List of the pedigrees of some eminent turkeys shortly to appear in public
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Title from item., Five images of turkeys arranged vertically on left of plate, each enclosed in a border and accompanied by description to its right., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '25' in upper right corner., and Mounted to 18 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Oct. 28, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Strand
An image of an elaborately engraved helmet with chain, with allegorical figures
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Title from caption below image., Publication information from that of the volume., and Plate from: Historical and literary curiosities: consisting of fac-similes of original documents ... / selected and engraved by Charles John Smith. London: Henry G. Bohn ..., 1840.
Title from caption etched above image., One line of text below image: Alteration and oh-economy., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-5 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: royal kitchens -- Cooks -- Scullion -- Clergy -- Scots -- Animals: cat -- Vermin: rats -- Cooking hearths -- Wind., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
The scene is the interior of a gothic church, with a view of part of a lateral gallery, the tower arch, and west door (on the right). The foreground and the gallery are filled with couples, in general elderly, ugly, and fashionably dressed, in conversation or bowing to each other. An unicorn on a monument holding an escutcheon is conspicuous. On the right the congregation is crowding towards the open door
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Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 80' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Year in imprint erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Clothing & dress, Couples, Interiors, and Monuments
"A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner., Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 82' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: thatched overhang -- Old Maiden Head -- Elizabeth I.
Title from item., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., An engraved letter in form of rebus, addressed to the Duke of Bedford on his appointment as Ambassador to France in 1762., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the years 1762 and 63. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to land tax -- Reference to Lord Bute., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '48' in upper right corner of design., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Gibbets., and Munted to 17 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title etched above image., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., Plate numbered: 49., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.', and Mounted to 31 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774