"Mrs. Billington, enormously fat, sits in an arm-chair, her arms flung over its arms, opening her mouth for a spoonful of guineas, administered by W. T. Lewis (right), who bends over her. On her other side stands Sheridan, round-shouldered, stooping, and agitated. He holds out a money-bag, saying, "O Dear O Dear - if the dear Creature has lost her Notes - what will become of us - my dear friend spare no Cost to make up the deficiency, give her another spoonfull, I have plenty more in the bag - all the true Pizarro-coinage." Lewis, smiling, answers: "Dont be alarmed she takes the Boluses very kindly - and I have every reason to hope a speedy recovery." Mrs. Billington is dressed as Clara, in quasi-Spanish costume, almost as in British Museum Satires No. 9914; a checked scarf lies across her lap. On the right are two amoretti; one stands looking up at the other, who flies above his head holding out a scroll; both hold handkerchiefs to their eyes; the one below has butterfly wings and a wreath of roses, the other has feathered wings. The scroll: 'Mourn Cherubims and Seraphims Clara's Notes are Stopp'd - Copy of a Letter - Dear Sir, It grieves me to the heart that I am not able to play this evening - my Throat being so closed as not to leave me a single Note in my Voice" [see British Museum Satires No. 9970]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair -- Money: Guineas -- Medical Procedures: administering medicine -- Literature Allusion: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1756-1816, 'The Duenna'., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.9 x 35.6 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 38.3 cm., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 436 (leaf numbered '50' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 16th, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Opera singers, Chairs, Coins, Physicians, and Putti
"Mrs. Billington, enormously fat, sits in an arm-chair, her arms flung over its arms, opening her mouth for a spoonful of guineas, administered by W. T. Lewis (right), who bends over her. On her other side stands Sheridan, round-shouldered, stooping, and agitated. He holds out a money-bag, saying, "O Dear O Dear - if the dear Creature has lost her Notes - what will become of us - my dear friend spare no Cost to make up the deficiency, give her another spoonfull, I have plenty more in the bag - all the true Pizarro-coinage." Lewis, smiling, answers: "Dont be alarmed she takes the Boluses very kindly - and I have every reason to hope a speedy recovery." Mrs. Billington is dressed as Clara, in quasi-Spanish costume, almost as in British Museum Satires No. 9914; a checked scarf lies across her lap. On the right are two amoretti; one stands looking up at the other, who flies above his head holding out a scroll; both hold handkerchiefs to their eyes; the one below has butterfly wings and a wreath of roses, the other has feathered wings. The scroll: 'Mourn Cherubims and Seraphims Clara's Notes are Stopp'd - Copy of a Letter - Dear Sir, It grieves me to the heart that I am not able to play this evening - my Throat being so closed as not to leave me a single Note in my Voice" [see British Museum Satires No. 9970]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair -- Money: Guineas -- Medical Procedures: administering medicine -- Literature Allusion: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1756-1816, 'The Duenna'., Figures identified by ms. note in contemporary hand at bottom of sheet: Sheridan ; Mrs. Billington ; Lewis., Printseller's identification stamp located in lower right corner of print: S·W·F., and Mounted to 30 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 16th, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Opera singers, Chairs, Coins, Physicians, and Putti
Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation: Shakespeare -- Warts., Owner's mark: Lugt., no. 2832., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street & W. Dickie, opposite Exeter change
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., and India.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Francis, Philip, 1740-1818
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Obesity, Colonies, Weather vanes, and Gambling
"A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., For a description of a later state with variant imprint, see no. 7118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image., No. 35 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Toby jugs, Obesity, Tobacco pipes, Gardens, and Pitchers
"A jovial and enormously stout man sits on a chair holding a large frothing jug in his right hand, a pipe in his left. Behind him are trees. His contour resembles that of a Toby jug. Beneath the design are verses beginning: 'Dear Tom this brown Jug that now foams with mild Ale (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul ...' The verse describes how a potter formed the jug out of the clay of Toby when he had long been buried."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Later state of a print originally published by Carington Bowles in 1786., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., The eighteen-line ballad "The brown jug" by Francis Fawkes is etched in three columns below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, Londo[n]
Subject (Topic):
Toby jugs, Obesity, Tobacco pipes, Gardens, and Pitchers
Title from item., Verse below title: Divide me like a bribe-buck, each a haunch, Shakespeare., Sheet trimmed to thread margins of plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation: Shakespeare -- Obese man -- Warts., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street
Two obese men walk along a slopping road sweating heavily in the sun. One of them holds his hat and wig in his left hand and wipes his bald head with a handkerchief, the other, with his waistcoat unbuttoned and his coat thrown over his shoulder, wipes his forehead. The verse following the title beginning "From London to Highgate ..." mocks Londoners' popular habit of going up to Highgate Hill on Sundays
Alternative Title:
Two three pounders in full speed to a shilling ordinary on Sunday
Description:
Title from item. and Possibly an early state of no. 8405 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Walking, Dirt roads, and Clothing & dress
A very fat man, stuck in a turnstile in a passage between two buildings, is helped by a young boy (right) with a suitcase (a boot-black?) and a man in fur cap, perhaps a carrier whose handcart leans against the wall (left). The passage is identified on the left as "Passage de la Boule Rouge". A poster on the building on the right warns, "Avis aux etrangers sur les dangers de Paris"; below this advice is the printmaker's name and the imprint statement
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title from impression in the Paris Musées Collections., Imprint statement and printmaker name from image of a broadside., Series title and number from caption above image., Sheet trimmed to image with loss of all text., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Trimmed to image: sheet 19.3 x 23.6 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, St. Honoré
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Turnstiles, Obesity, and City & town life
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.2 plate 22
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach. His right hand is thrust inside his coat, his left is in his coat-pocket. His hat is under his left arm. He wears a laced coat, a shirt with lace ruffles and a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sr. Humpy. Haunch, bart. of Glutton Hall, Sir Humphrey Haunch, baronet, of Glutton Hall, and Venison and claret
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue., Early state. For reissue with additional numbering, see no. 5002 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., and Imperfect; subtitle has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st 1772, according to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Obesity
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1772]
Call Number:
772.04.01.04.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach. His right hand is thrust inside his coat, his left is in his coat-pocket. His hat is under his left arm. He wears a laced coat, a shirt with lace ruffles and a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sr. Humpy. Haunch, bart. of Glutton Hall, Sir Humphrey Haunch, Baronet, of Glutton Hall, and Venison and claret
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue., Series numbered in upper left and right corner, respectively: V. 2 22., and On verso: "Ld. B. Album."
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st 1772, according to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Obesity
