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1. A band of Savoyards [graphic]

Creator:: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 September 1785]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Volume 2, page 35. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An organ grinder turning angrily to left at the sight of a soldier placing his hand on the arm of a beautiful girl from his troupe playing the mechanical organ at left, his dog at his ankles reflecting his sentiment by growling at another at the soldiers feet, behind at left a woman beating a drum and on the right a young girl plays a triangle, two friars stand behind, ogling the organ player, buildings and a church on the street behind; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 35 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:: Publish'd Sepr. 20th, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):: Street musicians, Organ grinders, Drums (Musical instruments), Soldiers, Monks, and Dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A band of Savoyards [graphic]

2. Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim [sic], or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service [art original].

Published / Created:: [approximately 1791]
Call Number:: Drawings G41 no. 3 Box D300
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holding a long pike surmounted by a cap of 'Liberty' and holding out to John Bull, a yokel, a handful of 'Assignats'. Hissing serpents form her hair and serpents suck at the pendent breasts which her ragged garments do not cover. She has webbed wings, and wears a French cocked hat with a tricolour cockade inscribed 'Liberty'. She says: "Come on my brave Lad, take this bounty-money, & enter into my Company of Gentlemen Volunteers enlisted in the cause of Liberty - I'll find you present pay and free quarters, & I'll lead you where you shall fill your knapsack with Plunder; - nay Man, never talk about your old Master the Farmer, I'll find you Hundreds of Masters as good as he; Zounds I'll make you one of the Masters of England yourself: - come on, I say, keres riches for you, - come on; the glorious 14th of July is approaching, when Monarchs are to be crush'd like maggots, & brave men like yourself are to be put in their places - here hold your hand, enter boldly in the cause of Freedom, & cry Huzza - Vive la Nation! Huzza". John Bull stands on the left, scratching his head with a puzzled grin; he wears a smock and very wrinkled gaiters; his hat and a pitchfork are in his left hand. He answers: "Wounds, Measter Sarjeant, an I should enter into your sarvice, what'll Varmer-George say to I, for leaving of 'en without warning? - and yet I is half in love with the sound of your drum; & wishes to leave off Ploughing & dunging, & wear one of your vine cockades, & be a French Gentleman; - & yet, dangs it, it goes against ones heart to leave the Varmer; - ah Varmer George has been a rare good Measter to I! - but, am I to have all them fine paper Moneys - but to leave my old Measter! Ah me! I dozes'nt know what to do, not I!" -- British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:: Recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution's Service, Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonium, and Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim, or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service
Description:: Title inscribed in brown ink below image., 'Imprint statement' inscribed in brown ink above title: Pub. July 4th, 1791 by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7889., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 130., Wright, T. Description of published Gillray print in Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 56., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink from another print on verso of mount: The hopes of the party prior to July 14th.
Subject (Name):: Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Revolution Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Drums (Musical instruments), Demons, Witches, and Fire
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Alecto and her train at the gate of pandaemonuim [sic], or, The recruiting sarjeant enlisting John Bull into the Revolution Service [art original].

3. Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 March 1791]
Call Number:: 791.03.25.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a room in a cottage. General Gunning (left) as an old gipsy-woman, but wearing a military coat, is seated (on a drum) at a table, facing his daughter. In place of a sword he wears a broom. He seals a letter, a number of seals and a letter 'To D------ of M------' [Marlborough] are on the table beside him. Miss Gunning holds a pack of cards (the ace of spades uppermost) to her lips, saying, "I Swear that I never wish'd or tried directly or indirectly to get a Coronet; that I never saw or writ to Lord B------[Blandford] or Lord L--------- [Lorne], in all my Life; - that Men are my aversion; - & that I never had any thing to do with, with the Groom, in all my born days; - Will that do, Dad?" He answers, "Well done, Bett! we'll get thro' the Business I'll warrant you; - we can write with all sorts of hands, we've got all kinds of Seals, & with the assistance of our old Friend under the Table, we shall be able to gu them yet daughter but I must be Mum". Through a hole in the boards under the table the Devil emerges, surrounded with flames, he holds up a torch exultantly, saying "Swear!" Gunning melts his sealing-wax in the torch, the right is an open hearth over which hangs a cauldron full of coronets. Beside it (left) sits Mrs. Gunning, blowing the fire with a pair of bellows formed of a book: 'Letter to the D------ of A' (see BMSat 7983). She says: "That's right, my sweet innocent Angel! say Grace boldly! make haste my dear little lovely Lambkin! - I'll soon blow up the Fire, while Nauntee-Peg helps to cook up the Coronets; we'll get you a nice tit-bit for Dinner, before we've done, my dear little deary." Opposite her and on the extreme right an old woman, dressed in rags stands over the cauldron with a spoon, saying, "Puff away, Sister! the Soup will soon boil - law's me, how soft the Green Peas do grow, & how they Jump about in the Pot when you Puff your Bellows!" Behind her is a placard: 'Waltham Abbey - by Peg Niffy'. (Mrs. Gunning, née Minifie, was said in the Press to have written a novel called Waltham Abbey, this she denied. 'Letter . . .', p. 89.) On the wall behind Miss Gunning is a print of the pillory (the punishment for perjury) and a bill: 'Affidavit of Eliz: Canning.' Behind her father are 'The Life of a Soldier', 'The Man of Honor a Catch', and 'The useful Groom a new song'. Through a door (left) behind Gunning is seen a groom holding a horse; he says, "I'm ready to ride, or swear, or any thing". A signpost points 'to Blenheim'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll -- Allusion to George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough -- Allusion to George Spencer, 5th Duke of Marlborough -- Literature: allusion to Susannah Gunning's Waltham Abbey -- Interiors: cottage -- Pictures amplifying subject: title page of Waltham Abbey -- Pictures amplifying subject: pillory -- Furniture: tables -- Military drums -- Coronets -- Utensils: ladles -- Inkpots -- Seals -- Sealing-wax -- Minifie, Margaret "Auntee Peg"., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis on top and initials G R below.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 25th, 1791, by J.M. Fobes [sic], N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773., Squires, Mary, -1762., Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, John, -1797, and Minifie, Margaret
Subject (Topic):: Bellows, Brooms & brushes, Card games, Cauldrons, Devil, Drums (Musical instruments), Fireplaces, Grooms (Weddings), Playing cards, and Torches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Betty Canning revived, or, A peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires & the Gypsey family [graphic].

4. Captn. Bounce & Coll. Fearful [graphic].

Published / Created:: [9 September 1773]
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 41. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a well furnished room, a stout man in a queue wig starts up from his chair to fire from a blunderbuss at the portrait of a French Field Marshall on the left. His companion seeks cover under the table, his legs tangled in the chair he has overthrown. In the foreground lie a sheathed sword and a map. A drum stands next to the shooter
Alternative Title:: Captain Bounce and Colonel Fearful
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject headings: Furniture: Chippendale-style chair -- Military: Drums -- Paintings amplifying subject: A man on a rearing horse -- Weapons -- Guns: Blunderbusses -- Glass: Wine bottle and glass., First of two plates on leaf 41., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. as the act directs, Sepr. 9, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Chairs, Drums (Musical instruments), Daggers & swords, Firearms, Wine, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Captn. Bounce & Coll. Fearful [graphic].

5. Captn. Bounce & Coll. Fearful [graphic].

Published / Created:: [9 September 1773]
Call Number:: 773.09.09.02
Collection Title:: Leaf 41. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In a well furnished room, a stout man in a queue wig starts up from his chair to fire from a blunderbuss at the portrait of a French Field Marshall on the left. His companion seeks cover under the table, his legs tangled in the chair he has overthrown. In the foreground lie a sheathed sword and a map. A drum stands next to the shooter
Alternative Title:: Captain Bounce and Colonel Fearful
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject headings: Furniture: Chippendale-style chair -- Military: Drums -- Paintings amplifying subject: A man on a rearing horse -- Weapons -- Guns: Blunderbusses -- Glass: Wine bottle and glass., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:: Pubd. as the act directs, Sepr. 9, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):: Interiors, Chairs, Drums (Musical instruments), Daggers & swords, Firearms, Wine, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Captn. Bounce & Coll. Fearful [graphic].

