(A Cambridge Woman Servant) (BM 1978,U.1049 1)
Whole length portrait, slightly caricatured, of a woman similar in type to BMSat 6354. She walks (left to right), holding in her right hand a pair of unlatched shoes without buckles, in her left a pot, perhaps ... More
(A Cambridge Woman Servant) (BM 1978,U.1049)
Whole length portrait, slightly caricatured, of a woman similar in type to BMSat 6354. She walks (left to right), holding in her right hand a pair of unlatched shoes without buckles, in her left a pot, perhaps ... More
(A Character portrait) (BM 1876,1014.12)
Half length portrait of a man in profile to the right, wearing a hat. He has a long nose and underhung jaw. 24 July 1790 Etching
(A country church.) (BM 1874,1010.20 1)
(For description see other impression). 31 March 1790 Etching and aquatint
(A country church.) (BM 1874,1010.20)
(For description see other impression). 31 March 1790 Etching and aquatint
(A Country Dance) (BM 1923,0714.13)
The right portion of a strip design, without title or imprint. On the extreme left a man, looking down and to the left, points a toe. Next, a man* clasps his injured ankle, scowling furiously to the right, behi... More
(A country schoolmaster.) (BM 1927,0308.130)
Plate 39 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Design in a circle. An old man (half-length) seated in a chair in pro... More
(A Dancing Bear) (BM J,6.5) - Drawing. Public domain image.
A showman pointing with a staff at the chained muzzle of a standing bear, while another man plays on a horn and a third watches. 1 April 1774 Etching and drypoint
(A deep one) (BM 1851,0901.1340)
Design in an oval. A man (half length) in profile to the left, a bludgeon under his arm. He looks slyly out of the corners of his eyes. c.1790 Etching and aquatint
(A deep one) (BM 1867,1012.628 1)
No title. Half length portrait of a man in profile to the right, scowling, with protruding lower jaw. A satire on costume. His hair is cropped straight across the forehead just above the eyebrows, and tied in a... More
(A deep one) (BM 1867,1012.628)
No title. Half length portrait of a man in profile to the right, scowling, with protruding lower jaw. A satire on costume. His hair is cropped straight across the forehead just above the eyebrows, and tied in a... More
(A dissenting congregation) (BM 1876,1014.53 1)
The interior of a small dilapidated room; a preacher stands in a ramshackle tub declaiming with outstretched arms; he faces a congregation of artisans, &c, who listen with sour and intent expressions. From his ... More
(A dissenting congregation) (BM 1876,1014.53)
The interior of a small dilapidated room; a preacher stands in a ramshackle tub declaiming with outstretched arms; he faces a congregation of artisans, &c, who listen with sour and intent expressions. From his ... More
(A Dupe) (BM 1872,0608.279) - Drawing. Public domain image.
No title. The interior of a ramshackle room containing a half-tester bed (right), from behind the curtains of which a burly man watches an elderly man making amorous advances to a pretty young woman (left) who ... More
(A Farrier's Shed) (BM J,6.75) - Drawing. Public domain image.
A road-side scene; two horsemen stand by their horses outside a farrier's shed (left). One horse is held by a youth, the farrier stands beside it arguing with the rider who stands with his whip under his arm. T... More
(A French Postillion gesturing) (BM 1917,1208.3006)
Satire: a postillion with huge boots with arms outspread to right. c.1768 Etching with drypoint
(A French Postillion gesturing) (BM J,6.14)
Satire: a postillion with huge boots with arms outspread to right. c.1768 Etching with drypoint
(A French Postillion looking over his shoulder, whip in hand, with a d...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots seen from behind looking over his shoulder. c.1768 Etching with drypoint
(A French Postillion looking over his shoulder, whip in hand, with a d...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots seen from behind looking over his shoulder. c.1768 Etching with drypoint
(A French Postillion walking away, whip in hand) (BM 1917,1208.3011)
Satire: a postillion with huge boots seen from behind holding his whip. c.1768 Etching
(A French Postillion walking away, whip in hand) (BM J,6.12)
Satire: a postillion with huge boots seen from behind holding his whip. c.1768 Etching
(A French Postillion with a Whip in one hand, the other in Pocket, Bir...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right. c.1768 Etching and drypoint
(A French Postillion with a Whip in one hand, the other in Pocket, Bir...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right. c.1768 Etching and drypoint
(A French Postillion with a Whip in one hand, the other in Pocket, Bir...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right. c.1768 Etching and drypoint
(A French Postillion with a Whip in one hand, the other in Pocket, Bir...
