A group of gentlemen seated at an oval table, with glasses full of wine, laugh uproariously at a joke as they look down at the dog at the foot of the table
"Plate 3: A street scene at night beside a corner shop adjoining a passage leading to an archway, inscribed [Cliffo]rds Inn, under the first floor of a tall house. The shop has a curved window filled with cakes, jelly-glasses, &c, and sweetmeats in el...
"Scene in a broad London street parallel with the west front of St. Paul's which tops the houses. A burly sailor, pointing with his thumb to St. Paul's, and holding a watch and seals, addresses a Jew old-clothes man who approaches him cringingly. The ...
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Title from caption below image.
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Pub. May 29, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond Street
"In a wheeled car, Louis XVIII careers down a wooden track (as on the Montagnes Russes in Paris), laid on a steep grass slope, towards a monster formed of a guillotine, from which diabolical talons extend, ready to clutch him. The car is partly throne...
Alternative Title:
Hint to the blind and foolish and Bourbon dynasty in danger!
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Title from caption below image.
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Pubd. March 10th 1823 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Four images on a single plate, each separately titled below image, each with series name and sequentially numbered; each containing separate imprint statements.
Four images on a single plate, each separately titled below image, each with series name and sequentially numbered; each containing separate imprint statements.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1823 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
"A roughly made jaunting-car on the sands of Dublin Bay proceeds towards the Pigeon House (right) at the end of the jetty (the South Bull). A young and an old woman sit back to back with an elderly man and a young one. The young people turn their head...
"A man stripped to the waist is dragged at the cart's tail while a man flogs him ferociously with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The scene is a dusty suburban road, with one house and trees. Boys run up cheering; a fish-woman stands to jeer."--British Museum on...
Alternative Title:
Backgammon
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Title from caption below image.
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Pub. July 23, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's & 74 New Bond St.
"The interior of a fashionable goldsmith's shop. A well-dressed woman stands at the counter where the proprietor peers through his eyeglass at a (?) bank-note; she hands a watch and chain to a fashionably dressed man seated beside her, who screens the...
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Title from item.
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Pub. July 23, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's & 74 New Bond St.
"A (?) Savoyard boy playing fife and tabor exhibits his dolls, two puppets on a string stretched between his knee and a stick. A Welsh milk-woman (left), with her pails hanging from a yoke, laughs. Two little girls (right) are amused; the younger make...
Alternative Title:
Marionettes à Londrés
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Title from caption below image.
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Pubd. Jany. 15, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
"Bedroom scene. A powerfully built man in greatcoat and top-boots throws a dandified youth out of a window, with stern concentration. The houses opposite, lit by a full moon, show that the ground is far below. The victim's head and shoulders are outsi...
In a sitting room, a man sits on the sofa his arms around two woman who sit on his knees while he turns his head to kiss a third woman who has climbed on the sofa and thrown her arms around his neck. Standing before the sofa, a second man angrily pull...
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Title from caption above and below image.
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Pubd. January, 1823, by S.W. Fores No. 41 Piccadilly
"Scene outside a large apothecary's shop, both windows filled with large coloured jars. Above the door is the sign, a terrestrial globe on which scales are balanced. Outside, a doctor in old-fashioned dress, acts as usher with a long wand to a band of...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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Pub. June 29, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Drugstores, Storefronts, Globes, Scales, Signs (Notices), Physicians, Infants, Containers, Undertakers, Staffs (Sticks), Skeletons, and Churches
"An obese man has dismounted to offer help to an injured man thrown from his horse. In the background (left) a second saddle-horse grazes and (right) three men run off with the victim's hat, whip, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image.
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Pub. May 12, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
"John Bull sits in a double pair of stocks, his ankles heavily shackled. His wrists are linked by a huge padlock inscribed Million £800 000 000 [National Debt]. He sits on bales of Taxes; to his back is tied a huge bundle of Last Wars Taxes. His cloth...
Alternative Title:
John Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street & 74 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Public debt, Taxes, Trees, Rocks, Stocks (Punishment), Forts & fortifications, Cannons, Devil, and Frogs
"A study of facial expression and gesture; five men. One, of mixed race wearing a cocked hat but out at elbows, registers furious anger, clenching his fist. The four others have features twisted in varying grimaces."--British Museum online catalogue
A scene in a bedroom: A doctor sits in a chair opposite his patient clothed in a robe and night cap who sits in a chair beside his canoped bed. A woman in a cap stands behind the doctor's chair with a concerned look on her face. The bedroom contains ...
"A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and m...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 10, 1823 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Dogs, Couples, and Courtship
A young gentlemen sits in a chair opposite three fashionable young ladies and their mother who are seated on a sofa. His wide grin suggests that he has amused himself with an anecdote, but the expressions on the ladies' faces indcate that he has faile...
"A fat bottle-nosed parson preaches from the upper story of a three-decker pulpit. Below him a lean curate sleeps, spectacles on forehead. A lank-haired rubicund clerk listens alertly. At the base of the design are the heads of a congregation, asleep,...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Preaching, Pulpits, Religious services, and Sleeping
In a elegant bedroom with a floral carpet, a young woman sits before at her vanity and gazes in the mirror as she applies make-up to her cheeks. Her fashionable dress and her hat are displayed on either side of her. In the background stands her curtai...
