Opposite page 131. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on reference within design to Richard Cumberland's Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain ..., first published in 1782., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Probably an illustration to a book or periodical., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Truth -- Literature -- Cherubs -- Symbols: Art -- Reading angel., Mounted to 28 x 22 cm., and Bound in opposite page 131 in an extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811., and Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668.
"Britannia, tall and powerful, holds Napoleon across her knee, and raises a birch rod to thrash his bleeding posterior. She wears Roman draperies, with corslet and plumed helmet. The rod is tied with a ribbon inscribed: 'United Kingdoms'. She says: "There take that and that and that, and be carefull not to provoke my Anger more." He exclaims: "oh forgive me this time and I never will do so again, oh dear! oh dear! you'll entirely spoil the Honors of the Sitting." Beside Britannia (left) are her spear and sword; beside Napoleon (right) his huge cocked hat and sabre. The scene is by the sea (left), with a fleet of retreating vessels flying the tricolour flag. On the right is a cliff on which a small British lion lies on a scroll inscribed: 'Qui uti scit ei bona' [good things to him who knows how to use them]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., With watermark: A. Stace., and Matted to 49 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 13th, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Britannia (Symbolic character), Spanking, Warships, and French
Sir Francis Burdett, holding copies of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, is arrested by the Speaker of the House of Commons (who calls Britannia a 'blank eyed b-h'). Britannia stands, hands clasped in supplication, her lion by her side. Burdett argued in the House of Commons against the imprisonment of the radical John Gale Jones. Failing to have Jones released, Burdett issued a revised edition of his speech in the Weekly Register, an action which the House voted a breach of privilege. The Speaker issued a warrant for Burdett's arrest and he was taken by soldiers from the Commons to the Tower of London, where he remained until the next Parliamentary recess
Description:
Title from item., Possibly by Thomas Rowlandson?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 11th, 1810, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844 and Jones, John Gale, 1769-1838.
Title from item., Song sheet with an etching at top showing Britannia and Prince Leopold mourning at the tomb of Princess Charlotte. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas in three columns below. Text and music within mourning border. Opening words: Brittannia [sic], mourn! your glorys hope ... "Pr. 1/.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published at No. 91, Aldersgate Street
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold |b I, |c King of the Belgians, |d 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Grief, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"A sailor on shore, holding a bottle, with a well-dressed young prostitute on each arm, the one on his [left] arm carries a cauliflower while the other holds up her dress; a boat moored against the quay in the [left] foreground, ships at sea and a fortification in the [left] background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another print engraved after the same painting
Description:
Title from text below image., Date inferred from that of another print after the same painting, published by C. Knight in 1794, showing the identical scene in reverse. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1881,0409.25., and Companion print to: Scarcity in India.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sailors, Social life and customs, Courtesans, British, and Piers & wharves
A broadside illustrated with engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at top of sheet followed by 29 lines of letterpress text mourning the death of the Charlotte on November 6th, 1817
Description:
Title from beginning of letterpress text., Portraits at top have the engraved captions "Princess Charlotte" and "Prince Leopold.", Biographical details immediately above lower border., "Price one shilling."--Below lower border., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
published not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 10518, Gillray's 'Tiddy-Doll'. Napoleon, haggard and desperate, wearing tattered uniform without the former apron and sword, walks in profile to the left, carrying on his head a large tray. On this stand three gingerbread kings, burlesqued and mutilated, with two queens, a detached head (crowned), and (right) a pile of imperial emblems: crowns, mitre, sceptre, eagle, flag, &c. On the left a bonnet rouge hangs from a staff. In the middle stands an imperial eagle with a tricolour flag to which is tied a broom showing that the contents of the tray are for sale. Napoleon says (with grimly closed mouth): "Buy my Image! Here's my nice little Gingerbread Emperor & Kings Retail and for Exportation!" Behind him is a tumbledown thatched hovel; over an aperture where more gingerbread figures are displayed is a board: 'Tiddy-Doll Gingerbread Baker. NB Removed from Paris.' Above fly three of the (carrion) birds associated in these prints with Elba. Napoleon walks towards the sea; across the water (in France) tiny figures dance holding hands round a white flag inscribed 'Vivent les Bourbons' and topped by a fleur-de-lis. Behind them is the gable-end of a rustic inn: 'The Kings Head New Revived'. A fiddler capers on the edge of the cliff, watching Napoleon."--British Museum online catalogue and "One of many satires on Napoleon's banishment, see British Museum Satires No. 12229, &c., and on the fall of the Bonaparte kings, the 'Corsican Kinglings' of British Museum Satires No. 10518. The Kings must be Joseph, Louis, and Jérôme, see British Museum Satires No. 12225, the Queens either their wives or Napoleon's sisters; they symbolize the fall of the dynasty and no precise identification is necessary. The other kings of British Museum Satires No. 10518, those who owed their crowns to Napoleon, are absent; they are now his enemies."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist "G.H." identified as George Humphrey in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On verso in brown ink is the collector's stamp of Nick Knowles: A pair of crossed skis.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 21st, 1814, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1778-1846, and Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, 1784-1860
Subject (Topic):
Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815, Military uniforms, French, Baked products, Trays, Kings, Queens, Crowns, Scepters, Miters, Liberty cap, Flags, Brooms & brushes, Birds of prey, Bodies of water, and Cliffs
"Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
Alternative Title:
Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-quarters of the image are of sky
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 9.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America