Satire: a postillion with huge boots holding his whip, with a horse behind to the right. c.1768 Etching and drypoint
(A French Postillion) (BM 1861,1012.375)
Satire: a postillion striding to right holding his whip dangling before him. 20 January 1774 Etching
(A French Postillion) (BM J,6.10 1)
Satire on a postillion, probably a Frenchman: a man earing large boots and spurs, with a long queue stands in profile to right, his hands in a giant muff; a dog stands behind him looking up. 30 July 1772 Etching
(A French Postillion) (BM J,6.10)
Satire on a postillion, probably a Frenchman: a man earing large boots and spurs, with a long queue stands in profile to right, his hands in a giant muff; a dog stands behind him looking up. 30 July 1772 Etching
(A French Postillion) (BM J,6.9)
Satire: a postillion striding to right holding his whip dangling before him. 20 January 1774 Etching
(A grinder of music.) (BM 1927,0308.127)
Plate 34 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Design in a circle. An elderly man (three-quarter length) seated in ... More
(A group at Bath.) (BM 1927,0308.126)
Plate 26 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Four ladies at a round card-table, two elderly partners quarrelling ... More
(A knowing one) (BM 1867,1012.627)
A companion print to BMSats 7790, 7791, but scarcely a caricature. Half length portrait of a man in profile to the left. His hair is tied in a queue and arranged with a long side-curl. He wears a looped cocked ... More
(A Little Farther) (BM 1939,0714.3)
Satire with a manservant trying to pull a glove onto the arm of a large woman. [1 November 1792] Hand-coloured etching
(A mock election- procession at Winchester) (BM 1867,0309.780)
(For description see other impression). c. May 1784 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(A mock election- procession at Winchester) (BM 1868,0808.5328)
A satire on Henry Flood. A procession, surrounded by a crowd, is chairing a man who holds a punch-bowl in his right hand; in the left he holds a wand on the top of which is a horn. Some of the crowd wave simila... More
(A sleepy congregation) (BM 1935,0522.13.8 1)
The interior of a crowded church. The preacher stands in a high pulpit (left) facing his congregation with a stern expression. Beneath him is the precentor, John Campbell (see BMSat 5894). The congregation sits... More
(A sleepy congregation) (BM 1937,1108.39)
The interior of a crowded church. The preacher stands in a high pulpit (left) facing his congregation with a stern expression. Beneath him is the precentor, John Campbell (see BMSat 5894). The congregation sits... More
(A Yarmouth car.) (BM J,5.86) - Public domain carriage engraving
(For description see other impression); an earlier state without tents and signpost, and with a different sky, imprint perhaps cut off. c.1782 Etching and engraving
(A Yarmouth car.) (BM J,5.87)
A man and woman drive across open country, in a clumsy two-wheeled gig, towards a row of tents (left). A signpost (right) points 'To the Camp'. The gig, which roughly imitates the shape of a fashionable carriag... More
(An agreeable character in a post-chaise) (BM 1927,0308.132)
Plate 36 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Design in a circle. A fat man, nearly half-length, directed to the r... More
(An Edinburgh auction) (BM 1935,0522.13.44)
A lady, holding on her feathered hat, walks against a high wind which blows her dress against her person, draping her legs from the waist downwards. She holds a small nosegay and is followed by Graham, wearing ... More
(An Edinburgh auction) (BM 1937,1108.93)
A lady, holding on her feathered hat, walks against a high wind which blows her dress against her person, draping her legs from the waist downwards. She holds a small nosegay and is followed by Graham, wearing ... More
(An English Postilion) (BM J,6.95)
Satire: a postilion standing holding his ship dangling before him. 10 January 1774 Etching with drypoint
(An Italian Veturino) (BM J,6.8 1)
Satire on hired carriages in Italy: a man is seated in a chaise with heavy wheels drawn by an ill-matched pair of horses; a postillion wearing large boots and a long queue rides the smaller horse. 10 January 1... More
(An Italian Veturino) (BM J,6.8)
Satire on hired carriages in Italy: a man is seated in a chaise with heavy wheels drawn by an ill-matched pair of horses; a postillion wearing large boots and a long queue rides the smaller horse. 10 January 1... More
