A young tightrope walker balances herself as she walks across the wire high above a crowd a fashionable dressed crowd of men, women, and children in a large field surrounded by trees. A fireworks display brightens the sky as the sun sets behind the trees
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published May 18, 1822, by Thos. Kelly, 27 Paternoster Row
"A broadside on Duncan Macdonald, a Scottish acrobat; with an etching after a drawing by Louis Philippe Boitard showing Macdonald balancing on a wire, at his feet jack-boots, balancing on his right foot a wheel, a dish, a tray with 15 glasses, and a glass sphere, with his left index finger holding up a chair and a dog, balancing with his nose a sword, a pipe and two eggs, with his right hand playing a French horn and a trumpet, underneath the wire sword blades pointing upwards; with engraved title and inscription, and with letterpress text in two columns, and with a vertical segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., With two columns of letterpress below plate mark., and "Price 6d."
"Fox, as a quack doctor, addresses a mob from the front of a platform which rests upon five beer-barrels inscribed 'Whitbreads entire' (cf. BMSat 8638). Four other mountebanks are performing. Fox wears the full wig and old-fashioned laced coat and waistcoat of a doctor; he points to a young man (Bedford) behind him (left) who stands on his head, coins pouring from his pocket into a box. A Pierrot (Grey) stands behind the platform holding a trumpet and saying: "Turn me Grey Gemmen if I dont read you the particulars of his curing 30,000 Patients in one day; when Brother cit. has done tumbling". On a slack-rope stretching across the left part of the platform is little Lord Lauderdale, holding a balancing pole. He and Bedford are dressed as acrobats. On the right is the doctor's zany, Sheridan, wearing a fool's cap and a tunic and trousers dotted with representations of the Devil. He scatters, and kicks towards the spectators below him, a shower of paper scrolls inscribed: 'An Infaliable cure for a bad constitution'; 'Aether for Arguments'; 'Caustics for Crimps' [cf. BMSat 8484]; 'Mercury for Ministers'; 'Preparations against Prosecution'; 'Powder [cf. BMSat 8629] for Placemen' [twice]; 'Pain for the Poor' [cf. BMSat 8146]; 'A Rope for Reeves' [cf. BMSat 8699]; 'Gibets for Justices' [cf. BMSat 8686]; 'Aqua Regis for Royalists'. The crowd (right), who are three-quarter length, eagerly hold out their hands to catch the papers. Next the platform is a well-dressed man resembling Grafton. The man on the extreme right is a butcher wearing a bonnet-rouge. Fox says: "Dis is de first Tumbler in de Vorld Gemmen, dat is Citoyen de Bedforado, who vas stand so long upon his head dat all de money vas Tumble out of his pockets; de Next is Citoyen Van Lathertalo, who's trick upon de slack rope are delightfull it is expected he vil von Day dance on de Tight Rope ha ha!!" The men and women composing the crowd on the left all raise a hand in affirmation; all are shouting. A man dressed as a militiaman, standing prominently beside the platform, raises a hand from which two fingers are missing; he shouts "All. All." Perhaps Edward Hall, 'Liberty Hall'."--British Museum online catalogues
Alternative Title:
Palace yard pranks
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified by British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks' zanies -- Acrobats -- Pierrot -- Rope-walking -- Musical instruments: trumpet -- Reference to the meeting in Palace Yard, November 16, 1795 -- Bills: reference to Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices bills -- Fool's cap - Money: coins -- Allusion to Samuel Whitbread, 1764-1815., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P 1794 below., and Mounted on top and bottom to 32 cm.
Publisher:
Published No. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Medicine shows, Quacks & quackery, Politicians, Acrobats, Aerialists, Clowns, Money, Barrels, and Spectators
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's Pasquin at the Haymarket Theatre in April 1736
Description:
Title from caption at top of image. and State with Ireland's name spelled out.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's Pasquin at the Haymarket Theatre in April 1736
Description:
Title from caption at top of image. and Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth, v. 3, page 134.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, Theatrical productions, Tickets, and Ephemera
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's Pasquin at the Haymarket Theatre in April 1736
Description:
Title from caption at top of image., State with printmaker's name initials only., Copy of no. 2271 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, page 130.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's Pasquin at the Haymarket Theatre in April 1736
Description:
Title from caption at top of image., State with printmaker's name initials only., Copy of no. 2271 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. 1, page 130., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £5-5-0; on top of print: 3., and On page 233 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 13 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
