"Dr. Gretton walks in profile to the left, wearing mortar-board, gown, bands, and cassock. He has a pouched and wrinkled face and short white hair or wig. He holds a handkerchief in his right hand which rests on his breast, the left is in the pocket of his cassock. William Gretton (1736-1813) was Master of Magdalene from 1797, and Vice-Chancellor 1800-1."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View from Magdalene College, Cambridge
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 50 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identifed as "Dr. Gretton" in pencil at bottom of sheet; this note corrects another pencil annotation, now scored through, identifying the figure as "Dr. Grafton".
"Dr. Wood walks meditatively in profile to the left, holding his gown to his waist. He has short white hair or wig, a white eyebrow, wears a mortar-board, bands over a shirt-frill, and knee-breeches, showing a neat leg."--British Museum online catalogue and "James Wood (1760-1839), Fellow of St. John's and mathematician, was the son of a Lancashire weaver. He was B.D. 1793, D.D. 1815, Master of his College 1815-39, and Dean of Ely from 1820. He was the most influential man in the University, and according to the 'D.N.B.' the model head of a college ..."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
View from St John's College Cambridge
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 51 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Mr. Wood" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"An elderly man with an alert, wrinkled face, stands very erect in profile to the left, his hands resting on his cane. He wears an old-fashioned cocked hat with cockade, with white or powdered hair in a neat (military) pigtail; his long double-breasted blue coat has a small scarlet facing on the high collar; his shoes have large buckles. He is General Robert Donkin, father of Sir R. F. Donkin, died 1821, aged 94."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 58 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Genl. Donkin" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Donkin, Robert, 1727-1821
Subject (Topic):
Generals, British, Older people, and Staffs (Sticks)
"View of the Thames, with the Adelphi at far left on opposite shore, St Paul's in mid-distance, Blackfriars Bridge to its right and the steam engine at the York Buildings waterworks on the far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 89., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 279.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Blackfriars Bridge (London, England), Thames River (England), London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), and York-Buildings Company,
Subject (Topic):
Waterfronts, Buildings, Bridges, Rivers, Sailboats, and Rowboats
"A coachman in a single-breasted coat reaching to his boot-tops stands looking to the left. His cylindrical hat has an irregular brim. A team-whip leans against his left shoulder and he holds the end of the lash between the tips of the fingers of both hands."--British Museum online catalogue and "Dick Vaughan, the driver of the Cambridge Telegraph, a famous coach, was known as Hell-Fire-Dick, and was 'a favourite companion of University fashionables'."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 22 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"An elderly man shambles from right to left in profile, right hand on his stick, left hand in his coat-pocket. He wears a hat with a curved brim, a curled, old-fashioned brown wig, a long coat, and an overcoat, with ill-fitting gaiters reaching to the thigh. Two seals hang from a fob. He is Councillor John Morris or Morriss."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 57 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
"An elderly man of clerical appearance, stands in profile to the right knees slightly flexed, right hand resting on a heavy cane, left hand raised in an expository gesture. He wears an ill-fitting powdered wig with a curl at the back, a round hat with the brim turned up at the side, long buttoned coat, wrinkled stockings, high-quartered buckled shoes, and gloves. Identified as Dr. John Shepherd."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 56 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly decrepit old doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, stands with his back to the fire (right) receiving a pair of country-bumpkins, shown in by a servant out of livery, who stands at the door (left), grinning delightedly. The man, a burly fellow, is followed by his plainly-dressed and anxious wife. He says: "Do you see Doctor my Dame and I become [sic] to ax your advice--we both of us eat well, and drink well, and sleep well--yet still we be somehow queerish". The doctor, holding his cane to his nose, answers: "You eat well--you drink well and you sleep well--very good-- You was perfectly right in coming to me, for depend upon it I will give you something that shall do away all these things". On the chimney-piece are jars and bottles with a bust of 'Galen', Against the wall is a heavy book-case with glass doors containing large volumes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue; Grego suggests a date of 1812., Plate numbered "208" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Physician's office -- Books -- Statues: Bust of Claudius Galen -- Fireplace -- Male domestic servant., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 65 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An ugly decrepit old doctor, in old-fashioned dress and wig, stands with his back to the fire (right) receiving a pair of country-bumpkins, shown in by a servant out of livery, who stands at the door (left), grinning delightedly. The man, a burly fellow, is followed by his plainly-dressed and anxious wife. He says: "Do you see Doctor my Dame and I become [sic] to ax your advice--we both of us eat well, and drink well, and sleep well--yet still we be somehow queerish". The doctor, holding his cane to his nose, answers: "You eat well--you drink well and you sleep well--very good-- You was perfectly right in coming to me, for depend upon it I will give you something that shall do away all these things". On the chimney-piece are jars and bottles with a bust of 'Galen', Against the wall is a heavy book-case with glass doors containing large volumes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue; Grego suggests a date of 1812., Plate numbered "208" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Physician's office -- Books -- Statues: Bust of Claudius Galen -- Fireplace -- Male domestic servant.
"The stage of Covent Garden Theatre is seen from the right with a small part of the pit in the left foreground; the boxes and galleries adjoining the stage form the background on the left. The pittites are standing and blow trumpets, spring rattles, ring bells, and shout. Those in the crowded boxes behave in the same way; with one exception all are men. Two men occupy each of the two boxes over the stage-door; they watch passively. The musicians' seats are empty, but candles burn beside their open music-books, and one of the orchestra stands facing the audience, threatening them with fist and baton. On the stage three men stand together addressing the audience. The man in the centre holds out a paper: 'Riot Act'; he says: "We shall Read the riot act". Behind them stands Kemble wearing a tail-coat and white trousers, appealing to the audience with his hands meekly together as if in prayer. Large notices and placards hang from the galleries and boxes: 'Old Prices' [five times]; 'Harris will but Kemble won,t'; 'No Kembles No more insults'; 'Kemble remember the Dublin Tin Man'; 'No Foreign Sofas'; 'Iohn Bull against Iohn Kemble'; 'No Catalani'; 'Old Prices' [three times]; 'No Italian Private Boxes'; '£6000 for Caterwauling'; 'Catalani', below a print of a cat dressed as a woman, and singing 'Me Yo' from a music-book; 'No Catalani!! Mountain-- Billington, and Dickons for ever'; 'Ol Price for ever No caterwauling'; 'Old Prices No Catalani'; a gigantic placard: 'Statement-- £ Subscribed -- £80-000 Fire Office -- 50-000 Old Materials -- 25-000 155-000 New Theatre ---- 150-000 Managers of it ---- 5-000' Held up by a 'John Bull' in the pit who blows a trumpet: 'No Catalani No Pigeon Holes Old Prices No Private Boxes'. A man shouts from a box: "Off Off Off Off"; he springs a rattle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Isaac and George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Matted to 47 x 54 cm, with a token for a box seat, Prince's side (BPS), New Theatre Covent Garden 1809.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., Nares, John, 1754-1816., Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818., Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Dickons, Maria, approximately 1774-1833., Harris, Thomas, -1820., Reed, James, active 1808., Mountain, Rosoman, approximately 1768-1841., and Covent Garden Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Stages (Platforms), Actors, Orchestras, Theater audiences, Theaters, and 1809
