"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my Red Cap, & a bit of a Gun - why, I thinks I should make a good stockey Soldier!" The shop is that of 'Billy-Black-Soul [Pitt], Hatter, & Sword-cutler \ Licenced to deal in Hats and Swords.' Above the door (right) are the royal arms and 'Stamp-Office' (the tax on hats being levied by a stamp). Within the window are crossed swords and military cocked hats with a number of stamps bearing the royal arms. In the foreground (left) is a pile of dead cats with a paper: 'List of Cats Killed for making skin caps 20000 Red 5000 Tabb ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my Red Cap, & a bit of a Gun - why, I thinks I should make a good stockey Soldier!" The shop is that of 'Billy-Black-Soul [Pitt], Hatter, & Sword-cutler \ Licenced to deal in Hats and Swords.' Above the door (right) are the royal arms and 'Stamp-Office' (the tax on hats being levied by a stamp). Within the window are crossed swords and military cocked hats with a number of stamps bearing the royal arms. In the foreground (left) is a pile of dead cats with a paper: 'List of Cats Killed for making skin caps 20000 Red 5000 Tabb ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.3 x 26.0 cm, on sheet 40.2 x 29.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 25 of volume 4 of 12.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
Full length depiction of an enormously fat gloved lady wearing a giant beribboned calash hat as she stands in an outdoor setting facing right. Huge curls of hair issue from beneath the hat, and her outer cloak, which is short enough to reveal two-tone shoes, is adorned with large bows and a floral pattern
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 37, v. 2.
"A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029), with a handsome profile, wearing knee-breeches, advances with a mincing step and outstretched hands towards an ugly farmer who stands facing him with a large stick and wearing top-boots and broad-brimmed hat. The tenant holds a money-bag and is fiercely prognathous. The landlord: "My dear Sir--I am rejoiced to see you--I hope your lovely family are well--You are a charming Man--correct in every point--in short your countenance is an index to your mind." The farmer: "You certainly are flattering me--here is your Rent.--as to my family--thanks to the Lord, my Wife, and all the brats, be gone to kingdome come." There is a carpeted floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Landlord and tenant
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist identified as Capt. Hehl in the British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and "One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
"A lady stands in profile to the right, her hands in an enormous globular muff, on which rests the projecting gauze which covers her breast. Her petticoats project at the back in the fashionable manner, but scarcely balance the muff. Her wide-brimmed hat is even more exaggerated, and projects all round her like a tent. Her hair is puffed out at the sides with curls which rest on her false breast, and a looped and plaited queue which reaches nearly to her projecting petticoats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mss. note in ink on verso: No. 13, HW's (Horace Walpole) print in NYPL.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 20th 1786 by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond St.
Volume 2, page 8. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two girls in black capes and chip hats, their hair dressed high with ringlets, playing guitars, with a couple of dogs for audience, while a young man in a plumed hat ogles them but is pushed aside by a horrified monk, behind to right, a norman castle in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Friar-Phillip's geese : a tale from La Fontaine
Description:
Title in French and English etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Six lines of verse, in French and English, etched below each title. Verses in English begin: Oh the sweet bird, cries the lad in the utmost transport of joy, prithee sing a little ..., and Mounted on page 8 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 3d, 1782, by T. Watson, No. 33 Strand
Title from item., From: Album comique de pathologie pittoresque, 1823., Place of publication derived from street address., In margin top center: Album Comique., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Vapors; Courtship.
Publisher:
Ambroise Tardieu editeur, rue du battoir, No.12 and Lith. de Langlumé, r de l'Abbaye N 4.
"Napoleon (left) and Joseph sit side by side on low seats or stools, both with a hand on each knee. They have large, elongated heads broadly caricatured (as in British Museum Satires No. 10604, &c.) and look sideways at each other with drawn-down mouths and wrinkled foreheads. Napoleon is in uniform, wearing a feathered bicorne; Joseph wears a crown with Spanish dress, ermine-trimmed robe, and the order of the Golden Fleece. His seat is, very inconspicuously, a commode. At his feet is a sceptre with a scroll inscribed 'Servata Fides Cineri'. Napoleon says: "A pretty piece of Business we have made of it Brother Joe." Joseph: "I always told you Nap, what would come of makeing too free with the Spaniards.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King Nap and King Joe in the dumps
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Tentative artist attribution to Woodward from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1808 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, French, Hats, Stools, Robes, Crowns, and Scepters
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine, or, Monthly register of the fashions and diversions of the times. London : John Williams, March 1773, p. 242.
