Title from caption below image., Text below title: If ever I marry a wife, I'll mary a landlord's daughter; then I can sit in the bar, and drink cold brandy & water., Plate numbered in lower left corner: 504., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 12, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved song. Two sailors stand in a man-of-war; hammocks are slung from the roof, guns project from port-holes. One (left) is wrapped in a sheet over his sailor's dress. The other relates how he shot Tom Tack who 'com'd from Boney-Ayrs', in a quarrel over Polly of Spithead. Tom visited him wrapped in a sheet, but is threatened with a rope's end. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue., Forty lines of verse below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married; at first she was most cruel kind, but she prov'd false as you shall find ..., Plate numbered "38" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Heading to an engraved song. Two sailors stand in a man-of-war; hammocks are slung from the roof, guns project from port-holes. One (left) is wrapped in a sheet over his sailor's dress. The other relates how he shot Tom Tack who 'com'd from Boney-Ayrs', in a quarrel over Polly of Spithead. Tom visited him wrapped in a sheet, but is threatened with a rope's end. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalogue., Forty lines of verse below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married; at first she was most cruel kind, but she prov'd false as you shall find ..., Plate numbered "38" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 71 in volume 1.
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Originally published by Laurie & Whittle July 24, 1808. See British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect copy; imprint statement trimmed from print., and Three columns of verse in letterpress below title: I courted Polly of Spithead, and ax'd her to be married...
In front of Humphrey's print shop window, a man sits on the pavement, having fallen backwards; his legs are splayed up, his wig is falling off, and coins spill from his pockets. The man's predicament is unobserved by four men studying the Gillray prints displayed in the shop window, each identifiable: a gentleman with a quizzing glass held to his eye; a military officer; a coachman; and a young dustman carrying a pair of skates under his arm, his nose eaten away by syphilis. From the cobblestone street a dog looks at the man. Through the shop door, two men, one an obese cleric, are shown examining a print
Alternative Title:
St. James's Street
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a set of seven weather-themed prints with the same signature and imprint, all etched by Gillray from drawings by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clergy, Coach drivers, Falling, Merchandise displays, Military officers, British, Older people, People associated with commercial & service activities, Prints, Syphilis, Stores & shops, Thermometers, Weather, Window displays, and Printing industry
"Six elderly volunteers in uniform, with pigtails, sit at dessert. The host (left), holding a decanter and small glass, says: Come Gentlemen Volunteers to the right and left -- Charge if you please to the King [these words are linked to the mouth of the butler, but this seems inconsistent with the dialogue]. His vis-à-vis, rising from his chair, answers: I should be very happy to obey your Orders Colonel, but really your glasses are so small that d------n me if theres enough for a Prime [a specialized meaning of the word not in the O.E.D.] . . At the Colonel's feet are papers: A Penny saved is a 2 Pence got and Current Price of Port Shery--To one Pipe Old Port £120. The butler behind his chair grins delightedly. On the wall is a placard: Maxims--How to get Rich--Pinch Sque[eze], Gripe, Snat[ch]. The room has Gothic mouldings and a window on which are the arms of the City of London, suggesting that the host may be the Lord Mayor (John Ainsley 1807-8). One of the prints in No. 11133."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below item. and Plate marked "227" in upper right corner.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Six elderly volunteers in uniform, with pigtails, sit at dessert. The host (left), holding a decanter and small glass, says: Come Gentlemen Volunteers to the right and left--Charge if you please to the King [these words are linked to the mouth of the butler, but this seems inconsistent with the dialogue]. His vis-à-vis, rising from his chair, answers: I should be very happy to obey your Orders Colonel, but really your glasses are so small that d------n me if theres enough for a Prime [a specialized meaning of the word not in the O.E.D.] . . At the Colonel's feet are papers: A Penny saved is a 2 Pence got and Current Price of Port Shery--To one Pipe Old Port £120. The butler behind his chair grins delightedly. On the wall is a placard: Maxims--How to get Rich--Pinch Sque[eze], Gripe, Snat[ch]. The room has Gothic mouldings and a window on which are the arms of the City of London, suggesting that the host may be the Lord Mayor (John Ainsley 1807-8)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Not enough for a prime
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. May 21, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11136 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "227" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 86., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Six elderly volunteers in uniform, with pigtails, sit at dessert. The host (left), holding a decanter and small glass, says: Come Gentlemen Volunteers to the right and left--Charge if you please to the King [these words are linked to the mouth of the butler, but this seems inconsistent with the dialogue]. His vis-à-vis, rising from his chair, answers: I should be very happy to obey your Orders Colonel, but really your glasses are so small that d------n me if theres enough for a Prime [a specialized meaning of the word not in the O.E.D.] . . At the Colonel's feet are papers: A Penny saved is a 2 Pence got and Current Price of Port Shery--To one Pipe Old Port £120. The butler behind his chair grins delightedly. On the wall is a placard: Maxims--How to get Rich--Pinch Sque[eze], Gripe, Snat[ch]. The room has Gothic mouldings and a window on which are the arms of the City of London, suggesting that the host may be the Lord Mayor (John Ainsley 1807-8)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Not enough for a prime
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. May 21, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11136 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "227" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 86., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 5 in volume 4.
"View from the Water Engine Court in the prison, with two culprits at hard labour turning a wheel on the left; to the right a wardon directs two new inmates to relieve them; part of the chapel visible below the arch above court."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Water engine, Coldbath Fields Prison
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 19., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 126.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
