Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "When first I came to London town,"., In two columns with the title in four lines centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 55. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
An African woman known as 'Sartje' or the Hottentot Venus stands, left, in profile, a smoking pipe in her mouth and tall staff in her right hand. She has an enormous posterior and stands nude except for a pair of garters around her calves, a thin girdle round her waist, a beaded headdress and beaded necklace. Grenville stands behind her but looks back over his shoulder at her. Dressed in formal court dress, he too is depicted with an enormous posterior. Grenville says: Well I never expected Broad Bottoms from Africa! but one should never dispair! Mind Sherry dont let your Fireey nose touch the Venus for if theres any conbustibls about her we shall be blown up!!" In his pocket is a paper inscribed Chaselor [sic]. Between them, half-kneeling, Sheridan measures her bottom using a compass and answers: I shall be carefull your Lordship! but such a spanker it beats your Lordship's hollow."
Description:
Title from item/, Artist and imprint information based on a close copy with same title and same dialogue with misspellings. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 11578., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
Publisher:
Walker Cornhill?
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Court of Chancery
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, Khoikhoi (African people), Africans, and England
Title from item., 'P.6'--Lower right corner., Twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: Pope Pius's table was spread with a net ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Lambeth Palace -- Rivers: Thames -- Domestic service: footmen -- Demons -- Mitres -- Crosses -- Daggers -- Jacobites -- Portmanteaux -- Wigs -- Hats: jockey cap -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Prestonpans, 1745 -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Boyne, 1690 -- Clergy -- Pope -- Reference to William Sherlock, 1641?-1707., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with illegible initials below.
A satire on Queen Caroline's alleged affair with Bartolomeo Bergami. On the left is the figure of Queen Caroline, with a parasol in her right hand and holding the hand of a child with her left hand. The child says "Only look- how he kicks!!" Her response is "Yes, yes, child- Many will be upset before it's over.-" The donkey, wearing a rosette and elaborate saddle, bucks his rider, Bergami, who says "I'm not a great rider - I only ride a Donkey!!!" A servant dressed in oriental costume makes reference to himself and his master, saying "My master and I are both Greeks." The grotto behind the servant has a sign "Grotto. Villa d'Este"; above the grotto is a wind vane with an arrow pointing left on which is inscribed "Non mi Recordo." The white structure of Villa d'Este proper is seen on the left above the bushes, with Lake Como and the mountains beyond in the center background. In the foreground, amongst the flowers, is a potted orange tree on the left and a potted pineapple on the right
Alternative Title:
Guildford high mettled racer
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from other prints depicting Queen Caroline and Bergami at Villa d'Este on Lake Como. Cf. Nos. 14103 and 14171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 15 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Villa d'Este, Spa,
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Donkeys, Riding, Umbrellas, Whips, and Servants
"View of Hampton Court bridge; with an angler in the centre foreground to left seen from behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below images., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1599., Design consists of a view of the bridge at top of plate with an overhead plan of the bridge below., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 54 cm.
Title from text below image., Questionable date of publication from manuscript annotation in pencil on similar print in The Lewis Walpole Library. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Topos L847 no. 120+., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lectures: philosophical lectures -- Furniture: bookshelves -- Spyglasses -- Literature: allusion to Aristotle, 348-322 B.C. -- Globes -- Astronomy -- Animals: goats -- Natural philosophy.
Policy for the Three-thumb Assurance Office of St. Anne's, Westminster
Description:
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.
publish according to act of Parliament, Sepr. 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.23.02 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg, John Bull and his sister Peg, and Sawney Mackenzie's compliments to all the Southerns
Description:
Title from caption etched above image. Subtitle from caption below image., Following imprint: pr. 6d., Four stanzas of verse in two columns below title: Each fat lugged loon which dwell [sic] in this town, I beg ye'll give up your dominions ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Apes -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Trades: cobbler -- Animals: goose -- Scots.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy, without verse, of No. 3904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Scots., and Window mounted to 25 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers