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1. A buz in a box, or, The poet in a pet with a chip of the block, mounted on Papa's Pegasus. [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 October 1812]
Call Number:: 812.10.21.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A corner of the stage at Drury Lane slants diagonally from left to right, showing part of the orchestra and pit (right) with part of two stage-boxes on the extreme right. The stage manager, Raymond, stands addressing the clamorous audience, while on the left a young man with ass's ears sits on a donkey which flourishes its heels so that they strike the lowered stage-curtain. The donkey brays "Ih ho Ih ho Ih ho," its hind-quarter is branded 'My Pegasus Buz'. Its rider recites: "Nor ever here your smiles would be represt, "Knew you the rival flames that fires our breast, "Flame, Fire and Flame!--sad--woe Neddy! Ladies and Gentlemen, My Papa's Pegasus is so full of fire and spirit that very few are capable of mounting him. for my self I never spoke but once & that was-- Unce logos but if you will give me leave to get on with my Papas Monologue I am positive you will pronounce it the prettiest piece of poetry produced for the purpose." Raymond says: "Ladies and Gentlemen, it was never the intention of the Proprietors to introduce Assess [sic] on these boards but as you seem entertained with their braying if it [is] your wish, we will procure some trainers from the other House as we are really ignorant in the management of thes [sic] Animals." Greeted by derisive cheers from the audience, Dr. Busby, also with ass's ears, leans from the upper stage-box, saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, only hear My Son speak my Monologue written by myself the only one fit to be heard the committee are as ignorant of good Poetry a[s] I am of true criticism. I am a great writer reviews my sons works very clever indeed--writes my own life--well worth reading--my Life of Lucius Otrigger will astonish you now pray hear my Son speak my Monologue!--." A man behind him shouts: "Bravo! Go on! Go, on," and one in the crowded lower box applauds: "Bravo Apollo go on Go . . ." In the foreground a man in the pit shouts pointing to the ass: "Why don't you come down and get up behind don't you see he wants ballast." Six others address the son: "When you have done there--set those Epigrams to Music young Apollo!"; "Off Off Off Off"; "he will be off presently if Neddy kicks so!"; "Go on Go on"; "Speak out you should have brought your Voice with you"; "hear him hear him." The orchestra is empty of performers, but the music scores are headed 'The Judgement of Midas' [O'Keefe's play]. Three large papers lie on the stage inscribed respectively: [1] 'A Lord [Byron] and a Doctor once started for Fame Which for the best Poet should pass The Lord was cried up on account of his name The Doctor cried down for an Ass--' [2] 'Doctor Buz he assures us on Drury new Stage No Horses or Elephants, there should engage But pray Doctor Buz, how comes it to pass, That you your own self should produce there an Ass' [3] 'Old Buz against Quadrupeds, war did wage, And swore on Drury's board's such Mum'ry ne'er should pass But forcing his own Pegasus on Drurys stage The Critic Audience christen'd Buz an Ass.' Behind Raymond is the lower part of the verd-antique pillar which flanked the curtain, and on the right the large ornate lamp, of quasi-Egyptian design in which three hawk-headed monsters support an inverted tripod, the base of a ring of lamp-jets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Poet in a pet : with a chip of the block, mounted on Papa's Pegasus
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text following title: vide opening of New Drury Lane Theatre., and Laid-in to a piece of later paper.
Publisher:: Pubd. Octr. 21, 1812, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Raymond, James Grant, -1817, Busby, Thomas, 1754-1838, Busby, George Frederick, active 1812, Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Theaters, Interiors, Theater curtains, Theater audiences, and Donkeys
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A buz in a box, or, The poet in a pet with a chip of the block, mounted on Papa's Pegasus. [graphic]

2. A sale of fox hounds [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [17 March 1812]
Call Number:: 812.03.17.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In the center an auctioneer, hammer in hand, stands behind a podium having sold a pack of hounds with the human faces; Sheridan holds the hounds leashes. One dog sleeps on the floor as another urinates on its bone. On the left, a grey horse neighs as it is lead to the auctioneer. A clerk taking notes at a small desk to the left of the podium looks up at the auctioneer
Description:: Possibly by Williams, based on style., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., In pencil along bottom edge: Grey. P of W. Sheridan., and Mounted to 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 17th 1812 by Wm. Holland No 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):: Auctions, Corruption, Dogs, Horses, and Urination
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A sale of fox hounds [graphic].

