Title from caption below image., Two lines of text below title: Let me see. Earl Grey. Reform. Victory. Brougham ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and fancy caricatuers are daily brought, having the largest collection of any house in town., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
" Eight designs border on left and right, a centre of designs relating to Brougham. Five others make a border along the lower edge. In the centre is 'The Penny Trumpeter' copied from BM Satires No. 17258, with the word 'Monopoly' inscribed on Brougham's sack. The background to the figure is the façade of the University of London (see BM Satires No. 14788, &c). Two brooms flank this design; on each stands a figure of Brougham; on one (left) he is the schoolmaster 'At Home', holding a cane (see BM Satires No. 17187), on the other, dressed as a broom-girl (as in BM Satires No. 14769), he is the schoolmaster 'Abroad' (see BM Satires No. 15535). Above is the 'Woolsack', resting on Brougham's motto 'Pro Grege Lege Rege', and supporting a broom. Above this, Brougham as an old witch sits on a broom, 'Diffusing Knowledge', i.e. scattering pamphlets. Above is the bewigged head of Brougham supported on a birch-rod, or 'Rod of Equity', surmounted by a motto on a scroll: 'The March Of Intellect'. Below "The Penny Trumpeter" are emblems of oppression: a prison inscribed 'County Goal'; heavy fetters with inscriptions: 'Liberty of the Press'; 'Passive Obediance'; 'The Poor Mans Guardian' [Hetherington's unstamped paper, begun July 1831].. Designs on the left and right: [1] 'Astronomy', Brougham's profile in a crescent moon gaping at the 'Penny Mag.' and surrounded by clouds and little men whose heads are stars. [2] 'Natural History', a London drover intent on the 'Penny Mag' while two bulls toss a woman and trample on a man. [3] 'Botany', a gardener with a watering-can reading the 'Mag', tramples on a frame and on flowers. [4] 'Mathematics', a learned pig in wig and gown teaches little pigs to select cards and tell the time. [5] 'Geography, also the use of the Globes', three schoolboys, each reading the 'Penny Mag', sit or sprawl on (scholastic) globes. [6] 'Navigation', a Thames waterman reading the 'Penny Mag' runs down another wherry. [7] 'Agriculture', a ploughman, reading, trudges into a marsh, his plough and horses neglected in the background. [8] 'Mineralogy', a coal-cart man, reading the 'Mag', empties his sack down the area instead of the coal-hole. His mate shouts 'Hollo Bill vere ar you Shooting them ere Coals to'. The designs along the lower margin: [9] 'Geology, or the Formation of the Earth', a quarryman, reclining to read the 'Mag' and having used his pick at random, falls through space on the rock he has detached from a cliff-edge. [10] 'Divinity', a little chimney-sweep, seated on the top of a chimney, intently reading the 'Penny Mag' ("Clergyman" was a slang term for chimney-sweep, see BM Satires No. 14381). [11] 'Philosophy', a lean and ragged man with empty pockets leans against the wall in driving rain, reading, beside an 'Eating House' window filled with joints of meat. [12] 'Physics', an apothecary's boy with a basket of medicines running along the pavement and reading the 'Mag', steps into an open cellar. [13] 'Literature', one sailor reads the 'Penny Mag' to four others who listen intently."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Imprint and lithographer's name from record for another impression at the British Museum., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Numerous small designs, many of them individually titled., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and artist and printmaker signatures., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
Oct. 1833.
Call Number:
832.00.00.34+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Description based on impression in the British Museum online catalogue, registration number: 1998,1004.9., Nineteen small designs, each individually titled., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., The Lewis Walpole Library: Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and printmaker's signature., and Mounted to 32 x 27 cm.
