publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.1+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times Plate 1' (Paulson 211) contrasting particular elements of that print to suggest that Lord Bute is creating faction within the country while Pitt and his supporters attempt to calm the situation. St James's Palace is ablaze; flames issuing from the gate set fire to an inn sign of the globe lettered "New Lost Land" (a reference to the recent loss of Newfoundland). On the left, Bute, wearing a tartan night shirt, holding a large pair of bellows, runs away from the fire but encourages it by breaking wind; two other Scots, crouching, also break wind, one of them addressing the other as "Brother Small Wit" (i.e., Tobias Smollett); Henry Fox runs away from Bute's supporters crying, "D[am]n the Dogs how they stink I'll turn my tail on them". On the right, Pitt stands on a fire engine directing a jet of water on the fire (in contrast to Hogarth's print where he stands on stilts fanning the flames while a supporter of the king is the chief fire fighter); the pump is manned by the Dukes of Newcastle and Cumberland and sailors who parallel the prominent sailor in Hogarth's print. Cumberland complains that the "machine is sadly out of Order" (meaning government) to which Newcastle responds "Yes ever since you left it", referring to Cumberland's resignation from military command. The sailors allude to Pitt's letter of October 1761 to William Beckford in which he explains his resignation "in order not to remain responsible for measures which I was no longer allowed to guide" (published in the Annual Register, 1761, p.300); they compare Pitt as the "Master [who] Guides it well" with Bute whose action is a wind that "encreases the Flame" and "comes from a very foul quarter". Charles Churchill, in clerical dress, walks towards the Pitt's group carrying a bucket labelled "North Briton" and offering to "help without hope of a Pension", an allusion to payments made by the Crown both to Hogarth and to Pitt. In the background, to left, a group of men look on saying the "Squire" (the king) and his family are "safe on the other side" (implying they have joined the opponents of Lord Bute, which was not in fact the case); one man continues to encourage Bute, "Blow away my Lad they will expend all their Water soon". Etched verses below describe the scene in scurrilous terms suggesting that the fire began in "the Welch Ladys Bed Room", i.e., that of Princess Augusta, and call for quenching of the "Fire of Party."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls hous in flames, to whom is this owing, / That's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing / New lost land is done for, and all the worlds going ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- London: St. James's Street -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Seven Years' War: reference to the loss of Newfoundland -- Signboards -- Fire-engines., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Bellows, Flatulence, Fire fighting, and Sailors
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm, mounted again to 34 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
Title from item., Six lines of explanation below image: 1. Two head imperfect & of black hue ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '6' in upper right corner., and Mounted to 20 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Plate numbered '30' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below image: Aloft in air the loaded scale does mount ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 15 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Truth triumphant against the reapers being a most beautiful contrast
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d'., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: William Pitt the Elder's resignation, 1761 -- Personifications: Fame -- Medallions --Pensions -- Trades: sailors -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards -- British Lion -- Emblems: gallic cock -- Money: bribes -- Addresses: William Pitt's letter to William Beckford, 1761., Watermark: Vryheyt on the right side of sheet; counternark on the left., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
J. Britton
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bussy, François de, 1699-1780, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Devils, and Thrones
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher from address in imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms -- Slang: cole, i.e., money -- Emblems: figure of Justice -- Emblems: fool's cap dated 1745 -- Executioners -- Corks -- Trades: fishwoman., and Mounted to 29 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Golden Acorn, opposite Hungerford Market, Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590, Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596, Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598, and Ketch, Jack, -1686
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1757]
Call Number:
757.04.00.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper left corner and '69' in upper right corner., Publisher identified from the address., Another state, with additional plate number, of No. 3576 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: chairmen -- Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Sentry booth -- Containers: tankard -- Signboards: 'Intire Bub Bub' -- Symbols: Chamberlain's key., and Mounted to 21 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
To be had facing Hungerford at the Acorn, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762
Title from first line of text., An engraved letter in the form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'well' in 'Cromwells' by a well, 'peech' in 'speech' by a peach, to by a toe, ass by a donkey, fox by a fox., Twelve lines of 'speech' in rebus below title: Those [men] t[hat] [love] t[hare] king & count[ry] ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '16' in upper right corner of design., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Sept. 24, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Political flight to the moon and Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Five columns of verse below image, titled, P- and Proteus: Mutatas dicere formas. Chousing [sic], cheating, chopping, changing ..., Temporary local subject terms: Kites -- Influence: Bute's influence -- Family compact -- Slang: "lame ducks", i.e., stockholders -- Slang: "Oliver", i.e., moon -- Prerogative -- Ministries: Pitt's ministry -- Mythology: Proteus., and Mounted to 38 x 56 cm. with Bowditch's notes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Martin, Samuel, -1788, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, and Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767