"A glutton lies in bed, asleep, assailed by the fish, flesh, and fowl of a City dinner. A huge turtle is on top of him, a lobster pinches his nose, a pheasant swoops to peck an eye. He holds in each hand a bottle labelled 'Wrights Cham[pagne]' [see British Museum Satires No. 15478], squirting the explosive contents at his assailants. A big frog points a spear on which three small frogs are spitted. On his bedside table besides candle, box of 'Dixon's Pills', basin, &c, is a bill of fare: 'Turtle & fresh Cod'; 'Roast beef & à la mode'; 'Veal and Mutton'; 'Pork and Venison'; 'Pheasants & Pigeons'; 'Lobster & Sturgeon'; 'Turkey and Capon'; 'Goose and Salmon'; 'Turbot & Ducks'; 'Shrimps in Pots'; 'Frogs à la Crapodine'; 'Anguille &c à la diabletine' [sic]. All these, shrimps excepted, are depicted; there is also a hare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord Mayor's Day nightmare and Fatal effects of gluttony
Description:
Title from text below image., Description based on impression in the British Museum., Text below title: Dedicated to all the city gourmands, to be had at all the taverns in the United Kingdom., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of title above image and imprint; printmaker's intitials and printer information erased from sheet., and Window mounted to 28 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Nightmares, Beds, Animals, and Champagne (Wine)
Title etched below image., Theodore Lane collaborated with George and Charles Hunt on prints with non-political jokey subjects from 1825 to 1827; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of verse etched below title: Wine cures the gout, the colic and the phthisic. Wine it is to all men the very best of physic., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic -- Wright, Charles.
"Girl, where's your master!" "Gone to be champagn'd, sir" ...
Description:
Title from Wellcome Library catalogue, no. 35139i., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Dialogue beneath image continues: ... ; "Gone to be what! Champagn'd! Shampoo'd, you mean: "The more fool he." "Ah! but he so complain'd, sir." "Complain'd, pho! Let him try Charles Wright's Champagne, "and then, by all the pow'rs! if he complain' "he'll well deserve to be shampoo'd again.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Wright, Charles.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Geo Hunt, corner of York St. & Bridges St.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Public baths, Health resorts, Champagne (Wine), and Obesity
