Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 51 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 28 x 40.9 cm., and With identifications of "George IV" and "Q. Caroline" written in pencil below image, as well as the explanation "the green bags with reference to their divorce were ordered to lie on the table" written in pencil below title.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
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., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on page 25 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
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., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Inside of what appears to be a simple cottage, a woman and two men are gathered around a table. The woman, sitting at the table, holds an open music book. One of the man leans over her shoulder in order to read the music while he is playing the violin. The other man, sitting at the opposite side of the table with a tall glass in his left hand and a happy expression on his face, is singing. In front of the table on the floor stands a large decorated jug with a lid. A pipe and a tobacco box lie on the table
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from publisher's activity dates., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments -- Sheet music -- Containers: jug with a lid -- Glass: tall glass -- Furniture -- Architectural details: board floor., and Mounted to 20 x 15 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Gapper in New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Violins, Tables, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[1800]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 4b. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of the table of Sicilian jasper on a black frame, designed by Richard Bentley, in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., and Inlaid on page 4b in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
"Mrs. Coutts (right), fat, swarthy, and moustached, sits at a table, holding out a cheque for £100.000 to Lord Burford. Her Cheque Book lies on the table. He steps forward, hat in hand, left hand on breast, in profile to the right. She says: Why you seem to be a good looking hard working young fellow, but I must tell you my business is extensive And I shall expect you will employ your time day and night for the benefit of the Concern, you must also be humble and submissive, should this be realized on Trial I will make you a Sleeping Partner. And here's a trifle for you to buy a pair of gloves. He answers with eager deference: You may depend upon it Madam I shall endeavour to give you every satisfaction. I shall be very attentive and if I can't get through the business as you like, you are at liberty to employ an Assistant. Mrs. Coutts is décolletée and bejewelled, wearing a turban trimmed with a paradise-plume. The gold-bordered tablecloth is weighted with balls inscribed £20,000 and £9,000. Large money-bags are on the floor behind her: £800,000 and . . . 000. Under her chair are a glass and a decanter of White Tape. Behind her is a picture of heaped sovereigns and money-bags. Other pictures are a cow looking over the wall of Mrs C--s Dairy, and (left) a castle: View near St Albans. The chairs are decorated with coins pouring from cornucopias."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 32 x 46.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1825 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837 and St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., and Identifications of the two figures added in ink in a contemporary hand -- Morland and Rowlandson; secondary border line around design also added in ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Satire on the Duke of Cumberland's poor spelling with references to his criminal conversation with Lady Grosvenor. He is shown at a table with a satyr holding a fool's cap over his head as a tutor stands beside the table where the Duke works. Also beside his chair is a monkey on his hind legs. On the wall hangs a birch rod
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), page 88., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford magazine
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
Leaf 35. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with slight alteration to dialogue below image; the letters "omp" in "Romp" have been burnished from plate and replaced with an underscore. For original issue published ca. 1830, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 830.00.00.122+., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Five numbered lines of dialogue below title: 1. So! they say Miss Stiff R- is in the straw!! 2. Why sure, is it a girl? ..., and On leaf 35 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Tea, Kettles, Gossiping, Tables, Candles, Fireplaces, Cats, and Accidents
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., One of a series of "Drolls.", Four lines of verse below title: The old Booby half muzzy to a bagnio reel'd ..., and Watermark: armorial shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Bunbury 780.03.01.01+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women playing chess, seated at opposite sides of a square table, a young man standing behind watching as the player at left makes her move, all three dressed in turbans, three dogs in the foreground, pillars with drapes behind; oval design after Bunbury, published state with wall at left and large dog added."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 17 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint in brown ink on laid paper ; oval image 29.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 34.3 x 37.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st March 1780 by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Put -- Male dress, 1799 -- Yokels., 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 34 cm., and Printmaker's name erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 10, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
"Sir William Chambers sits in profile to the left at a small round table; on it is a house of cards which is falling in pieces. From his pocket protrudes a paper inscribed 'Art of', scored through, followed by 'Grant of Parlt'. Beside him on the ground (right) is a large book or portfolio: 'Art of Building and Rebuilding or Palladia improved by S---W---C'. Other papers (left) are 'Affidavit It was only a crack signed - Adam [and] Wyat' and 'Bills for the repairing S. H." On the wall are three pictures: (left to right) (1) a rock entitled 'Inigo Jones', (2) a picture in a broken frame: 'The House that Jack built', a view of the north (Strand) front of Somerset House, (3) 'A Ruin A View on the Thames', a picture of the south front of Somerset House in ruins."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great architect modelling, Sr W- in his study, and Sir William in his study
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: House of cards -- Furniture: round pedestal tables -- Pictures amplifying subject: Somerset House -- Parliament grants -- River Thames -- Affidavits -- Reference to cracks in the Somerset House structure -- Allusion to Inigo Jones's work on Somerset House -- Allusion to Robert Adam, 1728-1792 -- Allusion to James Adam, 1730-1794 -- Allusion to Sir John Thynne, d. 1580 -- Allusion to Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials GR below.
A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the raised end. On the wall behind him is a partly visible picture of someone playing bowls. A dog sleeps on the floor beneath the man's chair
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 23 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
"Lord Lansdowne sits at a small writing-table, pen in hand, a number of papers before him. Three Jews (left) stand obsequiously on his right, but he turns with his enigmatic smile towards a French post-boy (right), a grotesque dwarfish man with long queue and jack-boots holding his whip and hat, who holds out to him with a cunning smile a paper inscribed: 'My dear Lord Paris 7th Jany 1783 I am happy to hear you have so nearly concluded your Alley Arrangements. The Preliminaries shall be signed coute que coute by the Time you desire, & you may rely on the Courier's arrival on the Eve of the 23d yours truly Billy Paradice [William Eden.]' Under Lansdowne's elbow is a paper inscribed 'Memorandums Pay off the Mortgage on Jesuits Colledge in Berkeley Square - Pay off Solomons any for 500£ pr Annm Inquire what Tayt will take for my Bond for 3000£ given for furniture sold at Christyes'. The foremost Jew holds out to Lansdowne a paper ... On a shelf, inscribed 'Waste Paper', in the upper right corner of the design, are three large bundles of papers: 'Ordnance Estimates', 'State of the National Debt', and 'Civil List'; two piles of documents hang from the shelf. On the wall above Lansdowne's head are two bust portraits: 'John Calvin', wearing a steeple-crowned hat, gown, and bands, and 'Ignatius Loyola', a profile portrait of Burke wearing a Jesuit's biretta as in British Museum Satires No. 6026, &c. 12."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to within thread margins of plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Treaties -- Commerical Treaty with France -- National debt -- Civil list -- Military Ordinance -- Allusion to J. Bond -- Allusion to St. Ignatious Loyola -- Allusion to John Calvin -- French post-boy -- Jesuits -- Allusion to William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, 1744-1814.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1787, by R. Phillips, Southwke., London
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Ethnic stereotypes, Tables, Writing materials, Boots, and Whips
"From slits in a huge green bag, labelled 'Evidence against the Q...n', peer the heads of five witnesses against the Queen. Round it stand puzzled and apprehensive Ministers discussing their plans. Castlereagh, on the extreme left, faces Sidmouth who stands with flexed knees holding a constable's staff, one hand on the bag. He says: "Well Gentlemen! we are pretty well in for it now--we must lie through thick and thin to do any good, and get as many as we can to do the same, or it is all up with us; what say you Doctor have you any specific for the occasion." Sidmouth: "Friend Derry I could as soon produce the Philosophers stone or Elixir of Life but if your brazen face can't bring us through it is a forlorn hope, however here is some chance in the Bag!" The head of a man crouching in the Bag looks up to say: "Yes I have some choice Tales to communicate what with Bargemen--Chambermaids--W....s and Rogues, whom I have had the honor to associate with. I shall be able to COOK up a high seasoned dish that his M.....y will relish." On the right of the Bag stands Canning, scratching his head with a puzzled expression; he says: "Curse that City Hop Merchant [Wood] he has thrown bitter into this Brewing with a vengeance! I'll try what a dash of my wit will do, or we shall be obliged to swallow it ourselves!" A pretty female head looks up at him from the Bag, to say: "I say Mr. Flashman! don't stand scratching your head in that manner but hear what I have to tell you when a woman is determined on revenge she will stick at nothing to accomplish it--turn me away indeed for a little amusement with Peter, when my husband was out I hate such scrupulous Modesty. I'll swear any thing you wish." Three faces appear at smaller slits, saying respectively: "I'll swear!"; "So will I!"; "So will I to any lie." Eldon (right) in Chancellor's wig and gown, walks off to the right, holding a rolled document: 'Rex [vers]us Regina'. He says with a meditative frown: "Well Gentlemen I shall go home and consult about it. I dont like to decide too hastily Look before you leap ought to be the Motto of my Seal" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 15139, &c.]. Behind Castlereagh (left) is a table with writing materials; at his feet are bundles of papers labelled 'Foreign Newspapers' and 'Foreign Correspondence private'.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 24 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
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., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820., Cooke, William, 1757-1832., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Bags, Witnesses, Documents, Newspapers, and Tables
"The Duke and Duchess of York face each other, a small table between them; he sits (left), with his hands clasped and resting on the table; she stands (right), a small jewel-box in her left hand, holding out to him a string of jewels. A paper inscribed '17,000 . . .' lies on the table beside the Duke, whose words are etched above his head: 'Henceforth my follies and neglects shall cease And all to come be penitence and peace, Vice shall no more atract me with her Charms, Nor pleasure reach me, but in those dear arms.' She says, "My Jewels? trifles! not worth the speaking of, if weigh'd against a husband's peace; but let 'em purchase that, and the world's wealth is of less value". She wears the Duke's miniature round her neck. Behind her is a chest of drawers, the top drawer open and full of jewels. On it stands a small coffer of jewels, marked with the Prussian eagle. Beneath the design is etched: 'Ye slaves of passion, and ye dupes of chance, Wake all your powers from this destructive trance! Shake off the shackles of this tyrant vice : Hear other calls than those of card and dice Be learn'd in nobler arts than arts of Play, And other debts than those of Honor Pay. No longer live insensible to Shame Lost to your country, families, and fame.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with printmaker Isaac Cruikshank's initials in center right portion of image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image, four on either side of title: [The] slaves of passion, and [the] dupes of chance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Marriages: Duke of York's marriage, 1791 -- Furniture: chest of drawers -- Tables -- Upholstered chairs -- Furnishings: box with jewels -- Symbols: Prussian eagle -- Gambling debts -- Allusion to the Duke of York's gambling., and Watermark: [T?]aylor.
