Image divided into six scenes captioned individually: Dizzy; Foolish; Evidently inebriated; Considerably intoxicated; Uncommon drunk; Indisputedly dead drunk!
Alternative Title:
Six gradations of a drunkard
Description:
Title from heading etched above image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms.
"Four over-fed doctors carouse at a table laden with rounds of beef and decanters. Each holds up a glass and gives a toast. The man at the head of the table (left): 'Long life to our Central Board--R |. "in medio tutissimus bibis [for ibis]"--as we say in the classics'. His vis-à-vis: 'May we preserve our health by bleeding the country'. The man in back view: 'I drink Reform in our Hospitals, may they close their doors against the public & the poor die in Hackney coaches'. On the back of his chair: 'Board & Lodging'. His vis-à-vis: 'I pledge myself to keep some cases afloat'. From their coat-pockets hang big bloated purses. Beside the first speaker a long scroll hangs from a writing-table (left): 'Post Mortem Appearances, want of Employment Poverty Starvation Quarantine Stagnation Distress Blue Ruin' [gin]. On the floor (right): 'While Drs differ & deny--The Country bleeds & patients die'. Above the principal doctor hangs a picture of a bottle (blue) emitting smoke, and with head, arms, and legs, capering menacingly. This (a symbol of humbug, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14507) is 'Contagious Cholera'. At the other end of the room (right) packing-cases are piled from floor to ceiling inscribed (reading downwards): 'A bad case' [broken]; 'Cases made on the Shortest Notice'; 'Per varios [sic] casus, per tot discrimina rerum" | Tendimus" | "By various cases & such discrimination | we get on." | Docrs Transtn --'; 'Dr Bolus Case Maker'; 'New Case' [twice]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cholera consultation
Description:
Title from text below image. Additional title above image: Cholera consultation., "A. Bird" is a pseudonym of William Henry Merle; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Bolus., and 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; sheet 28.1 x 43.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Health boards, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Physicians, and Toasting
"Four over-fed doctors carouse at a table laden with rounds of beef and decanters. Each holds up a glass and gives a toast. The man at the head of the table (left): 'Long life to our Central Board--R |. "in medio tutissimus bibis [for ibis]"--as we say in the classics'. His vis-à-vis: 'May we preserve our health by bleeding the country'. The man in back view: 'I drink Reform in our Hospitals, may they close their doors against the public & the poor die in Hackney coaches'. On the back of his chair: 'Board & Lodging'. His vis-à-vis: 'I pledge myself to keep some cases afloat'. From their coat-pockets hang big bloated purses. Beside the first speaker a long scroll hangs from a writing-table (left): 'Post Mortem Appearances, want of Employment Poverty Starvation Quarantine Stagnation Distress Blue Ruin' [gin]. On the floor (right): 'While Drs differ & deny--The Country bleeds & patients die'. Above the principal doctor hangs a picture of a bottle (blue) emitting smoke, and with head, arms, and legs, capering menacingly. This (a symbol of humbug, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14507) is 'Contagious Cholera'. At the other end of the room (right) packing-cases are piled from floor to ceiling inscribed (reading downwards): 'A bad case' [broken]; 'Cases made on the Shortest Notice'; 'Per varios [sic] casus, per tot discrimina rerum" | Tendimus" | "By various cases & such discrimination | we get on." | Docrs Transtn --'; 'Dr Bolus Case Maker'; 'New Case' [twice]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cholera consultation
Description:
Title from text below image. Additional title above image: Cholera consultation., "A. Bird" is a pseudonym of William Henry Merle; see British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Bolus.
Publisher:
Published by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Health boards, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Physicians, and Toasting
A satire of William IV's involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is labelled with words such as 'rights', 'reform', and 'popularity'. A portrait of Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, hangs above the fireplace
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from the subject matter of the print. Publisher Marianne Humphrey, the widow of George Humphrey, operated her late husband's publishing business from 1831 to 1835; see British Museum online catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and a monkey tired of play ..., For an 1821 print of similar composition, entitled "The man of the woods & the cat-o'-mountain" and satirizing the relationship between Queen Caroline and Sir Matthew Wood, see no. 14131 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James's Stt
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cats, Monkeys, Fireplaces, Bookcases, Irons (Pressing), and Portraits
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jany. 1832.