(An Oxford procession.) (BM 1927,0308.124)
Plate 48 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. A stout parson (the Vice-Chancellor), wearing a hat and long gown, w... More
(Association meeting at York) (BM 1868,0808.4671)
A representation, partly allegorical,of the meeting of the Association at York on 30 Dec. 1779 when the petition of the county was agreed to and a committee of sixty-one appointed. Men sit and stand in ranks on... More
(Bedroom Scene) (BM 1872,0608.271)
No title. The interior of an inn-bedroom. A stout man leans from a four-post bed hung with curtains to grasp the petticoats of a pretty chambermaid with a warming-pan and lighted candle. A bootjack and other ob... More
(Blunders in Style) (BM 1935,0522.8.48 1)
Eight pairs of people, arranged in two rows, misunderstand each other owing to mispronunciation, &c. 'I Suit'. A master tells a man-servant: "... you will not shoot me." '2 Heat.' A mistress tells her maid the ... More
(Blunders in Style) (BM 1935,0522.8.48)
Eight pairs of people, arranged in two rows, misunderstand each other owing to mispronunciation, &c. 'I Suit'. A master tells a man-servant: "... you will not shoot me." '2 Heat.' A mistress tells her maid the ... More
(Bob Foster, the flying barber (1).) (BM J,2.34)
A companion print to BMSat 6835. A lean man, in profile to the left, runs holding a small covered pot (a chafer for hot water) in his left hand; under his right arm is a barber's bowl, under his left. arm a fol... More
(Bob Foster, the flying barber (2).) (BM J,2.35)
A companion print to BMSat 6834. Foster shaves a man seated (left) in a chair, draped in a sheet. They face each other in profile. Foster puts his left hand under his client's chin, holding the razor up with a ... More
(Bonnet-rouge) (BM K,67.238) - Drawing. Public domain image.
The cap alone, intended to be fitted to the heads described under BMSat 8450-7. Etching printed in red ink
(Boot i.e. Bute) (awl) a new (ball)ad. (BM 1868,0808.4130 1)
Rebus in mock-Scots repeating that in BM Satires 3741, satirising Lord Bute and the supposed promotion of Scots in England, specifically Robert Mylne's selection as architect of Blackfriars Bridge. 1760 Etching
(Boot i.e. Bute) (awl) a new (ball)ad. (BM 1868,0808.4130)
Rebus in mock-Scots repeating that in BM Satires 3741, satirising Lord Bute and the supposed promotion of Scots in England, specifically Robert Mylne's selection as architect of Blackfriars Bridge. 1760 Etching
(Britannia) Answer to the Quere (BM 1868,0808.12412)
(For description see other impression). 1760 Etching
(Brook Watson.) (BM 1867,0309.768)
Alderman Watson stands in profile to the right, bending forward, his wooden leg concealed behind a bench (left); he holds out a document with a pendent seal inscribed 'Pension for Services'. From the bench, on... More
(Campbell's concert) (BM 1937,1108.4)
John Campbell, the precentor of the Canongate Church (see BMSat 5894), stands full-face, singing loudly from a paper which he holds, surrounded by others making discordant music, while three asses bray and a do... More
(Captain Townsend) (BM 1851,0901.1031)
(For description see other impression). 19 May 1800 Etching Public domain photograph of British satirical print, 19th century, politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Captain Townshend) (BM 1868,0808.6891)
A thin officer in profile to the left stands on a flagged pavement, his feet splayed outwards, right hand on hip, holding one glove in his (gloved) left hand. He wears an enormous busby and sabre. 19 May 1800 ... More
(Caricature Portrait) (BM 1851,0901.503)
(For description see other impression); a proof before address. 15 August 1791 Etching
(Caricature Portrait) (BM 1867,1012.630)
A man seated full face on an upright chair, left leg thrust forward, his arms folded, holding his hat. His head, turned in profile to the left, has a grotesque expression of rage. He is fashionably dressed. An ... More
(Caricature Portrait) (BM 1868,0808.6094)
An elderly man seated full face in an arm-chair, looking to the right. His broad face is wrinkled and puckered; his feet are gouty, one gouty leg rests on the walking-stick which he holds. He wears an old-fashi... More
(Caricature Portrait) (BM 1868,0808.6095)
(For description see other impression). 15 August 1791 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A couple of people sitting on top of a couch (Characters from Holcroft...
