"The platform extends across the centre of the design. Below are the audience, three-quarter length and half-length, standing and seated. A man in patched clothes stands in the front of the semicircle of men seated on the platform, holding out his empty breeches pockets. With sanctimonious melancholy he says: Oh! my Bretheren! in that black and benighted land of Ireland have the Servants of the Lord fought the good fight! For behold! we have wrestled lustily with the Wh--re! Yea, with the Scarlet Wh--re! and behold, from the pestiferous abominations of papistry, Millions have we gather'd to the fold, of Starving Souls who yearned for the Word!--but yet my Bretheren! 6 times 999000 still worship in the temple of Dagon!--still dwell in the tabernacles of the Enemy!--still hang over the Gulf! and shall they Tumble therin? even into the brimstone and the desolation & ye Confla=ge=ra=tion? No! No! No!--but alas! the Vinyard of the Lord is deserted, for the labourer lacketh his hire! Open thy purse strings Oh Israel! and let ye Mamon of the World be converted into the Sweet Manna of Justification! for lo! there is no Corn in Egypt, and the pockets of the faithful are lank and unreplemished [sic], yea even as the Udders of the Seven Starving kine in the Vision of King Pharoah!!! Those on the platform listen in pious gloom. In the centre are two stout bishops with a lean minister (? Irving) between them, dressed like a minister of the Scottish Church. The others are gaunt, elderly, in plain old-fashioned dress with knee-breeches. One (left) (who resembles Liston as Maw-worn in Bickerstaffe's 'The Hypocrite'), with lank hair resting on his shoulders, fingers clasped and thumbs together, says: That Man's a Saint, if ever there was a Saint. Another says oh! oh! The rest listen in silence. On the platform is a pile of books, three inscribed Bible, two Tracts, one Prayer. A man brings in on his shoulders a large basket inscribed Food for the Starving Irish, heaped with similar books, with a great preponderance of Bibles. Among the audience stands a man with a collecting-plate heaped with sovereigns; coins and a note are contributed. The audience listen intently or converse gloomily. A paper hangs from the platform: Paddy, Mullagan Converted by a Pair of Leather Breeches--Biddy Quin by a Peticoat and a Pair of Shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in near total loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Matted to: 28.2 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pulished [sic] June 21, 1827, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
British and Foreign Bible Society. and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 320 x 257 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of numbering from upper right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 36.8 x 26.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Probably a later impression from a worn plate; numbering in upper right is lightly printed and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., and Leaf 92 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman, his obese bespectacled wife, and three children sit at table. A portrait of the parson hangs on the back wall. The clergyman raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; trimmed to design with loss of imprint., Afger a design by Dighton., Place of publication and publisher from British Museum online catalogue., and Date estimated from British Museum. catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles."
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Tableware, and Clothing & dress
In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, a clergyman, his obese bespectacled wife, and 3 children sit at table, behind which a portrait of the parson hangs on the wall. The clergyman raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from item., After a designed by Dighton., Numbered in lower left 343., A probable reduced version of no. 3753, originally issued ca. 1760. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Imperfect; hole in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Tableware, and Clothing & dress
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., No. 34 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 37.2 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Plomer., Numbered '348' in lower left corner., and Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original print was published by Carington Bowles in 1760 and 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A fat parson stands in the grounds of a country house as a footman on the right doffs his hat to him and a dog jumps on him in greeting. A fashionably dressed young woman walks on the park grounds (left) and looks coyly back towards them; behind her in the distance is a folly. Beyond the iron gates (right) -- the pillars decorated with eagles -- another servant waits by the carriage. In the distance (right) is a church spire
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. Cf. Sotheby's catalog., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '563' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 3755 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3. Original issue without imprint date; dated in the Catalogue ca. 1760., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
"A grossly obese bishop, almost spherical, walks with a lean parson, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator. Both wear hat, gown, and bands. Their features are not dissimilar in type, but one is gross, carbuncled, and surly, the other lean and melancholy. One has a ticket for a 'Turtle Dinner' tucked into his waistcoat, the other holds a large Bible in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A master parson and his journeyman
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons., Leaf 54 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808.
