A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a ...
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Title from caption below image.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a ...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is bein...
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Title from captions below images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A gathering of members of the Jockey Club meeting in a large room lined with paintings of horses and jockeys. In the centre, the mass of the congregation consisting of jockeys, owners and betting agents, stand talking whilst a board game takes place ...
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"A barrister, haggard and exhausted, yawns over a 'Brief', reclining in an arm-chair, extending his bare legs to the fire (right) where a coffee-pot stands. Beside him is a 'Bill of Costs'. Evidence of overnight dissipation are a (Turkish) masquerade ...
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1
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"A plebeian crowd, much caricatured, cheers the majestic ascent of a balloon. On the right is part of an old-fashioned gabled building with a large projecting sign, 'Mermaid': a mermaid emerges from the sea holding up a comb and a wine-bottle. Two men...
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1
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A actor in a costume that includes a large bow at his waist, a cape, and a hat with large plumes demonstrates six positions to convey dramatic emotion, each of the six appear in separate boxes with captions
Alternative Title:
Hamlet's advice to players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Coates, Robert, 1772-1848
Subject (Topic):
Movement (Acting), Study and teaching, and Costumes
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through a...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Antiquities, Military officers, Sarcophagi, Vases, Sculpture, Hand lenses, and Lust
British soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. A black boy in livery carries a folded umbrella as he walks behind two gentleman and a tall, long-chinned lady who carries her umbrella open. A soldier is bein...
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Title from captions below images.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Equipment, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Riding habits, Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
On the left under the title "England" a bear sits at a table enjoying a hearty meal of roast beef and plum pudding while across from him sits a frog in a French uniform with a sword at his waist, a plate of only sauce before him and two turnips to the...
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Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Sold by [...]
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Bears, Eating & drinking, Frogs, National emblems, British, and French
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed...
"A young man, thin, dark-haired, and sallow, leans back in his chair smoking a hookah: the long coiled tube is attached to a receptacle supporting a small brazier at which an Indian servant (right), crouching on the floor, is blowing; he wears breeche...
Three elderly citizens in a punt which is propelled by a boy (left) wearing trousers. Two are fishing: one stands, 'chapeau-bras', the other, who is obese, sits in a chair. The third (right) sits in a chair smoking, his back to the others. The standin...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Dogs, Eyeglasses, Fishing, and Pipes (Smoking)
A dinner of mostly elderly men has dissolved into a brawl with wigs flying in every direction as they pummel each other with their fists or any tool at hand. In the center a man crawls on his hands and knees, blood pouring from both nostrils, his oppo...
"The 'Q' of the title is a letter formed of acanthus scrolls surrounding the head in profile to the left of the Duke of Queensberry. The head, in which the right eyelid is visible, appears to be copied and enlarged from that in Gillray's 'Push-Pin' (B...
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Title from text and design contained within image. The 'Q' is formed from ancathus scrolls arranged around the figure's head; see British Museum catalogue.
"Heading to a moral tale, 'By the late Dr. Lyon', etched in two columns. A goose approaches the edge of a pond (left) carrying a struggling fox which it holds by the neck. There is a realistic landscape background with a substantial village inn in the...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 22d., 1811 by Wm. Holland, no. 11 Cockspur St.
"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right i...
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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A rotund clergyman stands (center) in his pulpit preaching from a book set on a plush pillow while the congregation sleeps below him. All the figures are highly caricatured except for a pretty young woman in the right foreground and a young man who i...
"Two dark-complexioned money-lenders, Eurasians or Portuguese, sit facing each other at a round table. One (left), with a cane under his arm, appears to be a visitor; he regards his vis-à-vis with a fixed and cunning grin, holding out a bill or chequ...
Alternative Title:
Thirty-six percent discount at Calcutta and 36 per cent discount at Calcutta
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1803 by Willm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street
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1
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"Scene in a dance-room, which is roughly panelled, has a low platform across one end, and a small gallery (right) with a fiddler and a man blowing a French horn; it is lit by a hanging chandelier. In the centre two men face each other in boxing attitu...
Alternative Title:
Kicking up a breeze at Nell Hammiltons hop
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "z" in "breeze" is etched backwards.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A close-up view of one of the 'pigeon holes' which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from hea...
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1
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"The heads and shoulders of three persons fill the design, all studies in teeth, facial expression, and caricature. The profile head of the dentist is close to the fat face of his patient, a woman with a wide smiling mouth, open to show two rows of ar...
