"Satire on fashion: a French hairdresser mounts a ladder to arrange with tongs the curls of a lady with an enormous coiffure, while another man with a long queue, evidently her husband, holds a sextant to measure the height."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies absurdity
Description:
Title engraved below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Naval officers -- Military uniforms -- Naval officer's uniform -- Trades: hairdressers -- Furnishings -- Carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Hairdressing implements: curling tongs -- Step ladders -- Naval instruments: quadrant., and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt., July 15th 1771, by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, & R. Sayer at the Golden Buck, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Floor coverings, Ladders, and Sextants
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A room in a Scottish inn: two travellers sit at a round breakfast-table; the man looks round in horror at a barelegged slattern who stoops to blow at a fire from which smoke pours; he says: "Sounds. we will be suffocated with dust & smoke". The girl says: "The Dee'l blaw this Fire w'e his Muckle A-se for ise na Fash mysel mair we't". Broken bellows and a shovelful of coal lie on the carpet. A barelegged fellow wearing a Scots cap pours water from a kettle over a tea-pot; the astonished lady exclaims: "Mercy on us look here my Dear the fellow is pouring hot Water on the top of the Tea Pot without taking the lid off & before he has brought Tea to put in it". The man says: "Feggs, you may skirll & Waloch as lang's ye like--there's nane O the House will put themsel's out o' their ain gude Auld Gaits". A savage-looking mongrel befouls the carpet and an 'Essay on Cleaness' [sic]. Through a doorway (the door broken from its hinges) is seen a woman (right) seated by a kitchen fire, a dram-bottle beside her, keys hanging from her waist. She says: "Aye, Aye. ring till ye're tired, I canna be Fash'd". Everything in both rooms denotes squalor but not poverty."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Later state; date in imprint statement has been obscured with etched cross-hatching., Date of publication based on imprint with legible date on earlier state: Pubd. b[y] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London, Sepr. 1810. Cf. No. 11650 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Companion print to: The Scotch cottage of Glenburnia., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A room in a Scottish inn: two travellers sit at a round breakfast-table; the man looks round in horror at a barelegged slattern who stoops to blow at a fire from which smoke pours; he says: "Sounds. we will be suffocated with dust & smoke". The girl says: "The Dee'l blaw this Fire w'e his Muckle A-se for ise na Fash mysel mair we't". Broken bellows and a shovelful of coal lie on the carpet. A barelegged fellow wearing a Scots cap pours water from a kettle over a tea-pot; the astonished lady exclaims: "Mercy on us look here my Dear the fellow is pouring hot Water on the top of the Tea Pot without taking the lid off & before he has brought Tea to put in it". The man says: "Feggs, you may skirll & Waloch as lang's ye like--there's nane O the House will put themsel's out o' their ain gude Auld Gaits". A savage-looking mongrel befouls the carpet and an 'Essay on Cleaness' [sic]. Through a doorway (the door broken from its hinges) is seen a woman (right) seated by a kitchen fire, a dram-bottle beside her, keys hanging from her waist. She says: "Aye, Aye. ring till ye're tired, I canna be Fash'd". Everything in both rooms denotes squalor but not poverty."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Later state; date in imprint statement has been obscured with etched cross-hatching., Date of publication based on imprint with legible date on earlier state: Pubd. b[y] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London, Sepr. 1810. Cf. No. 11650 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., Companion print to: The Scotch cottage of Glenburnia., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 31 in volume 1.