An obese, angry-faced man in a night cap sits in a chair glaring out the window, his two gouty feet are bandaged and propped up on a pillow; both of his arms are also bandaged, his right arm in a sling. He is wearing a night cap and a heavy, lined robe; a cane rests against the arm of his upholstered chair. On the table to his right and on the floor to his left are bottles of medicine with labels. Behind him on the wall is a framed picture of a volcano. Three window panes are decorated with sprigs of holly with red berries
Description:
Title etched 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.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1832 by O. Hodgson, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Anger, Diseases, Medicine, Obesity, and Volcanic eruptions
A collection of 20 proof states of the 27 prints after George Cruickshank used as illustrations for The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth. Most are signed with Marshall's initials 'JRM', with two signed 'J.R. Marshall' and most identify the artist as 'G.C.' (i.e. George Cruikshank) or G. Cruikshank'. One print based on William Hogarth's "O the roast beef of Old England, &c." includes the attribution "From Hogarth by G.C."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., The Universal songster; or, Museum of mirth was first issued by John Fairburn in weekly numbers beginning in 1825, and then shortly afterwards by Jones & Co.; see Cohn., Printed on india paper with three additional prints, all duplicate impressions on a different paper stock and all faulty. One duplicate plate is annotated in the top margin: "3 blocks by G. Ck. 9 blocks by RC. 1 block by [illegible]. Rimil 1863 r/m/. Out of Universal songster. Bone has the others.", Bound in calf gilt, all edges gilt; two auction records tipped on first blank., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A young woman stands within a compass inscribed 'Fear God', holding an open book inscribed 'The Pleasures of Imagination Realized'. At her feet is an open chest full of guineas from which hang bank-notes and jewels; it is inscribed 'The Reward of Virtue'. A small dog stands beside her. In the background (right) is a country house, on the left farm-buildings and haystacks. The four corners are filled ... with the disasters which beset the woman who does not 'keep within compass'. (1) A woman weeps dejectedly with cards and an empty purse on the ground at her feet. (2) A drunken woman lets an infant fall from her arms; on the wall is a torn print inscribed 'Domestic Happiness'. (3) A woman is being conducted to the watch-house by two watchmen, one with his lantern, the other with a rattle. (4) She beats hemp in Bridewell, a man standing behind her with a whip, as in Hogarth's 'Harlot's Progress'. ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a larger version of the same design
Alternative Title:
Prudence produceth esteem and Keep within compass and you shall be sure, to avoid many troubles which others endure
Description:
Title from text above and below circular image at center of design., Alternative title from text etched within circular border of center image: Keep within compass and you shall be sure, to avoid many troubles which others endure., After a watercolor drawing by Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1859,0709.57., Reissue, with new imprint and date removed, of a print published by Carington Bowles in 1785; see no. 6908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6. For a larger mezzotint version of the same design with more extensive verses below, see no. 6907 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., Date based on the partnership of Bowles and Carver from 1793 until 1832., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns at bottom of plate: Attend unto this simple fact, as thro' this life you rove, that virtuous and prudent ways, will gain esteem and love., and Plate numbered "347" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jany. 1832.
