Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Women: old maids -- Military officers., and Watermark: 1799 Russell & Co.
Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he holds up, beckoning with his right hand to two bare-legged men in Highland dress who are climbing up the mountain behind Johnson. In the foreground are thistles."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., A companion print to: A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side., On paper watermarked "W.J.", and Tipped in opposite title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland.
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 14, 1797.
Call Number:
797.07.14.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An older gentleman in spectacles and holding a walking stick holds the hand of a monkey, dressed as a young man with wig, breeches, jacket, shirt with a bow at the neck, a hat, and a riding crop under his arm, as the walk to the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: A monkey child led by a travelling tutor gives the painters opinion of those young gentlemen who visited Rome for improvement in connoisseurship. It is copied from a burlesque by Cav. Ghazzi [sic], etched by Mr. Pond. [From] Irelands Hogarth illustrated. Vol. 1 Article Hogarth, page lxx., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Ghezzi, Pier Leone, 1674-1755 and Pond, Arthur, 1701-1758
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Eyeglasses, Monkeys, and Teachers
Title in top margin., Date derived from French Republican calendar date., At lower right: Ex.it du courrier des Spectacles du 2 pr.d An 9., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, libraire, rue du coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
Cuckolds, Smallpox, Vaccination, Horns (Anatomy), Physicians, Spouses, Cows, Monkeys, and Games
A young boy holding a monkey looks admiringly at a girl who holds a dog
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
Subject (Name):
Bruce, James, 1730-1794
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
"Satire on the attempt to establish an Anglican episcopacy in the American colonies. A group of angry colonists push away from a quayside a ship named “The Hilsborough” (a reference to Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State who had ordered troops to Boston in June 1768) On the ship is a large carriage with its wheels and a crosier and mitre beside it. A bishop is climbing the rigging saying “Lord, now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace” (Archbishop Secker who died in August 1768 had left £1000 to help establish a bishopric in North America). The colonists are shown as advocates of liberty of conscience and religious non-conformism: one waves a large book lettered “Sydney on Government”, another brandishes “Locke”; “Calvins Works” has already been thrown towards the bishop; another colonist waves a flag, topped with the cap of liberty and emblazoned with the words “Liberty & Freedom of Conscience”; a Quaker holds “Barclay’s Apology” saying “No Lords Spiritual or Temporal in New England”. A monkey on the quay holds a stone as if intending to throw it at the bishop. A paper lies on the ground lettered “Shall they be obliged to maintain Bishops that cannot maintain themselves”. The print appeared in the Political Register, 1769, facing p.119."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., and Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 119.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Chariots, Clegy, Monkeys, Bishops, Ships, and British
"Satire on fashion: an elderly couple and a child visiting a menagerie are amused to see a monkey seizing the long queue of a macaroni while it seizes its own tail. The monkey is chained as are a bear and a wolf; a peacock and an eagle (?) are in cages."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Macaroni in distress
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered '366' in lower right of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Wigs, Zoo animals, Monkeys, Bears, and Peacocks
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., From an edition of "Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid" or "The Great Mirror of Folly"., Below image are twenty-four lines of verse in Dutch., 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 (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Politics and government, Globes, Cradles, Dissections, Monkeys, Demons, and Dead persons
A scene with a group of mourners in a landscape, a palm tree to the left with a monkey watching and pointing to the drama. A man standing to the right reads from a book; three other figures, another man and a woman with a child on her back weep as they watch two men lower the deceased into the grave. The man on the right says, "How precious pale he look in de face." The other man holding the other end of the stretcher says, "Aye-Aye, him be no Moor."
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state of a plate first published by Gabriel Shire Tregear in 1834, the year in which the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. The original print was one of twenty caricatures with the series title 'Tregear's Black Jokes'. The prints developed the theme of the earlier 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures (of which Tregear published copies), lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population. After Tregear's death, the plates for 'Tregear's Black Jokes' passed to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this later state. The three mentions of Tregear's name on the plate have either been changed to Lewis's or simply effaced., Dated 1860 by the Library of Congress, but Hickman suggests that the prints were issued before that date., "Catalogue of prints"--Etched in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
T.C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Graves, Shovels, Grief, Crying, and Monkeys
