"George IV sits in an arm-chair, his gouty right leg in a bulky swathing rests on a cushion; the left leg is tightly bound between calf and ankle with a narrow bandage. He wears a loose fur-collared coat or gown over breeches and waistcoat. He leans back reflectively, an open book, Diversions of Purley [by Home Tooke, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9020], in his right hand. Phases of his past life are illustrated in a series of W.L. portraits on the wall behind him. [1] As a handsome young man he stands holding a long-bow, as if at an archery contest. [2] He stands, slightly obese, in his Light Horse uniform, see British Museum Satires No. 8800 (1796). [3] He stands in back view as in BM Satires 12803, facing a wall on which is a portrait of the Hottentot Venus [Saartjie Baartman], see British Museum Satires No. 11577, &c. [4] He stands in hussar uniform, with high curled wig and whiskers. [5] He stands directed to the right in Field Marshal's uniform (as 'especially in 1814). [6] He stands on the deck of a ship in yachting costume wearing loose jacket and trousers, his hands in his coat-pocket. The profile and paunch of Sir William Curtis are behind and on the extreme left. [7] The picture is partly concealed by a curtain, but the King sits near a chamber-pot. [8] He stands in coronation robes holding orb and sceptre (see British Museum Satires No. 14199). [9] He is in Highland costume (see British Museum Satires No. 14386). At the King's left hand is a small cheval-glass topped by a crown. His appearance has changed, he has no whiskers, and has a wig of lightly curled natural hair, parted in the middle, so that in place of the pear- or pineapple-shaped head resulting from a crest of curls and whiskers, as from c. 1811 [In caricature. An engraved H.L. portrait by Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, pub. Cadell & Davis, 11 Oct. 1809, has whiskers and crest of curls], his face seems rounder, and, in many prints, younger. His dress is less formal, and his appearance (confirmed by portraits from 1820) suggests a determination to depart completely from the appearance and costume of caricature."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theater -- Hottentot Venus.
Publisher:
Pub. March 15, 1824, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Costume, History, Gout, Recluses, and Dandies
"Heading to a printed broadside, a parody of Hamlet's soliloquy spoken by George IV, beginning 'To be or not to be? and ending 'I'd rather drink and revel here in secret, | Than fly | Where I might meet her face to face'. The King, much burlesqued, stands with legs astride on the boards of a theatre, framed by curtains patterned with grapes, bottles, glasses, crowns, and antlers. On the back-cloth are crude Chinese figures. He has a huge head, with heavy drink-blotched face crowned by the towering curls of his wig, and holds a full goblet and a bottle of Curaco. With an expression of calculating melancholy he meditates suicide, on account of 'The scorns and satire of an injur'd Nation', but fears to meet his wife's ghost."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Thirty-two lines of letterpress text beneath title, beginning: To be or not to be? That is the question ..., Price statement and publisher's advertisement following imprint: --Price 1s. coloured.--Where may be had "Hush-a-bye baby upon the tree top.", Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 36 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in black ink below image; letters written in red ink within the blanks in the letterpress text, completing the censored words "York's," "Queen," "royal," and George." Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Printed and published by I.L. Marks, 37, Prince's Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Draperies, Bottles, Alcoholic beverages, and Drinking vessels
Published John and Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No. 90 Cheapside; Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's
Bartlett, Henrietta C. (Henrietta Collins), 1873-1963
Published / Created:
1916.
Call Number:
Z8811 B366 (LC)+ Oversize 1
Image Count:
375
Description:
BEIN REF Z8811 +B366 copy 1: Autograph: Henrietta C. Bartlett, November 1935. Interleaved. Manuscript annotations of Henrietta Bartlett. Accompanied by 5 leaves of notes., BEIN REF Z8811 +B366 copy 2: Autograph: Henrietta C. Bartlett, April 3rd, 1916. Interleaved. Manuscript annotations of Henrietta Bartlett and others. Accompanied by 1 leaf of notes., "Five hundred copies printed from type"--Title page verso., "Published under the auspices of the Elizabethan Club, Yale University"--Page [iii]., and Includes index.
Publisher:
Yale University Press ; Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.169
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two asses on a bare patch of ground, with the first line of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' below. The play begins with three witches in a storm deciding when to meet next ('When the hurlyburly's done, / When the battle's lost and won'). That there are only two asses in this parody presumably means that the dedicatee of the print, whose name is withheld, is the third
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., Imprint lacking, but text "See Tregear's catalogue" beneath title suggests G.S. Tregear as publisher., Date of publication from dealer's description., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Title from text below image., Plate from: New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour. London : Tilt and Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, [1841]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theater.
Title from text below image., Plate from: New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour. London : Tilt and Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, [1841]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theater.
Publisher:
Tilt and Bogue
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Diet, Alcoholic beverages, Older people, Bottles, and Medicines
A doctor trying to sell youthfulness potions to an elderly lawyer
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour. London : Tilt and Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, [1841]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Restoratives -- Theater.