Publisher:
February 8, 1792, by S.W. Fores, 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820, and Moore, Edward, 1712-1757.
"The King is on the throne (right), with five advisers seated at a round table at the base of the dais; all are thrown into confusion by the arrival of a top-booted messenger (left) who rushes into the room, hair on end, yelling, "The Queen's Arrived!!!" The terrified King screams: "The Devil!!!!" His wig stands on end and his crown falls off; a bottle of 'Curacoa' is upset. The Ministers are engaged on 'Plans for Divorce', a paper so inscribed is on the table; all register terror. The Archbishop of Canterbury says "The Lord have mercy on our vicked Souls," the pious Liverpool says "Amen." All are broadly burlesqued, with goggling eyes and large heads in the manner of Woodward's 'Long Heads' or 'Lilliputians' (cf. British Museum satires nos. 10604, 10889). See British Museum Satires No. 13730, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description from probable copy of this print
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Robert Cruikshank based on expertise of Andrew Edmunds., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plate 2"--Upper left corner., For an Irish copy of nearly identical composition, see no. 13728 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 Mounted on page 17 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yd., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Politicians, Bishops, Messengers, Tables, Crowns, Wigs, Bottles, and Fear
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 137. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of a large room showing two sash windows, through one of which (left) is seen part of the south side of the Senate House, through the other, the tower of St. Mary's Church, both drawn with topographical accuracy. Between the two windows is a niche in which is a statue of Athene holding her shield; in her outstretched left hand is held out a laurel wreath towards some men beneath her who have entered from a door on the right. Her owl sits beside her on the stump of a tree. Beneath the title is etched, "dedicated to the illustrious Inheritress of her fame in Professors of Arts & Sciences, the University of Cambridge O Matre pulchra Filia pulchrior!" Immediately below Athene, and concealing the lower part of her draperies a man stands on a high rostrum covered with a cloth. He wears a furred academic gown and bands, and holds out a rolled document in his right hand. Immediately below the rostrum a man, not in academic dress, is seated at a table writing. He is in profile to the right looking towards four men who have entered from the right through an open door, apparently 'professors of Arts and Sciences', whose names he is recording. The foremost of these is a dancing-master who stands holding a bow in his right hand, a kit or small fiddle in his left. Next is a rough-looking elderly man wearing a round hat and long coat. The other two are middle-aged, one holding his hat and a cane and accompanied by a dog. On the left, and behind the chair of the man writing, are two other 'professors'; a fencing-master, wearing a fencing-jacket, stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right, his left arm raised, holding his foil horizontally. Behind him stands a thin man wearing a hat, one hand in his waistcoat pocket, the other thrust in his waistcoat."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; the letters "n" in "Athens", "inheritress", and "University" are etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 137 of: Bunbury album.
"Four men smoking long pipes sit stiffly in upright wooden chairs. One (left) in profile to the right, very obese, is an old military officer with a wooden leg; next is a lean man in back view, next a stout man sits full face, and on the right is a thin man in profile to the left seated beside a rectangular table on which is a glass and a large jug. All have expressions of solemn vacuity. They emit clouds of smoke from mouth or pipe which fill the upper part of the bare room. On the wall (right) is a print of Fox, whole length, declaiming with right arm raised."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title from text below image., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 1 May 1792 by W. Dickinson. Cf. No. 8205 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Imprint continues: ... where may be had all Mr. Bunbury & Rowlandsons works., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Smoking clubs -- Military officer -- Wooden legs -- Male costume, 1792 -- Large jugs -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Reference to Charles James Fox, 1749-1806., and Publisher's stamp (partially trimmmed) in lower right corner of sheet: S.W.[F.].
