"Three men sit, singing a catch, with a round table between them. A British officer (perhaps Cotton), wearing a cocked hat, sits in profile to the right, facing Dalrymple who sits (right) with tightly closed mouth, his hands on his knees. Between them, but with his chair from Dalrymple, sits a man in Spanish (here Portuguese) dress, wearing a feathered hat. The British officer sings: T'was You Sir-Hew - Twas Hew. that let the French Escape, That makes you look so blue Sir-Hew Sir Hew! He and the Portuguese (perhaps Freire) point minatory hands at Dalrymple, whose face is painted lead colour. On the wall are two pictures: (above the Portuguese) 'A correct representation of the French Plunderers stopt in their progress by the Spanish Patriots.' [at Baylen] and (above Dalrymple): 'A Correct representation of the French Plunderers quitting Portugal for France - under a British Escort.' In one a long train of wagons is stopped by armed men, in the other are ships in full sail. On the table are glasses and decanters of 'Port and Calcavella'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: E& P.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1808 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Spain. and Portugal.
Subject (Name):
Cotton, Charles, Sir, 1753-1812 and Dalrymple, Hew Whiteford, Sir, 1750-1830
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Generals, British, Military officers, Singing, Wine, Drinking vessels, and Pictures
"Mrs. Coutts (right), fat, swarthy, and moustached, sits at a table, holding out a cheque for £100.000 to Lord Burford. Her Cheque Book lies on the table. He steps forward, hat in hand, left hand on breast, in profile to the right. She says: Why you seem to be a good looking hard working young fellow, but I must tell you my business is extensive And I shall expect you will employ your time day and night for the benefit of the Concern, you must also be humble and submissive, should this be realized on Trial I will make you a Sleeping Partner. And here's a trifle for you to buy a pair of gloves. He answers with eager deference: You may depend upon it Madam I shall endeavour to give you every satisfaction. I shall be very attentive and if I can't get through the business as you like, you are at liberty to employ an Assistant. Mrs. Coutts is décolletée and bejewelled, wearing a turban trimmed with a paradise-plume. The gold-bordered tablecloth is weighted with balls inscribed £20,000 and £9,000. Large money-bags are on the floor behind her: £800,000 and . . . 000. Under her chair are a glass and a decanter of White Tape. Behind her is a picture of heaped sovereigns and money-bags. Other pictures are a cow looking over the wall of Mrs C--s Dairy, and (left) a castle: View near St Albans. The chairs are decorated with coins pouring from cornucopias."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 32 x 46.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1825 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
Satire with two naval officers (one of whom is the Duke of Clarence caricatured, with heavy jowl, protruding lips, and small slanting eye) abusing each other at table, observed by a civilian who winks and holds a finger to the side of his nose. The naval officer on the right says, "Why, they say there is always a fool in every family, & they generally send him to Sea." The Duke of Clarence in the middle responds, " How the Devil came you to put into the Navy, Captain." The civilian to the right, observes, "Britons strike home!!!" On the table are plates of fruit and wine glasses with two carafes one of which is labeled "Goose" and a booklet entitled "An essay on Government by Jordan". Two pictures on the wall in the background illustrate the theme: on the left, the image shows a man (King George) holds the arm of a crying young cadet, a sword between his legs, carries the title "Win them first then wear them." On the right, "On board the London" is an image of two officers fighting while two big sailors smile as they watch
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publd. Augt. 22d, 1827, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Insults, Military officers, and Pictures
"The interior of a sale-room lit by a candelabra hanging from the ceiling. The buyers and connoisseurs sit on the outer side of a line of trestle-tables arranged in the arc of a circle. Others stand behind them. In the centre sits the auctioneer Hutchins, stout and smiling, his hammer raised. The clerk (Judd) sits facing him in shadow, writing at a small table lit by two candles. Two attendants stand on the inner side of the trestles showing the lots. One (left) shows a large volume to a group of five, the centre figure being the spectacled Dr. Lort. On the walls of the room are framed pictures, including one of a reclining Venus. On the high chimney-piece are statuettes. The persons are portraits, slightly caricatured, and drawn with humour and expressiveness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From a series entitled: Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Candelabras, Auctioneers, Pictures, Sculpture, and Chimneypieces
"A game is just finished: a pretty elegant girl (right) has nine tricks, and an elderly spinster in old-fashioned dress, with spectacles on forehead, has four. They argue, gesturing with their hands, while the two men watch the girl intently. A dog barks at her. The room is lit by two candles from a sconce. Two pictures are on the wall, an owl in a bush, and a half-length portrait of a man, who seems to be watching the game intently, finger on lip"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One in a series of six prints. Series title varies., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
