"The daughter of Count Platoff stands full face, erect, dashing, and alluring, on a snowy mound. Her right hand supports a spear from which floats a banner inscribed: 'I General Count Platoff. promise to give my Daughter in Marriage and 2000 Rubles - to any Cossack, Russian, Prusian, German, Sweede, Turk, John Bull, Sauny Bull Paddy Bull or any other Bull, who shall bring Me the Head of Little Bony dead or a live.' She wears fur-trimmed cap with a long hussar-bag, long high-waisted fur-bordered pelisse, with a cape, fur-trimmed boots, and large ear-rings. The words 'Hih "ho" for a Husband' issue from closed and smiling lips. With her left hand she points behind her to the right and to the little figure of Napoleon on skates, wearing a large plumed bicorne, and brandishing his sabre; he deserts his snow-bound army, saying, "O" ho" bygare I had best be Off." He strides past the heads of soldiers emerging from snow, together with bayonets, and a French flag; behind him the French army marches in close ranks, with one eagle and one flag. On the left is another column of tiny soldiers indicated by heads, bayonets, an eagle, and flags. In the clouds, airborne as in No. 11992 (British Museum catalogue), are two bands of galloping Cossacks, one (right) seems about to swoop down on Napoleon. Heavy clouds frame slanting rays which make a background for Platoff's daughter. At her feet are two money--bags both inscribed '1,000 Rubles', which disgorge coins. Behind them a kneeling Cupid aims his bow towards the 'cloud of Cossacks' on the left."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tit-bit for a Cossack and Platoff prize, for the head of Buonaparte
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate of publication etched following date., Plate numbered in upper right corner: 184., and A satire on Napoleon in Russia.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Russia.
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Platov, Matveĭ Ivanovich, graf, 1751-1818.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Campaigns of 1813-1814, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Cupid, Armies, British, Russian, and Women
"A fat, ugly woman, seated full face on a commode, in the form of a chair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., and Possibly a reissue of a plate published by Samuel Howitt in 1801. See British Museum online catalogue.
"Caricature with George IV as an auctioneer selling his royal crown with cuckold's horns to a group of ladies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.18., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns with cuckhold's horns -- Royal arms -- Furniture -- Auctioneer -- Costume: male, female, 1820 -- Coronets -- Cuckold's horns., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Crowns, Horns (Anatomy), Coats of arms, Auctions, Auctioneers, Women, and Sofas
"A handsome young man sells pot-plants to a pretty young woman who stands on a door-step (left); a little girl beside her points eagerly to the flowers. He has a two-wheeled cart drawn by an ass; in it are small shrubs in large pots; two pots of flowering plants are on the ground. The background is formed by part of a palatial house having a portico raised on an arcade."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below series title and number., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 38.1 x 29.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, City & town life, Girls, Plants, Row houses, Street vendors, and Women
"A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both hands to an enormous mouth. He is morosely savage, she is melancholy; both are gap-toothed. On the ground (right) by the man's chair are collected a ham or gigot, a large irregular (?) galantine, a raised pie: 'pâté de périgueux', a huge jar of 'vin de lafitte' round which four bottles are grouped: 'frontignac', 'Clos de Vouge[ot]', and '. . . seac'. Beside the woman are a basket and tray filled with grapes, peaches, and pears. Through a wide doorway (left) the street is seen with a seated fruit-seller who serves three grotesquely hideous Englishwomen. Two are lank and emaciated, one tries to stuff a big peach into an immense mouth, holding an armful of grapes and peaches; the other gnaws at a bunch of grapes held in both hands. The third, also with bulging cheeks, bites a peach. The fruit-seller's tray is empty; she holds out her last peach. All the women wear small absurd hats or caps, tight long-waisted bodices (coloured) with long white skirts (cf. No. 12359)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print attributed to Alphonse Roehn in the British Museum catalogue., Date and series name from British Museum online catalogue., and "Déposé à la Don Gle de l'Imprimerie."
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, and Women
A single head in oval, shown full-face that when viewed one way depicts an old woman, and when viewed upside down, is the head a judge, with the woman's cap forming the judge's wig. The closed eyelids of one form the eyebrows of the other
Alternative Title:
Judge
Description:
Title below each image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub'd March 30, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
A middle-aged woman in a cap, and wearing earrings, a bracelet and necklace, raises her fist in anger at a young servant girl. The girl also in a cap, looks back over her shoulder at her mistress in surprise and fear
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered 'No. 18' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Two lines of text below image: This unruly passion shews itself in a forcible degree in a termagant mistress scolding her maid servant., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and State without plate number.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Title from item., Published: George Smeeton, Biographia Curiosa, or Memoirs of Remarkable Characters of the Reign of George the Third, London, J. Robins and Co., 1822., 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: Anecdotes.
In a grove, a fashionably dressed young woman stands alone pointing at the watch in her hand, a look of happy anticipcation on her face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Reissue by Fores, with original imprint partially burnished from plate., Four lines of verse below title: To the soft summons of her love, Eliza raptrous bends her way; While stillness lulls the neighbr'ing grove, And Cynthia glimmers thro' the spray., Companion print: Disappointment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Happiness, Fences, Women, and Clothing & dress