On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The caricatured audience, plebeian in its appearance, along with the subject of an upcoming debate announced on the side of the rostrum, further ridicule this well-known debating society
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image. and Cf. No. 6331 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 1st 1752.
Call Number:
752.06.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 'Price 6d. plain. Colour'd 1s.', Three columns of text below image: It is impossible to trace the origins of the above society, tho we imagine they first took the name of Robin Hood from their shootting [sic] with long bows ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Debating societies: The Robin Hood Society -- Allusion to trades -- Male dress, 1752 -- Writing implements: quill and inkwell -- Hammer -- Food: loaves of bread -- Furniture: table -- Benches -- Lighting: chandeliers -- Candlesticks -- Containers: tankard with lid -- Watches -- Butcher Row -- Trades: shoemakers -- Butchers -- Customs -- Books -- Humpbacks.
"Portrait, half-length, facing front, facing and looking to front, wearing a cap trimmed with lace, a dress with large sleeves, lace at the cuffs, and broad skirts, drawing together a lace-trimmed scarf around her neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honourable Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend
Description:
Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Carle Vanloo; see British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from lower edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1885,0509.1546., Mounted on page 162 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Three-quarter length portrait of Maria Constantia, wife of Henry Howard, the 12th Earl of Suffolk, at the age of 23, the year before her death
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable Maria Constantia
Description:
Lettered below the image, on a second plate, with the title, a crest bearing the motto 'Nous Maintien Drons', and "C. Read Pinxt. / J. Watson fecit / AD: 1766 AE: 23"., A coat of arms appears in the center in the caption area with motto: "Nous maintiendrons.", Watermark: illegible watermark (3 lines) towards bottom of sheet., and Matted to 62 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Maria Constantia, Countess of, b. 1743 or 44-1767
"Portrait of Bishop William Beveridge, three-quarter length, seated to right in an armchair, looking towards the viewer, holding a pen in his right hand and a book on a table with the left, wearing ecclesiastical robes; coat of arms below image; proof illustration to an unidentified publication; after Benjamin Ferrers."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Reverend Father in God William Beveridge D.D.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's name., Text below title: No more of frail mortality complain ... read ere his works, and they will lead you on., Date of publication and printmaker's name from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1920,1211.1685., and Mounted on sheet: 38.8 x 27.5 cm.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Rt. hondle. catch singers, Rt. honble. catch singers, and Right honorable catch singers
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 6225 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 54 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '76' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Inscription below image: Mene tekel., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Copy in reverse of No. 3676 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: scales of Justice.
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, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Adolf Fredrik, King of Sweden, 1710-1771, Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 1713-1759, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, 1728-1793
Title, imprint and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title and imprint., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Clergy: bishops.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bilson-Legge, Henry, 1708-1764, and Hume-Campbell, Alexander, 1708-1760
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "Will you hear of a Spanish lady,"., In four columns with the title above the first two columns and the woodcut above the first; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 50. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Spain
Subject (Topic):
Unrequited love, Sailors, Man-woman relationships, and Foreign relations
Ven. and Rt. Rev. Charles Walmesley and Venerable and Right Reverend Charles Walmesley
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication must be after the death date of the sitter, which is included in the text below image., Probably an illustration to a book or periodical., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.