A harlot sits on a curved sofa, her right arm resting on a table in front of her. In her right hand she holds a set of scales as she points to the gold coin in the scales which indicate that the guinea given her by the her companion is defective. An officer in a macaroni-style wig and captain's uniform (with sword and cutlass) wears a slight smile on his face as he stands at the table, hands in his pockets, watching her weigh the gold. On the wall behind them is a picture of Justice holding her scales further amplyfing the subject. Opposite the table on the right is an upholstered chair
Alternative Title:
Capt. Flash detected and Captain Flash detected
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and sides., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 17, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Justice, Military uniforms, Prostitutes, Scales, and Sofas
Page 239. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on untrustworthy young men: a prostitute, with a powdered wig wearing a dressing gown open to reveal her chemise and petticoat, sits at a table using scales to weigh the coin offered by a well-dressed young man which is lighter than its proper weight; behind is a curtained bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blade in the dumps
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Dated to circa 1773-1774 in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.86., Four lines of verse below title: Dull are the times, since trade I first began, our gold was sterling then, and true each man ..., and Numbered '291' in lower left of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Draperies, Dandies, British, Prostitutes, Scales, and Tables
Page 239. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on untrustworthy young men: a prostitute, with a powdered wig wearing a dressing gown open to reveal her chemise and petticoat, sits at a table using scales to weigh the coin offered by a well-dressed young man which is lighter than its proper weight; behind is a curtained bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blade in the dumps
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Dated to circa 1773-1774 in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.86., Four lines of verse below title: Dull are the times, since trade I first began, our gold was sterling then, and true each man ..., Numbered '291' in lower left of plate., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 36.9 x 25.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., and Tipped in at page 239 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Draperies, Dandies, British, Prostitutes, Scales, and Tables
At head of title: "Cheap repository.", Anonymous. Signed 'Z', i.e., Hannah More., Announcement in square brackets: Entered at Staioner's Hall., Verse - "A farmer's wife to market went"., Lewis Walpole Library copy: Sheet trimmed; loss of imprint statement., Mounted on leaf 1. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, and R. White, London. By S. Hazard at Bath
Subject (Topic):
Honesty, Scales, Weights & measures, Farmers, and Bailiffs
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 1825.
Call Number:
825.11.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A hand projects from the upper margin, holding the ornate beam of a pair of scales against the irradiated inscription Mene mene--Tekel, &c. [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10072, &c.]. One scale (left) is filled by a large melon from which a slice has been cut, and by a paper: One Million Sterling!! The scale is inscribed The times are Rank Hamlet. This slightly outweighs the other scale which is filled by a ducal coronet and papers: Lt R. N--; Duke E[ar]l Baron; Earl of--; Hery Grd Falconer; Chany; Nell Gwynn!; Hery Regr Chancery! The scale is inscribed A Pledge of Better Times."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Thomas Howell Jones by Andrew Edmunds. A questionable artist attribution to Henry Heath is given in the British Museum catalogue; an additional printmaker attribution to Robert Cruikshank is given in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.8674., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Text below title: I will venture "Coute qui Coute".
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849. and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
767.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashionable life described in a sub-title as "Address'd to the Professors of Driving, Dressing, Ogling, Writing, Playing, Gambling, Racing, Dancing, Duelling, Boxing, Swearing, Humming, Building, &c. &c. &c." with broad space flanked by large buildings leading down to the sea. On the left, "The Academy for the Noble Art of Boxing NB Mufflers provided for delicate Constitutions" through the windows of which a pugilist can be seen addressing a yong nobleman, and two men boxing. Beside this a theatre into which a large crowd enters via a staircase, encouraged by a zany standing on a balcony with three actresses, two actors wearing turbans and another dressed as a soldier; the sign above refers to notorious hoaxes of the earlier part of the century: "Britannia Humm'd Or the Tragedy of the Secret Expedition [presumably the Expedition on Rochefort, 1757], A Mock Tragedy to which is added a Farce call'd The Pregnant Rabit Woman [i.e., Mary Toft], Together with the Adventures of the Bottle Conjurer [see BM Satires 3022, 1868,0808.3875], and Polish Jew [Henry Simons]. As likewise the taking ye Standard at the Battle of Dittingen." The next house is built in a variety of styles; beyond, the sea the sun rises "for the Vigilant". In the foreground fashionable people are shown as described in a key below: 1. "British Nobility disguis'd", three women dressed in French style in an open carriage are bowed to by 2. a foppish young man "Return'd from the Polite Tour"; behind him 3. "Foreign Insolence [is] express'd by the French Valet de Chambre daring to Insult 4. English Bravery in Distress [an old sailor with a wooden leg], reduc'd to ask Alms in his Native Country, after having courageously lost his limbs in Defence of it on board a Privateer & unjustly kept out of his Prize-money"; next is 5. "The Optical Ogle, or polite Curiosity", a young gentleman peering at the women in the carriage through an eye-glass; 6. "An Author", a miserable gentleman with his hands tucked into the breast of his coat who is barked at by two dogs; by contrast, 7. "A Player" reclines comfortably in a sedan chair, a footman walking before