Title from text below image., Title above image: Attic Miscellany., Illustration to verses on Convention with Spain, from the Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 101., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: convention with Spain, 28 October 1790 -- Reference to the Nootka Crisis, 1790 -- Wall maps -- Newspapers: Gazetteer -- Newspapers: The Times -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Urination -- Pictures amplifying subject: playbill for Much Ado About Nothing and Provocation -- Pictures amplifying subjects: torn portrait of William Pitt., and Mounted to 22 x 31 cm.
"Under a canopy (left), sits the 'Noble Grand' or chairman on a raised platform, on each side of him on a lower level sits a 'Vice Grand'. All three wear hats and (like the other members) medallions hung on broad ribbons. In front of the dais is a draped table with emblems of the society, a beehive, a Holy Bible, with a punch-bowl, wine-bottle, and a writing-desk, beside which sits the secretary, holding a pen. On the extreme right is the doorkeeper, a small man wearing a lion's skin round his shoulders and holding up a large club, at the head of which is ficed the jaw-bone of an ass. A member, whom the text shows to be Sir Watkin Lewes, is introducing a small man as a candidate for membership, his thumbs being tied together. The other members are smoking and drinking. In the foreground (left) sits a man whose wooden leg, and a paper inscribed Pension 500 which issues from his pocket, show that he is Brook Watson. Others are seated in the background (right) behind a table with punch-bowl, glassses, and pipes. On the wall is a half-length picture of Samson, raising the ass's jawbone. There are also six framed coats of arms of those who have served the office of Noble Grand. The room is lit by a chandelier composed of two (Argand?) lamps with glass chimneys, hanging from the ceiling."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. i, page 161. An illustration to an account of the 'Samsonic Society, held every week at the Pied House, Chiswell Street.", and Mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by Bently & Co.
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821 and Watson, Brook, 1735 -1807
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Clubs, Dogs, Organizations, Peg legs, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from the first state., Reissue in the Carlton House magazine, Oct. 1794, of the left half of the plate of Peace!!! originally published in the Attic miscellany, v. ii, p. 101., Later state of No. 7684 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: convention with Spain, 28 October 1790 -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Pictures amplifying subject: playbill for Much Ado About Nothing and Provocation -- Pictures amplifying subjects: torn portrait of William Pitt.
Title from item., Plate from: Tithe rencounter in The attic miscellany. London, Printed for Bentley and co., 1789-, v. i, p. 281., Subtitle and one line of text above design burnished from the print., and Temporary local subject terms: Tithes -- Poultry: hens -- Farm tenants -- Literature: Peter Pindar, The Tithe Rencounter.
Title from item., Printmaker and artist from the first state., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine., Plate from: Carlton House magazine, v.3., Reissue of the right half no. 7602 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, Temporary local subject terms: Pugilism & boxing -- Newspapers: World -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Tankards -- Chandeliers -- Furniture: tables -- Interiors: clubs., and Publication date from the clipping of the letter to the editor of the Carlton House Magazine, signed "Frederic Fisticuff," mounted on verso of the print.
Title from item., Plate from: Attic miscellany. London : Printed for Bentley and Co., 1789, v. 1, p. 409., Temporary local subject terms: Crimes -- Costume: smocks -- Trades: beadles -- Stags -- Fighting., and Mounted to 23 x 30 cm.