Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans and "Two elderly men, whose family resemblance is pronounced, sit directed to the left, behind a counter running diagonally across the design. They are manipulating small scales; one (left) has his hand in a canister of 'Coffee'. Close behind them is the wall, showing the arrangement of a grocer's shop: deep drawers interspersed with shelves on which are sugar-loaves and canisters of tea. The latter are inscribed respectively: 'Hyson', 'Bloom', 'Hyson', '[Souc]hong', 'Congo', 'Bohea'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Polite grocers of the Strand
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Andrew Bell and printmaker attribution to Edmund Scott suggested in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7364, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., "While [Dorothy] George identifies the brothers as John and Richard Twining, [Sir Ambrose] Heal identifies them as John and Aaron Trim, grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand. This is backed up by another plate in the Heal collection that names Aaron and John Trim under their portrait (see Heal,Portraits.194)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,Portraits.193., and Probably a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric musuem; or, Magazine of remarkable characters.
Publisher:
Published May 21, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Pauls
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England), England, London, and The Strand.
Subject (Name):
Twining, Richard, 1749-1824., Twining, John, 1760-1827., Trim, Aaron, active 1793-1807., and Trim, John, active 1793-1807.
"The interior of the Foundling Hospital Chapel, seen from the east gallery which stretches across the foreground. In this a man seizes the left. arm of a plainly dressed woman by both hands and attempts to eject her trom a pew. She clings to the back of the seat, and holds up an open book: 'Thou shalt do no Murder Lord have Mercy upon as & incline our hearts to ke[ep] this Law'; this obscures the head of her assailant. Behind the man, is wife, flauntingly dressed, hurries into the pew, clenching her fist. In her right. hand is a long stick whose head is composed of the masks of a man and a cat, back to back. She has ringlets with feathers and drapery in her hair. The other three galleries are crowded. Opposite is the organ, flanked by ascending rows of girls (l.) and boys (r.). A sea of heads is in the body of the church, looking up at the brawl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate for Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Plate to Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., and Mounted to 45 x 35 cm.
"Trotter walks off from the Bank of England with two sacks under his arm, one inscribed 'I [...] 000. Newland, appearing in the doorway (left), hurries after him, saying, "Hollo sir - where are you going with those bags!" On the opposite side of the street is a pawnshop where Melville, in bonnet and plaid, looks out over its half-door. Trotter answers: "I am only trotting over with them to Johnny Mac Crees Banking House!" Melville says: "Hoot awa mon! - dinna be afraid - they will be as safe with me as in your ain Strong box." On the pawnshop door are the words 'Money Lent' and the three balls or pawnbroker's sign."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Abraham Newland alarm'd and Abraham Newland alarmed
Description:
Title etched below image. and Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5, 1805, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Trotter, Alexander, 1750-1830, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Bank of England.
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Trials (Impeachment), Misconduct in office, Money, Pawnshops, and Ethnic stereotypes
"The pair, seated in a gig, drive (r. to left.) along a country road, preceded by a mongrel dog carrying a large bone. The man drives the miserable hack with the air of an expert, flicking a heavy lash over the animal's neck. He is smartly dressed with side-whisker, swathed neck-cloth, high collar, and top-boots. His almost spherical wife takes his arm. She holds a little closed parasol, and wears gloves above we elbow. The feather and trimmings of her hat float behind her in the wind. On the side of the gig is a pestle and mortar, showing that the man is an apothecary. The emaciated and decrepit horse has broken knees and gaping wounds under the collar and harness; one pastern is swollen. Birds fly towards it, scenting carrion. A broken milestone (r.) is inscribed 'Miles from London'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cockney and his wife going to Wycombe
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Two lines of quoted text emphasizing a lingual accent follow title: "Vednesday vas a week, my vife & I vent to Vest Vycombe, & vhether it vas the vind, or vhether it vas ...
