"Ministers, horribly griped, sit on a vast Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), trying to hatch eggs. The King hits the kneeling Bloomfield in the face, saying 'They shall hatch by G--d!' John Bull and a soldier (see British Museum Satires No. 13850) watch derisively. Behind him is the Pavilion."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sitting committee and Shitting committee
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "i" in "sitting" is formed from the letter "h" with its left side scored through, suggesting the word "shitting.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plat [sic] 7"--Upper left corner., and Mounted on page 25 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Bishops, Military officers, Bags, Defecation, and Soldiers
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Ivy Mill 1816., and Printseller's stamp.
Title from letterpress broadside poem printed below image., "Extracted from no. XII of the Monthly mirror-new series"., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls, plate number in upper right corner: 481., Twenty four lines of verse below image: From Brighton two Paddies walk'd under the cliff ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ivy Mill, 1809.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 12, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A fashionably dressed man (left) regards apprehensively a young woman (right) who holds out her fists as if sparring; he makes as if to depart. Both have Jewish features and curling hair. On the wall are three boxing pictures: 'The Game Chicken', half length, flanked by men sparring. The Jew relates with Jewish pronunciation his attempts to find a wife. Miss Devy jilted him, Miss Rachel's father sold watches and rings: 'And dere vas nothing to do but buy de ring out of her fader's shop - but ve couldn't agree about de price . . .' Then Miss Moses: 'Her Broder vash mighty rich, and got money in de shtocks, He vashn't so vulgar to get it by trade, but taught de great people to spa and to box.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls; plate numbered in lower left corner: 434., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Fourty-three lines of verse arranged in two columns below image: First, dere vash Miss Devy, pretty Miss Devy ..., and Watermark: Ivy Mill 1812.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Caption title, below image., "Extracted from the Monthly mirror-new series, no. XIV.", Place of publication follows street address., Plate numbered: 484., Plate mark: 18.6 x 22.4 cm., Letterpress poem below engraved image begins: A comely young lad liv'd, a few years ago, in a street in the city of Seville, who took by the nostrils full many a beau, and soon brought their chins to a level ..., Watermark: Ivy Mill. Countermark: 1809., and Date of printing: 1809?
Publisher:
Publish'd Mar. 15, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street
A judge sits in a chair (left) looking at sailor who stands hat in hand before him. He says, "Are you certain, in respect to your being sober at the time the circumstance happened." The sailor with caricatured features and warts on his face, replies: "Sober. Come I like that, may I never again weigh anchor if I would not call him a lubber be he who he would, that would say I was drunk, please your grave and reverend worship. I had only shipp'd in eight grogs and a gill not enough to make a lawyer merry, in short your honor, I'll be d-nd if I was not as sober as a judge."
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.673., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermarked "Ivy Mill 1820".
Publisher:
Pubd. by Roberts, Middle-Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Drunkenness (Crime), Law and legislation, Judges, Sailors, and British
