"Three grotesquely ugly old maids stoop delightedly over a Cupid who sleeps against a rose-bush, arrow in hand, his unstrung bow beside him. On the back of one sits an ape; a lap-dog is beside her. A parrot sits on the bonnet of another, the third kneels. On a mound (right) a cock stands crowing: 'Cock a doodle doo.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "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, registration no.: 1865,1111.2137., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: C. Wilmot 1815.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Single women, Roses, Putti, Cupids, Monkeys, Dogs, Parrots, and Roosters
The assembly of old batchelors and The assembly of old bachelors
Description:
Title below image., Place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Assemblee des vieux garçons., Below title is a verse from Dryden., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Pauls' Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Bachelors, Old age, Gout, Older people, Meetings, and Crutches
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 389 x 269 mm.
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 20 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly man in repose, nearly sleeping, on a slipcovered chair before his fireplace is approached by a swarm of winged blue devils emerging from the smoke drifting from the fire
Description:
Artist's signature and title from caption inscribed in black ink below image in the artist's hand., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Demons, Fear, Fireplaces, Older people, and Sleeping
Title from item., Below title: Engraved expressly for the Parlor Annual., The Parlor Annual was published in New York, and this print was in Volume 5, 1845., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Deathbeds, Death, Older people, Priests, Grief, Family members, Prayer, and Medicines
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1835]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Drunk soldiers on horses shooting women and children."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Drunken dragoons shooting old women and children at Wolverhampton by way of keeping their hand in
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date from the British Museum online catalogue: ca. 1833. Date of 1835 suggested based topic of print: the 1835 Wolverhampton riot., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Two lines of text below title: And yet public sympathy would abolish the lash from the backs of such cowardly, disgusting man-butchers ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "91" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 91.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Cavalry, Intoxication, Shooting, Older people, and Children
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening &c. &c., Four lines of caption in design: I am informed Madam, your present protector is an old man which must be a great misfortune at your time of life under this consideration, I mean to take you to myself with a capital establishment., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Russel & Edmeads 1799., and Price stamp in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly Corner of Sackville St.
Title etched above image., Possibly after Woodward., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Seven lines of verse below title: Proceed we next unto the old incumbent at his gate ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Incumbents -- Old men -- Male costume: banyan -- Furniture: garden benches -- Architectural details: garden gates -- Spectacles -- Literature: parody on Shakespeare's As You Like It -- Literature: quotation from Richard Graves's The Spiritual Quixote.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Older people, Benches, Garden walls, Gates, Reading, and Eyeglasses
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly old-fashioned doctor, holding his gold-headed cane, sits bending forward to inspect the tongue of his agonized patient. The latter, grotesquely obese, sits in a low arm-chair (right) with his lean and hideous wife beside him; a thin grotesque footman, his hair standing on end, stands behind the doctor's chair, leaning towards his master. All three put out their tongues, and all register dismay; the equally ugly doctor gapes in unhelpful concern. The grotesque heads are closely grouped against a high window. A grandfather clock (left) shows that the time is 2.22. A thermometer hangs on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Toadstools mistaken for mushrooms
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. September 1st, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12145 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "210" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured"--Lower right corner of design., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 254., Temporary local subject terms: Doctor., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 67 in volume 3.