Call Number:
832.01.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man hunched over a fire in an empty room as eight tradespeople -- a chandler, a baker, a butcher, a dairy woman, a tailor, and a dustman -- fight to present their unpaid bills, long scrolls of paper that they show to the bankrupt man. He responds: ‘God bless me Wot a Posse of ye - I’m very Sorry to inform ye my good Folks that I’ve just been turn’d a Bankrupt’.
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement on either side of title: The following laughable plates 1/- each colour'd, Tregear’s Flights of Humour 14 plates, Tenant at Will, Leaseholder, Living Cheap, Chip of the Old Block, Humourous Scraps, Matrimony, Burstyersides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Remnants of formerly mounted printed matter on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. by Tregear, Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Debt, Garbage collecting, Interiors, Fireplaces, and People associated with manual labor
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A separate sheet with four lines of verse in letterpress is pasted beneath title: Now the length and the shape of your husband's nose is a thing that don't signify ..., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Adapted from a broadside published by J. Quick: The manager's last kick, or The distruction of the boroughmongers. "A crude, confused, and complicated design, the characters unrecognizable. William IV, riding 'The Good Old Grey'and accompanied by his Ministers, notably Brougham using the Mace as a broom, chases boroughmongers who fall head first into a pit (right), the 'Slough of Despond'. Russell, saying 'What do you think of my Purge now' , leads the "Grey", which snorts 'Reform'. The King: 'Begone you sad Rogues you have sat here long enough!!!' The ground on which they stand is 'Magna Charter'. The most conspicuous "Boroughmonger" is Sir R. Wilson in uniform with a kettle labelled 'A present from Southwk' tied to his coat-tail; he holds two papers: 'Lies against Bonaparte' and 'Queen's Trial'. Others include Wetherell saying 'I'm Again for Boroughbridge', Peel saying 'I'm Going to Tamworth'. Hunt's top-booted legs protrude from a blacking jar labelled 'Matchless for Impudence and Blacking!!!'. The members for Westminster try to save themselves, Hobhouse by clinging to the top of the pit, inscribed 'Westminster', Burdett by clinging to Hobhouse's coat-tails; in the latter's pockets are 'Catholic Bill' and 'Corn Bill'; he says: 'Holdfast Cam we are sure to get in again'. Other boroughs named, each with its doomed M.P. (represented usually by legs in air) are 'Newark: His Grace's Seat'; 'Newry', 'Penryn', 'Gatton', 'Old Sarum', 'Sudbury', 'Newport', 'Alderbury' [twice], 'Hedon', 'Corfe Castle'. O'Connell, waist-deep near 'New Sarum', holds up his arms to the Westminster M.P.'s, shouting, 'I'll join you Boys let's have a Union'. John Bull (left), obese and jolly, watches the doomed anti-Reformers, waving his hat and shouting 'Huzza! well done William!' Behind (right) is the façade of Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam) with a lunatic waving from each window: 'No Reform'; 'Corruption for ever'; one of them is Wellington saying 'Its a Mistake'. They are 'The Bedlamites'. Below are the verses of a street poet and "A Dialogue between John Bull and his Friend, Concerning the Row at the King's Theatre . . .". The naive text is applicable to the election of 1831, not to that of 1832, but such street papers are without accuracy. The seventh of eight verses, contrasting William IV with George IV: William is a Sailor bold sir, And on the waves he has often roll'd, sir, He wants no Marquesses wives or Daughters, To spend his time at Virginea waters, He goes to neither Parks or Races, A slobbering ladies' pretty faces, He guides the helm and keeps his station, And knows what is wanted through the nation."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Distruction of the Boroughmongers and Destruction of the Boroughmongers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue record for 1832 print., and Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 17342.
Queen Adelaide, side-saddle on a horse with a man's face, Lord Grey, using spurs and a riding crop to press him into the 'Slough of Despond', joining other politicians including Wellington. Grey says, " Don't drive so hard; you will worry me to death." A signpost 'To Reform' points the other way. A group behind her cry, "Go it, Addy, push him on, don't let him make any, without he first makes us."
Description:
Title from text below image., Series title and numbering in upper right., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Library of Congress., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed, with loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837., Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, and Horseback riding
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse pasted on sheet: It is now forty years, I guess since I was a girl coming out ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Series statement in ms near top of sheet: Misfortunes of a large nose in six plates.