- Title: A satyr upon the present times.
- Publication: London : Printed, and sold, by J. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, MDCCXVII [1717]
763 717 Sa254
Acquired November 2019
763 717 Sa254
Acquired November 2019
A satire on Pitt’s government suggesting his adminstration was a theatre. The layout of the sheet mimics that of a contemporary playbill.
File 53 P68 P691++
Acquired June 2019
Plates: The old squire — Fetching the midwife — Dressing the young squire — Young squire gets ferrul’d for neglecting his studies — Breaking cover, or Hunting in Hampshire — Tries a new shooting pony, which won’t do — Crammed at college by his tutor for a degree — Gets cheated by his miller who grinds oats for him — Young squire goes to London and gets his pockets eased — Takes lessons in dancing — Sits for his portrait — Goes to the opera — Buys an historical picture. St. Anthony preaching to the fishes — Goes to a picture sale — Rides home on a borrowed horse — Mistakes mushrooms for game and spoils their shape — Meets with a small accident — His gun misses fire, because he had forgot to load it — Goes with some friends to shoot grouse on the moors — Not the safest way to carry loaded guns in a wood — Spurs himself in the wrong place — Sees a water kelpy — The village schoolmaster, fond of little bits — A cheerful dance.
53 C4 821
Acquired May 2019
On recto, two men walk to the left in a wood with guns. The man behind (right) holds his gun by the barrel pointed towards his companion’s posterior; he wears colored spectacles, a top hat, and is smoking a cigar. The man in front (left) looks back towards his companion as he holds his rifle by the butt, the barrel pointed over his shoulder at his companion’s face. The lines below: “I never likes to go out with a man as don’t carry his gun like a sportsman.” “Not I. I’m always wery particular.!”On verso, a pencil drawing of two men (dustmen?) conversing as one points to the donkey that he holds by the reins.
Drawings H43 no. 1 Box D125
Acquired February 2019
Articles on fashion and manners, satirizing extremes; includes theater news and anecdotes, crime news, poetry, and a monthly register of foreign and domestic occurences, with lists of bankrupts, preferments, marriages, births and deaths. Most plates are satirical illustrations of extreme fashions and their wearers.
61 M115
Acquired October 2018
A satire on the proceedings against Queen Caroline.
763 820
Acquired February 2016
A satire on the proceedings against Queen Caroline
763 820
Acquired February 2016
Hempel, Charles William, 1777-1855
The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller : a satirical poem in four cantos : embellished with colored engravings.
4th ed., greatly enl.
Published: London : Sold by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839.
Subjects (Library of Congress): Traveling sales personnel–Anecdotes; Satire–English; Wit and humor–Great Britain; Great Britain–Social life and customs–19th century; Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.