"Satire on Lord Camden alleging that he had abandonned his liberal principles on becoming Lord Chancellor. Camden, on the left, in his Chancellor's robes is aghast at the appearance of the ghost of his former self when Lord Chief Justice. He holds out a book lettered, "Lex Temporis" and papers lie beside him referring to supposed corrupt practices, "Grants / Reversion / Irish Pensions / Patent of Peerage / Non obstante [licence from the Crown]", and a scroll falls in front of him lettered, "is but 40 days Slavery at outside", a reference to his support of an embargo on corn export for forty days; his mace and purse (lettered "Latent Power") lie on a bench draped with tartan together with a letter reading "... your A--s] & your mace in ye Kennel within a fortnight by G[od] / yours Tom Tilbury [Lord Northington, Camden's predecessor as Lord Chancellor]". Behind the Lord Chancellor is a chair with arms and legs made of boots, upholstered in tartan and with thistles around its back; an oval lportrait showing Lords Bute and Chatham is on the back with the motto "Arcades Ambo"(two of a kind); a boot and Pitt's crutch are tied together and resting ont he back of the chair; burning papers on the cair are lettered "Negabimus / Magna Farta" and "vendemus Justitiam". The ghost holds out a book lettered "Lex Terra"; a scroll falling in front of him reads "The liberty of an English Dw[e]l[ling] cannot be estimated" (a paraphrase of his statement against General Warrants in the John Wilkes case). William Beckford, Camden's former ally, is shown creeping under the bench saying "Hide me ye Sugar Casks", a reference to his wealth from sugar plantations in Jamaica. A row of portraits on the wall show from the left: Lord Northington, Judge Jeffreys, Beckford, Sec[re]t[ary Astley, Chatham, L[or]d S[-]d and William Scrogg[s]; in front of the portraits is a book shelf containing, "Filmer's Patriarcha / Argu[men]t for Ship Money / Judg[ment] ag[ain]s[t] Hamden / Froit Le Roy / Prerogatives Regli / Grotius English Law"."--British Museum online catalogue and Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of various officials
Alternative Title:
Apparition of a late patriot Chief Justice to a modern prerogative Cane
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate line with loss of last word in title. Title from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Following imprint: Price sixpence., Explanation of numbers applied to persons and objects in the print added below image., Earlier state without plate number. Cf. No. 4143 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Royal Exchange -- See-saws -- Laws & statutes: repeal of the Stamp Act -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Mythology: Minerva -- Mythology: Mercury -- Ships -- Commerce: bales of merchandise -- Reference to the fall of the Rockingham Administration -- Devil -- Gout -- Medical: crutch., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five columns of verse below image: A monkey once as stories say delighted with a cat to play and yet appear'd to public eyes, the sage Grimalkin to despise ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle and white rose of Stuarts -- Royal crown -- Animals -- Pictures amplifying subject: A view of Chatam [sic] -- Pictures amplifying subject: A view of the Isle of Bute -- Scots -- Male dress: Highlander's dress., and Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
publish'd according to act of Parliamt, March 1st, 1743.
Call Number:
743.03.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Subjects identified by numbers placed below and above the print on mounting sheet and explained in the key in upper right. A quote from Horace Walpole's letter to Sir Horace Mann, 18 February 1742, follows below the key., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, and Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Baron, 1692-1749
Title from text etched at top of image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For the appearance of comet, see Gentlemen's magazine, Sept. 1757, p. 392., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below., and Imprint partially burnished from plate.
Publisher:
D.P. according to act [...]
Subject (Geographic):
Halley's comet., Minorca (Spain), Corsica (France), Flanders., and America.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically
Description:
Titles from items., Caption under top design: --well done quoth Whackum., Caption under center design: Mores homines., Two lines of verse below bottom design: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedecks ..., Copies of, nos. 3398, 3493, and 3543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of money -- Pictures amplifying subject: hawk attacking cock -- Newcastle Administration -- Axes -- Signboards: inn sign -- Blazing comet -- Masks -- Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Pictures amplifying subject: EO table -- Clubs: allusion to White's Club -- Animals: sea-lions -- Trades: fishwomen -- Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gallows, and Gambling
Hearts is trump & has won the game and Hearts is trump and has won the game
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '90' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, and Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807 printmaker
Published / Created:
[1756]
Call Number:
756.00.00.14 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
True breed in full cry and Fox and goose
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from an unverified card catalog record., Below imprint: 'Price 6d.', and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pub. by the old fox hunter, Tom Steady, at the sign of the heart of oak in Antigallican Squre [sic]
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from item., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., For a description of another state see no. 3400 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Fall of the Newcastle administration -- Bible: reference to Tophet -- Bible: quotation from Ezra, Chap. vii.v.26, 27 -- Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title etched below image., Reduced and reversed copy of: The lyon entranced. See Stephens., and Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Coffins.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768