"Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who takes his left hand and points with his right to other brokers on the right who watch the entry, some with dismay, others with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stock-brokers outwitted, Stockbrokers outwitted, and Chevalier D'Eon returned
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Date in British Museum catalogue as: 1 September 1771., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 56., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
An illustrated manuscript leaf in an 18th-century hand. In the upper portion of the recto side is a large vignette of a man in traditional Jewish garb, seated at a table, weighing coins as they spill from two cornucopias, one to each side and held by a cherub whose faces are turned away; the table is covered with coins. The prose text below is captioned "Covetousness" and consists of seven lines beginning: "Every step that a man makes beyond a moderate & reasonable Provision, is taking so much from the worthiness of his own spirit. ..." This quote is taken from an popular 18th-century British courtesy book that appeared in many editions but was first published in 1715.: The Gentleman's Library, containing rules for conduct in all parts of life. The scribe writes using Gothic lettering in pen and brown ink and decorates the perimeter of the text and image with billowing flourishes. Printed above in a ribbon banner is a saying from Horace, "certum voto pete finem"--"set a definite limit to your desire." On the verso written in pencil by a contemporary hand : Mind the noblest, he the law of Kings The noble mind distinguishes perfection It aids & strengthens virtue where it meets her 'Tis not to be sported with
Description:
In English., Title from item., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice in literature, Antisemitism, Avarice, and Ethnic stereotypes
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 October 1834]
Call Number:
834.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled. In the upper left and reading across, "Daddy Longlegs" shows a very think, long-legged man poised to smash the insect on his wall. To the right, on top "The itinerant chanceller" is a scene with a cricketer about to bat a large ball and below a scene with men wearing Dutch-style hats watch as one of the group takes a small ball and readies to bowl down a stand of large, egg-shaped objects. On the far right of the first row, a portly man greets a thin, frail man with wings as ears that extend above his hat, wearing glasses and leaning on a cane. The larger man says "Bless my soul Mr. Pidgeonwidgen! How do ye do. Well now, you look uncommon well considering your Ears." On the second row left, “Follow my leader”, the top image shows a thin man laboring up a hill as he pulls a very large man seated and reading at ease in the a four-wheeled chair. Below three men carrying guns stand up to their necks in a river having followed a taller man in a top hat calmly walking ahead. The speech balloon above their heads reads, “Didn't I tell ye it was only up to the middle.” The first smaller man replies, “The middle indeed. Why we are up to our necks d'ye think our legs are stilts like yours.” In the middle of the second row, A very thin man in Scotish costume (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux?) striding vigorously using a broom as a walking stick and burdened with boxes and bags on his back and waist, labelled “Freedoms of Scotch Towns”, “Broken Vituals the remnants of the Edinburgh Gorge.”, and “Proceeds of the Penny Mag.” The caption below reads, “I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job by my “Starring it” with Old Grey in the North. Sold all my numbers of the Penny Mag. and well puff'd it thro' applause with the ex-premier. Received some score of Burgesses, Freedoms, and Invitations to as many dinners where I blew my own trumpet & obtain'd plenty of orders from our 'Usefull Knowledge Society', now “woe” to the unstamn'd when I get home.” The last image in row two, on the right, is un-captioned and shows a devil riding behind a horseman bolting across an evening sky. Below two men peak through tall grass and observe an otter and The third row contains a single image captioned “Something like a chase” which shows horsemen following their hounds across a field and over a fence, many of whom have fallen their horses or encountered other types of accidents and falls. In the distance is a small sign indicating that they rode from Wombell's. In the last row, on the left, two men, one with a gun with a barrel turned at 90 degrees, peak out from around the corner of a building, looking at a rooster and some chickens. The caption reads, “Paddy's gun, warranted to shoot around the corner.” The first man says, “Put ye spalpeen, wat are you after, if you let it off, by my soul it'll blow ye to de Divil.” To which the man with the gun replies, “Ock, come out now and hav'nt I made it into a 'Patent Cylindrical Twisted Barrel Gun' and dont day shoot de best, ye Murphy digger.” In the middle of the bottom row, is an image of a constable apprehending a frightened chimney sweep, with the caption “Reforming the Clergy”. The constable says, “Come along, you've hacted contrary to the Hact of Parlyment in crying out “Sweep”. There's 40 bob for ye or else a month in Quad." To which the sweep replies, “Oh criky, don't grab me this here vunce and I'll no not never cry Sweep agin. Vot's us poor flue-sakers to do if as how ve don't cry summut all for to let the people know or how ve are in the streets.” Two other laborers, another sweep and a swag man, in the distance on the right and left, observe “Does any lady or Gemmen's flue pipe vont expurgating.” The other says, “The law have mercy on us.” The third and final image at the end of the fourth row has the caption “A Crack Shot” with an image of a man with a caricatured face and a top hat, holding a gun in his hands and an umbrella between his legs as he stands before a door, the top half of which is open; a bird in a cage hangs to the side of the door. The speech balloon above his head reads, “There's one at last, the only chance of a shy I've had to day. There's nobody here, he, he, Now if I don't flummox ye my pink, say my mother has'nt sold her mangle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left corner., Series title and number at top of sheet., "6d, plain. 1s/ cold."--Upper right above design., and Dated below series title at top of sheet: October 1st, 1834. Continued every fortnight.
