"A kitchen scene [with a satire based on the fable of the "catspaw"]. A monkey with Wood's head squats beside a plump cat with the head in profile of Queen Caroline. She sits gazing at the fire with an eagerly expectant smile. He puts his left hand on her shoulder and takes her right paw which is supported on his knee, looking fixedly at her with greedy expectation. Between the bars of the grate are four chestnuts like large potatoes. These are inscribed respectively: 'Privileges', 'Rights', 'Liturgy', 'St Catherines'. Beside the grate and attached to a chain is a 'Kettle of Fish'. Behind the cat is a big trap with steel teeth inscribed '50 000 per Annum'. Behind it is a dresser, neatly arranged above a cupboard inscribed 'Lately from St Omers' [see British Museum Satires no. 13730]. On the dresser are a teapot and butterdish, each with a bust portrait of Bergami, and two cups, inscribed 'BB'. There are also pans inscribed 'Hash' and 'Stew', a 'Tinder' box and bottle of 'Brim-Stone'. On the chimneypiece, with other utensils, is a box of 'Matches'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of the woods and the cat-o'-mountain
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and monkey tired of play, Basking before the fire lay, Pug in the fire a chesnut spied, Puss, lend me your paw, he slyly cried! And we the booty will divide!!! - Gay., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Cats, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Kitchens, Mantels, Monkeys, and Tableware
"A kitchen scene [with a satire based on the fable of the "catspaw"]. A monkey with Wood's head squats beside a plump cat with the head in profile of Queen Caroline. She sits gazing at the fire with an eagerly expectant smile. He puts his left hand on her shoulder and takes her right paw which is supported on his knee, looking fixedly at her with greedy expectation. Between the bars of the grate are four chestnuts like large potatoes. These are inscribed respectively: 'Privileges', 'Rights', 'Liturgy', 'St Catherines'. Beside the grate and attached to a chain is a 'Kettle of Fish'. Behind the cat is a big trap with steel teeth inscribed '50 000 per Annum'. Behind it is a dresser, neatly arranged above a cupboard inscribed 'Lately from St Omers' [see British Museum Satires no. 13730]. On the dresser are a teapot and butterdish, each with a bust portrait of Bergami, and two cups, inscribed 'BB'. There are also pans inscribed 'Hash' and 'Stew', a 'Tinder' box and bottle of 'Brim-Stone'. On the chimneypiece, with other utensils, is a box of 'Matches'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man of the woods and the cat-o'-mountain
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and monkey tired of play, Basking before the fire lay, Pug in the fire a chesnut spied, Puss, lend me your paw, he slyly cried! And we the booty will divide!!! - Gay., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 31.4 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 31.6 x 22.8 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 62 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "27 March 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of twenty-eight lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Cats, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Kitchens, Mantels, Monkeys, and Tableware
An aspirational dustman in ragged clothes, a monocle hanging from his hat, and smoking a cigar, sits in a chair before the hearth reading a book, "An introduction to the pleasures of ... schince by Barnart Botherum [...] dedicated to the majesty of the people". On the table are bowl, a goblet and a bottle of Port. On the wall hangs a landscape and on the mantel a bust of Shakespeare. The dog at his feet stares at the fire, the bones of fish dinner on a plate beside him. A large bell sits on the floor beside the dustman
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 1"--Upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Published April 1828 by S. Maunder, 10 Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Dustmen, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Interiors, Fireplaces, Smoking, and Reading
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse below title: When Hymen joins the lover and the fair, Love spreads his guarding pinions o'er the pair ..., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage & married life.
Publisher:
Pub. March 18, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date based on the beginning of Chatham's administration, July 30, 1766., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title., Three columns of verse below image: The monkey Scot no more shall boast, 'tis he at C-t who rules the roast ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle and white rose of Stuarts -- Royal crown -- Emblems: jack boot as Lord Bute -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Ministries: Pitt's ministry, 1766., and Mounted to 33 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Monkeys, National emblems, British, and Scottish
"Satirical print with a hung-over husband confronted by an angry wife over the breakfast table."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Deaf as a post
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of dialogue below title: "Pray what little snub-nos'd wench was that I saw you ogling of last night, sir?" "Eh?", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A companion print to British Museum satire no. 6878: The country justice. Inside a watch-house, a burly watchman stands (left) facing an elderly constable who sits frowning in his arm-chair. He holds out a broken lantern and points to a thin, fashionably dressed, and apparently drunken man who stands beside him with closed eyes, holding a large stick in his left hand. Next to the constable is a clerk writing at a desk with a slanted top. The room is lit by a lantern slung from the roof. A map on the wall apparently represents the roads of the parish and the beats of the watchmen. A fire burns in a grate (right).
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eight lines of verse below title: "Watchman. This wicked dog did lift his hand, First knocked me down, then bid me stand; The peaceful neighbours he awoke, And then the Knave my lanthorn broke, At which the Villain loud did Laugh, So down I knock'd him with my staff. "Constable: If so: you Justice did yourself, Therefore begone thou prating Elf.", Originally published July 10, 1785. Cf. British Museum catalogue no. 6879., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on a shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 8th by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Law enforcement, Police, Clerks, Dogs, Fireplaces, Inkstands, Lanterns, Rifles, Soldiers, British, Watchmen, and Writing materials
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from the first state., Reissue in the Carlton House magazine, Oct. 1794, of the left half of the plate of Peace!!! originally published in the Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 101., Later state of No. 7684 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: convention with Spain, 28 October 1790 -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Pictures amplifying subject: playbill for Much Ado About Nothing and Provocation -- Pictures amplifying subjects: torn portrait of William Pitt.
On the right a balding man sits at a well-laid table opposite a parson. The bald man has his arm around the waist of a pretty young woman who stands to his right with her one hand on his head. The parson toastst the couple. A dog sits on the floor near the table on the left. In the background are two pictures that amplify the subject of the print: above the hearth is a picture of a horse, and on the wall to the left (beside a ornate mirror) is a portrait of a bald man in an oval frame
Description:
Title engraved below image., Four lines of verse in two columns on each side of title: If I live to grow old, for I find I go down. ... And a clearly young girl to rub my bald pate', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 26th, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"John Bull sits full face holding a bowl of soup, between Addington, the cook, and the protesting Windham on the extreme right. On the left Pitt sits in profile to the left before an enormous kitchen fire, over which hangs a giant cauldron; he blows the fire with bellows, saying, 'I dont know how it is - but I manage this Soup business rather awkwardly - I suppose it is from being so much used to the stewing and Broiling line.' Addington, who wears the Speaker's wig with apron and over-sleeves, and holds a long ladle, says: 'Though I say it that made it - you never tasted better soup in your life'. Windham (right) stands in profile to the left his knees flexed, saying, 'O' Mr Bull - Mr Bull - if you have any regard for your Constitution - dont touch it - the Cayen of Jacobinism flavours every spoonful - and the Fire that boil it I consider as a Funeral Pile for all your well wishes - do Johnny take some of my Cheese-parings - they are very wholesome, and easy of Digestion.' John says, his eyes turned towards Addington, his spoon raised to his mouth: 'I don't mind what he says - my Hearty I say it's very good Soup - and a d------d deal better [word erased] than your Gin. I should like a little more bread for all that, and it would be quite as well - if it did not taste so strong of the Ceylon pepper.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Watermark in center of sheet., and Early gilt paper strips pasted to margins as a mount.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Windham, William, 1750-1810, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Bowls (Tableware), Soups, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Kitchens, Cauldrons, Fireplaces, Bellows, Aprons, and Cooking utensils
