A short obese man stands facing the viewer, his right hand tucked in his waistcoat. His wig and clothes are old-fashioned. He wears a short, fur-trimmed coat on top
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: initials G R below watermark that has been almost completely cut off., and Annotated on verso: from Ld. B. Album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Febry. 13, 1772, by Wm. Tringham, under St. Dunstans Church, Fleet Street
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1772., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 9, p. 1., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bank-notes -- Bags of money -- Brooms -- Row-boats -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Allusion to Lord North budget speech, 1 May 1772 -- Financial crisis, 1772 -- Allusion to speculation.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"A drunken orgy in a room with mirrors on the wall. Britannia, dressed as a courtesan (right), leans back in a chair, dead drunk, in her right. hand is a wine-bottle. One foot rests on her shield. A man standing behind pours over her the contents of a wine-bottle, in his right. hand he holds out a wine-glass. In the centre is a staggering figure wearing the ribbon and order of the Bath. His pocket is being picked by a plainly dressed man, while another holds his shoulder. Two men aimlessly flourish drawn swords. Another aims a blow with a long pole at a mirror. A courtesan has broken a mirror with a wine-bottle which she is waving in the air. In the background a woman, seated on a man's knee, is picking his pocket. On the floor in the foreground are broken wine-glasses, and a broken punch-bowl inscribed "the Constitution". The explanatory text asks "Who are the greatest drunkards? - Those at the helm - Who set the most glaring examples of adultery, fornication, &c -.."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great ones in a bagnio
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 185., and Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Prostitutes -- Dishes -- Allusion to the Constitution.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Intoxication, Courtesans, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bowls (Tableware), and Pickpockets
Title from item., Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to either Isaac Taylor senior (1730-1807) or Isaac Taylor junior (b. 1750)., Illustration to an article with the above title., Two lines of text below image: Cupid's soft dart the softer sex compels / And here the urching knocks down beaux & belles., Plate from: Westminster Magazine. London : Printed for W. Goldsmith, v. 1 (1772-3), p. 9., and Temporary local subject terms: Auctions: bankrupcies -- Macaronies -- Cupid (Greek deity) -- Mercury (Roman deity) -- Allusion to Theresa Cornelys, 1723-1797.
"The gateway of St. James's Palace. On its flagstaff is a standard bearing Bute's arms with the motto 'Avito viret honore' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 4423). Under the archway a Scotsman in kilt and plaid holds a prancing horse by the tail. Another Scot stands by flourishing a whip and holding in his left hand a saddle with stirrups."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
He rules as absolutely and with as much indignity ...
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 10 (1772), page 265., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace gateway -- Flagstaffs -- Arms: Earl of Bute's arms -- Scotsmen -- The White Horse of Hanover? -- Allusion to the Earl of Chatham's speech on secret influence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Title from item., Two lines of verse below image: Thus we would buy your friendship & treat you with gentle loving kindness. Shakespeare., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 9 (1771), p. 297., and Temporary local subject terms: Flags: Union Jack -- Reference to Falkland Islands -- Furniture: throne-like chair -- Writing desk -- Vittorio Filippo Ferrero di Biella, 1713-1777, Prince Masserano, Spanish ambassador to England, 1763-1772.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXII and No. XXIII, of Betsy Wil--x, a courtesan, and Sir George Savile
Alternative Title:
Inflexible patriot
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 4 (1772), page 401.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXVIII and No. XXIX, of MIss L-b-t, a courtesan and the 2nd Duke of Northumberland
Alternative Title:
Lord P-y and Lord Percy
Description:
Titles etched below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 4 (1772), page 513., and Mounted together with four pages of text to which this print is an illustration; mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXXIV and No. XXXV, of a Miss L-w-s and James Lowther, later Lord Lonsdale
Alternative Title:
Cumberland Baronet
Description:
Titles etched below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 4 (1772), page 624.