A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her lefthand while in her right she holds a candle over the cradle where the swandled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious f...
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, and Servants
"Portrait of Samuel Johnson, whole length, walking to the right, holding tall stick; his left hand is held up as if declaiming; wearing travelling dress; after Trotter."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published April 23 [?] 1817 by C.G. Dyer, Compton Street, Soho
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"British households are represented by large straw bee-hives; these are assailed by tax-collectors and their satellites who run through the air in a swarm. One hive is in the foreground (right), the two next are in the middle distance, with a line of ...
Alternative Title:
No. II. Blessings of Britain, or, Swarm of tax-gatherers, Blessings of Britain, or, Swarm of tax-gatherers, Swarm of tax-gatherers, and Quarter day
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Lord Chancellor (Eldon), preceded by his mace-bearer holding a sword, is about to alight on the pavement outside Westminster Hall (left), having flown diagonally down from the right; next him is (?) the Vice-Chancellor Plumer, close behind are ei...
Alternative Title:
No. 1. Blessings of Britain, or, A flight of lawyers, Blessings of Brittain, or, A flight of lawyers, Blessings of Britain, or, A flight of lawyers, Flight of lawyers, and First day of term
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, s...
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat, long pointed stomacher, a calash hood (see British Museum Satires No. 5434, &c.) over a large plain cap, stands with a small nosegay in her left hand, and with a closed fan held to her cheek. She looks dow...
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
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still image
Abstract:
"A satire on costume and manners. Dandies (see British Museum Satires No. 13029) eagerly offer refreshments to ladies at a reception or ball. An elderly fright stands in the centre, between a thin (left) and a fat (right) dandy, one proffering a large...
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The principal belle (right) stoops from the waist with dropped arms (the fashionable attitude), a reticule dangling from her right hand, towards a beau who is arm-in-arm with a Life Guards officer; the latter looks over his shoulder with an insolent ...
