Folder 31
Charming-well again.
[1804]; Publish’d Jany 28th 1804 by H. Humphrey St. James’s Street. London. [BM 10307] (31.5 x 23 cm).

Colored engraving bordered in a black and gold rectangle. Image features a smiling man seated at a table drinking from a small, filled port or wine glass. He has the tablecloth tucked into his coat and an empty plate in front of him. He is also wearing his nightcap. Also on the spread are potatoes, a gravy boat, a fork, knife and a chicken. To the right is a standing portly man, possibly a servant, who is also smiling and holding an empty plate outward towards the seated man.

Folder 32
Oatland’s Ramble.
[1806]; Publishd Decr 26 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London. [BM 10694] (30.5 x 24.5 cm).

Colored engraving with a ballad beneath. The ballad is subtitled “Sung by Mr. Smith with Unbounded Applause, in the Rival Patriots, at Sadler’s Wells.” The image features an interior scene in a watch-house. To the left a watchman is sleeping in a partially enclosed chair. He is wearing a long orange coat and has a bandana tying his hat to his head. In front of him is an open book. There are two other men at the table, one has his head in his arms on the table. On the wall are four fire-bucket pails, and a hook with coats and lanterns. In the foreground is a man standing with his hand in his pocket wearing a cravat, polka dot vest, blue coat and gold pants. To the right is a closed door with a man peering through a small window. The ballad is divided into four stanzas, the first line is: “In Featherbed-lane, I arose…”

Folder 33
Brave Nelson’s last Lash or a Memento for the Dons.
[1805]; Argus del &c. Pubd Decr 1805 by C Knight and Sold at No 7 Cornhill. [BM 10443] (29 x 46 cm).

Colored engraving bordered in gold. Image features numerous men on the deck of one ship, the Victory, with another four-tiered ship behind them. Men in the scene include Lord Nelson with his signature hat and diamond aigrette. He has his hand in his vest pocket and is gesturing towards the Santisima Trinidad in the distance with men holding spyglasses and a large Spanish flag. Nelson is stating “Now my brave Fellows, I think we may make sure of twenty of them, and here is an Old Accquaintance [sic] of Ours that I wish to pay my respects to in particular, you’ll Lash us together as fast as possible, and then give her as hearty and warm a Salute, as you have ever been famed for.” One of the sailor’s answers back “Why D-me Jack if this isn’t the ship we had a brush with once before! Its recon’d the largest in the world I hope we shall get her home that Poll may see her!” Other men include those pulling up the rigging and grappling irons, some climbing ropes and one brandishing a large Union Jack flag.

Folder 34
Peg and Bobby.
[1806]; Publish’d Decr 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London. [No BM Number] (24 x 31 cm).

Colored engraving featuring the text of a ballad beneath. The ballad is subtitled “A Burlesque Parody, on that Tender Song call’d Love & Glory. _ Written & Sung by Gaby Grim”; image features an outdoor brawl scene. In the far background are large boulders covered in trees and moss. Mile-stone marker to the left reads “11 miles from St. Giles Pound” and to the right is an angry looking dog charging the men. In total there are five well-dressed men fighting, four of them wearing black hats. One of them brandishes a sword, while two have guns and one has a blade. A man kneeling on the ground is bleeding from the head and is about to be struck with a staff with a pike on the end. Next to him is a black dramatic mask and a black hat. Fist line of ballad starts: “Young Bobby was as blithe a youth…”

Folder 35
An English, Set-too, or British-Tars clearing the deck of the Temeraire of French and Spaniards.
[1805]; Argus delt &c; Pub,d Novr 1805 by C Knight and sold at No 7 Cornhill. [BM 10444] (28 x 45 cm).

Colored engraving with text beneath and bordered in gold. The image features a large brawl with numerous sailors on the poop deck of a ship. The men include three British sailors who have boarded a French ship and are attacking the men with swords. The sailors are muscular and strong-looking, while the French are thin and have exaggerated features. Two of the British sailors are grabbing the French by their hair. Other sailors have fallen and are beneath the brawl and two are falling overboard. There are also several broken sword pieces. The British sailors say, from left to right, “We’ll teach you, you fricassee Frog eaters, what it is to board an English Man of War, have you forgot the Battle of the Nile already”; “D’-mme Jack, why here we have got both Parleyvous & Dons at the same time, upon us”; “What! You’ll never do so again eh. I’ll just take off a wing or two, by way of Security.” To the right is rope rigging and a mast with sail. In the distance aboard the British ship is a Union Jack and several other British sailors waving their hats.

