"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman in back view, looking out to sea, says, "Now, I am an Absolute Monarch"; the words ascend in the smoke of his pipe. He holds a sword and is surrounded by cackling geese. All four sovereigns hold the map, and all shed tears: George III (right) tugs at it with both hands, tearing off a piece inscribed 'Good Hope', 'Java', 'Saba', 'Eustatia', 'Curac', 'Bonaire' (?), 'Coruba', 'St Martins', 'Surinam'. Frederick William of Prussia (left), seated on the ground, wearing a fool's cap decorated with the skull and cross-bones of the Death's Head Hussars, uses a dagger to cut off a piece containing 'Friesland', 'Groningen', 'Overyisel', and 'Ceylon'. The Emperor Joseph, standing opposite Frederick William, slices the map with a large sword, securing 'Utrecht', 'Zalper' (?), 'Holland', 'Molucca Islands'. Between Joseph and George III Louis XVI, dressed as a French fop, uses a pair of shears to cut off 'Guelderland', 'Zeeland', 'Rotterda[m]', and 'Hague'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Dutch Republic., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 15.0 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 17.8 x 25.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman in back view, looking out to sea, says, "Now, I am an Absolute Monarch"; the words ascend in the smoke of his pipe. He holds a sword and is surrounded by cackling geese. All four sovereigns hold the map, and all shed tears: George III (right) tugs at it with both hands, tearing off a piece inscribed 'Good Hope', 'Java', 'Saba', 'Eustatia', 'Curac', 'Bonaire' (?), 'Coruba', 'St Martins', 'Surinam'. Frederick William of Prussia (left), seated on the ground, wearing a fool's cap decorated with the skull and cross-bones of the Death's Head Hussars, uses a dagger to cut off a piece containing 'Friesland', 'Groningen', 'Overyisel', and 'Ceylon'. The Emperor Joseph, standing opposite Frederick William, slices the map with a large sword, securing 'Utrecht', 'Zalper' (?), 'Holland', 'Molucca Islands'. Between Joseph and George III Louis XVI, dressed as a French fop, uses a pair of shears to cut off 'Guelderland', 'Zeeland', 'Rotterda[m]', and 'Hague'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Dutch Republic., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 15.0 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 17.7 x 24.6 cm., 'N. 4' following "Plenipotentiary' in upper right corner is mostly erased from sheet., Mounted on backing of blue wove paper, trimmed to edge of sheet., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman in back view, looking out to sea, says, "Now, I am an Absolute Monarch"; the words ascend in the smoke of his pipe. He holds a sword and is surrounded by cackling geese. All four sovereigns hold the map, and all shed tears: George III (right) tugs at it with both hands, tearing off a piece inscribed 'Good Hope', 'Java', 'Saba', 'Eustatia', 'Curac', 'Bonaire' (?), 'Coruba', 'St Martins', 'Surinam'. Frederick William of Prussia (left), seated on the ground, wearing a fool's cap decorated with the skull and cross-bones of the Death's Head Hussars, uses a dagger to cut off a piece containing 'Friesland', 'Groningen', 'Overyisel', and 'Ceylon'. The Emperor Joseph, standing opposite Frederick William, slices the map with a large sword, securing 'Utrecht', 'Zalper' (?), 'Holland', 'Molucca Islands'. Between Joseph and George III Louis XVI, dressed as a French fop, uses a pair of shears to cut off 'Guelderland', 'Zeeland', 'Rotterda[m]', and 'Hague'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Dutch Republic.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
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)
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two groups of tailors battle each other. The group on the left, fighting under the "Journeymen Tailors Union for a fair renumeration of labour" banner, charge forward riding geese and using scissors as weapons; additional members fire bows and arrows from towers. The group on the right, fighting under the "Union of Master Tailors for a coninuance of tyranny low wages & profits 100 percent" banner, are well dressed and hang back in a defensive position; they use firearms, swords, and a shield bearing a pound sign ("£") as weapons
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed in lower left corner with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text following title: When snip meets snip then comes the tug of war!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
"A four-footed monster, with four human heads, the long hairy body resembling that of a dog, stand in an open space in front of the theatres of Covent Garden (left) and Drury Lane (right), the latter partly obscured by clouds rising from the ground, and with the statue of Apollo, headless as in British Museum Satires No. 10764. The three main heads are those of Sheridan, saying "Ha, ha, ha," Kemble saying "Oh!!!!!", with a tragic expression, and of a clown (evidently Grimaldi) with painted face and blue wig, saying, "Nice Moon". A dagger is thrust into Kemble's neck, blood gushing from the wound. A fourth head wearing a mask, that of Harlequin, looks over the back of the monster, who wears a Harlequin coat over its fore-legs and the front part of its body. It has a long barbed tail inscribed 'A Tail of Mistery'. The monster's fore-paws rest on a paper: 'Regular Dramas Congreve Beaumont and Fletcher Colman' [attacked in British Museum Satires No. 5064, now a standard author]. A hind-foot rests on 'Shakespear's Works'. Under its body are a number of modern dramatists, some of whom suck from its many teats. They are portraits, and some are identified by the titles of plays by which they stand. On the left. Frederic Reynolds bestrides a large dog (Carlo) by 'The Caravan' [see British Museum Satires No. 10172, &c.]. A man sits on the shoulders of a monk with cloven hoofs in order to reach a teat; the monk (Lewis) stands on 'Wood Daemon' [a 'Grand Romantic Melo-Drama' by M. G. ('Monk') Lewis, first played at Drury Lane 1 Apr. 1807 (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10727)]. Holcroft, wearing spectacles (as in BMSat 9240), stands on the 'Road to Ruin' [see British Museum Satires No. 8073]. Skeffington, wearing long striped pantaloons, stands on his 'Sleeping Beauty' [see British Museum Satires No. 10455]. On the extreme right. Dimond, tall, thin, and foppish, stands on his 'Hunter of the Alps', played at the Haymarket in 1804. There are five other men, less prominent, and unidentified by inscriptions. Behind, an old man (or woman) drives a flock of geese past the arcade of Covent Garden Theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Plate from: The Satirist, v. 1, page 225.
Publisher:
Published for the Satirist, Decr. 4th, 1807, by S. Tipper, Leadenhall Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Covent Garden Theatre,, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837, Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837., Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.