Publisher:
Publish'd June 10th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie or sit, legs in the air."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fundamental error in the art of skating, Elements of skateing : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting, and Elements of skating : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A French dancing-master (l.), holding up his 'kit' or dancing-master's fiddle and bow at arm's length, addresses a group of representative British characters (r.). He says: "Monsieur, Sare, every ting depend pon lam to dance, widout dat you can do no ting at all in dis Worlt, for if you will get a Wife wid great deal Money, eh by Gar! you must dance away to Scotland, if you run in debt ver much, eh by Gar you must dance away from your Creditor, if you want a place from de great Lor, eh by Gar you must dance attendance, oh all de World dance every day, de Frenchman he dance after de Liberté, de Spaniard he dance away from Lor Nelson, den Lor Nelson dance after him, de Italian he dance to de Opera, den dance away wid your Money de Alderman he dance after de Turtle, so voila all de World von grand contré dance." A burly well-dressed Irish fortune-hunter says gloomily: "Arrah my dear Honey! and haven't I danced all the way from Sligo in order to pick up a Tight little partner to Jigg it to Scotland with me, and pay the piper into the bargain by Jasus to be sure I have." A raffish man, in ill-fitting clothes of fashionable intention, says: "Thats a Devilish good Hint, Monseer, so I'll lead off, without waiting for a partner, or some of my Creditors will be for Calling the Dance." A fat ugly 'cit' says: "O dear Heart! I could dance 20 miles after Turtle, in spite of the Gout." He raises one gouty foot in a slashed shoe. A bare-footed Scot takes snuff, saying, "Ah! the Mon says Vary true, I have been dancing attendance on a great Laird these twa Year and ha got nothing but promises. I be na so lucky as my Friend Johnny M'Cree" [Melville, see BMSat 10378]. A sturdy sailor ('Jack Bull'), taking a quid from his tobacco-box, looks with fierce appraisal at the Frenchman, and says: "They have led us a preetty dance sure enough, but shiver my timbers if we Won't make [sic] sing out for it when we do catch them". Behind (r.), a capering French opera dancer holds up a full purse, saying, "Good bye Jack Bull I go dance home wid de Guiné!" After the title: '"Thus Life is like a Country Dance, the World a spacious Ball Room'' - Dibdin'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of state with S.W. Fores imprint
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., 'Argus' is a pseudonym employed by the printmaker Charles Williams., and Cf. No. 10423, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of variant state.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Knight, Lambeth, and sold at No. 7 Cornhill
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: British sailor -- Last wills -- Lawyers.
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three lines of descriptive text below title: Three old women gossipping about the hardness of the times - One said bread was rising very fast ..., Plate numbered '381' in the 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 Jany. 1, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Two lines of descriptive text below title: An old woman went to a chandler's shop, to buy a three-farthing candle, but was told they were raised to a penny on account of the war ..., Plate numbered '388' in the lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching & roulette with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 19.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm., and Watermark: E & P 1804.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Two lines of descriptive text below title: An old woman went to a chandler's shop, to buy a three-farthing candle, but was told they were raised to a penny on account of the war ..., Plate numbered '388' in the lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: John Wise 1804.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Two grotesque and foolish connoisseurs standing admiring a collection of Egyptian statuary, both looking at a mummy case at left, one simpering, pointing and looking through pince-nez, the other squinting through a short spyglass; the antiquities include another mummy case, male and female statues, two sphinxes and a grotesque sculpture of a dog on a plinth decorated with hieroglyphs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 14th, 1805, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A copy of Hogarth's design: on the shield, a naked and reclining infant raising its right arm. Supporters, dexter, a terminal figure of 'Nature', many-breasted; sinister, 'Britannia', holding a cap of Liberty on a staff, and her shield. Crest 'a Lamb'; motto 'Help'. Below the title: 'These Armes are to be altered by the Desire of the Committee, a Wolf in Fleecy Hosiery is to be substituted for the Lamb and the Supporters are to be taken away - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Arms for the Foundling Hospital
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and imprint from British Museum catalogue., One plate [tail-piece] to Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
"Two skaters strike attitudes in the foreground. One (l.), with hands on hips, describes a curve on the outside edge of the left. foot, the r. foot being held out stiffly. He looks aggressively towards the other, a younger man who bends his knees, arms extended, and grins at his rival. The former wears a spencer over a short coat, the latter a tail coat; both wear Hessian boots, but those of the latter, who is more fashionably dressed, reach to the knee and are tasselled. Both hold sticks. In the background (r.) a pair of men with folded arms skate back to back in doing a figure of eight; a third skates forward fast with hands on hips. The scene is a lake in a snow-covered landscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing : Attitude! Attitude is every thing! and Elements of skating : Attitude! Attitude is every thing!
