Three officers dine at a small round table, waited on by two young soldier-servants. one ,standing stiffly, holds a bottle of wine behind his back; an arm (in uniform) extends from a curtain to take it.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; imprint partially erased with possible loss of publication date., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With: Eyes right.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication based on watermark., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London?], [1836?]., A reduced copy of no. 5084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from sheet., Shading added in pencil to lower part of design., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
"An elderly, spinsterish, and ugly woman, three-quarter length, holds in her left hand a spy-glass (or microscope) which touches the circumference of a large circle, representing a magnified drop of water, filled with grotesque and horrifying aquatic creatures, from the quasi-whale to mere specks. She turns aside in disgust, looking towards the picture-plane, and dropping a full tea-cup. The Paul Pry of the signature raises his hat to a tiny pump, saying, Glad to see you hope to meet you in every Parish through London."--British Museum
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily published the largest collection of any house in town., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Text above image begins: Microcosm dedicated to the London Water Companies ...
"A magistrate sits behind his table listening intently to the angry harangue of a naval officer (right) who faces the accused (left), demure-looking, plainly-dressed woman, wearing a checked apron tucked round her waist, but evidently a prostitute. She is supported by two keen-looking lawyers. The officer, who is paunchy and wears very wide white trousers, stands with legs apart, right arm extended with pointing forefinger. He shouts: No. No. I've found my Breeches, but consider your Worship how I shall be Quized--The L--d H--h-A--l knows all about it. I never was before the Public but once, shant forget that in a hurry--Yes--yes I found the breeches, but where's my Silver Gilt Trafalgar Medal eh? I'll have it if it costs me a Thousand Pounds. I could'ent live without it. Ay Ay she's the Thief but I will not hang her unless your worship wishes it--If I had her aboard my Ship D--n me I'de give her a round dozen--I would. Behind him stand a footboy in livery and two rough-looking men. The woman extends both arms and says pathetically I never robbed you Sir. The lawyer says: There's no proof you cant Harm--her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Sheet trimmed: 26 x 37 cm., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827., and Numbered in manuscript at top of sheet: 71.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Aprons, Boys, Judges, Lawyers, Military officers, Prostitutes, and Servants
"A bear (right), wearing Cossack trousers and an imperial crown surmounted by a double-headed eagle, runs off to the right. He carries a piece of mountainous country inscribed Greece on which kneels a tiny Greek in profile to the left, exclaiming Save me from my Friends. The bear (the Tsar) tramples on the neck of a turkey, with the bearded, turbaned, and terrified head of the Sultan, which lies on its back. The bear looks fiercely over his shoulder towards an angry English sailor who sits in an open boat with a cannon mounted in the bows. The sailor wears a top-hat with a ribbon inscribed Navar[ino, see BM Satires No. 15507, &c]; he has dropped an oar to lean back, extending his clenched fist towards the bear, and shouting: Halloo--master-drop that, or d--me I'll run along side of you, in no time. Cannon-balls are piled in the stern; above them flies a Union flag topped by oak leaves. On the farther side of the water (left) stands Charles X, a capering French fop in the dress of the ancien régime, with a cane under his arm. He says: By gar he is take away all de Greece. The scene is watched from a distance by the Emperor of Austria, who draws his sword, saying, I should like a bit of that."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Imperial bears grease or a peep into futurity
Description:
Title from caption below image; the letters "a" and "s" in the word "grease" are crossed out and the letters "e" and "c" etched above to form the word "Greece.", Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 223.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836
Subject (Topic):
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, Bears, Crowns, Sailors, British, National emblems, Russian, and Turkeys
Title from caption below images., Design composed of two panels separated by a space with text: Wide as the poles asunder., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to temperance -- Representation of evils -- Virtues., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 70.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and A. Ducotè lithog. 10, St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Families, Fish, Fishing, Gin, Vice, and Water
