"Two whole length figures. A woman (left) walks away from the man but looks round over her left shoulder. She wears a high conical cap trimmed with lace and ribbons, a hooded cloak over a voluminous skirt ornately embroidered at the hem. The man in profile to the left walks after her. His left hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder, his right is thrust under his waistcoat. He is fashionably dressed with a laced hat, and his coat appears to have epaulettes."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Courtesan and friseur
Description:
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "V. 4" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., Suckling; June 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-6-1-49., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd. accorg. to act August 9th by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Darly, M.
Subject (Topic):
Barbers, Clothing & dress -- England -- 1770-1780, Courtesans, and Dandies -- British
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Later state with additional numbering. For earlier state, see no. 4677 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate also published in: Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. [London]: Pubd. by Mary Darly ..., 1776, p. 59., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "8" in upper right corner., Suckling; June 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-6-1-8., Temporary local subject terms: French peasants -- Female costume -- French costume -- Clocks on stockings of French peasant -- Pompons on sabots of French peasant -- Shoes: Sabots -- Fans., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. April 1st, 1770, by MDarly (39) Strand
"Burke (three quarter length) as a showman bends over his magic lantern in profile to the right. In the upper part of the design is a draped sheet on which are the objects thrown by the lantern. These are (left to right): [1] an oddly shaped elephant chained to a stake inscribed 'A Benares Flea'. [2] Three mountains piled one upon the other, inscribed respectively, 'Ossa', 'Pelion', 'Olympus'; the whole is 'A Begum Wart'. [3] Four large eyes dripping tears float half-submerged in the water they have produced, inscribed, 'Begums Tears'. [4] A whale spouting is 'An Ouzle'. From the right side of the magic lantern the end of a slide (or slider, cf. BMSat 6287) emerges; on it is an oriental seated cross-legged and smoking. Next the lantern (right) are the heads and shoulders of two spectators in back view who are applauding; one says "finely imagined"; the other, "poor Ladies they have cried their Eyes out". The 'profil perdu' of Lord Derby appears on the extreme right, saying, "very like an Ouzle [weasel]. "Polonius"" ['Hamlet', III. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-79., Printmaker identified as Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Title from text in bottom part of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 6th May 1788 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834, Harvey, Francis, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Oudh (Princely State), Projectors, and Riviere & Son
A weeping Lord North, with a bag labelled "The nations plunder" thrown over his shoulder, kneels in front of Charles Fox, begging him for protection as the devil, reining North in with a rope wound around his arms, pronounces him his favorite. Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, points out North's long record of breaking promises.
Alternative Title:
Lord North's supplication to Mr. Fox
Description:
Mounted to 27 x 42 cm., Publication date from George., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"Anne Page standing on the steps of her father's house, one hand on her hip, gesturing with the other as she asks Slender and Shallow if they will step in, with Slender bowing his head coyly and Shallow watching them with his hat in his hands, view of a house among trees in the background to left"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also lettered below image with "Shakspeare" and fourteen lines from scene: "Anne. Will't please your worship to come in, Sir? ... Slen. I had rather walk here, I thank you.", Numbered '10' in lower left., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 24, 1793 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
John and Josiah Boydell (Firm), Shakspeare Gallery, and Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-4-174., Mounted to 37 x 30 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Bowls (Tableware), Couples, Doves, Harvey, Francis, Kissing, Older people, and Riviere & Son
From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Mounted to 42 x 29 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered '208' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs., Two columns of verse printed below title: At a tavern one night, Messrs. More, Strange, and Wright ..., Walter Schatzki ; Jan. 1964 ; Acquisitions no.: 964-1-1-66., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Published 12th February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Scotch paradise and View of the Buteifull garden of Edenburg
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-53., Mounted to 31 x 46 cm with Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mount., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The 'i' in Buteiful is an image of an 'eye', a rebus. "Eden" in Edenburg in all capitals., and Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Sold at Sumpters political prints warehouse, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
View of the beautiful garden of Edinburgh
Description:
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Print Shop; October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-188., Reduced copy, without plate number, of no. 4006 ("Scotch paradice") in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[E. Sumpter]
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779