A group of cats look at book opened to a musical score, on the right and images of mice on the left. Some of the cats are singing while one plays a trumpet; one of the cats wears spectacles. In the foreground are several other musical instruments including a violin and other volumes. The book is propped against a birdhouse from which emerges a mouse; a cloth has been draped over the birdhouse
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Vol. 3 No. 18"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Lithography
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Cats, Mice, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Singers
"An adaptation of Gillray's 'Comfort to the Corns', British Museum Satires No. 9585. The old hag is altered to a rather younger woman, the wide hearth to a neat fireplace. The Gothic chair is replaced by a chair with a high cane back (of Charles II period). A cat watches the operation."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an etched version of the same design
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a copy of an etching attributed to George Cruikshank and assigned a date of 1818. Cf. No. 13134 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns., and Mounted to 34.2 x 25.4 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Knives, Feet, Medical procedures & techniques, Cats, and Fireplaces
Title from item., Date derived from informaton about publisher., In margin top right: 7., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
in Verlag bey Jean Morino L.Co. Konigl: Acad: Kunsthändler in Berlin
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Unplanned pregnancy, Pregnant women, Cats, Dogs, and Astrologers
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 at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
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 at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 333 x 223 mm., and Sheet trimmed within platemark.
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 at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.8 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 90 in volume 4.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
"Syntax sits beside a pretty dairymaid in a dairy, while a cat laps from a bowl of cream. They are watched from the doorway by a distressed woman, who unjustly suspects Syntax's intentions."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax and dairy maid
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional aquatint and statement of responsibility added, and with plate number changed from "Plate 11. Vol. 3" to "Plate 21". For the earlier state, which was published in the Poetical magazine on 1 October 1810 as an illustration to The schoolmaster's tour, see no. 11682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 177., Probably a plate from an early edition of William Combe's The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque. Nearly all the plates from the 2nd edition of this work have the imprint "London, Published 1 May 1812 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand"; see Royal Academy Collection online catalogue, record no.: 06/4306., "Plate 21"--Upper right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
"A dog facing a cat that stands over a dead bird with a dead deer on the bench beside them, after Jervas. Plate 38 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 1 1/2 i. in length., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXVIII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 30 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Two dogs facing a cat that has stolen a dead bird off the table, after Jervas. Plate 37 of the 'Houghton Gallery'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 3 f. 1 1/2 i. by 4 f. 1 1/4 i. in length., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XXXVII from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and Mounted to 30 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Published March 2d, 1778, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"A stout elderly man (left) seated in a chair shaves himself, while a pretty young woman (right) stands before him holding up a hand-mirror. A little girl is seated in a child's chair beside her father, she watches a cat and kitten at her feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd August 21st, 1786, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