"Two men sit beside a blazing fire in a well-furnished room, overcome by drink, and fast asleep. One, a stout officer in regimentals, wearing a cocked hat, seated in an arm-chair (right), has thrust his wooden leg into the fire, where it is burning. The ashes of his pipe fall on to the tail of a dog asleep under his chair. His companion sits (left) supporting his head on his elbow, which rests on a round table on which are a punchbowl, glasses, and a candle, in which his wig is burning. On the wall (left) is a framed plan of fortifications."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon companions
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified by the repository based on the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of 'Drolls.', and Watermark (partial): fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 15th, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
"A provincial evening party; all the guests are elderly, plain, and unfashionable. Those in the foreground sit in an irregular semicircle. Three men laugh together on the left, one makes a gesture which jerks a woman's tea-cup from her hand; she scowls at him with fury. The scalding tea pours over the leg of her neighbour on the right who flourishes his cane, knocking off the wig of a man who stands behind. This man throws up his arms, his cup and saucer fly into the air, the tea pouring on to the head of the man with the cane. The man losing his wig is struck in the face by a spurt of tea from the mouth of a man on the right, trying to restrain his laughter at the sequence of accidents, and unaware that his own skimpy pigtail is burning in a candle. These last two stand behind the semicircle. Behind it (left) four people are playing cards. In the centre two men stand facing each other in profile, much amused."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Game of consequences just begun
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., Artist identified by British Museum catalogue., and Cf. British Museum catalogue no. 9822 for description of state without imprint.
Publisher:
Pub'd. May 11th, 1801 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
"One of a set of prints on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, see BMSat 6924, &c. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) and the Prince of Wales dance; she holds out her apron in her right hand, his left arm is raised as if dancing a Scots reel; he appears about to take her left hand. The musicians are Burke, Weltje, and Hanger: Weltje, wearing a hat, sits (left) on a low stool, beating a pistol upon a warming-pan which he holds between his knees. Burke stands behind him holding a gridiron in the manner of a violin and with a pair of tongs as bow. He says, "Oh Burn the Pan it is not Beautifull". Weltje answers, "Damme but 'tis Sublime" (one of many allusions to Burke's book). George Hanger stands (right) beating the heavy end of his bludgeon on a salt-box; he is stamping and dancing, his hat is on the ground at his feet. Through an aperture in the wall behind his head is seen an ornate bed, decorated with triple ostrich plumes; behind the pillows is a cross. Two pictures, both inscribed 'Hamlet', are on the wall: on the left the Lord Chamberlain with his wand (Lord Salisbury as Polonius) approaches George III, saying, "I will be brief your noble son is mad". On the right Laertes addresses Ophelia, saying: "He may not as inferior persons do carve for himself for on his choice depends the sanity [sic] & health of the whole state." On the floor, in the foreground, lie two books and a paper inscribed respectively, 'Bold Stroke for a Wife' [Mrs. Centlivre]; 'Clandestine Marriage' [Colman and Garrick]; and 'I'll have a Wife of my own'. Beneath the title is engraved, 'As performed at the Theatre Royal, C------n [Carlton] House for the Benifit of the Widow Wadman'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Follies of a night
Description:
Title from item below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Edmund Burke's On the sublime and the beautiful -- Parody of Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Salt-box Pictures amplify subject -- Catholic Church -- Travesties., and Watermark in center of sheet: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Published 1st April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, and Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Cooking utensils, Dance, Firearms, Floor coverings, Marriage, Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, and Sofas
"The Prince of Orange (left), dressed like a Dutchman in (English) caricature, kneels with arms extended imploringly at the feet of Princess Charlotte (a good portrait). He wears Apollo's wreath, decorated with small oranges, before him is his clumsy flower-pot hat, containing a paper: 'Rules for the game of ye Dutch Pins' (ninepins); beside this is a Jews' harp, a degraded form of Apollo's lyre. His breeches are enormously bulky, and a tobacco-pipe projects from a pocket. He sings: "Lovely Maid, assuage my Anguish! At your feet your true love sighs; Do not let your Dutchman languish, If you frown, alas he dies!" She answers, pointing to his breeches: "From what I feel, and what I see, There's nought about you that bewitches; Unless indeed a charm may be In a Dutchman's great big breeches!!!" She stands beside a table (right) at which she has been sitting. On this are her painting materials, pencil, brushes, cakes of water-colour, porcelain palette, and jar of water, with an open box. Her painting is on a sloping board: a fat Dutchman trudges off, a bundle at his back, in the direction of a sign-post pointing 'To Holland'; he grasps his head despairingly. Behind the Prince a French window with draped curtains gives on to a small balcony. By the window are flowering plants in a jardinière; a sofa stands against the wall; a patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 29, 1814, by Wm. Holland, 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817., and William II, King of the Netherlands, 1792-1849.
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs., Mounted on page 49 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.3 x 34.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs.
