Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Umbrellas -- Baskets.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With: I wish you may get it!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
A monkey dressed in a Roman-style tunic holds a sword over his head, held in his right hand. In his left he grasps a cat. Over his shoulders is a lion's pelt
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on active date of S. Gans., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1825 [also a trimmed textual fragment].
Publisher:
Published by S. Gans, 22 Southampton St. (Strand) and Printed by N. Jones, 66 St. Martins Lane
Title from caption below image., Unknown etcher only identified by use of a device: A slanted anchor., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.56+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"See BM Satires No. 15972, with the same imprint. Nine vignettes, the largest in the centre, signed 'H Heath Delt et Sculpt': two inane cockney sportsmen, one seated on a stile, the other, aiming at a bird (? crow) hits the posterior of a man on a ladder against a rick. Below: 'Gad I thought I hit him!' A popular theme, cf. BM Satires No. 9596, &c. Among the others is an ex-dandy in a derelict room, sitting over the fire, while his one shirt dries on a line: 'Who would have thought I should ever come to this?' Cf. BM Satires No. 13060, &c"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below first image on upper left. Series title centered above image. and Nine designs on one plate, each with lines of dialogue etched below.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gan's, Southampton St[r]eet, Strand
A folio album of 144 caricatures mounted on 87 sheets, mostly etchings, with some aquatints and other satirical prints, some hand-colored, and one pen-and-ink drawing laid in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Laid in, a wood engraving: Principal characters, in the new play of the road to royalty! [London] : Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Rats in the barn, or, Iohn Bull's famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment / [figure of Paul Pry] Esqr. [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Funeral of the constitution. [London] : Pubd. March 1809 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1809]., Laid in, a lithograph: View of the Houses of Lords and Commons : destroyed by fire on the 16th Octr. 1834. [London] : Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand, [ca. 1834]., Laid in, a pen and ink drawing on watermark paper G. Pike, 1817: The savior of this grateful country : to Kingston 1 mile to London x miles. [England], [ca. 1817]., Note on front pastedown: This book contains the caricatures published by Sayers during his life. This was his own copy and was presented to me after his death. [Signed] Eldon., With Lord Eldon's bookplate., and For further information, consult library staff.
Two men sit at a table, drinking and smoking. The man on the left says to his companion, "Why Captain your nose and chin look as if they were going to fight they are in such a milling attitude." The man on the right with a large pock covered nose and large protuding chin responds, "Very likely my friend for a great many angry words have passed between them." On the wall behind them are two bookshelves, one of which contains a book entitled "Life in London" and "Tom and Jerry", as well as two prints, one showing two boxers fists raised as if in a bout and another military print
Description:
Title from ms. caption on mount., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 20 x 27 cm., and Ms. caption on mount: Preparing for battle.