"A grossly obese bishop, almost spherical, walks with a lean parson, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator. Both wear hat, gown, and bands. Their features are not dissimilar in type, but one is gross, carbuncled, and surly, the other lean and melancholy. One has a ticket for a 'Turtle Dinner' tucked into his waistcoat, the other holds a large Bible in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A master parson and his journeyman
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Parsons.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bonnet and gloves are on the ground. Through a high Gothic window (right) two other Fellows look in, much amused. Behind him and against his chair is a table covered with punch-bowl, lemons, a decanter, bottles of 'Gin', 'Rum', and 'Coniac', and a jar of 'Preserved Ginger', &c. On the floor beside it is a huge volume: 'Doomsday Book', with other books, one being 'Arratin' [Aretino], another (open) 'A Master of Arts / a Fellow Feeling for the human Race'. With these are spectacles, cork-screw, long pipe, tobacco-jar. On the high chimney-piece are a nymph disrobing, candlestick, medicine-bottles, jug, and a framed 'Oxford almanack'. Beside it hang a violin and bow. On the wall hang a chess-board and a bag, as in British Museum Satires No. 12161, with a notice: 'Term begins -- Term ends -- Long Vacation'. British Museum Satires No. 10811 by Rowlandson has the same title (from Mackenzie's novel)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 2nd, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside". Cf. No. 11783 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "126" in upper right corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 216., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 349 x 247 mm., and Hand-colored.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bonnet and gloves are on the ground. Through a high Gothic window (right) two other Fellows look in, much amused. Behind him and against his chair is a table covered with punch-bowl, lemons, a decanter, bottles of 'Gin', 'Rum', and 'Coniac', and a jar of 'Preserved Ginger', &c. On the floor beside it is a huge volume: 'Doomsday Book', with other books, one being 'Arratin' [Aretino], another (open) 'A Master of Arts / a Fellow Feeling for the human Race'. With these are spectacles, cork-screw, long pipe, tobacco-jar. On the high chimney-piece are a nymph disrobing, candlestick, medicine-bottles, jug, and a framed 'Oxford almanack'. Beside it hang a violin and bow. On the wall hang a chess-board and a bag, as in British Museum Satires No. 12161, with a notice: 'Term begins -- Term ends -- Long Vacation'. British Museum Satires No. 10811 by Rowlandson has the same title (from Mackenzie's novel)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. December 2nd, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside". Cf. No. 11783 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "126" in upper right corner., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 216., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 91 in volume 2.
"On a small platform a quack doctor stands on the left, while a dissenting parson wearing bands sits on a chair (right); both lean towards their customers. Behind is a curtain with the inscription 'The cheapest Booth in the Fair'. The quack, an open box of medicine-bottles beside him, holds out a bottle, saying, "This is the only cure my Dear Friends for every disorder incident to the human body but for cure and comfort to your Souls I must beg leave to refer you to my Partner the other side of the stage". A woman and a man gaze up at him. His partner holds out a pamphlet to an elderly woman who reaches up eagerly for it, proffering a coin. He says: "All my last books of Sermons going for two pence a piece cheaper by one penny than you can buy them on those days that I preaches in the fields: and if any of you ketchd a cold at that time I'd advise you to apply to my partner for a bottle or two of his Stuff." The heads and shoulders of two other persons complete the audience."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Souls and bodies cured without loss of time
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 3, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 27 x 40.7 cm., Mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 24 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Identifications of "Alderman Wood & Qu. Caroline" written in pencil on mounting sheet, beneath lower left corner of print. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted to the left of print.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons., Mounted on page 16 of: George Humphrey shop album., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 26.1 x 39.4 cm
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons., and Manuscript "267" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Balconies, Crowds, Cheering, Sailors, Chimney sweeps, Clergy, and Telescopes
The interior of a poor wooden house, a parson's family of four gather around a table covered in a tablecloth worn with holes. They are eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone; his wife (left) nurses the youngest child. Behind her on the wall are two shelves of books above which hangs a bird in a birdcage. To her left, the curtains around the canopy bed are also torn. A small cat (foreground) looks up at the parson. On the floor beside the parson's chair lies a sheaf of papers with the title "Charity sermon".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Numbered "481" in lower left corner., No. 24 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Canopy beds, Birdcages, Breast feeding, Cats, Clergy, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, and Poverty
