"View of the Lock Hospital from the street, a carriage in foreground, people on pavement."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Shepherd, T. H. London and its environs in the nineteenth century. London : Jones & Co., [1829-1831]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and "Pl. 142"--Lower left corner.
Publisher:
Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lock Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Hospitals, and Carriages & coaches
Title from caption below image; title and plate number enclosed within curly brackets., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text on either side of title: A few small inconveniences. There's nothing perfect., and Temporary local subject terms: Steam.
"William IV (left), with a huge broom inscribed 'Public Opinion', sweeps away his Ministers who rush to the right in ignominious haste. His broom is against Wellington's posterior; the others (left to right) are Bathurst, Goulburn, Peel, Ellenborough, and Aberdeen. Behind them is a seventh who may be Londonderry (not an ex-Minister). Wellington: 'Oh Bob that it should have come to this, where shall we hide -- where can we go? --curse Don-Key's fee fa-fum' [see BM Satires No. 16303, &c.]. The King: 'Now I shall have a clear House -- no more dictators! out with you all 29 against your own question. Off -- off'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Only besom of reform
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Brooms., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 215.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1830 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 3d Earl, 1762-1834, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of, 1790-1871, Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860, and Londonderry, Charles William Vane, Marquis of, 1778-1854
Title from caption below image., 'Alfred Crowquill' and the crow-quill symbol are pseudonyms used by Alfred Henry Forrester and his brother Charles Robert Forrester., Four lines of verse below title: Love's missiles ne'er were aimed amiss where there were lips for kissing ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Old man -- Young woman -- Fences -- Posters -- Pictures amplify subject.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Below imprint statement: Aubert, editeur, Galerie Vero Dodat, 31., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: French fashions -- Dandies -- Couples.
Publisher:
chez Martinet-Hautecoeur, rue du Coq St. Honore, Gihaut frères, Boulevard des Italiens, and Violet, Faub. St. Denis, No. 90
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Publisher and date of publication from other prints in the series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., First in a series of prints with variant series names on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps, Scraps, etc., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
On the right a steam-driven coach has exploded with the passengers thrown into the air. A hot air balloons with baskets shaped as a boat and the other as a carraige float above the trees. On the left a conventional carriage "Patent Safety Coach" with advertisements about insurance on the windows speeds away, man in the coach looking back in horror
Alternative Title:
March of invention
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1829.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Airships, Balloons (Aircraft), Insurance, and Steam automobiles
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publis[hin]g., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.