Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: N. 8., and Earlier state. Cf. no. 10900, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with altered imprint statement.
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Bourbon Family Compact treaty, 15 August 1761 -- Berkeley Square: Lansdowne House -- Joseph Jekyll, M.P., as a monkey -- John Morris, M.P., as a bear -- Bears -- Monkeys., Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 26, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Jekyll, Joseph, 1754-1837
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, and Trained animals
A fat parson sits on a settee with a young courtesan on each knee
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Two lines of verse below title: The business of his church he did by proxy and loved all doxies but the ortho-doxy., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. Cf. For a later copy, see no. 10671, v. 8., and Watermark: T Edmonds 181[...].
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 66' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Busts: Shakespeare's bust -- Falstaff -- King Lear., and Watermark: E. Vallan(...?). Name partially trimmed off.
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: NB. Folios of caricatures lent., Temporary local subject terms: Parliament: members of the Irish Parliament -- Reference to the Act of Union, 1800 -- Buildings: Irish Parliament -- Irish Channel., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pub by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: NB. Folios of caricatures lent., Temporary local subject terms: Parliament: members of the Irish Parliament -- Reference to the Act of Union, 1800 -- Buildings: Irish Parliament -- Irish Channel., 1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 42 cm., on sheet 28 x 43 cm., Lower and upper left corners torn off., and Watermark: E Budgen 1799.
Publisher:
Pub by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., One of a series of "Drolls.", Four lines of verse below title: The old Booby half muzzy to a bagnio reel'd ..., and Watermark: armorial shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Published 1st May, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Two images on one plate, signed below Lambeth and Spital Fields., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where folios of caracatures are lent out for the evening., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Lamabeth Palace -- Interiors: parsonage -- Poverty vs. abundance -- Spitalfields -- Subscriptions for war victims -- Consequences of war -- Banquets -- Dishes: tureen with bishop's mitre -- Food: roasted turkey -- Footmen -- Literature: Samuel Coleridge's Essay on His Own Time, i.45 -- John Moore, 1733-1805, Archibishop of Canterbury.
Gown metamorphosed into a ghost and The effect of imagination
Description:
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 60' in upper left corner., Placement instructions in upper right corner: Page 137., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Clothes lines -- Yokels., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
Title from item., Publisher's announcement following the imprint: where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures [sic] in Europe, admittance 1 shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Jockey Club -- Horse-racing -- Trades: jockeys -- Bullock, T., fl. 1792., and Watermark: I Taylor.
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Bunbury, Thomas Charles, Sir, 1740-1821, and Chifney, Samuel, ca. 1753-1807