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic]
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date 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: Swords -- Female Costume: 1805 -- Guns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Soldiers, and French
Plate [168] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Print to Bowyer's edition to Hume's 'History of England'; Charles II standing on the right, placing one hand on Sir William's shoulder, while the latter stands in profile beside him, one hand on a book on a covered table beside them."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charles the Second and Sir William Temple
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [168] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Hist. Gall., Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, and Temple, William, 1628-1699,
"A horse shies at a high and solid gate, throwing its fat rider, who flies sideways through the air, with arms extended. He wears red coat and top-boots. Behind shrubs on the. farther side of the gate lies a bull, the cause of the accident. Trees form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. August 20th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A social satire showing two clerics seated at a table, one fat and with a brimming tankard of "Tythe Beer", the other thin, his elbows resting on a book entitled "Fast Days"; the floor is littered with papers of "Threadbare Sermons" and "Temperance Preached 40", "Humility Preached Ten Times" etc."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
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 Watermark: Russell & Co.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 28, 1805 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Plate [86] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; in council before Henry VII, Clifford kneeling at right points to Stanley sitting at right, accusing him of complicity in the plot to recognise Perkin Warbeck as King, who bows his head, to the shock of all those present."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [86] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509, and Warbeck, Perkin, 1474-1499,
Plate [119] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; diagram showing the rectos and versos of ten coins, on a decorative plaque surmounted by a cherub holding a shield with unicorn and tree behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Coins of Mary and her two husbands
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [119] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Plate [179] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; plaque with diagrams showing recto and verso of five coins and verso of four more in each corner, surmounted by Liberty standing on a plinth inscribed 1688, with lions at either side."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Coins of William and Mary
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [179] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Bowyer, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702, and Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694,
Plate [147] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; decorative plaque with diagram showing rectos and versos of eleven coins, surmounted by two children setting fire to a pile of emblems of the liberal arts."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [147] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
"Pl. to 'The second part, . . . [ut supra]', see BMSat 10465. Dr. 'Willain' and his wife, three-quarter length and arm-in-arm, gaze up at a Punch and Judy show: Punch, highly delighted, has knocked over his wife, who staggers back. The doctor holds behind him the stick (with a cat's face) which his wife holds in BMSat 10465. From the doctor's coat-pocket dangles the head of a duck which he has bought after watching with his wife the plebeian (and cruel) sport of duck-hunting. The profile head of a spectator, or the showman, gazes at her from the r. margin."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., One plate from Sayers' verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed by C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple bar in 1805., and Mounted to 37 x 34 cm.
"Social satire: the actor Charles Dignum stands in a large tricorn hat with one hand in his pocket, the other in his waistcoat; text below explains that the image is to help fine singers, or players, attain the "consequence so necessary for gaining Fortune & Fame", rather than to represent true grace in the drawing room."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ease and elegance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of explanatory text below title: This is not intended to represent any of that grace so bewitching in a drawing room, but merely to assist a fine singer, a good player, or any public characters in the attainment of consequence, so necessary for gaining fortune & fame., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 22 x 15 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 21st, 1805 by A. Beugo, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden
