"A young man driving (right to left) one of the new high two-wheeled gigs, see British Museum Satires Nos. 5933, 6143. Its small body is poised high on springs above the large wheels; the driver leans forward to whip his pair of high-stepping horses, which are about to descend a precipitous hill. He wears the plain high-crowned hat which was so great a novelty in 1781 (see British Museum Satires No. 5931, &c.) and top-boots. On the panel of the gig is a draped escutcheon with monogram or cipher. In the foreground are bushes and rough ground with a milestone, "Miles XXI"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 23 July 1782 by J.R. Smith. Cf. No. 6146 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25, 1802, by Ino. Harris, No. 3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Horses, Whips, and Traffic signs & signals
"Satire on the disputed Westminster election of 1751; view on St James's Street during a procession on the day the Hon. Alexander Murray was released from prison; on the left two men stand in wigs declaring "No Knee Worship" and "It's a Dirty Place"; at the head of the procession a man holds a sign stating "Murray and Liberty", carriages follow behind, in the background people watch the scene from their windows, St James's Palace on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of comment in center below image: Brutus had rather be a villager, than to repute himself a son of Rome ..., Sixteen lines of description in two columns on either side of the comment: The Honble. Alex. Murray Esqr. who by an order of [the] House of Commons had been committed a close prisoner to Newgate ..., Temporary local subject terms: London: London: St. James's Street -- Clubs: White's -- Newgate prison -- Parliament: members of Parliament -- Flags: Union Jack -- Flags: 'Murray & Liberty' -- Trades: butchers -- Male dress: striped election suits -- Mottoes: O tempora! O mores! -- Vehicles -- Elections: 1751 -- Westminster petition -- Lord George Carpenter. 1723-1762 -- George Vandeput, d. 1800 -- George Cooke, d. 1768 -- Richard Crowle, d. 1757 -- William Alexander, d. 1762 -- Robert Scott, d. 1760., and Watermark: indiscernible countermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Murray, Alexander, d 1777 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Political elections, Petitions, and Carriages & coaches
"The Prince of Wales falls from an overturning phaeton or curricle. He is about to fall on the prostrate body of Mrs. Fitzherbert (left), who lies on her back, her breasts exposed, in an attitude intended to be indecorous. She lies under a steep bank or rock beside a country road. The horse rears behind the Prince."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fall in Fitz, Princes disastar, or, A fall in Fitz, and Princes disaster, or, A fall in Fitz
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., Questionable attribution to John Boyne from dealer's description., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Watermark., Original price written in pencil in lower right corner of sheet: 2 [shillings]., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Published by James Aitken, Little Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An obese citizen sits in a small heavily-built phaeton, drawn (left to right) by a clumsy pony ridden by an elderly postilion with a wooden leg, ambling slowly along. ... Behind the carriage stands a footman in macaroni dress; his master is dressed in a more old-fashioned manner."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later of the two known states, with additions to the design and with different plate number. For the earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 773.01.05.01.1., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., Plate later reissued by R. Sayer with a different title. Cf. No. 5176 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Phaeton -- 'Cits' -- Domestic service: Footman -- Postilions -- Wooden legs., First of two plates on leaf 40., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Carriages & coaches, Servants, and Peg legs
A very fat man, smiling and smoking a pipe, sits in his phaeton with a footman standing behind and a hunchbacked postilion with a wooden leg rides on the back of the small horse pulling the carriage
Description:
Title etched below image., Earlier of the two known states. For the later state with additions to the design and with different plate number, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 773.01.05.01.2., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner., and Plate later reissued by R. Sayer with a different title. Cf. No. 5176 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Obesity, Servants, and Pipes (Smoking)
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An obese citizen sits in a small heavily-built phaeton, drawn (left to right) by a clumsy pony ridden by an elderly postilion with a wooden leg, ambling slowly along. ... Behind the carriage stands a footman in macaroni dress; his master is dressed in a more old-fashioned manner."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later of the two known states, with additions to the design and with different plate number. For the earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 773.01.05.01.1., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner., Plate later reissued by R. Sayer with a different title. Cf. No. 5176 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Phaeton -- 'Cits' -- Domestic service: Footman -- Postilions -- Wooden legs.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Carriages & coaches, Servants, and Peg legs
