"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.
"A satire on the rebuilding of Drury Lane Theatre. Whitbread, Chairman of the Committee, bestrides a barrel, the head inscribed 'The Butt M, T' [empty]. He has long ass's ears and points to a table beside him on the extreme right where there is a model of a theatre with a pillared portico and pediment. This rests on a paper inscribed 'Whitbread Copeland Holland Rolls &ca clear gains 450000!!!!!' Next Whitbread a man sits behind a similar table littered with plans all inscribed 'Plan of Drury Lane'. He also has ass's ears, to which a second pair has been added in water-colour. He looks through an eye-glass, resting his right elbow on an anchor, while he holds at arm's length the model of a theatre whose portico is flanked by two large sphinxes. A carved sun, like the emblem of the Sun Fire-Office, decorates his chair; on the right is a broad post or terminal pillar supporting a man's head, also with ass's ears. This rests on a volume inscribed 'Commons', and on its face in large letters are the words 'Ex Nihilo Nihil Fil'; from its upper edge a signpost arm projects to the right inscribed 'To Coventry', showing that he is Peter Moore. Behind Whitbread (left) and partly screened by a heavy curtain is a table supporting a third model of a theatre, also with a portico. Whitbread, frowning slightly, says: "These Resolutions once carried good bye Friend Sherry Old Claimants and new Subscribers (aside) Hem! I think I have bullied the Committe [sic] properly." His neighbour (? Lord Holland) who smiles, has a round good-humoured face; he says: "La! Mr Chairman I think my Sphynxes look Monstrous Pretty.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punishment of a modern Midas
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Watermark: J. Whatman., and Matted to 37 x 46 xm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Moore, Peter, 1753-1828, and Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Architectural models, Barrels, and Traffic signs & signals
Title from item., Printmaker, place and 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., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d July 1779.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 93. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a large lady riding side-saddle on a nag, followed by a man on horseback accompanied by a dog.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in publication date is etched backward., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Warley ho!, Temporary local subject terms: Military., Mounted on page 93 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.3 x 31.1 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 3d July 1779.
Call Number:
Bunbury 779.07.03.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 93. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a large lady riding side-saddle on a nag, followed by a man on horseback accompanied by a dog.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Number "3" in "3d" in publication date is etched backward., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Warley ho!, Temporary local subject terms: Military., and Mounted on modern secondary support.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Dogs, and Traffic signs & signals
Two men, one a parson on horseback, the other a lawyer walks by his side. They closely resemble each other in profile and appearance except that the latter is thin and angular. The ungainly horse walks slowly (left to right) along a country road, beside which is a milestone: 'Derby II. Leicester 17. London 116'. In the distance is a village church
Alternative Title:
Pair of portraits
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr.11th, 1797, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Lawyers, and Traffic signs & signals
"The doctor, mounted on Grizzle, is beside a four-direction signpost on an open heath with a group of asses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later version of the design
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax losing his way
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Combe, W. The tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque. London: R. Ackermann's Respository of Arts, 1812., "Plate 2"--Upper right corner., For an early version of the design, published in 1809 in Ackermann's The Poetical magazine, see no. 11508 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 176. For a later version of the design, published in 1813, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1866,1114.848., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Doctor Syntax.
Publisher:
Published 1 May 1812, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Teachers, Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Donkeys
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[May 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 85. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge academic riding to the races: a man with a macaroni queue and holding a hooked stick riding along a rode past a signpost pointing towards Newmarket and away from Cambridge; in the distance on the left a church tower rises above trees, on the right King's College Chapel and another tower."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Cambridge: Trinity College Chapel -- Newmarket., Mounted on page 85 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.0 x 24.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[May 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 85. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a Cambridge academic riding to the races: a man with a macaroni queue and holding a hooked stick riding along a rode past a signpost pointing towards Newmarket and away from Cambridge; in the distance on the left a church tower rises above trees, on the right King's College Chapel and another tower."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Cambridge: Trinity College Chapel -- Newmarket., and Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
In a country landscape, a man and a young woman in riding habit ride together (left to right) on a white horse, passing a signpost that reads (left) "To London" and (right) "To Newbury and Well Hall". She sits in front, holding the reins and riding astride. She holds up a purse in her left hand saying, "This will pay you for your Trouble Honey". The man sits behind, his feet in the stirrups, his left hand on the woman's waist; he says, "Promise me that and I will never say another Mass". The man wears ordinary riding-dress; the woman wears a feathered hat over a frilled cap, and a tight coat over a ruffled shirt. Behind them (left) walks a young woman, wearing a cap of lace and ribbons; she holds her apron to her eye, saying, "The Old witch is carrying away my Director". The words issue from the speakers' mouths on long scrolls. In the foreground (left) is a tree; the background is an undulating landscape with a square church tower and the roofs of a village among trees
Alternative Title:
Father D,----------, leaving his Catholic vows for the joys of the flesh and Father D leaving his Catholic vows for the joys of the flesh
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Attributed to Nixon in the British Museum catalogue., and Place of publication from location of publisher, assumed to be Thomas Cornell of Bruton Street. See I. Maxted's British book trades, 1710-1777.