"A burlesqued illustration of the quotation from 'Paradise Lost' etched below the design ... In the upper left corner of the design, and in the background, an aged St. Peter holds open a small arched door, putting one of his three massive keys into the lock. The irradiated doorway is 'Popish Supremacy'; through it is seen a table, also irradiated, spread with loaves, fishes (cf. BMSat 10697), and wine. A golden staircase receding in perspective ascends in a curve to the door from the summit of the globe, on which 'Ireland' (the more conspicuous) and 'England' are marked. A procession of petitioners winds up the globe from the lower margin of the design; its leaders have begun to ascend the stairs but have been struck by three mighty blasts of wind. These issue from the mouths of Pitt, Hawkesbury (just below), and Sidmouth (considerably lower) Their profile heads emerge from dark clouds on the extreme left. The blasts have overthrown the leading petitioners: Grenville, in bishop's robes, staggers back with outstretched arms, his crozier and mitre fall, and the Catholic Petition blows from his hands, tattered by the wind, in a stream of 'popish' objects which slants upwards across the design. Immediately behind him, full face, the spectacled Buckingham staggers backward. He is dressed as a monk. In front of the two brothers Moira has fallen on his back on the third stair, kicking wildly, his upright l. leg expressing his characteristic stiff rigidity. He wears a surplice over regimentals and spurred boots, and his sword has broken. He has dropped the halter of the Irish bull on which sits Fox, dressed as a cardinal, the central figure of the design. The bull, snorting flames, rears violently, throwing Fox back into a horizontal position. Round its neck is a tricolour ribbon inscribed 'Order of St Patrick', from which hangs a medal with a profile of 'Buonaparte'; on its head is a bunch of shamrock. Fox is a Papal Legate; he is about to fall, and drops his triple cross to which is attached a tattered tricolour banner, inscribed 'Catholic Emancipa[tion']. His cardinal's hat flies off; from his left hand blows a document with many seals: 'Hierarchical Powers of ye Legate-Cardinal Volpone'. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Mother Abbess, has fallen headlong from the stairs on to the globe. Her r. hand is on Ireland, resting on an open book: ' . . by the Brighton Abbess System of Education for the benefit of Protestant Children'; her left wrist is on England. Her crozier rests on the globe. Her robes, rent by the fall, display bare posteriors and fat, kicking legs, suggesting the connotation of 'abbess' and bawd, see BMSat 5184, &c. Moira has flung his left arm across her. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four stanzas of verse below image, two on either side of title: "And now St. Peter at heav'n's wicket seems ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 17th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grattan, Henry, 1746-1820, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Title from item., Twenty lines of patriotic verse surround the upper portion of design: Hear me my gallant friends, and whilst I tell how your combining foes by thousands fell..., Plate numbered '414' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 12th December, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sailors prayer before battle
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker suggested by curator., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "336" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Print numbered '124' with Ms. annotation.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805, Cannons, Cannon balls, Military officers, Sailors, and Ships
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sailors prayer before battle
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker suggested by curator., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "336" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 44 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805, Cannons, Cannon balls, Military officers, Sailors, and Ships
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from statement of responsibility., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Portrait seen seated half-length within rectangular frame, almost in profile to left drawing, eyes to front; wearing plain coat and necktie."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of all inscriptions. Description based on impression of the third state in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1950,0520.142.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1805, by J. Harris, Gerrard Street, Soho
Title etched below image., Possibly a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. London : R.S. Kirby, 1803-20., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 31, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard
Title from item., Ballad portion of print engraved onto second plate printed on the same sheet. Both plates contribute to one coherent design., Second plate measures approximately: 6.2 x 25.6 cm., Heading and attribution for second plate reads: A patriotic ballad-written by Capt. Morris-composed by Mr. J. Dale-and sung by Mr. Dignum., Eight verses of a patriotic ballad are arranged in four columns: While deeds of hell deface the world, and Gallia's throne, in ruin lies..., Upper plate [with design] is numbered '409' in the upper left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and Other plates in the Laurie & Whittle Droll series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 4, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"The Foxites rise from their chairs at a club-meeting to sing the National Anthem in the manner of a catch, each repeating a different line. The chairman is Fox, who stands at the head of the table (l.) holding up a punch-bowl and ladle. He sings with upturned eyes, "God save great George our King". Sheridan and Norfolk are on his right. and left hand; both gaze at him intently; Norfolk sings "Long live our Noble King". Sheridan echoes "God save the King"; he holds up the music, inscribed with the same words. From his pocket hangs a playbill, only the words 'Vivant Rex et Regina' being visible. On the farther side of the table, next Norfolk, stands Moira, in regimentals, taller than the others and holding out his cocked hat. He says "Send him Victorious Happy and Glorious", and is followed by little Lord Derby, opposite, who stands with one foot on his chair, the