Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description:
Title etched above imprint and below text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below image and above title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him., Publisher's statement below image: Prints & drawings lent on the plan of a circulating library, folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Dwarfs, Military uniforms, British, and Swords
Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description:
Title etched above imprint at the end of five lines of text., Printmaker from another state in Lewis Walpole collection. This state also lacks the publisher's statement following printmaker's statement. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library 796.01.01.02.2., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side and top., Five lines of text below image and preceding title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With printseller's stamp: S.W. Fores.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Dwarfs, Military uniforms, British, and Swords
Bouttats, Gerard, born 1630, active 1658, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1658]
Call Number:
Print01378
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's active date., Place of publication from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alcohol; Greed; Politics; Poverty.
"Ministers sit on a large sack (the Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735), surrounded by Grenadier Guards standing at attention with fixed bayonets. Most prominent is Eldon, holding a paper inscribed 'Precedent', with an arm round Castlereagh's shoulder. Sidmouth (left) holds his clyster-pipe. Canning (right) hides his face in his hand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13971). Harrowby sits next him. Wellington stands with drawn sabre, to give an order to the Guards. P. 7: F, for the fun that enlivened the city, And flashed in Pall-Mall [Carlton House] till Grub-St. was witty. ... Ministers are trying 'To hatch the Green Egg ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
F, for the fun that enlivened the city, and flashed in Pall-Mall till Grub-St. was witty ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Soldiers, Bayonets, Swords, and Medical equipment & supplies
"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat held together by a military belt. In his left hand is a ragged hat. He says, with a broad grin: "Wounds, when Master Billy sees I in a Red-Cap, how he will stare! - egad; I thinks I shall cook em at last. - well if I could but once get a Cockade to my Red Cap, & a bit of a Gun - why, I thinks I should make a good stockey Soldier!" The shop is that of 'Billy-Black-Soul [Pitt], Hatter, & Sword-cutler \ Licenced to deal in Hats and Swords.' Above the door (right) are the royal arms and 'Stamp-Office' (the tax on hats being levied by a stamp). Within the window are crossed swords and military cocked hats with a number of stamps bearing the royal arms. In the foreground (left) is a pile of dead cats with a paper: 'List of Cats Killed for making skin caps 20000 Red 5000 Tabb ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
"Codrington, wearing the star of the Bath, sits on a gun-carriage on the deck of his ship, looking sternly up at an old scarred and pigtailed sailor who addresses him with an expression of consternation: Please your Honor's Glory there's something wrong in the wind, for they've clapt a Marine at the Helme of Old England, and He and the other lob lollies have made Sombody (God bless Him) to call our Glorious Victory an UNTOWARD EVENT And when they where told to belay their jawing tackel they shifted the wind and began to blow another way. Codrington answers Aye Aye Jack they or we must be fools. In his right hand is his sword, the point resting on the deck, the blade inscribed with Nelson's Trafalgar signal: England expects every Man to do his duty. He holds a document: Treaty of London. His back is to the sea where a rocky promontory (right) forms Wellington's profile, looking towards Codrington, a row of tiny gun-emplacements forming a grim smile (cf. BM Satires No. 15691); on the rock is a flag at half-mast, topped by a spurred Wellington boot, upside down."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal speech
Description:
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 221.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
"Queen Caroline, dignified and regal, stands with extended right arm facing Lord Hutchinson (identified by Reid as Liverpool), a thin man in court dress who bows low, holding out a large purse inscribed '£50,000'. He looks up at her with a servile and apprehensive grimace, saying: "Abandon your claim to the Throne, Change your Name & the Livery & retire to some distant part of the earth were you may never be seen or heard of any more; & if 50,000£ pr Annm will not satisfy you, what will?" She answers: "Nothing but a Crown!" In her left hand is a paper: 'Lawful Claims'. At her side (right) stands Alderman Wood, noble and stalwart in Roman armour; he holds a sword, whose wavy blade (representing flame) is inscribed 'A Swoard for the Guilty', and a shield: 'A Shield for the Innocent--'. Behind Hutchinson and in back-view stands Brougham in barrister's wig and gown; he holds a broom, and says: "I turn my back on such dirty work as this." The Devil, on the extreme left, clutches his arm, saying: "Well done Broom! you have done your business well." Behind Wood is a ship at anchor, her poop inscribed 'The Wooden walls of Old England'; she flies a Union flag inscribed 'Caroline'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bribery & corruption rejected!!! and Bribery and corruption rejected!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed only with Robert Cruikshank's name, but a collaboration with George Cruikshank is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., "No. 1"--Upper left corner., and Mounted on page 16 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Benbow, St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Donoughmore, John Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of, 1757-1832, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Satirical portrait of William Pickett, Lord Mayor of London for 1789; three-quarter length, seated; wearing the ceremonial gown and with a City of London sword hanging in the background; within a border composed of plates, cups, saucers, mugs, kettles, and a chamber pot, with two bears in the corners; a fire extinguisher and a string of "India crackers" hang below the border
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Price only one shilling with a suitable frame included., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publishd. according to act of Parliament, June 1st, 1789, by E. Harding
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pickett, William
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Robes, Swords, Containers, Firecrackers, and Fire extinguishers
Satirical portrait of William Pickett, Lord Mayor of London for 1789; three-quarter length, seated; wearing the ceremonial gown and with a City of London sword hanging in the background; within a border composed of plates, cups, saucers, mugs, kettles, and a chamber pot, with two bears in the corners; a fire extinguisher and a string of "India crackers" hang below the border
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below title: Price only one shilling with a suitable frame included., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Also with newspaper clippings mounted on sheet.
Publisher:
Publishd. according to act of Parliament, June 1st, 1789, by E. Harding
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pickett, William
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Robes, Swords, Containers, Firecrackers, and Fire extinguishers
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from style., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
