"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...
Description:
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...
Description:
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.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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 cheque...
Alternative Title:
Thirty-six percent discount at Calcutta 36 per cent discount at Calcutta
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1803 by Willm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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...
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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.
