"Heading to printed verses ... A young woman sits a donkey which is in the sea, refusing to move; she flourishes her parasol. Holiday-makers stand on the sea-shore watching with amusement. In the background one lady is being thrown from her donkey, another is galloping. In the verses a she-ass relates to a mere beast of burden the delights of frolicking by the sea: 'Fashion here tells young lasses to ride On the best walk that ever was seen'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title and imprint statement below image., Artist from the British Museum catalogue., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Three columns of verse printed on broadside portion of sheet: Brother Jack I am going to inform you , of things that ne'er enter'd your head, and I hope that narration will charm you, wherever you're driven or led ..., and Plate numbered '167' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 25th May 1807 by Laurie and Whittle, No. 53, Fleet-Street, London
Three couples and a young boy are picnicking outdoors. The large women with exaggerated sleeves and large bosoms exclaims: "Lauk, how hot the sun is to my back!" Everyone is oblivious to the fact that a fire is raging under the kettle behind her
Description:
Title from caption 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., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 269.
"Two men skating, one of them holding an umbrella that hits the other on the nose, his hat falling on a hole on the ice to the right and he's about to fall on his back; in the right background two men pulling another on skates."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Just going to "drop in"
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication date based on watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1826.
A fire-and-brimstone preacher haranguing an unhappy-looking audience. An assistant holds up a parasol to shelter him
Description:
Title from text below image., Possibly after Thomas Rowlandson. An apparent earlier state of this print, without the title and with a thicker border, is attributed to Rowlandson in the Philiadelphia Museum of Art collection database (Accession Number: 1960-139-85)., Date of publication suggested in dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
"John Bull, a fat "cit", is beset by descending water covered with the word 'Tax', many times repeated, in which dogs, cats, and pitchforks fall with violence. His eyes and spectacles are transfixed by a pitchfork inscribed 'Window Tax'; the shaft of another inscribed 'Malt & Hops Tax' sticks in his bleeding mouth, dislodging teeth. His paunch is pierced with a third fork; the handle, inscribed 'Tax ...' [&c. &c], supports an angry cat, spitting 'Tax ...' Another falling cat knocks off his wig, which emits a cloud of powder inscribed 'Powder Tax'. His gouty feet, in slashed shoes, are stabbed by three pitchforks: 'Corn Laws' [the biggest, cf. British Museum Satires No. 15510]; 'Leather Tax'; 'Land Tax'. A 'Dog Tax' strikes down J. B.'s dog, its collar inscribed 'Poor Tray'. Another dog worries a cat (left). J. B. holds up a derelict umbrella, inscribed 'Trade', pierced by many prongs and useless."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Raining cats dogs and pitchforks with the prongs downward
Description:
Title etched above image., Caption title below image., and Text below caption title: It must be the fault of the weather - for when it rains - it rains taxes - & when it shines - it shines taxes.
Publisher:
Pub. March 20, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Animal attachs, Cats, Dogs, Pitchforks, and Umbrellas
"Promenaders in Hyde Park illustrate these titles. [1] A dandy walks, right to left, jauntily rakish, holding a lorgnette and glove in a gloved hand. He wears a large bell-shaped top-hat, beneath which projects a great tuft of curled hair. Under his arm is a rolled umbrella. [2] A Quaker, in a shallow broad-brimmed hat, walks primly (right to left) with a young (twin) daughter on each arm. He holds a large gamp umbrella, fastened and point downwards. [3] A thin man wearing a long greatcoat and seedy top-hat, walks (left to right) with an expression of acute melancholy. He trails behind him an unfastened umbrella. He faces heavy wind and slanting rain. Beside him is a small dead tree. Near each is an appropriate dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Premium, par, and discount
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1822 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Dogs, Dandies, British, Parks, Pedestrians, and Umbrellas
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In lower right margin: Edinburgh, 1848., From: The Modern Athenians., Portion detached from a larger print., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 83' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: patten shoes.
Leaf 49. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"This procession of drenched spectators return from a royal review of the volunteers corps of London held in Hyde Park on June 4, 1800. Unfortunately the event was spoiled by heavy rain and we see women in light summer dresses and slipper-like shoes trying to keep themselves from getting covered in mud."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., Restrike, with added title. For an earlier state lacking title, see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.482., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. June 1800; see Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog., and On leaf 49 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
An older gentleman is on horseback strapped into a contraption that limits the horses movement (as such, it won't move above a trot pace), limits any jolting movements and also provides shade and cover through the attachment of an umbrella. In the left background, a horseman struggles to control his horse as a panicked lady watches on and his top hat flies off behind him. To the right a male onlooker peers through his monocle in awe of the timid horsemen's contraption
Description:
Title from text below image., Series title etched above image., Later edition attributes these plates to Robert Seymour: Living made easy : dedicated to the Utilitarian Society : twelve humorous subjects / designed by R. Seymour. New-York : Published by E.S. Mesier, 28 Wall Street, 1832., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Horses, Umbrellas, Machinery, Dandies, and British
