Two men both with lit candles on their hats and candles in their hands look anxiously around as the walk through a cave, presumably Peak Cavern (also know as the Devil's Arse).
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top, bottom, and right side., Numbered "Plate 92" in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Russe 1797.
Leaf 53. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Restrike. For an earlier issue of the plate, published ca. 1828, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 772.12.07.04., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A reduced copy of no. 5084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 53 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Chairs, Candles, Books, Sleeping, Dogs, and Cats
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The lecturer leans on a table, lit by four candles, to address a small well-dressed audience, seated on chairs. On the table are a telescope and a magic-lantern. He says: "Ladies & Gentlemen-- I have the honor for the first time in this county of Kent to deliver a Lectur on Optic's". A fat elderly man rises from his chair to say: "I humbly ax pardon Sir --but before you get on furder, I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop poles". The others, more sophisticated, are amused, while the hop-merchant's son, standing behind, registers anguish. A dog, with 'Hop Mer...' on its collar, watches the lecturer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "on" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret., Probably a later state, with numbering added to plate. For a likely earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 11470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "103" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.5 cm.
Publisher:
Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Optics, Public speaking, Telescopes, Projectors, Candles, and Staffs (Sticks)
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The lecturer leans on a table, lit by four candles, to address a small well-dressed audience, seated on chairs. On the table are a telescope and a magic-lantern. He says: "Ladies & Gentlemen-- I have the honor for the first time in this county of Kent to deliver a Lectur on Optic's". A fat elderly man rises from his chair to say: "I humbly ax pardon Sir --but before you get on furder, I rises with all due difference to inform you as how in this country we do not call them Hop sticks but Hop poles". The others, more sophisticated, are amused, while the hop-merchant's son, standing behind, registers anguish. A dog, with 'Hop Mer...' on its collar, watches the lecturer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "on" is etched above the line, inserted with a caret., Probably a later state, with numbering added to plate. For a likely earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 11470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Date of publication from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "103" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark x cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 44 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Optics, Public speaking, Telescopes, Projectors, Candles, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.0 x 26.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: What raptures steal thro' ev'ry nerve and vein, when the mouth yawns and when the muscles strain ..., Companion print to: The studious yawner., Plate numbered 'No. 4' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Candlelight pictures -- Lighting: candle with a screen -- Yawning -- Sewing., and Watermark: Grapes.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A satire on William Pitt on his accepting office in government showing him reacting in horror to the sight of the ghost of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough who appears in her shroud saying “Furies Wheres my 10000 £”, in one hand she holds a paper lettered “Taken a Place” and another lettered “Voted for ye C(our)t”. Her other hand points down to a portrait of Lord Chesterfield on the floor which has been torn from its frame on the wall and in this hand she holds a paper lettered “and you too 20000£”. Behind her is a statue of Queen Anne. Flashes of lightening come through the window at the back of the room aimed at Pitt as he sits at a table with two candles on it writing “an answer to T.H.” also on the table are “Letters to W(ilia)m. P(itt) Tr(easurer) of I(relan)d” and “Letter to W(ilia)m P(itt) by T. H-y Esq. On his forehead is written “HANOVER T(urnip)S”."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The ghost of a Duchess to William Pitt Esqr
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Thirteen lines of verse in three columns below image: Ungrateful P---. You have me bitt! ..., Temporary local subject terms: Statues: statue of Queen Anne on pedestal -- Ghosts: the Duchess of Marlborough -- Lightning bolts -- Female dress: Queen Anne's dress -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furniture -- Furniture -- Furnishings: wall clock and bracket -- Letters -- Legacy., Watermark., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. for L. Raymond
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714, Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
