"A glutton lies in bed, asleep, assailed by the fish, flesh, and fowl of a City dinner. A huge turtle is on top of him, a lobster pinches his nose, a pheasant swoops to peck an eye. He holds in each hand a bottle labelled 'Wrights Cham[pagne]' [see British Museum Satires No. 15478], squirting the explosive contents at his assailants. A big frog points a spear on which three small frogs are spitted. On his bedside table besides candle, box of 'Dixon's Pills', basin, &c, is a bill of fare: 'Turtle & fresh Cod'; 'Roast beef & à la mode'; 'Veal and Mutton'; 'Pork and Venison'; 'Pheasants & Pigeons'; 'Lobster & Sturgeon'; 'Turkey and Capon'; 'Goose and Salmon'; 'Turbot & Ducks'; 'Shrimps in Pots'; 'Frogs à la Crapodine'; 'Anguille &c à la diabletine' [sic]. All these, shrimps excepted, are depicted; there is also a hare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord Mayor's Day nightmare and Fatal effects of gluttony
Description:
Title from text below image., Description based on impression in the British Museum., Text below title: Dedicated to all the city gourmands, to be had at all the taverns in the United Kingdom., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of title above image and imprint; printmaker's intitials and printer information erased from sheet., and Window mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Nightmares, Beds, Animals, and Champagne (Wine)
"Prince Leopold sits enthroned, flanked by his new subjects; he wears uniform with a crown, and sits on a two-tiered circular dais in a chair of state, the seat of which is covered with giant thorns. Punctured and frightened, he grasps the arms of his chair with crisped fingers; his toes are drawn back, touching the ground, and he looks towards a savage-looking Greek (right) who kneels before him with a long knife held behind his back. A similar ruffian kneels on the left; others approach menacingly from the left, one smoking a long pipe and grasping a knife. They wear Greek costume with embroidered jackets and full white breeches. On the right are long-robed ecclesiastics, headed by a bearded patriarch with a cross in one hand, a knife in the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Title from caption below image., Five numbered lines of dialogue below title: 1. So! they say Miss Stiff Romp is in the straw!! 2. Why sure, is it a girl? ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.75
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below title: Preserve my senses here's a great winding shed for sartain there's a death in the family!!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., Number two in a series of prints with variant series name on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[18 November 1830]
Call Number:
830.11.18.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Political satire: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) leading his Tory government ministers in flight from its attack on the castle of 'Reform' (as inscribed to the Tricolore flag of liberty that flies from the tower).
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Mounted to 32 x 41.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 18, 1830, by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Military retreats, Soldiers, and British
"A court scene. The judge, Bayley (right), addresses the apprehensive prisoner at the bar, Wellington (left): '"If a party, wilfully & intentionally does an act likely in its results to produce death, & death actually ensues, the act so done by him is done with what the Law calls "malice afore thought" & the party is guilty of murder!"' The jury, in a raised box, Counsel seated in the well of the court, and a shorthand-writer standing on the extreme left, stare at judge or prisoner. The heads of spectators fill the space under the jury-box."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed using John Doyle's "HB" monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., Text below title: A supposed case, founded on facts., A commentary on a recent trial of R.W. Lambrecht who was tried for manslaughter as a result of a duel, with Wellington appearing in the dock, alluding to an event in which Wellington himself went through the motions of a duel the previous year., and Matted to 41 x 53 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Bayley, John, 1763-1841
Subject (Topic):
Dueling, Courtrooms, Judges, Juries, and Spectators
Four monkeys in human dress form a quartet and give a concert, one singing, the others plating a piano, guitar and flute
Alternative Title:
Little music
Description:
Title etched above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below image: "What softer sounds are these salute the ear, as if the center of all sweets met here? Ben Johnson., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Monkeys, Musicians, Musical instruments, and Animals in human situations
"Long, dressed as a funeral mute or mourner, stands full-face, legs apart, carrying four large boards like a sandwich-man (then "board-man"). Only his draped hat and eyes appear above the central board. In his hand is a staff draped in black which is inscribed 'Killing No Murder' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11371]. At his feet are many ducks, all angrily quacking: 'quack!!'; 'quack!!!'; or (one) 'cruel quack'. He says, quoting a nursery rhyme, 'Come, Dilly, Dilly, Dilly, come and be killed!!!' The principal board is headed 'To the Public', with the Royal Arms. Inscriptions: 'A Receipt of my Grandmothers | Decline Arrested | Consumption prevented | A Cure for all diseases | By The Simple | process of | Skinning Alive | protected by the | NOBILITY | and a House-Full of | Ladies | of the first Distinction | Dr Needy, Harley-Street | NO QUACKERY'. On both flanking boards are a grinning skull and cross-bones inscribed 'momento [sic] mori'; on one (left) are wine-glasses, tankard, and bottle and 'A Short Life and a Merry one'; (right) 'N.B. . Short Accounts make LONG Friends'. Behind is a funeral procession with two coffins, preceded by a duck. This passes the railings of a London square. Behind are houses, on one of which is a hatchment, and a church-steeple on which prances a tiny devil flourishing a trident."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oracle of Harley Street
Description:
Title etched below image., Second title etched above image: The Oracle of Harley Street., Signed at bottom of plate with the initials "J.D.R." followed by a depiction of an artist's palette., Possibly etched by 'Sharpshooter' (the pseduonym of John Phillips); see British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consumption -- Funerals -- Manslaughter -- Drugs.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Malpractice, Quacks, Signs (Notices), and Ducks
"Ugly woman in latest Paris fashions followed by two regency dandies."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of dialogue below title: There's a d-d fine girl! Come along Tom, let's have a look at her! I dare say she's beautiful!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1830, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
