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1. A scene in the new farce as performed at the Royalty Theatre! / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [14 February 1821]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 33. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George IV, dressed as Henry VIII and with cavalry boots decorated with rosettes, sits on the throne (right), shrinking angrily from oxen wearing civic gowns who bow, presenting petitions. All the horns of the oxen are tipped with tiny caps resembling caps of Liberty; a slightly larger pair protects the prongs of a fork held up on the extreme left above the massed heads of the beasts. On this a placard is speared: 'Petitions from every Part of the World--(Hole's and Corner's excepted) to Dismiss the Ministers-- signed by upwards of 999,999--Millions of the Brute Creation.' The petitions of the four beasts in the front row are headed: 'Petition of Lord Mayor & Citizens of London to Dismiss Ministers'; 'Petitions from every part of England & Wales to Dismiss Ministers &c &c &c'; '. . . ions from every Part of Scotland to Dismiss Ministers &c &c &c'; 'Petitions from every part of Ireland . . . [ut supra]'. Hooves rise from cattle behind holding more petitions: 'from Europe'; 'From Asia'; 'from Africa'; 'from America'; 'from every Honest Man'. The canopied throne is raised on a dais of three steps, the footstool is a cushion supported on a (carved) elephant; but the King's feet are drawn back. His right hand is on his hip; he holds an oddly shaped sceptre in the left hand. The back of the throne is framed by carved mannikins with shackled hands and feet; a large crown rests on the heads of the two uppermost. The back of the canopy has a pattern of writhing serpents. Ministers, much caricatured, stand on the right and left of the dais. In the foreground (right) and on the King's left, Wellington, with the apron and steel of a butcher (as in British Museum Satires No. 13288), with gauntlet gloves and with a star on his tunic, holds a blood-stained battle-axe. Sidmouth, as Court-fool, sits in profile to the left on an apothecary's mortar, wearing a double-peaked fool's cap and a star, and holding a bladder which is his clyster-pipe. Behind is Eldon, scowling savagely and holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. A bishop holding a crosier stands on either side of the throne, behind the Ministers. A staff supports an emblematical cask which a naked Bacchus bestrides. On the King's right is Liverpool, holding a tall staff to which a green bag is tied (see British Museum Satires No. 13735). Next him is Castlereagh, blandly sinister, holding a scourge, and with a bunch of keys hanging from his belt; he stares at the petitioners. A tiny Vansittart is beside him, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, with an 'X' on his breast above a chequered pattern, hung diamond-wise. Immensely fat and absurd beefeaters stand along the back of the room under quasi-Gothic windows of stained glass. All hold tridents and turn their eyes towards the petitioners, grinning grotesquely. Each window is centred by an escutcheon on which a decanter is the chief object. The upper part of each is filled by a design of three large peacock's feathers (see British Museum Satires No. 13299). The Gothic roof, caricaturing that at Carlton House (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11727), is filled with tracery in the form of antlers."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Text below image: Historical fact, King Henry VIII, being petitioned to dismiss his ministers & council, by the citizens of London & many boroughs, to releive [sic] his oppressed subjects, made the citizens this sagacious reply: "We, with all our cabinet, think it strange that ye, who be but brutes, & inexpert folk, shd. tell us who be & who be not fit for our council." Vide La Belle Assemblée for October 1820, p. 151., and Mounted on page 33 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, Feby. 14, 1821, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851, Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547., and Dionysus (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- Politicians, Boots, Thrones, Oxen, Bowing, Petitions, Liberty cap, Pitchforks, Podiums, Crowns, Scepters, Butchers, Fools & jesters, Mortars & pestles, Medical equipment & supplies, Ceremonial maces, Bishops, Bags, Whips, Honor guards, and Windows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene in the new farce as performed at the Royalty Theatre! / [graphic]
2. A tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.04.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer's wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant field."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox and Dandified coxcomb in a bandbox
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Clergy, England, Obesity, Boxes, Farms, Donkeys, Roosters, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox [graphic].
3. After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 August 1803]
- Call Number:
- 802.08.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three volunteers or militiamen, three-quarter length figures, exult at the head of Bonaparte which one of them (right) holds up on a pitchfork, saying, "Here he is Exalted my Lads 24 Hours after Landing." The head is in profile to the left, the sharp well-cut features contrast with those of the chubby yokels. The centre figure, holding out his hat, says, turning to the left: "Why Harkee, d'ye zee, I never liked Soldiering afore, but some how or other when I though [sic] of our Sal the bearns, the poor pigs, the Cows and the Geese, why I could have killed the whole Army my own Self." He wears a smock with the crossed straps of a cartouche-box. The third man (left) in regimentals, but round-shouldered and unsoldierly, says: "Dang my Buttons if that beant the Head of that Rogue Boney - I told our Squire this Morning, what do you think say's I the Lads of our Village can't cut up a Regiment of them French Mounsheers, and as soon as the Lasses had given us a Kiss for good luck I could have sworn we should do it and so we have." All three have hats turned up with favours and oak-twigs, the favours being inscribed respectively (left to right): 'Hearts of Oak'; 'Britons never will be Slaves', and 'We'll fight and We'll Conquer again and again'. In the spaces between these foreground figures is seen a distant encounter between English horse and foot and French invaders, who are being driven into the sea, on which are flat-bottomed boats, all on a very small scale. Two women search French corpses; one says: "why this is poor finding I have emtied the pocketts of a score and only found one head of garlic 9 onions & a parcel of pill Boxes." Cf. British Museum Satires No. 8145."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Levée en masse, or, Britons strike home and Britons strike home
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement below image, in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Augt. 6th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Soldiers, British, French, Militias, Pitchforks, Heads (Anatomy), Decapitations, and War casualties
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > After the invasion the levée en masse, or, Britons strike home. [graphic]
