"One of a set of prints by one or more artists on the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The interior of a well-furnished room. The Prince of Wales (left) takes the hand of Mrs. Fitzherbert and is about to put the ring on her finger. The officiating minister (left), Weltje, stands in profile to the right holding a book inscribed 'Matrimony' and 'Hoyle's Games'. From his pocket issues a paper, 'Weltjie's Natn Bill'. A cork-screw and another implement hang from his waist by a jewelled chain, simulating a rosary and cross; he wears a long gown over fashionably cut clothes. Next Mrs. Fitzherbert (right) stands George Hanger, giving her away; he wears regimentals with a huge cocked hat; under his left arm is a bludgeon (cf. BMSat 7116). The Prince wears the insignia of the Garter, Mrs. Fitzherbert (poorly characterized) wears a triple ostrich plume in her hair with the motto 'Ich dien'. On the wall are two pictures: a three quarter length portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, and (right) a Leda and the Swan, partly concealed by a curtain which fills the upper right corner of the design. Beneath the Leda is a semicircular table on which are vases and a book, 'Love's Last Shift' (Cibber's play). A hanging candelabra is part of the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marriage of Figaro
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In lower right corner: Price 2s. 6d., Subjects of character identified by inscriptions on their clothing., Temporary local subject terms: Prussian officers' uniforms -- Furniture -- Pictures that amplify subject -- Literary allustions: Love's Last Shift by Colley Cibber -- Holcroft's Follies of the Day., Watermark in center of sheet., and In manuscript on verso: Horace Walpole sat 8:2.
Publisher:
Published March 13th 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
"A fox with the head of Fox sits in profile to the right, one paw on the forehead of a life-like bust of the Prince of Wales, which he has carved; his mallet and chisels lie on the ground. He says: "What a goodly figure this makes! what a Pity that it should want Brains. Esops Fab." Two other pieces of sculpture stand on pedestals: (left) a whole length statue of a woman, kneeling on one knee in profile to the left, partly draped, having a certain resemblance to Mrs. Fitzherbert; a head (right) wearing a laurel wreath in profile to the left, looking up at Fox and the Prince; it has the long nose of Hanger, but is perhaps intended for Aesop."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to George Townley Stubbs in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,4.57., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides., and Partial watermark at top center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 2, 1786 by W.S. [sic] Fores at the Caracature Ware-House, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Titles engraved below images., Plate originally issued in: "Histories of the tete-a-tete annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, xviii, 171., The two illustrations are numbered "No. X" and "No. XI" in upper left above each oval, respectively., Temporary local subject terms: Sir L. Gideon -- Jews in England., and Mounted to 20.3 x 27.8 cm, with pages [171]-174 of Town and Country Magazine, xviii.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1786 by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
"John Bull stands full-face, shouting and stamping with rage, on a block of turf inscribed 'Land-Tax 4s in the pound'. Across his shoulders are two yokes, one inscribed 'National - Debt &c', the other 'Civil-List &c.'; from the four ends hang objects representing taxes. From the left end of the former dangles a figure made up of barrels, bars, &c, the head represented by lighted 'Candles'; it is inscribed 'Excise-Man'; the rope attaching it to the yoke is 'Excise'. Its right hand (left), inscribed 'Auctions', holds out an auctioneer's hammer; the left holds a bottle of Wine, in a stand inscribed 'Plate'. The other portions of the body are inscribed 'Beer', 'Tea', 'Cyder', 'Spirits', 'Malt', 'Tobacco', 'Calico', 'Hides', 'Glass', 'Soap', 'Coffee', 'Chocolate'. Between its legs are the words 'Licenses &c. &c.' The head of a crocodile inscribed 'New Taxes' extends from the lower left corner of the design, directing a barbed tongue at the Excise Man. From the other end of this yoke a bundle of scrolls dangles from a rope inscribed 'Taxes: Maid Servants, Men Servants, Carriages &c, Game, Places, &c &c.' A similar bundle of Stamps hangs from the left end of the Civil-List yoke: 'Medecines', 'Warrants of Attorney', 'Cards & Dice', 'Almanacks', 'Notes', 'Horses', 'Receipts', 'Bonds &c', 'News-papers', 'Pamphlets', '&c. &c.' From the right end of this yoke hangs a pyramid of barrels, sacks, &c, its rope inscribed 'Customs:' they are inscribed respectively, 'Wine', 'Cloth', 'Leather', 'Salt', 'Pepper', 'Coals', 'Sugar', 'Wool', 'Tobacco &c &c.' ..."--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
"Soldiers discovering brandy in women's bustles by the Paris gates."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Brandy-rumps detected
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution by repository: Henry Kingsbury., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved beneath the title, three lines of explanatory text: Two fashionable females contrived to fill bladders wtih brandy which they substituted for rumps, and thus equipped in the most outré prominence of the mode passed several times unsuspected through the gates of Paris, smuggling no inconsiderable quantity of brandy. The frequency of their excursions caused suspicion among the officers who attempted to touch their garments but were repulsed with affected modesty. They however with the points of their swords [?] pierced what now-a-days is usually made of cork, when lo! a fountain of brandy played from each orifice, to the great diversion of the spectators, and the no small confusion of the Fair ones., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costumes -- Derrières -- Bosoms., Watermark in center of sheet: L., and In manuscript at top of sheet: 54. On verso: Offset of un-identified musical score.
Publisher:
Pub'd May the [...] 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. E [sic] Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, French, Military uniforms, Monks, and Gates
Three oval designs, two above with a larger one below, illustrating three satirical toasts: Honor and honesty; Love and loyalty; Fitz and good company. In the first, a man sits at a table, in his hand is a cup for rolling dice and on the table some coins and a playing card (the knave of clubs). In the second image (upper right) a man, pen in hand, writes a letter "No. 45 To the ...", on the table a book entitled "Essay on woman". In the image at the bottom, a couple (George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert) embrace; on the table in front of the pair is a book "Morris's songs."
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, October 20, 1786 at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Volume 2, page 46. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman reclining on a bed at left with her breasts exposed, at right a man lying in the arms of an angel; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Genii takes beddridin Hassen from the bed of the beautiful lady and lays him at the gates of Damascus and Genii takes bedridden Hassen from the bed of the beautiful lady and lays him at the gates of Damascus
Description:
Title from text below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 23d, 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone
Volume 2, page 46. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman reclining on a bed at left with her breasts exposed, at right a man lying in the arms of an angel; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Genii takes beddridin Hassen from the bed of the beautiful lady and lays him at the gates of Damascus and Genii takes bedridden Hassen from the bed of the beautiful lady and lays him at the gates of Damascus
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 46 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching in bistre ink on laid paper ; sheet 30.6 x 36.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 23d, 1786, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attribution to Dent in British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Kitchen utensils -- Saveall -- Door of the Treasury -- Pensions -- Debts of George IV -- Quebec Act -- Livery of London., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd as the act directs, for the proprietor, by J. Carter, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808, and Watson, Brook, 1735-1807
"A man wheels a wheelbarrow towards the spectator; his progress is impeded by two ladies who stand one on each side of him facing each other in profile; their enormously projecting breasts touch each other in front of the man's chest. They wear wide-brimmed hats and petticoats extended at the back."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Barrow man embarrass'd and Barrow man embarrassed
Description:
Title etched below image., For a later state published 16 January 1787 by H. Humphrey, see no. 7245 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costumes -- Derrières -- Bosoms.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 16 1786 by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court St. Martins Lane
