"Scene in the House of Lords at the Queen's 'trial', showing the throne against the end wall, with the two (temporary) galleries. The Queen exclaims in terror, both arms raised, at the sight of the first witness against her, Majocchi, and of the ghost of Princess Charlotte, who stands, draped in white, beside him, holding her infant, with an arm extended towards the Queen. The latter shrieks: "Theodore!! my Daughter too! ah! what have I done!!! Oh speak." The ghost, garbling Hamlet's words (III. iv, ll. 40-5; 92-4): "Such an Act good Mother, as blurs the / "Grace and Blush of Modesty, calls Virtue Hippocrite / "makes marriage vows as false as Dicers Oaths--Oh / "such a deed! to live in the rank sweat of an / ensemen'd bed stived [sic] in Corruption." Majocchi says: "Non mi Ricardo" [sic]. Beside the Queen, and on the extreme right, are Brougham and Denman, her counsel; they hold documents inscribed 'Defence of the Queen' and 'Queens Defence'. Both register astonished horror: Brougham exclaims (misquoting 'Hamlet', I. ii): "All is not well--I doubt / "some foul play!--for foul / "deeds, will rise--." Denman: "'Tis very strange!" ['Hamlet', I. ii]. The prosecuting counsel (left) are equally disturbed: Gifford, grasping the 'Bill of Pains [and P]enalties', exclaims, misquoting Horatio ['Hamlet', I. i]: "Behold it starteth like / "a guilty thing upon a shamefull "Summons." Copley: "Angels and Ministers / "of Grace defend us" ['Hamlet', I. iv]. A seated judge turns to them, pointing to the Queen, saying: "Look to the Queen!!" ['Hamlet', v. ii]. There is a background of peers, freely indicated, all startled, while spectators watch from the galleries. In the centre foreground a large green bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735) stands on the floor, from which clouds of smoke emerge; it has a strap (unbuckled) in the form of a huge Garter, inscribed 'Ho[ni]... Pense'. On the bag is a garbled version of Macbeth's words (I. ii): "Will all great Neptune's Ocean wash this Blood clean from this Bag? No! rather shall this Bag the multitudinous Realm incarnadine making the Green one Red.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 31 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R.A. Fores, No. 71 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.27.07 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A grotesque demon-like figure looks toward the viewer with terror in his huge eyes; his left thumb in his mouth. In front of him is a raging fire in a pot and a snake with a barbed tongue and sharp teeth who raises its head towards the demon's right arm. Below the pot are two lines: Let thy eyes, little saucers be, Frigthen all the world but me!
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 5' in upper left corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Olio of good breeding. London : Printed for the author, [1797]., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 27, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
Title etched below image., Date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., In upper right margin: 45., 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: Hydrophobia.
Publisher:
Pubd 1826 at the Artist Depy 21 Charlotte St Fitzroy Sq.
Subject (Topic):
Rabies, Dogs, Crowds, Fear, Shooting, and Umbrellas
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 9th 1833.
Call Number:
833.04.09.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the puritanical message of strictly observing the Sabbath. A puritan stands on a barrel marked 'St. Andrew', his arms held out making a cross. He cries: "Clear the streets of all evil doers - Remember ye keep severely strict the Sabbath day. 6 days and nights shall thou labour & do all that thou can get to do: but the 7th day is the Sabbarh of the Bishops according to law, and of the Ranters, and the Jumpers, and the Pantilers, and the Devildodgers and the Muggletonians and the Sawney Kirkmen and the Believers in the Unknown Tongues and the Irvins and the Spencer Percivals and the Agnews and the Mawworms and the Welllingtons and the Miguels and the Nickolas's and all the Whigs and Tories. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou & thy son & thy daughter & thy servant & thy dog & thy cat & thy horse & thy ass. Neither shall thou eat, drink, sleep, run, walk, nor talk under the penalties of fine confiscation, excommunication, carceration, starvation & D-nnation." Surrounding him are rotund puritans carrying clubs attack people going about their Sunday business. In the lower left one of the puritans raises a club over his head ready to strike a pig and saying, " Sacriligous monster to dare to eat on the blessed Sabbath." Above along the left edge, a thinner Puritan in a tall hat with an outstretched hand and a raised club stops a couple carrying a suitcase and bag and demands, "Hollo here! Where ar you going to on a Sunday." They reply, "Why for a bit of a jaunt in the Gravesend Steamer to be sure. It's the only day we can get out for a bit of hair. I'm afeard the wessel's off afore now, so don't stop us, man." In upper left, a Puritan points his stick up at a man