Kings armns in an uproar, King's Arms in an uproar, and Enchanted castle
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, and sheet mutilated on top edge with loss of the final letters "g" and "s" in "Kings" in title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Following imprint: Price sixpence., Six columns of verse below image: I sing the bloody fight & dire alarms, twixt London Tavern and Kings Arms ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Taverns (Inns)
"A press-gang at work in a London street, at the end of which appears the dome of St. Paul's. A sailor (c.) strides towards the spectator, a club in his right. hand, dragging along a lean tailor, who holds up his hands in dismay. An infuriated woman (l.) has seized the sailor by his hair and the right. ear while she pummels him with her knee. Another sailor behind has seized her wrist and raises a club to strike her. A third sailor (r.) holds the tailor by the left. arm. A naval officer (r.) walks beside the party with a drawn cutlass. Behind are other sailors. A woman (l.) wearing stays or jumps' raises a mop in both hands to smite a sailor; an infant clutches her petticoats. A group of spectators (l.) includes a woman carrying a baby. A dog barks at the fray."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 15th, 1779, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Leaf 6. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A press-gang at work in a London street, at the end of which appears the dome of St. Paul's. A sailor (center) strides towards the spectator, a club in his right. hand, dragging along a lean tailor, who holds up his hands in dismay. An infuriated woman (left) has seized the sailor by his hair and the right ear while she pummels him with her knee. Another sailor behind has seized her wrist and raises a club to strike her. A third sailor (right) holds the tailor by the left arm. A naval officer (right) walks beside the party with a drawn cutlass. Behind are other sailors. A woman (left) wearing stays or 'jumps' raises a mop in both hands to smite a sailor; an infant clutches her petticoats. A group of spectators (left) includes a woman carrying a baby. A dog barks at the fray."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5609 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 29., and On leaf 6 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 15th, 1779, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in coats with military facings are having a violent fight with some geese. A goose (left) is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of one, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword which is in his left hand. The other (right) is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks, one lies dead on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Sepr. 17th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Geese, Fighting, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men in coats with military facings are having a violent fight with some geese. A goose (left) is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of one, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword which is in his left hand. The other (right) is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks, one lies dead on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner., First of two plates on leaf 32., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act, Sepr. 17th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Geese, Fighting, Daggers & swords, and Staffs (Sticks)
Pitt and Fox stand square-off, fists raised in the House of Commons at the height of the Regency Crisis, just before the passage of the Regency Bill, 1789
Alternative Title:
Humphreys & Mendoza fighting for a crown and Humphreys and Mendoza fighting for a crown
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 27 x 38 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub'd by W. Dent December 22 1788 and Sold by W. Moore, Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Humphries, Richard, d. 1827, Mendoza, Daniel, 1764-1836, and Great Britain. House of Commons,
Two stout ladies, dressed in long gowns, confront each other. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) with her second the Prince of Wales faces in a confident manner the scowling and clumsy Mrs. Schwellenberg whose second, Pitt offers her a lemon. The furious German woman holds a massive sceptre in both her hands raised above her head ready to strick her opponent. All the figures have speech bubbles above their heads referencing the rights of the people, the Prince's morganatic marriage, Catholics, and the issue of money going to Germany
Alternative Title:
Political heat for Rege & Grege and Political heat for Rege and Grege
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from later state. Cf. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times. London, Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 107., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of subtitle., Earlier state, with the Prince of Wales's uncensored speech. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7501., and Watermark: L Taylor.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Regency, Censorship, Crucifixes, Fighting, Lemons, Royal marriages, British, and Scepters
Two stout ladies, dressed in long gowns, confront each other. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) with her second the Prince of Wales faces in a confident manner the scowling and clumsy Mrs. Schwellenberg whose second, Pitt offers her a lemon. The furious German woman holds a massive sceptre in both her hands raised above her head ready to strick her opponent. All the figures have speech bubbles above their heads referencing the rights of the people, the Prince's morganatic marriage, Catholics, and the issue of money going to Germany
Alternative Title:
Political heat for Rege & Grege and Political heat for Rege and Grege
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state with the Prince's speech censored., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages: Prince of Wales's to Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Ficticious duels: Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Schwellenberg -- Allusion to Regency crisis, 1788 -- Lemons -- Literature: travesty of Nathaniel Lee's The rival queens., Watermark: Portal & Bridges., and Mounted to 27 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Regency, Censorship, Crucifixes, Fighting, Lemons, Royal marriages, British, and Scepters
A clergyman in bands and gown, his hat on the pavement, squares up to a watchman holding a lantern and stick, his fists raised. He has evidently knocked out one watchman already, who lies on the ground, wig dislodged and still touching his lantern, while a third approaches from the left. Possibly from a series featuring a pugnacious parson's brushes with the law
Description:
Title etched below image., For another print featuring the same characters, see no. 5520 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Watchmen, Lanterns, Staffs (Sticks), and Fighting
A scene on the sidewalk outside a walled property: A group of citizens argue with each other, while a policeman apprehends a young man. An older man listens to a bootblack with the aid of an ear trumpet. A Black servant stands at the open door of the property
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of text below title: Eh, he, I, oh, you, why! A, E, I, O, U, Y.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 24, 1840 by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Fighting, Hearing aids, Police, and Servants
