Research Catalog

English caricatures

Title
English caricatures [graphic].
Publication
1769-1770.

Details

Additional Authors
Greenwood, Isaac J. (Isaac John), 1833-1911
Description
31 prints : etching, engraving, mezzotint; 35 x 41 cm. or smaller.
Summary
Anonymous social caricatures from the reign of George III, arranged by date. Includes representations of fashionable high life, drinking, marriage, etc.
Subject
  • Beckford, William, 1760-1844
  • Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799
  • Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
  • Dandies
  • Drinking in art
  • Fashion in art
  • Marriage in art
Genre/Form
  • Caricatures – English – 1700-1799.
  • Prints – English – 1700-1799.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
Cite As (note)
  • Caricature Collection, Print Room.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Holdings checked in departmental copy of Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Division I: Political and Personal Satires, Vol. IV. Items not in British Museum catalogue are numbered in square brackets.
Provenance (note)
  • Some are from the Isaac J. Greenwood Collection.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of Caricature Collection.
Contents
[BM.4334A] High Life at Five in the Morning -- [BM.4334B] High Life at Noon -- [BM.4334C] High Life in the Evening, or Quality Dinner Hour -- [BM.4334D] High Life at Midnight -- BM.4356 Mrs. S--d--rs -- BM.4359 Nauticus [Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland] -- [BM.4363A] The Arrest -- BM.4394 The Courtiers Assembled, on hearing the News of the Death of the Rt. Honble. Wm. Beckford -- BM.4394 The Citizens of London lamenting the Death of Beckford -- BM.4408 A Recorder on his Pilgrimage [Mr. James Eyre] -- BM.4409 A Caricatura -- BM.4425 The Carlton House Botchers [sic] -- BM.4470 The Subtle Sinner. Sir Simony Scruple -- [BM.4495A] A Poor Man Loaded with Mischief, or Matrimony -- [BM.4495B] A Poor Man Loaded with Mischief, or Matrimony (Reproduction) -- BM.4500 The Sudden Explosion in Fording the Brook -- BM.4506 [Night Amusement] -- BM.4522 How d'ye Like Me -- [BM.4524A] Love and Wine -- BM.4534A The Double Disappointment -- BM.4545 A Bagnigge Wells Scene, or No Resisting Temptation -- BM.4562 An Officer in the Light Infantry, driven by his Lady to Cox-Heath -- BM.4565 Summer -- BM.4569 Kitty Coaxer driving Lord Dupe, towards Rotten Row -- [BM.4583bis] The Macaroni Gallant jilted / Dickenson -- BM.4584 The Scramble or Old Gripus plunder'd by his Young Wife -- BM.4594 The Rival Milleners -- [BM.4594A] The Rival Cooks -- BM.4595 The Ladies Disaster -- BM.4598 An Holland Smock to be run for, by any Woman born in this County: The best Woman in three Heats.
Call Number
MEZYRK
OCLC
NYPG94-F62
Title
English caricatures [graphic].
Imprint
1769-1770.
Cite As:
Caricature Collection, Print Room.
Indexes
Holdings checked in departmental copy of Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Division I: Political and Personal Satires, Vol. IV. Items not in British Museum catalogue are numbered in square brackets.
Provenance
Some are from the Isaac J. Greenwood Collection.
Linking Entry
Forms part of Caricature Collection.
Added Author
Greenwood, Isaac J. (Isaac John), 1833-1911, collector.
Research Call Number
MEZYRK
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