A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below image: Such Tophet was - so grin'd the bawling fiend, while frightened prelates bow'd, & call'd him friend ..., Verse attributed to Thomas Gray (1716-1771) and Horace Walpole (1717-1797). See Stephens., Temporary local subject terms: Clergy -- Jews., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.06.00.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse below image: The genius of the S[cotc]h is mutiny, they scarcely want a guide to move their madnes [sic] ... (Dryden)., Temporary local subject terms: Scottish influence -- Keys of the back stairs -- Allusion to Scotch collops -- Swords: broadsword -- Scottish costume: Highland -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745 -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., 1 print on laid paper : etching ; sheet 19 x 31 cm., mounted to 24 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., One line of text below image: The body, soul & mind of the Gazetier cuirassé., Companion print: The wicked in triumph., Temporary local subject terms: Litearture: Allusion to Le gazetier cuirassé by Théveneau., Mounted to 31 x 23 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Théveneau de Morande, Charles, 1741-1805 and Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse, 1743-1793
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: As cannons shoot the higher pitches, the lower we let down their breeches ..., Temporary local subject terms: Guns: cannon -- Personifications: political writer as a cannon -- Slogans: Broad Bottom (taking all parties and people indifferently into the ministry - Horace Walpole's definition) -- Animals: greyhound -- Boxes: strong box -- Lawyers -- Jacobites -- Male dress: peer's robes -- Literature: Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759, Wynne-Williams, Watkin, Baron, 1692-1749, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge with loss of upper part of title., Ninety four lines of verse in five columns, in letterpress, below image on the plate: An arch and sturdy bellman of the town, that us' to cry his matters up and down ..., Temporary local subject terms: LIterature: The bellman and the captain, by John Byrom, 1691-1763, The Chester Courant, July 25 1749 -- Jacobites -- Literature: Jacobitish tales -- Bells: hand bells -- Bellmen -- Trades: butcher -- Military uniforms: captain's uniform -- Signs: butcher's sign -- Male costume: butcher's outfit -- Bellman's outfit -- Harlequin -- Allusion to King George II., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Picturesque appearance of a very, very grave statesman
Description:
Title etched below image., Text above image: The picturesque appearance of a very, very grave statesman., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., In lower right corner of plate: See Gazetteer., Temporary local subject terms: Cabals -- Mythology: Mercury -- Philosophers: Greek philosopher -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 -- Symbols: rose - 'sub rosa' -- Reference to operatic performances -- Female dress, ca. 1745 -- Military: reference to 15 new regiments -- Matrimony -- Cuckolds., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
"A satire on Wilkes's release from custody in April 1763 and the successful actions for damages by the printers of the North Briton, No. 45. A copy without any background, and lacking the figure of Beckford, of British Museum satire no. 4065: The devils triumphant or The messengers in the suds."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blessing of a London jury
Description:
Title etched above image., After Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale according to the British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from that of the original print: The devils triumphant, or, The messengers in the suds., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Altered copy of No. 4065 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Glynn, John, 1722-1779, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Blackmore, Robert, -1763., Carrington, Nathan, -1777., Money, John, active 1763., and Watson, John, active 1763.
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Demons, Fighting, and Judicial proceedings
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.00.00.09
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the Scots and on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, showing on the left a plaid curtain behind which the couple are seen dancing when the print is held to the light; on the right a Scottish bag-piper plays "Scotch Vagary for the German Flute or Bagpipe" while two gentleman note that he is "sure of preferment"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The mounting sheet contains figures of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute that can be seen behind the curtain when the print is viewed against a source of light., Temporary local subject terms: Preferment -- Allusion to David Rizzio, d. 1566., and Watermark: unidentified watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792