Leaf 32. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull stands on a stone on tiptoe under a tree, a rope round his neck attached to a branch of the tree. He holds the rope with both hands, to prevent strangulation. On the right stands a Frenchman (France) holding out a leek to John Bull, between them is a stream or river. John Bull is a moderately stout man with a thick neck, wearing an ill-made bob-wig, not the characteristic John Bull of later satires, who had already appeared, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5611, 5612. The Frenchman is very thin, wearing a night-cap, a long pigtail queue, a ruffled shirt, and sabots stuffed with grass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: France as a French peasant -- Emblems: Leek for France -- ?Reference to defeat at Yorktown., and Second of two plates on leaf 32.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Hangings (Executions), Nooses, Peasants, Onions, Streams, and Wigs
Caption title., First line: We have the painful task ..., Mostly printed in two columns, with short section at the bottom in three columns., With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution., The men, referred to in the text as ‘proper subjects for capital punishment’, were executed 29 November 1826 for the following crimes: Hayes was convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house of his employer; Boyce was part of a gang convicted for assault; King and Robinson were members of the Bethnal Green gang who committed ‘assault on the highway’; and Nicholls and Goulby were convicted of robbing a ‘poor old man ... attended with the most cruel and brutal violence’., and Contemporary ink annotation on verso noting the date of the execution. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Birt, 10, Great St. Andrews Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Assault and battery), Trials (Robbery), Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
"Peel kicks a lean old watchman behind, and drags from his shoulders his patched and tattered coat. Just behind him (right) is a big bonfire in which a watch-box and battered lanterns are blazing; beside it lie more lanterns, a rattle, and staves. In the background a watchman hangs by the neck from the branch of a tree, still holding rattle and lantern. Beside the tree is a pond from which projects an arm clutching a rattle. Peel says: '"But such a poor, bare-forked animal as thou art--Off--off you lendings: come unbutton here vide Shaks--' ["Lear", III. iv]. The terrified watchman answers: '"Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live, vide Shaks.' ["Merchant of Venice", IV. i]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Michaelmas Day 1829, or, The last watchman and Last watchman
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etching., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 29th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Police, Watchmen, Bonfires, Drowning victims, Hangings (Executions), Kicking, and Lanterns
Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
Alternative Title:
Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., On page 53 in volume 1. Plate mark 170 x 121 mm., and Above image: a note in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols Biographical anecdotes &c., edit. 3d, p. 172.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
Alternative Title:
Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., and Mounted to sheet 226 x 236 mm; with leaf from the Newgate calendar (p. 255-6) about her crime.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
"From the opposite ends of a horizontal balance hang (left) a triangle from which are suspended the corpses of thirteen sailors, and (right) the body of a military officer in uniform (Governor Wall); all have bandaged eyes. The balance hangs in front of a stone building, in the centre of which is an open door showing men seated at a council table, a messenger stands in the doorway giving a dispatch box marked 'GR' to another messenger, saying, "Deliver this Immediatly He must Die." The pilastered doorway is inscribed: 'Justitiae Soror Fides'; above it are kneeling statues of Truth and Justice; between them they support an inscribed tablet: 'It is determined that British Justice shall never be Stained by Partiality, while the poor & ignorant suffer for their Folly the Rich shall also suffer for their Brutality and Infamy.' On the wall are two placards: (left) 'An Account of the Mutiny', and (right) 'A Full True and Particular Account of the Trial of ... For the Murder of ...' This is headed by a print of a man being tied to a cannon and flogged, while an officer looks on and soldiers stand at attention."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Publisher:
Pud. March 3d 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Mutiny), Mutiny, Courtrooms, Hangings (Executions), Justice, Military officers, British, and Sailors
Paine (head and shoulders only visible) dangles on a noose from a lamp-bracket, the post of which is inscribed 'Rights of This Man'. The head of Orléans with the horns of a devil looks down at Paine from behind the post, which he clutches with his talons. From the lamp dangles an escutcheon, on which are pairs of stays and a chevron, with the motto 'Common Sense'.