(For description see other impression). 24 September 1796. Hand-coloured etching
(Chess-players.) (BM 1851,0901.385)
Title perhaps cut off. Two men (half length) seated on each side of a chess-board. Their profile heads are enclosed in rhomboids resembling the diamond of a pack of cards, giving the profiles projecting noses w... More
(City militia.) (BM 1868,0612.1226)
A companion print to BMSat 7613. A row of five very unsoldierly citizen-soldiers is being drilled by an officer (right), who stands at one end of the file in profile to the left, giving orders with a drawn swor... More
(Cock-fighting match between Lanark and Haddington) (BM 1935,0522.13.5...
Two cocks fight in a cock-pit, a man standing over each cock; the spectators are in a circle several rows deep. The wall of the room is of stone, with three boarded-up windows; it is the unfinished kitchen of t... More
(Cock-fighting match between Lanark and Haddington) (BM 1937,1108.8)
Two cocks fight in a cock-pit, a man standing over each cock; the spectators are in a circle several rows deep. The wall of the room is of stone, with three boarded-up windows; it is the unfinished kitchen of t... More
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
Topham, in full regimentals, standing in profile to the left, directs a large syringe at a sun (left) rising above a hill, inscribed 'Genius of Holman'. Behind him, holding leading-strings attached to his epaul... More
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
(For description see other impression). 5 October 1785 Etching printed on pale blue paper
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
(For description see other impression). 5 October 1785 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
(For description see impression of first edition). Reissue of a 1785 print Etching with letterpress verses printed below the plate-mark
(Col. Topham endeavouring with his squirt to extinguish the genius of ...
(For description see other impression). 5 October 1785 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(College portraits.) (BM 1927,0308.131)
Plate 50 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Nine heads of undergraduates arranged in three rows. They wear morta... More
(College scene) (BM 1868,0808.13317)
No title. A man wearing a long academic gown sits facing a fire in a bare room. On his knee is a closed book: 'Euclid'. A cat lies on the floor. Etched by an amateur. c.1800 Etching
(Connoisseurs in a print shop.) (BM 1978,U.2413)
A proof without remarques or lines. 1828 Etching Public domain photograph of British satirical print, 19th century, politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Contrasted Oxonians.) (BM 1927,0308.120)
Plate 49 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. One Oxonian in cap and gown (left) staggers along, full-face, yawnin... More
(Cream-woman of Trinity College Cambridge) (BM 1851,0308.181)
A stout and ugly woman walking (left to right) in profile carrying in her right hand a pot or pail. She wears a flat wide-brimmed hat over a hood, and an apron (torn). 1771 [written on print in old hand] Etching
(Das Münich und Pfaffen Gaid Niemand zu lieb noch zu laid) (BM 1880,07...
Devils chasing monks and clerics into the mouth of Hell; woodcut illustration only of a broadside with a poem by Hans Sachs; the hunt with nets and dogs towards the mouth of a large boar at left; printed from f... More
(Des Interims und Interimisten warhafftige abgemalte figur und gestalt...
Broadside satire on the Augsburg and Leipzig interims of 1548; with a hand-coloured woodcut with monks and various clerics singing from large music sheets, drinking and holding game-boards; four-column letterpr... More
(Doctor Verdion.) (BM 1868,0808.6682)
An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high ... More
(Doctor Verdion.) (BM 1872,1012.4615)
An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high ... More
(Earl of Shelburne) (BM 1920,1211.826)
Portrait of Shelburne, standing, facing three-quarters left, his right hand thrust under his Garter ribbon, with which (with the Dukes of Devonshire and Richmond) he had been invested on 17 Apr. His left hand r... More
(Envy.) (BM J,4.4) - Drawing. Public domain image.
