"A grotesque body of tradesmen, &c, march in close formation, with fixed bayonets. They wear military coats and crossed bandoliers with very unsoldierly foot-gear and appurtenances. Their leader (right) marches in profile to the right, a very short and fat butcher in over-sleeves wearing a feathered cocked hat above his butcher's cap, a military sash (from which hangs his steel) over an apron. He carries a banner on which St. George is killing the dragon. The front rank consists of (left to right): a cobbler wearing an apron, with the twisted shins known as cheese-cutters, and tattered stockings; a bricklayer, with thick gouty legs, a trowel thrust through his apron-string; an artist, his palette inscribed 'R.A', very thin and with a grotesquely thin neck; his toes project through a tattered boot of fashionable shape; a tailor with shears and tape-measure, a hairdresser with scissors and combs wearing a fashionable stock. On the left of this front rank a dwarfish drummer, an old campaigner with two wooden legs and one eye, beats his drum. Behind, the men recede in perspective, densely packed together."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text following title: "The French invade us, hay? Damme, who'se afraid?", Temporary local subject terms: Militias -- Trades: cobblers -- Butchers -- Tailors -- Hairdressers -- Brick-layers -- Artists -- Drummers -- Wooden legs -- Eye patches -- Banners: St. George and the dragon -- Reference to Pitt's proposal (Oct. 1796) for supplementary militia., and Mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Title etched below image., Attributed to Cruikshank by George., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '171' in lower left corner., Three lines of text below image: Pray Sir lay your hand on this book ... ., and Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers: justices -- Food: bacon -- Civil uniforms: epaulettes with aglets -- Male dress: aglets -- Customs: claiming the flitch of bacon.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Volume 2, page 94. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two sailors stand behind a stout woman with a mischievous look on her face and eagerly attempt to embrace her. A soldier wearing a tricorne and carrying a musket stands on the right and watches the scene. An arched passageway is visible on the wall in the background; a low pylon with chains attached is seen on the far left
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 94 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Title from item., Della Crusca was the pseudonym used by poet Robert Merry. Merry is not known to have produced graphic works. He appears to be the subject of this caricature., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: coat -- Literature: Quotation from John Dryden's Alexander's Feast., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 23, 1796, by J. Aiken, Castle Str., Leicester Fields
"The Archduke Charles of Austria, directing military operations, stands on a bluff in profile to the left, right arm extended, his left hand rests on his sword. He wears laced coat and waistcoat, with a star, and spurred jack-boots. He has a long pigtail queue; in his enormous cocked hat, one point of which hangs before his face, the other over his shoulders, is an olive-branch. In the background clouds of smoke rise from an invisible battle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archduke
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Olive branch.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 15th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 33 x 46 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of imprint; mounted to 34 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Thirteen lines of text in two columns on both sides of title provide description of the animals in the menagerie numbered in the image., and Temporary local subject terms: Economy: subsidies to allies -- Menageries -- Cages -- Crowns -- Money: guineas -- Male dress: Highland dress -- Personifications: Austrian leopard -- Prussian eagle -- Gallic cock -- Dutch frog -- Sardinian hedgehog -- Russian bear -- Swedish pig -- Condé mouse -- Brunswick mouse -- Neapolitan bat -- Pope as the 'Whore of Babylon'.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 5th 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal shows, Leopards, and Lions
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 January 1796]
Call Number:
796.01.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in a circle. Two elderly men watch a small boy seated at a small round table, devouring a plum-pudding, with a countrified footman standing sourly behind his chair, hand in pocket. The admiring grandfather points to the child, turning to his friend: 'That Boy my good friend is a prodigy of human understanding, he is up every morning exploring the works of Nature* he will make his way through the world depend upon it - As to making his way through the world Neighbour I am no great judge but I think he seems to be in a fair road to make his way through the Pudding. *Hunting of Butterflies.' See BMSat 9810 a, p. 496."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Grand-papa's darling
Description:
Title from item., Six lines of text below title: That boy, my good friend, is a prodigy ..., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening. Prints & drawings lent out on plan of a circulating library., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: child's dress, 1796 -- Christmas food -- Furnishings: window curtains -- Furniture: tea table -- Domestic service: footmen., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Januy. 20th, 1796 by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Grandparents, Mirrors, Plum puddings, and Servants
"The Prince of Wales, very fat and pompous, in night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers, walks in profile along a corridor leading from his own door (right), above which are his coronet and feathers, towards that of Lady Jersey, which is wide open and reveals its occupant holding apart the bed-curtains with a gap-toothed grin. Lord Jersey, dwarfish, shambling, and elderly, dressed in nightcap and night-shirt (on which is a 'J' with a coronet), stands by the door, holding a candle and pointing to the bed; he raises his night-cap deferentially to the Prince, who says, with contemptuous arrogance, 'va-t-en' (see BMSat 8809). The Prince walks on a fringed strip of carpet. On the open door behind Lord Jersey is 'A [torn] Map of the Road into the Harbour of Jer[sey]'; the islands of 'Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and [Je]rsey' are depicted, with a route leading to Jersey (cf. BMSat 8810)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Adultery -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Pictures amplifying subject: torn map of the road into the harbour of Jersey -- Coronets -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Male dress: nightshirt -- Nightcaps.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
"The Princess of Wales (left), candle in hand, approaches the bed of the Prince, who wakes up, raising his hands in dismay. Lady Jersey (here, an attractive woman, cf. BMSat 8811) is asleep, her head on the Prince's shoulder, her arms round his neck. The distressed Princess wears a coronet and triple ostrich plume, her right arm is flung back. Behind her (left) is an open door through which is seen the baby princess in a cradle ornamented with the Prince's feathers, with which his bed is also decorated. On the twisting draperies of the bed is the star of the Garter. Above the Princess's head hangs a 'Map of the Road back to Brunswick'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Good cause for seperation, Good cause for separation, and Good cause for discontent
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "seperation" has been scored through and the word "discontent" inserted above it using a caret., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Adultery -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Pictures amplifying subject: map of the road back to Brunswick., and Mounted to 35 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 24th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821