"A Welshman shown half-length seated looking towards the viewer, with left elbow on a table beside pipe, glass and carafe to right, pointing at his goat whose head appears to left, wearing plain coat over pale waist-coat, short powdered wig and broad brimmed hat to which a leek has been strapped."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Welch-man and his goat and Welshman and his goat
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Purchased from British Museum in 2010. Cf. British Museum number 2010,7081.2185., No. 16 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below title: In vain to hard'ned vice your wrongs you'll plead / There is but one who will those wrongs redress ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3392 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Addresses: 'Western Address' to George II, 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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. 7308 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 46 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Saint James's Palace (London, England), Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of, 1751-1799, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
An elderly man in a top hat sits with his arms crossed and his eyes closed, as he sits in Parliament. The text below: We live hardly anywhere else than in St. Stephen's. Speech of D.W. Harvey, Esq
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Title from item., Publication place and date from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Westminster Magazine. London : Printed for W. Goldsmith, v. 2 (1774) , p. 168., and Temporary local subject terms: Bills: five intolerable acts -- Allusion to Boston tea party -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- America as a red Indian -- Water pumps.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794
Title above first two columns., In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Verse begins: "Lovers I beg lend an ear to this story,"., In this edition the initial word "The" is captialized., Mounted on leaf 79. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados
Subject (Topic):
Love poetry, Parent and child, Cruelty, Merchants, Murder, Sailors, Ghosts, Letter writing, and Man-woman relationships
A stern-looking schoolmaster stands at a student's desk pointing the alphabet in a school book. The desk has been defaced with a stick-figure and the name Jack Smith. The school-master has a switch on his right-hand, raised ready to be used
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
An accountant in spectacles shown half length sitting behind a desk as he studies the open on the table; another "Day Book" is propped up behind him on the right, beneath a stack of invoices on a spindle on a rail. On the wall behind a bird cage are posted two sheets: "Coals for distr[...] poor ..." and "Ship Argus ..." Also on the desk is an inkwell; the pen is poked behind his right ear
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Birdcages, Business people, and Offices
In three columns with title centered above; the columns are separated by simple rules., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Anonymous. By Peter Pindar, i.e John Wolcot., Verse begins: "A London taylor (as 'tis said),"., Cf. No. T225396 in ESTC., Mounted on leaf 2. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of caption in verse below image: Here happy Britain tells her joyfull [sic] tales ..., See British Museum catalogue no. 3042., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: library -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Papal bulls -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Culloden, 1746 -- Furniture: rococco table -- Male dress: Highlander's dress, ca. 1746., and Annotated on verso: From Ld. B Album, p. 54.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746