"Gunboats in the form of coffins are foundering or about to founder. Each has a single cannon in the bows, and a mast with a triangular sail whose corner is held in the teeth of the skull which surmounts the mast. The crews all wear shrouds and bonnets rouges; on the skulls also are bonnets rouges. Some of the men are screaming in the water, where a floating skull holds the end of a sail in its teeth, looking round fiercely at one of the drowning men. Others are still in the coffin-gunboats, holding muskets or making gestures of despair. One says: "Oh de Corsican Bougre, was make dese Gun Boats on purpose for our Funeral." In the background are two British men of war. Two tiny sailors say: "I say Messmate if we dont bear up quickly there will be nothing left for us to do", and, "Rigt [sic] Tom, & I take them there things at the mast head to be Boney's Crest, a Skull without Brains." A satire on the manifest impracticability of an invasion (see British Museum Satires No. 10008) by gunboats without the command of the sea, cf. British Museum Satires Nos. 9995, &c, 10125, 10223, 10231, 10260, 10277."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boney's invincible armada half seas over
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement beneath imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Mounted at the corners: 30 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 6th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Coffins, Gunboats, Cannons, Rifles, Skulls, Liberty cap, Drowning, Warships, and British
Title from item., Attributed to Cruikshank in British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Speeches: C.J. Fox's speech on October 10, 1800 -- Interiors: tavern -- Taverns: King's Head , London -- Jews -- Chimney-sweeps -- Butchers -- Barbers -- Waggoners -- Dustmen -- Dogs: mastif -- Dishes: pewter tankards., and Watermark.
"Mr. and Mrs. Bull are in their breakfast parlour; she sits beside a table on which is a tray with coffee-pot, &c, he stands booted and spurred, impatient to set off. Through an open doorway (right) a groom is seen holding a saddle-horse. Behind are the houses of a London street. Mrs. Bull reads with dismay the '[M]orning Post'; she cries: "Here Mr Bull here's the Speech of that fellow on the Corn Bill - You must stop and hear this - The Price of Corn is yet Far Below the Price which is universally allowed to be Necessary!!!! why we shall all be starved Mr Bull." He shouts, with outstretched arms: "D------n the Corn Bill! I have not time to think of any thing till the Election is over. - why Liberty and Independence is at stak [sic] - What is Starving to that Mrs Bull!" Both are very fat, and evidently prosperous."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Corn bill, or, John Bull and his hobby, Iohn Bull and his hobby, and John Bull and his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image, lower right., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Counter watermark in center of sheet: A.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 20th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Corn laws (Great Britain), Breakfast rooms, Coffeepots, Doors & doorways, Newspapers, and Obesity
Prince Bladduds man traps and Prince Bladdud's man traps
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse in two columns below title: Skill'd in all arts that grace the modish fair, the air of confidence the high bred flare ..., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: gaming table -- Candle-snuffers -- Emblems: Prince of Wales's feathers -- Female fashion -- Slang: man traps -- Mrs. Panton, fl. 1799., Watermark: Durham., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. May 11, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Gambling, Headdresses, Playing cards, and Sconces
Title from caption below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: where folios of caricatures are lent for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Four images in four compartments, each with a caption title., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Drunkenness -- Glass: decanters -- Emotions, Sadness -- Madness -- Furnishings: patterned carpets., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany 1st, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"A young woman, three-quarter length, sitting at a table, directed to right, wearing jewels in her hair, a portrait on a ribbon around her wrist, and a fur tippet, right hand holding a quill, resting on a sheaf of papers, left elbow on a box on the table, the hand supporting her head, looking dreamily to right, lit by a table lamp to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dates of business of publishers., Sitter identified in an unverified card catalog record as Peg Woffington., Not in J.C. Smith's British mezzotinto portraits. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, ca. 1755 -- Lighting: lamp -- Writing implements: inkwell -- Miniatures worn as jewelry., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Sold by Edwd. Fisher in Leicester Fields & by Ryland & Bryer in Cornhill
A young woman in a feathered head-dress leans against a young man who is shown in profile pulling him closer by his beard with an apparent intention of kissing him. Below the title are verses 184-185 from Pope's "The wife of Bath."
Description:
Title from item. and "S.W.F." stamped in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1783, by T. Gaugain, No. 4, Little Compton Street, Soho, London
Two young women fashionably attired in high-wasted dresses, turban-like hats, and carrying large fur muffs, shown full-length walking from the left. On the right a heavy-set women kneels with her back to the audience. When backlit, the undergarments of the ladies are revealed
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 17th, 1799, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
An oversized John Bull with a carbuncled-faced sits at a round table across from a very young looking William Betty and his father, both handsome and not caricatured. John Bull toasts the two, full wine glass in hand: "Youngster, heres to you I'm glad to see you in town. Old Master Roscius your health, and may you get such another boy every New Year's Day for the benifit [sic] of the English stage." Behind them pinned to the wall are two prints: the one a profile portrait of Mrs. Siddons, hangs from one corner only, and the other a portrait of J.P. Kemble. The three ostrich feathers on the back of Master Betty's chair may indicate the patronage of the Prince of Wales
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Description from British Museum catalogue of "Young Roscius and Don John" mounted on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd January 4, 1805, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874. (William Henry West),, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Theater, Actors, British, and Child actors
