"An elderly Indian princess, seated on a stool in profile to the left, her hands deprecatingly extended, receives the obeisance of Burke, Fox, and Sheridan. She says, "dear Gentlemen this is too much now you really distress me exceedingly" ... Burke kneels at her feet, head bent down, supporting himself on his left hand; his right hand is on his breast; he frowns, his spectacles are on his forehead. He is between Sheridan and Fox. Fox stands full-face, holding his hat to his breast; his bow is less low. On the right seven bag-wigs are in positions corresponding to those that they would take if on the heads of persons making low bows to the Begum. Below them are three swords whose hilts are decorated with large ribbon bows or favours, also as if worn by invisible persons doing homage to the Begum. Sheridan wears a similar sword. Both wigs and swords are inscribed 'et cætera.' Under the Begum's seat appear the head and arms of Francis as if emerging from the ground; he fixes Burke and the others with a conspiratorial stare, his finger across his lips, saying, "I am at the Bottom of it." Behind and above the Begum's head is a picture of a row of conical mountains ; a mouse issues from a hole in the nearest mountain. The frame is inscribed 'Parturiunt Montes nascetur ridiculus mus'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., "Bow wow wow, fal lal &c. &ca."--Etched below the title., Imperfect; the word "exceedingly" in the Begum's quote has been mostly erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Begum of Oude -- Literary quotations: Horace's Ars poetica -- Pictures that amplify subject., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 22.8 x 28.8 cm, on sheet 24.3 x 30 cm., Mounted on leaf 45 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and Imperfect; the word "exceedingly" in the Begum's quote has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Publd. 1st May 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Politicians, Bowing, Wigs, and Daggers & swords
"An elderly Indian princess, seated on a stool in profile to the left, her hands deprecatingly extended, receives the obeisance of Burke, Fox, and Sheridan. She says, "dear Gentlemen this is too much now you really distress me exceedingly" ... Burke kneels at her feet, head bent down, supporting himself on his left hand; his right hand is on his breast; he frowns, his spectacles are on his forehead. He is between Sheridan and Fox. Fox stands full-face, holding his hat to his breast; his bow is less low. On the right seven bag-wigs are in positions corresponding to those that they would take if on the heads of persons making low bows to the Begum. Below them are three swords whose hilts are decorated with large ribbon bows or favours, also as if worn by invisible persons doing homage to the Begum. Sheridan wears a similar sword. Both wigs and swords are inscribed 'et cætera.' Under the Begum's seat appear the head and arms of Francis as if emerging from the ground; he fixes Burke and the others with a conspiratorial stare, his finger across his lips, saying, "I am at the Bottom of it." Behind and above the Begum's head is a picture of a row of conical mountains ; a mouse issues from a hole in the nearest mountain. The frame is inscribed 'Parturiunt Montes nascetur ridiculus mus'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., "Bow wow wow, fal lal &c. &ca."--Etched below the title., Imperfect; the word "exceedingly" in the Begum's quote has been mostly erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Begum of Oude -- Literary quotations: Horace's Ars poetica -- Pictures that amplify subject., and Inscribed in ink below plate mark: Francis, The Begum, Burke, Fox, Sheridan, all the other managers of Hasting's impeachment.
Publisher:
Publd. 1st May 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Politicians, Bowing, Wigs, and Daggers & swords
Two renowned quacks demonstrate the superiority of each other's experiments and inventions. On the left, Graham, a quack, fashionable doctor and visionary, stands on the glass insulators used in his experiments with electricity and placed on top of a podium in the form of an E.O.(gaming) table, a reference to the illegal gambling he patronized at his residence. He stradles a long tube signed, "Prime conductor / Gentle restorer / Largest in the world." Behind his table stand two gigantic porters employed at his establishment, named here "Gog" and "Magog." The placard around Gog's neck, "The Temple of Health & of Hymen," is an allusion to Graham's 'celestial bed' for cure of sterility. His opponent on the right side of the image, quack, conjurer and showman Katerfelto, crouches next to a cylindrical conductor signed, "Positively Charg'd." The trident inserted in the back end of the conductor touches a grindstone turned by the devil. Electric sparks shoot from its front end and from Katerfelto's right thumb and index finger. Some sparks drip on a toy cannon in front of him firing at Graham. His podium is made of flimsy planks placed atop the container signed, "Reservoir for Dead Insects destroyd by Dr. Katterf[elto]."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 17th 1783 by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794. and Katerfelto, Gustavus, fl. 1782-1783.
Subject (Topic):
Electricity, Experiments, Gog and Magog, Quacks, Devil, Medicines, Gambling, and Wigs
Leaf 73. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two men, whole length, walk to the right. in profile. One (right) is tall and slim, dressed in the extreme of fashion, with laced hat, lace-trimmed cravat, and shirt frills. He wears a sword and looks through a lorgnette held in his left hand. In the right is a tasselled cane. His looped club of hair is so enormous that it is supported on the head and shoulders of the short stout man (apparently a porter), who walks behind him, holding his coat-tails and grinning."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male costume: Laced macaroni hats., and Third of three plates on leaf 73.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly accor. to act, May 17th, 1772, (39) Strand
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from street address., One line of text below title, in lower left: Macaroni & other soups hot every day., Temporary local subject terms: Taverns: Salutation Tavern Macaronies -- Bag wig -- Queue wig., Mounted on page 89 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.1 x 31.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
773.03.20.03+
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher identified from street address., One line of text below title, in lower left: Macaroni & other soups hot every day., Temporary local subject terms: Taverns: Salutation Tavern Macaronies -- Bag wig -- Queue wig., Matted to 49 x 61 cm., Manuscript note in contemporary hand below plate mark: Mr. Blunt, Mr. Sharp were never engrav'd., W.S. Lewis's note on verso of print: Salutation Tavern, Margate St., London Past & Present, iii, 207., and Formerly shelved with the Bunbury Collection.
Leaf 78. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire showing an elegant young man walking to right with a cane over his right shoulder
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "19" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 4698 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and First of three plates on leaf 78.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, and Staffs (Sticks)
Bretherton, Charles, approximately 1760-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:
date.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 83. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: the interior of a barber who has covered his client with soap; prints and wigs are hanging on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Second state, with shading added to the floor and to other parts of the image. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 83 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, April 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Barbershops, Barbers, Shaving, Wigs, and Pictures
Leaf 72. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man standing in profile and shown full-length walking to the right as he looks at himself in a hand-mirror. He wears a very tall wig, the queue tied in back with a very large bow, and a ruffled shirt. In his left hand he holds a tasselled cane
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by unidentified printmaker "J.H.", Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., "Who calls me a macaroni"--Text above image., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5005 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupee wigs -- Tasselled canes -- Lockets., and First of three plates on leaf 72.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, April 2nd, 1772, accor. to act, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, Mirrors, and Staffs (Sticks)
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[4 June 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 76. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A portly man (Stephen Fox, 2nd Lord Holland) sleeps in an arm-chair, whole length and facing right. He holds a book in his right hand
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Bag wigs -- Furniture: Upholstered armchairs -- Horace Walpole's reference to the subject of the print: Yale Walpole v. 32, page 255., and Second of three plates on leaf 76.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act June 4th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