Alternative Title:
French dentist showing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates
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1
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"A crowd of elderly Fellows in cap and gown issue from the Gothic doorway of the (?) chapel (left) and turn to the left, to walk in back view under an archway below a mullioned window, towards a quadrangle which is indicated only by the windows of the...
Alternative Title:
Bacon faced fellows of Brazenose, broke loose
Description:
Title etched below image; letter "z" in "Brazen" is etched beackwards.
"A very stout elderly man in old-fashioned dress holds on his knee a slim and elegant courtesan, who holds out her dress to receive the guineas which he pours into her lap. Beside them (right) is a table laid with knife, fork, and lamb chop (?)."--Bri...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1811 by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur St.
"The Ministry defend 'The Citadel of Office' behind a high stone wall against different Opposition groups. The chief defence is by the tiny Perceval who fires a cannon from whose muzzle issue three heads intended for Wellesley, Ryder, and Melville. In...
Alternative Title:
Which has it?
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published for the Scourge, March 1st, 1811, by M. Jones, 5 Newgate Stt
Subject (Name):
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820, Romilly, Samuel, 1757-1818, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Ponsonby, George, 1755-1817, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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"Scene in the vaulted ante-room of a dungeon. The turnkey, keys in hand, accepts with wary enjoyment the blandishments of a pretty young woman, whose interest is clearly in the fate of a handsome youth seen through the bars above a padlocked barrier o...
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"An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, &c. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on a tr...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, and Skeletons
"Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore (right) where a man-of-war is at anchor. All are in difficulties. A fourth is on his hands and knees on the extreme left; he looks up to say: "Mind what you are at Messmates for I am upset, and the frigate I...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 16, 1811 by Thos. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
"Three pretty young nuns stand behind a widely spaced iron grille; one of them sells netted silk purses to a handsome young British officer in full regimentals who gazes fixedly at them. Two return his gaze. Behind and on the extreme left, an ugly old...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
"Below the title: " To pack up her tatters and follow the Drum. Soldiers and their wives walk in single file across a stream under trees. All except for the only officer are good-looking. The procession moves irregularly from right to left, receding i...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson April 1, 1811 No. 1. St. James St. Adelphi
"A farmer (John Bull) and his family gape in amazement at the arrangements for the Regency fête on 19 June. The narrow table extends across the design receding from left to right, the cloth hanging over the seats of chairs in the foreground. The famo...
"The nurse, a respectable-looking woman wearing a cap and apron, stands in profile to the right beside an open coffin placed on trestles; she rests her left hand on a shrouded protuberance. In her right is a glass filled from a bottle of 'Gin' on a ta...
Alternative Title:
Sic transit gloria city and Old nurse's meditation
Description:
Title from caption below image; "mundi" scored through and replaced by "city."
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"A sailor with a hideously carbuncled face lies in a hammock wearing a striped shirt and night-cap. Beside him is his sea-chest, the open lid inscribed 'Sea Stock', from which he has taken a bottle of 'Grogg'. He shakes his fist at an old-fashioned do...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, opposite Bow Church, London
"Lovegrove as Jeremiah Babble stands hat in hand before a solid rail, behind which is a grotesquely fat woman, dressed in her best, with a rope round her neck, at whom he points. Three other men stand by, one with a hand on Lovegrove's shoulder, the o...
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Title from text printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Published 12th August 1811 by Whittle and Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street
Two figures face each other made of tools, implements, &c. On the left a carpenter, very thin and erect, is composed of a straw tool-bag, containing saw, plane, &c., supported on a pair of compasses for legs. The head is a mallet on which is a glue-po...
"Heading to (printed) verses 'Sung, with great Applause, by Mr. Henry Johnston, in Dublin, Cork, &c. &c.' A pedlar with a wooden leg stands at a street corner, singing, a bottle of 'Irish Whisky' in his left hand, another bottle in his coat-pocket. Hi...
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Title from text printed in letterpress below image.
Publisher:
Published 2nd Septr., 1811 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Strt., London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Bakers, Barbershops, Peddlers, British, Peg legs, Puppets, and Tailors
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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"A strapping young courtesan holds against her neck a ladder up which an elderly naval officer, less than half her height, begins to climb, looking up avidly. He holds a telescope, and wears a ribbon inscribed 'Death or Victory'. From her feathered ha...
