Lottery puffs with Twelfth Night characters

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Twenty-four letterpress and engraved lottery puffs uncut on one sheet. Each puff includes engravings of Twelfth night character by George Cruikshank and an 8-line poem.

 

  • Creator: J. & J. Sivewright (Firm)
  • Title: Lottery puffs with Twelfth Night characters engraved by George Cruikshank.
  • Publication: [London] : J. & J. Sivewright … 37, Cornhill, 11, Holburn, 38 Haymarket, 141, Oxford-St, [December 1819?]

Catalog Record

Drawer 819.12.00.02

Acquired March 2024

Amusements des Anglais à Paris

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“A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both hands to an enormous mouth. He is morosely savage, she is melancholy; both are gap-toothed. On the ground (right) by the man’s chair are collected a ham or gigot, a large irregular (?) galantine, a raised pie: ‘pâté de périgueux’, a huge jar of ‘vin de lafitte’ round which four bottles are grouped: ‘frontignac’, ‘Clos de Vouge[ot]’, and ‘. . . seac’. Beside the woman are a basket and tray filled with grapes, peaches, and pears. Through a wide doorway (left) the street is seen with a seated fruit-seller who serves three grotesquely hideous Englishwomen. Two are lank and emaciated, one tries to stuff a big peach into an immense mouth, holding an armful of grapes and peaches; the other gnaws at a bunch of grapes held in both hands. The third, also with bulging cheeks, bites a peach. The fruit-seller’s tray is empty; she holds out her last peach. All the women wear small absurd hats or caps, tight long-waisted bodices (coloured) with long white skirts (cf. No. 12359).”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Title: Amusements des Anglais à Paris [graphic].
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré, [between 1814 and 1815]

Catalog Record

814.11.00.01

Acquired April 2024

Iohn Bull refreshing the bears memory

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“John Bull, a sturdy citizen, displays to the Tsar who is a crowned bear on its hind-legs (left), an enormous open book: ‘John Bulls Journal’. This rests on the ground, and reaches to John’s chest; he points to the right.-hand page: ‘The Great the Magnanimous Catherine of Russia seized upon One third of the Kingdom of Poland and Kept it to herself – These Peaceful Danes Seiz’d on the City of Hamburgh.’ He says: “So you say Master Bruin, that my visit to Denmark has no parallel in History- do be so good as to turn your spectacles to this page and refresh Your Memory.” The bear peers gloomily through huge spectacles at the page. Round his neck is a collar: ‘This Bear belongs to Napoleo[n]’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
  • Title: Iohn Bull refreshing the bears memory [graphic] / Cruickshank [sic] sct.
  • Publication: London : Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, Decr. 20, 1807.

Catalog Record

807.12.20.01+

Acquired February 2024

A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail

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A caricature of George IV fishing on Virginia Water, using his scepter as a rod, watched by a kingfisher and a wagtail. On the end of his line is a frog, which is being netted by Lady Conyngham, his mistress.

  • Title: A king-fisher, and a water-wag-tail [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. Jul. 13, 1826, by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, [13 July 1826]

Catalog Record

836.07.13.01+

Acquired September 2023

La taverne anglaise

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Interior view of an English tavern, with two men dining at a table in the left foreground (their dogs beside them looking up at the food) and another man reading a newspaper at a table to the right. A fourth man stands in the right background, his back to the viewer, looking out a window. A waiter carries a plate of food from the left.

  • Title: La taverne anglaise [graphic].
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Martinet, et presentement chez Basset Md. d’Estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 64, [not before 1806]

Catalog Record

806.00.00.55

Acquired April 2024

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César…

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Portrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the right; wearing a dress and cap over their hair, including a medal; in an oval.

  • Printmaker: Le Beau, Pierre Adrien, 1748- printmaker.
  • Title: Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728 [graphic] : a été Avocat au Parlement, Censeur Royal, Capitaine de Dragons, Chevalier de St. Louis, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de France a la Cour d’Angleterre / Desrais del. ; Le Beau sc.
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [1780s?]

Catalog Record

Portraits D418 no. 2

Acquired February 2024

Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects

frontispiece

Leaf [1], title page plate; leaves [2]-[29] with plates numbered 1-36 with scenes cottages and views of rural areas; leaves [30]-[34] with plates 37-44 with images of allegorical and mythical figures; leaf [35] with plate numbered 45, a woman with a tub; leaf [36] with plates 46-47 two men in profile; leaf [37] with plate 47, a portrait of “T.K. [that is, Thomas Kirgate] Painted & etch’d by EE. Finish’d by I. Hall”; leaf [38] with plates 49-50 with classical motifs, cherubs and scrollwork; leaf [39] with plate 51, sea creatures and syrens.
Many plates signed “E.E.’ and dated 1784-1790.