4. An excursion to Brighton [graphic].
- Creator:
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately September 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An adaptation of British Museum Satires No. 11904 (1812), by Cruikshank, reversed, with Lady Conyngham replacing Lady Hertford. The open barouche, with four galloping horses and the Cupid postilion, is closely copied. Behind the carriage, as footman, General Bloomfield replaces McMahon. Conyngham replaces Hertford on the donkey, with the antlers, dress, and (incorrectly) the staff of office of his predecessor. He says: "How fortunate am I to have a Handsome and Cunning wife or I should not wear those marks of Distinction!" Lady Conyngham repeats Lady Hertford's words: "We have had a glorious ride my Love! It is worth Half a Crown" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13826]. George IV: "My Cunning-one I have not Half a Crown to give thee, Would that I had." The Devil drives, as before, but sits alone, instead of beside Lord Yarmouth; a long barbed tail has been added. The 'Female Asylum' (for discarded mistresses) is similarly drawn but less ramshackle; the women looking from the windows are altered; Lady Hertford replaces Mrs. Fitzherbert: the words are as before, but '. . . his Poor F' becomes 'his Poor H'. On the roof, in place of two cats as supporters of the inverted feathers and coronet, are three cats with a (heraldic) scroll and a chamber-pot. The tail of the procession (Sheridan and the wagon 'For Yarmouth . . .') is omitted. The signpost points 'To Brighton'; Ragley is replaced (left) by the domes and minarets of the Pavilion, burlesqued."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Three lines of quoted text following title: "For trifling sports I quitted grave affairs," "And let not wine or anger wrest," "Th' intrusted secret from your breast.", Mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 16 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Ld. Conyngham," "Geo. IV," and "[Lady] Conyngham" identified in ink below image; date "Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of twenty-six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet St.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Mistresses, Carriages & coaches, Donkeys, Antlers, Devil, Pitchforks, Asylums, Cats, Chamber pots, Traffic signs & signals, and Official residences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An excursion to Brighton [graphic].
5. Country revenge, or, A warning piece to political boys [graphic].
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.02.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Warning piece to political boys
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker, place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxes, Traffic signs & signals, Gallows, Foxes, Horses, Farmers, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Country revenge, or, A warning piece to political boys [graphic].
6. Fight world famine enroll in the Boys' Working Reserve. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1918]
- Call Number:
- Poster0312
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date supplied by curator., In margin bottom left: U. S. Employment Service. Apply., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Mounted on linen.
- Publisher:
- Department of Labor and Thomsen-Ellis Company, Baltimore :: New York
- Subject (Name):
- United States Boys' Working Reserve.
- Subject (Topic):
- Famines, World War, 1914-1918, Boys, Vultures, Pitchforks, and Wheat
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Fight world famine enroll in the Boys' Working Reserve. [graphic]
7. First advances [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July, 1825.
- Call Number:
- 825.07.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A couple in a rural setting ...
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd at Rowe & Waller's 49 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Carts & wagons, Clothing & dress, Couples, Courtship, Farm life, Farms, Hay, Men, Pitchforks, Staffs (Sticks), Top hats, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > First advances [graphic]
8. Frontispiece to the "musical book's" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1835.
- Call Number:
- 835.00.00.208
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentotts, pickpockets, bishops, hunters, etc. Images are loosely arranged in three columns with the following headings at top (left to right): Hints to singers; A few favorite songs &c. &c.; Musical term's.
- Description:
- Title from text at top of design., "Price twopence"--Following publisher's statement and preceeding publication date in imprint., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26.8 x 19 cm., Printed on wove paper; mounted to 34 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sleepwear, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Dance, Head-carrying, Indigenous peoples, Chimney sweeps, Military uniforms, Fireplaces, Debt, Bells, Singing, Bishops, Swine, Intoxication, Cats, Devil, Pitchforks, Rifles, and Donkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece to the "musical book's" [graphic]
9. Ghost of a village lawyer [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 4, 1799.
- Call Number:
- 799.06.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Titles from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caricatures lent., and Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: smocks -- Tools.
- Publisher:
- Published by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Farmers, Lawyers, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ghost of a village lawyer [graphic]