Title from caption below image., Caption continues: " ... the enjoyments of a comfortable fire-side, Logic all happiness Corinthian, Tom at his ease the "old folks" in their glory the "uncommonly big gentleman" told out taking forty winks!", Sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement partially erased from sheet., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A complicated piece of machinery fills the centre of a room in a fashionable establishment; an open door (right) leads into a shop where, in the background, a pretty and extravagantly dressed woman (in the costume of c. 1828) presides at a counter; above the door is a model of the machine, 'Patent Shavograph!!!' Through a window (left) is seen the 'Ladies Hair Cutting Room': another machine operates on seated ladies, whose long hair is raised perpendicularly into the mechanism. Above the window is an erection of erect loops of hair, burlesquing the fashion. A dandy, waiting his turn, ogles the ladies through his monocle. Another, sitting on a chair (left), reads a newspaper, 'Herald'. The 'Shavograph' operates from right to left upon the customers who sit on a circular bench, each with his head held firm in a wedge cut from a millstone-like disk (B) at the back of his seat. The razor has just sliced off the nose of an officer who stands gesticulating wildly, putting his hand before splashing blood while one dismayed neighbour rises from his seat, and the other shouts 'Stop! Stop!' Four men on the left, waiting their turn for the razor, &c, to reach them, are unconscious of the accident. One is having his head pressed into position by a rod held by a fashionably dressed man (H) who is also working a lever. Below the design, in the border of the print: 'EXPLANATION. AAA a circular form on which the shavees sit. BBBBBB wheels that govern the position of the head. CC [cog-wheels] the machinery which moves the brush in every required direction. D a resevior [sic] of water [above the brush], boiling hot E a pipe [connecting F and D] filld with patent double compress'd shaving powder, through which the water is forced to forme a lather in the brush F. GGG [cog-wheels] the machinery which moves the razor H the Engineer with his directing rod. (Note) it is indispensible that the sitter should be firm & steady, it will be percived [sic] the neglecting this by looking after the Shop woman has cost one his nose, but he only pays the penalty of his own imprudence. "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.' (This phrase is attributed to David Copperfield (1849) in the Oxford Dict, of Quotations, but Micawber was evidently quoting."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Shortshanks in the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text below image begins: Explanation. AAA a circular form on which the shavees sit ..., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Text above image: I'd be a butterfly., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"An inverted wine-glass (claret shape), partly fluted, represents a woman; the bowl is a bell-shaped petticoat, the stem a pinched waist and bodice; the wide base forms the brim of her plateau-hat on which stands a cork with a metal rim and upstanding ring to form the narrow jam-pot crown (cf. BM Satires No. 15466). On the base (or brim) are bunches of grapes from which hang trails of vine leaves. Tied symmetrically to the stem are two pears, representing inflated sleeves, the stalks serving for wrists and hands. Below the design six lines of verse
Alternative Title:
Desert-imitation of modern fashion! and Dessert-imitation of modern fashion!
Description:
Title from text above image., Print signed using a varient of William Heath's device: A man with a raised glass rather than an umbrella. Also with the lines in a speech balloon: What have we got here by Jove what we are all fond of a Lass & à Glass my service to you Gents tis but a frail fair after all., Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Six lines of verse below image: Turn a tumbler up side down, The foot for a hat and a cork for the crown, Some grapes for trimming, will give an air, And as for Sleeves have ready a pear, When join'd to gather tis sure to tell, A picture true, of a modern belle.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
"A man in quasi-fashionable dress with spurred top-boots and knee-breeches gapes oafishly at a print-shop window, while a little boy, respectably dressed, takes a purse from his breeches-pocket, having already twitched a handkerchief from the coat-tail pocket which hangs inside out. Behind (right) a lady stares through an eye-glass. In each pane of the curved window of a corner-shop (Berthoud's?) is a print. One of the Devil faces a portrait of the 'Duke of Wellington'; these are 'The Pair Half a Crown' [cf. BM Satires Nos. 13826, 15646]; 'Up to every thing' is a tall soldier, taking the hand of a woman at a first-floor window; 'A Loan' is BM Satires No. 14993; 'Man of Taste' is a man at the counter of a ham and beef shop (cf. BM Satires No. 13127); 'Remember the Post Boy your Honor', scene in an inn yard. There are other prints, one is a double sheet: 'Joe Lisle Play upon words'. There is a Paul Pry (not resembling Liston, cf. BM Satires No. 15138), and against the pickpocket's head is a print of an empty gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Publisher:
Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Boys, City & town life, Merchandise displays, Pickpockets, Prints, Stores & shops, and Witnesses
A groggy surgeon-apothecary, awakened by knocking below, shouts down from an open window to an unseen patient requesting a night visit. He wears a nightcap and has a burning candle beside him. Two cats scurry away from the commotion, causing flower pots to tumble off the ledge. On the wall of the building, to the left of the window, is a depiction of a mortar and pestle as well as a sign reading "Hand in Hand Assurance" beneath two hands joined together (the emblem of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Office). The sign beneath the window reads "Cawdle, Accoucheur & Apothecary. NB. Bleeding, Cupping, Tooth Drawing &c. &c."
