"A scene in the Assembly Rooms, Bath. The stout Master of the Ceremonies brings up an elderly man (right) who bows, chapeau-bras, with an ingratiating smile, to an elderly lady seated against the wall in profile to the right. She looks at him with a disparaging expression. In the foreground (left) a young man is talking ardently to a pretty young woman who inspects the room through an eye-glass. In the background (right) couples are dancing with great vigour and display of leg, probably in a cotillon (cf. BMSat 7441). Above them and on the extreme right is the musicians' gallery. The wall is decorated by large oval mirrors and candle-sconces. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printsellers announcement following imprint: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: musicians' gallery -- Bath Master of the Ceremonies -- Bath Assembly Rooom -- Balls -- Lighting: candle sconces -- Chandeliers -- Furnishings: mirrors -- Dancing., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Published Novemberr [sic] 24, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
"Three men, each holding up an umbrella, meet and seem to find difficulty in passing. An officer, his hair in a long pigtail queue, walks (left to right), his umbrella held in his right hand and resting on his left shoulder. A lean man, holding his umbrella high, and with tasselled cane in his left hand, advances from the right. Between them, his umbrella resting on his right shoulder, a plainly dressed citizen stands full face, holding out his left hand as if to prevent a collision between the other two. A stone wall forms the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Major-General Lord Cathcart stands stiffly in profile to the left. His features are blunt and ugly. He wears court dress with a military cast, heavily gold laced, and a long pigtail. His right hand rests on the head of a gold-headed cane. A figured carpet and bare wall complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 11th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene in a College cloister, indicated by a wall and Gothic vaulting. A pretty and buxom girl carrying milk-pails suspended from a yoke is embraced by a young man in cap, gown, and bands who leans towards her through a casement window. She disregards her milk-pails; one, containing two infants, tilts upwards, the other, full of milk, correspondingly descends and a spaniel greedily laps the milk. On the extreme left a lean elderly parson, hideous and grotesque, similarly dressed, watches intently."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 15th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11784 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "125" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 216., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 90 in volume 2.
"A countrywoman (right), wearing a cloak apron, and pattens and holding out a volume of 'Wesleys Hymns', addresses a jockey standing before the door of 'The Ram Inn' (left): "Pray Young Man--- are there any Meetings in this Town?" He answers: "Yes Ma'am two a Year Spring and October." The dog at his feet wears a collar "Snap". Three persons standing on the doorstep watch with amused interest: a typical betting man in top-boots arm-in-arm with a young woman, and a stout rubicund man. Behind is the race-course; three horses (right) are almost neck and neck. Spectators on horse-back watch from 'Devils Ditch', and on the horizon (right) is the winning-post with a flag."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sport and piety, Mistake at New Market, or, sport and piety, and Mistake at Newmarket, or sport and piety
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: Price one shilling col[ore]d., and Later reissued without publication date. Cf. no. 10920. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 5, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Gambling, Horses, Racing, and Taverns (Inns)
An obese old lady is shown seated at a card table, wearing a flowered dress, her hair piled high and topped by a cap from which a spider dangles behind her
Description:
Title etched below image. and Possibly etched by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Nov. 26th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
"Two chairmen carry (left to right) a lady in a sedan chair. The roof is raised and through it projects an enormous ostrich feather, rising from an aigrette and curls, which also extend above the roof. To the second chairman's back is strapped the base of a long curving rod which supports an umbrella to protect the feather. Through the window of the chair appears the lady's profile. She holds a half-closed fan before her face. Behind (left) is a plain town house of three stories behind its area-railings; it is next a high curving wall (right). Probably from a design by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 13th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Topic):
Fans (Accessories), Headdresses, Sedan chairs, Servants, and Umbrellas
"The head and shoulders of a woman, caricatured, in profile to the right, singing with upturned eyes, holding up a paper in both hands. A wing, foreshortened, and very freely sketched, extends diagonally across her shoulder, and has some resemblance to a part of her dress; her hair is loosely arranged, but its contour is fashionable; her face is blotched with drink. Clouds and a ray of light are indicated in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Cherubs -- Reference to Matthew William Peters, 1742-1814.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 16th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Title etched below image., Letter "M" etched in lower left corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For a possible earlier state from 1806, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 63.
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat wife sits beside him (right) blowing a trumpet to the grotesque inflation of cheek and neck. The eldest daughter (left) plays the double-bass; behind her stands a girl beating a tambourine. The younger children flank the design: a fat little girl (left) plays the triangle, looking up at her sister's tambourine. On the right a little boy sits at his mother's feet beating a large kettle-drum and shouting; he sits on two large volumes: 'Doctor Burneys Musical Travels [i.e., The Present State of Music in France and Italy ... 1771', and 'The Present State of Music in Germany . . . [etc.]', 2 v. 1773]. Mother and daughters are fashionably dressed; the daughters are comely. A howling dog seated on the extreme left adds to the impression of violent noise."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Caption in design: Musick has charms to sooth the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