  • Printmaker: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker.
  • Title: Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects / designed and etched by Edward Edwards Associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1790.
  • Manufacture: [1794].

Catalog Record

Quarto 75 Ed96 794

Acquired December 2023

Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem

frontis & title page

  • Title: Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem / by the late Professor Porson ; to which are added The modern fine gentleman, Modern fine Lady, Curtain lectures, and the squire and the parson.
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.
  • Manufacture: [London] : M. Brown, printer, 86, St. Martin’s Lane

Catalog Record

53 P81 819

Acquired December 2023

Supplementary cavalry and infantry

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“A design in two compartments; above, cavalry proceed right to left; below, infantry march left to right. [1] A burlesqued procession of men variously mounted. The leader, dressed as a light horseman and holding up a sabre, rides a horse with blinkers, trampling on a hen and chickens and leaving a dead pig behind him. He says: “Know all Men by these presents that if any accidents happen I do not Consider myself accountable for them after thus publiccally Warning every Person to keep within doors all all [sic] their live and Dead Stock!!” The next horseman, whose hat flies off, turns to shout: “Hollo there, some body be so good as to catch my hat.” He is followed by a silent man riding a bull. Next him a man threatens with his sword a ragged boy on an ass: “What are you at you young scoundrel are you going to ride over the Captain keep in your rank you.” The boy answers: “What d’ye mean by that I have as much right here as you.” A man clasps his horse’s neck, saying, “Curse the Horse how he Prances.” Behind the ass, the horse of a man in civilian dress falls on its knees, throwing its rider, who says: “D——n the chimney Sweeper I thought he’d be over us.” A rider (horse visible) shouts “Take care of the Apple Stall”, while an old woman throws up her arms, shouting, “O Dear Mr Soldier dont ride over me.” She is in danger from a man in regimentals, gauntlet gloves, and wearing a sword, but whose horse has blinkers. A man turns to him, saying, “D——n me you’ll kill the old woman.” He answers: “What signifies that charge her to the parish.” The last of the procession is a yokel in a smock, on a horse with blinkers and collar. He rides down a pig and poultry; his neighbour turns to him, saying, “Mind what you are hat – you Sir in the Blue Frock if you kill the Pigs it will be actionable.” He answers : “Then let them keep out of the way of the Sarvice.” [2] An unsoldierly group march with bayoneted muskets, preceded by two boys with fife and drum. The officer, wearing a gorget and holding up a sword, scowls at a man behind him who raises his leg so high as to kick him, saying: “None of your tricks Jack dont Fancy you are in the shop now”: the grinning offender is addressed by a man wearing a Grenadier’s cap who marches beside him: “Mind what you are about or you will be had before a Court Martial”. A man with tipsily closed eyes says, “I’m as giddy as a goose.” A short, fat, elderly man in civilian dress says, “Warm work my Masters”. His neighbour answers, “Nothing when you are used to it”. A man wearing an apron rests his musket horizontally on his shoulder, saying, “This is the way to march”; he spikes the hat of the man behind, who shouts: “What are you at you fellow in green are you going to poke peoples eyes out”. A stout man says, “When I kept the tripe Shop in the Borough who would have thought I should have rose to be an Insign.” Beside him walks a woman with a bottle and glass shouting, “Does any Gentlemen in the front ranks want a drap of good Gin.” A Grenadier marches beside the last couple looking contemptuously at a man in a shirt who says: “By goles this thing [musket] is so heavy it’s the best way to drag it along and not carry it.” The last man, who is bandy-legged, says, “I donna much like it.”.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
  • Title: Supplementary cavalry and infantry [graphic] / Woodward delint.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. January 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St., [1 January 1797]

Catalog Record

797.01.01.03+

Acquired February 2024

W.E. Gladstone collection…..Queen Caroline Affair

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A collection of 256 mostly British satirical prints and broadsides commenting on the scandalous relations between Queen Caroline and King George IV including those commenting on the “Queen Caroline Affair” of 1820, purportedly assembled by William Gladstone and mounted in chronological order in two albums. Many of the prints and broadsides are annotated apparently in W.E. Gladstone’s hand, with the exact month and date of publication and the identities of the person being satirized. Later pencil annotations have been added to mounting sheet along with extracts from the description of the print from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, these later annotations probably added by the 20th-century owner of the volumes, Ernest R. Gee.

  • Creator: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, collector.
  • Title: [W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the “Queen Caroline Affair”] [graphic].
  • Published: [London], [ca. 1835?]

Catalog Record

Folio 724 835G (Oversize)

Acquired February 2024