"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title (partially damaged) of the design: '[getting up] early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, ta[ble, shovel, tongues,] poker and fender huddled into the middle of the room. Carpet tossed backward. - floor newly washed, windows wide open. - bee[s wax brush and ru]bber in one corner - brooms, mops and pails in another - and a dingy Drab on her knees before an empty grate -'. A man arrested at the door of a room disarrayed by cleaning, wearing a dressing gown and with a gouty slippered foot, his hands held out warily in front of him, his teeth clenched together and his nose dripping; at left, kneeling in front of the grate, a stout and grotesque maid scrubbing the floor; a bust portrait of a man above the mantelpiece, looking disapprovingly down on the maid; cat and caged bird at far right."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
"Price one shilling cold."--Following imprint., Date of publication from Grego., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "257" in upper right corner., Reissue, with altered plate number and with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate, of a print published 9 October 1807 by Thomas Tegg. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.10.09.01., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"An ugly coxcomb leeringly hands a fan to one of two ladies walking off to the right. Behind (left), the heads of three stooping men collide. On the extreme left is the Prince of Wales, opera-hat under his arm, facing a woman, immodestly décolletée, who ogles him. Two other men and two women stand near them. The scene is the foyer of a theatre."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Miseries of high life
Description:
"Price one shilling could."--Lower left corner of design., Also issued separately., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, March 1st, 1808, Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 808.03.01.01.1+., Later state; place and date of publication have been burnished from beginning of imprint statement., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "222" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Coxcombs -- Male costume, 1808 -- Female costume, 1808., Title etched below image., and Two lines of text below title: Briskly stooping to pick up a ladys fan at the same moment, when two other gentlemen are doing the same and so making a cannon with your head against both of theirs, and this without being the happy man after all. Miseries of Human Life.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
"A collection of antiques, real or faked, Egyptian and classical. A buxom young woman opens a hinged mummy-case (left) to embrace a handsome young officer in regimentals who stands within it. An aged man crouching down (right) glares at them through an eye-glass in frenzied malevolence. Another mummy has a realistic head, and there is a life-like statue of an Egyptian wearing a head-dress and loin-cloth. There are also a satyr and smaller figures of Egyptian gods. On the wall are grotesque satyrs' masks and on a high shelf are Greek or Etruscan vases. On the ground is a book: 'Loves of the Gods Embelld with Cuts'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also issued separately., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Temporary local subject terms: Antiques -- Military officer -- Military uniforms: Regimentals -- Eye-glass -- Egyptian mummies -- Satyrs -- Vases: Greek, Etruscan., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
"Two wooden shutters, the upper parts of two adjacent doors, hinged on one post between two cottages, are opened inwards, to allow a handsome young couple to lean out and kiss. Behind the young woman (left) stands a bald and aged man, raising an admonishing forefinger. Behind the man an elderly virago screams with a threatening gesture. On a hook on the central post is a cage with two billing birds, which the young man is holding up. A cat clambers up towards the girl; a dog (right) dashes in fury towards a cock which is pecking a hen."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "235" in upper right corner., Probably a reissue; final digit of "1815" in printmaker's signature appears to have been altered, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate. See British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A mounted hussar receives in his arms a pretty young woman who is climbing down from a high wall. She puts her face to his, and rests her hand on his shoulders while he supports her ample posterior. The horse, directed to the right, is almost knee-deep in water. A corner of a house among trees appears over the wall (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Description:
Also issued separately., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Plate numbered "231" in upper right corner., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 9, 1813, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 12149 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Hussar., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"John Bull (right), an obese 'cit', is addressed by a group of citizens, less obese, but much caricatured. Their spokesman says: "You must know, Mr Bull, we are a Society of Odd Fellows who had a lodge in Downing Street, and were robb'd of our Cash and accounts, notwithstanding we met at the Kings Head and so near the Treasury too! - is not it very hard - however we have left Downing Street intirely!" John, his hands under his coat-tails, answers: "All I have to say my good Friends is this - I am very sorry for you but I must own I am of opinion if some more Odd Fellows in Downing Street were to quit theire situations it would be very much to my advantage!" They stand in 'Bird Cage Walk', the name being on a piece of paper on the ground. Behind are railings in front of trees behind which are the towers of Westminster Abbey. On the right 'Downing Street' is indicated, abutting on the 'Treasury', on the extreme right, with a sentry before the building."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Odd Fellows from Downing Street complaining to John Bull