Call Number:
832.01.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Possibly a later state; significant plate fouling, some text within speech bubble in image has been scored through., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Fourth page of a monthly magazine that consisted of four pages; included on this page are five individually-titled images, "MADRID, - A FALSE ALARM (British Museum Satires No. 17269): Ferdinand VII lies on his back in bed, his crown and a huge pot of 'Holy Water' beside him. He calls 'Quick! fetch the Holy Petticoat I once embroidered. St. Peter will sure admit me in that disguise'. Behind his bed-curtains a procession hurries forward, headed by a friar holding two huge candles. An acolyte swinging a censer walks before a bishop in his robes who holds up an embroidered petticoat hanging from a cross. Behind is another bishop. (Ferdinand VII's death was expected and had been reported. He recovered and died on 29 Sept. 1833. For the petticoat, reputedly embroidered for the Virgin during his internment at Valençay, see British Museum satires no. 12508, &c.)."--British Museum online catalogue, "DIETING IN GERMANY. (British Museum satires no. 17270) 'Liberty' is represented by the flames coming from big candle-ends placed on the ground; Francis I and Nicholas (out of place in the German Diet) are putting huge extinguishers over them. Five of the candles are 'Franckfort, Hesse-Cassel, Brandenburg, Hanover, Baden'. The Tsar: 'Extinguish it in one place it blazes in another'. He is back to back with the senile Francis who puts his extinguisher over 'Brandenburg', saying, 'Why the extinguisher itself appears to be igniting'. (See British Museum satires no. 17212, &c. Revolutionary movements in Europe, cf. No. 16535, had in fact been suppressed or had subsided. For the extinguisher cf. Nos. 12588, 14145.)."--British Museum online catalogue, "DUTCHMEN BLOCKING UP THE NAVIGATION OF THE SCHELDT. (British Museum satires no. 17271) A row of fat Dutchmen sit on the water, buoyed up by bulky and inflated breeches. All are smoking long pipes; one says 'Yau Mynheer'. Behind them are small ships. Two frogs watch from a bank in the foreground. (The obstinacy of the King of Holland in claiming control over the navigation of the Scheldt, including the right of preventing ships from passing to or from the high seas, was a main obstacle in the settlement of the Dutch-Belgian question. Camb. Hist, of Br. Foreign Policy, ii. 146 ff. See British Museum satires no. 17295, &c. Van Stolk, no. 7170. )."--British Museum online catalogue, "PORTUGAL (British Museum satires no. 17272) An ugly infant, Queen Maria (left), and a crowned ape, Miguel, face each other across a chasm. On the plain below and between them scattered forces are fighting. The child, who has dropped her coral and bells, holds out her arms, screaming 'Ah you've got my crown! I will have my crown'. The ape, who presses a foot on human bones, grimaces savagely. Below each protagonist is a supporter. A man waving a cocked hat shouts 'Fight for your illustrious Queen'. A monk holds up both arms, shouting 'Fight for your August King!!' Below the title: '"Oh its a mighty pretty Quarrel" (Sir Lucius O'Trigger)' [Sheridan, The Rivals]. (For the civil war in Portugal see British Museum satires no. 17179, &c.)."--British Museum online catalogue, and "PERFECTS AND IMPERFECTS, OR DREADFUL TIMES. (British Museum satires no. 17273) 'The Times' newspaper is represented by a man whose body from neck to hips is covered by a sheet of 'The Times'; across the columns of the paper are the words: 'Horrible! \ Dreadful!! \ Frightful!! \ Mare's Nest \ discovered near \ Hammersmith'. The square head, with fierce angular features and a pen stuck in it, is seemingly an ink-pot. The limbs are those of a vigorous man, who lunges fiercely with outstretched arms, holding a huge ink-ball in each hand. With one he knocks backward and blackens the face of an elderly man dressed like the Duke of Cumberland who watches from the left. 'The Times': 'I should not have known how to make any thing of the Duke's apology; because a short-sighted man might ride nearer than he intended, and seeing people so much more frightened than hurt, might possibly smile:--But you I have at my mercy. Where's the mustachoes Sir? Where's the mustachoes?--There, Sir-- there, have you any mind for another dose'. Cumberland, stooping aggressively, exclaims: 'Oh! you officious blockhead, you will get freely belaboured for your pains'. A young lady, who watches mincingly from the right, cries, 'Oh! I am quite positive as to the mustachoes!!'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles from text below images., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Publisher from publisher's statement "London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket" on first page of magazine; date of publication from series numbering "Vol. 3rd, Octr. 1, 1832" on first page of magazine. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.12322.
Publisher:
T. Mclean
Subject (Geographic):
Antwerp (Belgium) and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Maria II, Queen of Portugal, 1819-1853, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, Anglesey, Henry William Paget, Marquis of, 1768-1854, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855, Newcastle, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of, 1785-1851, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Maltby, Edward, 1770-1859, Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Karl II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, 1804-1873, Knight, Charles, 1791-1873, Quentin, George Augustus, 1760-1851., and Georg V, King of Hannover, 1819-1878
Subject (Topic):
Siege, 1832, Catholics, Public opinion, Monkeys, and Arcimboldesque figures
