A satire on the British response to the Lisbon earthquake
Alternative Title:
Britannia's maternal call to her children to deep humiliation
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: Price 6d., Publisher's statement following price: Where may be had a print on the earthquake., Four columns of verse below image: [The] offspring of my favour'd isle attend, hear in my voice the parent & the friend ..., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to general fast, 1756 -- Enumeration of sins -- Repentance for sins -- Magistrates -- Britannia's shield -- Destiny of English citizens --Britannia's prophecy., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Jany 17th, 1756, by T. Kitchin at the Star opposite Ely House, Holborn Hill, London
Subject (Topic):
Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal, 1755, Britannia (Symbolic character), and Clergy
"The seven men ride (right to left) on asses, a signpost (right) pointing 'To Dublin'; they carry 'Regency cakes' in place of potatoes. On the extreme left three men lean eagerly forward, one shouts: "What news, What News the tidings tell make haste and tell us all, Say why are Thus mounted Is Regent come and all." St. Patrick, whose galloping donkey has a head-dress of the Prince of Wales's feathers, answers, "By Jasus I'll tell you all in no time why you must know the K-----g is better than the Reg------t that is all". Next comes Charlemont, identified by his earl's coronet; his donkey kicks violently ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ambassadors extraordinry return on bulls without horns and Ambassadors extraordinary return on bulls without horns
Description:
Title from item., Tentatively attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Irish ambassadors extraordinary!!!, Temporary local subject terms: Irish Commissioners -- Irish Commissioners' address, 1784 -- Clubs: Shillelaghs -- Coronets -- Regency crisis -- Signposts: "To Dublin" -- Emblems: Regency cakes -- Irish asses -- Food: potato cakes -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to George IV -- Allusion to Louis Weltje, 1745-1810 -- Allusion to Francis Willis, 1718-1807 -- James Stuart, fl. 1789 -- Thomas Connolly, ca. 1738-1803 -- William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1744-1806, John O'Neill, 1st Viscount, 1740-1798., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 16th, 1789, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccaddilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804, Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799, and Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?
Title from caption below images., Design consists of twenty-seven figures in three horizontal rows, with a caption etched above each figure., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Manners -- Robes -- Bowing -- Learning -- Students -- Preaching., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr. 8, 1791, by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Printseller's announcement following imprint: ... where may be had veriety [sic] of political prints. Likewise old prints bought and sold. And Jappaning prints., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Priest: To you, my lord, I thus confess, I've been a slave, without success ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Garden -- Clergy: Jesuits -- Popery -- Popes: Benedict XIV(?) -- Pictures amplifying subject: executions -- Satan -- Jacobites: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 -- Rosaries., Watermark: Strasburg bend., and Mounted.
On the left, Charles James Fox sits on a chair, his gouty left foot resting on a stool, his right hand holding a crutch. Behind him is a paper which reads "Plan to discharge the Nation[al] Debt". His right arm reaches out to a group of angry citizens confronting him with their complaints and pleas for relief. He says to them: "Gentlemen! I have been looking over my affairs, and give you my word of Honor you shall all be paid this day twelve month." A butcher, baker, orphan child, a nurse, and other troubled citizens voice their complaints in separate speech bubbles
Alternative Title:
Meeting of creditors
Description:
Title from caption below image., "SC" is the monogram of Samuel Collings., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
As the act directs published March 28, 1785 by W. Humphrey, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Public, History, Butchers, People, and Clergy
"Satire on Robert Walpole, showing the grounds for the Motion to remove him from office. In the foreground an extravagantly dressed young woman, representing bribery and corruption, distributes lucrative offices to the clergy, judges, army officers and members of parliament all of whom wear yokes about their necks and profess their loyalty to her and to Walpole's policies including, in the case of the politicians, a general Excise. At her feet is a pile of money bags, coronets, orb and sceptre, bank bills and pensions. In the background Walpole rides on a wagon in the form of a large money chest labelled "for the word "king" has been added here in a later hand] /For Secret Services /For [th]e Projector / for Friends and Assistants"; its wheels are labelled "Expence of Law &c./Penal Laws/G[i]n A[c]t/Debts/Civel List/Taxes" crush men representing "Manufactures/Trade/Honesty/Liberty"; penants attached to the waggon name taxes levied