"A tall man in fashionable riding-dress stands in profile to the left, talking to a jockey; he holds a notebook and pencil in gloved hands. He wears a top-hat with deeply curved brim, voluminous swathed neckcloth and shirt-frill, single-breasted coat, with breeches and top-boots like those of the jockey. The latter wears a white jacket with pink sleeves and cap, and holds riding-whip and papers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hero of the turf and his agent
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 21 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figures identified as "Captn. Mellish & Buckle" in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Mellish, Henry Francis, 1782-1817 and Buckle, Francis, 1766-1832
"A tall man in fashionable riding-dress stands in profile to the left, talking to a jockey; he holds a notebook and pencil in gloved hands. He wears a top-hat with deeply curved brim, voluminous swathed neckcloth and shirt-frill, single-breasted coat, with breeches and top-boots like those of the jockey. The latter wears a white jacket with pink sleeves and cap, and holds riding-whip and papers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hero of the turf and his agent
Description:
Title etched below image. and Figures identified by ms. note in contemporary hand at bottom plate.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Mellish, Henry Francis, 1782-1817 and Buckle, Francis, 1766-1832
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1796., Plate is part of a series of reduced copies of prints published by Fores in 1806 and etched primarily by Charles Williams., Plate is numbered '15' in lower left corner., Printmaker inferred by cataloger based upon evidence present in other prints from the series., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Games: backgammon -- Clergy -- Furniture: card tables -- Lighting: candlesticks.
A young, rotund friar sits at a table well-set with carafes, one each of red and white, and with plates of lushious fruit. He smiles as he raises his glass and looks at the viewer. Through the window (left) peeps a pretty young woman with a shawl over her head; she smiles slightly
Description:
Title etched below image., Two numbered columns of verse below title: I am a friar of orders grey, And down the vallies I take my way; I pull not blackberry, haw or hip, Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip, My long bead roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want; And why I'm so plump the reason I'll tell ... "Who leads a good life, is sure to live well." What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives so well as a holy friar ..., Verses may be a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '428' 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:
Publish'd June 4, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Fruit, Gluttony, Lust, and Monks
"A design with much-burlesqued 'Lilliputian' figures with large heads, as BMSat 9635, &c, but grotesquely elongated as in BMSat 10604, &c In the foreground (l.) are four card-players at a round table lit by two candles. One man (l.) is in military uniform, with a pigtail, trousers and tied shoes; he and his partner (r.) are pleased: she says: "I lead trump"; he says: "A charming hand this time however". A man in back view wears an enormous bag-wig, the bag covering the back of his chair; he says: "Worse and worse". His melancholy partner says: "I never held such cards in my Life." Behind the lady on the r. stands a footman holding a salver with three tall glasses of wine; he yawns cavernously: "Ya, ha!" In the middle distance (r.) an bows to a lady who curtseys; he says: "I never saw your Ladyship look more beautiful will you take cards or dance." She answers: "Neither my Lord at Present." A cut-glass chandelier with four tall candles hangs above their heads. Behind is an ornate archway through which is seen a ball-room with a musicians' gallery and grotesque dancers. On the extreme right. is a side-table with decanters, candles, a stand of jelly-glasses. These small background figures and the table, with the inscriptions, are etched by G. Cruikshank."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Also attributed to George Cruikshank in British Museum catalogue., Numbered in upper left corner: Plate 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A design with much-burlesqued 'Lilliputian' figures with large heads, as British Museum Satires No. 9635, &c, but grotesquely elongated as in British Museum Satires No. 10604, &c. In the foreground (left) are four card-players at a round table lit by two candles. One man (left) is in military uniform, with a pigtail, trousers and tied shoes; he and his partner (right) are pleased: she says: "I lead trump"; he says: "A charming hand this time however". A man in back view wears an enormous bag-wig, the bag covering the back of his chair; he says: "Worse and worse". His melancholy partner says: "I never held such cards in my Life." Behind the lady on the right stands a footman holding a salver with three tall glasses of wine; he yawns cavernously: "Ya, ha!" In the middle distance (right) an bows to a lady who curtseys; he says: "I never saw your Ladyship look more beautiful will you take cards or dance." She answers: "Neither my Lord at Present." A cut-glass chandelier with four tall candles hangs above their heads. Behind is an ornate archway through which is seen a ball-room with a musicians' gallery and grotesque dancers. On the extreme right is a side-table with decanters, candles, a stand of jelly-glasses."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate etched by both Isaac and George Cruikshank; the small background figures and the table, with the inscriptions, were etched by George. See British Museum catalogue., Later state; plate number has been added in upper right, and date has been burnished from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, Sepr. 26, 1806. Cf. No. 10663 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "119" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., and Leaf 58 in volume 2.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A burlesque election scene, most of the figures having large grotesque heads, similar to those in British Museum Satires Nos. 10604, 10663. On the right a corner of the hustings is indicated by a rail behind which stand the candidate and three of his supporters. One of the latter, next the silent candidate, addresses the people below: "I have now Gentlemen the honor to propose to you my friend next me Solomon Sheepface Esqr of Sheepface Hall, you are all well acquainted with his disposition, he is so harmless he would not hurt a Worm, - once elected he will say Aye or No just as the occasion may require." The candidate has an expression of bewildered melancholy. Five men form the audience, one shouts "No Sheepface"; another waves his hat, shouting, "Sheepface for ever Huzza". On the left two men gaze at a large election poster on a wall: 'To the Worthy and Independent Electors of the Borough of Long Heads Gentlemen your Votes and Interest in favor of Solomon Sheepface'. A little boy picks the pocket of one of the gazers. In the middle a ragged ballad-seller bawls to an audience of three boys: 'The same is entitled and called No Bribery, a new Song, to an Old tune.' In the background a crowd is faintly indicated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker questionably identified as Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with plate number added, of a print originally published November 1806 or May 1807. See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "108" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 49 in volume 2.
"A lady (left) darts forward in profile to the right, bending low, both arms extended towards a coal-scuttle which a footman in livery is bringing in. He looks at her with irritated dismay. She says: "O You pretty creature! - bless the dear baby, how it smiles give it to me Nurse - it has exactly its papa's nose & mamma's eyes. O it is a delightful little Creature." She wears a plain striped gown with a sash, a high-crowned hat of checked material; ringlets fall on her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Short sighted mistake
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy of a print originally published by S.W. Fores in 1792., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '20' in the lower left corner., A reduced copy of no. 8211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: coal scuttles -- Domestic service: footmen.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1st, 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
