"Satire on the election for County Durham, 14 April 1784: Sir Thomas Clavering and Sir John Upton, one headless, holding a caption labelled 'The Irish Faction for ever' and carrying the other, who has no feet, on his back, who says 'I serv'd you as long as I could stand' and carries captions lavelled 'Coal owners Bill' and 'A command in India'; both seated on an ass facing left, which brays 'Thus I go to Parliament and am not the first Ass that has farted for preferment, but this is dirty work and hard Labour' and which has a collar labelled 'I speak for my Master / Populus me sibilat at plaudo ipse domi' and strips at the saddle labelled 'Curse all Pitts / But a Coal-Pitt'; with the ass' droppings falling on a crest with the motto 'Diem Perdidi'; a mitre, crozier and sword and label 'At rest' on the ground in the centre, playing cards and papers labelled 'Turnpike Speech / Election Speech' to left; a milestone to right labelled 'From Durham / T: C / J: E / 14 April 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Northern ass
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to W. Hutchinson from annotation on verso of British Museum impression. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1014.456., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark in the center of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Clavering, Thomas, Sir, 1719-1794, Eden, John, Sir, 1740-1812, and Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Donkeys, Defecation, Traffic signs & signals, Miters, Crosiers, Daggers & swords, and Playing cards
Title from text below image., Date of publication suggested in dealer's description., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
A broadside illustrated with engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at top of sheet followed by 29 lines of letterpress text mourning the death of the Charlotte on November 6th, 1817
Description:
Title from beginning of letterpress text., Portraits at top have the engraved captions "Princess Charlotte" and "Prince Leopold.", Biographical details immediately above lower border., "Price one shilling."--Below lower border., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
published not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
The author of the epilogue is identified in editions of the full play as Miles Peter Andrews., The epilogue is to "Speculation", by Frederick Reynolds; the play was first performed and printed in 1795., Verse begins: "The drama done, permit us now to say"., In one column with the title centered above; no ornamental type present on sheet., The text printed here varies in a number of places from that in printed editions of the full play., Mounted on leaf 21. 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.
The device is printed above the title and signed: Thos. Mitchell inv. et del. ; I. Russel sculp., Incorporated within the device: "Philoinvestigists Society Aug. 1781.", In one column with etching and title centered above and enclosed in ornamental border., Text within design: Study to follow natures laws from each effect to trace its cause; nature and art a fund supplies to make men moral good and wise., Also known as "Hampstead Philoinvestigists Society"; founded as a philanthropic organization., Mounted on leaf 23. 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.
"Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe, full-length, in profile to the left, seated on a stool with his legs crossed at the sale of Dr. Johnson's books, with a walking stick in his hand, reading a book, with a tricorne over his long curling wig, dressed in an elegant frockcoat and breeches, a sword at his waist."--British Museum online catalogue and Full-length portrait of James Oglethorpe, English general and philanthropist, seated, in left profile
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "Publishd. Septr. 9, 1785, by I. Cary, No. 188, Strand", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,0406.58., Date of publication inferred from 1823 watermark., Picture caption, printed under image: Died 30th June 1785 Aged 102 said to be the oldest General in Europe - Sketch'd from life at the sale of Dr. Johnsons books Feby. 18, 1785 where the Genl. was reading a book he had purchas'd without spectacles - In 1706 he had an Ensigns commission in the Guards & remember'd to have shot snipes in Conduit mead where Conduit Street now stands., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 368., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.5 x 16.5, on sheet 27 x 20.8 cm., Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., and Bound in as page 42 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world. London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785,
Subject (Topic):
Stools, Staffs (Sticks), Books, Reading, and Daggers & swords
Title from item., Handbill, on card stock., Verso blank., Printed card advertising a Regency private theatrical performance. A location of London is suggested by the identity of one of the performers. "Mrs. Weippart," Penelope Weippert, née Blane (-1846), wife of John Michael Weippart (1775-1831), harpist, was a professional actress connected with the Theatre Royal on the Strand., Signed at the end: Stage carpenter, Mr. Riordan., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Colman, George, 1762-1836.
Caption title., A report on a speech of Lord Brougham, who led Queen Caroline’s defence during her trial at the House of Lords between August and November 1820., First line: This day her Majesty did not arrive in St. James's-square till twelve o-clock ..., and Partially edge-mounted. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
H. Ruff, printer
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.