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10. The princess's bow alias the Bow Begum [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.01.02.1 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 45. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly Indian princess, seated on a stool in profile to the left, her hands deprecatingly extended, receives the obeisance of Burke, Fox, and Sheridan. She says, "dear Gentlemen this is too much now you really distress me exceedingly" ... Burke kneels at her feet, head bent down, supporting himself on his left hand; his right hand is on his breast; he frowns, his spectacles are on his forehead. He is between Sheridan and Fox. Fox stands full-face, holding his hat to his breast; his bow is less low. On the right seven bag-wigs are in positions corresponding to those that they would take if on the heads of persons making low bows to the Begum. Below them are three swords whose hilts are decorated with large ribbon bows or favours, also as if worn by invisible persons doing homage to the Begum. Sheridan wears a similar sword. Both wigs and swords are inscribed 'et cætera.' Under the Begum's seat appear the head and arms of Francis as if emerging from the ground; he fixes Burke and the others with a conspiratorial stare, his finger across his lips, saying, "I am at the Bottom of it." Behind and above the Begum's head is a picture of a row of conical mountains ; a mouse issues from a hole in the nearest mountain. The frame is inscribed 'Parturiunt Montes nascetur ridiculus mus'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., "Bow wow wow, fal lal &c. &ca."--Etched below the title., Imperfect; the word "exceedingly" in the Begum's quote has been mostly erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Begum of Oude -- Literary quotations: Horace's Ars poetica -- Pictures that amplify subject., and Inscribed in ink below plate mark: Francis, The Begum, Burke, Fox, Sheridan, all the other managers of Hasting's impeachment.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 1st May 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment, Politicians, Bowing, Wigs, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The princess's bow alias the Bow Begum [graphic]
11. The princess's bow alias the Bow Begum [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- 788.05.01.02.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly Indian princess, seated on a stool in profile to the left, her hands deprecatingly extended, receives the obeisance of Burke, Fox, and Sheridan. She says, "dear Gentlemen this is too much now you really distress me exceedingly" ... Burke kneels at her feet, head bent down, supporting himself on his left hand; his right hand is on his breast; he frowns, his spectacles are on his forehead. He is between Sheridan and Fox. Fox stands full-face, holding his hat to his breast; his bow is less low. On the right seven bag-wigs are in positions corresponding to those that they would take if on the heads of persons making low bows to the Begum. Below them are three swords whose hilts are decorated with large ribbon bows or favours, also as if worn by invisible persons doing homage to the Begum. Sheridan wears a similar sword. Both wigs and swords are inscribed 'et cætera.' Under the Begum's seat appear the head and arms of Francis as if emerging from the ground; he fixes Burke and the others with a conspiratorial stare, his finger across his lips, saying, "I am at the Bottom of it." Behind and above the Begum's head is a picture of a row of conical mountains ; a mouse issues from a hole in the nearest mountain. The frame is inscribed 'Parturiunt Montes nascetur ridiculus mus'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., "Bow wow wow, fal lal &c. &ca."--Etched below the title., For an earlier state, see no. 7309 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Begum of Oude -- Literary quotations: Horace's Ars poetica -- Pictures that amplify subject.
- Publisher:
- Publd. 1st May 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Francis, Philip, 1740-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The princess's bow alias the Bow Begum [graphic]
12. Thunder, lightning and smoke, or, The wind shifted from the North to the East [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 22d, 1788.
- Call Number:
- 788.04.22.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Wind shifted from the North to the East
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation: Shakespeare -- Warts., Owner's mark: Lugt., no. 2832., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs for the proprietor by W. Moore, No. 48 New Bond Street & W. Dickie, opposite Exeter change
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, America., and India.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Francis, Philip, 1740-1818
- Subject (Topic):
- Impeachment, Obesity, Colonies, Weather vanes, and Gambling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Thunder, lightning and smoke, or, The wind shifted from the North to the East [graphic].