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10. Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- 820.06.28.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c., is transformed into a hillock covered with grass and foliage, but keeping the contour of a sack; it is inscribed in large letters: 'Commons Green Bag'. On the left it is watched by a group of Ministers, on the right by the Queen and her supporters. The foremost of the latter is Brougham, in wig and gown, who points a rod inscribed 'Queens Attorney General' towards the bag; a mouse crouches in a little hollow at its base. Under his arm is a large document inscribed 'Resolution ..... [Ma]jesty'. The Queen, her hands extended towards him, turns to a second barrister who stands in back-view, saying, "I should make a brave Queen to be frightened at a Mouse." The barrister, Denman, the Queen's Solicitor-General, answers: "A good Conscience is a Wall of Brass, your Majesty will not shrink at a Royal Tiger." On the extreme right, Wood, in an alderman's gown, is speaking to a lady, evidently Lady Ann Hamilton. On the extreme left is a curtain from behind which the King, his head and most of his person being hidden, speaks to Lord Eldon (who like his colleagues is gaping at the bag-mountain): "Why Bags! what's all this!" Eldon, in wig and gown, holding a large document and the Purse of the Great Seal, answers: "The Cat's out of the Bag Sire thats all." Canning exclaims: "Pro-di-gi-ous! as my Friend Domine Sampson [in Scott's 'Guy Mannering', 1815] says!" Castlereagh, very scared, says to Sidmouth: "Doctor could you not prevented [sic] this untimely Birth!" Sidmouth stoops forward, squirting a clyster-pipe at the mouse; in his right hand, like a doctor's gold-headed cane, is a constable's staff. He exclaims: "A Delivery without Nurse or Doctor by Heaven." From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Foreign Circular' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13282]. After the title: 'When mountains cry out, people may well be excused the apprehension of some prodigious Birth, this was the case the Public were all at their wits end, to consider what would be the Issue, and instead of the dreadfull Monster that they expected, out comes at last a contemptible Mouse--The Moral. Much ado about Nothing.-- Reflection. What are all the extravagant attempts and enterprises of weak Men, but morals more or less of this Fable what are mighty pretences without consideration or effect, but the vapours of a distemper, that like sickly Dreams have neither issue nor conection. and the dissapointment is not all neither, for men make themselves ridiculous instead of Terrible, when this Tympany shall come to end in a Blast, and a Mountain to bring forth a Mouse, vide L'Estrange's Esop.--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mountain in labour
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top edge.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 28th, 1820, by Richd. Fores, 74 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Draperies, Wigs, Judges, Robes, Medical equipment & supplies, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
11. Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [28 June 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c., is transformed into a hillock covered with grass and foliage, but keeping the contour of a sack; it is inscribed in large letters: 'Commons Green Bag'. On the left it is watched by a group of Ministers, on the right by the Queen and her supporters. The foremost of the latter is Brougham, in wig and gown, who points a rod inscribed 'Queens Attorney General' towards the bag; a mouse crouches in a little hollow at its base. Under his arm is a large document inscribed 'Resolution ..... [Ma]jesty'. The Queen, her hands extended towards him, turns to a second barrister who stands in back-view, saying, "I should make a brave Queen to be frightened at a Mouse." The barrister, Denman, the Queen's Solicitor-General, answers: "A good Conscience is a Wall of Brass, your Majesty will not shrink at a Royal Tiger." On the extreme right, Wood, in an alderman's gown, is speaking to a lady, evidently Lady Ann Hamilton. On the extreme left is a curtain from behind which the King, his head and most of his person being hidden, speaks to Lord Eldon (who like his colleagues is gaping at the bag-mountain): "Why Bags! what's all this!" Eldon, in wig and gown, holding a large document and the Purse of the Great Seal, answers: "The Cat's out of the Bag Sire thats all." Canning exclaims: "Pro-di-gi-ous! as my Friend Domine Sampson [in Scott's 'Guy Mannering', 1815] says!" Castlereagh, very scared, says to Sidmouth: "Doctor could you not prevented [sic] this untimely Birth!" Sidmouth stoops forward, squirting a clyster-pipe at the mouse; in his right hand, like a doctor's gold-headed cane, is a constable's staff. He exclaims: "A Delivery without Nurse or Doctor by Heaven." From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Foreign Circular' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13282]. After the title: 'When mountains cry out, people may well be excused the apprehension of some prodigious Birth, this was the case the Public were all at their wits end, to consider what would be the Issue, and instead of the dreadfull Monster that they expected, out comes at last a contemptible Mouse--The Moral. Much ado about Nothing.-- Reflection. What are all the extravagant attempts and enterprises of weak Men, but morals more or less of this Fable what are mighty pretences without consideration or effect, but the vapours of a distemper, that like sickly Dreams have neither issue nor conection. and the dissapointment is not all neither, for men make themselves ridiculous instead of Terrible, when this Tympany shall come to end in a Blast, and a Mountain to bring forth a Mouse, vide L'Estrange's Esop.--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mountain in labour
