"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 others inspecting the woman. The verses relate that Hobbs, 'a jolly Shoe-Maker', having 'caught a Tartar' for his wife tried to sell her at Smithfield, but the wife-dealing fellows, were all of them 'sellers'., Hobbs thereupon tried to hang himself with the rope, but his wife cut him down and: They settled their troubles, like most married couples, John Hobbs, John Hobbs, Oh, happy shoe-maker John Hobbs. Such wife-selling was a common practice, popularly believed to be a legal method of divorce (and so reported by foreign visitors). 'Any Thing New' was a musical farce by Pocock, first played by the English Opera Company at the Lyceum on 1 July 1811. The song illustrated was the chief hit, being twice encored, then a remarkable event; it is printed in full in the 'Europ. Mag.' lx. 43."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Publication statement from letterpress portion of sheet., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: A jolly shoe-maker, John Hobbs, John Hobbs a jolly shoe-maker, John Hobbs ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Wife selling.
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-pot, with gimlet, chisel, &c. An axe serves as an arm. The gardener bends politely; the body is a watering-pot supported on a pair of shears. The head is a nosegay of roses, &c. tied to a spade; roses and lavender lie in a piece of drapery that serves as apron. A rake and hoe are thrust through the handle of the watering-pot. Below the Carpenter: 'With Bowels lank and Head of Mallet The Joiner longs to taste a Sallad,' Below the gardener: 'Old Nosegay quite alert and busy, Has one to sell and asks a tizzey.'
Description:
Title from verse below image., Variant lacking date of publication from imprint statement. Cf. British Museum catalogue., "Dedicated to the carpenters and gardeners of Great Britain &c &c.", "Price one shilling coloured.", Numbered '89' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Variant of no. 11822 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, vol. 9 / Mary Dorothy George.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Septr. 1811 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1811 - Mischief of methodism., Plate numbered "106" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilg. cold.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Basted Mill 1823.
"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. His open box is slung from his neck, showing a watch, gloves, scissors, seals, watch-keys, ribbons, &c. On the right is a barber's shop: 'T. Trim Hair . . .' with a (torn) paper-covered lamp (as in No. 7605) inscribed: 'Shave well for Penny cut for 2 . . .' In the room above a tailor holding shears and iron looks from the window; a projecting sign is inscribed 'Sam Shred Taylor'. On the pavement outside are a fat doctor, a man leading an ass with paniers, and shouting his wares, a barrister addressing a burly man with a staff. On the opposite side of the road is a puppet-show in the form of a castle, into which children are peeping. A baker's man walks past with a board on his head on which is a pie. The last of six verses: Taylors cabbage all your cloth, Shins of beef are very tough. Flummery is just like froth Mrs. Clarke is up to snuff. Jolly tars are fond of fun, "God save the king", we'll nobly shout. And now, good folks, my song is done, Nobody knows what 'twas about. Right fol de riddle del, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Below title: Magna est veritas et praevalebit. Truth is great and will prevail., Three columns of verse in letterpress below title begins: Barney Bodkin broke his nose, Want of money makes us sad. Without feet we c'ant have toes, Crazy folks are always mad. A farthing rush-light's very small, Doctors wear large bushy wigs. One that's dumb can never bawl, Pickled pork is made of pigs. ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '521' in upper right corner., and "Cork" in the title altered in ink to "Gork".
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
An Indian servant in a turban at the table of his captain with dialogue in dialect
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication year from imprint statement was later manipulated to roughly present as '1803'., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1820.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 hat streams a ribbon inscribed 'England expects every Man To do his Duty.' She wears a belt inscribed 'Belly Rough One' [Bellerophon] above the figure '74'. The scene is the quay-side between large cannon. A ship's boat rows out to a man-of-war at anchor."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Accommodation ladder
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Septr. 1st, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11809 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "85" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 210., Temporary local subject terms: Bellerophon., and Watermark: Basted Mill.
"A grotesquely fat woman, much decolletee, sits at a piano (left) singing and playing, her left foot on the pedal. With upturned eyes and gaping mouth she sings: "Just like love ..." [three times]. Her music book is open at: 'Just like Love a Favorite Song Sung by Mr Braham'. A fat man in old-fashioned dress, standing just behind her, his hands raised in surprise, turns to address two younger men who are fashionably dressed. He asks: "Don't my Lady play and Sing delightfully? she was finished under the famous Sigr Squawlletti." The man on the extreme right, holding his friend's arm, says: "By G- if the Signior had been under my Lady she would have finish'd him! would'nt She Sir Thomas." The other laughs: "Ha! Ha! Ha! come that's a good one!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Watermark: Cansell 1822.
"An ugly old man wearing night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers stands at an open window gazing up through a spy-glass at a comet shaped like a large shuttle-cock. Keys hang from his waist. Behind him (left) sits a pretty young woman, turning her head to look at the comet, but giving her right hand to a young man who kneels beside her, while she presses her foot on his. She wears a long fur boa over her evening dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue., State in the British Museum online catalogue numbered '91'., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Variant without publication date and series number. Cf. No. 11810 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
A grotesque-looking cook with a huge nose and a wart-covered head uses a rolling pin to roll out dough on a table with his knobby hands as mucus drips from his nose and drool streams from his gapping mouth. Behind him, a pretty maid leans against his back as she reaches up to a shelf to bring down a full platter of food as a mouse scampers off. On the table are two jars labeled "Minc'd meat for savoury pattes" and "Snuf box".
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication line from Grego., Numbered in upper right corner: 112., "Price one shilling coloured.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J [illegible] 1823., and Printing date not before 1823.
