"Twelve reduced copies (hand-coloured woodcuts), crude and sometimes simplified, of caricatures, arranged in three rows of four, each in a border, having an additional title above the design, the original title (except in No. 9) being below. The original of 11 is not in the Museum. The designs are copied in British Museum Satires No. 15782, or, otherwise, from it. [1] No. 15732, reversed. Above: ''Tis all vel at Vindsor'. Inscription: 'Does jarvey [Wellington] mean to start on his own account? Them leaders seem tohave it all their own way'. [2] No. 15731, reversed. Above: 'Achilles' [cf. No. 14409]. Inscription: 'Ready to start, your Honour'. Reproduced, Hindley, Life and Times of Catnach, p. 214. [3] No. 15734, reversed and altered: Peel holds, not a cage, but a rat by the tail. Above: 'Orange Pe--l' [cf. No. 15390]. Inscription: 'He made each felley turn his coat | And caught each rat by the tail'. [4] No. 15733. Above: 'The Cunning Hen'. The inscription is as the original, but continues, 'or they'll bolt with the coach'. [5] No. 15749, reversed and with the same inscription. Above: 'Paddy Whack!' [6] No. 15736, reversed and altered. Above: 'The Oeld 'un'. His foot is on the Catholic [Bill]. Inscription: 'I drove the Long Tail Blacks [cf. No. 15658] for fifty years. I drove your dad, your honour'. [7] No. 15737, reversed and altered. Above: 'A Kow-Cumber'. Inscription: 'I say, Jemmy All-Weather [see 8], keep your eye on them fellies of the Sovereign--they're arter no good: See they dont prig our luggage. That coach is their own, they think'. [8] A copy of No. 15752, reversed. Above: 'A Man of All-Weathers'. Inscription: 'I was once a bright lad, | But now I'm a Cad'. [9] A copy of No. 15703, reversed and altered; title: 'The Man wot missed his mark'. Above: 'Once in Batter sea | NoW-in-Chelsea'. His paper is headed 'Anti-Catholicism'. On the rock are scrawled two duellists, aiming at each other. Inscription: 'Death's heads and marrow bones, are now my portion'. [10] A copy of No. 15756, reversed and without the letter. Above: 'A drive from Dublin'. Inscription: 'One kick from the leader floor'd me'. [11] 'The Man wot owns the Vestminster'. Above: 'Long Franky'. Burdett stands in profile to the left, knees flexed, regarding a small framed picture of a giraffe (see No. 15425). Inscription: 'I used to go by the John Bull, now I goes by the Sovereign'. (The radical M.P. for Westminster as a supporter of the Ministry, cf. N0.16058.) [12] 'John Bull, broke down'. Above: 'The Last Stage'. Probably based on No. 15743. J. B. stands in profile to the right, bowed under a bulky sack inscribed 'Taxation'; he rests both hands on a stout stick, inscribed 'Trade', which breaks under his pressure. (See No. 15799.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at top of sheet., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", "Price 2s."--Lower left corner., and Folded and laid in James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Winchilsea, George William Finch-Hatton, Earl of, 1791-1858, Anglesey, Henry William Paget, Marquis of, 1768-1854, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
"Caricature with Caroline standing holding an anchor of the Constitution with a soldier and sailor either side of her, in the ray of the sun."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 47 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Published October 19th, 1820, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Anchors, Soldiers, Sailors, Lions, Ships, and Eyes
"Caricature with Caroline standing holding an anchor of the Constitution with a soldier and sailor either side of her, in the ray of the sun."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 35.4 x 25 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1819"; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted on leaf 103 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Publisher:
Published October 19th, 1820, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Anchors, Soldiers, Sailors, Lions, Ships, and Eyes
A satire on a Highland soldier's attempts to use a lavatory in London. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board as he urinates onto the floor. Behind and to the right on the stone wall are posted various drawings and broadsides. His sword is to his right
Description:
Title from other copies of this image., Attribution to Hogarth spurious. See The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Steevens collection of Hogarth's plates, p. 231., Imprint and price mostly burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., "[Price] 3d."--Lower right corner., and Mounted to 23 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
To be had [...]
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures, Privies, and Urination
A satire on a Highland soldier's attempts to use a lavatory in London. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board as he urinates onto the floor. Behind and to the right on the stone wall are posted various drawings and broadsides. His sword is to his right
Description:
Title etched below image., Spurious attribution?, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all sides but top., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Spurious., Ms. note in pencil below print: A forgery by Darley., and On page 231 in volume 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures, Privies, and Urination
A satire on a Highland soldier's attempts to use a lavatory in London. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board as he urinates onto the floor. Behind and to the right on the stone wall are posted various drawings and broadsides. His sword is to his right
Description:
Title from item., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762., Plate numbered '39' in upper right corner., Two columns of verse below image: Sawney who ever from his birth had dropt his cates on Mother Earth shewn to a boghouse, with surprise, down each hole thrusts his brawny thighes. Sawney's a laird, he cries, I trow! Ne'er did he nobley sh-t till now., and Mounted to 30 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures, Privies, and Urination
Title etched below image., "Plate 153."--Upper right above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Square & Round Faces., and On page 231 in volume 3.
"The Duke of Clarence, knock-kneed and meanly malignant, stands in profile to the left, his back to the sea. He wears top-hat, tail-coat, tight pantaloons, Hessian boots, and gloves, holding a cane; under his foot is a paper: 'Honor [thy] Father & thy Mother.' At sea is a man-of-war with furled sails flying the Royal Standard. Below the title; 'Vide Mr Denmans Speech. Octr 25 1820.' Said to be a good likeness. See British Museum Satires No. 14031, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A Maltese cross, at the center of an oval containing the year "1820", is etched below lower left corner of image., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Libel & slander, Top hats, Staffs (Sticks), and Ships
Titles from images., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "5"., With: Angular carrics / MDarly invt. 1762. Numbered: '6'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
In the bottom row four bewigged judges, three of whom are asleep, are seated on the bench in Westminster Hall. In the top row are eight caricatured heads, two representing one of the judges below, the others, two versions of the lame man in Raphael's Sacrifice at Lystra (extreme left) and apostles in Leonardo's Last Supper. The lengthy text explaining the character, caracatura, and outrè etched on a second separate plate below image plate
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., Print made from two plates; image and text on separate plates., and The judges were identified by Nichols (Biographical anecdotes) as William Noel, Sir John Willes, Henry, Earl Bathurst, and Sir Edward Clive. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Noel, William, 1695-1762, Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, and Clive, Edward, Sir, 1704-1771
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Caricatures, Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Sleeping, and Wigs