other on the table, singing "Long to Reign over us \ God save the King." Lord Henry Petty, very small, leans against the back of Derby's chair, his right. arm round the waist of Erskine, who rests his left. arm on Petty's shoulder. Both wear their Chancellor's gowns, Erskine also his wig; the mace leans head downwards against his chair. They sing respectively: "O Lord our God arise" and "Scatter our Enimies". Opposite them stands Whitbread; he holds up a frothing tankard of 'Whitbre[ad's] Entire' [see BMSat 10421], singing "And make them Fall". On the extreme right., partly cut off by the margin, less ecstatic than the others, Grey [Identified by Miss Banks as Windham, but quite unlike him.] sings: "Confound their Politicks \ Frustrate their Knaveish tricks \ On thee our hopes we fix, God save us all." The Royal Arms decorate Fox's ornate armchair. From the back of Sheridan's overturned chair it appears that the other chairs are similarly decorated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Imprint, publication date, and artist from British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and printmaker., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm; ms. annotations in modern hand, identifying subjects in print.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1805 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863
"A pretty young woman and a fashionably dressed man sing together seated on upright chairs. She (r.) plays the harp, her head thrown back to look over her shoulder at the music-book which he holds open: 'Duets de l'Amour'. On a round table which supports his elbow as he leans towards her is an open book: 'Ovid' [Art of Love]. She wears clinging draperies. Two cats gambol amorously on music-books on the ground. The elaborate décor of the room stresses the subject of the design. A large wall mirror (l.) hangs above a marble console which is supported on winged heads; a butterfly flies towards its own reflection. Chinese vases containing roses (twin flowers) flank a bowl in which gold-fish swim to meet each other. One vase only is fully visible; it is a scene of courtship. Below the console a heart-shaped vase, decorated with a Sphinx, stands on the floor. An oval picture elaborately framed hangs above the heads of the lovers: a Cupid fires a blunderbuss at two doves billing on a dove-cot. This is flanked by carvings of flowers with (l.) crossed torches (of Hymen) and (r.) the bow and arrows of Cupid. In the foreground (r.) is one corner of a console table supported by a grinning satyr with a cloven hoof; on it is a myrtle plant in an ornamental pot. The luxury of the room is shown by an arcaded wall with pilaster reflected in the mirror, and by a palm-tree pilaster (as in BMSat 10303)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Matrimonial-harmonics.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Plate [99] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; the King sitting back in a low chair with his crutch resting beside him, his doublet partly unbuttoned, looking with disgruntled expression at his wife who stands beside him with hand on her hip."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Henry the Eighth and Catharine Parr and Henry the Eighth and Catherine Parr
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [99] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548,
Plate [62] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; weapons and ruins on a rock inscribed 'House of Lancs', a demon with torches in clouds above."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
House of Lancaster
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [62] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Argus is a pseudonym for Charles Williams., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Pickpockets -- Street scenes., and Later printing; not before 1818.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
"Two burly fierce-looking sailors drink together; each sits on an inverted tub, smoking a pipe, a paper of tobacco on the plain round table between them. One (l.) says: "Why Jack! you was so long in a French Prison, I suppose you larnt to patter their Lingo a little." The other answers: "No Bob, I never some how fancied it they call things out of their names so d----nably, - why would you believe it, they call a Horse a Shovel, and a Hat a Chopper!!!""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack Junk's opinion of the French language
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from watermark., and Watermark: C Ansell 1822.
"An obese man, one Read, stands directed to the right, head in profile, sucking a straw and holding a cane against right shoulder. He has short legs, accentuated by a long waistcoat, and wears round hat with curved brim, riding-breeches, and spurred boots with deep tops."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 2 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"John Bull, as a burly and ugly sailor, sits enthroned (right), listening to Melville's plea of innocence. Melville, in Highland dress, and wearing a feathered bonnet, stands in profile to the right. with clasped hands and flexed knees; he says: "Indeed Mr Bull - I knaw nae more aboot it - than Johnny Groat o'the Highlands." Trotter lurks behind him (left) furtively twitching his superior's kilt, and jerking his thumb to the left.; he says: "Take my advice - and let us Trot off while we are well, he looks confounded inquisitive." John scowls and glares pugnaciously, saying, "Why Look ye - de ye see - I dont come for to go for to say - exactly, that you sack'd the cole - all I say is the Shiners set sail - and as you had the care of the Hatches - it is, likely, you should know what Port they steer'd into! I say let's look at your log book Old one." He wears striped trousers and a knotted scarf; in his hat is a tobacco-pipe. His chair stands on a dais and is decorated with a crowned anchor and dolphins."--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who was accused of appropriating funds for non-naval purposes during his tenure as Lord of the Admiralty. Dundas was the most prominent Scottish politician of his era and instrumental in the progress of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is controversial today through his delaying the abolition of slavery for several years
