"General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three document...
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"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three document...
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"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Two ladies (left) walk arm-in-arm to the left; a good-looking man, extravagantly dressed, stands (right) legs apart, head turned to inspect them as if they were strange specimens. One, short and fat, wears a round straw cap over a shock of hair which...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. June 25th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"Two ladies (left) walk arm-in-arm to the left; a good-looking man, extravagantly dressed, stands (right) legs apart, head turned to inspect them as if they were strange specimens. One, short and fat, wears a round straw cap over a shock of hair which...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. June 25th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"The crowded cabin tilts to the right, to the dismay of a family party dining at a table in the foreground. There is a second table in the background with a meal in progress. The cabin is bordered on left and right by two tiers of berths, apparently f...
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Title etched below image.
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Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str., London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Margate (England), England., and Margate.
Subject (Topic):
Packets, Motion sickness, Ocean travel, Description and travel, Travel, and Vomiting
An image with six panels. Each panel features a figure and heading that plays on the 'cake' theme present in the title. Panel headings [begining in upper left corner and moving clockwise]: A Crummy Cake, A Crusty Cake, A Flow'ry Cake, A Plumb Cake, A ...
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Pubd. June 16th, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, Appolo Library, No. 111 Cheapside
"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 c...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"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 c...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
"A design partly bisected by a vertical line. The same lady sits (left) directed to the left at her dressing-table, wearing only a long chemise or petticoat, and slippers. On the right she sits, in the same attitude but directed to the right, fully dr...
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Fashionable lady in dress and undress
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Title etched below image.
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Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Wigs, and Cosmetics
"A design partly bisected by a vertical line. The same lady sits (left) directed to the left at her dressing-table, wearing only a long chemise or petticoat, and slippers. On the right she sits, in the same attitude but directed to the right, fully dr...
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Fashionable lady in dress and undress
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Title etched below image.
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Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Wigs, and Cosmetics
"The room of an impecunious family. The father, probably an actor, writer, or artist, sits on a three-legged stool, with a little girl on each knee, one flourishes a whip and tugs at his shirt frill, the other pulls his pigtail. A younger child rides ...
A group of dogs of various breeds sit around a table playing cards or rouletttes. A cat playing with a box in the lower left is frightened by one dog who leaps at it from its chair. Another dog on a cushion (right) looks at the hand of one dog at the...
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Title from caption below image.
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Printed and published by J. Didsbury, 22 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Card games, Cats, and Dogs
"Broadside on the execution of Louis XVI; with a hand-coloured aquatint pasted to a list printed in four black-bordered columns, the (printed) title as above. Fortune, blindfolded, with winged feet, pushes her wheel on the summit of the globe, which ...
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Price below imprint: Price Three Shillings.
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Printed for the author, by H. Reynell, No. 21, Piccadilly, and sold by S.W. Fores, No. 3, Piccadilly, near the Hay-Market
"Two lovers embrace within a small shed inscribed 'Strong Box' supported on a pole; a tailor with huge shears is about to cut the pole, saying, "I'll upset the basket". The open doors of the shed are 'Modesty' and 'Chastity'. Behind is sketched an equ...
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Title etched below image.
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Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Adultery, Barbers, Couples, Hugging, Lawyers, and Tailors
An African woman known as 'Sartje' or the Hottentot Venus stands, left, in profile, a smoking pipe in her mouth and tall staff in her right hand. She has an enormous posterior and stands nude except for a pair of garters around her calves, a thin gird...
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Walker Cornhill?
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Court of Chancery
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, Khoikhoi (African people), Africans, and England
A parody on Book 8, lines 487-9 of John Milton's Paradise lost. A lean, spectacled man stands by a bed as he welcomes a drunken trollope who staggers into the room holding a glass and a bottle labelled Geneva (gin). He exclaims, parodying Milton, "On...
"A half length portrait in an oval of the Duke of Cumberland in profile to the left, scarcely caricatured, but with a half-closed eye which gives an expression of arrogance. He wears a hat whose curving brim shades his eyes and rests on his high coat-...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd July 30th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A half length portrait in an oval of the Duke of Cumberland in profile to the left, scarcely caricatured, but with a half-closed eye which gives an expression of arrogance. He wears a hat whose curving brim shades his eyes and rests on his high coat-...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd July 30th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"A half length portrait in an oval of the Duke of Cumberland in profile to the left, scarcely caricatured, but with a half-closed eye which gives an expression of arrogance. He wears a hat whose curving brim shades his eyes and rests on his high coat-...
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Title etched below image.
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Publish'd July 30th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
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still image
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"The artist [a portrait of Woodward], wearing a flowered dressing-gown, sits in profile to the right. at a sloping desk, painting on a small oval a bust portrait of a sailor who sits truculently (right), smoking a pipe, arms akimbo. The sailor wears a...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn and Pubd. Janry. [...] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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"The artist [a portrait of Woodward], wearing a flowered dressing-gown, sits in profile to the right. at a sloping desk, painting on a small oval a bust portrait of a sailor who sits truculently (right), smoking a pipe, arms akimbo. The sailor wears a...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn and Pubd. Janry. [...] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
P- and his reduced household retiring for the summer season and Prince and his reduced household retiring for the summer season
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Pub'd as the act directs, for the proprietor, by J. Carter, Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
On a country road, two countrymen encounter an ugly witch who sits crouching on a fence rail holding her broom, her hair sticking out straight from her head. The one countryman kneels on the ground with a horrified look on his face, clutching his hat...
Pen and ink drawing divided into two parts, with an alderman on the left and a chamberlain on the right, framed in a elaborate border (suggesting a tent or fortress) of checkerboard and geometric designs. The stout alderman, spoon and fork in hand, we...
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Chamberlain
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Title in artist's hand at top of design; artist signature and date inscribed in pen and black ink below image. Subtitle in banner below design.
A simple drayman stands scratching his head as he stops to talk to a man who sits on a wooden crate as he drinks from a tankard outside a country inn. A pretty woman stands in the doorway (the sign for the inn just visible over her head) holding anot...
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Title engraved below image.
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Published 4th April 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