Publisher:
Publishd. March 15th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Volume 2, page 81. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four men smoking long pipes sit stiffly in upright wooden chairs. One (left) in profile to the right, very obese, is an old military officer with a wooden leg; next is a lean man in back view, next a stout man sits full face, and on the right is a thin man in profile to the left seated beside a rectangular table on which is a glass and a large jug. All have expressions of solemn vacuity. They emit clouds of smoke from mouth or pipe which fill the upper part of the bare room. On the wall (right) is a print of Fox, whole length, declaiming with right arm raised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 81 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, engraver, No. 24 Old Bond Street
"Wellington sits behind a small cloth-covered table flanked by eight other representations of himself, as depicted in recent caricatures, apparently all by W. Heath. The arrangement is evidently that of Charles Mathews' 'At Homes', see British Museum Satires No. 14714, &c., Wellington, like Mathews, being in propria persona at the table. In this guise he wears the robes (indistinguishable from Coronation robes) and collar of the Garter and the order of the Golden Fleece and a (crown-like) ducal coronet; his head is turned in profile to the right. Immediately below him, the head and hands of another Wellington, who is crouching on the floor, project from the tablecloth; he grasps a royal crown, and wears a cap coloured blue and resembling a tam-o'-shanter, but perhaps intended for a coronet. The other Wellingtons, all standing (left to right): [1] A mute as in British Museum Satires No. 15501, in profile to the right. [2] A Grenadier, full-face and rigidly at attention, much as in British Museum Satires No. 15768, but without the musket. [3] A ratcatcher stooping to the left and touching his hat, the cage in his left hand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15806). [4] Aged and cloaked, wearing spectacles, with bowed head, he clasps a cross in both hands. [5] The old woman in a soldier's coat of British Museum Satires No. 15721, facing, and apparently in angry altercation with, the seated Wellington. [6] The coachman of British Museum Satires No. 15731, in profile to the left, holding shaft and lash of his whip as if they were the reins of a four-in-hand which he is driving. [7] Wellington in uniform, directed to the left, wearing his plumed cocked hat and holding up with a furtive expression a sword with a damaged blade in a dilapidated scabbard. [8] A mummy-case with an aperture to show Wellington's head with the forefingers compressing his mouth; below the aperture is the word 'Mum'. (Apparently from a satire on Wellington's silence as to his intentions on Catholic Relief until the eve of the opening of Parliament, see British Museum Satires No. 15659.) There is a background of curtains. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 15787."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
All the world's a stage &c. S-
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Publisher's annnouncement following imprint: ... sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures, none are original without T. McLeans name as publisher., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pub. June 15, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Tables, Robes, Crowns, Military uniforms, Daggers & swords, Coach drivers, Sarcophagi, and Draperies
"The Duke of Richmond (left) sleeps in an arm-chair beside a table on which are playing-cards and bits of broken tobacco-pipes arranged to represent fortifications. On the right are two cannons, one on a gun-carriage ; a cat sits on its muzzle miaowing at Richmond, one paw on the table. By his side (left) are plans on rollers and a box of long tobacco-pipes. On the wall hang two pictures on rollers as if they were plans. In one (left) soldiers with wheelbarrows, &c. work on the sea-shore, off which dismantled ships lie at anchor. In the other, cannons and cannon-balls with one sentry lie along the sea-shore, off which are ships at anchor with brooms at their mast-heads to show that they are for sale. Richmond's hat, overcoat, and sword hang on the wall between the two pictures. At his feet is an open book inscribed 'Trial of Colol Debbeig'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Planing of fortifications and Planning of fortifications
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: House of Cards -- Card players -- Bill to fortify Portsmouth -- Fortifications -- Furniture -- Pictures that amplify subject -- Matches -- Pets., Horace Walpole refers to subject of print in his letter to Mann dated March 16, 1786., and Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman?
