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 Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Place and date of publication from other prints in the series., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds -- Hunting: fox hunt.
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., Printmaker from other prints from the series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Accidents -- Animals: hounds.
"Social satire: a lady stands tying her bonnet before a mirror, her daughter behind her, telling a man she is about to call on "Captain Swagger", who insulted her saying he would "Kiss [her] to Death" if she paid any more of the bills she owed him, to see if he will carry out his threat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable printmaker attribution to Nicolaus Heideloff from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.189., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1801., Plate is part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
"John Bull, a plebeian, stout and dishevelled, lies on his back on a tangle of large roses with vicious thorns. These are on a heap of stones and under the stump of a decayed oak tree (left). He exclaims: "Oh Lord! Oh Lord! if this be the Bed of Roses they make such a noise about I'd sooner lye with the Old Sow and her Farrow in the Dog Days! - My Dame will roar woundidly when she comes to bed! Ecod it's as bad as lying on a Harrow upside down." The stones (left to right) are 'Expedition to Holland' [1799, see British Museum Satires No. 9412, &c], 'Expedition to Ferrol', 'Jobs and Contracts', 'Pension List', 'Indemnity for the past & Security for the Future', 'No Peace possible with the child and Champion of Jacobinism', 'Places', 'Subsidies'. The roses are: 'Candle Tax', 'Hair Powder Tax', 'Hat Tax', 'Paper Tax', 'Snuff Tax', 'Game Tax', 'Wine Tax', 'Property Tax', 'Salt Tax', 'Land Tax', 'Stamp Tax', 'Assessed Taxes', 'Income Tax', 'Table Beer Tax', 'House Tax', 'Window Tax', 'Excise Duty', 'Horse Tax', 'Tobacco Tax', 'Soap Tax', 'Servant Tax', 'Malt Tax', 'Hop Tax', 'Sugar Tax', 'Legacy Tax', 'Tea Tax', 'Cyder Tax'. On the two extremities of the 'bed' are clusters of thorny buds; these are inscribed '1807', '1808', and [once] '1809', those on the left being labelled 'National Debt'. In the distance St. Paul's is indicated. Bushes on the right are wind-swept."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull on a bed of roses
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: 181[0?].
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1806 by Wm. Holland, Cockspur Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Roses, Thorns, and Taxes
John Bull's first visit to his old friend the new secretary
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Dogs -- Politics., Mounted to 29 x 40 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Title from caption below image., Two lines of text below title: Till woe is me so lubberly, the press gang came and pressed me., Numbered "Plate 2" above title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. as the Act directs Septr. 8, 1806, by James Linnell, No. 2, Streatham Strt., Charlotte Strt., Bloomsbury
Four employees of a hatter force their employer into a bath of black dye. One of the journeymen holds a beaver by its tail as it cries "He robbed me of my coat, and blam'd others for it." A young apprentice entering from the right holds out a fish to the beaver. In the foreground a black demon whose speech balloon reads, "Push him through my lads. I'll adopt him as one of my children."
Alternative Title:
Advertising reward proved to be a bad plan, by dipping the master's made black as his man
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Hat industry, People associated with manual labor, Employee-employer relations, Dyes, Demons, Beavers, Gallows, and Irons (Pressing)
"George III, in profile to the right., has risen from the throne to receive the new Ministry whom he inspects through his glass (as in BMSat 10019). The head and halberd of a beefeater appear behind the throne. All bend low; Fox, the foremost, makes the lowest and most obsequious bow. His court suit, with flowered waistcoat, and coat with too much gold lace, is worn with his old buff breeches. Grenville, beside him, makes a gesture of introduction. Crowded behind these two are the others: Windham with his hand on his heart, Sheridan looking eager but apprehensive, Moira and Sidmouth more impassive; Erskine, in Chancellor's wig and gown, smiles with complacent egotism (cf. BMSat 9246, &c); on the extreme right. is (?) Lord Henry Petty. The King says: "Gentlemen I am very happy to see you here, in such Talents my People must have the most Implicit Confidence, & well as myself - Hum, don't like the Mixture. - " The new Ministers say simultaneously (dotted lines rising from each head to the inscription): 'We assure your M-----of our most confirmed Integrity, & are determined to make the - the the most of our places."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Strangers at court and Promising scene
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Descriptive phrase following title: A promising scene., and Mounted to 30 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
"Two yokels stand outside a rustic inn, with a sign of fighting cocks; peasants are dancing. The verses relate comic incidents of low life in London: quarrelling, drinking, and fightng. They end: 'Then God bless our noble King George, May his reign be ever so long, And grant, as the Parliament's met, That nothing whatever goes wrong'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Knibs' Pound
Description:
Title from broadside printed on the same sheet., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Broadside portion contains three columns of verse constituting the lyrics of a whimsical ballad., and Plate numbered '441' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 22, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Country life, Dance, Peasants, Taverns (Inns), Whips, Carts & wagons, and Pipes (Smoking)
