"A stage-coach is driven (left to right) uphill at a gallop, the horses having human heads as in BMSat 7323. The arm of a signpost on the extreme left points 'To the Temple of Honor'. Thurlow drives, lashing furiously. George III, in profile to the right, is seated in the boot at the back of the coach holding a musket with a fixed bayonet. The Queen sits on the roof as an outside passenger, dressed as an old market-woman ; she holds a basket of 'Golden Eggs' on her knee, and another basket at her side in which is a goose which hisses at the King. Within the coach Hastings (left) and Mrs. Hastings (right) sit facing each other; he is in oriental dress; she wears a jewelled turban with a crown, and her neck is covered with jewels. The coach is 'Licens'd by Royal Authority'; on its panel are the royal arms. On the box under Thurlow's legs are a star and ribbon, a coronet, and feathers. The leaders have the faces of Pitt1 and Sydney, the wheelers are Dundas and Pepper Arden. The horses are galloping uphill and the sky is clear, contrasting with the scene in BMSat 7323."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image in lower left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of verse below image: "The very stones look up to see, such very gorgeous harlotry, shaming an honest nation.", Companion print to "Opposition," also by Gillray and published by Fores on the same day. See no. 7323 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Hastings, Anna Maria Apollonia von Chapuset, 1747-1837, Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
One headed corporation and Sequel to the Knights of Bath
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1s.", Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: See liberty's champions still loyal and true, Displaying the tricks of poor R-h and his crew ..., Temporary local subject terms: Corporation of Bath -- Aldermen of Bath -- Emblems: postman for the Master of the Cross-Posts -- Figure of Falstaff -- Devil -- Birds: raven -- Addresses: Ralph Allen's address in The gentleman's magazine, v.33, p.376-7 -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Expressions: 'adequate' -- Newspapers: allusion to The North Briton -- Clergy -- Grotesqueries -- Bible: quotation -- Tents -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright, 1725-1794 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d.1776 -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Master of the Cross-Posts of England -- Postmen., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, and Leake, James, -1764
A medley of engraved representations of several prints laid on top of others. The largest print, at the bottom of the pile, and so partially obscured, is a portrait of "Sir Samuel Shamke, Kt. and High Churchman of [the] city of London." He is surrounded by the four knaves from a set of playing cards and a picture of an ass. Four other prints on top of the portrait are: "Tory Tom and his mistress a carouseing", "A blind Tory leading his blind brother", "Jack Highchurch in the stocks", and "A Tory's sneaking submission to a Whig". The title of this print comes from the fifth print in lower left
Alternative Title:
Answer to the Whigs medley
Description:
Title from image of engraved print in lower left corner., A response to "The Whigs Medley, by G.B." published in 1711., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 46 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Harlequin stockholder., State with festoons comprised of a pair of bellows, human mask, a cheese and fruit, as described by Stephens., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Plate 25 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Six lines of verse in Dutch added below plate in an unidentified contemporary hand: Wat moet wen niet ..., Watermark., and Mounted to 46 x 28 cm.
"Pitt in the guise of a robber who is about to be hanged. He aims a pistol at the head of a cobbler, saying, "You Rascall, You keep a Shop, and shall pay for it". The cobbler, kneeling hat in hand, in profile to the left, says, "Lord Sir, mines only a Stall, Have mercy on my Wife & Family". Part of his bulk or stall appears behind him (right). Behind Pitt (left) Richmond kneels on the ground, holding out his cocked hat for the coins which the former drops into it; he points to houses of playing-cards which are round him on the ground and represent his scheme of fortifications ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billy the Bamboozler robbing the cobbler
Description:
Title etched above image., Caption below image: Some account of the life and behavior of William Pett alias Billy the Bamboozler., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., DeGrey's manuscript note on verso., and Watermark: initials F N D [...]
Publisher:
Publishd. January 9th 1789 by H. Humphries, New Bond Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Title engraved at top of design, within the scroll surrounding the images., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side., 'Price 1 shilling'--Below image., Ten lines of text in rebus, followed by two columns of further text in rebus, below image: Whosoever will [be] rich or [high] be [for] [all] things ..., The following words within the text are represented by a rebus: be by an image of a bee, high by an image of a throne, for by number 4, all by an awl., Temporary local subject terms: Cession of Gibraltar -- Cession of Port Mahon -- Conventions: Pardo, 1739 -- Electorates: German electorates -- Electorate of Hanover -- Cuba: Fort St. Iago -- Cumberland Harbor -- Fairs: Horn Fair -- Yarmough fish -- Hungary -- France -- Bavaria -- Slogans: wooden shoes -- Hats: King's hat -- Parodies: parody on Athanasian Creed., Mounted., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Sold by G. Bickha[m] at the Blackmoor's Head, Exeter Exchange
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757
Title from texted engraved above image., Attributed to P.V.D. Berge in an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition., On one sheet with five columns of letterpress., "Pag.14."--Upper left corner of plate., Four lines of verse below image: Al wie zyn maag te veel met d'Acties heeft belaân ..., Plate from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., Numbered '45' in pencil in an unidentified hand., and Title translation on verso of mount: Spring water as medicine for the ill shareholder; mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
"A young man, in military dress, of elegant and effeminate appearance, sprawls on a sofa, looking towards a young woman (right) who leans towards him. She is of meretricious appearance, and wears the quasi-military riding-dress fashionable at this time in connexion with the militia camps of Coxheath and Warley. The room is luxuriously furnished. A round table with a wine bottle and glass is partly visible on the extreme right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Captain Jessamy learning the proper discipline of the couch
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '471' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Militia camps -- Militia uniforms -- Nosegays -- Lighting -- Furniture: pedestal table -- Military female costume -- Female costume: military & feathered hats., Watermark., Imperfect; publication date at end of imprint has been erased from sheet., Subjects identified below plate line in a later hand as Captain Bisset and Lady Worsley., and Matted to 62 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Flowers, Wallpapers, Chandeliers, Shutters, Windows, Tables, and Hats
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pension 3000£ pr Ann". Barré, who wears a coat with military facings and half-boots, holds out his cockaded hat in his right hand as if asking for alms. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Rome's Veteran fought her rebel Foes, And thrice her Empire saved, Yet thro' her Streets bow'd down with Woes, An humble pittance craved. Our Soldier fought a better Fight, Political Contention, And grateful Ministers requite, His service with a Pension.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 21.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British