Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

Date: 1814

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-033

Description: Depicts a scene in the green room of the Haymarket Theatre. A satire on the insolvency of the theatre manager George Colman, who sits in an armchair surrounded by duns and unpaid actors who played in the entertainment `Dr Hocus-Pocus, or, Harlequin washed white', written by Colman. The entertainment was condemned as "a dramatic performance of inconceivable dullness and folly". On one side are a group of tradesmen hoping to to collect payment, on the other a group of actors. George Colman sits on a chair in the middle holding open a large book on a stand on which is written `Go it', the new catch phrase of the day. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 545 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-009

Description: The Prince Regent, Looking like Apollo, God of the Sun, with his head on fire, with a man dressed as Mercury attempting to extinguish the fire with water (possibly from a chamber pot). The Prince appears to be screaming and has dropped his lyre and caduceus. His wife is admiring a Grecian-style nude sculpture to the left, while other mythological characters are also shown An obscure allegory. The Belvedere Apollo was in the public eye and there had been reports that it was to be acquired by the regent. The principal figures in this satire are; Lady Hertford; The Regent; John McMahon Castlereagh; Henry Brougham, the most prominent member of the Opposition, champion of the Princess of Wales, and later Lord Chancellor; and, floating in a chamber pot - symbol of Mrs Jordan - The Duke of Clarence. Other Titles - Royalty Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Mount verso - centre - Descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 219 x 514 mm

Date: 1811

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-013

Description: Shows men and women fighting each other with a variety of weapons, some on horses and donkeys. In July 1811 an `heroic, tragic, operatic drama' with the same title as the print was played for the first time by the English Opera Company at the Lyceum. A manager informs his creditors that he is unable to pay his debts, since he has not been able to introduce on the small stage of his theatre, the quadrupeds, that are all the rage. He proposes a production `The Tailors, a tragedy for warm weather' adapted to the present taste. In the last scene, here depicted the rival bodies of the London tailors, the Dungs, and the Flints, battle from horses and donkeys created by the machinist. This was a satire on the horses appearing on the stage at Covent Garden and the play `The Tailors' which dealt with the tailors wage disputes and trade clubs. Its performance was sometimes prevented by the tailors, and in 1805 there was an organized riot to prevent it. The `Flints' were those who formed clubs corresponding to trade unions, and the `Dungs' were the blacklegs. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 225 x 410 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-018

Description: A sequence of three designs, each with a caption, illustrating the experiences of a narrator in `Scourge', in a single day. 1. A joint stock company dividing their losses. 2. A bankrupt settleing with his creditors. 3. A legacy forgotten. The Scourge,or, Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly, 1811-1816. Published by F Johnson, and afterwards Jones & Co. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 224 x 500 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-007

Description: Five vignettes reflecting contemporary events in Britain. Top left is `Mr Wright doing wrong' showing a man abandoning a woman and three children to go off with another woman and 2 children. Bottom left, is `Biscuit and gingerbread or the rival bakers' a scene in Shire Lane, possibly about rival newspaper publishers. The central view is a theatrical scene, `A Kean manoeuvre to pay old debts of Drury is it's self again' a reference to actor Edmund Kean and the Drury Lane Theatre; top right is partially titled `The gouty Adonis' and possibly refers to the Prince Regent at the Brighton Pavilion with Mr Punch. Bottom right is Parson B & the Butchers or a probationary sermon at Christ Church, Newgate Street, with a man urging his congregation to rise up, kill and eat. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 216 x 505 mm

Date: 1815 - 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-014

Description: A satire of the Regent's dissipated gifts and the quarrels of his family. John Bull chases off the Prince of Orange and, left, Queen Charlotte tips a teapot into the mouth of a fat German prince. The King of Spain (top left) was reputed to have spent his exile embroidering petticoats for the Virgin Mary. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 497 mm

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-015

Description: The Regent is depicted as an infant, being dandled by Lady Hertford in the `Hertford Nursery'. A comprehensive satire on the phases of the continual crisis which lasted from 12 May to 8 June, the main theme being the political influence of Lady Hertford Isabella, Lady Hertford (1759-1834), nee Isabella Anne Ingram Sheperd Irvine. She was the second wife of the 2nd Marquis of Hertford, and the Prince's mistress from 1807-1819 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 222 x 518 mm

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-024

Description: Shows the Prince Regent with Lady Hertford at his side surrounded by others. Lord Hertford is offering the Prince a drink. One of the many satires on the Regent's desertion of the Whigs, and the political influence of Lady Hertford. The title is an allusion to the famous letter to the Duke of York, `I have no predilections to indulge, no resentment to gratify...'. Princess Charlotte weeps as she had done at Carlton House on 22 February when the Regent furiously attacked the Whigs and was answered by Lauderdale. Her tears were made memorable by Byron's verses ("weep daughter of a Royal line"). The pick-pocket is Sheridan; and the man with the cuckold's horns, Lord Hertford. Isabella, Lady Hertford (1759-1834), nee Isabella Anne Ingram Sheperd Irvine, was the second wife of the 2nd Marquis of Hertford, and the Prince's mistress from 1807-1819 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 540 mm

Date: 1814

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-026

Description: Shows a group of editors at their desks looking at their various idols displayed on pedestals. A satire on the Press, purporting to represent a vision in which contemporary editors and their idols are displayed by truth. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 216 x 550 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-029

Description: This plate illustrates a disallusioned summary of the events of 1815. The obese, inert Louis is enthroned on a flimsy platform supported by a thin pole (Bourbon Party) and the heads of four sovereigns, who hold the spoils of war - all but the Regent who has nothing but his bottle. Frederick William scowls `Heigh ho for an Empire! this is not enough for me.' Four soldiers dressed as London watchmen and led by Wellington represent the army of occupation; they will be outwitted by Frenchmen with two profiles, one saying `Vive le Roi' the other `Vive l'Empereur', and each concealing a dagger behind his back, ready for `Bloody Murder' or `Bloody revenge'. Another scene is in Spain where Ferdinand, his pocket stuffed with `Death Warrants', is led by the nose by a fat friar and pushed forward by a demon Jesuit. In the background Vesuvius and Ferdinand IV dispose of Murat, a rat. A pendant to this incident is a colossal Napoleon brooding on St Helena. Source of description - English political caricature. Vol 2 / M Dorothy George, 1959 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 215 x 503 mm