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Title from caption below image.
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Published by G. Humphrey 74 New Bond Street & 24 St. James's Street
"The man walks (right to left) on a mountainous landscape carrying a musket, and with knapsack, sword, and sheathed bayonet. In the front of his cap is a red cross on a white ground (like that of the modern Red Cross), a similar but smaller cross is o...
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Title from caption below image.
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Pub. May 8, 1823 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond Street
"A night scene, with a full moon, outside the corner house of a London square, an equestrian statue among trees in the background. A young officer in dandified uniform kneels on the cobbled roadway, shouting up to the house Fire! Fire! Fire! A lady, i...
Alternative Title:
Self introduction and declaration
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. June 29, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Row houses, Dandies, British, and Soldiers
"Pedestrians plod (left to right) through mud and driving rain; they are in the foreground, walking beside a stream of coaches, carts, and mounted officers. Some hold up dripping parasols. They wear fashionable summer dress, and are splashed to the wa...
"A sequence of three scenes, divided by vertical lines, each with title and inscription. [1] A Caution. A sailor, smartly dressed in top-hat, short blue jacket, and wide white trousers, stands at a church door, with a demurely dressed young woman on h...
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Title from caption above image.
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Pub. May 16, 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Picoidilly [sic]
"Caricature of the Holy Alliance (the rulers of Russia, Spain, Austria and Britain) seated round a table plotting to restore Ferdiand of Spain to his throne"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published Feb. 1823 by J. Dickinson, 114 New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Angoulême, Louis-Antoine d'Artois, duc d', 1775-1844, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833., and Congress of Verona
Subject (Topic):
Bulldogs, Monkeys, Bears, Masks, Flags, and Globes
"A wild turmoil of men and women in court dress or uniform outside Buckingham House, which is indicated in the background, with a covered way or awning leading to the doorway from the right. Two beefeaters stand before the door and above the crowd, ho...
Alternative Title:
Birthday hoax and April fools
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. April 24th, 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Picadilly[sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Esterházy, Prince, 1786-1866 v Caricatures and cartoons., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Subject (Topic):
Celebrations, Clergy, Crowds, Dandies, Military officers, and Nobility
"Carriages approach the east front of Buckingham House (left), watched by spectators. The first coach is stopped by a monster who stands on the shoulders of two beefeaters, wearing a cap inscribed Gout; flames issue from broad nostrils, barbed darts f...
Alternative Title:
Birthday hoax, or, The gout at court and Gout at court
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 28th, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Carriages & coaches, Monsters, Honor guards, Crowds, Sedan chairs, and Servants
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of...
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of...
Leaf 30. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Robinson, wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans forward from the right to place an extinguisher on the head of Fortune who sits in profile to the left, on a small globe, regardless of her fate. He says: Come Madam put on your Night Ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. September 18, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
Subject (Topic):
Fire extinguishers, Gems, Coins, Purses, Cornucopias, Children, Wash tubs, Soaps, Brooms & brushes, Shoemakers, Lotteries, and Taxes
"Robinson, wearing his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans forward from the right to place an extinguisher on the head of Fortune who sits in profile to the left, on a small globe, regardless of her fate. He says: Come Madam put on your Night Ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. September 18, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859
"A well-dressed crowd stand outside, enter, or struggle to enter a wide doorway, above which in large letters is No 5, flanking an elaborate fan-light. They mount steps from the street, throng the vestibule, and are seen through an open window (right)...
Leaf 72. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print of a country 'quack' doctor standing behind an alarmed looking female patient with his fingers in her mouth. A young boy stands on the left holding a dish and pliers. In the background stands a woman wearing a ... cape and holding the side of h...
Alternative Title:
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill and Field & Tuer
"Print of a country 'quack' doctor standing behind an alarmed looking female patient with his fingers in her mouth. A young boy stands on the left holding a dish and pliers. In the background stands a woman wearing a ... cape and holding the side of h...
Alternative Title:
Toothache, or, Torment and torture, Torment & torture, and Torment and torture
Description:
Titles etched below images.
Publisher:
Published August 1, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Three smartly-dressed man demonstrate the allure of roller-skating. The one in the lead calls back to an officer who attempts in vain to deliver a warrant
Alternative Title:
Summer and winter skait and Summer and winter skate
Admission ticket to the Phillips showing of Fonthill Abbey in 1823. The image on the ticket, enclosed within a double-pointed oval border, depicts the eastern towers of the house with the central tower beyond. Beneath are blank panels, left and right,...
Admission ticket to the Phillips showing of Fonthill Abbey in 1823. The image on the ticket, enclosed within a double-pointed oval border, depicts the eastern towers of the house with the central tower beyond. Beneath are blank panels, left and right,...
"A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and m...
Alternative Title:
Had I heart for falshood fram'd, I ne'er could injure you and Had I heart for falsehood framed, I never could injure you
Description:
Title from later state.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 10, 1823 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Dogs, Couples, and Courtship