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull makeing a naval enqury and John Bull making a naval enquiry
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1805, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811., and Trotter, Alexander, 1750-1830
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, British, Thrones, Ethnic stereotypes, and Pleading (Begging)
"Pitt (r.), as a bare-footed monk with a large tonsure, sits in a high Gothic chair. Melville, in Highland dress and holding his feathered bonnet, kneels before him in profile to the right., saying, "Ye mun knaw - I have got into a little wee scrape, - and as ye knaw you and I ganarally rowd in the same boat - I want to ask your advice." Pitt looks agitated, and puts out his hands with a deprecating gesture; he says: "Dont implicate me I request - I that am compleatly Imacculate. Except laying a few trifling Taxes on Income, Births, Marriages, Burials, Houses, Windows, Tea, Coffee, Wine, Horses, Dogs, Carriages, Wills, Agreements, Servants, Hats, Receipts, News-Papers, Letters - Bricks, Tiles, Pepper, Salt, Cyder, Perry, Malt, Hops, - and such like iconsiderable things - , I dont think I ever did a paw - paw - action in all my Life. - however I'll endeavour to procure you absolution, for old acquaintance sake.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johnny MacCree at confession
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Mounted to 49 x 30 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29th, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
"Two elderly Scots discuss the Melville case; one, wearing old-fashioned court dress with a sword, takes snuff from the other's ram's-horn mull; he says: "Touch the Sillar!!! - T'is a on disgrace on aw Scotland!" They have sly, twisted expressions. Melville (left), weeping, clutches the back of the speaker's coat. He wears Highland dress, and says: "What my ain Countrymen turn their backs on me! then tis aw up with Johny Mac-cree [see British Museum Satires No. 10378]". On the right, Pitt runs off furtively to the right, saying, "I must cut out this Connexion - & leave him to his fate"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johny Mac-Cree in the dumps!! and Johnny Mac-Cree in the dumps!!
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: C. Wilmott 1801.
Publisher:
Published April 12 - 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
A negro footman stands with a coin in his hand as he sings. Behind him a lawyer sits at his desk accepting a bag of money from his client; the lawyer's young assistant sits on the other side of the slanted desk. Through the open door to the street, a gentleman strolls in front of an apothecy's shop door, above which can be seen a mortar and pestle
Description:
Title engraved above image, Plate numbered '394' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whttle series of Drolls., and Six stanzas in three columns engraved below image: Great way off at sea, where at home I've been-ee, Buckra man fetch me, from de coast of Guinea; Christian massa pray, he call me hathen doggy ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from caption below image., Title from item., Printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and "Front to his Poems of Ossian."--Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
"Two men and two women, all tipsy, drink and dance in an ale-house, while beer gushes from a barrel whose spigot has been removed. Through a casement window a woman is seen running off with a joint of mutton on a dish. This John and his drunken wife Joan have thrown from the window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '412' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Six numbered stanzas of verse arranged in three columns below title: John Appleby was a mans name and he liv'd near the sign of the kettle, his wife was call'd Joan Quiet, because she could scold but a little ...
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. From the edge of the ice (r.) projects a post with a notice-board: 'Humane Society - Whereas this Pond is very deep & dangerous, it is requested that no persons will rashly venture to Skait upon it.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Elements of skateing : making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency! and Elements of skating : making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency!
Description:
Title etched below image, following series title., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of four prints in a series entitled: Elements of skateing., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in the corner of a sofa, crouching away from her, his hand over his ear, food stuffed into his mouth, reading the 'Sporting Calendar'. The pages of her open music-book are headed 'Forte'. Her song is: 'Torture Fiery Rage \ Despair I cannot can not bear'. On the piano lies music: 'Separation a Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniment'; on the floor is 'The Wedding Ring - a Dirge'. She wears a becoming morning gown with cap, but has lost the slim grace of British Museum Satires No. 10472, and her soft features have coarsened. Behind the piano a boisterous coarse-featured nurse hastens into the room holding a squalling infant, and flourishing a (watchman's) rattle. On the lady's chair is an open book, 'The Art of Tormenting', illustrated