"Lady Mount-Edgcumbe as a lean and ragged witch sits in profile to the right on a rocky mound overlooking the sea, her seat being a bundle of brooms. She supports her chin and nose on her right hand, the elbow resting on her knee. Her left arm is outstretched, pointing, her finger-nails are talons. Her hair blows out behind her from a bald forehead, and is on fire, the smoke rising into the sky. A frog at her feet (right) looks up at her. Behind is the sea with ships in full sail, indicating the view from Mount-Edgcumbe, Plymouth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Witches -- Brooms -- Frogs -- Ships -- Eclipses -- Views: Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth -- Travesty of Henry Fuseli., and Mounted to 30 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 17th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 and Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807
A depiction, in three rows, of some 20 fanciful designs for spritely demons, ranging from the buxom to the bizarre, probably meant to mock the contemporary early-Romantic interest in 'fairy painting' by such artists as Henry Fuseli (1774-1825) and William Blake (1757-1827), especially their well-known interpretations of Shakespeares A Midsummer Night's Dream and Fuseli's highly sexualized depictions of nightmares
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Formerly mounted on blue sheet, with residue remaining.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 and Blake, William, 1757-1827
"A burlesque of Fuseli's well-known picture illustrating 'Macbeth', i. 3. The three witches are Dundas, Pitt, and Thurlow, in profile to the right instead of to the left. Fuseli's drapery is replaced by clouds, and the three gaze with reflective and apprehensive intensity at the moon (right): the Queen's smiling profile in a brightly lit crescent faces them, enclosing the old moon, the darkened head of the King (eclipsed), with closed eyes in profile to the right. Each witch presses the fingers of his left hand (drawn with much expressiveness) to his lips (- 'each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips'); the outstretched left arm of Fuseli's picture is absent: they appear to be seeking knowledge of the future from the moon, not foretelling it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wierd sisters, ministers of darkness, minions of the moon and Weird sisters, ministers of darkness, minions of the moon
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Dedication etched above image: To H. Fuzelli Esqr. this attempt in the caricatura-sublime, is respectfully dedicated., One line quotation below title: "They should be women! and yet their beards forbid us to interpret, that they are so.", and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Adaptations, parodies, etc, Regency, Politics and government, Eclipses, Moon, Politicians, Sun, and Witches
"A burlesque of Fuseli's well-known picture illustrating 'Macbeth', i. 3. The three witches are Dundas, Pitt, and Thurlow, in profile to the right instead of to the left. Fuseli's drapery is replaced by clouds, and the three gaze with reflective and apprehensive intensity at the moon (right): the Queen's smiling profile in a brightly lit crescent faces them, enclosing the old moon, the darkened head of the King (eclipsed), with closed eyes in profile to the right. Each witch presses the fingers of his left hand (drawn with much expressiveness) to his lips (- 'each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips'); the outstretched left arm of Fuseli's picture is absent: they appear to be seeking knowledge of the future from the moon, not foretelling it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wierd sisters, ministers of darkness, minions of the moon and Weird sisters, ministers of darkness, minions of the moon
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Dedication etched above image: To H. Fuzelli Esqr. this attempt in the caricatura-sublime, is respectfully dedicated., and One line quotation below title: "They should be women! and yet their beards forbid us to interpret, that they are so."
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Adaptations, parodies, etc, Regency, Politics and government, Eclipses, Moon, Politicians, Sun, and Witches
"A burlesque of Fuseli's well-known picture illustrating 'Macbeth', i. 3. The three witches are Dundas, Pitt, and Thurlow, in profile to the right instead of to the left. Fuseli's drapery is replaced by clouds, and the three gaze with reflective and apprehensive intensity at the moon (right): the Queen's smiling profile in a brightly lit crescent faces them, enclosing the old moon, the darkened head of the King (eclipsed), with closed eyes in profile to the right. Each witch presses the fingers of his left hand (drawn with much expressiveness) to his lips (- 'each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips'); the outstretched left arm of Fuseli's picture is absent: they appear to be seeking knowledge of the future from the moon, not foretelling it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wierd sisters, ministers of darkness, minions of the moon and Weird sisters, ministers of darkness, minions of the moon
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued., Dedication etched above image: To H. Fuzelli Esqr. this attempt in the caricatura-sublime, is respectfully dedicated., One line quotation below title: "They should be women! and yet their beards forbid us to interpret, that they are so.", Plate numbered "68" in upper right corner., Plate from: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn by C. Whiting, [1849?]., For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 7937 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Printed on verso, left half only, an uncolored impression of James Gillray's: The Pacific entrance of Earl-Wolf into Blackhaven.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street [i.e. H.G. Bohn]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Adaptations, parodies, etc, Regency, Politics and government, Eclipses, Moon, Politicians, Sun, and Witches