6. Carrying coals to Newcastle!! [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: Feby. 16th, 1821.
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 18. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A grotesque procession of brass-founders (braziers), carrying banners and emblems of brass on poles, burlesquing a Roman triumph. They march (right to left) past a sign-post pointing (left) 'To B--burgh House' and (right) 'To Turnham Green'. All wear loose jack-boots, spurred, and on each man's head is a brass utensil (or helmet), as made by the trade, and each carries a dish-cover (or shield) inscribed 'C R'. Many wear makeshift breastplates. They wear ragged breeches, some partly covered by strips of metal on the thigh, in imitation of armour. The two goose-stepping leaders blow coach-horns to which banners are attached, inscribed 'Blow Braziers Blow thy Sounding Horns'; their head-dress is a candlestick containing a tall lighted candle. They are followed by two trumpeters, with teakettles on their heads. Next comes a tall drummer, his drum inscribed 'Hum Drum', using ladles for drumsticks and with a coal-scuttle-helmet. Prominent among their trophies are pikes, to which banners are attached, each decorated by a large white favour. The first banner is inscribed 'Hail Star of Como [see British Museum Satires No. 13857] Brass is a Joke to thee.' Beside this, supported on a pole, is a model of a man (Bergami) on a galloping horse inscribed 'Courier'. A pair of breeches hangs from a pike. Various objects are surmounted by a piece of drapery inscribed 'Presents for Carey', and by a banner inscribed 'Men of Metal'; they include a bull, a goat, a stag's head, and a model of a Turk dancing inscribed 'Dimma Dimma'. Behind these is an owl and, beside a banner inscribed 'Pam [knave of clubs] & Qu--n for ever', is a model of Bergami carrying the Queen on his back. A figure of Harlequin is inscribed 'B B' [Bartolomeo Bergami]. Drapery is inscribed 'Presents for Bat' [Bartolommeo]; beside this is a bust of Alderman Wood. 'Furniture for the Barona' is on a banner flying over a woman (three-quarter length) wearing a triple fool's cap and emerging from a stand: 'Automaton Pitch'. A figure of 'Columbine' capers awkwardly. The interstices among these objects are filled with household utensils, &c., held high, tongs, poker, shovel, &c. Below the design: '"Why look'ye Mrs Brasier!" I dont know in what quantities you sell brass "at" Como"--But when you come "from" abroad, & ask a thinking people "to believe Black is White--D . . . me but your'e a Wholesale Dealer!!!--John Bull.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 18 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:: Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Parades & processions, Metalworkers, Banners, Emblems, Traffic signs & signals, Teapots, Pots & pans, Candlesticks, Metalwork, Sculpture, Shields, Wind instruments, Drums (Musical instruments), and Cooking utensils
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Carrying coals to Newcastle!! [graphic].

7. Carrying coals to Newcastle!! [graphic].

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:: Feby. 16th, 1821.
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 18. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A grotesque procession of brass-founders (braziers), carrying banners and emblems of brass on poles, burlesquing a Roman triumph. They march (right to left) past a sign-post pointing (left) 'To B--burgh House' and (right) 'To Turnham Green'. All wear loose jack-boots, spurred, and on each man's head is a brass utensil (or helmet), as made by the trade, and each carries a dish-cover (or shield) inscribed 'C R'. Many wear makeshift breastplates. They wear ragged breeches, some partly covered by strips of metal on the thigh, in imitation of armour. The two goose-stepping leaders blow coach-horns to which banners are attached, inscribed 'Blow Braziers Blow thy Sounding Horns'; their head-dress is a candlestick containing a tall lighted candle. They are followed by two trumpeters, with teakettles on their heads. Next comes a tall drummer, his drum inscribed 'Hum Drum', using ladles for drumsticks and with a coal-scuttle-helmet. Prominent among their trophies are pikes, to which banners are attached, each decorated by a large white favour. The first banner is inscribed 'Hail Star of Como [see British Museum Satires No. 13857] Brass is a Joke to thee.' Beside this, supported on a pole, is a model of a man (Bergami) on a galloping horse inscribed 'Courier'. A pair of breeches hangs from a pike. Various objects are surmounted by a piece of drapery inscribed 'Presents for Carey', and by a banner inscribed 'Men of Metal'; they include a bull, a goat, a stag's head, and a model of a Turk dancing inscribed 'Dimma Dimma'. Behind these is an owl and, beside a banner inscribed 'Pam [knave of clubs] & Qu--n for ever', is a model of Bergami carrying the Queen on his back. A figure of Harlequin is inscribed 'B B' [Bartolomeo Bergami]. Drapery is inscribed 'Presents for Bat' [Bartolommeo]; beside this is a bust of Alderman Wood. 'Furniture for the Barona' is on a banner flying over a woman (three-quarter length) wearing a triple fool's cap and emerging from a stand: 'Automaton Pitch'. A figure of 'Columbine' capers awkwardly. The interstices among these objects are filled with household utensils, &c., held high, tongs, poker, shovel, &c. Below the design: '"Why look'ye Mrs Brasier!" I dont know in what quantities you sell brass "at" Como"--But when you come "from" abroad, & ask a thinking people "to believe Black is White--D . . . me but your'e a Wholesale Dealer!!!--John Bull.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 25.6 x 38.4 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 58 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "16 Feb. 1821" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of twenty-four lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:: Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Parades & processions, Metalworkers, Banners, Emblems, Traffic signs & signals, Teapots, Pots & pans, Candlesticks, Metalwork, Sculpture, Shields, Wind instruments, Drums (Musical instruments), and Cooking utensils
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Carrying coals to Newcastle!! [graphic].

