Design in an oval depicts John Molesworth holding a wand seated at a wooden table and wearing a conical hat and dressing gown. He points towards lottery wheels from which 2 small boys wearing paper crowns observe him. Molesworth is saying "Eo, Meo, and Areo, stick close my boys and let me have all the capital prizes in my calculation." Before him on the table are ink bottle and quill, several books, including one entitled Calculations and another Conjurations, together with The life of Duncan Campbel, deaf & dumb fortune-teller. Molesworth in 1774 authored Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations.
Description:
Dedication etched below title: This plate is humbly inscribed to all keeper's of lottery offices by their humble servt. A.B. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
A.B.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Molesworth, John--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Frauds--England., Hats. , Lotteries--England., and Magicians.
"The pit of a theatre: Boswell stands in the centre of the front row behind a row of spikes, emitting a blast from his mouth, putting his hands on his cheeks. The man next him (right) protects his face with his hat; two men on the left are amused, one claps. Behind him are several rows of laughing heads. Two musicians in the foreground turn their heads."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, part the second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy., Title etched below image., and Two lines of verse below title: "A great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair & I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-Lane Play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously, by imitating the lowing of a cow ..." Vide Journal p. 499.
Publisher:
E. Jackson, No. 14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Boswell, James,--1740-1795.--Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.--Illustrations., Boswell, James,--1740-1795--Caricatures and cartoons., Collings, Samuel, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77006064, Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Jackson, Elizabeth, fl. 1785-1797, publisher.
One print in a series of views in Oxford and Cambridge. See Grego. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and University of Cambridge--Pictorial works.
Subject (Topic):
Universities and colleges--England--Cambridge--Pictorial works.
"The Earl of Harrington sits erect on horseback in profile to the left, his leg awkwardly thrust out. He wears a huge cocked hat, long and thick queue, and full-skirted coat. In the background (on his right) ranks of infantrymen are freely sketched; they fire their muskets and are partly concealed by clouds of smoke."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harrington, Charles Stanhope,--Earl of,--1753-1829--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, no. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son--Binding.
Subject (Topic):
Bribery., Courtship., Daggers & swords., Parlors., and Wigs.