"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.
Title etched at top of plate., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer. London, 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text below title: Splendide mendaae. Hor., Probably a book illustration., and Temporary local subject terms: Gulliver, Lemuel (fict.) see Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's travels, 1726.
Title from item., Publisher from O'Donoghue., Publication date inferred from publisher's activity dates., Four lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: How happy could I be with either ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Travesty of The beggar's opera by John Gay (1685-1732) -- Literature: quotation from The beggar's opera -- Beggars: Casey, d. 1772 -- Strabismus., and Imprint erased from this impression.
"Portrait of an unidentified woman, previously known as the Countess of Desmond; an elderly woman shown bust-length directed to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a heavy, dark veil like that of a nun, a dark cloak tied with lacing at the throat and a high, pale collar."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,67.147., Plate from an unidentified edition of Thomas Pennant's A tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX., "Plate VI" etched in upper left corner; "p. 74" etched in upper right corner., Possibly a portrait of Rembrandt's mother; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Mounted on page 112 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 14.6 x 12.2 cm and sheet 1.6 x 12.3 cm., Imperfect; the portion of the plate containing the printmaker's signature has been trimmed away, with the lower portion of the plate containing the title being mounted directly below the upper portion of the plate containing the image., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title engraved below image. and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '10' in mss. With a pencilled note: "No. 13, vol. 2, published." Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Title from caption below image. and With text from an unidentified source mounted at bottom edge: Cent Suisse. Of several Swiss regiments in the French service, those styled, from their number, Cent Suisse, form part of the immediate guard of the King at the Tuileries .... on the right is a carriage containing some of the Royal family, and on the left are seen-- costumes, à la mode in 1820.
"Portrait; head and shoulders to left, with a square-cut beard and moustache, wearing a dark doublet and fur-trimmed gown, collar of the George, and beret, decorated with cameo; illustration to an unidentified publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1853,0112.2122.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, approximately 1484-1545, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)