"A woman wearing a mob-cap, with tongue protruding and eyes wide, grasps her husband's left ear and raises a cudgel to strike him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 11' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Three lines of text below image: A termagent wife, a henpeck'd husband & a cudgel are three principal ingredients for bringing forward the passion of simple bodily pain, as may an unfortunate sufferer can witness., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 27.7 x 21.4 cm., Publisher's stamp "RA" below lower right corner of design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"The surface of a platform stretches across the design; on this Pitt (right), valiant but anxious, faces the massive Russian bear, Paul, behind whom stands a stout ferocious-looking Russian soldier (like a showman with a performing animal), nearsightedly reading a document: 'Be it known to all men, - that my master, - the most Magnanimous [see BMSat 9415] most puissant, most powerful and most wonderful great Bear of the north - being in his sound and sober senses - Challenges the Whole World to single combat - and commences his first trial of skill, here in Moorfields, after which it is his intention to persue his Travels, and visit every Court in Europe - Asia - Africa - and America'. The bear wears a plumed crown, a collar inscribed 'Paul Bruin', to which are attached the massive links of a chain. His drawn sword is 'Temper'd-á-lá-Suwarrow!' On his shield is a grotesque head with gaping mouth, and the inscription 'Swallow All O.' Pitt wears a plumed helmet and light armour. His sword is 'Temper'd á-lá Nelson', his shield is inscribed 'Howe', 'Duncan', 'Nelson', 'Jervaise' [St. Vincent], 'Warren', 'Parker'. The platform is surrounded by a dense and jovial crowd. The windows and roofs of the adjacent houses are crowded with tiny waving figures; a boy sits on the high wall before a bunding inscribed 'Moor Fields' and probably intended for Bedlam."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Magnanimous Paul O! Challenging all O!
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 7 of 14 volumes., and With pblisher's stamp in lower right corner of design: RA.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 January, 1801, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801, Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799, Duncan of Camperdown, Adam Duncan, Viscount, 1731-1804, Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805, St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823, and Warren, John Borlase, Sir, 1753-1822
"Portrait; head, in profile to the left, with pointed beard, in oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1837,0513.163., Window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in after page 200 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Alexr. McKenzie, No. 101 Berwick Street
Two rows of seven caricatured faces, in profile or looking out, of men and women
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker, artist and date of publication from Grego., Publisher based on embossed stamp in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.F., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Dated in a contemporary hand in lower right margin: June 1800.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Four columns of verse signed at the end "Hudibras" below image: First pans and kettles of all keys, from trebles, down to double bass ..., For earlier states, see no.1703 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Fairs: "Horn Fair", Charlton, Kent -- Banners: Horns and women's undergarments used as banners on stick -- Kitchen utensils: pots as noisemakers -- Ladles-- Horns: stag's horns -- Ram's horns -- Cow's horns -- Grain -- Distaffs -- Processions: Skimmington -- Buildings: cottages -- Boats: row-boat -- Alehouses -- Signs with horns -- Tubs -- Matrimony -- Countrymen -- Swans -- Shrews -- Literature: verse purported to be from Hudibras by Samuel Butler (1612-1680).
"A yokel in a smock laughs, clasping his side, with two others, who listen with sly grins. He has a pitchfork the others spade and rake. Behind is a cottage among trees; in the background a church spire. Below the design: 'Ods Dickins - I ha Play'd our New Parson such afunney trick, You must know he came to our house last Night in the midst of the Storm - so what does I do but persuades he to sleep with Wife & I - so I slips out of Bed this morning & leaves em both fast a sleep - Now thinks I as I shuts the door softly - how Foolish he will look when he finds himself alone in Bed with my Wife - an't that a good Joke now, ha, ha, ha.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New way to cheat the parson
Description:
Title etched above image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Three lines of text below title: Ods Dickins - I ha play'd our new parson such a funney trick. You must know he came to our house last night ..., and Plate numbered '244' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 12th May, 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Farmers, Gardening equipment & supplies, and Shirts
"View of the west front of Spencer House, from Green Park, figures in park in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Families-- Furniture: chairs -- Oval mirrors -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furnishings: patterned carpet -- Toys: horse on wheels.
Title etched below image., After a painting by John Giles Eccardt. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 383., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., and Mounted on page 71 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