Description:
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 88., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Plate numbered "168" in upper right corner., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. June 4, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 10988 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
"A clumsy lumbering diligence, with four horses, leaves the porte-cochère of an inn, part of whose ornate façade is on the left. The sign, 'Le Qoque [sic] en Pate', hangs from a wrought-iron bracket. Two postilions ride the near horses, flourishing their whips. The coach is full inside and out with typical French characters, humorously drawn, soldiers, monks, and women, with couples absorbed in conversation. An old couple beg from the passengers. A lean sow with small pigs scampers beside the coach. In the background (left) is the west end of a small church with a Calvary beside it at which nuns kneel in prayer; a group of monks approaches holding a cross. Down the hill leading from inn and church a post-chaise and pair and a post-boy on a horse are galloping, the latter wearing the huge 'milk-churn' boots which astonished visitors to France. A row of very ancient gabled houses forms part of the background, while on the extreme right is a large building of more recent date."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Paris diligence
Description:
Companion print to: A table dhote, or, French ordinary in Paris., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., For an earlier state lacking publication line and bearing the title "The Paris dil-gence," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 810.00.00.01.1+., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "19" in upper right corner., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A coastal fortification: a sentry stands beside a cannon, but in the foreground three soldiers amuse themselves with a buxom laughing woman; one is a drummer-boy, his drum slung from his back. Another soldier sleeps, his head on a drum; cannon-balls lie beside him, and on the left is a mortar and balls. Behind, two men flirt with a woman whose profile is on the extreme left Above them flies the Royal Standard, with the fleur-de-lis quartering abandoned in 1801, and otherwise incorrect. On a distant promontory is a castle."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also issued separately., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Plate numbered "324" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Guns: Cannon -- Military uniforms: Soldier -- Female costume, 1814 -- Military: Drummer-boy -- Musical instruments: Drum -- Weapons: Mortar and balls -- Flags: Royal Standard., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A fat 'cit' and his fat wife sleep in armchairs with a solid round table between them on which are two decanters, glasses, and a punch-bowl. He is by the fire (left); on the hob is a coffee-pot, on the chimney-piece a box of 'Turkey Tobbacco' and a long pipe. A fat spaniel lies on a cushion. Behind her mother and on the extreme right a buxom girl sits at a miniature piano being kissed by a plump young man. Her open music-book is inscribed 'Lucy's Delight Handell Water Piece'. Beside them on the floor an open book, inscribed 'a Duett Prestissimo', lies across a 'Dumb Flute'. Over the chimney-piece is a placard inscribed: 'Eating, Drinking and Sleeping, with the generality of People the three important Articles of Life'. On the wall hangs a large 'Plan of the New Improvement of the Cattle Market in Smithfield', with four divisions inscribed respectively 'Sheep Penns', 'Swine Market', 'Division for Horned Cattle', and 'Cow Penns'. Above the door is a heavily framed view of 'Wapping Docks'. Below the title: 'This honest Man being of greater Consequence in his own Thoughts, than in the Eye of the World, had for some Years past, kept a Journal of his Life--Videlisset [sic] Monday Eight O Clock--I put on my Clothes, Washed Hands and face--Nine O Clock--Tied my knee Strings, put on my double soaled Shoes Took a Walk to Islington. One O Clock took a Luncheon between Two and Three--Return'd, dined on a Knuckle of Veal and Bacon--Three--Nap as usual--Four to Six Walked in the Fields. Wind S.S.E. --from Six to Ten--went to the Club was half an hour before any body else came-- Ten at Night Went to Bed Slept without Waking till Nine next Morning-- Tuesday Wenesday Thursday Friday S. S. little or no Variation--'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Tegg's caricatures ; no. 18
Description:
"Price one shilling colored.", Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 187-8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Publication information based on earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. May 20th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11623 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., and Title etched below image
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
"A close-up view of one of the 'pigeon holes' which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from heat or discomfort, and except for one or two pretty young women are grotesquely caricatured. The centre figure in the front row, leaning on the parapet and apparently asleep, is a fat coachman in livery. An old man leans over, bleeding copiously at the nose. In the spaces left by the curve of the lunette in the upper corners of the design are groups symbolizing Comedy (left) and Tragedy (right): comic mask, pan-pipes, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Alternative Title:
Teggs caricatures ; no. 57
Description:
Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 200-1., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11797 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Temporary local subject terms: Covent Garden gallery., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
