V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"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 officer stares at them through a lorgnette. Beside the three nuns is a fourth, old, ugly, sour, and duenna-like. The figures are half length or three-quarter length. Behind the nuns is a background of Gothic vaulting with a crucifix."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Visit to the nunnerys
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. April 1, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "64" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 203., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 12 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"The little King of Rome sits in his cradle, between the proudly protecting arms of Marie Louise, who kneels behind him. The infant has an adult head resembling that of his father, and a tail; he wears a replica of Napoleon's cocked hat. He holds out his arms to Napoleon, who sits by the fire, holding out a napkin to dry. The Emperor looks fondly at the child, saying, "Rejoice O ye Frenchmen, the Fruits of my Labour has produced a little Image of myself, I shall for the love I owe to your Country instill in my Noble Ofspring the same principles of Lying thieving treachery Letchery Murder and all other foul deeds for which I am now Worshipped and Adored". Behind and between the Emperor and Empress, a bishop (? Cardinal Fesch) kneels over the infant, his hands folded as if in prayer; he repeats the words of Henry VI to Gloucester before his murder by the latter: "The Owl shriek'd at thy Birth, an evil Sight. The Night Crow cry'd foreboding luckless Time. Dogs howl'd and hideous Tempests shook down Trees. The Raven rook'd her on the Chimney Top And chattering Pies in Dismal Discord sung." ['3 Henry VI', v. 6.] On the fire (left) boils a saucepan inscribed 'French Blood'; little demons ascend in the steam rising from it. The mantelshelf is supported by carved demoniac creatures, one having a satyr's head, the other that of a Fury with snaky locks. A similar creature supports the bars of the grate. On the mantelshelf are imperial crowns, the iron crown of Italy (as in British Museum Satires No. 10432), and a papal tiara. The cradle has a crown at the head, and at the foot a grotesque mask inscribed 'Devils Darlind' [sic]. Behind (right), a lady, evidently Josephine, sits up in bed, holding a wine-glass; she looks towards the child quoting Ophelia's words: "Ah Woe is me, seeing what I have seen and seeing what I see". Near her stands an ugly old nurse, holding a syringe; an infant's chair is beside her; it is ornamented with a crown and inscribed 'Prince Skinny Boneys Caching Chair'. On the ground (left) is a sauce-boat inscribed 'Bitter Cup'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Little babboon created to devour French monkies
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., and Leaf 14 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 9t[h], 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847, Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814, and Fesch, Joseph, 1763-1839
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A hideous old miser sits between fire (right) and table (left) snuffing a candle; he ignores a man seated opposite him, who registers agonized entreaty. Both are three-quarter length. On the table is a large book: 'Table of Interest'. Over the chimney-piece is a placard, the right side cut off by the margin of the design. 'Stock Ex[change], Bank Stock, 3 Pr Cents, Imperial [Loan], Omnium [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11716], South Sea, Exchequer [Bills], Lottery Tick[ets]'. A portrait of the miser above his head shows him gleefully weighing coin, with money-bags beside him. The room is small and poverty-stricken with a casement window, and a skeleton-like rat scampering on the window-ledge. Through an open door (left) is seen the profile of a grotesquely malevolent old hag. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, April 10, 1811. Cf. No. 11804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: Iron was his chest, iron was his door; his hand was iron, and his heart was more., Plate numbered "70" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 204., and Leaf 18 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"A comely florid woman, girding up the skirts of her decolletee dress, has dressed up in the cocked hat, jack-boots, and sword-belt of General Junot, and gaily marches beside his bed, flourishing his sword in a gauntleted hand, while she looks over her shoulder for admiration. Junot (right) sits up in bed looking at her angrily, and clutching his breeches, as if afraid she would don those too: her legs are bare above the spurred boots. A cat miaows at her. The bed is curtained and canopied, but a military saddle, hanging from a peg, and a musket show that the general is campaigning."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
General Junot taken by surprise