A serpent with a human head, having satyr's ears, rises on its tail which issues from an inverted earl's coronet. The body is coiled in a horizontal figure of eight, the head is in profile to the right, glaring... More
(Exchange of heads) (BM 1935,0522.13.40)
Two men face each other in profile; between and behind them is the stout, dishevelled back view of Roger Hog, see BMSat 6847. On the left the very corpulent body of William Macpherson, W.S., has the head ot the... More
(Exchange of heads) (BM 1937,1108.50)
Two men face each other in profile; between and behind them is the stout, dishevelled back view of Roger Hog, see BMSat 6847. On the left the very corpulent body of William Macpherson, W.S., has the head ot the... More
(Fame's rewards) (BM 1868,0808.13225)
(For description see other impression). 1 October 1774 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Fame's rewards) (BM 1873,0712.822)
In a rotunda whose walls are decorated with Ionic columns and garlands, Fame stands on a high cylindrical pedestal, blowing her trumpet. She is a winged figure, partly draped, in her left hand is a second trump... More
(Flemish characters.) (BM 1851,0901.659)
No inscription. The original form of BMSats 8382, 8383, both on one plate, BMSat 8382 above, BMSat 8383 below, with no dividing line. The upper part has no sky and the feet only of the crucifix appear. In BMSat... More
(Fox against Fox!!!) (BM 1868,0808.5827)
No title. Frontispiece from 'Fox against Fox!!! or Political Blossoms of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox . . . To which are added the Speeches of Mr Pitt and Mr Fox ...' [10 Dec. 1788]. George III, wearing a ... More
(Fox and Burke as Hudibras and Ralpho) (BM 1868,0808.5256)
No title. Fox and Burke (half length) seen through the barred window of a brick building in which they are imprisoned. They are Hudibras and his squire as in BMSat 6361, but in a prison instead of in the stocks... More
(Fox and Pitt as a collier and a fuller.) (BM 1868,0808.5342)
Fox (left), leaning on a spade beside a heap of coals, holds out his left hand towards Pitt (right), who stands holding the reins of a pack-horse. A placard on a pole in the coal-heap is inscribed 'The Best sor... More
(Fox as bellman.) (BM 1868,0808.13263)
Woodcut on cover of No. 51, 'The New Wonderful Magazine', a reissue of 'The Wonderful Magazine', where the print of Fox appears to have illustrated No. 14. Beside the print are verses spoken, not by Fox, but by... More
(Fox in Bedlam.) (BM 1868,0808.5329)
Fox reclines on a blanket laid on straw, clad only in breeches and a pair of unlatched shoes. He wears a crown made of twisted straw and in his right hand is a bunch of straw which he holds as a sceptre. Sam Ho... More
(Fox) singing a song to the P-e of W-l-s. (BM 1868,0808.5408)
A fox represents the first word of the title. Fox (left) and the Prince of Wales (right) sit opposite each other playing cards at a circular table. Each holds a wine-glass; on the table are guineas, cards, and ... More
(Fox, Pitt and Thurlow.) (BM 1868,0808.5360)
Thurlow as Balaam, riding (right to left) on an ass with the head of Pitt, is confronted by Fox (left) holding a sword with a serpentine blade and the shield of Britannia. The ass says, "Am not I thy Pitt=ifull... More
(Fragment of a strip design.) (BM 1851,0901.1369)
(For description see other impression). February 1790 Etching Public domain scan of British satirical print, 18th century politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(Fragment of a strip design.) (BM 1868,0808.5865)
Isolated figures, their words etched above their heads as in BMSat 7482, &c. On the extreme left stands the Prince of Wales holding a feathered hat, his left hand on his breast. He says: "Old Bluff [Thurlow] h... More
(Frontispiece from an unidentified pamphlet.) (BM 1879,1109.195)
A circle enclosing emblems of liberty and reform is surrounded by symbols of oppression., Liberty, holding her cap on a staff, points to a column inscribed '561 Free and unbought Votes'. She stands under a tree... More