"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
View of the beautiful garden of Edinburgh
Description:
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Print Shop; October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-188., Reduced copy, without plate number, of no. 4006 ("Scotch paradice") in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[E. Sumpter]
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
George II, wearing a Hanoverian scarf and his feet encircled by a scarf marked "Poor E-g-d", stands o n a field of battle along side a large Hanoverian officer, the Earl of Stair, and the Duke of D'Aremberg.
Description:
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Date from Stephens., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-20., Title engraved below image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Dettingen, Battle of, Karlstein, Unterfranken, Germany, 1743 and George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Design in an oval, with the Prince of Wales shown half-length and in profile facing right, holding a fox in his arms which are crossed over his breast. A dialogue bubble from the fox's mouth says, "I shall get through at last."
Description:
Date based on the publication date of a similar print in the Hibernian magazine., Possibly a reissue of a plate published in the Hibernian magazine, 1785, p. 57., Suckling., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Foxes, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
"Sir Cecil Wray (left) is being drummed away from the hustings; Sam House, the central figure, beats a drum, looking at Wray. On the right, ignoring Wray, stands Fox addressing the populace, a cheering crowd behind him; he holds a flag on which is the figure of Britannia seated, holding the staff and cap of Liberty, and the words 'Champion of the People'. He says, "Friends & Fellow Citizens I cannot find words to express my feelings to you upon this Victory". Wray walks beside a procession which marches to Sam House's drum. It is headed by Chelsea pensioners with wooden legs, who scowl at him; one carries a crutch over his shoulder. They have two flags, inscribed respectively 'May all public Deserters feel public Resentment' (Wray had deserted the cause of Fox who nominated him for Westminster in 1782, see British Museum Satires No. 5998), and 'Chealsea Hospital'. They are followed by a detachment of maidservants, with a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; they carry over their shoulders a broom, a brush, a mop, a shovel. A crowd cheers frantically, hats are waved at the procession and at Fox. Behind Fox is part of the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the scene of his triumph at the hustings, see British Museum Satires No. 6590, &c."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Westminster deserter drummed out of the regiment
Description:
Hill, Peter Murray, Chelsea, London; February 1959., Mounted., Plate from: The history of the Westminster election., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Churches: St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Proposed tax on maidservants -- Chelsea Hospital pensioners -- Hustings -- Drumming for the hustings -- Slogans: 'Champion of the people' -- Brooms -- Veterans -- Crutches -- Cheering crowds., Title etched below image., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject (Geographic):
Westminster (London, England) -- Politics and government
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Caricatures and cartoons, Drums (Musical instruments), Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Great Britain. Parliament, Harvey, Francis, House, Samuel, d. 1785, Riviere & S, Servants, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-15., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Close-stool -- Clyster-pipe., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject (Name):
Vanlot, fl. 1742
Subject (Topic):
Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, Charles VII, Holy Ro, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746
"Subscribers ticket to the Handel Centenary Commemoration held in Westminster Abbey in 1784; a woman seated on a lion, gesturing towards an obelisk behind her, that is inscribed 'Handel'; a cherbu by her side placing a garland on a pedestal; in oval with ribbion inscribed 'The dead shall live the living die', and on scroll between horsn and pipes, 'May 29 / Messiah / 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Sheet trimmed within design, resulting in loss of imprint. and Title from image.
CtY-LW, Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Text following title: From the pawnbroker's to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse to the Gaol & ultimately to the scaffold., and Title from caption below image.
Shitten condition of the King of Prussia and Sh-tten condition of the King of Pru---a
Description:
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: All mark'd with De Luces& cram'd with French gold, forth sally'd our hero, to seize, have and hold ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-25., Printseller's announcement after imprint: Where is sold 20 more., Temporary local subject terms: Defecation -- Medicine: smelling salts -- Money., Title engraved above image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Subject (Topic):
Charles Alexandre, duc de Lorraine, 1712-1780, Defecation, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Military uniforms
CtY-LW, Four lines of dialogue uner title: I say Gimmy vy don't you give that boy yer father's name, eh? ..., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, 95 Cheapside, and Published by G.S. Tregear, 96 Cheapside,