"Satire on the early stages of the Seven Years War with a map of the German states supported by the double-headed Imperial eagle; Louis XV seizes Alsace and Lorraine and Russian bears tear at Hungary and Moravia; on either side stand commentators uncl...
Alternative Title:
Emblematic representation of the duty incumbent on a patriot prince ... and Indulgent care of the Roman Eagle displayed
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, July the 29, 1757 by T. Kitchin at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1708-1765
An elderly man and woman are sitting in armchairs in front of a cottage, each smoking a pipe. The woman holds a glass, the man a pitcher. They are surrounded by farm animals. A beehive, a birdcage and birdhouses are in the background
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Livestock, Birdcages, Birdhouses, Beehives, Chairs, and Windmills
"A satire on marriage; An old man seated with one leg bandaged and raised on chair in front of him, being attended to by a maid; behind him his young wife is locked in an embrace with her younger lover."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Adultery, Women domestics, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Crutches, Clocks & watches, Draperies, Birdcages, Parrots, Chairs, and Bells
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1760]
Call Number:
760.00.00.111+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on prostitution set in a brothel in which all the men have been given the heads of apes and the women those of cats. In the centre of the room a prostitute sits on the knee of an old man who fondles her, her legs splayed; she holds a glass i...
Description:
Title supplied from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Interiors, Prostitutes, Military uniforms, Judges, Watchmen, Canopy beds, Birdcages, Doves, Wine, and Bottles
An etching in outline representing the interior of a room, with a door on the left, a circular table on the right. On the table is a dish on which sits a boar's head; a scroll on the table to the left reads "Reprieve for murder." A crutch is propped ...
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jersey, George Bussey Villiers, Earl of, 1735-1805, Thicknesse, Ann, 1737-1824, and Ford, Thomas, -1768,
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Boars, Courtship, Crutches, Gout, Guitars, Interiors, Lawyers, and Singers
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
Call Number:
769.06.01.01+
Collection Title:
Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1769.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Page 61. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a paneled room hung with mirrors and a clock, the master of the house, in dressing gown and nightcap, puts his hand on the bosom of a maid who serves him biscuits. Next to him a clergyman looks adoringly at the lady of the house on his left. In his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Furniture, Mirrors, Longcase clocks, Women domestics, Clergy, Books, Servants, Parrots, Birdcages, Squirrels, and Monkeys
A stout publican (Samuel House) holding a tankard with initials SH in his right hand and a pipe in his left is standing in front of his house. He wears waistcoat with sleeves, without a coat and wig; his breeches are unbuttoned at the knees. Behind hi...
Alternative Title:
Sir Samuel House
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
House, Samuel, -1785. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Drinking vessels, Tobacco pipes, Barrels, Birdcages, Vomiting, and Clothing & dress
"The interior of a coffee-house, the customers, with one exception, deeply interested and dismayed at the news in a 'Gazette Extraordinary', which the title shows is that on the capture of the island of St. Eustatius by Rodney, see British Museum Sati...
Alternative Title:
News from St. Eustatia and St. Eustatia
Description:
Title from text above and below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 15, 1781, by W. Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
The interior of a poor wooden house, a parson's family of four gather around a table covered in a tablecloth worn with holes. They are eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone; his wife (left) nurses the youngest child. Behind her on ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Canopy beds, Birdcages, Breast feeding, Cats, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, and Poverty
"A young woman in rustic dress standing in a field with a cockerel in a cage near her feet, courted by a youth who leans over the fence behind to right, offering her a posy."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Chickens, Couples, Courtship, and Villages
A courtesan sits in a small armchair beside a small round tea-table, holding a cup in an affected manner. Behind her, on the chair, is a cat. A negro foot-boy in livery stands behind the table holding the tap of an urn which is filling the tea-pot. Bo...
Description:
Title etched below image; from a farce by John Scawen.
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 18, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Birdcages, Cats, Chairs, Floor coverings, Parrots, Servants, Tea tables (Tables), and Teapots
In a large room, the left side being a cobbler's workshop, the right a kitchen, a cobbler sits on a bench, before an open window, his hammer in hand. Behind him, on a table are dishes and food, and to the right a woman in an apron cooks with a large f...
