"A plebeian family of 'cits' drive in a rough two-wheeled cart (aping a fashionable gig) drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing cocked hat and top-boots; his wife, wearing large feathers in her small straw cap, holds up a fan. Both are absurdly complacent. A boy and girl are crammed in. Behind rides a fat and grinning footman, with plodding dog. On the extreme right a newsboy with the 'London Gazette' blows his horn. Behind (left) is an open doorway inscribed 'Mash Brewer'; within are casks. The wall is inscribed 'Puddle Dock', and on it are two bills: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden the Comedy of the Bankrupt with High Life Below Stairs and A House to be let in Grosvenor Square Suitable for a Genteel Family' (they appear to be bound for this house). Houses form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Road to ruin in the east
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: carts -- Breweries -- Mash -- Newsboys -- Literature: reference to High Life Below Stairs by James Townley (1714-1778) -- Reference to The Bankrupt by Samuel Foote ( 1720-1777)-- Puddle Dock -- Female dress: plumed hats -- Expressions of speech: 'road to ruin'., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 23.4 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 37 cm., Printmaker's name burnished from plate., and Watermark: Russell & Co 1797.
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London], [1836?], page 41., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of no. 6882 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 28 x 39 cm., Imperfect; artist's signature erased from lower right corner of sheet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Shaving, and Shaving equipment
The new ministry is depicted on a large carousel, erected in front of the "Crown and Royal Bob" Inn. The structure is supported by a center pole held in place by pegs labelled "Treasury," "Navy" and "Army" terminating at the top with the head of the King in the form of a wig block. Fox, with a fox's head and tail, leads the procession, holding a bag of money. Behind him, Lord North on a horse with its legs cut short, loses his wig; Burke in Jesuit's habit and on a similarly lame horse, has partially turned into a skeleton due to his economical reform; Admiral Keppel behind him is desperate to remain seated on his donkey. Lastly a Scotsman labelled "President" signifies Scottish influence over the Crown. Watching from a seat before the Inn, a complacent John Bull mouths slogans of liberty, unaware that his house is being plundered behind him
Alternative Title:
New state whirligig
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text above image in upper left: Poor John Bull's house plunder'd at noon day., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 5th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Taverns (Inns), Merry-go-rounds, Wigs, Flags, British, Robberies, and Clothing & dress
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., and Identifications of the two figures added in ink in a contemporary hand -- Morland and Rowlandson; secondary border line around design also added in ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
"Design in two compartments; the left-hand side, a judge declaiming with eyes directed upwards, while another seated beneath his gaze, in the foreground r, exchanges money with a desperate-looking man; the right-hand side, a night-watchman armed with truncheon and rattle, oblivious to two men putting a ladder to a window at left, and an officer embracing a young woman in a sentry-box to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Two designs on one plate., Described in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 328 with the additional subtitles 'A court of justice - a watchman', and dated 15 June 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.8 x 51.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted to 40 x 57 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 10 July, 1800, by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1829.
Publisher:
Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- John Burges, 1745-1807., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.0 x 17.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Dr. Burgess" in pencil in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 3d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burgess, John, 1745-1807 and Royal College of Physicians of London.
"A man walks on tiptoe away from the spectator. He is ungainly, the left shoulder lower than the right, with ill-dressed hair in a small tail. He wears a grotesque cocked hat poised on his head, an old-fashioned coat, and striped stockings. The stone wall of a house, showing part of a street-door and one window, forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- John Burges, 1745-1807.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 3d, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burgess, John, 1745-1807 and Royal College of Physicians of London.
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Clown. Gay's Trivia.--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Original imprint statement partially burnished out and scratched through but legible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a description of the original imprint see no. 10646 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
"Lord Clermont (left) gallops (right to left) on a white pony, closely followed by a tall trooper with a drawn sword on a large horse. A little chimney-sweep has fallen on his back by the trooper's horse, dropping his brush and shovel. Behind are rails and a green slope."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Clear the course and Virtue in danger
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state; original imprint not scored through and later imprint of H. Humphrey not present. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Military uniforms -- Chimney sweeps -- William Henry Fortescue, Earl of Clermont, 1722-1806., and Mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Harris, July 1, 1800, No. 29 Gerrard St., Soho
