A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
The Matrimonial Magazine?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England) and England
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
Title from item., Publication based on the date of publication of a similar print: A representation of the surprizing performances of Mr. Samson., Plate from: The universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure. [London] : Printed for J. Payne, vol. for 1768?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Mr. Price, fl. 1768.
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Originally published by W. Locke, 1 Feb. 1792, in The attic miscellany?, Plate from: The Carlton House magazine, v. iv, p.391, Jan., 1796?, and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: John Dryden's Fables Ancient and Modern -- Literature: David Garrick's Cymon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828 and McDonald, Samuel, 1762-1802
"Two groups of persons who are candidates for the place of hangman. Inscribed labels issue from the persons of four of them. Two men sit side by side on a settee, wearing curiously shaped crowns or coronets, one (left) shaped like a wall. The former holds a paper inscribed "To J------e G------m" showing that he is Justice Gillam, who ordered the soldiers to fire on the Wilkite mob outside the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768 (see British Museum Satires No. 4201). He says: "Everyone knows my abilities as a Man-killer". His companion says: "Let the Place be held by Commission and let the two Kennedies & my self, be Lords Commissioners of the Rope". Behind, and to the left of the settee three persons stand together: A rough-looking man, flourishing a stick says: "I wont accept of ye Office without a Peerage to Support its Dignity". Next him is a Judge in wig and robes. On the right., their backs to a window, stand three men; Sir Fletcher Norton in his Speaker's robes, and the horns which indicate that he is 'Sir Bullface Double Fee', see British Museum Satires No. 4238, 4462, and index, says: "B------n S------h has spoil'd ye Trade, if Murderers were to be hang'd ye Place might be worth acceptce". He stands between the two Kennedy brothers and is alluding to the reprieve (for transportation) of one of them, the other having been acquitted. "B------n S------h" may be intended for Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, a baron of the Exchequer. This reprieve was for the murder of a watchman in a drunken brawl, and was believed to be due to the influence of the young men's sister, Polly or Kitty Kennedy, see 1935,0522.2.2 and British Museum Satires No., 4463. It was made a political question by Parson Horne and others, see Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George IV', 1845, iv. 110-11; Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 185. 1770."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Probably an illustration in The Oxford magazine, v. 4, page 113., Temporary local subject terms: Law: judge -- Law: speaker -- Emblems: crown of the City of London -- Furnishings: settee -- Paddle -- Hangmen: Tom Turlis -- Kennedy Brothers' reprieve -- Matthew Kennedy -- Patrick Kennedy -- Justice Samuel Gillam, Magistrate of Surrey, 1715-1793? -- Nicknames: Sir Bullface Double-fee (i.e., Sir Fletcher Norton)., and Mounted to 13 x 18 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by George in the original publication as Thomas Panton (No. 6) and Miss Carter, a courtesan (No. 5).
Description:
Title from item., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country Magazine, December 1777 (ix, 569) with different titles and plate numbers., and Variant state of No. 5421 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Full-length portrait of Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder who was later hanged as a sorcerer in 1647, looking left and shown wearing a hat and cloak, holding a walking stick in his right hand and standing next to a tree beside a foot path
Description:
Title etched below image. and Plate from: The wonderful museum, 1792.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XVI and No. XVII, of Peter [?], son of a glazier from Wells who made fortune during the war, and his cook-maid, Miss G.
Alternative Title:
Commissary
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 5 (1773), page 289.