Title etched above image., Publisher identified from address., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: This doctor from North Britain came, to eat & learn is [i.e., his] trade ..., Temporary local subject terms: Slogans: 'cat's paw', i.e., a person used as a tool by another -- Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- ABuildings: College of Physicians -- Vehicles: open carriage -- Jacobites -- Quackery -- Emblems: cradle -- Zanies -- Reference to Edward Vernon, 1684-1757., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
May's Buildings
Subject (Name):
Thompson, Thomas, 1708?-1773
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Carriages & coaches, Quacks, Horses, and Apes
"The Prince of Wales falls headlong, but gracefully, from his high phaeton, and is about to land on Mrs. Fitzherbert, who lies face downwards on the ground, on hands and knees, her petticoats over her head, leaving her posteriors bare. The reins have broken, the horses, which are drawn with much spirit, are running away (right to left). In the background is a wall, over which appears the head of an interested military officer. A yokel seated on the wall lifts his hands in astonishment."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted verse following title: "Th' imaginary bride with beauty glows, "for envy magnifies what e'er she shows. Ovid., Temporary local subject terms: Quotation from literature: Ovid, 43 B.C.-18 A.D. -- Vehicles: Phaeton capsizing., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1st, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
"Satire based on a novel of the same title on the cruel and hypocritical behaviour of a female former convict with four scenes enclosed within rococo scrolls. The scene on the left shows Polly Haycock, visibly pregnant, standing on a quay chained with a group of other convicts, guarded by a turnkey as they await transportration; above a mask holds a ribbon in its mouth lettered "With Child by the under turnkey, put on board a Lighter, from thence into a Transport Ship bound for Virginia". In the centre are two scenes, the lower one showing a coach travelling through a town being approached by two robbers, one of whom stands at the coach door raising his hands towards the woman sitting inside who wears a watch. Beneath this scene is written "Rob Theif. Or the Lady of ye Gold Watch Polly Haycock". In the scene above this a nearly naked woman is kneeling on a stone, her hands tied behind her back, being whipped by a black man; in the background on the left a man can be seen through a window sitting eating while on the right a man on horseback raises his hands. Written above is "Whipp'd during dinner her master boasting that no Monarch upon earth had so fine Musick as he fancied her Cries. In the Intreim [sic] the Justice Releasing and takes her home". In the fourth scene on the right she stands in a fashionable dress in a grand room holding a stick, a girl lies at her feet in evident distress, her skirt pulled up; a fashionably black page-boy stands on the left and three female servants stand in the background on the right. Above the scene a mask holds a ribbon in its mouth lettered "Her usage to her Free-born English Servants is as they do Negroes and Felons in the Plantations tho' she felt the Mesery herself". Beneath is written Remember Mrs. Branch & her daughter (a reference to the notorious case of Elizabeth Branch who murdered her servant in 1740)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Print made by: George Bickham the Younger. See British Museum online catalogue., Four designs enclosed by scrolls, each with its own inscription., Temporary local subject terms: Boats: lighter -- Plates -- Dishes: tankard -- Food: cooked fowl -- Furniture: table -- Chair -- Mantel -- Female servant -- Female dress: gold watch -- Sticks -- Transports -- Architectural details: Virginia planter's house., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Branch, Elizabeth and Haycock, Mary, active 1741
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Carriages & coaches, Criminals, Dogs, Horses, Masks, Prison laborers, Servants, Enslaved people, and Whips
"A plainly dressed man drives a gig (right to left) on Epsom downs; the horse kicks, the man pulls at the reins, his companion in the gig attempts to climb out, clutching the back of the seat and displaying her leg above the knee. Behind (right) is a tent where liquor is sold, indicated by a round bottle tied to the horizontal pole. In the background is the racecourse, surrounded by a railing; spectators stand on the flat roof of a square building; gigs and coaches are driving round the course inside the rails."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gig with a view of Epsom Downs
Description:
Title engraved below image., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: gigs -- Women: young girls -- Epsom Downs -- Tent for liquor -- Race grounds., and Numbered '146' above plate in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer & Co., Chart & Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street