humbly requesting your kind suffrages to return me (although unworthy) one of Your representatives for the great City of Westminster, and when I consider whom I succeed, I cannot but sincerly [sic] deplore his loss, but much more so my inadequacy to fill his place, and can only most solemnly promise to exert the utmost of my poor abilities to keep my place." On the right Sheridan with legs astride, hands thrust in his breeches pocket, hat on his head, still drink-sodden and sly, but more alert, says, looking to the left: "Electors, I feel a satisfaction in my own bosom (which I cannot refrain from expressing,) that my transcendant Merit fully entitle me to be chosen your representative, and that you have barely done yourselves justice in returnig [sic] me, why you must have been cursed fools if you had not, & as to that Mr Paul & Mr Cobbett, their speeches are so ungentlemanlike that I do not think it worth my while to answer them, why the fellows say I get drunk one half the day, & lie in bed the other, I dont chuse to answer that, they say I don't pay my Debts Fools! what did I want to get into Parliament for, they say I have never signed those measures since I have been in administration which I so strongly declared necessary while out of Office, this shews their Ignorance! why should I propose reform now when all my Friends have got to be served.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Canvassing candidate
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 621 (leaf numbered '58' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Cobbett, William, 1763-1835., Paull, James, 1770-1808., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
"Ministerial rats with human heads scamper about a barn, searching for food. John Bull, a yokel in a smock and holding a pitchfork, holds open one leaf of the door facing the spectator, to watch their antics with amusement. George III, in profile to the right., puts a hand his shoulder, and says: "What! What! looking for Grain, eh! looking for grain; it's all gone, all gone all gone, quite Empty." John answers: "Why, these Hungry Rats thought to have had some fine pickings, I warrant, but egad they'll he woundedly mistaken, tho'f they seem to want it nationly; but that dom'd Scotchman [Melville] carried off a rare lot of it & as to poor Billy the Butler [Pitt] why he was so fond of a drop of Black Snap, [Perjorative for thick, sweet port. Partridge, 'Slang Dict.', 1938.] that when he and his friends, not at it, d'ye see, the rest of the Servants did as they pleased, poor Rogues I'se afraid they'll Undermine the Barn they're so main Hungry." The rats are on a smaller scale. On the extreme left., Lord Derby peeps from a bin inscribed 'Treasury', saying, "Why I suppose the Old Rat Died because there was nothing to feed upon." Moira climbs down a tilted sieve, Grenville sniffs at an upturned '[T]reasury' tub on which Lord Ellenborough sulkily reposes. Grey scampers towards an empty lantern but Windham has dragged out its candle and is nibbling at it. Sheridan races towards the candle from the r. Behind him is Erskine, looking sly. A bulky animal wearing a garter ribbon, probably the Marquis of Buckingham, lies with its head inside an empty '[T]reasury' sack. Fox and Bedford nibble at a pile of tattered and folded sacks on which is Lord Spencer, looking down at them. In the background are three other rightats, whose heads are less characterized: those on the left may be Sidmouth and Lauderdale; one nibbling a bundle of straw (r.) resembles Burdett."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm..
Publisher:
Pubd. March, 1806 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