3. An Irish pilot, or, Steering by chance [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before August 1812]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title:: V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three figures on the after-deck: a naval officer pointing with a telescope to the left, looks round at a rough-looking elderly sailor who holds the helm, to say: "Now en't you a pretty fellow for a Pilot? to see Land and not know where we are!" The man answers: "Och my dear Jewel! only shew me the Old head of Kinsale, and I'll tell you where we are to an Inch!" A capable-looking sailor (left), hauling at a rope to reef a sail, looks towards the pilot with angry contempt. Sails, rigging, the lower part of a mast, and tossing waves complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:: Steering by chance
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Williams and artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Publisher and date of publication from earlier state with the complete imprint: Pubd. August 1812 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11977 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "175" 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: Deck -- Telescope., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 27 in volume 3.
Publisher:: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An Irish pilot, or, Steering by chance [graphic].

4. An Irish pilot, or, Steering by chance [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before August 1812]
Call Number:: 812.08.00.01+
Collection Title:: V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Three figures on the after-deck: a naval officer pointing with a telescope to the left, looks round at a rough-looking elderly sailor who holds the helm, to say: "Now en't you a pretty fellow for a Pilot? to see Land and not know where we are!" The man answers: "Och my dear Jewel! only shew me the Old head of Kinsale, and I'll tell you where we are to an Inch!" A capable-looking sailor (left), hauling at a rope to reef a sail, looks towards the pilot with angry contempt. Sails, rigging, the lower part of a mast, and tossing waves complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:: Steering by chance
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Williams and artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Publisher and date of publication from earlier state with the complete imprint: Pubd. August 1812 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11977 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "175" 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: Deck -- Telescope.
Publisher:: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An Irish pilot, or, Steering by chance [graphic].

5. Committee of Taste, or, The punishment of a modern Midas dedicated (without permission) to the subscribers to the New Theatre Drury Lane. [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1812?]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.125+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A satire on the rebuilding of Drury Lane Theatre. Whitbread, Chairman of the Committee, bestrides a barrel, the head inscribed 'The Butt M, T' [empty]. He has long ass's ears and points to a table beside him on the extreme right where there is a model of a theatre with a pillared portico and pediment. This rests on a paper inscribed 'Whitbread Copeland Holland Rolls &ca clear gains 450000!!!!!' Next Whitbread a man sits behind a similar table littered with plans all inscribed 'Plan of Drury Lane'. He also has ass's ears, to which a second pair has been added in water-colour. He looks through an eye-glass, resting his right elbow on an anchor, while he holds at arm's length the model of a theatre whose portico is flanked by two large sphinxes. A carved sun, like the emblem of the Sun Fire-Office, decorates his chair; on the right is a broad post or terminal pillar supporting a man's head, also with ass's ears. This rests on a volume inscribed 'Commons', and on its face in large letters are the words 'Ex Nihilo Nihil Fil'; from its upper edge a signpost arm projects to the right inscribed 'To Coventry', showing that he is Peter Moore. Behind Whitbread (left) and partly screened by a heavy curtain is a table supporting a third model of a theatre, also with a portico. Whitbread, frowning slightly, says: "These Resolutions once carried good bye Friend Sherry Old Claimants and new Subscribers (aside) Hem! I think I have bullied the Committe [sic] properly." His neighbour (? Lord Holland) who smiles, has a round good-humoured face; he says: "La! Mr Chairman I think my Sphynxes look Monstrous Pretty.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Punishment of a modern Midas
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Matted to 37 x 46 xm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Moore, Peter, 1753-1828, and Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840
Subject (Topic):: Theaters, Architectural models, Barrels, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Committee of Taste, or, The punishment of a modern Midas dedicated (without permission) to the subscribers to the New Theatre Drury Lane. [graphic]

6. Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1812?]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title:: V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A scene in court, with the Chief Justice (Ellenborough) seated between two other judges. In front and below are three counsel and two clients. A barrister stands to examine a witness, a stout man, well dressed but countrified (right): "Well Sir, you are a witness in this Cause, eh? You look like a very knowing fellow to be sure! pray now do you know the difference between the Mortgager and the Mortgagee?" The man answers: "To be sure I do, for example now! I nod at you, then I am the Noder and you are the Nodee." All except the questioner smile; a distressed usher (right) exclaims "Silence there!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Brow-beater badger'd and Brow-beater badgered
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "176" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 28 in volume 3.
Publisher:: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
Subject (Topic):: Courtrooms, Judges, and Lawyers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].

7. Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1812?]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A scene in court, with the Chief Justice (Ellenborough) seated between two other judges. In front and below are three counsel and two clients. A barrister stands to examine a witness, a stout man, well dressed but countrified (right): "Well Sir, you are a witness in this Cause, eh? You look like a very knowing fellow to be sure! pray now do you know the difference between the Mortgager and the Mortgagee?" The man answers: "To be sure I do, for example now! I nod at you, then I am the Noder and you are the Nodee." All except the questioner smile; a distressed usher (right) exclaims "Silence there!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Brow-beater badger'd and Brow-beater badgered
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "176" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Manuscript "92" in upper center.
Publisher:: [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):: Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818
Subject (Topic):: Courtrooms, Judges, and Lawyers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Counsellor Nodee, or, A brow-beater badger'd [graphic].

8. Delilah depriveing Sampson of those locks in which consisted his strength [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [February 1812]
Call Number:: 812.02.00.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lady Hertford, seated regally on a small sofa, cuts locks from the head of the Regent who reclines against her knees, asleep. The locks already cut are on the ground inscribed respectively 'Sheridan', 'Norfolk', 'Moira', 'Holland', 'Erskine'. She is about to shear off one inscribed 'Grenville'; the last, 'Grey', is still on his head. The Prince, who is conventionally handsome, and wears uniform, holds a paper signed '[Gren]ville / Grey'; his garter, inscribed 'Honi so . . .', is loose, and his left hand hides the star on his breast. Lord Yarmouth (right) stands holding a guttering candle; he points to the uncut lock, saying, "Don't forget that lock laying [on] the shoulder its Grey dy'ye see!" In his pocket is a pamphlet: 'Art of Milling' [see British Museum Satires No. 11842]. To leave no doubt as to his identity, a basket of fish is beside him inscribed '[Y]armouth Herrings'. Lady Hertford is heavily handsome; a small crown, which might pass as a tiara decorates her head; one foot rests regally on a footstool. A pillar and drapery behind her suggest regal state. On the sofa beside her is a rolled document headed 'Road to Hertford from Pall Mall'. On the ground (left) are empty wine-bottles; on a book by the Prince's feet, 'Economy of Human Life', lies a broken bottle from which wine pours. Behind (left) stands Perceval in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, watching from behind a curtain which he holds aside; Castlereagh stands behind him, saying, "By Jasus, but she's as pretty a Barber as ever I clap't my eyes upon." Perceval answers: "Hush! Hush! you'l wake him before they are all cut."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Delilah depriving Sampson of those locks in which consisted his strength
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed., and Album paper pasted over edge of plate at top.
Publisher:: Pubd. Feby. 1812 by Walker and Knight, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823., Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834., Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815., Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840., Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826., Samson (Biblical judge), and Delilah (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):: Sofas, Scissors & shears, Hair, Sleeping, Candles, Columns, Draperies, and Documents
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Delilah depriveing Sampson of those locks in which consisted his strength [graphic].

9. Five wives at a time, or, An Irishman taken in!! [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 6 August 1812]
Call Number:: Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title:: V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Five women, fashionably dressed, are grouped by a round table (right). Three play cards, one (right) weeps, reading a book: 'Excessive Sensibility a Novel in 21 Volumes by the Auth[or] of Tears & Sighs / Chap 1st'. A fifth stands with her back to the others, drinking, a decanter in her right hand. A plainly dressed man wearing top-boots, and hat in hand, sits (left) in profile to the right regarding the women with consternation. Next him the husband, fashionably dressed but clumsy, sits with hands on knees, frowning angrily. The former says: "Why Jack you terrible Turk I could not believe it if I had not seen it--Five Wives at once--why you will get yourself into a pretty scrape! what could induce you to commit such a rash action." The other answers: "Why you must know Uncle--out of so many I was in hopes to have met with a Good One--but by St Patrick. I have been taken in--!!"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:: Irishman taken in
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. Augt. 6th, 1812, by Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11978 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "156" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured."--Lower left corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1812 -- Games: cards -- Male costume, 1812 -- Top-boots., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 11 in volume 3.
Publisher:: By Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Five wives at a time, or, An Irishman taken in!! [graphic]