V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ill-matched couples dance facing each other; all are burlesqued. On the right a very tall man watches the assembly. The room is decorated with two sets of curtains and a large wall sconce lit with candles
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in local card catalog record., Later state; former plate number "394" has been replaced with a new plate number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pub. June 8, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.06.08.01+., Plate numbered "189" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 43 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance, Dandies, British, and Waltz
"A jovial citizen leaning on his tall cane in profile to the right addresses another, who walks off to the right, turning his head to scowl at his interlocutor. The former says: "How do you do my Old Friend - pretty warm by this time I suppose, - a long time in business. - how much might you clear now in the course of last Year?" The other answers: "Whats that to you - skant tell - keep no books, what you want to come the Inquisition rig I suppose, an be d------d to you!" He is obese and is stuffing a 'Banke[rs] Book 17[98]' into his coat-pocket. His dog 'Surly' looks round with contempt at the first speaker, and befouls his cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A satire on the income tax., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent for the evening., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: T. Edmonds 1817.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Income tax, Law and legislation, Conversation, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Political satire: With billows of smole behind it, a skeleton holding a noose and pointing to his eye dances to the left of Napoleon who stands pointing at it. In the right background is a gallows with a group of soliders standing in the distance below
Alternative Title:
Pair of specticals easely seen through and Pair of spectacles easily seen through
Description:
Title etched below image., "355"--Upper left corner above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on a former album leaf; newspaper clippings dating from 1817 and 1818 are pasted on verso of mount covering a range of topics including: small pox, post horse duties, poor rate, three cases of debtors, two work related accidents, and a short humorous piece on the streets of Paris and the price of wine.
Publisher:
Pub. 17 June 1813 by T. Tegg, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Skeletons, Nooses, Gallows, Soldiers, French, and Smoke
Political satire: With billows of smole behind it, a skeleton holding a noose and pointing to his eye dances to the left of Napoleon who stands pointing at it. In the right background is a gallows with a group of soliders standing in the distance below
Alternative Title:
Pair of specticals easely seen through and Pair of spectacles easily seen through
Description:
Title etched below image., "355"--Upper left corner above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on a former album leaf; newspaper clippings dating from 1817 and 1818 are pasted on verso of mount covering a range of topics including: small pox, post horse duties, poor rate, three cases of debtors, two work related accidents, and a short humorous piece on the streets of Paris and the price of wine.
Publisher:
Pub. 17 June 1813 by T. Tegg, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Skeletons, Nooses, Gallows, Soldiers, French, and Smoke
Title from text printed in letterpress above image., Imprint statement in letterpress near lower edge of sheet., Active datesof publisher according to British Museum catalogue: ca. 1814-1815., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record: 1817., Three columns of verse in letterpress below image: Come all you merry jades, who love to play the game ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by T. Batchelar, 115 Long Alley, Moorfields
"A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029), with a handsome profile, wearing knee-breeches, advances with a mincing step and outstretched hands towards an ugly farmer who stands facing him with a large stick and wearing top-boots and broad-brimmed hat. The tenant holds a money-bag and is fiercely prognathous. The landlord: "My dear Sir--I am rejoiced to see you--I hope your lovely family are well--You are a charming Man--correct in every point--in short your countenance is an index to your mind." The farmer: "You certainly are flattering me--here is your Rent.--as to my family--thanks to the Lord, my Wife, and all the brats, be gone to kingdome come." There is a carpeted floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Landlord and tenant
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist identified as Capt. Hehl in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 421); three-quarter length seated in ecclesiastical robes, looking to left, holding a paper on his lap in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
William Howley, D.D. F.R.S. : Lord Bishop of London
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger; alternative title from later state., Early (proof?) state, with production details only. For a later state with title and imprint added, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.5597., Publication information inferred from imprint on later state: London, Pubd. July 28, 1817, by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., Cockspur Street, Haymarket., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., Bound in before page 559 (leaf numbered '150' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Manuscript title "William Howley - Archbishop of Canterbury" in ink below image.
Half-length portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan, second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with her son Charles on her back
Description:
Title etched below image., After painting by John Hoppner, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 65.203)., Probably an early state, before the incorrect artist's name "Sir Joshua Reynolds" was replaced by the correct name "J. Hoppner Esqr. R.A." For the later state with the correction, see impression at the National Library of Wales., Later state was the frontispiece to v.2 of: Watkins, J. Memoirs of the public and private life of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan. London : Printed for H. Colburn, 1817., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 557 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published by Henry Colburn, Conduit Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Hester Jane, 1776-1817, and Sheridan, Charles Brinsley, 1796-1843,
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from watermark., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "138" in lower left corner., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 144., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2299., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1817.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
All-engraved card printed with a black mourning board, with an image of her home Claremont below the title and below, nine lines that provide biographical details and an anecdote a snuff box that she had commissioned before her death, a gift for her husband Prince Leopold. A poem of nine lines, intended to be inscribed on the lid of the snuff box, is engraved below
Alternative Title:
Late residence of our much beloved and truly lamented Lady, the Princess Charlotte of Wales ...
Description:
Title from texted engraved above image., First line of verse: To Claremonts terrac'd heights, and Esher's Groves ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865., and Claremont House (Surrey, England),
