"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 389 x 269 mm.
"An elderly invalid sits in an arm-chair in profile to the left, looking down, with gaping mouth and face distorted with terror. Round him dance in a circle, holding hands, seven grotesque little naked demons, one wearing large jack-boots. On a round table (right) are a medicine-phial and a book: 'Essay on the Power of Imagination'. The parted curtains of the bed form a background. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 9391, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Imagination -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Medicinal: medicine bottle -- Invalids -- Jack-boots., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & devils.
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 fastening on spurs; a yawning valet dresses his hair. He talks to a man standing on the extreme left, holding his hat and whip. Another man, a whip under his arm, stands at the table cutting a piece of bread. A short man sits with his back to the table examining the lock of his gun. Two men enter from the right, yawning violently. A pair of coupled dogs (right) prance in their eagerness to start. On the wall and hanging from the ceiling are antlers, a bird in a cage, a (?) saddle, a game-bag, a pair of pistols, a hat and whip, a fowling-piece."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of drowsiness
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a reissue; the statement of responsibility "W. Dickinson excudit" suggests that Dickinson was the original publisher of the plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: The dinner : symptoms of eating & drinking., and Mounted on page 86 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 5th, 1794, by John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
"An elderly man, wearing a night-cap, sits in a chair yelling with terror and pain at the attacks of three demons. His swathed right leg is supported on a stool; a demon, 'Gout!' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9448], sits astride it, attacking it with a savage scourge and a spur. 'Rheumatism!' clutches the victim's left arm, and 'Catarrhe!' sits triumphantly astride his right shoulder. A large bottle beside his chair is labelled 'De Velno' [Velnos, a notorious quack remedy, see British Museum Satires No. 7592]. On a table are medicine-bottles, and on the ground two books: 'Munro on the Gout &c &c' and 'Buchan--Domestic Medicine'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils and demons., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 29.5 x 21.5 cm., and Imperfect; street number "355" and text "near Exeter Change" in imprint erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jan. 27, 1809, by Hixon, 355 Strand near Exeter Change
Subject (Topic):
Catarrh, Rheumatism, Pain, Gout, Demons, Medicines, and Bottles
"An elderly man, wearing a night-cap, sits in a chair yelling with terror and pain at the attacks of three demons. His swathed right leg is supported on a stool; a demon, 'Gout!' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 9448], sits astride it, attacking it with a savage scourge and a spur. 'Rheumatism!' clutches the victim's left arm, and 'Catarrhe!' sits triumphantly astride his right shoulder. A large bottle beside his chair is labelled 'De Velno' [Velnos, a notorious quack remedy, see British Museum Satires No. 7592]. On a table are medicine-bottles, and on the ground two books: 'Munro on the Gout &c &c' and 'Buchan--Domestic Medicine'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Devils and demons.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jan. 27, 1809, by Hixon, 355 Strand near Exeter Change
Subject (Topic):
Catarrh, Rheumatism, Pain, Gout, Demons, Medicines, and Bottles
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Pictures amplifying subject: painting of a church -- Slang: crow & pigeon -- Placards., and Printmaker's name in lower left of image partially erased from plate. Possibly a restrike.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by Hixon, engraver, printer & printseller, No. 355, near Exeter-change, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bottles, Cats, Clergy, Dogs, Firearms, Glassware, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, Tithes, Wine, and Wine cellars
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