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top edge., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24.8 x 35.2 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 29 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV," "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Brougham," "Queen Caroline," and "Denman" identified in black ink below image; date "28 June 1820" added in lower right corner. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 28th, 1820, by Richd. Fores, 74 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Draperies, Wigs, Judges, Robes, Medical equipment & supplies, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]
12. Ministerial races [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.07.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Five horses with human heads, ridden by jockeys, race for the half-open door of the Treasury (left), across a wide cobbled pavement. The Regent and Lady Hertford with Lord Hertford standing behind holding his Lord Chamberlain's wand, stand on the pavement (left) watching the finish. The winning horse, Liverpool, is a piebald, with an earl's coronet round his neck, and branded 'H'. Next is Wellesley, a marquis's coronet round his neck, ridden by a jockey in oriental dress with a jewelled turban, who looks over his shoulder, saying: "Come Grey push on you'll let Pye Ball win else." Next is Moira, a blue ribbon round his neck representing the Garter granted on 12 June (which he had refused on 28 Feb., see 'Corr. of George IV', i. 29, 34-5), close behind is Grey; last is Grenville. Lady Hertford, as umpire, exclaims: "Bravo Pye Ball you have fairly won." Lord Hertford cries: "Huzza Pye Ball for ever." The Regent turns to a stout John Bull, to say: "Come Johny out with your Cash your favorite has lost you see." John puts out a protesting hand, saying, "No No D--e if I do! I'm off, why its a proper cross and Jostle I d'ont like the Umpire neither." John wears a top-hat and top-boots, his pockets bulge with money-bags, and he holds a cudgel. In the roadway is a cob or pony with the face of Sheridan, branded 'P R', ridden by the stout Yarmouth, from whose pocket projects a paper: 'The Milling Hero a Poem', see No. 11746, &c.; he is too large for his mount, and says: "Softly! Softly! poor Old Sherry, Oh my poor bones are in danger!" The animal kicks, saying: "It's a d--d dirty Job to carry such a -- but as I carried your Master [the Regent] through before you hold fast and I'll take you to the end." In the foreground (right) a man stands full-face, shouting; he holds a tall pole on which is a placard: 'The Treasury Sweepstakes for high-bred Hunters 4 Heats The M-ch-ss of H--s Pyebald Colt Liverpool ------- 1, dr, dr, 1 Iohn Bulls favorite ch. f. Moira -------dr, 2, 1, 3 The Fox Clubs b. f ----Grey ----4, 3, 2, dr The East-India Company's Oriental filly Wellesly 3, 1, 3, 2 The well known Pit [Pitt] bred horse Grenville 2, 4, 4, 4 This match was very hardly contested, the Jockey Club decided that the first heat was unfairly won, and the last it is supposed will be subject to a similar decree; but the P-- R-- to whom the decision of the Club was referrd overruled the first objection. Bets at starting 2 to 1 on Moira; and at the commencement of the third heat 2 to 1 on Moira against the field Same Day The Exchequer plate for Colts half bred The Earl of Liverpool's black Colt Vansittart 1, 3, 3, 1 Marquis of Wellesleys gr C. Grant 3, 1, 2, 3 Earl Moirds ch. G Huchisson 2, 2, 1, 2 This Race like the preceeding one has excited much difference of opinion amongst the members of the Club. N.B A match will be made before the Club breaks up between the R--s old Hack and any Noted Horse that may be chosen to start against him, the Hack will carry double and any bet staked on his winning Mac Sycophant [McMahon] Secty.' Beside this notice are betting men. Three say: "How pye Ball dashes in, he has jockey'd them there he goes!"; "Da--me Johny seems in a Passion"; "Aye he 's [word scored through] Humbugg'd! The other spectators: Why the knowing ones are taken in"; "dish'd by Jupiter" [the Prince], and, "I rather think they are dish'd by Juno, she seems to be umpire." In the background are other spectators, on foot, on horseback, and in a coach."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Plate from: Town talk; or, Living manners, v. 2, page 437.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 1st, 1812, for the proprietors of Town talk
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquess of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Treasury
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, John Bull (Symbolic character), Horse racing, Jockeys, Signs (Notices), and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ministerial races [graphic].