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., With eighteen lines of letterpress text attacking Paine, beginning: Setting forth as how Tom was born at Thetford ..., and Dated '1794' in a contemporary hand. Beneath the date is a later pencil inscription: ‘This is said to contain a strong likeness of Paine and is not a print to be bought.’
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793
A scaffold extends across the foreground: Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan. The scaffold is surrounded by a dense and cheering mob. On the right is the gate of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, and from two projecting lamp-brackets swing the bodies of Queen Charlotte and Pitt. The houses of the Strand recede in perspective and terminate in Temple Bar, with two heads on spikes; clouds of smoke appear to come from burning houses east of Temple Bar. On the clouds a meretricious Liberty sits enthroned and triumphant.--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption inscribed in brown ink below image., Title inscribed twice on sheet and struck out once., Imprint statement inscribed in brown ink below title: Pubd. July 19th, 1791 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly., Description of published Gillray print in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7892., Description of published Gillray print in Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright. London : Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 130., and A 'counterprint' or transfer in brown ink appears on the verso of the mount from another print: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the Revolution Society.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Decapitations, Hangings (Executions), Executioners, Axes, Kings, and Crowds
"A scaffold extends across the foreground: Fox raises an axe to strike the neck of George III, whose head is held by Sheridan. The scaffold is surrounded by a dense and cheering mob. On the right is the gate of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern, and from two projecting lamp-brackets swing the bodies of Queen Charlotte and Pitt. The houses of the Strand recede in perspective and terminate in Temple Bar, with two heads on spikes; clouds of smoke appear to come from burning houses east of Temple Bar. On the clouds a meretricious Liberty sits enthroned and triumphant. The King's neck rests on a narrow block, his shaved head appears bald, his legs are held up by Horne Tooke, who stands on the left, saying: "O, such a day as this, so renown'd so victorious, Such a day as this was never seen Revolutionists so gay; - while Aristocrats notorious, Tremble at the universal glee." From Tooke's pocket projects a paper: 'Petition of Horne Tooke' (against the return of Fox and Hood for Westminster, see British Museum Satires No. 7690). The King, who supports himself on his hands, says, "What! What! What! - what's the matter now". Fox, enormously stout, straddles behind the King, full face his axe raised in both hands; he wears a mask with large circular eye-holes and fox's ears; he says: "Zounds! what the devil is it that puts me into such a hell of a Funk? - damn it, it is but giving one good blow, & all is settled! - but what if I should miss my aim! - ah! it's the fear of that which makes me stink so! - & yet, damnation! what should I be afraid of? if I should not succeed, why nobody can find me out in this Mask, any more than the Man who chop'd the Calf's-head off, a Hundred & Forty Years ago - and so here goes!" Sheridan kneels in profile to the left holding the King by the ear and nose, he looks up at Fox with a sinister scowl, saying, "Hell & Damnation, dont be afraid give a home stroke, & then throw off the Mask - Zounds, I wish I had hold of the Hatchet." Priestley, behind Sheridan, leans towards the King, saying, "Don't be alarmed at your situation, my dear Brother; we must all dye once; and, therefore what does it signify whether we dye today or tomorrow - in fact, a Man ought to be glad of the opportunity of dying, if by that means he can serve his Country, in bringing about a glorious Revolution: - & as to your Soul, or any thing after death don't trouble yourself about that; depend on it, the Idea of a future state, is all an imposition: & as every thing here is vanity & vexation of spirit, you should therefore rejoice at the moment which will render you easy & quiet". He holds a paper: 'Priestley on a Future State'. Sir Cecil Wray stands with his right hand on Sheridan's shoulder, saying, "Here do give me a little room Joseph that I may be in readiness to catch the droppings of the Small Beer when it is tapp'd; I never can bear to see the Small Beer wasted Joseph!" He holds in his left hand a small cask, 'For Small Beer', and a large pipe; in his pocket is a paper: 'Plan of Chelsea Hospital by Sir Ceci[l] Wray'. The Queen is cruelly caricatured; she swings against Pitt, who is in a death agony with crisped fingers."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 37 x 55 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 19th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Subject (Topic):
Axes, Executioners, Hangings (Executions), and Crowds