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, and sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, Wiseheart, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
"Perceval, as Don Quixote, stands in front of the Treasury, giving his orders for the forthcoming session. Facing him, Ministerial members (right) stand at attention, clasping rolled documents, all inscribed 'Ministerial Military Exercise Aye & No', as if they were muskets; one is in Highland dress. A further phalanx in the background is on Perceval's left. He wears armour, with Mambrino's helmet (the barber's basin) and holds erect a tilting-lance, which serves as staff for the Royal Standard. His left hand, holding a 'Muster Roll', rests on his hip. Behind him, pen in hand, and with a pen behind the ear, the two Treasury Secretaries stand stiffly, each with a large book, one 'Names of Staunch Men', the other 'Names of Deserters'. On the extreme left and in the foreground George Rose stoops over a large 'Military Chest', filled with bank-notes, which he holds out towards the Ministerial troops. On the ground beside him lies a rose labelled 'A Rose in January'. Behind him, lurking in a gateway, is Melville, in Highland dress, with two similarly clad Scots peering over his shoulder. He says: "An Ye should want a set of braw fellows fit for ony service, I ha them here ready for ye". On Perceval's left is a mounted officer (Montrose) holding a paper inscribed 'Treaty for an Armistice for 14 days if Necessary'. Beside him is a mounted trumpeter. Perceval says: "Now my Lads lets see if you are perfect in your Exercise!!! You will stick close right or wrong". All answer "Aye. Nor refuse a good place when it is offered". All answer "No. Of course all I say is truth". All answer "Aye, Nor you wont let the Enemy Contradit me". All answer "No". Perceval: "That will do very well and my Aid de Camps shall register you accordingly remember there is something good at the bottom of the Ches [sic]". ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Don Quixote, comander in chief, reviewing his troops previous to the campain and Don Quixote, commander in chief, reviewing his troops previous to the campaign
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1810 by Walker, 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Rose, George, 1744-1818, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Montrose, James Graham, Duke of, 1755-1836, Quixote, Don (Fictitious character), and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Ethnic stereotypes, Military officers, Armor, Flags, Trumpets, Chests, and Money
Page 184. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dutch officer / by Miss Conway
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a five of clubs playing card (56 x 83 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative title and statement of responsibility written in pencil at top of image: Dutch officer, by Miss Conway., Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767., and Mounted on page 184 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
"The candidate, stout and plainly dressed stands on a cask, bawling with outstretched hand at his audience, who are grouped below him, their heads only appearing, except for figure in the foreground. Here a lady (three-quarter length), a veil hanging from her hat over her face, and forming a background to her handsome profile, puts coins from a bag into the extended palm of a man, who gazes fixedly at her face, and who may be intended for a butcher. In the crowd, a fist strikes one man in the eye another is being slapped on the cheek. Three profiles gaze up cynically at the speaker, one is drinking."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord-Iginal faisant sa motion
Description:
Title etched below image., Print attributed to Henri Buquet in the British Museum catalogue., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and "Déposé."
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, rue de Coq
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Political elections, and Women
"Satire on the English: a party of tourists climb into a diligence, with the ship behind from which they have just disembarked."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Debarquement d'anglais a calais pour paris
Description:
Title etched above and below image., This print was listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for la 12 November 1814. See British Museum online catalogue., "Déposé à la Direction Gal. de l'imp. et de la lib.", and Paper with some foxing.
Publisher:
Chez Mme Ve. Chereau rue St Jacques no.10
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Families, Ethnic stereotypes, and Tourists
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bear representing England sits at the left side of a table brandishing a knife over a huge roast beef and plumb pudding, beside an enormous tankard of ale. Opposite him a green rat-like animal, (possibly a monkey) representing France and wearing a red military coat, sword, and feathered tricorne hat, has before him a carafe and glass of wine together with a few mushrooms and onions. On the wall behind the bear is a picture of two overweight pugilists, and behind the rat two duelists with rapiers
Alternative Title:
England, roast beef and plum pudding and France, toad stools & garlick
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Second of two plates on leaf 49., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1775 accy. to act by M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Bears, Rats, Drinking vessels, Plum puddings, and Interiors
Leaf 49. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bear representing England sits at the left side of a table brandishing a knife over a huge roast beef and plumb pudding, beside an enormous tankard of ale. Opposite him a green rat-like animal, (possibly a monkey) representing France and wearing a red military coat, sword, and feathered tricorne hat, has before him a carafe and glass of wine together with a few mushrooms and onions. On the wall behind the bear is a picture of two overweight pugilists, and behind the rat two duelists with rapiers
Alternative Title:
England, roast beef and plum pudding and France, toad stools & garlick
Description:
Title from item. and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1775 accy. to act by M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Bears, Rats, Drinking vessels, Plum puddings, and Interiors
Title engraved above image., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '230' in lower right corner., Three lines of text below title: Frenchman: begar my country be ver de ver in de invention of de modes and de fashions ..., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Frenchmen -- Englishmen -- Male dress: French, 1799.
Publisher:
Published April 8th 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