8. Supplementary cavalry and infantry [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 January 1797]
Call Number:: 797.01.01.03+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A design in two compartments; above, cavalry proceed right to left; below, infantry march left to right. [1] A burlesqued procession of men variously mounted. The leader, dressed as a light horseman and holding up a sabre, rides a horse with blinkers, trampling on a hen and chickens and leaving a dead pig behind him. He says: "Know all Men by these presents that if any accidents happen I do not Consider myself accountable for them after thus publiccally Warning every Person to keep within doors all all [sic] their live and Dead Stock!!" The next horseman, whose hat flies off, turns to shout: "Hollo there, some body be so good as to catch my hat." He is followed by a silent man riding a bull. Next him a man threatens with his sword a ragged boy on an ass: "What are you at you young scoundrel are you going to ride over the Captain keep in your rank you." The boy answers: "What d'ye mean by that I have as much right here as you." A man clasps his horse's neck, saying, "Curse the Horse how he Prances." Behind the ass, the horse of a man in civilian dress falls on its knees, throwing its rider, who says: "D------n the chimney Sweeper I thought he'd be over us." A rider (horse visible) shouts "Take care of the Apple Stall", while an old woman throws up her arms, shouting, "O Dear Mr Soldier dont ride over me." She is in danger from a man in regimentals, gauntlet gloves, and wearing a sword, but whose horse has blinkers. A man turns to him, saying, "D------n me you'll kill the old woman." He answers: "What signifies that charge her to the parish." The last of the procession is a yokel in a smock, on a horse with blinkers and collar. He rides down a pig and poultry; his neighbour turns to him, saying, "Mind what you are hat - you Sir in the Blue Frock if you kill the Pigs it will be actionable." He answers : "Then let them keep out of the way of the Sarvice." [2] An unsoldierly group march with bayoneted muskets, preceded by two boys with fife and drum. The officer, wearing a gorget and holding up a sword, scowls at a man behind him who raises his leg so high as to kick him, saying: "None of your tricks Jack dont Fancy you are in the shop now": the grinning offender is addressed by a man wearing a Grenadier's cap who marches beside him: "Mind what you are about or you will be had before a Court Martial". A man with tipsily closed eyes says, "I'm as giddy as a goose." A short, fat, elderly man in civilian dress says, "Warm work my Masters". His neighbour answers, "Nothing when you are used to it". A man wearing an apron rests his musket horizontally on his shoulder, saying, "This is the way to march"; he spikes the hat of the man behind, who shouts: "What are you at you fellow in green are you going to poke peoples eyes out". A stout man says, "When I kept the tripe Shop in the Borough who would have thought I should have rose to be an Insign." Beside him walks a woman with a bottle and glass shouting, "Does any Gentlemen in the front ranks want a drap of good Gin." A Grenadier marches beside the last couple looking contemptuously at a man in a shirt who says: "By goles this thing [musket] is so heavy it's the best way to drag it along and not carry it." The last man, who is bandy-legged, says, "I donna much like it."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of imprint statement and publisher's advertisement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:: Pubd. January 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Geographic):: British.
Subject (Topic):: Cavalry, Infantry, Militias, Daggers & swords, Rifles, Bayonets, Horses, Donkeys, Chickens, Swine, Boys, Drums (Musical instruments), and Flutes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Supplementary cavalry and infantry [graphic]

