Leaf 69. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A close up view of the lower part of the Achilles, exaggerated to a colossal size ... Women stand below holding garments with which they purpose to drape the statue. One holds a large print of the Achilles at which she stares ecstatically. One lady, wearing a cap in the form of a baron's coronet, has climbed on to the plinth; she addresses the women below, holding out a large chemise and pointing up at the colossal legs behind her."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by the printmaker in lower right corner of image., Restrike, with altered title and with top portion of design burnished from plate. For an earlier state bearing the title "Ladies buy your leaf!!" and with the design intact, see no. 14380 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. July 1822; see British Museum catalogue., "Irish Chairman"--Below title, in lower right., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1097., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1086., Temporary local subject terms: Prudery., and On leaf 69 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Title printed within image., Date and place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by Currier & Ives; 152 Nassau St. New York and Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1850, by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York
"Seurat, see British Museum Satires No. 14882, &c, stands full-face before a curtained archway, displaying himself to ladies (left and right) who crowd to see him. Both arms are raised from the extended elbows, and in his left hand is a wig of short hair that he has just taken off. He says: I am de Anatomie Vivante dat is come to Londres to please all de pretty Lady, and give dem all de much satisfaction. The notorieties are on the left, Mrs. Coutts, the only seated visitor, is the most prominent; she stares up at him through an opera-glass: Poor creature, he seems very little calculated in my opinion to please the ladies, tho' really he is as stout as the Old Banker was. She holds a pamphlet: Claude Seurat or The Living Skeleton. From her arm hangs a reticule ornamented with a flaming heart. Behind her chair (left) is Maria Foote, her arm round Mercandotti's waist. She says: What a very extraordinary Foot; the other answers: And a head as round as a Ball [see British Museum Satires No. 14549]. There are two others (? actresses) on this side. One stoops to finger Seurat's little petticoat, saying, I wonder what this is a yard? The other: I wonder how long he can stand in that position. On the other side, the two most prominent visitors wear wide-brimmed straw hats (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15183); with them is a little girl who wears drawers to the ankle. A hideous woman exclaims What a fright. Another says: I declare he is a greater curiosity than Senior Velluti; a third: My goodness Death upon wires. There are other comments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker Robert Cruikshank's "R.C." initials are etched on the dog's collar in image., Text below image: A number of ladies have gone daily to view the French Living Skeleton in Pall-Mall since the commencement of the exhibition of this extraordinary being. Morning Chronicle, Augt. 13th., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anomalies -- Thinness.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1825 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841,
Subject (Topic):
Freak Show, Thin people, Leanness, Human curiosities, Physical conditions, Spectators, Women, and Dogs
One of two young women walking in the park holds a letter in her right hand, her left hand on her check. The other woman looks at her with a sympathetic gaze. In the background on the left is a house, on the right a bench
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Number '186' lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 10, 1787 by R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Parks, Benches, Women, and Young adults
"A stout, ugly, and elderly woman holds in her left hand a barber's block, with a carved head in profile, on which is an elaborate pyramidal wig with ringlets. This she is covering with powder or flour from a dredger. Her hair is short and scanty; on her head is a very large black patch, two smaller ones are on her temple. She is dressed in undergarments, showing stays, and frilled petticoat over which is worn a pocket. Her dress, the bodice of which is almost cylindrical from its stiffening whalebone, is on a stool behind her. Her back is turned to the casement window (right) through which look two grinning old women, wearing frilled muslin caps. Over the window, and over the wall on its left, is a heavily festooned curtain. Sacarissa stands facing a low rectangular table (left), on which are a bottle and wine-glass, a candle (?) in a triangular shade, which is falling over, having apparently been knocked by the wig, patches, a comb, a paper, &c. Behind on the wall, in deep shadow, is a picture of a dome inscribed "The Pantheon"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Attributed to Philip Dawe in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and One line of quoted text beneath title: "She blooms in the winter of her days, like the Glastonbury thorn".
"George IV sits on the throne, surrounded by kneeling women; he takes the hand of Lady Conyngham, who proffers their address: "Loyal Address of the Married Ladies." She says: "We the humble and Loyal Married Ladies feel ourselves bound in due veneration to your most sacred person to present to you our sincere thanks for the many tokens of Love we the Loyal Married Ladies have laid under and we humbly acknowledge the favours our Husbands as [sic] experienced through the medium of us the Loyal Married Ladies!!!--" Behind her, a second lady, resembling Lady Hertford, looks startled. With them is a third, perhaps Mrs. Quentin. Behind the throne, which he clasps, stands Hertford (or Conyngham, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847) holding a staff topped by antlers; he gapes at the speaker, saying, "I never heard a speech from a Lady so Cunning--." The King adds "Hum!" On his right stands Bloomfield, looking slyly sideways at his master. Both wear frilled muslin boudoir-caps. There is no dais, and on the right two grovelling women kiss, one the King's left foot, the other his thigh. A third kneels beside them. On the left is a black woman, who says: "God bless Massa he kiss his black servant in the kitchen at Brighton [see British Museum Satires No. 13208, &c.], my good Massa, make no distinction, Black or White, Massa Love'm all." On the extreme left is the profile of a noseless prostitute. On the King's throne is half a (bisected) crown, emblem of the repudiation of Queen Caroline, see British Museum Satires No. 13826."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Loyal married ladies address to the King
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted text following title: "Which both by Art and Nature made is, "The sport of sense, the toy of ladies. Royal Fable., Watermark, mostly trimmed: 1819[?]., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 82 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Typed extract of thirteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Quentin, Georgina, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, and Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Thrones, Women, Kneeling, Kissing, Antlers, Prostitutes, and Crowns
A young woman sits on the bank of a small river, under a tree with a book in her hands and gazes into the distance. Sun rays break through the clouds above a small house in the distance on the left
Description:
Title from item. and Number '176' in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Print, Map and Chartseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Verse - "You women in city and country I pray". - In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., In four columns with the title above the first two and imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Title ends with a comma., Mounted on leaf 50. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Husband and wife, Pregnancy, Adultery, Domestics, Men, Sexual behovior, Women, Sexual behavior, Sex, Farmers, Astrology, and Physicians
A young man (left) holds his right hand between his face and the flame of a candle in the candlestick in holds in his left hand. He is also shielding his view of the older woman who gazes down at him admiringly. She holds a rose in her right hand that rests on her left arrm
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 2d 1793 by M. Benedetti, No. 92 Norton Street, Marybone
Signatures: A²., Referring to the Sacheverell trial., Drop-head title., Imprint from colophon., Price from colophon: Price 2d., and Disbound; remnants of binding to gutter. For further information, consult library staff.