"An intricate design with small inset scenes, the background being walls of a room covered with free copies of caricatures against George IV, chiefly relating to the Queen. On the extreme left is an open door, showing Napoleon as a tiny colossus on the summit of St. Helena (see British Museum Satires No. 12611, &c.), a steep rock. In the centre George IV, his forehead inscribed '0', stands in deep dejection, looking down; he has ass's ears, and from his fob, in place of seals, hang bottle, corkscrew (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13299), pie, &c. Loops of rope hang from his pockets. He stands on thorn-branches, as do his Ministers and brother-sovereigns, orientals excepted. No. '1' (a small scene in the background). Six Ministers dance round Britannia who is chained to the ground: Castlereagh, Sidmouth, Liverpool, Bathurst, Melville, and Wellington (names from initials); they say: "We have put him in a pretty Situation." Answer: "Laugh & Rejoice I have New Years Gifts for you in my Pockets." (He threatens them with dismissal for their failure to obtain his divorce.)The next are '2, K--g of Pru--a', a very tall officer wearing a mortar-board cap (see British Museum Satires No. 12283) who points derisively at George IV, saying: "Stupid Ass he is right enough to be ashamed of himself"; '3. Em--r of R--a', adapted from British Museum Satires No. 13010, and laughing as in that plate, but wearing a barber's bowl (Mambrino's helmet) inscribed 'New Don' [Quixote]; he says: "It is enough to set one mad"; '4. Em--r of A--a', thin and shrivelled, with his grandson, '18, Napoleon 2', a tiny figure in his pocket who says: "I wish I could move this bowl"; Francis says: "What a face." George IV's answer to the three sovereigns is "Go to School before you laugh at me Small Heads upon Tall Bodies had it not been for me you would have been on the Parish, a long time ago [an allusion to British subsidies, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12875]. Come Come you are as black as myself or our Infernal Brother." He answers 'Napoleon 2': "Be comforted, in a little time you will roll it." '5' and '6', seated together cross-legged in the foreground, are 'Great T--k' and 'Em--r of P--a', who say "Turn Turk then since thy wife no longer pleases thee" and "Prends garde qu'on ne te mette en perce." The King answers them: "For a long time I have had a great mind to do it" and "That is what I Dread." Nos. '7' to '12' are sovereigns standing in a row behind '2' and' 3'. '7 The K--g of S--n' says: "For this long year I pity but cannot help laughing in seeing you"; answer: "We shall see who will laugh the last" (Ferdinand VII since early in 1820 was in the power of revolutionaries); '6. K--g of Na--s', his head a block of 'Naples Soap', says: "My brother in misfortune speeks [sic] the truth." (There was revolution in the Two Sicilies, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14132.) Answer: "Nay all the little Dogs will Bark look at this Cake ['cake' (slang) = fool, gull, or blockhead, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10750] of Naples soap you would do better to eat your Macaroni and come and Drink with me to comfort us." '9. K--g of B--a', "It would have been better to have said nothing"; answer: "I confess it would have been better." '10. K--g of W--g'. "Clamour in such cases is wore [sic] than silence"; answer: "Experience has taught it me." '11. K--g of S--x--y.' "I in your case would have taken my wife and lived politically with her"; answer: "It would have been the most advisable Plan." '12. K--g of N--ds.' "Gratitude compels me to pity you" [see British Museum Satires No. 12102, &c.]; answer: "Think rather to preserve the Administration of thy Cheeses" [a remark borne out by the Belgian revolution of 1830]. Even bulkier than George IV is '14. L--s. tout de Suite [XVIII]', who sits on thorns, and has cloven hooves for feet and hands, animal's ears, and a small black cap or tonsure; from his shoulders hangs a long rosary with a dangling cross. Looking up at George IV with a cynical smile he says: "Poor fool"; answer: "At last comes the Kick of the Ass, But I have a Dish ready forhim." Behind Louis is '13. Em--r of Ch--na', saying: "You look a thousand times more like a Chinese than myself in your B--s pavillion"; answer: "Thou art the only one I could not deceive." Standing in the doorway are three well-dressed young men who are 'People', they are 15-17, and look at the King with smiling contempt; the third points to Napoleon. '15.' "You are the laughing stock of your faithful brothers who are no better than yourself"; answer: "It is true when too late I have open'd my eyes, but look at my pockets and you will find Ropes for my M--n--st--rs and my Brothers." '16' "We have found you out at length in spite of your mask do us justice or we shall give you your deserts Whitehall is not gone and there is room for you all" [an allusion to Charles I's fate, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13269]; answer: "Do it yourselves, it will be the shortest way." '17.' "Boney Boney you alone deserve our tears your fall has been as fatal to them as to ourselves your return would save us all." Answer: "He is a Man I must allow it." (For 18 see under 