Three mad persons look out the small windows of their cells. The man on the left wears a makeshift crown and grins out at the horrified couple who looks in. Above his cell is written "You lie, you mad dog, I am as hones a woman as any Parson's wife in London!" And futher below, "You are a cuckold." The two men on the right look at the two scowling women in their cells in horror
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Admittance to his Caricature Exhibition [...?] sh., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, psychiatric -- Hospitals, interior -- Bethlehem Hospital., Mounted to 43 x 33 cm., and Slight alteration to the design in ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 7, 1794, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
On a country road, two countrymen encounter an ugly witch who sits crouching on a fence rail holding her broom, her hair sticking out straight from her head. The one countryman kneels on the ground with a horrified look on his face, clutching his hat in front of him. His companion, a thinner man, stand behind him adjusting his glasses. Their dog stands at the fence looking up at the witch. In the distance (right) a cottage can be seen behind a group of bushed. In the top center a bright moon shines in the night sky
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1794 J Whatman [name partially trimmed].
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Text describes risks to a baby's health, including hereditary illness, bad milk, contaminated food, excessive heat or cold, lack of air and sun, and contagions of all kinds., In lower center: Offert par Nestlé., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Comité National de l'Enfance and Imp. Darboy -- Paris
Subject (Topic):
Infants, Mortality, Infant formulas, Health and hygiene, Mothers, Fear, and Graphs
"Satire on servants; a scene in a pantry with a liveried servant retreating in horror from a stout woman, probably a cook; he holds his hand to his face which sports two black eyes and she, scowling in fury, extends her right fist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Holland's caricatuee exhibition is now open. Admittance one shilling"--Text above image., Six lines of verse below title: By two black eyes my heart was won, sure never wretch was more undone! To Celia with my suit I came, But she regardless of her prize, Thought proper to reward my flame, By two balck eyes!!!., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to: 43 x 33 cm., and Stamped 'E' on verso, lower left. Mounted to: 43 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Black eyes, Fear, Fists, Pantries, and Servants
Title from heading above image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Caption below image: "And quickly opening a vein in her left arm she proceeded to sprinkle a portion of her blood upon the hideous object muttering a powerful incantation, the corpse became entirely subservient to her will & c."
Publisher:
Published by William Charlton Wright, 7 York Stt., Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Fear, Ghosts, Kettles, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"Fox, dressed as a Tudor monarch, starts from a low couch on which he has been lying, his eyes staring in horror. In his right hand he grasps a sword inscribed 'Injustice'. Round his neck, on a ribbon inscribed 'Order of Blacklegs', is a medallion bearing a dice-box and dice. At his feet is a helmet (right) with a closed visor inscribed 'Helmet of Unrighteousness', and various documents inscribed respectively 'Petn Kirkwa[ll]' ; 'Westminster Election'; 'Private list 2500 bad votes on my side of the Question'; 'Ways and means P-- W-- [Prince of Wales] Newmar[ket] Brooks's--Dutchess--North--D-- de Chart[res] &c. &c. &c. &c'; 'India Bill For the better security Of power to me and my Friends'. Fox wears a ruff, slashed doublet and trunk-hose, an ermine-bordered cloak, and slashed shoes. A curtain hangs on each side of the couch; it partly conceals (left) a framed portrait-head of the Duchess of Devonshire in profile to the right, wearing at her breast a 'Fox' favour. Above the design is etched: 'If we be conquerd, Let men conquer us, And not these Bastard Britons, whom my Father Has in their own Land, Cheaten, spurn d and trod 'on And left them on record an Heir of Shame. Are these men fit to be the Heirs of England?'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Charles III, King of all the Orkneys and would be monarch of the East and Effects of a bad conscience
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Emotions -- Male costume: Tudor dress -- Allusion to gambling -- Tassels -- Curtains -- Allusion to William Shakespeare, Richard III, v. 3., Partial watermark bottom center of sheet: fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 33 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1784, as the act directs, by S. Fores, 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England) and London.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Great Britain. Parliament, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Fear, Draperies, Picture frames, and Political elections
Title below image., Place of publication derived from printer's known location., Date supplied by curator., Above title: Chap. VIII., From: Adam, V. Un An de la Vie de Jeune Homme, 1824., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and See Whittrock #12. Blind stamp.
Publisher:
Lith. de Langlumé
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Diagnosis, Physicians, Sick persons, Fear, Medical offices, Desks, Top hats, and Skulls
A man and woman in their pajamas and slippers stand looking in fright at the closed door of their bedroom. He wears a night cap and stands with a weapon in each hand, pointed at the door; his figure casts a large shadow on the back wall and over the bureau on which sits his tricorne hat. His wife (right) clings to his nightshirt, as she holds up a candlestick to light their way. She has her hair tied up in a scarf. To the right, their infant cries in its basket under which sits a overflowing chamber pot. On the other side of the closed door is a small mouse
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number from caption above image., Printmaker's name etched in image, on left baseboard., Plate 14 in this series is dated 1817 in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet dimensions from British Museum catalogue., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 21.2 x 29 cm.
Title and date from item., Certificate issued to Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith, New Medical Schools, The University of Cambridge., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Graham-Smith, G. S. 1875-1950. (George Stuart), and Atlas (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Allegories, Gods, Dancers, Fear, and Water
Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