Folder 36
No Rest in the Grave: __Or the Second Appearance of Miss Bailey’s Ghost.
[1806]; Publish’d June 16 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London. [BM 10677] (24 x 30 cm).

Colored engraving with ballad text beneath; ballad’s subtitle is “Being a true & tragical Parody, on the favorite Song called ‘nobody coming to marry me.’ Sung with unbounded applause by Mr. R. Jones, at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. _ Written by Mr. Kertland.” The image features an exterior scene outside in a graveyard; the sky is darkened and a full moon is visible behind thick clouds. Leaning against a large, central headstone is a woman wearing a white nightgown with brown, long flowing hair to her waist. In her hand is a one pound note. On the headstone is a pair of leather breeches. To the right is a church with tower and clock and an owl sitting on a freshly dug grave. The ballad is divided into four stanzas and the first line is: “The Dogs had ceas’d to bark…”

Folder 37
Playing in Parts.
[1801]; B [North] Esqr del; Js Gy fect; Publish’d May 15 1801 by H. Humphrey No 27 St. James’s Street. [BM 9766] (32 x 40.5 cm).

An aquatint with engraving which features an interior scene. Central in the scene is a woman with her hands posed above a spinet piano; she has a focused look on her face. Surrounding the spinet are other musicians including, from left to right – a cellist with a gout leg seated in an upholstered chair, two flautists and a violin/fiddle player leaning forward towards the spinet. To the right is a dog howling with his paw on sheet music. To the far right are well-dressed men and women conversing. One man, in military uniform, has a sword lifting up the skirt of a large woman. To the left a woman hands something clandestinely to an additional man in military uniform.

Folder 38
The Country Club_Written by C. Dibdin, Esq.
[1805]; Publish’d June 3, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London. [BM 10504] (24.5 x 31 cm).

Colored engraving with ballad beneath. The image features an interior scene with seven men surrounding a table; five of them are seated while two are standing. Most of the men are smoking long pipes and have filled mugs in front of them. In the center is a man in black parson’s clothing on a stool; he is stout. Behind him are two mounted candlesticks and a framed piece entitled “Rules of the Club”; also seated at the table is a man pouring the contents of a mug into the pocket of an additional man. In the doorway is a steward or footman. The ballad is divided into three stanzas with the first line: “Now we’re all met here together…”

Folder 39
An Old Maid on a Journey.
[1804]; B. [North] Esqr del.; Publish’d November 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey No. 27 St. James’s Street London. [BM 10300] (33.5 x 45 cm).

Colored engraving featuring an interior scene. Image features a procession of five people, men and woman. At the lead is a stout man, likely the host, with a handkerchief in his hand. He is gesturing towards an open doorway labeled “The Ram.” Behind him is an elderly woman in a green dress with fancy shoes; she is carrying a fan and a small dog tucked under her arm; behind her is a thin man with a box and a piece of floral embroidery underneath his arm. Behind him is a thin man holding a caged bird and puckering his lips at him. Leaning against the wall is a very large woman holding a “Bill of Fare”; in an alcove to the right is a cat, torturing the bird. An additional closed doorway reads “the Union” above and through the entrance is the exterior of the brick building and a sign with an image of a cock in pants.

Folder 40
Twelfth Night.
[1807]; Woodward del.; London Published Janr 10 1807 by Thomas Tegg 111 Cheapside; Cruikshank S. [No BM Number] (27.5 x 42.5 cm).

Color engraving featuring an interior, domestic scene. In the image six people, both men and women, are surrounding a table looking at prints. One man, stout and sitting in a striped chair is holding up a bag and stating, “Come my good Friends – draw away let things go on ho they will – do not let us lose sight of good Old English Customs – the Bullworks of our Constitution.” To his right is a finely-dressed thin woman caricatured with a long nose looking at a print and ballad entitled “Queen of Love” stating “Well I must own there is a great resemblance”; next to her is a stout woman who looks angry reading a piece entitled “Miss Higginbottom” who exclaims “Put into the bag on purpose to affront me I dare say.” At the end of the table are a man and a woman looking at a print, the woman is smiling reading “The lovely hostess” and stating “Come that’s handsome enough” while the man is frowning angrily reading “Sir Jacob Jallop” and stating “ay that’s a stroke at my profession.” Behind the table is a well-dressed man reading “This blade he knows a gallop from a trot but [furth?] your deponent knoweth not” while stating “What a reflection on a man of fashion”; to the right is a round table with cloth atop of which is a lit candle and what appears to be a miniature rotunda scene.