sitting in a window, smoking a pipe and cries, "I say what smoke's that comming out of your chimney. You have been either blowing the fire or else you'r boiling summut. Put out the fire instantly or - - - - !!!" In the center of the sheet, a Puritan with club raised, pulls at the box of a young boy causing the tankards to spill out; he says, " Let go you wicked wrtech, to carry out beer on a Sunday." In the center foreground, a Purtain with a very large nose looks down a grate in the street and observes " There's some evil a brewing down here. Aye, as I'm a sinner if there isn't some new ale & yeast with it too. Now I should't be at all surprised if the yeast & the ale ain't a working togeather." In the center, a very fat Puritan with a bottle in his pocket grabs a very thin man by the neck and shakes his club as he asks, "Now young man what's the reason you a'n't at Chappel." To which the poor man replies, " Vy, sir, I'm going to the docters for some fizic for the bowel complaint." His accoster replies, "Well, you must to morrow because if you take it to day no doubt it'll work." On the right, a couple of puritans with guns shoot at a thin dog who runs from them, dropping his bone; the one says, " Shoot the infidel, he's got a bone." in the right foreground, another large Puritan with a Bible in his pocket grabs a thin man by the collar, "Sinner drop that toad in a hole." In the upper right, two puritans pull passengers from a carriage while another two stop the horses from the front. The coachman brandishing a whip, calls out "I say you cunting hypocrits, jist let go my horses or I'm bless'd if I don't luy this here vip on ye back."
Alternative Title:
Coersion for England
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Agnew, Andrew, Sir, 1793-1849.
Subject (Topic):
Sabbath legislation, Puritans, Couples, Dogs, Fear, Hoodlums, Nightsticks, and Swine
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature satirising the prohibition of working on Sunday as proposed in Sir Andrew Agnew's Sabbath Observance Bill: thugs terrorize honest Englishmen into observing the sabbath
Alternative Title:
Coersion for England
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 1 in a collection bound in blue wrappers.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Title from note in pencil at lower left: 10 Psychopathic Ward., Date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Artist's name on plate lower right., Place of publication derived from subject., Riggs researched subject at Philadelphia State Hospital for the Mentally Ill (Byberry)., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior; Patients, psychiatric., and Artist's signature in pencil lower right.
"George IV (left), covered with orders, flees in terror from a figure (right) composed of rectangular slabs of different size, all inscribed 'Address', except for the head, which is inscribed 'Queen', and the feet: 'Feeling' and 'Sense'. This figure extends an arm towards the King, from its feet rays of light slant towards him. P. 19: S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, That told what a cowardly action deserves; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, that told what a cowardly action deserves ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
"Two timorous duellists face each other at close quarters in a saw-pit, trembling and dropping their weapons, namely pistol and blunderbuss; each has a heap of weapons at his feet: sabres, rapier, pistol, more blunderbusses. The hair of both rises on their heads. One (left) is in uniform, the other (right), who is smaller, wears fashionable civilian dress with tasselled Hessian boots. A scroll extends above their heads inscribed: 'Did you mean to Offend me? indeed Sir not I.--indeed Sir I'm very glad on't!!!' A spectator (right) looks over the edge of the pit, holding a bowl from which he blows soap bubbles, which float over the head of the civilian. The bubble in the pipe is inscribed 'Puff', suggesting a publicity campaign."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Direful courage of Dolla Lolla
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Portal & Bridges 1802.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1810 by S.W. Fores, Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Fear, Guns, Military uniforms, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title etched above image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A young man, three-quarters length (left), screams in horror as he gazes on the apparition (right) with large teeth, wearing a night cap and spectacles (clouded so the eyes are hidden),and whose claw-like hand rests on the young man's shoulder
Alternative Title:
Fright
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 17' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Three lines of text below image: This passion is frequently excited by dressing up frightful objects to represent sprites, apparitions, &c.: frequently practiced with success in country villages, as delineated in the above sketch of the countryman & the ghost., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
