A group of fashionably dressed elderly gentlemen engage in a range of activities including reading aided by magnifying lenses, browsing newspapers, and gazing into mirrors. A placard on the wall reads: Young gentlemen instructed in fashionable accompl...
Description:
Title and date based on Laurie & Whittle published etching after this drawing.
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Newspapers, Mirrors, Bachelors, and Hand lenses
"A complicated design: advocates for religious toleration in a church, the pulpit occupied by Priestley, Price, and Lindsey. The central figure is Price, to whom the clerk standing below has passed up in a cleft stick a paper inscribed: 'The Prayers o...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Watson, Richard, 1737-1816, and Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Flags, Clergy, Architecture, Military uniforms, British, and Hand lenses
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next he...
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next he...
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two soldiers; on the left, a middle-aged man who has lost an eye, an arm and a leg; on the right, a young man peering at the other through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1773, accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Veterans, Hand lenses, Eye patches, Amputees, and Peg legs
Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two soldiers; on the left, a middle-aged man who has lost an eye, an arm and a leg; on the right, a young man peering at the other through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1773, accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Veterans, Hand lenses, Eye patches, Amputees, and Peg legs
Leaf 78. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical portrait of an elegant young man, whole length in profile facing left, reading through a glass at a book on which is printed the alphabet. Probably a representation of Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk
Alternative Title:
Illiterate macaroni of twenty-one learning his A.B.C.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1739-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hand lenses, Books, and Wigs
"Seven Aldermen, with ass's ears, sit in conference (a meeting of the Court of Aldermen) in Guildhall wearing their furred gowns. The table is covered with a cloth on which are the City Arms and motto, 'Domine Direge [sic] Nos', but a turtle replaces ...
Alternative Title:
Seven wise men of the East, prophesying before Gog and Magog of a row in the city, November 29th, 1820
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published December 1820 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Bridges, George, approximately 1762-1840, Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829, Flower, Charles, Sir, 1763-1834, Scholey, George, -1839, Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841, Magnay, William, 1767-1826, Heygate, William, Sir, 1782-1844, and Guildhall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Tables, Robes, Coats of arms, Sculpture, Arms & armament, City council members, and Hand lenses
Leaf 16. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces u...
Alternative Title:
Connoisseurs
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Sepr. 1th [sic], 1771, by MDarly, engraver, (39) Strand ...
Leaf 16. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces u...
Alternative Title:
Connoisseurs
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Sepr. 1th [sic], 1771, by MDarly, engraver, (39) Strand ...
Leaf 89. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man walking in profile to the right. In his right hand he holds a botanic drawing, in his left a magnifying glass or lorgnette. His gouty right leg is swathed; from his right wrist hangs a knotted walking stick."--British M...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 14th, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Naturalists, Hand lenses, and Staff (Sticks)
Leaf 89. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man walking in profile to the right. In his right hand he holds a botanic drawing, in his left a magnifying glass or lorgnette. His gouty right leg is swathed; from his right wrist hangs a knotted walking stick."--British M...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Novr. 14th, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Naturalists, Hand lenses, and Staff (Sticks)
Volume 2, page 95. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy (left), both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Military uniforms, Hand lenses, Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Muffs, Dogs, and Pulleys
"An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy (left), both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1, 1809 by J. Deeley, 95 Berwick St. Soho
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Military uniforms, Hand lenses, Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Muffs, Dogs, and Pulleys
"Two pretty women leave a shop (left) to enter a coach whose back is towards the spectator. The foremost (? Duchess of Rutland), raising her petticoats high, puts a foot on the step. She is followed by (?) Lady Jersey, who crosses a step laid across a...
Alternative Title:
Cause of the lounge!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 17st [sic], 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831 and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, Streets, Hand lenses, Telescopes, and Voyeurism
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Antiquities, Military officers, Sarcophagi, Vases, Sculpture, Hand lenses, and Lust
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Antiquities, Military officers, Sarcophagi, Vases, Sculpture, Hand lenses, and Lust
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Antiquities, Military officers, Sarcophagi, Vases, Sculpture, Hand lenses, and Lust
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Antiquities, Military officers, Sarcophagi, Vases, Sculpture, Hand lenses, and Lust
A minister, possibly the Chancellor, holds out a large magnifying glass in his right and and gestures with his left hand. He is wearing a long coat and a long powdered wig. He addresses John Bull: Look through this glass Mr Bull and behold your future...
Alternative Title:
John Bull peeping into futurity
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, English, Colonies, John Bull (Symbolic character), Hand lenses, and Ethnic stereotypes
"Two figures, over life-size, on a low pedestal embrace; the King as Bacchus, nude except for a girdle of vine-leaves and grapes, and a wig decked with leaves; Lady Conyngham as Ariadne, a more classic figure, with drapery hanging from the hips. Again...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Dionysus (Greek deity), and Ariadne (Greek mythological character)
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Sculpture, Portfolios, Hand lenses, and Antlers
"A buxom lady walks forward and to the right towards a man in riding-dress (right) who inspects her through a quizzing-glass. A ribbon encircles her high waist (cf. BMSat 8571, &c.) and her petticoats projecting in front exaggerate her portly figure. ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 12th June 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Benches, Hand lenses, Muffs, Obesity, Servants, and Umbrellas
"Two elderly men, in old-fashioned dress, play chess, seated at a small table, lit by two guttering candles. One moves, the other watches with intense concern. Each has a deeply interested spectator leaning on the back of his chair, the one on the rig...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Bowling, Chess, Dogs, Fireplaces, Hand lenses, and Pictures
"Two elderly men, in old-fashioned dress, play chess, seated at a small table, lit by two guttering candles. One moves, the other watches with intense concern. Each has a deeply interested spectator leaning on the back of his chair. All four are caric...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Bowling, Chess, Dogs, Fireplaces, Floor coverings, Hand lenses, and Pictures
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1833 and 1835]
Call Number:
Maidment N555 no. 1 Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below except for the center image, which has its caption "-- the CENTRE of gravity" within top portion of image
Description:
Title from text at top of design; letter "z" in "Magazine" is reversed.
Publisher:
Publish'd at No. 26 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, where may be had a great variety
