V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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...
"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.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A design in six compartments arranged as in British Museum Satires No. 11811. 'The Race Horse': a jockey stands at the animal's head, his saddle on the ground beside him. 'The War Horse': a hussar, sword in hand, rides a rearing horse over the prostr...
"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...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
T. Rowlandson April 1, 1811 No. 1. St. James St. Adelphi
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Napoleon and Marie Louise are awkwardly seated on a throne (right) watching a comet representing the King of Rome, while the child's gouvernante proudly holds him up to gaze at the phenomenon through a telescope. The comet is a disk containing a nake...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 24, 1811, by Thos. Tegg - 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, and Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847
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...
