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1. "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 11. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added below image in lower left. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 11 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer]
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic]
2. "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1780]
- Call Number:
- 780.12.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- National characteristics, French, Starvation, Butchers, Dandies, French, Meat, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic].
3. Family compact [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1778]
- Call Number:
- 778.00.00.35+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A very tall thin gentleman with elongated wig and dour expression sits facing left on a block labelled "Stool of repentance" as he pulls a frog apart by its legs. Strapped to him by a belt around the waist is an old long-haired and bearded man, with bows on his shoes and holding a purse marked "empty". On the right, a sailor stands facing the viewer and holding in his hand a club, as he points towards the two men and smiles. Next to him on the ground lies a bag marked "1000 dollars." Probably a reference to the Bourbon Family Compact wherein Spain allied herself with France to regain Gibraltar
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain, France., France, Spain., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- National characteristics, French, National characteristics, Spanish, Foreign relations, and Sailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Family compact [graphic].
4. L'arrivée un Anglais attaqué du spleen, vient se faire traiter en France / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1815]
- Call Number:
- 815.02.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A companion plate to Le Départ (British Museum satire no. 12362), satirizing the haste of the English to visit France in 1814 and their gluttony and bad dressing. The Frenchman who cooks a cat is a subject of English caricatures on the favourite theme of the beggarly Frenchman and well-fed Englishman. In this print. "A lean Englishman strides on to the quayside from an (invisible) gangway leading to the deck of a packet, which is seen below (right), covered with the heads of passengers, looking eagerly upwards. The furled sails and rigging are on the extreme right; a dove holding an olive-branch sits on a spar. A jovial French cook leads the Englishman, who grasps his left wrist; he points to a doorway on the extreme left, below the sign 'Au Bien Venu'. He holds the white cotton night-cap which was the cap of the French cook, but is not foppish as in English caricature, but manly and sturdy. The traveller is a grotesque figure wearing a hat shaped like a flower-pot, [this hat appears in almost all satires on English costumes in Paris, c. 1814; it is worn by a man dressed à l'Anglais in No. 53 of the 'Bon Genre Series' (? 1813): 'Cheveux à Cherubin. Chapeau en pot à fleurs. Redingote en Robe de Chambre'; cf. J.-P. de Bérenger, 'Les Boxeurs', 1814: Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids / Goddam! moi j'aime les Anglais] long tail-coat, wrinkled breeches, and long ill-fitting gaiters on very thin legs. His profile has an absurdly heavy chin (cf. British Museum no. 12364), and he registers eager expectation. On a flap projecting from a window beside the door are peaches, grapes, pears, &c. Within a courtyard a second cook leans from an attic window, knife in hand, to catch a cat by the tail, one of several scampering from the ridge-pole."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Description from impression in the British Museum catalogue., Lettered "Déposé" below image left., Attributed to printmaker Godisart de Cari and publisher Martinet. See British Museum catalogue., This plate was deposited by Martinet on 1 February 1815, although his name is not actually lettered on the plate. It is a pair to 'Le départ' (British Museum number 1868,0822.7249)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of text at lower left and portions of the image at the corners: irregular sheet 18.8 x 23 cm.
- Publisher:
- Chez Martinet
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Doves, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, and Mail steamers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > L'arrivée un Anglais attaqué du spleen, vient se faire traiter en France / [graphic]
5. Le depart guéri du spleen par la cuisine Française, l'Anglais retourne à Londres en embonpoint / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 November 1814]
- Call Number:
- 814.11.12.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Englishman, grossly obese, walks from the door of the inn (left) supporting his paunch on a wheelbarrow which the cook of British Museum satire no. 12361 helps to drag, exhausted by the effort, and mopping his face with his cap. A plank leads from the quayside to a packet-boat, the stern of which appears below, empty except for one expectant sailor. Another sailor's hand appears by the plank, ready to assist the embarkation. The sign of the inn is not depicted, the window flap hangs down. The second cook stands in the courtyard, offering food to a gorged cat on the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Dimensions from impression in the British Museum catalogue., Lettered "Déposé" below image left., Attributed to printmaker Godisart de Cari and publisher Martinet. See British Museum catalogue., This plate was deposited by Martinet on 12 Novemberr 1814, before its pendant 'L'Arrivée' (1868,0808.7249) which logically precedes it. Martinet's name is not actually lettered on the plate., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of text at lower left; corners trimmed: 19 x 23.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- Chez Martinet
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, Mail steamers, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le depart guéri du spleen par la cuisine Française, l'Anglais retourne à Londres en embonpoint / [graphic]
