"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
Leaf 90. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short man in an embroidered coat, whole length in profile facing left, holds a stick in one hand and a firework with a threaded fuse in the other
Alternative Title:
Firework macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Possibly a caricature of Leoni, a pyrotechnist of this period; see British Museum catalogue., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fireworks, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 90. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short man in an embroidered coat, whole length in profile facing left, holds a stick in one hand and a firework with a threaded fuse in the other
Alternative Title:
Firework macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Possibly a caricature of Leoni, a pyrotechnist of this period; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 90., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fireworks, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 4 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A loquacious gentlemen holding a raised walking stick vertically in front of his body prepares to strike the foot of a passerby by feigning a blunder. From the caption: Provide a good stout stick (the heavier the better), well loaded with iron, and sally forth at the business time of the day ... enter on a long story and at the end of every marked sentence, make a sudden plunge with your stick downwards, which must be managed with great velocity, and at proper periods; by these methods your friend cannot fail feeling the force of your observations; and every person's toes must suffer that come within the reach of the argument
Alternative Title:
Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Compartment no. 3
Description:
Title from letterpress caption below image., Pen and ink drawing on a broadside with typeface and ornamental border., Letterpress capation in fourteen lines below title: The person who has a desire to put this grace in practice, must be consciousness of possessing an unconquerable habit of talking incessantly, if that is not a leading trait in his character, he had better decline the study; but if hef finds himself master of so neccessary a qualification ..., One of a series of six drawings by Woodward with the same typescript heading., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.), Staffs (Sticks), and Conversation
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 December 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 109. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on social aspiration: a plump young man standing facing to right wearing a wig with a long queue, flowers on his left breast and carrying a cane with a tassel; he appears to be saluting someone by removing his hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies, 1772 -- Nosegays -- Canes -- Male costume: Shoes with buckles., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 6th December 1772, by J. Bretherton, No.134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Corsages, Staffs (Sticks), and Daggers & swords
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening &c. &c., Four lines of caption in design: I am informed Madam, your present protector is an old man which must be a great misfortune at your time of life under this consideration, I mean to take you to myself with a capital establishment., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Russel & Edmeads 1799., and Price stamp in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly Corner of Sackville St.
"A sequence of six designs in two rows. [1] 'Begging before the Door of his Benefactor.' Young Leach, as a crossing-sweeper, holds out his hat to a gentleman who amiably puts in a coin. The latter walks away from a street-door with a plate inscribed 'Sir Robt Taylor'. [2] 'In the Service of his Benefactor.' Leach, as a young footman in livery, walks behind Taylor and his wife, who are returning from a country church. He carries cane and prayer-book. [3] 'As Clerk to his Benefactor.' Leach writes at a desk in a bare room, with a shelf of books high on the wall. [4] 'Now a Lawyer!!!' He sits in a well-furnished room, smilingly giving advice to a dismayed client (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11931, &c.). [5] 'Becomes a Counsellor!!! Thanks to his Benefactor.' Scene in court, with a crowded gallery. As one of a row of barristers Leach makes an impassioned appeal to the judge. [6] 'And now a Judge!!! Thanks to the Nation.' From the bench he looks down at a row of barristers. After the title: 'Every Merit should be Awarded to a Man for having raised himself from Beggary to so prominent a Station. The utmost Hatred, does that Man deserve who would create Despotism in our Land.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gradations of a Vice Chancellor and "'Tis better to be born lucky than rich"
Description:
Title from text below image., Publisher's statement written in ink on separate piece of paper (11 x 38 mm) pasted below lower left corner of image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with partial loss of statement of responsibility from lower right. Missing text supplied from the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 22 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Garmeson, No. 2 St. Swithins Lane, Lombard Stt.
Subject (Name):
Leach, John, 1760-1834 and Taylor, Robert, Sir, 1714-1788
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 6 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A very disgruntled looking man walks down the street with his walking stick tucked firmly under his arm, the ferrule end pointing straight behind his torso. This arrangement deflects the 'hasty' approach of a young female nearby
Alternative Title:
Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Compartment no. 5
Description:
Title from letterpress caption below image., Pen and ink drawing on a broadside with typeface and ornamental border., Three lines of typeface caption below title: Goes soberly to work; in a declining position under the arm, well be-mir'd at the end, it stops in a peculiar manner any hasty approach, and never fails doing execution in turning to the right or left., One of a series of six drawings by Woodward with the same typescript heading., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.), Staffs (Sticks), and Etiquette
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)
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)
