"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.
Leaf 106. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A rotund cobbler leans against a table in his shop, looking down at a cup of tea he stirs with his right hand, a teapot sitting beside the cup and saucer on the table. He holds a knife in his left hand and wears a large coat, an apron, and a looped tricorne with a pipe in it. Behind him on the table is a bucket, with tufts of horse hair beside it that extend onto the floor below, partially obscuring several pairs of shoes in the process of being made
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and First of three plates on leaf 106.
"An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (left) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., Temporary local subject terms: Glasses: Tumbler -- Medicine Bottles., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 255 x 192 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Steet
Subject (Topic):
Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
"An invalid sits, with contorted features, at a table (left) on which are basin, tea-pot, medicine-bottle, glass. His head is held by a compassionate friend, standing behind him. He wears night-cap, shirt, breeches, and unbuttoned waistcoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Gillray and artist questionably identified as Sneyd in the British Museum catalogue., One of a set of Gillray prints of medical conditions that were apparent studies in facial expression., and Temporary local subject terms: Glasses: Tumbler -- Medicine Bottles.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 28th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Steet
Subject (Topic):
Emetics, Medical procedures & techniques, Basins (Containers), Drinking vessels, Medicines, Bottles, and Teapots
Three couples and a young boy are picnicking outdoors. The large women with exaggerated sleeves and large bosoms exclaims: "Lauk, how hot the sun is to my back!" Everyone is oblivious to the fact that a fire is raging under the kettle behind her
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 269.
Round-faced Chinese men depicted in traditional hats, shoes and pants but bodies in the shape of round, ornately painted Chinese teapots stagger to the left, some holding sticks. Young boys with tea cups and saucers on their heads struggle behind them, two having tripped and fallen
Description:
Title etched below images., Attributed to Richard Doyle., Plate numbered '19' in upper right corner from: The brother to the moon's viist to the court of Queen Vic., Series forms a companion work to The christening of Prince Taffy. Cf. Verso of cover which also lists other "Clever humorous works by Messrs. Fores.", and Image on verso: Opium chewers and smokers, the cap's wot caused all the shindy. No. 20 in the series.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A room in a Scottish inn: two travellers sit at a round breakfast-table; the man looks round in horror at a barelegged slattern who stoops to blow at a fire from which smoke pours; he says: "Sounds. we will be suffocated with dust & smoke". The girl says: "The Dee'l blaw this Fire w'e his Muckle A-se for ise na Fash mysel mair we't". Broken bellows and a shovelful of coal lie on the carpet. A barelegged fellow wearing a Scots cap pours water from a kettle over a tea-pot; the astonished lady exclaims: "Mercy on us look here my Dear the fellow is pouring hot Water on the top of the Tea Pot without taking the lid off & before he has brought Tea to put in it". The man says: "Feggs, you may skirll & Waloch as lang's ye like--there's nane O the House will put themsel's out o' their ain gude Auld Gaits". A savage-looking mongrel befouls the carpet and an 'Essay on Cleaness' [sic]. Through a doorway (the door broken from its hinges) is seen a woman (right) seated by a kitchen fire, a dram-bottle beside her, keys hanging from her waist. She says: "Aye, Aye. ring till ye're tired, I canna be Fash'd". Everything in both rooms denotes squalor but not poverty."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Later state; date in imprint statement has been obscured with etched cross-hatching., Date of publication based on imprint with legible date on earlier state: Pubd. b[y] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London, Sepr. 1810. Cf. No. 11650 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Companion print to: The Scotch cottage of Glenburnia., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A room in a Scottish inn: two travellers sit at a round breakfast-table; the man looks round in horror at a barelegged slattern who stoops to blow at a fire from which smoke pours; he says: "Sounds. we will be suffocated with dust & smoke". The girl says: "The Dee'l blaw this Fire w'e his Muckle A-se for ise na Fash mysel mair we't". Broken bellows and a shovelful of coal lie on the carpet. A barelegged fellow wearing a Scots cap pours water from a kettle over a tea-pot; the astonished lady exclaims: "Mercy on us look here my Dear the fellow is pouring hot Water on the top of the Tea Pot without taking the lid off & before he has brought Tea to put in it". The man says: "Feggs, you may skirll & Waloch as lang's ye like--there's nane O the House will put themsel's out o' their ain gude Auld Gaits". A savage-looking mongrel befouls the carpet and an 'Essay on Cleaness' [sic]. Through a doorway (the door broken from its hinges) is seen a woman (right) seated by a kitchen fire, a dram-bottle beside her, keys hanging from her waist. She says: "Aye, Aye. ring till ye're tired, I canna be Fash'd". Everything in both rooms denotes squalor but not poverty."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Later state; date in imprint statement has been obscured with etched cross-hatching., Date of publication based on imprint with legible date on earlier state: Pubd. b[y] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London, Sepr. 1810. Cf. No. 11650 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Companion print to: The Scotch cottage of Glenburnia., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 31 in volume 1.
Within the frame of an oval 'window', one well-dressed young woman sits facing the viewer with her back to the wall, looking intently at a watch in her right hand. Her companion leans on the back of a chair, facing the seated woman, her back to the viewer. She points to the wall-clock which hangs on the wall behind the sitter as does a mirror which is positioned so as to see the back of the sitter's head and the faint outline of her companion. In the right foreground on an oval table at the sitter's elbow sits a tea tray -- two cups and saucers, a creamer, a small teapot, and a box. Also on the table stands a samovar
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all but top sliver of imprint statement., An early work by Morland that is a campanion painting to "The novelists", both of which use his wife and sister, wife of William Ward, as the two women models. Cf. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland / by J. Hassell. London : J. Cundee [etc.], 1806, Appendix no. 78., and Two lines of verse on either side of title: This tormenting suspence my fond hopes o'er cast, lest the youth of my choice prove unkind. Be patient sweet, Mistress, the appointment's not past, and I'm certian he'll not be behind.
"Mrs. Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) sit on opposite sides of a small square tea-table; Boswell sits between them on the farther side of the table, with a complacent expression, his right hand on his breast, his left held towards Johnson, as if displaying his friend. Johnson, with an expression of reflective melancholy, takes sugar with a pair of tongs, his tea-cup in his left hand. Mrs. Boswell clasps her hands ecstatically and smiles admiringly at Johnson. A foot-boy stands behind Johnson and Boswell holding a salver; he yawns violently, scratching his tousled head. A wall-clock shows that it is 12.10. A single candle in a sconce (left) lights the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "My wife had tea ready for him which it is well known he delighted to drink at all hours, particularly when sitting up late ..." Vide Journal p. 14., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-146.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
