Depicts on the right the German dancing master Jansen playing the fiddle, as his pupil faces him with raised right arm and hat in left hand, a smaller youth standing sleepily on the left
Alternative Title:
Maitre de ballet allemand
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 5th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
With the Tower of London visible in the background, a quack doctor on a platform holds up a bottle of medicine before a small crowd of city folk, as his assistant passes out handbills. Among the crowd is a carter with his whip, a chimney sweep's boy, and an obese woman. On the platform behind the doctor are several invalids, including a man with a crutch. A sign attached to the platform reads "Doctor Van Cheatall."
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Numbered "11" in plate., and Probably an earlier version of no. 6757 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Sick persons, Quacks, Clothing & dress, Crowds, and City & town life
A scene with a 22 member parliamentary committee examining the conduct of Christopher Atkinson (a.k.a. Savile), employed by the Navy Victualling Board and accused of malfeasance. All the figures are numbered, and Atkinson stands at the right. Other identifiable figures include the chairman Samuel Whitbread (no. 1), Bamber Gascoyne and Montague Burgoyne
Alternative Title:
V Committee framing a report and Victualling Committee framing a report
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with the undescore line following V removed from title., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper ; sheet 25 x 36 cm., and Mounted to 29 x 46 cm with Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to Act of Parliament Augt. 12th, 1782, by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Savile, Christopher, approximately 1739-1819, Whitbread, Samuel, 1720-1796, Gascoyne, Bamber, 1725-1791, and Burgoyne, Montagu, 1750-1836
A scene with a 22 member parliamentary committee examining the conduct of Christopher Atkinson (a.k.a. Savile), employed by the Navy Victualling Board and accused of malfeasance. All the figures are numbered, and Atkinson stands at the right. Other identifiable figures include the chairman Samuel Whitbread (no. 1), Bamber Gascoyne and Montague Burgoyne
Alternative Title:
V Committee framing a report and Victualling Committee framing a report
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with the undescore line following V removed from title., and This impression printed on pale blue paper.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to Act of Parliament Augt. 12th, 1782, by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Savile, Christopher, approximately 1739-1819, Whitbread, Samuel, 1720-1796, Gascoyne, Bamber, 1725-1791, and Burgoyne, Montagu, 1750-1836
Image depicts a 22-member parliamentary committee examining the conduct of Christopher Atkinson (a.k.a. Savile), employed by the Navy Victualling Board and accused of malfeasance. All the figures are numbered, and Atkinson stands at the right. Other identifiable figures include the chairman Samuel Whitbread (no. 1), Bamber Gascoyne and Montague Burgoyne
Alternative Title:
Victualling Committee framing a report
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from description in the British Museum catalogue of a later state., On one sheet with letterpress broadside song, The committee : a new song for the year 1782. First line: I. All you, who would guess at the word call'd committee ..., Probably an early state, with underscore line following V present in title, of a plate from which this line was later removed. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6021., and Watermark with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to Act of Parliament Augt. 12th, 1782, by C. Atkinson, and sold in Mark Lane ...
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Savile, Christopher, ca. 1739-1819, Whitbread, Samuel, 1720-1796, Gascoyne, Bamber, 1725-1791, and Burgoyne, Montagu, 1750-1836
An E.O. or roulette table lies broken in the street as four men attack it with mallets and other tools. Two attackers, the Bow Street magistrates Addington and Wright, are depicted with donkey's heads. Three constables are also shown, one attempting to stop the violence, the other two joining in the attack. A commentary on the enforcement of anti-gaming laws
Alternative Title:
Westminster just-asses a braying and Downfall of the E.O. table
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Text below title: NB. The jack-asses are to be indemnified for all the mischief they do, by the bulls & bears of the city.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 26th, 1782, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Addington, William, Sir, -1811, Wright, Sampson, Sir, -1793, and Bond, John, active 1782
Subject (Topic):
Vandalism, Donkeys, Judges, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
The five powers involved in peace negotiations in Paris each stand on their tiny island in the sea. On the left George III says "I gave them independence." Next to him is a caricatured figure representing France, with the left arm cut off. "I must have Canada and Grenada for my Arm." Beside France a caricatured Dutchman bemoans the loss of his foot, and Spain in turn demands Gibraltar for his leg. On the far right America in the form of a female Indian announces "I have got all I wanted - Empire!." Above the scene Hibernia floats on a cloud saying "I deny all foreign jurisdictions..."
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A probable earlier issue of no. 6051 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Mounted to 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by W Richardson N 68 High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, History, Amputees, and Clothing & dress
A fox (representing Charles James Fox) holding a quill pen in the right paw, approaches a platform on the left, upon which is seated a pug dog with a tobacco pipe (representing Holland). Beneath the pug's paw is a document (representing Fox's spurned peace overtures). On the right the head of the King is visible admonishing Fox against such negotiations with the Dutch
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Barrow, July [the] 25, 1782. No. 11 St. Bride Passage Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Netherlands., Netherlands, Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
A winged female figure flying among clouds shines her "Mirror of Truth" on members of the old ministry (including Sandwich, Rigby, North, Mansfield, and Germain) who fall into a pit occupied by demons, observed from above by Bute who rides on the back of a witch. To the left the members of the new ministry (Thurlow, Conway, Camden, Barré, Burke, the Duke of Richmond, Rockingham, and Fox) look on, as does Britannia seated in the lower left corner
Alternative Title:
Exhibition of ministers for April 1782
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Witches, and Clothing & dress