Publisher:
Published March 7th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Sleeping, Tables, Playing cards, Pipes (Smoking), Cats, and Pictures
"In a room, a group watching as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at right, the man and a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay; in the right foreground two young children build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher inferred from another print in the series: The king and miller of Mansfied., One of a series of engravings after paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting i`n loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Children, Dogs, Drawing rooms, Furniture, Interiors, Playing cards, Screens, Tables, and Toys
In a room, a small group of women and children watch as a man sitting at a round table builds a house of cards, which tumbles down as a figure leans in at the right; a man standing in outdoor clothes behind looks at him with dismay. On a chair on the right a lapdog jumps on the woman standing between the two young boys; in the left foreground two little girls build their own house on a small table; doors open onto garden in background; after a painting by Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens
Description:
Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in upper right corner: V. 6.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil [sic], and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A young man, in military dress, of elegant and effeminate appearance, sprawls on a sofa, looking towards a young woman (right) who leans towards him. She is of meretricious appearance, and wears the quasi-military riding-dress fashionable at this time in connexion with the militia camps of Coxheath and Warley. The room is luxuriously furnished. A round table with a wine bottle and glass is partly visible on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Captain Jessamy learning the proper discipline of the couch
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '471' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Militia camps -- Militia uniforms -- Nosegays -- Lighting -- Furniture: pedestal table -- Military female costume -- Female costume: military & feathered hats., Watermark., Imperfect; publication date at end of imprint has been erased from sheet., Subjects identified below plate line in a later hand as Captain Bisset and Lady Worsley., and Matted to 62 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Flowers, Wallpapers, Chandeliers, Shutters, Windows, Tables, and Hats
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and Mounted to 21 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 24 cm
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
Title from text below image., Printmaker from plate no. 1., Series title from plate no. 1., No. 2 from the Dighton's series: Twelve prints representing the most interesting, sentimental and humourous scenes in Tristam Shandy., Plate is numbered "2" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Corporals' uniforms -- Male costume, ca. 1785.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Crutches, Screens, Furniture, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Interiors, Military uniforms, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Smoking
"A parody of British Museum Satires No. 10979 by Gillray. Queen Caroline and her supporters, realistically depicted, sleep round the dinner-table after dessert (at Brandenburgh House), their dreams are supported on clouds which hide the upper part of the wall. The Queen (left), dressed much as in British Museum Satires No. 14103, but with trailing draperies, lies back in an arm-chair, arms extended, her knees crossed and shoes kicked off. She wears the accustomed miniature of Bergami, see British Museum Satires No. 13858; her bracelets are inscribed 'C B'. Lieut. Flinn leans on the back of her chair, looking down at her protectingly, the only one awake. At her right hand sleeps Joseph Hume, identified by a paper in his pocket: 'Humes motion upon Queenboro'. Facing him and on the Queen's left sits Lady Anne Hamilton, wearing a feathered (Scots) bonnet. In an arm-chair facing the Queen Alderman Wood (right) leans back, one thin leg on the table. On his right is Dr. Parr; on his left Hownam, in naval uniform, bestrides his chair with his back to the table, his head buried in his hands which are folded on the back of his chair (inscribed 'C R'). Decanters are labelled 'C BR'; a (gold) centrepiece for fruit is supported by three naked nymphs. On the floor are glasses and many more decanters: 'Brandy' (by the Queen); 'Rum', 'Madeira', 'Port' by Wood. The carpet is patterned with hearts and arrows. In the centre of the wall is a large fireplace flanked by fire-screens, each with a half length portrait surmounted by a crescent. On the chimneypiece are three dancing figurines: the Queen apparently as Columbine (see British Museum Satires No. 14120) between a Turk (Mahomet, see British Museum Satires No. 13929) and a Harlequin (Bergami as in British Museum Satires No. 14120). Two bell-pulls terminate in satyrs' heads; similar heads decorate the chairs. The pictures are (left) a half length of Bergami as a courier above two smaller pictures: a tent on a ship, see British Museum Satires No. 13818, and the Queen walking with Wood. On the right a half length of Bergami after his promotion above a picture of Bergami and the Queen walking together, and one of Bergami rowing her in a boat (on Como). A globe enclosing a lamp mounted with rams' heads hangs from the ceiling. On the cloud, behind the lamp, is a vision of loaves and fishes, above, an open book inscribed 'Bless the [Qu]een'. The topmost dream is a coronation, realistically depicted: the King, crowned, and Queen kneel face to face, the Archbishop about to place a crown on her head. Peeresses stand behind the Queen, peers behind the King. On the right and left are two disks of light, which illuminate the scenes below. One is 'R I G H T S' (the letters in a circle) above a view of Buckingham House ('the Queen's House'). The other is 'P R I V I LE G E S': the Queen, wearing a crown, stands on a dais, a lady kisses her hand, other ladies stand on the left and right. Below the title: 'Thus Queen Mab Gallops Night by Night Thro' Lover's brains, & then they dream of Love; Sometimes she gallops oe'r a Courtiers Nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a Place, And sometimes comes she as a tythe pigs tail Tickling the parson as he lies asleep; But, 'tis the baseless fabric of a Vision, that leaves not a rack behind. Altered from Shakespeare.' ['Romeo and Juliet', I. iv; 'Tempest', IV. i.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Castles in the air! Glorious prospects!
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 44 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Published 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, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
"A parody of British Museum Satires No. 9752, Gillray's 'Dido in Despair!' The Queen takes the place of Lady Hamilton, in a similar pose but tearing her long black hair with more of rage and less of grief. She wears a bracelet on each arm, one inscribed 'BB' (for Bergami), the other 'MW' (for Wood). On the floor are gifts to the Queen. Her bare right foot rests on a large cake inscribed 'MW' on which are various emblems: a large crown, which she kicks over, busts of Wood, Bergami, Lieut. Hownam, and an unidentified person; also a goat, an ass, and a cat. This stands on a paper: 'Mr Trifle's Love to the Q[ueen]'. A huge round of beef is ticketed 'With Mr Suets Love to the Q--n'; with this is a roll of 'Cat's Meat'. A model of a pair of stays enclosed in a glass case stands on two papers: 'Glass-blower's Delight' and 'O stay my love my Cary dear'. A pair of breeches of metal is 'For Bat [Bergami] or Cat ad libitum from the Brazier[s]'. Caricatures lie near a pair of slippers inscribed 'BB'; the uppermost is of Bergami drinking at a table between Wood and the Queen. A book is 'Catalogue of Fancy Men'. The glass on the dressing-table is topped by a crescent; on it hang miniatures of Bergami and Wood (cf. No. 13858). The table is covered with decanters, one labelled 'Brandy' [see British Museum Satires No. 14175], glass, pill-box, and boxes of 'Rouge', 'Brick dust', and 'Court Plaister'. The curtains of the bed are fringed with gold and hang from a pelmet. In place of Gillray's open sash-window is a closed French window; outside is a landscape, with two asses, and a lake (Como) with a sailing-boat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below the title: Ah! where, and ah where, does my gallant courier lie, for me does he oft on his downy pillow sigh, I left him on the Continent, to claim my half-a-crown, and I wish to my heart, I could have him here in town., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 36 of: George Humphrey shop album.