under Walpole's ministry, "Malt Ale/Tobacco Wine/Leather/Gin/Stamp/Land Tax/Candles/Soap/Salt/Coals". Walpole himself, lettered, "Volpone the Projector", stands on top of the waggon saying "Whoever flinches I'll discard"; he slices open an infant ("Sinking Fund") with a sword so that coins from its belly fall into the money chest, at the same time he blows French and Spanish ships out of Brest and Ferol into the Atlantic to frustrate Admiral Vernon's efforts in the Caribbean, while breaking wind that holds British ships in Torbay; a devil flying above, observes, "this wind is strong agt. them). The waggon is driven by "Volpone Junior" (Robert, Baron Walpole) and drawn by six yoked placemen, while the "Balance Master" (Horatio Walpole) sits on the back exclaiming, "Lawful plunder". Bishop Herring (labelled "Salty") follows the waggon acting as a recruiting officer holding a spear and encouraging, "All B[isho]ps, P[ee]rs, C[ommon]ers or others, willing to List in Projectrs Service. repair thither & meet with suitable Encouragemt."; a pamphlet of 1740, "Letter to a Member [of Parliament concerning the present state of affairs at home and abroad]" protrudes from his pocket; he is accompanied by two journalists, "Freeman" (Raphael Courteville) playing the drum and "Sidney" blowing the horn each has a copy of the "Gazeteer" in his pocket
Description:
Title etched above image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark resulting in loss of imprint and verse in letterpress below the plate., Publication date from variant state described in the British Museum Catalogue., Variant state of no. 2484, with additional words added to the back left wheel of the wagon. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 3., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757, and Courteville, Raphael, -1772
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Misconduct in office, Great Britain, Politics and government, Clergy, Corruption, Lawyers, and Politcians
Kings armns in an uproar, King's Arms in an uproar, and Enchanted castle
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, and sheet mutilated on top edge with loss of the final letters "g" and "s" in "Kings" in title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Following imprint: Price sixpence., Six columns of verse below image: I sing the bloody fight & dire alarms, twixt London Tavern and Kings Arms ..., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Taverns (Inns)
"Satire on French everyday life: a large kitchen a clergyman stands talking to the innkeeper who wears large wooden shoes stuffed with wool and a hat with a large brim, his long hair hangs loose; a lrge dog sits at the clergyman's feet. On the left, a thin postillion standing tall takes a pinch of snuff from his box while a woman beside him bows to the clergyman, tucking her hands in her apron pockets; in front of her a boy in wooden shoes, hands in pockets, stares at the clergyman. Behin an old woman wearing glasses sits at a table by the fireplace with a glass and bottle in front of her; a large pot hangs over the fire. On the wall are pasted notices, including an "Ordonnace de Monsgr Le Duc de Choiseul Grand Maitre des Postes et Relais de France Sa Majesty ...", popular religious prints and another of LouisXV "le bien Aimé" 1771."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cuisine de la poste
Description:
Title from caption below image., Later printing. Date of printing based on watermark., Temporary local subject terms: Kitchens: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Furniture: Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box -- Cure., and Watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Feby. 1st, 1771, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
"Six scenes from the parable: 'The Prodigal Son Receives his Patrimony'; 'The Prodigal Son Taking Leave'; 'The Prodigal Son in Excess'; 'The Prodigal Son in Misery'; 'The Prodigal Son Returns Reclaim'd'; 'The Prodigal Son Feasted on his Return'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above images., Six images in two rows on one plate, each with caption., Plate numbered(?) in lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Bible: parables, Prodigal son, St. Luke, XV -- Clergymen -- Domestic service -- Food: meat -- Farms -- Feeding pigs -- Clarinet -- viola -- Violin -- Furniture -- Table settings -- Chippendale mirror -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Architectural details -- Carpets -- Wall paneling -- Bags of money -- Patrimony -- Valises -- Money chests -- Female costume, 1776 -- Male costume, 1776., and Watermark: Strasburg bend on the right side of sheet, countermark I V on the left.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Prodigal son (Parable), Parables, Clergy, Servants, Musical instruments, Prostitutes, and Poor persons
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., See no. 2617 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3 for another state by different publishers., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. See The London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 25., Three columns of verse below image: Mark, hovering how the fat incumbebt lies, and like a bird of prey the quarry eyes ..., Temporary local subject terms: Canon -- Pluralists -- Buildings: churches., and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London