A crowd of Londoners enjoying a variety of activities on the Nore
Description:
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
"Satire on George II's reluctance to accept an inter-party ("Broad-Bottom") government which included Tories suspected of Jacobite sympathies. The king, in the centre. leans across a table crying out, "Hounsfoot me no Stomach him!" as Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, and his brother Henry prepare to cram the Tory John Hinde Cotton into his mouth; Newcastle remarks, "His Bottom's dam'd Broad". Six other former opposition members hoping for office, including Lords Cobham (saying "I'll Protest no more") and Lyttelton ("You are right Cuz"),and William Pitt ("We drive a fine Trade"), lie on a shelf ready to be treated in the same way as Cotton, one of them saying, "Burn the Yellow List." The kings breeches are lowered and he is evacuating Lord Hobart. Others who have presumably emerged in the same manner leave the scene to left complaining that they have been turned out of office. They include Sir John Rushout saying, "Rusht-out with a Fizzle", and, kneeling in the foreground, Lord Winchelsea who has dropped his spectacles, complaining, "Bes[hi]t without a Job". In the foreground to right, stand two other gentlemen address the oppositiion members, one saying "Consider Your Oaths", and the other, holding a large key, "Remember The Healths"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above image., Printmaker George Bickham the Younger and publication date 1744 from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 34 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Buckinghamshire, John Hobart, Earl of, 1693-1756, Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Rushout, John, Sir, 1684-1775, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
Subject (Topic):
Broad-bottom, Politics and government, Defecation, and Politicians
A view of the home of Dr. Batty in Twickenham from across the Thames. Three horses on the shore pull a fishing boat in foreground, a tree to the left. A row boat on the river midfield wtih two other small boats in the distance, up and down stream
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on the dated drawing on which this print is based., and Inscribed on backing: For Mr. Lewis our fairy Godfather on his 76th birthday, with love Becky & Tim More, Nov. 14th, 1971. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Batty, Robert, 1763?-1849
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Boats, Estates, and Landscapes (Representations)
"View looking across Leicester Square to the north, with the equestrian statue of George I in the centre; sedan chairs, carriages and pedestrians passing around square"--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier print of the same composition
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Place de Leicester a Londres
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication based on watermark., Possibly a later copy of a similar print published in 1753. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: 180[...?].
A view of Strawberry Hill as seen through the trees from a perspective on the river, with an empty row boat in the foreground and cows lay on the ground in the pasture along the river. A man stands near the trees on the right
Description:
Title below image., Artist and date from Gascoigne., and Based on a drawing by Samuel Owens, with the addition of a man standing near the trees on the right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 178 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 91 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., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 41.8 x 56.2 cm., Annotation in pencil following title: Engrav'd from a private plate of Mr. Walpole's., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England), England, and Twickenham.
publisch'd [sic] according to act of Parliament, 1753.
Call Number:
Topos L847 no. 24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Douane de Londres et d'une partie de la Tour prise de la Thamise
Description:
Title from caption below image; French title also etched in reverse above image., Possibly a copy of a print with a similar title published in 1753 with the publication line "London, Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles and Son in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Heny. Overton without Newgate." See British Museum online catalogue., "No. 22."--Upper right corner., and "50" written in ink in contemporary hand above plate mark on recto; "16 Serie Mo 4 [?]" written on verso.
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number and possible loss of imprint statement., and Mounted on page 178 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy) and Castles & palaces