Napoleon sits at a table, slouched back in his chair with a sick look on his face, a menu in his left hand and a fork in his right. A lobseter, two fishes, a chicken and a head of a lamb all from his unbuttoned waistcoat
820.00.00.117+
Acquired November 2024
74 834 B965
Acquired October 2024
Two women shown full-length in cloaks and bonnets, one with an umbrella; the one in the foreground is short and stout, and winks at the viewer. The other is tall and thin and is turning to look at her companion
820.00.00.116+
Acquired November 2024
An obese man stands on one end of a scale as a thinner man loads more and more 50 lb weights to the other side to determine his weight
821.00.00.24+
Acquired November 2024
Three very bored-looking Englishmen sit around a table drinking wine, none looking at each other. The obese man in the middle is yawning with an outstretched arm
818.00.00.64
Acquired November 2024
King George IV and the Marchioness of Conyngham grieve over the body of a dead giraffe, which had been sent to them by Mehmet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. There is a black mourning border around the image. Left, two Nubians lament. Right, the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon plays a dirge on the bagpipes (the King called him “Old Bags” because of the purse containing the Privy Seal carried by the Lord Chancellor), while next to him are a pillbox and a prescription signed “Abe[rne]thy”, representing unsuccessful medicine for the giraffe.
829.08.11.01+
Acquired July 2024
Four rows of designs with one to four designs in each row, individually titled. The pairs are visual puns, e.g., starting at the top row from the left, “A box at the opera” shows two men fist fighting; “A rain beau” shows a couple walking in the rain, he not sharing the one umbrella; a man with has hooks for arms addresses a small group, “To arms, to arms — Brave boys”. The second row, the images show domestic scenes of various social classes, including clerks, dustmen, chimney sweeps, all playing instruments or singing, titled “The musical mania” who woun’d’nt have a piano.” The third row “Small profits & quick returns” shows a large man hitting a thinner man in the face outside a printshop window; “The light guitar” shows a red-nosed man smoking a large pipe and holding a guitar under his arm standing with his back to the blazing fire, unaware that his guitar is burning; in “Standing his ground” a soldier’s legs are shot off by a cannon ball. The fourth row contains four scenes: “A Hottentot & a Holterman” depicting a Black man and a Chinese man; “80 in the shade” shows an old man sitting on a bench under an arbor; “Two Beaks” two stick-figures of a judge and a soldier; “Little Andrew” is drawn as a man with no legs on a platform with wheels; and finally, “Ass matical” is illustrated with an image of a sick ass with scarfs over his head and throat, sneezing
834.08.01.04+
Acquired October 2024
“The Duke of Cumberland, with large head, huge moustache and whiskers and savage teeth, rides a galloping horse, his hands crossed on his breast; he glares at two young women, terrified and spinsterish, who scream, brandishing parasols; a third is climbing over a paling. A signpost points ‘To Barnes’. See British Museum Satires No. 17273, &c.”–British Museum online catalogue
832.00.00.54+
Acquired October 2024
Third(?) page of a monthly magazine that consisted of four pages; included on this page are three individually-titled images
833.01.01.02+
Acquired June 2024
“A giraffe in a field on a riverbank, lead by a man, wearing a top hat, coat and waistcoat; two cattle resting behind at left.”–British Museum online catalogue
827.00.00.64+
Acquired July 2024