"After the title: Four Gentlemen of the Name of Price, all of very different dimensions, are thus distinguished by their friends--The Tall one, is called--High Price--the short one Low Price, the Fat one Full Price & the Thin one Half Price--Examiner. Four men, much burlesqued, walk arm-in-arm, advancing (right to left) towards the spectator. Below each is his name: High Price [&c.]. They are (left to right): an enormously tall dandy with a tiny 'Petersham' hat; a very short man in top-boots and breeches; an enormously fat man in loose trousers, and an impossibly thin one wearing breeches and wrinkled gaiters."--British Museum online catalog
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Thin -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 5th 1825 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street
"Four women, not arm-in-arm, walk left to right: High Price, tall, fashionable, and haughty, looks through an eye-glass. Low Price, small, pert, fashionable but vulgar, looks up at the stout flamboyant Full Price who holds a parasol. Half Price, thin and sour, and clearly an old maid, also holds a parasol. Rails and trees suggest Hyde Park."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionably attributed to Henry Heath., Companion print to George Cruikshank's: The four Mr. Prices., and Temporary local subject terms.
Title from caption below image., Three lines of text below title: The hounds of J.T. Villebois Esqr. generally styled the Hampshire Hunt on the 11th of Janry. 1825 after ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Pantry -- Shelves -- Food.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Puppet shows -- Punch and Judy show -- Children -- Accidents -- Dogs.
The palatial room, lit by candle chandelier, is filled with memebers standign conversation. Burdett, in breeches and boots, is recognizable. Four throw dice at a table in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Opposition members engaged upon hazardous points
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication rubbed from this impression. Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Brooks's (Club)
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Conversation, Eating & drinking, Gambling, Men, and Private clubs
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assiled by a woman, appears to be R.C. See British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication erased from sheet. For complete imprint statement cf. no. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 16 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
"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