"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher from 2nd state.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
"An elderly 'cit' sleeps in a low, upright chair, leaning back till his profile faces the ceiling. His hands are clasped over his chest, his wig dangles from his coat-collar, and he puffs from tightly shut lips. The room is bare with a boarded floor. On a round table are a jug and glass, and the sleeper's pipe lying on 'Cobbett's Political Register'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from John Miller's entry in London Publishers and Printers, by Philip A.H. Brown (London, British Library, 1982)., Plate from: The caricatures of Gillray. London : John Miller, [between 1824 and 1827], opposite page 142., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray, published 1 November 1806 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 10644 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, page 343., and Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 561.
Publisher:
Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh
Subject (Topic):
Sleep, Sleeping, Wigs, Pipes (Smoking), and Newspapers
A Scotch man and woman ride on an ass led by a monk walking to the left and holding its halter on which is supsended a copy of a newspaper "London evening post". The Scotch man is holding a glass in one hand and waving his cap with the other as he shouts "Huzza". She holds a sword and is also shouting. A book lettered with the word "Harrington" is tied to the ass's tail. In the distance is the skyline of London
Alternative Title:
Headpiece for The Jacobite's journal
Description:
Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2893., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 229., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at bottom of print: Livesay's copy., and On page 200 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 27; 1781, by Rd. Livesay, at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Cityscapes, Donkeys, Ethnic stereotypes, and Newspapers
Interior view of an English tavern, with two men dining at a table in the left foreground (their dogs beside them looking up at the food) and another man reading a newspaper at a table to the right. A fourth man stands in the right background, his back to the viewer, looking out a window. A waiter carries a plate of food from the left
Description:
Title etched below image. and "Originally issued by Martinet in 1806, this example has an additional Basset imprint and is thus a later impression."--Dealer's description.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, et presentement chez Basset Md. d'Estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 64
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Eating & drinking, Dogs, Newspapers, and Waiters
"Lady Perceval sits at an ornate writing-table, pen in hand. A serpent issues from her breast, coils round her arm, and darts its fang at the tip of her pen. She frowns meditatively, saying, "Now then for something strong but not libellous, I hate half measures we must rush upon the enemy--suprise [sic], astound him--and unhorse him by Terror--John Bull have at you! I'll open your eyes--." The table is littered with papers and books; some are docketed: 'For the Star', 'To the Editor of the Star', 'For the News', 'Extracts from the Book', one is 'Copy', a book is 'Politicks', and a large paper is displayed: 'Select Scraps from Shakespeare--with my own comments "Some achieve greatness "some have greatness thrust upon them .... Querie was this not the case with Nunky [Spencer Perceval], why not happen .... Son--.' Other papers and books lie on the floor: newspapers are 'The News' and 'The Star', a paper is headed 'Memorandums Billy Austin [see British Museum Satires No. 12027]--the Will--' Books are 'Life of Lord Nelson', 'A very Woman by Massinger', 'Machiavael', 'Johnson', 'Indiscretion a Novel', 'Don Quixote'. On the left John Mitford, identified by a letter in his coat-pocket 'To John Mit--', stands facing the wall, and hanging one picture over another: he places a view of a country inn, 'The Tigers Head' above one of '[War]burton's Mad House', saying, "Come this is a prettier picture than the other [left] shall catch some fish in this neighbourhood." He is fashionably dressed, wearing Hessian boots. This picture is on the left of a row: a large picture of 'Alecto' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7721), naked, wreathed in serpents, and brandishing scourge and fire-brand, with a background of flames hangs between three-quarter length portraits of 'Lady Douglas' and 'Lady A Hamilton'. The former covers her face with a tragic gesture; a dagger lies on a table beside her, she seems to contemplate suicide. The latter clasps her hands. Over the chimneypiece (right) is a three-quarter length portrait of 'Lord P . . . . val' concealing his face with his hat; below, and partly hiding the frame, is a statuette of a knight killing a dragon. On the chimney-piece there is also a bottle labelled 'Cephalic' (for diseases of the head). Papers are burning in the grate, one inscribed 'To[o] Libellous'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Paragraph championizing
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Text following title: - vide Letters., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text following title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., Watermark: C. Ansell 1807., and Formerly mounted with remnants on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 4th, 1814, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution and the difficulty of reconciling ideology with practice; Parliamentary elections; literary societies; and the nobility. One letter describes and deplores the cruelty of amusements such as hunting, cock-fighting, and "combats des gladiateurs"; another letter mocks an English law against the illegal wearing of buttons. A letter dated December 14, 1790 discusses the possibility of the abolition of the slave trade; the author declares it is the most talked-of subject of conversation and expresses his astonishment that the trade still exists and The letters are followed by a lengthy essay explaining the Women's March on Versailles on October 5-6, 1789. The volume is prefaced by a note by the translator, who criticizes the motives of many travel writers; says that he was drawn to this letter-writer for his curiosity and interest in humanity; and explains that the writer published two volumes, the first of letters written in Paris and Versailles during the revolution in 1789, and the second of letters in England
Description:
In French., Binding: full calf., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 12. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"North, fat and ungainly, seated on a close-stool, his chin supported on his hands, his face is contorted and he clutches 'The London Courant', one of the most bitter of the anti-ministerial newspapers ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Lord North in a fix
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to J.K. Sherwin from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike, with alterations to the lettering and to the depicted stool to remove scatology, of a print published ca. April 1782 with the title "L N on the stool of repentance or the ill effects of meddling with salts". For original issue of the plate, see no. 5977 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Temporary local subject terms: Close-stools -- Newspapers: London Courant -- Taxes: Salt -- Prudery., and On leaf 12 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