6. Politeness [graphic]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 8th Decr. 1779.
- Call Number:
- 779.12.08.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "John Bull (left) and a Frenchman (right) sit on two chairs; each scowls over his shoulder at the other. The Englishman is stout and plainly dressed, his hair is short and without powder, he wears top-boots. In his right hand he holds a foaming tankard which rests on his knee; in his left is a gnarled stick. The Frenchman is thin, wears a pigtail queue, ruffled shirt and laced waistcoat. He clutches in both hands a bowl in which is a spoon, evidently the soup-meagre of English caricature. Each man has a dog under his chair, and the beasts snarl at each other. The English dog is some sort of mastiff; his collar is inscribed "T. Crus[ty]"; the French dog is of greyhound type. Over John Bull's head is engraved "You be D------m'd"; over the Frenchman's, "Vous etes une Bete"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Lettering attributed to James Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), National characteristics, English, and National characteristics, French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Politeness [graphic]
7. Politeness [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1779]
- Call Number:
- 779.12.08.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A more elaborate version of British Museum satire no. 5611 drawn with more freedom. A joint of beef hangs on the wall behind John Bull; a bundle of frogs behind the Frenchman. The Frenchman holds an open snuff-box instead of a bowl of soup; a laced hat is under his arm; he wears a bag-wig. John Bull's tankard is inscribed "John Bull the Buttock of Beef. . ." Beneath the design is etched: "With Porter Roast Beef & Plumb Pudding well cram'd, Jack English declares that Monsr may be D------d. The Soup Meagre Frenchman such Language dont suit, So he Grins Indignation & calls him a Brute.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Another publication line, "Pubd. by J. Aitken, No. 14 Castle Street, London," has been nearly obliterated at bottom of plate by several etched lines forming the lower border., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by H. Humphrey, St. James Street
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), National characteristics, English, and National characteristics, French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Politeness [graphic].
8. Recruit Francois recruit anglois, or, The contrasted recruits [graphic]
- Creator:
- Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.00.00.26+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A French recruit (left), an English recruit (right) face each other in profile, both are standing erect in a soldierly way, but are in civilian clothes except for the favour in the Englishman's round hat, and except for the bulky knapsack of fur or skin which each wears. They are described in words engraved beneath the title: "Monsieur all ruffles no Shirt Wooden Pumps and Stockingless" and "Jack English with Ruddy face and belly full of Beef". The Frenchman holds a slim cane, the Englishman a stout cudgel. Behind the former (left) are frogs and rats or mice, behind the latter cows and sheep, to illustrate the supposed contrast between French and English fare."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Contrasted recruits
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed., Reissue, with publisher's name added to the plate, of no. 5862 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Date from print of same title; See British Museum satire no. 5862 which lacks imprint.
- Publisher:
- Sold by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- National characteristics, French, National characteristics, British, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Recruit Francois recruit anglois, or, The contrasted recruits [graphic]
9. The Dutchman in the dumps [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [9 April 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.04.09.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Figures representing the five countries who were at war. A tall Dutchman stands looking up with a face of despair, in his left hand he holds out a paper inscribed, "Eustatia lost, Oh! Oh!" He says, "I shall Die, I'm undone! My best hope is now gone!" A laughing English sailor (left) standing on his right holds a small bottle inscribed "Gin" to his nose, saying, "High & Mighty's [an allusion to 'Hogen Mogen', "the high mightiness", or the States General of the United Provinces] your Grief, Smell this for Relief." In his right hand he holds a netted purse taken from the Dutchman. On the right stand the other enemy powers: Spain, in slashed doublet, cloak, feathered hat, and top-boots, is reading a newspaper 'Gaze', ['London Gazette'] and sayings "If this News is true, It will make us all rue." Behind him are France (left) and America (right). France holds up his hands with an expression of alarm, saying, "St Eustatia by Gar, Vas de Storehouse of War." America, a slim youth, the most insignificant of the five, is saying, "America now, To Old England must bow.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject headings: Dutch island of St. Eustatius -- American Revolution -- Rodney seizing of the island.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 9th, 1781 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- National characteristics, American, National characteristics, British, National characteristics, Dutch, National characteristics, French, National characteristics, Spanish, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Dutchman in the dumps [graphic].
