"Ladies and gentlemen seated in a semicircle, while a footman holds a circular tray on which are tea-cups, &c. In the foreground a man sits (centre) his bag-wig hanging over the back of his chair facing the semicircle. On the extreme left a man sits stiffly, hat under his right arm, tea-cup in his left hand; next is an elderly and ugly woman, holding a fan; then a stout man seated uncomfortably on the edge of his chair. Then a lean and ugly old woman sitting very upright, with a fan. In the centre of the circle, full face, holding a tea-cup in both hands and looking downwards, is a lady with enormously wide petticoats, who appears to be the hostess. Next stands the footman, who is glaring with scorn at a French manservant who stands behind the guests on the left holding a plate of bread and butter. The remaining guests are in a group on the right. A stout and ugly man, in profile to the left, stretches out his hand, either in gesticulation, or to take a cup of tea from the tray. Next him is a plainly dressed man with an enormous wig who is laughing and looking through a single eye-glass. These two are the only guests who show the slightest animation, the others sitting rigidly silent. On the extreme right sits a young lady of pleasing appearance, in profile to the left, looking down demurely at her fan. Behind her (right) appears the head of a good-looking young man, whose arm rests on the back of her chair. Two oval pictures are indicated on the back wall the room."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 11 February 1782 by W. Dickinson. Cf. No. 6141 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 14., Temporary local subject terms: Tea services -- Male costume, 1782 -- Female costume, 1782 -- Domestic service: Footmen -- French man-servant -- Monocles., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 450 x 545 mm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1, 1794, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Volume 1, page 37. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Ladies and gentlemen seated in a semicircle, while a footman holds a circular tray on which are tea-cups, &c. In the foreground a man sits (centre) his bag-wig hanging over the back of his chair facing the semicircle. On the extreme left a man sits stiffly, hat under his right arm, tea-cup in his left hand; next is an elderly and ugly woman, holding a fan; then a stout man seated uncomfortably on the edge of his chair. Then a lean and ugly old woman sitting very upright, with a fan. In the centre of the circle, full face, holding a tea-cup in both hands and looking downwards, is a lady with enormously wide petticoats, who appears to be the hostess. Next stands the footman, who is glaring with scorn at a French manservant who stands behind the guests on the left holding a plate of bread and butter. The remaining guests are in a group on the right. A stout and ugly man, in profile to the left, stretches out his hand, either in gesticulation, or to take a cup of tea from the tray. Next him is a plainly dressed man with an enormous wig who is laughing and looking through a single eye-glass. These two are the only guests who show the slightest animation, the others sitting rigidly silent. On the extreme right sits a young lady of pleasing appearance, in profile to the left, looking down demurely at her fan. Behind her (right) appears the head of a good-looking young man, whose arm rests on the back of her chair. Two oval pictures are indicated on the back wall the room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "No. 14"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 37 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 11th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
"A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Alternative Title:
Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son and Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
A servant (butcher?) with his hands on his hips looks suspicously at a fashionably dressed man as the latter crosses one arm in front of his chest completing an apologetic bow and uses the other to secretly slide a package behind his back to a thrid unidentified individual penciled in outline. The inscribed caption reads: Permit me good sir to solicit your countenance. You be damned!
Description:
Title penciled in below image. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Corruption, Bribes, Servants, Dandies, and British
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted to 323 x 475 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Wretched stuff., and On page 214 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher from 2nd state.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., In lower margin: Gedruckt unter Leitung des Herausgebers. Das Original ist in derselben Grösse; Konigl. Gemälde-Galerie in Dresden., Date of Netscher's original work: 1684., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject headings: Uroscopy.
Publisher:
Herausgegeben v. Franz Hanfstaengl
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Urine, Analysis, Pulse, Medicines, Physicians, Sick persons, Servants, and Beds
Caricature of Queen Caroline and Bergami seated at a table set with elegant china tureens and plates. On the right an English officer (Captain Pechell) extends his hand graciously as he declines to sit with them. Behind him two servants(?) look on with concern
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of quoted text below title: "Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eyes, in all her actions dignity.", Text above image, representing words spoken by the officer: I can recognize no power in you to enoble any one - and I shall not degrade myself and the service by sitting at table with such a fellow as that., An enlarged version of a design, one of four on a single plate, etched by George Cruikshank and published 15 June 1820. Cf. No. 13731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Removed from backing with residue of blue paper and paste on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Pechell, Samuel George
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Dining tables, Servants, and Tableware
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An untidy shock-headed footman stands letting a tureen slide on to the table so that its contents pour out; in his Ieft hand is a dish containing a leg of mutton, held so that joint and gravy fall to the floor. He stands between a hideous old woman at the head of the table (right) and a comely young one on her right. A fat maidservant follows the footman, holding a dish. Behind the man hangs an elaborately framed bust portrait of a grim-looking man wearing an early eighteenth-century wig. A cockatoo screams from a cage (left). A dog sits behind the old woman's chair, a cat puts its fore-paws on the table to lap the spilt soup. Below the title: 'Take off the largest dishes, and set them on with one hand, to shew the ladies your vigour and strength of back, but always do it between two ladies, that if the dish happens to slip, the soup or sauce may fall on their cloaths, and not daub the floor, by this practice, two of our brethren, my worthy friends, got considerable fortunes. . . . When you carry up a dish of meat, dip your fingers in the sauce, or lick it with your tongue, to try whether it be good, and fit for your masters table - .' [Two quotations from Swift's 'Directions to Servants'.]"--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Alternative Title:
Directions to footman
Description:
Title etched below image., The word 'footmen' in the title was corrected from 'footman' by the etcher. 'A' was struck through and the letter 'E' was inserted above deletion., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with date burnished from plate. For the original issue with date "10th Novr. 1807" at end of imprint, see no. 10918 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling cold.", Plate numbered '273' in upper right corner., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
Publisher:
Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, Accidents, Eating & drinking, Servants, Women domestics, Birdcages, Cats, and Dogs
