The Marquis of Salisbury, holding a long wand of office and wearing military uniform (colonel of Hertfordshire Militia), with a plumed cap and spurred boots, walks stiffly in profile to the left, his coat-tails flying out behind him. His gold key of office (Lord Charmberlain of the Household) is hung to a blue ribbon which crosses his shoulder. Above his left boot is a garter inscribed 'Hone' [sic]. He is caricatured, and has a long projecting nose. Below the title: 'The Tallest, Fittest, Properest Man to walk before the King!!!" See the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Watermark: J Whatman, and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 7, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Either a copy or the original of British Museum satire no. 7388, in any event similar design except that Sydney, the coronet, and the tailor's goose are absent and inscriptions have been added; the satire alludes to taxes imposed by Pitt prior to 1788. The Prince says: "I appeal to the People of England to defend their own Rights and those of the House of Brunswick against this Banditti of Plunderers". Richmond says: "Tho' a Bastard of the Stuart Race, I have only 17,000£,per Ann: from the Poor, for my duty on Coals - make it 20,000 Prince Pitt, and I am yours for ever." (An allusion to the 'Richmond shilling', see BMSat 7393.) Grafton says: "I am as good a bastard as R------d, & yet I have only 6 or 7000£ a year upon the Excise on Wine & spiritous liquors - But Prince Pitt has promis'd me an additional Tax on Malt." Pitt says: "The Prince of Wales has no more right to the rightegency than I have." The paper in his hand is inscribed, not 'Dornford's Address', but 'Shop Tax Window Tax Candles Tax Horse Tax Hat Tax Westminster Scrutiny Irish Propositions Fortification Schemes Degradation of Naval Officers Excise Laws &c. &c. &c. &c.'"
Alternative Title:
Cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole ...
Description:
Title from caption below image., Alternative title from quote at top of image: "A cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in his pocket. Hamlet.", Possibly by Gillrary. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Five lines of text in upper left corner of print: A cut purse of the empire and the rule that from a shelf the precious diadem stole, and put it in his pocket. [Quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet]., Three colums of text below title: See here Prince George! our Sovereign's darling son, old England's hope & heir to Britains throne ..., Lewis Walpole Library: Local card catalog suggests that this is also a reference to Horace Walpole., and Mounted to 47 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Volume 1, page 13. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a group of new recruits being drilled by two soldiers outside an inn called 'The Old Fortune', the sign showing a one-legged old soldier, while a young woman sells vegetables from a basket; the head of a grinning man appears behind her below the inn sign."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,6.47., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate numbered "2" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Drilling recruits -- Recruits -- Sergeant -- Signboards: 'The Old Fortune' (Of War) -- Street scenes., and Mounted on page 13 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Military officers, Soldiers, Recruiting & enlistment, Taverns (Inns), and Signs (Notices)
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Refined taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett)., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner., Second of two plates on leaf 44., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Refined taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett)., and Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 5. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Admiral Rodney is shown on the shore with Britannia and Neptune, who hand him their staffs, while the British Lion claws at the flag of France on which Rodney stands. Standing out to sea in a toy boat made of playing cards, Admiral Pigot (represented as a pig) views the scene through his spyglass. Refers to Rodney's recall and replacement by Pigot
Alternative Title:
Admiral Pigot on a cruize
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added in lower right corner and imprint statement burnished from plate. For original issue with the imprint "Pubd. June 4th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St James's Street, London", see no. 5996 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], "Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. IV"--On left above design., Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 36., and On leaf 5 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, and Neptune (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Admirals, British, and Military uniforms
Admiral Rodney is shown on the shore with Britannia and Neptune, who hand him their staffs, while the British Lion claws at the flag of France on which Rodney stands. Standing out to sea in a toy boat made of playing cards, Admiral Pigot (represented as a pig) views the scene through his spyglass. Refers to Rodney's recall and replacement by Pigot
Alternative Title:
Admiral Pigot on a cruize
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from description in the British Museum catalogue of a variant state., Probably a variant [later?] state of the plate with the imprint statement "Pubd. June 4th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St James's Street, London." Cf. , No. 5996 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. IV., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
E. D'Achery
Subject (Name):
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, and Neptune (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Admirals, British, and Military uniforms
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Regent, in tight and dandified admiral's full-dress uniform, wearing a cocked hat, is carried by two bathing women (cf. British Museum Satires no. 8432) from a bathing-machine (right) to the barge 'Royal George', for transit to the royal yacht. Just behind is the machine, inscribed 'The Best Machines in Brighton'; from it two naked girls look towards the departing prince. A sailor standing in the barge, which flies the Royal Standard, seizes the Regent's ankles; one foot is gouty and swollen; he says to the man standing behind him (left): "My eyes jack this here craft will never carry him--we should bring the sheers and reeve a tackle for him in the long boat--!!" A naval officer stands beside the sailor, and shouts an order to the man behind: "shove the Barge further a stern & be d--d to you--what you about a head there." The Regent has an arm round the neck of each woman and grasps the plump breast of the nearer one who is comely. He says: "Do my dear Girls put me on board safe, I shall Tell Paget to give you some Grog--I have been almost suffocated in that infernal Bathing Machine--mind my foot." One bathing-woman says: "Faith he's no joke Judy the devil a heavier Burthen in all the country"; her comelier companion answers: "By my own soul I'd rather carry such a nice neat beautiful young Gentleman, than the best basket of mackerel that ever was at Billingsgate." The sailor on the left uses a pole to manipulate the barge, the bow of which is cut off by the left margin. He wears a tight blue jacket to the (pinched) waist, with red collar and cuffs, white trousers, and top-hat with a badge: 'Royal George'. With a grimace he says: "D--n these soldiers jackets I can't move in em--I suppose we shall all be lobsters by & bye!!" Behind (right) are the chalk cliffs of Brighton, with tiny figures waving their hats; one woman is seated on a donkey holding up a parasol."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal embarkation, or, Bearing Britannia's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge, Bearing Brittannia's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge, and Bearing Britannia's hope from a bathing machine to the royal barge
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "361" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., and Leaf 73 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 19th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Royal George (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Shipwrecks, Bathing, Admirals, British, Military officers, Military uniforms, and Sailors