Volume 1, page 39. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Holiday-seekers driving and walking along a high-road with a margin of grass, evidently the Sunday crowd of 'cits' so often described in contemporary satire. The chief group is a high phaeton of fashionable shape, but attached to two miserable hacks, who refuse to move, though they are being dragged at the head by a man with a long whip. The driver, who wears a looped hat and top-boots, kneels in the phaeton leaning forward over the horses and raising his (broken) whip with an expression of fury. His companions are two ladies of pleasure who sit one on each side of him. The one on his right holds up the top of the broken whip, its lash streaming behind her. The other, smiling, holds his left arm as if to prevent his falling from the carriage in his excitement. On the panel of the phaeton are the initials "ON". This carriage-full has just been passed on the right by a fashionably dressed man driving (right to left) a high-stepping horse in one of the new high two-wheeled gigs, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5933, 6146. He looks round at them laughing. Behind (right) is a hackney coach (number 251) driving from left to right, the horse being cut off by the margin of the print. A woman seated on the box holds the rein. Through the window over the door (it has no side windows) is seen a man seated with his back to the horse. A man sits on the roof looking through a telescope. Riding in the same direction (left to right) on the off-side of the hackney coach are an elderly man on a long-tailed cob or pony and a pretty young lady on a white horse. A spaniel runs behind them. In the foreground are pedestrians. A man stands in back view, legs apart, gazing at the stationary phaeton. On the extreme left a dejected-looking man and his wife walk wearily along. He wears a handkerchief tied round his head, under his hat, she holds his wig in her left hand, her right hand rests on the small of his back. He is carrying his stick in one hand, in the other a large bouquet of flowers in a paper sheath. Two dogs approach each other. Behind the two pedestrians, a man on horseback is in difficulties, his reins are slack and he holds the mane of the horse, which appears to be about to advance across the road in front of the advancing gig. In the background is a park-paling with trees showing above it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Phaetons -- Cits -- Vehicles: Two-wheeled gigs -- Hackney coaches., and Mounted on page 39 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1782, by Wm. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Richmond Hill (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Whips, Staffs (Sticks), and Telescopes
Leaf 70. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1811, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 214., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], A reduced copy of no. 6143 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and On leaf 70 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Richmond Hill (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Whips, Staffs (Sticks), and Telescopes
A man, cane in hand, walks away with a look of scorn on his face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Astonishment., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A man, cane in hand, walks away with a look of scorn on his face
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Astonishment., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1794.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A cock with the head of Wellington stands tied to a peg, on a round board, supported on a low post (right). A short truculent-looking woman in a man's patched coat, with a bundle of sticks under her arm, stands beside the bird, which is undamaged and in fine feather; she invites its enemies to throw: 'Shy away he's a real good un.' An angry cleric, in shovel hat and apron, stands with a bundle of sticks under his arm; he says : 'I'll have every tenth throw.' "Paul Pry", one hand resting on his umbrella, stoops forward, about to throw a stick topped by a little figure of Wellington as a coachman, touching his hat, as in British Museum Satires No. 15731; his face is hidden by his raised arm. Behind him, three men confer conspiratorially, each with a stick, inscribed respectively 'Chronicle', 'Times', 'Herald'. In the foreground on the extreme left Cumberland, in hussar uniform, is in conversation with Eldon, who points over his shoulder with his thumb, and exclaims 'Lost my Stick!!!'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly by Robert Seymour; see British Museum catalogue., and Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
"Two well-dressed young women (left) stand behind a tree with snow-balls to pelt a thin and elderly man in old-fashioned dress (right) who walks in profile to the right, clenching his fist and holding up his stick. He is plastered with patches of snow. A third young woman kneels behind the others, making a snowball. Three others (right) are amused. L. & W., No. 111."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old buck in distress
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., No. 111 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., and Temporary local subject terms: Snow-balls -- Walking staves.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
published as the act directs [...] [not before 25 June 1774]
Call Number:
774.06.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to John Raphael Smith by Frankau., Later state, with plate number added. For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 3758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Date of publication inferred from earlier state with the date "25 June 1774" at end of imprint; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.379., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Description based on imperfect impression; date at end of imprint statement has been erased from sheet., and Plate numbered "300" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, City & town life, Clothing & dress, Stores & shops, Window displays, Dandies, British, Prints, Fans (Accessories), and Staffs (Sticks)
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.01.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An enormously fat man holds a walking stick in his right hand as he stands before a lake or river. He wears a tricorne hat and gloves, together with the huge buttons and shoe buckles popular around 1777. Possibly a caricature of Sir Watkin Lewes
Alternative Title:
Sir William Waddle
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Numbered 30 in ms. on mount., and Inlaid to 45 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd April 1. 1777 by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821,
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Dundas, tall and elegant, stands directed to the left, right hand on a cane, left on his scabbard. He wears a cocked hat with side-peaks, with loop, cockade, and small plume, double-breasted uniform, coat with star, boots of Hessian pattern, a sword-belt under, and a sash over his coat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir David Dundas, KB, Commander in Chief
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 74 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820
Subject (Topic):
Generals, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords
"The Duke of Clarence, knock-kneed and meanly malignant, stands in profile to the left, his back to the sea. He wears top-hat, tail-coat, tight pantaloons, Hessian boots, and gloves, holding a cane; under his foot is a paper: 'Honor [thy] Father & thy Mother.' At sea is a man-of-war with furled sails flying the Royal Standard. Below the title; 'Vide Mr Denmans Speech. Octr 25 1820.' Said to be a good likeness. See British Museum Satires No. 14031, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., A Maltese cross, at the center of an oval containing the year "1820", is etched below lower left corner of image., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Libel & slander, Top hats, Staffs (Sticks), and Ships
