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.