Title from and illustration to the accompanying ballad, engraved on separate plate but printed on the same sheet below the image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Four stanzas of a ballad engraved on a separate plate, printed below the image: I. Of all the fools who've lately writ, / To show the Town they wanted wit ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Animals: zebra -- Putti -- Song-writes -- Ballad-singers., Watermark: countermark L V G., and Mounted to 34 x 41 cm.
Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '4' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: A maxim this tho vice first thrives / It seldom lasts th [sic] offenders lives ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of no. 3488 in the Cat. of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Justice and figure of Liberty -- British Lion.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
"A version of British Museum Satires No. 1231 with the additon of, to left behind the pulpit, a table on which lies a bag from which fall a bishop's mitre, papal tiara, cross, orb, broken sceptre and a divided crown, and at the foot of the pulpit, an open copy of the Book of Common Prayer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below image: A true blew priest a Lincey Woolsey brother ..., and Subject identified in pencil below plate line.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Bags, Pulpits, Miters, Scepters, Crowns, and Wash tubs
On the left the ghost of Samuel Johnson, in a great swirl of billowing clouds, appears before a startled James Boswell, right hand raised in alarm, who is seated at a table strewn with papers and remnants. In his hand he holds a cushion labeled "Hebrides." Behind him on the wall are two shelves of books, many of which are identified by author and title, or numbered, perhaps a reference to his journals that were the basis of his Life of Samuel Johnson. Below the shelves is a framed portrait of Boswell. A quotation from William Congreve's The Way of the World, Act iv, Scene 9 is engraved below the image
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Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse from "Congreve's Way of the world, Act IV, Scene 9", below title, beginning: Thou art a retailer of phrases ..., and A later copy of No. 8281 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Title from Horace Walpole's manuscript identification below plate., Publication date inferred from: A. Pond's Collection of early caricatures engraved from the works of Pietro Leone Chezzi and others., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides and at the bottom except for the area of Walpole's identification of subject., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature head and shoulders in profile looking right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Subject and printmaker identified by Horace Walpole on his impression in: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq., and after his designs. [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792], v. 1, page 9 (Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature head and shoulders in profile looking right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Subject and printmaker identified by Horace Walpole on his impression in: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq., and after his designs. [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792], v. 1, page 9 (Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on page 9 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 13.1 x 8.2 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink below plate mark: Dr. Goldsmith, drawn & etched by Mr. Bunbury.
"George III rides Pegasus, and is about to be thrown; both arms are raised in consternation. Another man (? Wolcot) falls head downwards from the horse; his wig has fallen off and he has dropped a roll of MS. Behind the plunging heels of the animal Harlequin (right) flourishes his club."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier proof state
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Title, printmaker, and date from description of proof state in the British Museum catalogue., For a proof state before "Ode for new year" lettering added to the roll of paper within image, see no. 7188 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Ode upon ode, or, Peep at St. James's ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1787], Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Personification -- Mythology -- Pindar's Ode for a new year.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Pegasus (Greek mythology), Falling, and Wigs
"The King (right), standing in profile to the left, holds out to Peter a rolled document inscribed 'Pension'. Peter, a thin elderly man, turns away, holding out both hands to ward off the gift. From his pocket projects a paper inscribed 'Odes'. Both wear bag-wigs, and old-fashioned dress with flapped waistcoats; the King wears a sword."-- British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ah! let me Sire refuse it, I implore, ought not to be rich whilst you are poor
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title from text below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue, Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's pension. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Wolcot, John, 1738-1819
"The Prince of Orange in old-fashioned uniform, heavily gold-laced, stands in profile to the left, looking up, both hands resting on a tall cane. He wears a cocked hat, long pigtail, aiguillettes, a star, a long sword, and clumsy jack-boots. He has not the heavy somnolent appearance of Gillray's portraits, cf. British Museum Satires No. 9065, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from British Museum catalogue., Possible signature "D12[?]" in lower right, partly scored through. The British Museum catalogue gives a tentative attribution to either Denis or Richard Dighton., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Leaf 78 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.