him; 8. describes a scene at the door of the house on the right, "The Industrious Tradesman thrust off with Contempt, expecting a just Debt to be paid, to make room for a high Life Gambler [also in a sedan chair], politely usher'd in to receive his Debt of Honour"; behind this group is, 9. "A Feather of the Turf", a man mounted on a high gig drives two horses, and 10. "The Balance of Merit in this happy Climate for useless Exotics, [where] A French Dancing Master obtains 300£ pr. Ann. & a clear Benefit worth near 300£ more, while the Ingenious English Shipwright, tho' Assistant to the Honour Profit & Defence of his Country, by hard Labour barely obtains 40£ pr. Ann."; on the left, 11. a hearse drives into the scene with "The Corps[e] of a Blood, conveying to Interment, who boldly lost his Life in a Duel defending the Reputation of a Prostitute"; 12. is the house beside the sea, "Modern Architecture The Corinthian, Venetian, Gothic & Chinese huddled in one Front,"; 13. an old woman leaning out of an upper window calling to a woman and two men at the door represents "Modern Hospitality in the Character of Old Age, left to take care of Furniture, & answer Duns that the Family is in the Country"; 14. fishing boats at sea are reminders that "One British Buss [fishing boat] of more service to the Community than ten Italian Singers"."--British Museun online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below image: Explanation. 1 British Nobility disguis'd, 2 Return'd from the Polite Tour, 3 Foreign Insolence express'd by the French valet de chambre daring to insult 4 English Bravery in distress ..., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm., window mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
"Queen Caroline reaches the top step of a flimsy double-ladder, pushed by the foremost of a train of gnome-like Jacobins who scramble up behind her or wait (right) to ascend. She holds a blazing firebrand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14145) emitting clouds of smoke, with which she tries to reach the royal crown (irradiated), which rests on a cushion and Bible, on the summit of a pillar representing the Constitution. A mitre and crosier are carved on the pillar which is spiralled with a band inscribed (reading upwards) 'Commons', 'Lords', 'King'. On the square base are the equally balanced scales of Justice. The Queen wears a feathered hat and an enormously long cloak, under which the Radicals on the ladder are sheltering. These wear caps of Liberty (or Folly) with tricolour cockades; one has a dagger, one a pike, one (Hunt) a bludgeon, one holds the shaft of a banner, inscribed 'Democracy Republic', topped by a cap of Liberty. The rungs of the ladder are: 'Spa Fields Riot'; 'Smithfield', Hunt climbs from one to the other; 'Hunts Procession'; 'Peter[loo]'; 'Cato Stre[et', see No. 13707, &c.]; 'Queens Arrival' [see No. 13730, &c.]; 'Radical Address' [see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.]; 'Mob Government' [the top]. The back of the ladder (reading downwards): 'Revolution'; 'Anarchy'; 'Ruin'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a smaller version of the same design
Description:
Title etched below image., A smaller version of this design, signed "G. Cruikshank fect.", was published October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine; see no. 13895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. This larger version is briefly mentioned at the end of the above catalogue entry: "An enlarged version was published by Humphrey, 12 Aug. 1821 ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Firebrands -- Royal crowns -- Constitution -- Mitre and crosier -- Scales of justice -- Cap of folly -- Daggers -- Weapons: pike, bludgeon -- Sticks: bludgeon., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 39.1 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 40 x 25 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; digit "1" in the day of publication "12" in imprint has been erased from sheet., and Manuscript "61" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Spa Fields Riot, London, England, 1816, Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Capes (Clothing), Liberty cap, Daggers, and Scales
George III, his back to the viewer, supports one side of a scale containing the East India House with his left hand, while with a sword in the other, he severs the cords supporting the right hand scale, thus ejecting North and Fox. A reference to the King's action against the India Bill and to the fall of the Fox-North coalition
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as [the] act directs
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and East India Company.
"The Queen, crowned, in royal robes and with a sceptre in her left hand, sits regally in the Coronation Chair. Justice, blindfolded and menacing, stands at her right hand; Truth, irradiated and holding up her mirror so that its rays illuminate the Queen, is on her left hand. A stone slab supporting the throne rests on eight hydra-heads with serpents' masks. The centre head is that of Eldon, with two other judges, one with a leech on the cheek indicating Leach (see British Museum Satires No. 13740). Castlereagh, very Mephistophelian, is on the extreme left, Sidmouth and Liverpool on the right; there are two unidentified heads, one presumably Harrowby. Round Queen, chair, &c. are clouds. In the upper left corner, two demons, spitting and excreting thunderbolts, carry off the King 'To Hanover'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumph of innocence over perjury, persecution and ministerial oppression
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 40 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Leach, John, 1760-1834, and Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847
A scale is depicted in which Lord North, dressed as a washerwoman, is weighed down with the assistance of Fox (a fox on the cross beam). Or the right, Lord Shelburne, depicted as a Jesuit in monastic garb wearing the ribbon of a Knight of the Garter and holding a money bag signed "Blessings of Peace" in his right hand, sits in the upper pan of the balance, with his tombstone below. The attacks of the North-Fox coalition eventually led to Shelburne's stepping down in February 1783
Alternative Title:
Up with the Jesuit
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1783 by A. Killingbeck, Dover Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Scales, Laundresses, Monks, Foxes, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