4.) '19' is "Green Bag [see British Museum Satires No. 13735], inscribed Milan Commission [see British Museum Satires No. 13755]; it says: / am cruelly thrown aside and fallen into very bad hands" [see British Museum Satires No. 13986]; answer: "However all my hopes are in the [sic]." Prints (uncoloured), or ad hoc designs, completely cover the walls; only a few can be identified. The lunette under the domed ceiling contains apotheoses of Queen Caroline; these are flanked by designs, both on the vaulted ceiling, depicting the joy of John Bull (left) and Britannia (right) on her return to England, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13743. Below, on the three walls, are thirty-one prints copied or adapted regardless of the size of the originals. The two largest, in the upper left corner, are from British Museum Satires No. 13843 (simplified and perhaps combined with British Museum Satires No. 13764) and British Museum Satires No. 13786. Others are British Museum Satires No. 13210, reversed and simplified; British Museum Satires No. 13998, reversed and altered, or a similar plate; British Museum Satires No. 13830, simplified, or a similar plate; British Museum Satires Nos. 13851, 13901, 14012; the King from British Museum Satires No. 13848 (throwing mud, the Queen not depicted, the right of the plate hidden by George IV). British Museum Satires No. 13508, a small woodcut, appears as a full-sized print; British Museum Satires No. 14029 is simplified and the domes of the Pavilion are introduced. The origins of twenty others have not been traced. On the floor behind Louis XVIII (left) are partly rolled caricatures, and on the right is a print (coloured) of Castlereagh standing behind a huge pie from which he carves portions for four supplicants, evidently the King of Prussia, the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria, and (?) Bernadotte (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13619). As a pendant to this is a battle scene: the statue of Napoleon presides over an empty throne; beside it stands a woman who offers crown and sceptre to a little boy (his son) who runs to take it, holding the hand of a Grenadier, beside whom is another soldier (cf. British Museum Satires No. 12707)."--British Museum online catalogue and "A Bonapartist satire in which the King's unpopularity and failure in the Queen's affair is related to the revolutionary state of Europe in 1820 (of which little specific knowledge is shown; cf. British Museum Satires No. 14113), and Louis XVIII is depicted as a priest-ridden fool. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 14050."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dialogue between King Naughty and his Brothers Consorts, Caracature of all caracatures presenting the joke of the day, and To every one his due
Description:
Title etched below image., Manuscript imprint "Pubd. by John Milleville, Hampstead" added in ink in lower right portion of image. Impression at the British Museum has an identical imprint written in the same spot., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Below the title is the 'Dialogue' in parallel columns: (left) speeches of persons numbered '1-19'; (right) answers from George IV headed 'Answers of No. 0 (K--G Naughty)'"--British Museum online catalogue., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 52 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Two typed extracts (comprising twenty-four lines total) from the British Museum catalogue description are pasted above and below print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by John Milleville, Hampstead
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1762-1834, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Mahmud II, Sultan of the Turks, 1784-1839, Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, 1751-1825, Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, 1756-1825, Friedrich August I, King of Saxony, 1750-1827, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, and Jiaqing, Emperor of China, 1760-1820
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politicians, Corkscrews, Dance, Military officers, Heads of state, Ethnic stereotypes, Prints, and Bottles
"A very fat man with arms outstretched tries to kiss an equally large woman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., No. 123 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: armchairs -- Glass: liquer bottles -- Wallpaper.
Publisher:
Published 20th Augt. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Date derived from printmaker's date of activity., Place of publication from item., In margin lower left: No. 35., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alcohol.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Alcoholism, Obesity, Physicians, Bottles, and Eating & drinking