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. April 12, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11720 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "71" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 204., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 78 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"Marie Louise shrinks in terror from her baby son, seated on her knee, who threatens her with a dagger. In his left hand is the orb which he seems about to hurl at her. He wears a cocked hat and has the features of his father in profile to the left. Napoleon draws aside a curtain (right); his profile (to the right), expression, and cocked hat resemble those of his son, as in British Museum Satires No. 11719. The Empress: "There's no Condition sure so curst as mine--Day and Night to dandle such a Dragon--The little Angry Cur snarls while it feeds--See how the Blood is settled in his Scarecrow Face--what brutal mischief sits upon his Brow--Rage and Vengeance sparkle in his Cheeks--the very spawn and spit of its Tyrant Father--Nay now I look again he is the very Picture of his Grandfather the Devil". In her alarm she kicks over a child's commode (right); a saucepan and spoon lie on the floor. On the extreme left appears the head of a mitred bishop (probably Fesch), who raises an arm, as if from the floor or below it, holding up to the Empress a goblet inscribed 'Composing Draught'. Beside him, a sinister face, behind the Empress's chair, looks up to say: "Send him to his Grand Pappa as quick as possible"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frenchmen sick of the breed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "68" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., and Leaf 77 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 14th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832, Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847, and Fesch, Joseph, 1763-1839
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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"The interior of a barber's shop, a ramshackle room with a raftered ceiling. An elderly military officer, seated in the middle of the room between the barber and his wife, causes general dismay; he points to a gash on his cheek and shakes his fist at the barber who flinches back, razor in hand. The barber's wife, bending over the customer with a bowl of soap-suds, is terrified. The assistant, his own hair in curl-papers, trims the hair of a customer (right), holding a bowl on his head. At a table (left) a man washes, stanching his head. Water is supplied from the tap of a bucket on a shelf above the basin. Part of the table serves as dressing-table; on this a monkey sits before the mirror, lathering its head. On a high shelf (right) are wig-boxes and wig-blocks; the latter have inscriptions characterizing their (carved) features, and each having its appropriate wig: 'Clarkes Block', 'Parsons Block', 'Docter's Block', 'Lawyers Block'. On the back wall are a roller-towel and four prints: Absalom hanging from a tree while his horse gallops off, inscribed: 'Oh Absolom My Son My Son--hadst thou Wore a Wig this neer . . .' ; two profile heads, nose to nose, roughly resembling Rowlandson's 'Mock Turtle' [British Museum Satires No. 11639]; a narrow broadside headed by a gibbet, such as were sold in London on execution days; a bewigged caricature head."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. April 20th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11805 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "67" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 205., and Leaf 15 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"Scene by a roadside pond opposite a picturesque inn (right). A few country-people watch a distressed cat in a bowl which floats precariously. An angry old woman strides into the water to rescue the animal, but is restrained by a friend. Other spectators watch with amused delight; they wear holiday finery, imitating fashionable dress. A boy, holding back a dog, and a girl sit together on the bank. A young couple in a gig at the inn-door watch the cat. Behind the pond (left) a tandem runs away overturning a gig."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rural sports. Cat in a bowl. No. 1
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. April 24, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 811.04.24.01.1+., Series title precedes print title below image; series numbering follows print title., Plate numbered "69" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 205-6., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 17 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"A handsome well-dressed young courtesan leads the way out of a room, her left hand on the door-handle, her right held behind her to take the guineas which an aged and decrepit old rake gives her with a leer. A handsome well-furnished room is indicated. Above the chimney-piece is a heavily-framed picture of Danaë catching the shower of gold (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9813)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Female physician in full practice
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. May 1st, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11806 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "72" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 206., and Leaf 79 in volume 2.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A bedroom scene. A lean and elderly man stands just within the open door (left), holding a lighted candle, and bowing hat in hand to one of the occupants of the bed, who sits up, doffing his nightcap with equal ceremony. The woman is defined by the bed-clothes; she lies on her face clutching the pillow. The visitor wears slippers with un gartered stockings and breeches open at the knee; in his pocket is a book 'Chesterfields Letters'. He says: "I am sorry Sir to intrude in this abrupt manner,-- but do you know Sir you are in bed with my Wife?" The other answers: "Sir, I beg you ten thousand pardons! let me request you will be seated, and she shall be at your service in the course of half an hour!" The men gaze at each other, warily intent, hostility predominant in the husband, alarm in his rival."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information based on imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. May 6th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11821 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered in upper left corner: No. 14., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., and Leaf 13 in volume 1.