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., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Dido (Legendary character)
"A parody of British Museum Satires No. 9752, Gillray's 'Dido in Despair!' The Queen takes the place of Lady Hamilton, in a similar pose but tearing her long black hair with more of rage and less of grief. She wears a bracelet on each arm, one inscribed 'BB' (for Bergami), the other 'MW' (for Wood). On the floor are gifts to the Queen. Her bare right foot rests on a large cake inscribed 'MW' on which are various emblems: a large crown, which she kicks over, busts of Wood, Bergami, Lieut. Hownam, and an unidentified person; also a goat, an ass, and a cat. This stands on a paper: 'Mr Trifle's Love to the Q[ueen]'. A huge round of beef is ticketed 'With Mr Suets Love to the Q--n'; with this is a roll of 'Cat's Meat'. A model of a pair of stays enclosed in a glass case stands on two papers: 'Glass-blower's Delight' and 'O stay my love my Cary dear'. A pair of breeches of metal is 'For Bat [Bergami] or Cat ad libitum from the Brazier[s]'. Caricatures lie near a pair of slippers inscribed 'BB'; the uppermost is of Bergami drinking at a table between Wood and the Queen. A book is 'Catalogue of Fancy Men'. The glass on the dressing-table is topped by a crescent; on it hang miniatures of Bergami and Wood (cf. No. 13858). The table is covered with decanters, one labelled 'Brandy' [see British Museum Satires No. 14175], glass, pill-box, and boxes of 'Rouge', 'Brick dust', and 'Court Plaister'. The curtains of the bed are fringed with gold and hang from a pelmet. In place of Gillray's open sash-window is a closed French window; outside is a landscape, with two asses, and a lake (Como) with a sailing-boat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below the title: Ah! where, and ah where, does my gallant courier lie, for me does he oft on his downy pillow sigh, I left him on the Continent, to claim my half-a-crown, and I wish to my heart, I could have him here in town., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.8 x 21.7 cm.
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., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., and Dido (Legendary character)
"A patient, wrapped in shroud-like draperies, sits (left) in a high-backed arm-chair gazing up and to the left. Two doctors in the foreground fight each other, overturning a round table on which are medicine-phials. A lean doctor (left) flourishes the wig of his fat opponent, whom he clutches by the neck-cloth. The fat doctor (right) siezes the other's pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '143' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Fist-fights -- Medicine bottles -- Walking staves -- Furniture: armchairs.
Publisher:
Published 23th Decr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Rectangular bundles of documents, supported on human legs, march towards a writing-table (left) where two men await them eagerly, one being evidently Lord Stewart. These bundles recede in perspective from right to left. The two largest are inscribed: 'From Switzerland Via Colombier the Capital of Europe' and 'From Milan by the Brown road'. The others are: 'From Trieste'; 'From Carlsruhe'; 'Como'; 'Italy'; 'Devil'; 'Moloch'; 'Lucifer'. A bird flies towards the table with a paper inscribed 'Private'. Forked lightning darts towards the table, beside which trunks, boxes, and papers are piled, with a paper headed '... [Maj]ochys deposition'. Towards the table from the left advances (from an ornate Gothic building) a procession of lawyers, carrying books. P. 6: E, for the Embassy, kept on full pay, Collecting of slander and filth on the way ; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
E, for the embassy, kept on full pay, collecting of slander and filth on the way ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
Documents, Tables, Birds, Lightning, Luggage, Boxes, and Lawyers
A scene in a sitting room, a man in a fit of anger kicks over a chair and table set with tea; a pitcher, cups and saucers, tongs and other tableware are in flight or shattered on the floor. The man holds his wig in his left hand as a woman looks on with fear. Two cats fight in front of a fireplace above which hangs a seascape with rough waters and lightening. On the back wall another painting shows a man standing over a woman
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Plate numbered "38" in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Anger, Couples, Kicking, Interiors, Tables, Fireplaces, and Cats
Leaf 56. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Droll: a fat and jolly woman representing 1760 seated facing a thin gin-sodden woman of 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Emblems of 1760 and 1780
Description:
Title engraved below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,0514.64., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: In this poor and humble station, see an emblem of the nation ..., and On leaf 56 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1st Jany. 1780, by Robt. Wilkinson, at No. 58 in Cornhill and Field & Tuer
