Title from caption below image., First issued by G. Humphrey. Cf. No. 14292 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Policy for the Three-thumb Assurance Office of St. Anne's, Westminster
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Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Dated in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1770., Twelve lines of verse below image: A significant justice, a burgess and stump, their sap-sculls together had lay'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: St. Anne's Parish, Westminster -- St. Anne's Parish, Westminster: allusion to insurance and its disposition -- Thumbs: tyrannical thumbs of the City Companies -- Gallows -- City Companies: Barbers -- City Companies: Pewterers -- City Companies: Carpenters -- Emblems: thumbs as City Companies tyranny -- Allusion to assurance offices -- Poll-books -- Poll-clerks -- Allusion to voters' freedom -- Tools: barbers' implements -- Tools: pewterers' implements -- Tools: carpenters' implements -- Hallmarks: pewterer's 'touch'., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Behold a group with courage, strength & skill, / Broughton's New Amphitheater to fill ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Treasury -- John Ellys.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, and Broughton, Jack, 1704-1789.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Behold a group with courage, strength & skill, / Broughton's New Amphitheater to fill ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Treasury -- John Ellys., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, and Broughton, Jack, 1704-1789.
Drawing of the view from Chomondeley Walk on the River Thames, with Richmond Hill rising in the distance. The busy walk is seen at left, with pedestrians and several dogs traveling in both directions. In the foreground a man pulls a small boat loaded with passengers towards the bank; further offshore a woman and two men travel in a rowboat. Other small boats and several swans are visible further down the river, which curves to the right and is lined with buildings on its far bank. Clouds and birds fill the sky above
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Title written in brown ink below image., Signed with initials by the artist below image, in lower left., Approximate date from a similar drawing by Heckel in The Lewis Walpole Library: A view from Richmond Hill up the River Thames., and Formerly laid in at page 5 (formerly D) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond upon Thames (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, Earl of, 1703-1770
Title from caption below image., Print captions on either side of title: "O Lor' sir! I've lost my honor!" "Then ma'am you shou'dn't have played the odd trick.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Title from caption below image., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Later printing. Date of publication based on watermark., Temporary local subject terms: Officers uniform -- Drummer uniform., Watermark: J. Whatman 1808., and Artist's signature erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1 June 1790 by Bull & Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Title from text above image., Publication date inferred from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure ... London : Publish'd monthly by I. Payne, 1765, v. I, page 455., Another version of No. 4113 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Lectures: Lecture 'On Heads' by George Stevens, 1710-1784 -- Busts: Alexander the Great -- Busts: Cherokee chief -- Trades: quacks -- Arms: coats of arms -- Emblems: cuckold's horns -- Jesters -- Personfication: Arts -- Monuments -- Funerals., and Watermark: royal cipher(?)
Representation of the surprising performances of Mr. Samson
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Title from item., Publication date based on the date of publication of "A taylor riding to Brentford" on the same topic., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Mr. Samson or Sampson, fl. 1768., Mounted to 22 x 26 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Sold by T. Butcher at the White Horse, the corner of Horseshoe Passage, Newgate Street