"Seurat, see British Museum Satires No. 14882, &c, stands full-face before a curtained archway, displaying himself to ladies (left and right) who crowd to see him. Both arms are raised from the extended elbows, and in his left hand is a wig of short hair that he has just taken off. He says: I am de Anatomie Vivante dat is come to Londres to please all de pretty Lady, and give dem all de much satisfaction. The notorieties are on the left, Mrs. Coutts, the only seated visitor, is the most prominent; she stares up at him through an opera-glass: Poor creature, he seems very little calculated in my opinion to please the ladies, tho' really he is as stout as the Old Banker was. She holds a pamphlet: Claude Seurat or The Living Skeleton. From her arm hangs a reticule ornamented with a flaming heart. Behind her chair (left) is Maria Foote, her arm round Mercandotti's waist. She says: What a very extraordinary Foot; the other answers: And a head as round as a Ball [see British Museum Satires No. 14549]. There are two others (? actresses) on this side. One stoops to finger Seurat's little petticoat, saying, I wonder what this is a yard? The other: I wonder how long he can stand in that position. On the other side, the two most prominent visitors wear wide-brimmed straw hats (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15183); with them is a little girl who wears drawers to the ankle. A hideous woman exclaims What a fright. Another says: I declare he is a greater curiosity than Senior Velluti; a third: My goodness Death upon wires. There are other comments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker Robert Cruikshank's "R.C." initials are etched on the dog's collar in image., Text below image: A number of ladies have gone daily to view the French Living Skeleton in Pall-Mall since the commencement of the exhibition of this extraordinary being. Morning Chronicle, Augt. 13th., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anomalies -- Thinness.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1825 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841,
Subject (Topic):
Freak Show, Thin people, Leanness, Human curiosities, Physical conditions, Spectators, Women, and Dogs
Three full-length images of Claude-Ambroise skeletal body shown wearing only a cloth around his waist
Description:
Title from caption below image., With a pamphlet containing 18 unnumbered pages, with a half-title and no imprint with a biographical sketch and a description of his person: A description of the person, habits, customs, &c. of the living skeleton., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1825 by J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841. and Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841,
Subject (Topic):
Freak Show, Thin people, Human curiosities, and Physical conditions
"Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388., Publication date from watermark., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printseller's identification blind stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 1825.
Call Number:
825.11.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A hand projects from the upper margin, holding the ornate beam of a pair of scales against the irradiated inscription Mene mene--Tekel, &c. [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10072, &c.]. One scale (left) is filled by a large melon from which a slice has been cut, and by a paper: One Million Sterling!! The scale is inscribed The times are Rank Hamlet. This slightly outweighs the other scale which is filled by a ducal coronet and papers: Lt R. N--; Duke E[ar]l Baron; Earl of--; Hery Grd Falconer; Chany; Nell Gwynn!; Hery Regr Chancery! The scale is inscribed A Pledge of Better Times."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Thomas Howell Jones by Andrew Edmunds. A questionable artist attribution to Henry Heath is given in the British Museum catalogue; an additional printmaker attribution to Robert Cruikshank is given in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.8674., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Text below title: I will venture "Coute qui Coute".
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849. and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms:
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket caricature daily publishing
"Brougham, in wig and gown, stands in Old Square, Lincolns Inn, the roof of the Hall, which forms a background, being so inscribed; houses are on the right. He carries on his head, which is in profile to the right, a tray, inscribed London College; this supports a neo-Gothic building with pinnacles and a clock-tower; tiny trees and figures in academic dress round the building show the scale. From its four corners rise labels inscribed in large letters, Etymology, Orthography, Prosody, Syntax. He says Who'I buy? very cheap, very free. From one shoulder hangs a brief-bag inscribed Subscriptions; from the other a ribbon supporting a handsomely bound book: List of Share Holders. Round his waist is a hoop which also encircles the waists of five little puppets: a man in archaic court-dress, holding a feathered hat, next a stout lady holding a fan and a large purse (? the Duke of St. Albans (as Falconer) and Mrs. Coutts, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14875), a fashionably dressed man in top-hat and furred and frogged coat, and Lord Eldon holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. On the ground is a toy horse on wheels ridden by a yokel in a smock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted to: 43 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1825. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, Lincoln's Inn (London, England),, and University College, London.
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Head-carrying, Building models, Toys, Puppets, Books, Bags, and Ceremonial maces
"Four men walk arm-in-arm from right to left. All are strikingly different in build, character, and dress, but all have features strikingly similar, though much altered by time and character, showing that they are brothers. A study in facial expression and in costume, showing, especially, variations of the top-hat (more or less rakish)."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