"Heading to a printed broadside: ... 'New Version', verses printed in two columns below the (printed) title. The Duke of York, with a gauntleted fist, strikes in the face the startled King, who staggers, decanter in hand, saying, "Theres no dependance on the Army." The Duke answers: "Not for you." A supper-table, with decanters, &c., overturns on the right, the King's chair on the left; the chair is decorated with an irradiated wine-glass flanked by bowing Chinese, and, like the table, is fringed by bells. Behind the King are two bottle-holders, the bottles in the shape of a 'Green Bag' [see British Museum Satires No. 13735], and so inscribed; they are Castlereagh and Liverpool, who are backed by Sidmouth and Canning. They say: "Never fear--we are here," and "Never fear." Behind the Duke is the Queen between two ladies; she says: "Fair play's a Jewell Face to Face Truith [sic] will come out." Four of her supporters watch from the left: Wood in his alderman's gown, and holding a 'City Address', says: "A blow has been Struck who feels it?" Burdett, next Hobhouse, and holding a 'West' [minster Address], says: "When Britons strike they strike home." The fourth is a barrister (one of the Queen's legal advisers, not resembling Brougham). The sixth and seventh of ten verses: Said Ca . . tl . . gh I know the Cause, Y . . k's for your 'R .... l Rib', Sire, Your M .... y shall have New Laws, You know we never gib, Sire. Said W . . b . . rce, with face demure, Divorce!...... we'll soon obtain it; Another Consort we'll ensure, His end......Y . . k ne'er shall gain it."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later edition
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Tentative attribution to Robert Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue., First edition?, An approximate date of August 1820 is given in the British Museum catalogue for a later edition; the same print is dated March 1820 in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.831., Imperfect; sheet has been cut in half, with bottom portion (16.1 x 20.7 cm) containing the letterpress text mounted separately beside upper portion containing the engraved plate., For the third edition with slight changes to the verses, see no. 13830 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Fights, Bottles, Wine, Tables, Chairs, and Bells
"A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (left) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. July 30, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
Novr. 1, 1790.
Call Number:
790.11.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean man wearing a hat sits in profile to the left, holding a large frothing tankard and smoking a long pipe. His expression is one of pleased anticipation. Before him (right) is a round table on which are a tobacco-box and lighted lantern. Behind is a casement window, its blackness indicating night."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From the series: Symptoms of drunkenness., and Variant state, with abbreviated title, of No. 7771 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
"George IV (right), as Henry VIII (see British Museum Satires No. 13664, &c.), wearing ermine robes and ruff, sits on a dais under a canopy, his eyes turned sideways to the right. In his right hand is a goblet; on a table before him is a decanter of 'Curacoa'. Against this, at a lower level, is a second table on which is the mace; on each side sits a cardinal, gaping in astonishment at Queen Caroline, as Katharine of Aragon; she stands facing the King at the end of the table (left), wearing quasi-Tudor robes. She declaims Queen Catherine's speech, abridged: "Sir, I desire you do me right and justice, And to bestow your pity on me: for I am a most poor woman, and a stranger, Born out of your dominions; -- If, in the course And process of this time, you can report, And perove [sic] it too, against mine honour aught, My bond to wedlock, or my Love and duty Against your sacred person, in Gods name, Turn me away ;-- and so give me up To the sharpest kind of justice." Under Castlereagh's foot lies 'Mag[na] Charta'; his vis-à-vis cardinal is Sidmouth. Next Castlereagh (right) sits a lawyer, writing (? Leach). Beside him is a large bag with its neck encircled by hissing serpents; it is placarded: 'A Green Bag! filled with Spite Envy Malice. Hatred Lies &c &c &c' [see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c.]. On each side of the King stands a bishop holding a crosier, one the Archbishop of Canterbury, the other probably Pelham of Exeter, see British Museum Satires No. 13946. Behind the Queen and on the extreme left stands Wood in his alderman's gown. Beefeaters stand against the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Principal characters, King of England by the ****, Queen of England by the Q****, Cardinal Wolsey - L**d C*********h [Castlereagh] &c &c &[c]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement below title: Just Pubd. "How to get un-married" [British Museum Satires No. 13770]., and Mounted on page 21 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Princes St., Soho
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828, Pelham, George, 1766-1827, Leach, John, 1760-1834, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Lady Perceval sits at an ornate writing-table, pen in hand. A serpent issues from her breast, coils round her arm, and darts its fang at the tip of her pen. She frowns meditatively, saying, "Now then for something strong but not libellous, I hate half measures we must rush upon the enemy--suprise [sic], astound him--and unhorse him by Terror--John Bull have at you! I'll open your eyes--." The table is littered with papers and books; some are docketed: 'For the Star', 'To the Editor of the Star', 'For the News', 'Extracts from the Book', one is 'Copy', a book is 'Politicks', and a large paper is displayed: 'Select Scraps from Shakespeare--with my own comments "Some achieve greatness "some have greatness thrust upon them .... Querie was this not the case with Nunky [Spencer Perceval], why not happen .... Son--.' Other papers and books lie on the floor: newspapers are 'The News' and 'The Star', a paper is headed 'Memorandums Billy Austin [see British Museum Satires No. 12027]--the Will--' Books are 'Life of Lord Nelson', 'A very