"Scene in an irregularly shaped cul-de-sac, placarded Gin Court and surrounded by gin-shops, with bow-fronted windows filled with bottles, &c. One fish-wife has just struck down another; each has a second, that of the victor a man (left), the other a woman with a tobacco-pipe in her hat. The windows have inscriptions, one being 'Full proof Gin & rich Cordials-Dealer in Tobaco'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle of Agincourt
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on known dates that G.E. Madeley operated at the 3 Wellington Street address., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated on bottom edge with possible partial loss of imprint.
Publisher:
[...] T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Alcoholic beverages, Commercial streets, and Fighting
"The King, dressed as a mandarin, falls back fainting on a settee, attended by three stout ladies and General Bloomfield, all in Chinese dress. Behind is a slanting cloud of smoke, inscribed: 'The Bill is lost through your favorite Clause.' He murmurs: "Curse the Bishops, Oh I faint, I faint, I shall never survive this." Bloomfield, identified by a paper in his pocket: 'The Farmers Boy' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13237], bends towards him, saying, "aye that Cursed Adultery Clause has done the Business--"; he proffers a glass of 'Coniac'. A lady supports each arm, holding a bottle of 'Eau de Col[ogne]' to his nose; one, in back view, is (?) Lady Hertford; the other, Lady Conyngham, says: "Rouse my Love, & we will go, where the Rocks of Coral grow,! let us quit this Religious Country & go to Hanover." The third (? Mrs. Quentin) throws up her arms in despair. A huge Chinese jar (left) is decorated with a dragon; carved dragons or monsters support the sofa, and a table (right) on which is a decanter of 'Curacoa'."--British Museum online catalogue and A Chinese man falls back fainting onto a settee, attended by three ladies and a man all in Chinese dress; representing the King's anguish at the bill (which condemned the Queen's adultery and reduced her rights) being thrown out
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no: 1935,0522.12.138., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1819., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 21 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet. Typed extract of twenty-four lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 15, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Grande-Bretagne
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Quentin, Georgina, and Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Fashion, House furnishings, National characteristics, Chinese, Chinois, Ameublement, Ethnic stereotypes, Mistresses, Sofas, Loss of consciousness, and Alcoholic beverages
Title from item., Letterpress text, printed in two columns, beginning: It was a cold December night, and the beating of the rain and sleet against the window alone ..., With a wood engraved illustration on first page showing George IV with pointed ears, holding up a glass in his left hand and a bottle of alcohol in his right, looking defiant as a man holding a staff seems to plead with him. A weeping Queen Caroline can be seen in the background on a pier, a small boat in front of her and a ship further out in the harbor. Above the image is printed "Oh, what pleasure will abound when my wife is laid in ground. - Midas." Beneath are three additional lines of quoted text: "In the divorce, his contrary proceedings are all unfounded, wherein he appears as I would wish mine enemy.", Publisher's advertisement at foot of second page: Just published, the following dreams: (by the same author.) 1. The profligate son. -- 2. The conspirators. -- 3. The degraded King. With appropriate cuts., "Price 3d. coloured, - 2d. plain.", Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 13 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in ink beneath illustration.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate-Street, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title from item., Printseller's statement in lower right: Folios of caricatures lent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Wines: port., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drugs -- Prescriptions -- Alcohol -- Physicians caricatured., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; image and text 231 x 236 mm.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Sackvile [sic] St., Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Obesity, Alcoholic beverages, and Surgical instruments
Title from item., Printseller's statement in lower right: Folios of caricatures lent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Wines: port., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drugs -- Prescriptions -- Alcohol -- Physicians caricatured., and Watermark: Cansell 1822.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Sackvile [sic] St., Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Obesity, Alcoholic beverages, and Surgical instruments
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare, and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 36.7 cm.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
Caption title., Authorship attribution and date of publication from Cohn and Reid., Originally published in the March, April, and May 1868 issues of the Band of hope review. For the serial and octavo editions, see: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 48, 468., Twelve woodcut illustrations, arranged in three rows of four, with verses in letterpress below. Numbered list of 27 "Illustrated penny readings" with prices is printed beneath woodcuts. With decorative border., "Reprinted from the Band of hope review. An illustrated paper for The young. Published monthly. Price one halfpenny"--Beneath title., "Price one penny"--Lower left., "This is printed in a book form, 16 pp., price one penny"--Lower right., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row, London
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Alcoholism, Public health, Alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
Caption title., Authorship attribution and date of publication from Cohn and Reid., Originally published in the March, April, and May 1868 issues of the Band of hope review. For the serial and octavo editions, see: Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 48, 468., Twelve woodcut illustrations, arranged in three rows of four, with verses in letterpress below., "Reprinted from the Band of hope review. An illustrated paper for The young. Published monthly. Price one halfpenny"--Beneath title., "Price one penny"--Lower left, following series statement., and This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
S.W. Partridge & Co., "British Workman" Office, 9, Paternoster Row, London and Geo. Watson & Co., printers, 28, Charles Street, Farringdon Road
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Alcoholism, Public health, Alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The gentleman's museum and grand imperial magazine. London : Printed for the author ..., 1770-1772., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wakes: Irish wake -- Naval uniforms -- Furniture: bed with canopy -- Drinking., and Mounted to 15 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Wake services, Military uniforms, Sailors, Canopy beds, Chamber pots, and Alcoholic beverages
