Pisces: Hogarth's Quadrille fish and Hogarth's quadrille fish
Description:
Title etched above image., Date, artist and printmaker from Paulson., Not in Paulson's 3rd edition., Plate from: Ireland, J. Hogarth illustrated, supplement, p. 368, 3rd editon., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 231 in volume 3.
"The King and Queen (left), seated under a canopy decorated with a crown and the royal arms, listen enraptured to a concert; the performers are arranged in a pyramid on the right. Numbers on the figures refer to notes engraved beneath the design. George III leans back, his hands clasped, eyes turned ecstatically upwards; he wears a laurel wreath and his head is surrounded by a star-shaped halo. The Queen sits upright with an eager expression, beating time; her hair and scraggy neck are covered with jewels (cf. BMSat 6978, &c). On the extreme left, and on the King's right, stands Pitt, very erect, a rattle in his right hand, blowing a whistle attached to a child's coral and bells. Behind the Queen are two ladies: '4', lean and ugly, holds an ear-trumpet to her ear; ['5'], who is stout, holds a parakeet on her finger. This group is: '1 Mr P------t'. '2 K------'. '3 Q------'. '4 Mad. Schw---gh--n' [Schwellenberg]. '5 Miss Jeff-----s' [Elizabeth Jefferyes or Jeffries, a Maid of Honour]. The royal party are on a circular carpet. On the roof of the canopy sits a demon holding up a purse in each hand, emblem of the supposed avarice of the King and Queen, a favourite subject with Gillray, cf. BMSat 7166, and see BMSat 7836, &c. Three demon hounds, inscribed 'G. R. Windsor', chase a realistically drawn fox (Fox), to whose tail is tied (by a ribbon inscribed 'Coalition') a pot with the features of North. The performers are arranged behind a low semicircular barrier. A stout man with a goat's head is asleep on the left, his hands clasped on his breast; from his pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Road to Wynnstay' (cf. BMSat 7068, &c). He is '6 Sr W. W. W-----ne' [Williams-Wynn], one of the founders of 'The Concert of Antient Music'. A demon child and an infant with butterfly-wings sit together on the barrier, singing from one book. A braying ass holding a book is '7 Mr Assb-----ge' (Ashbridge, a celebrated kettle-drummer). A bird of prey (? an owl) wearing a large cap stands on the barrier, a piece of music under its claws inscribed 'Anointed Solomon, King over all, E------'. She is '8 Mad. Mara.' Next '7' is seated a large ox supporting a music-book on his hoofs. He is 'J------h B--tes' (Joah Bates, originator (1776) and conductor of 'The Concert of Antient Music'). In the second row of performers (right to left) is a group (behind '7' and '8') of three fishwives: '10, D------ R------d'. the Duke of Richmond, with a basket of fish on his head, arms akimbo, is scolding '11, M-----s La--sd--e' (Marquis Lansdowne), while '12, Col. B--r-' (Barré), his eyes closed, joins in the dispute. An allusion to the altercation in the House of Lords over Richmond's proposed fortifications (see BMSat 7149 etc.). Next, realistically drawn, is '13 Sir J. M--why' (Mawbey), holding under his arm a squeaking pig whose tail he is twisting as if it were a musical instrument. Mawbey, as a distiller, was famous for keeping large quantities of hogs, see BMSats 5746, 7506, &c. Two lawyers sing from the same music; they are '14 Atty Genl' (Arden) and '15 Sollr Genl' (Macdonald). Behind their heads, and towards the apex of the pyramid, stand two judges facing each other, each holding a chimney-sweep's shovel and brush which they strike together in the manner of chimney-sweeps on May Day. They are '16. D--n--as' (Dundas) and '17. Ld L--ghb--gh' (Loughborough). The former's shovel is decorated with a thistle, the latter's with a man hanging from a gibbet, with the date '1745' and 'Kenn Com' in allusion to the Jacobites executed on Kennington Common, one of whom was Sir John Wedderburn. The apex of the pyramid is '18. Ch--n--ll--r', Thurlow, standing with a fierce expression; he holds up a pair of birch-rods above the bare posteriors of two terrified boys who serve as kettle-drums. Two squalling and fighting cats hang from the ceiling by ribbons attached to their tails. Beneath the design is engraved: '------Monarchs, who with Rapture wild, Hear their own Praise with Mouths of gaping Wonder, And control each Crotchet of the Birth-day Thunder. Peter Pindar.' The satire illustrates this and other passages from 'Ode upon Ode', which attack Pitt for obsequiousness to the King, and the King and Queen for their parsimony in attending the Concerts of Antient Music as subscribers instead of having concerts at their palace: '- Monarchs, who with oeconomic Fury Force all the tuneful World to Tot'n'am Lane.' Mawbey is mentioned: 'Strains! that Sir Joseph Mawbey deem'd divine, Sweet as the Quavers of his fattest Swine.' Wynn also: 'The sleek Welsh Deity who Music knows- The Alexander of the Tot'n'am Troops.' Richmond is mentioned: 'Mad as his Military Grace For fortifying ev'ry Place . . .' The cats: 'How like the Notes of Cats, a vocal Pair.