A theatre scene; a man on stage holding a long cane leans towards the box stage left saying: 'Bucks of the Boxes, sneer and talk aloud! I don't mean you.' The rotund young man at the front of the box says 'Boo Boo'; he holds an unfurled sheet of paper headed 'Fair Penitent. Lothario, by the amateur who murdered Romeo ...'
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With watermark: J Whatman 1806?
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr. 10th, 1811, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Theater audiences, Staffs (Sticks), and Stages (Platforms)
"Bonaparte stands on the sea-shore, about to embark (on 23 Aug. 1799) in a boat (left) which will take him to a ship in full sail (the 'Muiron'). He looks with a sly leer to the right, where a little band of ragged and emaciated French soldiers hurry towards him making gestures of dismay. He wears the embroidered fastened coat or tunic with a sash of authentic portraits, without a hat; he points up towards a vision in the sky surrounded by massive clouds of a sceptre and imperial crown superimposed on the revolutionary fasces and axe. Above the general flies a figure of Fame, smiling sardonically and pointing down derisively. Two soldiers in cocked hats who stand in the boat waiting for Bonaparte to embark greedily hug large money-bags. A plank slants from the boat to the shore. The boat has a figure-head composed of two heads facing opposite ways wearing a single coronet. Behind the French troops is a small encampment with tricolour tents and flags. Behind this stretches a vast Turkish camp with crescent flags."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below title: For an illustration of the above, see the intercepted letters from the Republican General Kleber to the French Directory respecting the courage, honor & patriotic-views of "the deserter of the Army of Egypt.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Expeditions: Napoleon's Egyptian campaign -- Letters -- Reference to Jean-Baptiste Kleber, 1754-1801-- Ships: Muiron -- Military: French soldiers -- Personifications: Fame -- Musical instruments: trumpets -- Visions: imperial crown and scepter with executioner's axe
Publisher:
Publish'd March 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
"Brougham stands in profile to the left, selling brooms; he holds up one, two are under his left arm. He wears a barrister's wig and bands, with a small conical cap tied under the chin, a tight-fitting bodice, and a full petticoat to the knee, showing flat feet and large and ill-formed legs in black stockings. The dress is that of the German and Flemish girls who sold brooms in the London streets ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., On verso in brown ink is the collector's stamp of Nick Knowles: A pair of crossed skis., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 13th, 1825, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. St. [sic]
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
"Alderman Wood, as a zany at a fair, stands on a platform outside a booth addressing a crowd of spectators, half length figures in the foreground forming the base of the design. He points with his right thumb to the Queen (left), who is ready to perform, dressed much as in British Museum Satires No. 14103 but more grotesquely. On the right are Brougham and Denman, as beefeaters, with the letters 'C R' on the breast, but with legal wig and bands; each has a trumpet; that of Denman, who blows it, has a banner 'Solicit you in General'. Wood has ass's ears, wears a fool's cap and red and yellow gown (see British Museum Satires No. 14122) over his suit, with big jack-boots. Under his arm is a bulky rolled document; he holds out a placard: 'Signora Diable Humbuggina now exhibiting with most astonishing Effect.' His words are etched on a big tricolour placard above his head: 'Now then Ladies and Gemmen, here ye has Signora Diable Humbuggina, the most wonderfullest conjuress that ever vas seed at home or abroad. The most perfect Amphibrous Nondescript Hannimal that was ever seed before or behind. She has exhibited her Genus to all the crowned Potentaties, and all the principalest Men in all Europe including the Day of Alljeers [Tunis, see British Museum Satires No. 12810] von o' the best Judges in this here Universe. This here living vonder o' the vorld can conjure dunghill grubs and Knights of all sorts [see British Museum Satires No. 13810], ride a Donkey [see British Museum Satires No. 14015] a Zebra [see British Museum Satires No. 14110] and her high-horse at von and the same time. Sleep 40 days & nights under the same Tent vith a man, and never be wicious [see British Museum Satires No. 13818]. She can play with all the grace that ever vas, Columbine, Automaton [see British Museum Satires No. 14120, &c.] Pilgrim [see British Museum Satires No. 14121], or Dragon, and swallow all sorts of Spirity liquors by the Gallon and never be the Vorserer [see British Museum Satires No. 14175]--. So now is the time before this most surprisingest exhibition closes. Blow the trumpet Denny--Valk up Ladies and Gemmen-- Vy dont you blow Broom?' The Queen, very décolletée, with an over-dress displaying frilled and spotted drawers or trousers, wears a barn-stormer's crown with towering peacocks' feathers. At her feet is a notice: 'Juggling taught in all its branches'. At the feet of the beefeaters: 'Books of the travels of this wonderfull Phenomenon to be had within'. Their booth is garlanded with fairy lights and surmounted by a cap of Liberty. In the background on left and right are other attractions of the fair. A beefeater with 'G.R' on his breast blows his trumpet outside a booth flying a Union Jack, and inscribed 'Here's your Works. All from Nature. No connexion with the Jugglers.' Outside it are pictorial placards, all of animals with human heads: an ass with the head of Lieut. Hownam, a creature with the head of Bergami, and an ape with the head of Wood as in British Museum Satires No. 14131. Visitors crowd towards it. Before it is a woman in a swing. On the right are two tents, one inscribed 'Good Strong Caroline Brandy', the other flying a tricolour flag inscribed 'Ale and strong liquors'. In the centre foreground stands John Bull, pointing up at the Queen, and addressing the gaping and amused spectators around him. He is a plump respectable countryman, his words engraved below the title: 'Why dang-it I tell ye that ere business be all Impositioning like--Do na g'in, I mysel war taken in tother day; but blow my wig if I ha any more to do wi that shew like.--do na g'in, It be all my eye [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14180] and Betty-Martin or my neame beant John Bull.--'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mat Pudding and his mountebank