9. The Regents harmonica, or, Monopoly a catch for 21 voices with a royal base [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: March 1820.
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Print shows a large concert-room, which is partly a music-shop, where the Regent sits playing a 'cello. At his feet is a paper: 'Proposals for Six Charity Concerts'. Facing him stands an elderly 'cit', a John Bull, who listens delightedly. The Regent says: "There Sir is one of the finest toned Instruments, I ever touched, and our own making. Nobody makes Instruments like us. That Humbug fiddle is out of Tune." The 'cit' answers "Charming." Behind the Regent are Bloomfield playing a flute, and a man wearing clerical bands playing a violin. Behind them is a counter on which are two piles of songs 'For Sale cheap'; one is 'Bold Flinty Rock', the other 'Beautiful Maid'. Behind the counter a man supports on his shoulders a musician holding out a violin, and declaiming: "This will do, and Sir give me leave to say, No Scholar of ours shall ever use any Music or Instruments but our own, What do you think of that eh? & I am a Director, what do you think of that eh?" Two fashionably dressed ladies in the foreground address the Regent. One kneels, extending her arms dramatically, saying: "Indeed if you will Engage us we will not only buy all our Music and Instruments of you, but make our Scholars do the same." The other, identified as Miss Stephens, the vocalist and actress (1794-1882): "Indeed we will!" A piano is on the extreme right, behind this stands Braham holding a piece of music and extending an arm to disgruntled performers who are hurrying from the room, saying: "Fly not yet." Three of those departing say respectively: "We are off"; "You had better open a Cook Shop next and sell Calves heads and Cow heels"; "I'll lend you no more 4.000.s C-ts." The music stacked behind them is inscribed 'Detached Peices' [sic]. On the left Lord Eldon and Chief Justice Abbott, both in wig and gown, stand together. Eldon says: "Since our Master has taken to this Concern all our Business is Suspended." Abbott answers: "Suspended, why I have here a list of 21 fellows who ought to be Suspended." A man standing behind them says, looking at the Regent: "What then you intend to ruin all the Composers, Music Sellers, and Instrument makers do you? & this is a specimen of your correctness is it? 36 blunders in 9 pages of one Peice. Cossac Song above 30 errors. Dramatic Air worse 2d do worse still." On the extreme left is Yarmouth's smiling profile; he says: "I'll bet a Crown to One and Twenty pence, against the Hazard of being blown up by the Gas." Music on the shelves behind them is inscribed: 'the Y-m-ih Waltz'; 'Jack Ketch set to Mus[ic]'. Behind the Regent: 'New Peices'; 'Rogues March'; 'Royal Airs'. Behind the Director: 'Catches Glees, Flats and Sharps.'
Alternative Title:: Monopoly a catch for 21 voices with a royal base
Description:: Title from text above image., Etched by Robert Cruikshank, with parts done by George Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue., Later state, with title moved from below image to above and all text in lower margin (including imprint) re-etched; text also added to several of the speech bubbles, and changes made to the figures and their speech bubbles on the extreme right side of the image. For an earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 724 835G., Date of publication "March 1820" in imprint follows place of publication "London" and precedes publisher's statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text below image consists of seven stanzas of verse in four columns, with the following heading: The Regents Harmonic Institution --A new song to the tune of a Cobler there was. --The English are a nation of shop-keepers French opinion., Verses begin: No more let V-t-t embarrass his mind, for ways or for means new expedients to find ..., Mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 5 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Central figure of "George IV" identified in pencil beneath image. Typed extract of sixteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Regent’s Harmonic Institution, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882, Braham, John, 1774-1856, Abbott, Charles, Baron Tenterden, 1762-1832, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):: Music stores, Interiors, Fireplaces, Mirrors, Musical instruments, Violoncellos, Flutes, Violins, Pianos, and Drums (Musical instruments)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The Regents harmonica, or, Monopoly a catch for 21 voices with a royal base [graphic].