An admission ticket to a performance on 30 November 1789 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Such private theatricals at country houses became increasingly popular during the eighteenth century, wit...
Alternative Title:
Fourth night. Blenheim. Monday, November 30, 1789, will be performed ...
Description:
Letterpress ticket on card, printed on recto only.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Oxfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795. and Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, and Amateur theater
"Design in an oval. An elderly man (half length), full-face, with folded arms, grins broadly. He wears spectacles and is bald except for side-curls and a small pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five hundred pounds a year will do, for me and for you
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
"Design in an oval. An elderly man (half length), full-face, with folded arms, grins broadly. He wears spectacles and is bald except for side-curls and a small pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five hundred pounds a year will do, for me and for you
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 4 January 1835]
Call Number:
835.01.04.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A series of unconnected caricature vignettes. The centre of the print is dominated by a large set of scales - a well-established symbol within the English satirical canon - which are weighted heavily towards the side containing 659 “£10 voters”, as op...
Alternative Title:
Six hundred fifty-nine to thirty-six!!
Description:
Title from text within image.
Publisher:
Published by the Society for the Suppression of Conservative Vice, & sold by all Lovers of Reform of Abuses & to be had of E. Birchenall [i.e. Birchinall], Churchgate St., Bury
"The freeholder, a ragged Irish peasant, stands full-face, between a bloated priest (left) and a fashionably dressed young man; both tug at his coat-collar. The obese priest, who wears robes, with a large cross from neck to knee, holds up a print of t...
Alternative Title:
Forty shilling freeholders only expedient for the salvation of body and soul
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Peasants, Pipes (Smoking), Poverty, Priests, and Staffs (Sticks)
In the garden of Bagnigge Wells surrounded by hedges, trees, and a fountain, a well dressed lady is plucking a rose, as another woman behind her looks on. The roof of the circular Temple is visible on the left. By the 1770s, the Bagnigge Wells resort ...
Alternative Title:
No resisting temptation
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
