Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1795]
Call Number:
Print00056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Souls and bodies, cured without loss of time!
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Signed by the artist in grey ink., Original work created: ca. 1795., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"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
"View on the Thames during the 1814 Frost Fair; tents erected on the ice; people making merry in tents around fire or on the ice outside; street traders selling goods at fair; a man playing skittle in foreground, figures slipping or falling through cracks in ice behind; Blackfriars Bridge in background, with St Paul's to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Numbered "(66" in upper right corner., Woodcut with letterpress text., and For an impression lacking publication line below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,0911.1008.
Publisher:
Published by T. Batchelar, 115 Long Alley, Moorfields, London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Fairs, Cityscapes, Tents, Street vendors, and Winter
Manuscript indenture, on parchment, detailing an agreement between the Prior and canons of the Augustinian priory of Bromehill on the one part and the Mayor, burgesses, merchants and residents of the town of Thetford on the other part. The indenture concerns the rights to income from the annual Prior's fair at Bromehill, including rights to the toll, stallage and pickage fees
Description:
In Latin., Docketed in a sixteenth-century? hand: the indentur of Bromehyll ffeyes., Annotated in a later hand, possibly that of the Norfolk antiquary Thomas Martin., Layout: single column of 26 lines. Head of document indented., Script: secretary script., and With: Seal of the Prior and Canons of Bromehill Priory, in green wax, containing a pyramid between a star, below, and a crescent moon, above.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., Norfolk (England), and Thetford (England)
Subject (Name):
Augustinians and Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fairs, Manuscripts, Medieval, Markets, and Monasteries and state
"Satire on village life. A country fair in which three young women are running for the prize of a smock; the third in line has tripped over a dog and is being helped up by a man. In the foreground, left to right: a young couple embrace beneath two trees hung with drapery; a small girl fills a mug of beer from a cask on which leans the village constable, asleep, with an empty mug in his lap; a small girl beside him holds a book lettered, "Compleat Peace Off[ice]r."; a dog steals food from a plate discarded on the ground; an old man stands on tip-toe holding his eye-glass to read a notice lettered, "To be Run for by Men in Sacks, A Flitch of Bacon on Tuesday next" which is pinned to one of the trees; a sailor sits on a branch of the tree holding up the hem of the prize smock which hangs on a pole at either end of which is a three-cornered hat; another sailor lounges on the ground looking at the runing women, a large jug near his foot; a chimney boy grabs a gingerbread crown from a boy who is holding a donkey by a chain; a small girl holds a younger child who waves another gingerbread crown while a dog jumps up to reach it. Behind the area roped off for the race is a crowd of spectators and a farm cart which a woman climbs into with the help of two men and another woman already in the cart; a man with a cockade in his hat waves a small flag on a pole, perhaps indicating the start of the race; a larger flag with a cross flies behind; other villagers are gathered in and around a makeshift tent; a one-horse carriage driven by a woman and carrying a gentleman comes into the scene from the right; behind the carriage two men are fencing. Women watch from upper windows of a large house in the background; on its walls are two bird-bottles and a dove-cote which a cat is eyeing with interest from a window sill; beyond is a windmill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Country fairs -- Buildings -- Prizes: Holland smock -- Tricorne hats -- Constables -- Barrels with spiggots -- Beer -- Food: gingerbread -- Vehicles -- Chaise -- Animals -- Trades -- Donkey-driver -- Dishes: tankards -- Dove-cot -- Placards: race notice -- Customs: allusion to the "Flitch of bacon" -- Quizzing glasses -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, London
Title from item., Attributed to Ansell in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Temporary local subject terms: Containers: saltbox -- Tools: pitch-forks -- Allusion to taxation., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 13th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Campaigns, Gout, John Bull (Symbolic character), Crowds, Exhibit booths, Fairs, Musical instruments, and Trumpets
"View of the fair in Smithfield at night; stalls and attractions lit up, people crowding to watch performances on the various stages."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 8., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 52.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Social satire: a crowd enjoy themselves at a fair ground, with a troupe of harlequins performing on a stage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "364" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 77 in volume 5.
Title from item., Date from copy in Victoria & Albert Museum, accession number S.252-2018., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks.
Publisher:
chez Le Bas graveur du Roy, au bas de la rue de la Harpe vis à vis la rue Percée chez un Fayancier
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy).
Subject (Topic):
Fairs, Quacks and quackery, Spectators, Puppet shows, Stages (Platforms)., Quacks & quackery, and Patent medicines
"In the foreground is the riverside in Southwark, with spectators, and a vendor of 'A hot Mutton Pie or an Apple Pie'; a gangway placarded 'The New City Road' leads from the pavement to ice. In the background is a detailed view of riverside buildings, the north ends of Blackfriars Bridge (left) and London Bridge (right), St. Paul's, many spires, and the Monument (right). Letters on the print refer to a key in the lower margin. Tents are dotted over the ice, with a group of three in the centre of the design: 'The City of Moscow' has two other placards, 'Barclays Intire' and 'Good Gin Rum &c.' It flies a Russian flag and on its summit is the effigy of a man. Behind this is the 'Lord Wellington for Ever', with a Union flag, and on the left the 'Orange Boven' [see No. 12102] with 'Good Ale Porter & Gin'; it flies the striped flag of the Stadtholder. In front of this people are dancing while a fiddler plays ('H, Dancing and Fidling'). Behind these tents there is a curving line of spectators and pedestrians along the stream of the river, inscribed 'I, The main walk'. At intervals along it are various attractions: 'B, Copperplate Printing' (the press is being worked), 'The Wiskey Shop' (a small booth), a printing-press with a placard 'Frost Fair Printing Office' ('A, Letterpress Printing'), and, farther on, another press: 'Thames Printing Office' (also marked 'A'). Other incidents are skittles (two games, 'F, playing at Skittles'); 'G, Throwing at Gingerbread', with sticks, the slabs being placed on upright sticks. Two boat-shaped swings, one placarded 'High Flyer' ('E, Swinging'); two 'Ballad Singers' ('D'), a man and woman; the carcase of a sheep, hanging from a gibbet-like erection ('C, A Sheep to be roasted'). In the distance a barber shaves a man who is seated in the open ('K, Shaveall at work')."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Printed on the River Thames February 4th, in the 54 year of the reign of King George the 3d, Anno Domini 1814."--Below image., Text below image, in lower left corner: Copy of a verse printed on the Thames - Amidst the arts which on the Thames appear, to tell the wonders of this icy year, printing claims prior place which at one view, erects a monument of that and you., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 14, 1814, by G. Thompson, No. 43 Long Lane, West Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Fairs, Cityscapes, Tents, Street vendors, and Winter
