"Sir James Erskine dressed as a little girl but wearing a man's wig, bends forward in profile to the left to thrash a mastiff (Hastings) who lies (left) surrounded by a wreath of thorns, his collar inscribed 'Keeper of Ind[ia]'. He holds in his left h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, and East India Company.
"Sir James Erskine dressed as a little girl but wearing a man's wig, bends forward in profile to the left to thrash a mastiff (Hastings) who lies (left) surrounded by a wreath of thorns, his collar inscribed 'Keeper of Ind[ia]'. He holds in his left h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, and East India Company.
"Sir James Erskine dressed as a little girl but wearing a man's wig, bends forward in profile to the left to thrash a mastiff (Hastings) who lies (left) surrounded by a wreath of thorns, his collar inscribed 'Keeper of Ind[ia]'. He holds in his left h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Erskine, James Francis, 1743-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, and East India Company.
Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In an arena, bull with the King's features being devoured by dogs with politicians' features; other politicians outside the arena encouraging the dogs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Bulls, Dogs, Rats, Animal fighting, and Spectators
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
780.02.15.03++
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
"Scene in a neat parlour or music room, with open square piano and lyre-back chairs. A middle-aged termagant, coquettishly dressed, has overturned her chair and stands with raised fist, shrieking at a very young man in riding-dress. He sits (left) wit...
"A game is just finished: a pretty elegant girl (right) has nine tricks, and an elderly spinster in old-fashioned dress, with spectacles on forehead, has four. They argue, gesturing with their hands, while the two men watch the girl intently. A dog ba...