13. The Kentish lottery, or, A new way to pay old debts [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1819]
- Call Number:
- 819.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- New way to pay old debts
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on two sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published July 1819 by J. Jonstone Chepside [sic]
- Subject (Name):
- Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Dandies, Staffs (Sticks), and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Kentish lottery, or, A new way to pay old debts [graphic].
14. The female agent [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.03.00.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Heading to etched verses. Mrs. Clarke, seated on a dais, receives applicants for commissions who advance through a doorway (left). She sits on a drum, wearing a cocked hat and military sash over a white dress, and holds up a sword. A short fat soldier holds over her head a Union flag with the white horse of Hanover. Two soldiers stand at attention with fixed bayonets behind her, and a fat trumpeter blows his trumpet. Another Union flag, without the white horse, flies from the corner of the large dais. On the wall hangs a notice: 'Half-pay Commissions at Half Price for Ready Money'. The applicants press forward in a bunch, headed by a fat and gouty 'cit' hobbling on two sticks, behind whom is a chimneysweep. The first of three verses: 'Come all you brave Fellows who wish for Promotion. Wether Captain or Colonel or a General's your notion. A Warehouse I keep for the sale of Commissions, And our Prices you'll find will suit all conditions, You'll be treated with Honor if you secrecy mark Sir For my Master is Noble and I am his Clarke Sir, You'll be treated &c.' The last lines: 'But forget not the ready (Gold or Notes) for pray mark! My Master wants Money, & so does his Clarke. But forget not &c.' The verses are bordered by spears which serve as posts for plump purses, symmetrically attached to them."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1809 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827.
- Subject (Topic):
- Political corruption, Soldiers, British, Flags, Podiums, Daggers & swords, Hats, Staffs (Sticks), and Chimney sweeps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The female agent [graphic].
15. The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1810]
- Call Number:
- Print00534
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three fashionable dressed men stand to the left consulting with a man in his nightshirt and cap who addresses them from his bed. At the foot of the bed are three wigs on stands. An elder woman in a cap opens the curtains on the window to the right
- Alternative Title:
- Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.8.140., Six lines of text, labeled "anecdode [sic] of Bl. Thornton," following curly bracket after title: Addison very humourasly [sic] compared physicians to an army of antient Britons ..., Plate numbered "307" in the upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Physicians, Rugs, Sleepwear, Wigs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
16. The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1810]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three fashionable dressed men stand to the left consulting with a man in his nightshirt and cap who addresses them from his bed. At the foot of the bed are three wigs on stands. An elder woman in a cap opens the curtains on the window to the right
- Alternative Title:
- Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.8.140., Six lines of text, labeled "anecdode [sic] of Bl. Thornton," following curly bracket after title: Addison very humourasly [sic] compared physicians to an army of antient Britons ..., Plate numbered "307" in the upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 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 ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 6 in volume 5.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Physicians, Rugs, Sleepwear, Wigs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
17. The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1810]
- Call Number:
- 818.00.00.13+
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Three fashionable dressed men stand to the left consulting with a man in his nightshirt and cap who addresses them from his bed. At the foot of the bed are three wigs on stands. An elder woman in a cap opens the curtains on the window to the right
- Alternative Title:
- Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.8.140., Six lines of text, labeled "anecdode [sic] of Bl. Thornton," following curly bracket after title: Addison very humourasly [sic] compared physicians to an army of antient Britons ..., Plate numbered "307" in the upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Manuscript "161" in upper center of plate.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
- Subject (Topic):
- Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Physicians, Rugs, Sleepwear, Wigs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The guide to health, or, Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians [graphic].
18. A visit to the camp [graphic]
- Creator:
- Watson, Thomas, 1743-1781, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1779]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 779.12.01.05+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their tents erected in an open space. The civilian gentleman have walking sticks tucked under their arms, and one carries a quizzing glass. The short, stout lady wears a large hooded cloak and carries a large umbrella
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "1" in upper left corner., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1779, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Military camps, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), Soldiers, Tents, and Umbrellas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A visit to the camp [graphic]