Alternative Title:
Cobbler's hall
Description:
Undated reissue, with publisher's name changed, of a print first published by Carington Bowles most likely in 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786: Key to ... mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Outside a pretty well-kept cottage a young woman kneels pleading before a farmer in a smock holding his hand as she jestures to a sailor. The sailor in response jestures to her. In the distance is a ship on the water. A bird hangs in a cage just out...
Alternative Title:
Jolly carpenter
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 24th Octr. 1793 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Carpenters, Chickens, Dwellings, Plows, Sailors, British, and Ships
Volume 2, page 86. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sportsmen in a bare breakfast parlour, with a small round table on which are tea-pot and cups, a loaf, and a wine-bottle. A stout man (left) sits beside the table, holding a wine-glass, his right hand on a dog's head; a boy kneels at his feet fasteni...
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of drowsiness
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 5th, 1794, by John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Volume 2, page 92. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Kitchen scene with a woman standing over a table at left with knife in hand, displaying a diamond in her palm to a man and young boy, a figure at right seen from behind leaving the room, above a bird-cage hangs; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbu...
Description:
Title from text below image, enclosed within parentheses.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 10th, 1795, by W. Dickinson, No. 53 next York House, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Kitchens, Tables, Knives, Fish, Diamonds, Fireplaces, Birdcages, and Boys
In seven scenes in a design of two tiers, citizens dispute the oppressive fees imposed by a zealous tax collector who taxes bugs, pets, a bulbous nose and a runny nose, corns on a foot, and a man's skin. In the scene on the upper right, the tax colle...
Alternative Title:
Taxes as they will be!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Black people, Birds, Birdcages, Cats, Defecation, Dogs, Servants, Single women, and Tax payers
"One of a set of eight plates, No. 7 (not mentioned by Grego) being missing, all having the same signatures. They may have been intended to burlesque Wheatley's 'Cries' (1793-7), from which they appear to derive. [The subjects are different from those...
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Children, Dogs, Houses, Men, Mousetraps, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Rabbits, Rats, and Street vendors
"One of a set of eight plates, No. 7 (not mentioned by Grego) being missing, all having the same signatures. They may have been intended to burlesque Wheatley's 'Cries' (1793-7), from which they appear to derive. [The subjects are different from those...
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Children, Dogs, Houses, Men, Mousetraps, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Rabbits, Rats, and Street vendors
A peddler with a pole over his right shoulder from which hang two cages with birds inside, walks left away from the viewer. He carries a third cage in his left hand. His left sleeve is patched at the elbow
A pretty young woman sits at a table opposite a fat, older man, asleep with his glasses pushed on his forehead. The sit before a fire in a bedroom with a canope over the bed or couch (left), a guitar leaning against it. Two other pretty young woman en...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 26, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Birdcages, Dogs, Fireplaces, Guitars, Sleeping, Women, and Young adults
"In a plainly furnished room a whole family suffers. An elderly 'cit' and a skinny old woman register acute discomfort. Between their chairs is a round table on which is a dish of cherries and currants. A stout maidservant (left) drinks from a bottle ...
Alternative Title:
Comforts of a hot summer
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 12th, 1881 [sic], by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A young woman registers grief outside a cottage (right), in which a woman is spinning. She is watched by two fashionably dressed passers-by. The verses end: 'I am sure it is not my fault, That I must die an old Maid.'"--British Museum online catalogu...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 1, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, Single women, and Birdcages
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, sho...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman a...
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life' (1806), illustrating lines which follow the title: 'Getting up early in a cold gloomy morning, and on running down into the breakfast room for warmth and comfort, finding chairs, table, sho...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 9th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Birdcages, Cats, Domestic life, Housework, Interiors, Sweeping & dusting, and Women domestics
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman a...
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman a...
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman a...
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
The interior of a well-furnished room. The dentist stands in front of a middle-aged woman seated in a chair (right); he holds her forehead with one hand, with the other he applies a small instrument to her mouth. She grasps a shawl in her left hand. A...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Black people, Birdcages, Cats, City and town life, Drawing rooms, Servants, and Women domestics
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on th...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on th...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young man with a grotesquely long chin sits in a high back chair, kissing a pretty young woman who stands between his legs. Behind him a dog has his paws on the cloth-covered table on which is laid cheese and bread; a cat drinks from a pitcher on th...
