V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An undertaker, bearing a coffin, presents himself before a rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in a chair
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state bearing a more complete imprint with the year crossed out but still legible: Pubd. Febry. 26, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of bottom half of title lettering., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "297" in the upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges, with almost complete loss of title., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 72 in volume 4.
Publisher:
T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Undertakers, Coffins, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Obesity, Chairs, and Dogs
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An undertaker, bearing a coffin, presents himself before a rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in a chair
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state bearing a more complete imprint with the year crossed out but still legible: Pubd. Febry. 26, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of bottom half of title lettering., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Plate numbered "297" in the upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: A 1819 [partially trimmed]., and Mounted to 27 x 35.2 cm.
Publisher:
T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Undertakers, Coffins, Smoking, Pipes (Smoking), Obesity, Chairs, and Dogs
A very fat man (Councellor Wollop), wearing a silk robe and cap sits at a well-laid table, his large napkin tucked in at his neck. He leans back in his chair while a thin man pours wine down his throat. Two other men smile as they offer him more food, as the one carves a joint. The table has contains platters with bread and plum pudding as well as a decanter of spirits. They are a well-appointed room arches and a portrait of a man in a wig hanging on the wall behind the councellor
Alternative Title:
Another slice of plum pudding for Councellor Wollop
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with thread margin on top and bottom., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 20, 1774, by I. Sledge, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Topic):
Dining rooms, Food, Interiors, Gluttony, Obesity, and Servants
Title from item., Publisher's statement following imprint: who has lately fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel stile [sic] admittance one shilling. NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch Light Horsemen -- Timpani -- Trumpets -- Pulleys -- Smoking: pipes -- Guns: muskets., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. July 24, 1794, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Leaf 3. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A tall, thin gentleman in a military uniform walks across a mountainous landscape carrying on his back an obese parson with a "Tithes" basket full of chickens and a sucking-pig under his left arm and a scourge with three lashes in his right hand. Behind them and in front of his sheaved harvest stands a farmer dressed in a smock, with a branch in his right hand and his hat in the left. He says, "We Farmers have our Bodys Eat up, for the good of our Souls."
Alternative Title:
Majesty of the people
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower left corner. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6209 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?], Text following title: The Lord open'd the mouth of the ass, &c., Temporary local subject terms: Balaam -- Parsons -- Scourges -- Military uniforms: Militia, colonel., and On leaf 3 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Tithes, Clergy, Farmers, Military officers, British, Clothing & dress, Whips, and Obesity
A tall, thin gentleman in a military uniform walks accross a mountainous landscape carrying on his back an obese parson with a "Tithes" basket full of chickens and a sucking-pig under his left arm and a scourge with three lashes in his right hand. Behind them and in front of his sheaved harvest stands a farmer dressed in a smock, with a branch in his right hand and his hat in the left. He says, "We Farmers have our Bodys Eat up, for the good of our Souls."
Alternative Title:
Majesty of the people
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: The Lord open'd the mouth of the ass, &c., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Tithes, Clergy, Farmers, Military officers, British, Clothing & dress, Whips, and Obesity
An enormously fat gentleman, with a footman stationed at his rear, brandishes a whip, as he drives his phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The signpost behind him reads "to Salthill" with a mile marker to the right of the print XIX miles. A crest of a deer or donkey head adorns the side of the carriage
Alternative Title:
Flying buck
Description:
[State with plate number]., Title from item., Reissue, with added plate number., Initial letters "MD" of publisher's name form a monogram., Numbered '12' in upper left of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, July 6, 1776, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Horses, Clothing & dress, Obesity, and Coats of arms
Leaf 11. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An enormously fat gentleman, with a footman stationed at his rear, brandishes a whip as he drives his phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The signpost behind him reads "to Salthill" with a mile marker on the right reading "XIX miles". A crest of a donkey's head adorns the side of the carriage
Alternative Title:
Flying buck
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On leaf 11.
New way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Date derived from George IV's date of death., Place of publication derived from street address., Below title: Dedicated to all fashionable Equestrians afflicted with that Malady!, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sidebotham 96 Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)