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with numbers and explanatory notes, hairs on the queen's face and further stippling on the king's face., Publication date inferred from watermark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Sir John Wedderburn, 1704-1746? -- Chimney sweep's implements -- Singing lawyers -- Squeking pigs -- Fighting cats -- Dispute over Richmond's fortifications -- Child demons -- Ribbon of coalition -- Circular carpets -- Royal canopies -- Demon hounds -- Royal parsimony -- Birds: paraket -- Owls -- Kensington Common -- Literature: allusion to Peter Pindar's Ode upon ode -- Concerts: Antient music, 1787 -- Music: Serenata 'Solomon' by William Boyce -- Emblems -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Children: bous a kettle drums -- Richmond as a fishwoman -- Music books -- Performers in pyramid shape -- Star-shaped haloes -- Birch rods -- Toys: coral and bells -- Cherubs., Watermark: R A 1801 on the left side of sheet; fleur-de-lis on the right side., Matted to 56 x 71 cm., and Verso of former mount (49 x 60 cm), now laid in, with image in reverse of La belle assemblee.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 10th, 1787 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1749-1789, Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 1749-1833, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Mawbey, Joseph, Sir, 1730-1798, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797, Jefferyes, Elizabeth, active 1787-1791, Ashbridge, John, -1799, Bates, Joah, 1741-1799, and Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802
Leaf 39. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young men and two women dressed in an approximation of seventeenth-century costume with rods and a pile of fish they have just caught."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.9.146.b., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published in 1811? See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 220-2., Companion print to: Anglers of 1811., Temporary local subject terms: Angling in hilly streams -- Costume: Anglers, 1611 -- Landscape: Hill-top -- Fish: ?Salmon., and On leaf 39 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Title etched above image., Date in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1700., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Placement instructions in lower left corner of plate: P. 163, Voll. 1., and Plate from: The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical. 5th ed. London: Printed for Sam Briscoe ..., 1719, v. 1.
Publisher:
S. Briscoe
Subject (Topic):
Alligators, Astrology, Books, Experiments, Fish, Globes, Medical procedures & techniques, and Physicians
Title and date from item., The Saturday Evening Post was published by Curtis Publishing, based in Philadelphia., Text at lower right: Contributed in the interest of the National Nutrition Program of the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Service, Paul V. McNutt, Director, by The Saturday Evening Post., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
The Saturday Evening Post
Subject (Name):
McNutt, Paul V. 1891-1955. (Paul Vories), and United States. Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Nutrition, Advertising campaigns, Food, Meat, Fish, and Sausages
A large fist inscribed with the words "Manpower, Conservation, America's increased war production" punches a devil-horned Adolph Hitler in the chin
Description:
Title, publisher, and date from item., In lower margin: Litho. in U.S.A. ; Form SPN-299-A., and World War II poster from series "Eat to Beat the Devil" promoting healthy eating for victory. These posters were posted in the Servel Inc. cafeteria.
Publisher:
Copyright 1942, by Servel, Inc. makers of the Servel Gas Refrigerator
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Nutrition, World War, 1939-1945, Heads of state, Meat, Chickens, and Fish
In the upper half of the poster, a colorful fish swims in blue water, holding a gleaming gold ring in its mouth to present it to the small fisherman in a boat holding a net on the right. In the bottom half of the poster, the fish floats belly-up in murky water under a dark sky, holding a round object in its mouth inscribed "chemie" (chemistry).
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from beginnings of anti-pollution activism., Place of publication derived from language of text., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Condition: Excellent
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fairy tales, Pollution, Water, Fish, Rings, and Fishermen
A full-length depiction of a female fishmonger composed of fish: her hat is a lobster, her dress a large fillet of a angel (?) fish, her arms composed of various other fish, whole or parts. Behind her a barrel of oysters on a wooden stool
Description:
Title from text below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Tilt, Fleet Street and Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Fishmongers, Fish, Oysters, and Baskets
Title from caption below image., Seven lines of dialogue below image: What do you mean you black rascal by smelling the fish eh, do you think they stink ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published, Jany. 10, 1825 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
"A box-like room is suspended in the sea by ropes on pulleys, a shaft ascending from its roof. There is no front wall, enabling sea-monsters to attack the occupants, who are four terrified little men, naked except for breeches. In each of the three walls is a barred window; through one (right) a large fish has pushed its head to seize the head of a man in its jaws, while water gushes in."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text above image., P.F.L.B. is a pseudonym of James Gillray., Reissue with altered imprint; originally published July 19, 1801, by H. Humphrey., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Fishing spears -- Fishing rakes -- Fishing hooks -- Diving-machines -- Pastimes: Diving.
