Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Text above image: Engrav'd for the Political Register., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 55., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: 3rd Regiment Foot Guards -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 1768 -- Furnishings: carpet -- Chains -- Prelate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 and Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Clergy, Shackles, and Guards
"A drunken orgy in a room with mirrors on the wall. Britannia, dressed as a courtesan (right), leans back in a chair, dead drunk, in her right. hand is a wine-bottle. One foot rests on her shield. A man standing behind pours over her the contents of a wine-bottle, in his right. hand he holds out a wine-glass. In the centre is a staggering figure wearing the ribbon and order of the Bath. His pocket is being picked by a plainly dressed man, while another holds his shoulder. Two men aimlessly flourish drawn swords. Another aims a blow with a long pole at a mirror. A courtesan has broken a mirror with a wine-bottle which she is waving in the air. In the background a woman, seated on a man's knee, is picking his pocket. On the floor in the foreground are broken wine-glasses, and a broken punch-bowl inscribed "the Constitution". The explanatory text asks "Who are the greatest drunkards? - Those at the helm - Who set the most glaring examples of adultery, fornication, &c -.."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great ones in a bagnio
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 185., and Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Prostitutes -- Dishes -- Allusion to the Constitution.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Intoxication, Courtesans, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bowls (Tableware), and Pickpockets
"Two groups of persons who are candidates for the place of hangman. Inscribed labels issue from the persons of four of them. Two men sit side by side on a settee, wearing curiously shaped crowns or coronets, one (left) shaped like a wall. The former holds a paper inscribed "To J------e G------m" showing that he is Justice Gillam, who ordered the soldiers to fire on the Wilkite mob outside the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768 (see British Museum Satires No. 4201). He says: "Everyone knows my abilities as a Man-killer". His companion says: "Let the Place be held by Commission and let the two Kennedies & my self, be Lords Commissioners of the Rope". Behind, and to the left of the settee three persons stand together: A rough-looking man, flourishing a stick says: "I wont accept of ye Office without a Peerage to Support its Dignity". Next him is a Judge in wig and robes. On the right., their backs to a window, stand three men; Sir Fletcher Norton in his Speaker's robes, and the horns which indicate that he is 'Sir Bullface Double Fee', see British Museum Satires No. 4238, 4462, and index, says: "B------n S------h has spoil'd ye Trade, if Murderers were to be hang'd ye Place might be worth acceptce". He stands between the two Kennedy brothers and is alluding to the reprieve (for transportation) of one of them, the other having been acquitted. "B------n S------h" may be intended for Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, a baron of the Exchequer. This reprieve was for the murder of a watchman in a drunken brawl, and was believed to be due to the influence of the young men's sister, Polly or Kitty Kennedy, see 1935,0522.2.2 and British Museum Satires No., 4463. It was made a political question by Parson Horne and others, see Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George IV', 1845, iv. 110-11; Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 185. 1770."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Probably an illustration in The Oxford magazine, v. 4, page 113., Temporary local subject terms: Law: judge -- Law: speaker -- Emblems: crown of the City of London -- Furnishings: settee -- Paddle -- Hangmen: Tom Turlis -- Kennedy Brothers' reprieve -- Matthew Kennedy -- Patrick Kennedy -- Justice Samuel Gillam, Magistrate of Surrey, 1715-1793? -- Nicknames: Sir Bullface Double-fee (i.e., Sir Fletcher Norton)., and Mounted to 13 x 18 cm.
Portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram, shown bust-length to right within oval frame, eyes to the right, his shoulder-length hair loose, wearing plain, open coat and white necktie; after Hogarth. Below frame, a "frontview of [the] Founding Hospital."
Description:
Title from text in image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature and imprint from bottom edge, and periodical's name and date from top edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1880,1113.4783., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : R. Baldwin, v. 18 (1749), opposite p. 239., "Engrav'd for [the] London magazine 1749"--Above image., and On page 107 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Baldwin Junr. at the Rose in Pater Noster Row
Title from time., Publication date based on the Gentleman's magazine's account of a chess match played by Philidor in the presence of the Turkish ambassador, February 23, 1794., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Turkish ambassador -- Clubs: Parsloe's Chess Club-- Furniture: chairs -- Furnishings: framed pictures -- Picture frames -- Male costume, ca. 1794.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Philidor, F. D. 1726-1795. (François Danican),
Subject (Topic):
Blindfolds, Chess, Clubs, Dogs, Fire screens, and Fireplaces
"Satire: a group of four fashionably dressed men drinking milk supplied by a fat lady from her ass, with a man pointing and laughing behind her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to a dialog: The city macaronies drinking asses milk, at the Lacteum, in St. George's Fields., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 177., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Donkeys, Milk, and Signs (Notices)
"Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who takes his left hand and points with his right to other brokers on the right who watch the entry, some with dismay, others with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stock-brokers outwitted, Stockbrokers outwitted, and Chevalier D'Eon returned
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Date in British Museum catalogue as: 1 September 1771., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 56., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
Title from item., Publication place inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1768)?, Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: tables., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808,
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 24 cm
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables
"A party of revellers gathered in a cosy room by a fireplace, under the jolly gaze of the slightly grotesque hosts who sit grinning at centre, looking out to the viewer; the forfeit has just been announced that a young countryman ('Ralph Jones') should kiss the candlestick; a young woman stands holding a candle at left, impersonating the said object, while Ralph fervently kisses the actual candlestick at right, watched by a laughing young woman, a thin man wearing glasses and a young boy, who are standing around a table with glasses and punch-bowl; behind at left, the 'long-nosed clergyman' is locked in an embrace with the 'snub-nosed old maid'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as either G.M. Woodward or Samuel Collings in the British Museum online catalogue., Listed without description with other prints from The wit's magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6885., Temporary local subject terms: Games: "Kiss the candlestick"., and Mounted to 21 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Bowls (Tableware), Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Holidays, Kissing, Mirrors, and Tables