Woman by Massinger', 'Machiavael', 'Johnson', 'Indiscretion a Novel', 'Don Quixote'. On the left John Mitford, identified by a letter in his coat-pocket 'To John Mit--', stands facing the wall, and hanging one picture over another: he places a view of a country inn, 'The Tigers Head' above one of '[War]burton's Mad House', saying, "Come this is a prettier picture than the other [left] shall catch some fish in this neighbourhood." He is fashionably dressed, wearing Hessian boots. This picture is on the left of a row: a large picture of 'Alecto' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7721), naked, wreathed in serpents, and brandishing scourge and fire-brand, with a background of flames hangs between three-quarter length portraits of 'Lady Douglas' and 'Lady A Hamilton'. The former covers her face with a tragic gesture; a dagger lies on a table beside her, she seems to contemplate suicide. The latter clasps her hands. Over the chimneypiece (right) is a three-quarter length portrait of 'Lord P . . . . val' concealing his face with his hat; below, and partly hiding the frame, is a statuette of a knight killing a dragon. On the chimney-piece there is also a bottle labelled 'Cephalic' (for diseases of the head). Papers are burning in the grate, one inscribed 'To[o] Libellous'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lady Paragraph championizing
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Text following title: - vide Letters., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text following title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., Watermark: C. Ansell 1807., and Formerly mounted with remnants on verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 4th, 1814, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
A French satire on the British administration, who are shown gathered around a table with bottles and glasses (two of which are toppled over) and a battle plan (’Plan de Berlin’) drawn on the tablecloth. The men are mostly yawning, asleep or looking bored. Even the dog in the foreground looks to be toppling over with fatique. A servant also yawning enters from the left with a bootjack carrying slippers(?). In 1806, French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin
Alternative Title:
Deliberations des politiques anglais sur la guere and Deliberations des politiques anglais sur la guerre
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "plan" is etched backwards., For a variant state lacking alternative title and other text at bottom of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.60., "Déposé à la Bibliothèque Imp."--Beneath lower left corner of image., "Et presentement chez Basset Md. d'estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, Rue St. Jacques au coin de colle des Mathurines, No. 64"--Below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
Germany.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Military officers, British, Tables, Bottles, and Drinking vessels
Title above image. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Spiritualism, Seances, Parties, Top hats, and Tables
"Popular print, satire, after print published by Laurie & Whittle in 1794 (British Museum satires no. 8596): five men sit at a small square table on which are glasses and an empty punch-bowl, all have expressions of deep melancholy: one reverses his glass, another breaks his pipe, the bowl of which still smokes, the third weeps, the fourth looks down with a gesture of deprecating misery, the fifth looking towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Eating & drinking, Tables, Pipes (Smoking), and Sadness
"A satire on the folly of marriage where the two parties are of a dissimilar age, and on the sexual opportunism of young military office. An elderly magistrate has fallen asleep sitting beside a table on which are glasses, pipes and two bottles, one labelled “Port” in front of an empty grate. He holds a copy of “Compleat JUSTICE”, showing him to be a Justice of the Peace, and a paper protrudes from his pocket lettered “-him for a Trepass on...”. On a bracket table behind him are “BURNS JUSTICE”, a paper lettered “Stealing a Hare” and another “Mid to Wit...”. On the wall over his head is a stag’s head with antlers alluding to his cuckoldry. On the other side of the fireplace, watching him, his pretty young wife sits beside an army officer who caresses her. The officer’s hat hangs on the wall behind them. On the mantelpiece are two oriental style jars and a figure of Budai,” the smiling Buddha” and over these is a gun suspended upside down.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Alcoholic beverages, Bottles, Chairs, Drinking vessels, Firearms, Fireplaces, Furnishings, Interiors, Marriage, Military officers, British, Parlors, and Tables
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., First of two plates on leaf 44., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." The other two, one flourishing a candle, the other a full glass, sing: "We'll drown her in the bowl the bowl" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12181]. Behind them is a table with decanters and a melon; a bottle is in the King's chair; broken bottles lie on the floor. On the right is the bed; in a chamber-pot are papers: 'The Queens Affair' and 'State Papers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Later state; publisher's street address "24 Little St. Martins Lane" has been scored through and partially burnished from plate but is still legible at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state with unmodified imprint, see no. 14017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Mounted on page 28 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
