"Frontispiece to 'All the Talents', 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus', i.e. E. S. Barrett, attacking the late Ministry. The print (Hogarthian in manner) has little relation to the verses, and is probably adapted from an earlier satire, perhaps on Bute. A creature with the body of a man and the face of an ape, with a tail, tramples on burning papers. It wears spectacles, a large wig, bands, old-fashioned laced coat (with a star), and tattered breeches. On one foot is a shoe; the left. leg is in a large jack-boot (? originally an emblem of Bute). In the right hand is a crozier with which he pulls down two books from a shelf: 'Magna Charter' and 'Coronation Oath'. Behind him a musket inscribed 'Army', the barrel pointing upwards, is firing a blast at the falling books. His left hand rests on a book or ledger, open on a book-stand, in which he writes with the feathered end of his pen. The page is headed 'Finance'; from the book hangs a paper: 'Country Dances'. The burning papers are inscribed 'Negotiation' [bis], 'Sinecures'. He is smoking a pipe from which thick clouds of smoke rise and obscure a profile bust portrait of Pitt. Below the design: 'Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.'."--British Museum online catalogue. and British Museum curator's comments: The monster symbolizes the blind and reckless politician. The verses, though published after the fall of the Ministry ... were written before it, and do not allude to the Catholic question, here indicated by the treatment of the 'Coronation Oath'. Nor are the peace negotiations, ... directly referred to. They contain a tribute to Pitt, and gibes at Petty, ... here illustrated. They went through nineteen editions in 1807 ....
Description:
Lettered below title with a line from Virgil (Aeniad, III, 658): Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum., Plate from: All the Talents, 18th edition, satirical verses by 'Polypus.', and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 1786-1820, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons., and Stockdale, John Joseph, 1770-1847, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations., Apes., and Pipes (Smoking)
"A Dutchman (left), smoking a short pipe, hands in his pockets, is being chucked under the chin by a gaily dressed courtesan (right), her left hand on her hip. He wears the round hat and baggy breeches of the Dutchman in caricature. Both stand full-face, each looks towards the other. The background is formed by the lower part of houses in Covent Garden showing the arcade of the Piazza, a sedan chair (right) stands under an arch. Immediately behind the two figures are vegetables and baskets."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After watercolor by Robert Dighton., Date from British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; publication date erased from this impression or burnished from plate., Plate numbered '455' in lower left corner., Watermark., and Matted to 62 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
"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
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 March 1796]
Call Number:
796.03.26.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of text below image: I hope I don't intrude, gentlemen ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Jews -- Dishes: Punch bowl.
Publisher:
Pub. March 26, 1796, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Strt
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Coffins, Drinking vessels, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), and Undertakers
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, hand-colored ; 255 (cl) x 352 (pl) mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom, with probable loss of plate number from upper right.
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., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 250 (cl) x 352 (pl) mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom, with probable loss of plate number from upper right.
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., 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 stout John Bull sits in an arm-chair holding a long pipe in his left hand which rests on a circular table beside a glass and bottle of 'Coniac'. He looks up with an anxious scowl at an elderly man who stands (right), saying, "I 'am come again about the Taxes Sir - if agreeable to you to discharge them". The tax-collector holds a large open book, 'New Taxes for the Year 1796', [The last figure is doubtful] in which he writes with his left hand. He wears a hat in which a pen is thrust, an ink-bottle hangs from a button, in each pocket of his greatcoat is a large book, one being 'Additional Taxes on Window Lights'. Under his arm is another large book: '[T]axes Receipts Taxes'. Beside the taxpayer sits a dog, who glares up at the tax-collector with an expression resembling that of his master."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in J. Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist., Lewis Walpole print 794.12.26.01: Title expanded in contemporary hand: Mr. Taxus or an unwelcome visitor to John Bull., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publd. as the act directs by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Alcoholic beverages, Chairs, Dogs, and Pipes (Smoking)