Folder 41
Palemon and Lavinia.
[1805]; J. C. Esqe del.; London Publish’d Jany 23d 1805 by H. Humphrey No. 27 St. James s Street. [BM 10480] (33.5 x 43 cm).

Colored aquatint with engraving featuring an exterior scene. The image is a caricature of a man holding a farming tool leaning forward with a hand in his pocket. He is looking towards an older woman shadowed by trees who is behind a fence; she is grimacing. In the background to the left are harvesters reaping wheat from a field; there are birds in the sky. Quotation beneath reads “He saw her charming; but he saw not half The Charms her downcast Modesty conceal’d.”

Folder 42
A Sale at a Watering Place.
[1802]; Woodward Delin. London Pubd Dec 1[…] 1802 by W. Holland, Cockspur A removed from Oxford St. [No BM Number] (28 x 44 cm).

Colored engraving which features the interior of an auction house. To the right is an auctioneer atop a podium with gavel. He has curly white hair and glasses and is stating “Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the Honor to put up for your inspection a rich and elegant purse,_ it is very large to be sure but as I perceive you are new comers it may suit you, - if indeed you were on the point of leaving us, I have a very small one that I make no doubt would answer every purpose”; in front of the block is a scribe with a book recording the transactions. In the crowd are five men and two women smiling up at the auctioneer.

Folder 43
Matrimonial-Harmonics.
[1805]; Js Gillray des & fect; London Publish’d October 25th 1805 by H. Humphrey 27 St James’s Street. [BM 10473] (34 x 45.5 cm).

Colored engraving featuring an interior domestic scene. In the scene there is a young couple at a breakfast table. To the left a woman plays a spinet piano and is singing loudly; her mouth is open and her eyes looking over her shoulder towards her husband who is seated on the couch. On the piano is “Separation A Finale for Two Voices with Accompaniments” and underneath “The Wedding Ring a Dirge.” On the wall is a bust statue of Hymen and a thermometer reading a low temperature. Also on the wall are two love-birds in a cage arguing. Sitting on the sofa is a man covering his ears. He is reading a newspaper entitled “Sporting Calendar” in front of him is a full breakfast table with kettles, toast, cups and saucers. On the woman’s chair is a copy of a book entitled, “The Art of Tormenting”; on the mantle above a roaring fire is a statue of a sleeping cherub entitled “Requiescat in Pace.” Coming through the doorway is a nursemaid with a rattle and a screaming baby in her arms. Beneath the sofa is an angry-looking dog growling.

Folder 44
A Hint to the Ladies – or a Visit from Dr. Flannel!!
[ca. 1807]; Woodward del. Cruikshank s; Pub by T. Tegg III Cheapside. [BM 10921] (27.5 x 43 cm).

Colored engraving featuring an interior scene. In the image is a man and her footman or doctor. The woman is seated, a small growling dog at her side. On the table next to her is an overturned tea cup and an urn. She has her hands raised in the air and is exclaiming “I have no loins fellow! do you want to make a monster of me?!” The man is holding onto a petticoat out to the woman and is grimacing. He states “Mrs Jenny said your Ladyship complain’d of being cold about the loins – so I have just slept in with a warm flannel petticoat.”

Folder 45
A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe.
[1805]; [Gillray]; Published June 10 1805 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street London. [BM 10471] (33.5 x 45.5 cm).

Colored aquatint with engraving featuring an exterior scene of a man and a woman in a carriage gig; the woman is well-dressed and very large; she has an elaborate headdress on with numerous feathers and a parasol tucked under her arm. Next to her is a man whipping a frail, thin and old-looking horse. In front of the carriage is a small dog carrying a large bone. Behind the carriage is a mile marker which is broken reading “Miles from London”; attached to the carriage is a pestle and mortar. After the title is a quotation reading “Vednesday was a veek, my Vife & I vent to Vest-Vycombe, & vhether it was the Vind, or vhether it vas the ‘Veather,- or Vat it vas!- ve vhip’d & vhip’d - & vhip’d - & could not get off a Valk!”