by a cat playing with a mouse. Her sunshade hangs from the back of the chair. On the breakfast-table are a large hissing urn, a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, &c., a bottle of 'Hollands' (beside the woman's place), and a (full) dish of muffins. The man's coffee-cup is full and steaming. He wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings and slippers. An air of dejection and ill-nature replaces his former good-humoured sprightliness. Under his feet lies a dog, 'Benedick', barking fiercely at an angry cat, poised on the back of the sofa. A square birdcage high on the wall is supported by branching antlers. In it two cockatoos screech angrily at each other, neglecting a nest of three young ones. Beside it (left) is a bust of 'Hymen' with a broken nose, and (right) a thermometer which has sunk almost to 'Freezing'. On the chimney-piece is a carved ornament: Cupid asleep under a weeping willow, his torch reversed, the arrows falling from his quiver. This is flanked by vases whose handles are twisted snakes which spit at each other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Harmony before matrimony.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Musical Instruments -- Furniture -- Female Costume: Morning gown -- Rattle -- Parasols: sunshade -- Male Costume: Dressing-gown -- Bell-Pulls., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 24.4 x 34.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in the corner of a sofa, crouching away from her, his hand over his ear, food stuffed into his mouth, reading the 'Sporting Calendar'. The pages of her open music-book are headed 'Forte'. Her song is: 'Torture Fiery Rage \ Despair I cannot can not bear'. On the piano lies music: 'Separation a Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniment'; on the floor is 'The Wedding Ring - a Dirge'. She wears a becoming morning gown with cap, but has lost the slim grace of British Museum Satires No. 10472, and her soft features have coarsened. Behind the piano a boisterous coarse-featured nurse hastens into the room holding a squalling infant, and flourishing a (watchman's) rattle. On the lady's chair is an open book, 'The Art of Tormenting', illustrated by a cat playing with a mouse. Her sunshade hangs from the back of the chair. On the breakfast-table are a large hissing urn, a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, &c., a bottle of 'Hollands' (beside the woman's place), and a (full) dish of muffins. The man's coffee-cup is full and steaming. He wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings and slippers. An air of dejection and ill-nature replaces his former good-humoured sprightliness. Under his feet lies a dog, 'Benedick', barking fiercely at an angry cat, poised on the back of the sofa. A square birdcage high on the wall is supported by branching antlers. In it two cockatoos screech angrily at each other, neglecting a nest of three young ones. Beside it (left) is a bust of 'Hymen' with a broken nose, and (right) a thermometer which has sunk almost to 'Freezing'. On the chimney-piece is a carved ornament: Cupid asleep under a weeping willow, his torch reversed, the arrows falling from his quiver. This is flanked by vases whose handles are twisted snakes which spit at each other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Harmony before matrimony.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Musical Instruments -- Furniture -- Female Costume: Morning gown -- Rattle -- Parasols: sunshade -- Male Costume: Dressing-gown -- Bell-Pulls., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in the corner of a sofa, crouching away from her, his hand over his ear, food stuffed into his mouth, reading the 'Sporting Calendar'. The pages of her open music-book are headed 'Forte'. Her song is: 'Torture Fiery Rage \ Despair I cannot can not bear'. On the piano lies music: 'Separation a Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniment'; on the floor is 'The Wedding Ring - a Dirge'. She wears a becoming morning gown with cap, but has lost the slim grace of British Museum Satires No. 10472, and her soft features have coarsened. Behind the piano a boisterous coarse-featured nurse hastens into the room holding a squalling infant, and flourishing a (watchman's) rattle. On the lady's chair is an open book, 'The Art of Tormenting', illustrated by a cat playing with a mouse. Her sunshade hangs from the back of the chair. On the breakfast-table are a large hissing urn, a tea-pot, a coffee-pot, &c., a bottle of 'Hollands' (beside the woman's place), and a (full) dish of muffins. The man's coffee-cup is full and steaming. He wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings and slippers. An air of dejection and ill-nature replaces his former good-humoured sprightliness. Under his feet lies a dog, 'Benedick', barking fiercely at an angry cat, poised on the back of the sofa. A square birdcage high on the wall is supported by branching antlers. In it two cockatoos screech angrily at each other, neglecting a nest of three young ones. Beside it (left) is a bust of 'Hymen' with a broken nose, and (right) a thermometer which has sunk almost to 'Freezing'. On the chimney-piece is a carved ornament: Cupid asleep under a weeping willow, his torch reversed, the arrows falling from his quiver. This is flanked by vases whose handles are twisted snakes which spit at each other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion print to: "Harmony before matrimony.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Musical Instruments -- Furniture -- Female Costume: Morning gown -- Rattle -- Parasols: sunshade -- Male Costume: Dressing-gown -- Bell-Pulls., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 25.8 x 36.2 cm., and Ms. numbering in contemporary hand in top margin of print: 247.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street