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 45 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Circus performers, Circuses & shows, Stages (Platforms)., Spectators, Honor guards, Trumpets, Banners, Fools' caps, Boots, Documents, Signs (Notices), Crowns, Feathers, Liberty cap, Donkeys, Swings, Show tents, and Flags
"A grotesque procession of brass-founders (braziers), carrying banners and emblems of brass on poles, burlesquing a Roman triumph. They march (right to left) past a sign-post pointing (left) 'To B--burgh House' and (right) 'To Turnham Green'. All wear loose jack-boots, spurred, and on each man's head is a brass utensil (or helmet), as made by the trade, and each carries a dish-cover (or shield) inscribed 'C R'. Many wear makeshift breastplates. They wear ragged breeches, some partly covered by strips of metal on the thigh, in imitation of armour. The two goose-stepping leaders blow coach-horns to which banners are attached, inscribed 'Blow Braziers Blow thy Sounding Horns'; their head-dress is a candlestick containing a tall lighted candle. They are followed by two trumpeters, with teakettles on their heads. Next comes a tall drummer, his drum inscribed 'Hum Drum', using ladles for drumsticks and with a coal-scuttle-helmet. Prominent among their trophies are pikes, to which banners are attached, each decorated by a large white favour. The first banner is inscribed 'Hail Star of Como [see British Museum Satires No. 13857] Brass is a Joke to thee.' Beside this, supported on a pole, is a model of a man (Bergami) on a galloping horse inscribed 'Courier'. A pair of breeches hangs from a pike. Various objects are surmounted by a piece of drapery inscribed 'Presents for Carey', and by a banner inscribed 'Men of Metal'; they include a bull, a goat, a stag's head, and a model of a Turk dancing inscribed 'Dimma Dimma'. Behind these is an owl and, beside a banner inscribed 'Pam [knave of clubs] & Qu--n for ever', is a model of Bergami carrying the Queen on his back. A figure of Harlequin is inscribed 'B B' [Bartolomeo Bergami]. Drapery is inscribed 'Presents for Bat' [Bartolommeo]; beside this is a bust of Alderman Wood. 'Furniture for the Barona' is on a banner flying over a woman (three-quarter length) wearing a triple fool's cap and emerging from a stand: 'Automaton Pitch'. A figure of 'Columbine' capers awkwardly. The interstices among these objects are filled with household utensils, &c., held high, tongs, poker, shovel, &c. Below the design: '"Why look'ye Mrs Brasier!" I dont know in what quantities you sell brass "at" Como"--But when you come "from" abroad, & ask a thinking people "to believe Black is White--D . . . me but your'e a Wholesale Dealer!!!--John Bull.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 18 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
A view of the church at Cheltenham and the churchyard with gravestones
Description:
Title engraved below image., Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; numbered '23' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff., and Paper with watermark '1791'.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Dec. 17, 1787 by Richd. Bigland
Subject (Geographic):
Cheltenham (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
Title from text below image., Date of publication from two related prints with "Jany. 1828" at the end of nearly identical imprint statements. Cf. Lewis Walpole call nos.: Babb-Beckford no. 113+; Babb-Beckford no. 115+., Sheet mutilated on bottom edge with some loss of text from publication line., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published [by Enge]lmann, Graf, Coindet, & Co., 92 Dean St., Soho, & M. Colnaghi, Cockspur Street and Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet, & Co.
Five men accompanied by two dogs leisurly sit around a small table in a tavern smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes and drinking while one of their number squeezes juice and pulp from a fruit into a large punch bowl resting on the table
Description:
Title and artist's signature inscribed in the artist's hand below image. and Sheet trimmed to oval shape.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right is a buxom young woman, pulling the rope. Two undergraduates flourish long-lashed whips, one aims a squirt, another lets off a squib. The aisle is divided from the nave by an iron railing; on the ground is a stone or brass with a mitre and crosier inscribed 'Here Lies the Body of Bishop Blear eyes'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Crabbed fellow's taught to caper on the slack rope
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling coloured.", Watermark: J. Whatman 1812., and Leaf 5 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Pubd. Janry. 28, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two designs on one plate. Above, two rows of burlesqued yokels (with two comely women, and an ugly old one), seated behind the orchestra and backed by a rough brick wall, register intense amusement. A fiddler stands up to snuff a single wall-candle. Below, three members of the orchestra play, grotesquely weeping; behind them are the pittites, also burlesqued, except for a good-looking young couple. A woman tries to revive a fat and fainting man with a smelling-bottle. Above their heads is a gallery, with two footmen in livery, two ladies, and an elderly parson. All shed tears, or otherwise express their grief."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles etched below images., Later state; former plate number "20" has been replaced with a new number, and the year of publication has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "Pub'd May 29th" and "by Thos. Tegg ...", Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. May 29th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.05.29.01.1., Plate numbered "172" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "One shilling colour'd."--Following imprint., Watermark: J. Whatman 1812., and Leaf 92 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 29th by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Manners & customs, City & town life, and Theater audiences