Description:
Title etched below image., 'Ego' is the pseudonym of M. Egerton. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three lines of dialogue below title: Who are you? (Damn the cats!) What d' ye want young woman, hey? Oh, Sir, master begs you'll step over directly as Missus, if you please sir, is taken very bad in a a a !!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Midwives, Obstetrics, Drugstores, Windows, Flowerpots, Cats, and Signs (Notices)
A group of men sit around a table celebrating the new year as the clock passes midnight. Several of the men are quite drunk and one has fallen from his chair. Others laugh and talk as they toast each other with glasses of wine. One man is wearing a punch bowl on his head as his companion toasts the crowd with another steaming bowl of punch. The bowl is elaborately decorated with an oriental theme
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Geo. Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1828.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Kissing -- Soldiers -- City scenes.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Five lines of text below title: A a y'r place 'll not do for me Mum the bed's not long enough! ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Hunt, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
A scene in a restaurant: A large, red-faced landlord in an apron stands before a man who is about to eat his meat. A little dog eats his meat at the side of the customer. Below the image: Capital Joint this Landlord 'pon my Soul, Here's Cut and Come again. Yes, Sir ther's Cut, to be sure, but I'll be--- if ever You shall Come again
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Six lines of text below title: Capital joint this landlord 'pon my soul ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Hunt, 18 Tavistock Stt., Covent Garden
Titles from text above each design., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Dogs dressed in gentleman's coats and breeches meet around a table covered in papers. They address a dog in a police uniform who stands at attention to receive instructions. The figure at the head of the table address him, "And d'ye hear! destroy every Dog you find not Muzzled."
Alternative Title:
Dogmatism
Description:
Title etched below image., Date completed with "28" written in ink., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Animal control, Animals in human situations, and Dogs
A stereotyped image of an old maid who wears a cap and sits very upright in a high-back chair as she reads a newspaper, The Morning Herald. She has a large, hooked nose and wears spectacles, her lips pursed with disapproval at what she reads. She has a cat in her lap and a parrot sits on the chair back; her feet rest on the fire grate before the stove on which sits a kettle. In the foreground on a carpet and a rug beside her are three dogs. On the table beside her are a box of snuff and back-scratcher. A folding screen forms the background. On the mantel are a pair of statuettes of a woman with a spear and a dog leaping at her side (presumably Diana) and a taxidermized cat in a glass case. The picture on the wall above these objects further amplify the subject
Alternative Title:
Misanthropy
Description:
Title from caption below image ; the second "s" in "Miss" and the second "n" in "Ann" are lightly crossed out, suggesting the word "misanthropy.", Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Misanthropy, Single women, Newspapers, Kettles, Parrots, Snuff, Dogs, Cats, and Taxidermy
Title from text above image; title lacks closing quotation marks., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with a top hat., Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily published., Text below image: If fashions various laws you would obey, the petticoat abridge: the ankle full display. July 1828., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily publishing.
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Six lines of text below: Proteus: Zounds shew me what thoul't do woul't weep? woul't right? woul't fast? woul't tear thyself? ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 22 x 31cm.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 6 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets -- Couples -- Fighting.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 7 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 8 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 9 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 10 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 11 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 12 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 13 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 14 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 15 in a series of 23 plates., Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 16 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 17 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 18 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 19 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 20 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 21 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 22 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information derived from frontispiece to the series., Number 23 in a series of 23 plates., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clowns -- Puppets.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below image: A fool to pleasure yet a slave to fame, say what can cause such impotence of mind? ..., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image., and Temporary local subject terms: Monkeys -- Animals in human situations.
Publisher:
Published 1828 by Moon, Boys, & Graves, 6 Pall Mall
"George IV, with a swathed and gouty leg, stands in front of the throne, supported by Lady Conyngham and a crutch, his arm round her shoulder. Peel stands partly hidden by a curtain and immediately behind Wellington, his mouthpiece; he speaks into a speaking-trumpet, the stem of which passes from Wellington's ear to his mouth from which the trumpet projects. From this mouthpiece issue the words: I feel happy in being allowed thro any medium, however degrading to communicate my expressions of sincere devotion TO-- The King interrupts him: PLACE--hat will do Arthur, always keep between me and that fellow -- he rings such a peil in our Ears. Lady Conyngham turns to the King, pointing to the trumpet: This is a contrivance of my own -- I hate the sight of him & now your M-y can keep him at a distance. She wears a towering coiffure of loops of hair decorated with flowers. Beside Peel: To join with Christian Jew or Turk In doing any dirty Work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 174.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
A full-length view of a woman in an elaborate costume, with feathers and on her dress and flowers in her big hair
Description:
Title etched above image., Text following title: To be continu'ed., Four lines of verse below image: To see our feather'd nymph appear in all her flaunting glittering gear ..., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and printmaker's signature., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Signed in contemporary hand on verso: ...[?] Porter.
"Fashionably dressed men and women, in acute discomfort, hasten from right to left. A lady in the foreground (right) taking the arm of a dandy resembles Mrs. Robertson, see British Museum Satires No. 14557. There is a background of bushes and trees. The head of a black footman, wearing a cocked hat, pops up from behind a bush. On the extreme right is part of the Pump Room, with central cupola and pillared portico."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tis necessary to quicken your motions
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: The Royal Well, Cheltenham., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Cheltenham (England)
Subject (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, Health resorts, Dandies, British, and Servants
A group of dogs of various breeds sit around a table playing cards or rouletttes. A cat playing with a box in the lower left is frightened by one dog who leaps at it from its chair. Another dog on a cushion (right) looks at the hand of one dog at the table
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1827.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Didsbury, 22 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Card games, Cats, and Dogs
