"A lamp-lighter (left) stands dejectedly on his ladder which rests against a stone obelisk supporting a lamp whose glass is broken. The light has been extinguished by a blast from the head of a cherub emerging from clouds (right). A man wearing a cocked hat standing by the lamp-post tries in vain to get a spark from a flint. A stout citizen bends over a cup held by an old woman seated on the right, he stirs it and blows upon it, evidently trying to kindle a light. A dog befouls the obelisk. '. . . Ce Committé se donne bien dela peine pour allumer la grande lanterne. Mais - le vent siffie - les verres sont cassé - comment les raccomoder ? - ' Text, 'Job', xviii. 5."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "9" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: committee of public instruction -- Lamp-lighters -- Lighting: lamps -- Dutchmen., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
"An old woman of repulsive and disreputable appearance sits full-face surrounded by quack doctors. Her cap is inscribed 'Rep: Bat' (Batavian Republic), her petticoat is decorated with the seven [The artist has arranged the arrows in groups of five, not seven] arrows of the United Provinces. Her feet are in a tub of water. One doctor (left) holds her arm, the blood from which gushes into a bowl on her lap. Another (right) applies a cupping-glass to her left shoulder. A man (right) stands primly in profile to the left holding his cane; from his pocket protrudes a book: 'Traité sur la Reconaissance'. (He is 'Citoyen L' who owes everything to the ex-Stadholder.) Two military officers also watch the treatment, one (left) has a clyster-pipe under his arm. Standing behind, and on a higher level, is the zany (cf. BMSat 6398, &c), holding up a club wreathed with a serpent in his right hand, a bottle inscribed 'Tinct. Univer.' in the left. On the ground is a prescription inscribed 'R. P M: Mere' [i.e. Merc]. Text, 'Jeremiah', li. 9."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "15" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Committees: health committee -- Quacks -- Quacks' zanies -- Military uniforms: French uniforms -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medical procedures: bleeding -- Emblems: Caduceus -- Medicine: mercury -- Water tubs -- Allusion to the Batavian Republic., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
"Two French commissaries stand (left), each with a book under his arm, holding out their demands for assignments on the exchequer; one has a paper inscribed 'Payer'. Their president, as in BMSat 8849, shrugging his shoulders, answers 'Impossible!' Another man seated on a bale (right) counts on his fingers; before him are figures giving a total of 'o'. A third holds up a paper: '2 /2 /3/', looking at it through an eye-glass. On the wall is a 'Tafel van Multiplicatie' and beside it shelves in which are books and bundles of papers, one inscribed 'Pretentions des Trouppes Suisses'. A shelf is inscribed 'Insolvable'. Text, 'Ecclesiasticus, Jesus Sirach', xli. 24."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "5" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Frenchmen -- Dutchmen -- Committees: finance committee -- Holland: civil discord., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
A portrait of the Pretender, shown three-quarters length to the waist and looking to the right, in an oval fraome. He is wearing robes, collar, abd jewel of the Garter; a lace cravat and full-bottomed wig. Statement of responsibility and chronogram engraved in the frame above and below
Description:
Title engraved in oval frame around portrait., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: James III Pretender of England &c. and Knight of St. James., Publication date from book in which this print was published., "S.A. Belle's portrait of the Pretender is well known"--British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Chronogram inscribed on lower portion of the oval frame enclosing the portrait: TeMpore DVro fILIVs rege natV's habetVr ast non qVIbVsqVe [i.e. 1688]., Four lines of verse in French at the bottom of design: O! Prince infortuné, joüet de la fortune ..., Four ines of verse in Dutch below the design: Heeft u't fortuin de rug tot dus ver toegekeerd ..., Plate 21 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Mounted to 42 x 27 cm., mounted again to 47 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Chez le Sr. Belle, rue du Four Faubourg S. Germain attenant la porte de la Foire
Title from item., Title continues: Makes and sells all sorts of repeating, plain, and musical clocks, likewise all sorts of repeating, plain, and horizontal watches, also the greatest choice of clock and watchmakers tools ... [text is repeated in French, Spanish, and Dutch]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 24 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Wie redeneeren wil is mis. Men vind de Lapis by de gis
Description:
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Fair of the wholesale wind-pedlar., State with verse in Dutch and its paraphrase in French., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch below title: Wind is 't begin, wind is het end, Myn kussen en myn fondement ..., Two columns of verse in French below the verse in Dutch: Le vent est mon tresor, coussin et fondement ..., Plate 13 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., v. 1., Mounted to 47 x 31 cm., and Watermark.
Etching with twenty-three people in the dress of various nations surrounding a map of Saxony, Silesia, Bohemia, etc. with Prague ("Praag") in the center of the map. Dialog ribbons (in French and in Dutch) are attached to eighteen of the people including the lone woman (Maria Theresa), who is holding a baby
Alternative Title:
De Praagsche Rariekiek
Description:
Title in French and Dutch from illustration., Imprint in Dutch and English., Broadside illustrated at top of sheet with an etching (plate mark 23.7 x 35.4 cm.)., Eighteen stanzas of verse in French and in Dutch., and Imperfect: letterpress text below image lacking.
Publisher:
by Jan 't Lam, Boekverkooper bezuyden 't Stadhuys, naer de copy van London ; Publish'd according to act of Parliament, by T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row
Title from item., Two stanzas of verse in French in the lower left of plate: Le Roy Iacque. Ceste d'ecente me fait peur ..., Two stanzas of verse in Dutch in the lower right of plate: De Konink Iacobus spreeckt. Soo niemant met syn raat my heeden comt verkwikken ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval battles: La Houge, 17 May 1692 -- Medical: truss -- Male costume, 1692 -- Plots: reference to plot against James II by Lord Preston, William Penn, et al. -- Forts: Saint Vaast (headquarters of James II in Normandy) -- Jacques Moreau, 1647-1729.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701 and Penn, William, 1644-1718
Title inscribed in frame above image., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Inscription in French on oval ribbon framing the image: Sa mathematique est l'epreuve. Sort, tu nous es dubieux au bout ..., Six lines of verse in Dutch below image: Ik speel voor man en wyf, als onbestuve weew ..., Plate 17 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Mounted to 43 x 27 cm., mounted again to 47 x 31 cm.