"A view of the left side of the stage, including part of a stage box on the extreme left. From this leans a figure of Folly wearing a fool's cap with ass's ears, clapping his hands. Within the shadow of the box is the head of a staring owl (cf. British Museum Satires No. 5363). A frieze of dancing dogs (cf. British Museum Satires No. 16715) decorates the lower part of the box; above is a grinning mask flanked by dogs' heads. The capital of the Corinthian pilaster that flanks the stage is formed of dogs' heads. At its foot is a figure of Thalia covering her face with her hands. At the base of her pedestal is an open book: 'The Caravan or the Driver and his Dog a Farce.' This lies on and obscures another: 'The Critic or Tragedy rehearsed'. The front of the stage is filled with a large pool; in this a dog swims, his collar inscribed 'Carlo'; he holds the head of Sheridan above the water by his hair, saying: "------methinks it were an easy Leap" To dive into the bottom of the Deep" And pluck up drowned honour by ye Locks." ['1 Henry IV', I. iii.] Water gushes into the pool from left and right; on the righ from a mound of stone slabs on which is poised a wheeled dog-kennel. By the roof of the kennel are the heads of two enormous and camel-like dogs, muzzled (or bridled), and peering at Carlo; one partly obscures a notice-board on a post in the pool: 'Humane Socie[ty for] recovering drowning persons] It is recommended That Dog Kennels [should be] stationed at all Ho[uses of] public Entertainment for the Benefit of drowning persons.' The scenery is a water-side castle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New way to keep one's head above water
Description:
Title etched in lower right corner image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Text below title: Motto for the farce, And Folly clappd. his hands and Wisdom star'd. Churchill., Temporary local subject terms: Carlo -- Thalia -- Dancing Dog -- Folly -- Drury Lane., and Mounted on page 101.
Publisher:
Pubd. 17th Decr. 1803 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Str
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Stages (Platforms), Dogs, Owls, Fools' caps, and Masks
"Two fighting-cocks, with the heads of Napoleon and Pitt, face each other across the English Channel. Napoleon (left) has a large ruff of tricolour feathers and enormously long spurs, but his wings and tail feathers are clipped. His cliff is the higher; he leans forward, saying, "Eh Master Billy, if I could but take a flight over this Brook I would soon stop your Crowing, I would Knock you off that Perch, I swear by Mahomet, the Pope and all the Idols I have ever Worshiped." Pitt stands on a large royal crown which brings his feet almost to a level with those of Bonaparte; he stands erect, thus towering above his rival; he has very short spurs but a fine tail and wings; he crows: "Tuck a roo - too that you never can do!!!" Below them lies the sea with a fleet of ships in full sail close to the English coast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., and Mounted at the corners on a leaf: 29.5 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 27th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Game fowl, Cockfighting, Crowns, Cliffs, Bodies of water, and Ships
"Archbishop Moore stands in profile to the left, holding his episcopal tricorne in his (gloved) left hand. He wears a short bushy powdered wig, episcopal waistcoat and apron, with stockings and buckled shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 37 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Two lines of descriptive text below title: This man gets his livelihood by attending the different coffee houses, &c. and playing a concerto on seven drums, accompanied by a full band ; he was sometimes coachman to Robspierre & executioner of that unfortunate monarch Louis the Sixteenth., Plate numbered '316' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 3, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from text below image., Text above design: Frontspiece to the European Magazine volume 43., One line of topographical prose preceding title: A house the corner of Break-neck stairs, Greene Harbour Court, Old Bailey., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: Lamp -- Laundresses -- Clothes: Horses -- Signs: Chimney sweeps -- Street scenes --Old Bailey: Green Harb our Court, Break-neck stairs -- Allusion to Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774.
Publisher:
Publsih'd by J. Asperne, successor to the late Mr. Sewell, Cornhill
Title from letterpress broadside printed on same sheet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Broadside printed by: D. N. Shury, Berwick-Street, Soho., Twelve lines of text below title on broadside: To you, my dearest Nancy, I entrust my greatest charge--my children:--should I fall in the glorious cause, my famiy will receive succour from the fostering hand of my generous country ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand, London and D. N. Shury, Berwick-Street, Soho
"Three handsome young men, stooping slightly, walk languidly arm-in-arm along a pavement in profile to the left. They have a strong family resemblance, with variations in profile and in the size of their whiskers. They are dressed alike, except for differently curving hat-brims, in tail-coats with sleeves gathered at the shoulder, but without the clumsy bulk of the Jean-de-Bry, cf. BMSat 9425, stocks resembling those worn by Skeffington, see BMSat 9557, but less extravagantly swathed, frilled shirts, double-breasted outer waitcoats, riding-breeches, and boots with deep tops. Their long powdered hair is tied, and their coats are thickly frosted with powder, cf. BMSat 8190. They do not carry canes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 38 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from text above and below image., Caption below image in lower left: Sore throat., Caption below image in lower right: Dry gripe[sus?]., Description based on imperfect impression; final digit of year in imprint has been erased from sheet and a "3" written in its place., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Sofa -- Hell -- Sun -- Sickle -- Zodiac signs: Crab -- Lion., and Print caption in lower right of sheet has been slightly altered in ms.
Publisher:
Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica and Jamaica.
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Opium abuse, Yellow fever, Diseases, Devil, Drug abuse, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Umbrellas
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Letterpress broadside printed by: D.N. Shury, Berwick-Street, Soho., Fourteen lines of text below title on broadside: You are now, young man, entering on a scene of life the most glorious and enterprising--that of an English sailor ..., Temporary local subject terms: Invasion broadside., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Published at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand, London
