Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse below image: B**t humbly entreats you will now condescend, to tell at what price he can make you is [sic] friend ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Imps -- Pets: feeding stick for birds -- Literature: allusion to Ossian, by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Literature: allusion to Temora by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Money: bribes -- Allusion to the governorship of Canada., and Watermark: Strasburg lily, with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from the first line of verse on the item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six images in vignettes illustrating verse etched in center of sheet., Twenty lines of verse: King Jesus batters with a heavy rod, his unrelenting, and disloyal foes ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: churches -- Emblems: lamb -- British Lion -- Pagan rites -- Reference to George II., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Title from the inscription within image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bath: Lady Huntingdon's chapel -- Interiors: Lady Huntigdon's chapel, Bath -- Allusion to Durham -- Allusion to Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, 1707-1791 -- Congregations: sleepy congregations -- Sermons -- Lighting: candlelight -- Pocket watches -- Clergy: preaching parson -- Bible: altered quotation from Psalm 39 -- Ear-trumpets -- Allusion to George Whitfield, 1714-1770.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication date of the original print by Gillray, of which this is a reduced copy. Cf. No. 10525 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Attribution following title: Vide le Sage., Plate numbered "110" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 89 in volume 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
"Design in an oval. Used as a frontispiece to second edition (1785) of 'The Westminster Election' and probably designed for it. Britannia seated on a throne (right) raised on three steps holds out a laurel wreath towards the Duchess of Devonshire who is led towards her by the draped figures of Liberty (left) holding the staff and cap of Liberty, and Fame (right) with her trumpet. The British lion lies at Britannia's feet (right) looking over its shoulder at the Duchess."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Liberty and Fame introducing female patriotism to Britannia
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Two lines of quoted text below title: "She smiles - infused with a fortitude from Heaven"! Vide Shakespears Tempest., Frontispiece to: Hartley, J. History of the Westminster election. London : Printed for the editors, and sold by J. Debrett ..., 1785., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Personifications -- Cap of Liberty -- Staff of Liberty -- Musical instruments -- Laurel wreaths -- Ships., and Mounted to 28 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Fame, Lions, Thrones, Wreaths, Liberty cap, and Trumpets
Title from item., Publication date inferred from similar print: Wilkes and liberty, a new song. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. v. 4, no. 4028., and Temporary local subject terms: -- Literature: allusion to Briton, a periodical published by Smollett -- Literature: allusion to the North Briton -- Fighting -- Scots -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Another George has fled this weeping ball , being summon'd hence by Heavens mighty call ..., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Satan -- Popes -- Angels -- Emblems: scales of justice., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat (1667/8-1747), Jacobite conspirator, army officer, and outlaw is shown sitting on a chair in a jail cell (The Tower of London?), his gouty foot raised on a small stool. He has a pen in his hand and on the table beside him rests an open journal and a box with two ink pots
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from dealer's description., Six numbered stanzas of verse below title: I. When first the proud Scotchmen rebell'd ..., Text at bottom of plate: Tis conjectur'd by some that this rhetorical apology of old nurses will meet with the desired effect ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, inferred from other prints on Lord Bute's installation in 1762., Number '6' in title printed in reverse., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Witches" Macbethian witches -- Mythology: Medusa's head -- Literature: altered quotation from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, i.2.80 -- Secret influence -- Emblems: thistle for Scotland., Watermark: Pro patria on the right side of the sheet; countermark G R on the left., and Title written over in contemporary hand.