George IV stands at the center of the design, a smirk on his face and an arm around each of his two mistresses: Lady Hertford on left, and Lady Conyngham (who reaches up to touch his chin) on the right. Two pictures on the wall in the background identify the women: "Hertford Lodge" on the left, and "Cunningham Castle" on the right. Caroline looks in at the scene through a window on the right, her speech bubble reading "What do I behold." The King wears ornaments on his chest that include a corkscrew; a tapped barrel on wheels rests on a table on the left, a glass sitting underneath its spigot
Alternative Title:
Scene in The beggers opera wih a new cunning-m actress and Scene in The beggars opera wih a new Cunningham actress
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1801., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 62 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Hertford," "George IV," "Lady Conyngham," and "Caroline" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "12 Aug. 1820" written in ink in lower right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aug. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Corkscrews, Barrels, Drinking vessels, and Pictures
An angry, bare-breasted young woman in a night dress and cap enters the door of a sitting room from a bedroom (seen through the open door on the right). She scowls at the white-haired man relaxed in an armchair in front of a fire; he smokes a pipe and holds a goblet of wine in his left hand as he leans back in the chair, his feet resting on the grate of the roaring fire; at his elbow a table with a lit candle, carafe, jug, spoon, and book "Miseries of Human Life". One dog sleeps near a gun propped up against the mantel piece; a hunting cap hangs on back wall. Another dog looks at the woman from under the table at the man's side and barks. A large cat that has come in with the woman hisses back at him. A book on the mantel is titled "Rule a wife and have a wife"; the painting above the mantel "Mr. Pantons grey mare ranter out of doll tearsheet." In front of the and to the right are a bootjack and discarded boots pants; a clock hangs on the wall above a tiered table
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 54 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1806, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[12 May 1794]
Call Number:
794.05.12.19
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The corner of a picture-gallery with a crowd of spectators peering at two pictures on the right. The most prominent are a short fat man, resembling caricatures of Captain Grose, and a dwarfish boy who stand in profile to the right. A man wearing a cocked hat, evidently standing on a bench, looks through a quizzing-glass at the upper picture. Two men in back view, one seated, one standing, look at pictures on the back wall, where a landscape is hung."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., From the series of Drolls., Numbered '133' in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Print shops -- Quizzing glasses.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Galleries (Display spaces), Spectators, and Pictures
"The Duke of Richmond (left) sleeps in an arm-chair beside a table on which are playing-cards and bits of broken tobacco-pipes arranged to represent fortifications. On the right are two cannons, one on a gun-carriage ; a cat sits on its muzzle miaowing at Richmond, one paw on the table. By his side (left) are plans on rollers and a box of long tobacco-pipes. On the wall hang two pictures on rollers as if they were plans. In one (left) soldiers with wheelbarrows, &c. work on the sea-shore, off which dismantled ships lie at anchor. In the other, cannons and cannon-balls with one sentry lie along the sea-shore, off which are ships at anchor with brooms at their mast-heads to show that they are for sale. Richmond's hat, overcoat, and sword hang on the wall between the two pictures. At his feet is an open book inscribed 'Trial of Colol Debbeig'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Planing of fortifications and Planning of fortifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: House of Cards -- Card players -- Bill to fortify Portsmouth -- Fortifications -- Furniture -- Pictures that amplify subject -- Matches -- Pets., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24.6 x 33.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published March 7th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Sleeping, Tables, Playing cards, Pipes (Smoking), Cats, and Pictures
"The Duke of Richmond (left) sleeps in an arm-chair beside a table on which are playing-cards and bits of broken tobacco-pipes arranged to represent fortifications. On the right are two cannons, one on a gun-carriage ; a cat sits on its muzzle miaowing at Richmond, one paw on the table. By his side (left) are plans on rollers and a box of long tobacco-pipes. On the wall hang two pictures on rollers as if they were plans. In one (left) soldiers with wheelbarrows, &c. work on the sea-shore, off which dismantled ships lie at anchor. In the other, cannons and cannon-balls with one sentry lie along the sea-shore, off which are ships at anchor with brooms at their mast-heads to show that they are for sale. Richmond's hat, overcoat, and sword hang on the wall between the two pictures. At his feet is an open book inscribed 'Trial of Colol Debbeig'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Planing of fortifications and Planning of fortifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: House of Cards -- Card players -- Bill to fortify Portsmouth -- Fortifications -- Furniture -- Pictures that amplify subject -- Matches -- Pets., Horace Walpole refers to subject of print in his letter to Mann dated March 16, 1786., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman?
Publisher:
Published March 7th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Sleeping, Tables, Playing cards, Pipes (Smoking), Cats, and Pictures
