A nightwatchman in a coat with a cape calls out as he walks down a city street with a lantern and club in his hands; a lamppost is lit on the corner
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Mounted with 5 other prints in the series on blue album paper., "Daily paper"--Upper right corner., "Pt. 6"--Upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 December 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 69. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of men standing outside a dilapidated building, part of which is visible on the right. One, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, holds in his left hand a torn paper on which parts of words are visible: "[Pet]itio[n] ... [Fr]eehold[rs] . . . Minist[ry] . . ." His right forefinger is extended as if laying down the law to his companions. On his right stands a man holding his chin with an expression of deep thought. In his right hand is (?) a turncock. Next him (left) is an artisan, listening intently, his breeches unfastened at the knee, his stockings ungartered; he holds a short hammer and is probably a shoemaker. Behind (right) a man wearing a waistcoat over a ruffled shirt, but no coat, lounges against the stump of a tree and listens open-mouthed. On the top of the stump is an open dish of food which a dog is eating, his head twisted backwards in a peculiar manner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Bunbury in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of text below image, two on either side of title: The rabble gather round the man of news and listen with their mouths. Some tell, some hear, some judge of news, some make it, and he that lyes most loud is most beleiv'd [sic]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted on page 69 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 25.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs 10th December 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
LWL 49 2528B: Bound in blue morocco. One MS. corr. (p. 34), LWL 49 2528B: Horace Walpole's copy--the one kept in the Beauclerc closet to explain Lady Diana Beauclerk's drawings.--cf. Horace Walpole's note; 1784 Description, p. 79., LWL 49 2528B: xviii. 31 in Strawberry Hill sale. Later owners include Col. George Lionel Dawson-Damer; Col. John Aldridge., LWL 49 2528B: Thorpe, Sept. 1944., and The copy in blue morocco kept with Lady Di's drawings in the Beauclerk Closet. When Horace Walpole described the Beauclerk Closet in detail in the Description of the Villa, 1784, he recorded a copy of the Mysterious Mother kept in a drawer of the writing table, 'bound in blue leather and gilt.' On a flyleaf of the book he wrote: 'This copy is to be kept in the Beauclerck CIoset to explain Lady Di's drawings. H.W.' Mr. H.M. Nixon believes this was bound by the man who bound the presentation copy of Wood's Essay on Homer.
Other editions attributed to Richard King, a pseudonym. Cf. Nos. N50050 in English short title catalogue., Other editions published in 1771 and 1772. See English short title catalogue and Gentleman's Magazine, v. 41, issue 561., In square brackets, following imprint: Price. Two shillings., Not in ESTC., and Inlaid and bound to 35 cm. Dated in mss. on t.p. "1760". Copiously extra-illustrated with prints and clippings.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster Row ; T. Lewis, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden ; R. Mariner, Compton-Street, Soho; and T. Shepherd, No. 147, in the Minories
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 1825.
Call Number:
825.11.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A hand projects from the upper margin, holding the ornate beam of a pair of scales against the irradiated inscription Mene mene--Tekel, &c. [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10072, &c.]. One scale (left) is filled by a large melon from which a slice has been cut, and by a paper: One Million Sterling!! The scale is inscribed The times are Rank Hamlet. This slightly outweighs the other scale which is filled by a ducal coronet and papers: Lt R. N--; Duke E[ar]l Baron; Earl of--; Hery Grd Falconer; Chany; Nell Gwynn!; Hery Regr Chancery! The scale is inscribed A Pledge of Better Times."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Thomas Howell Jones by Andrew Edmunds. A questionable artist attribution to Henry Heath is given in the British Museum catalogue; an additional printmaker attribution to Robert Cruikshank is given in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.8674., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Text below title: I will venture "Coute qui Coute".
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849. and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837.
A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises 'as practised by His Majesty's Army'. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: 'Manual Exercise' in eight steps, which involves the fixing and use of bayonets but with no firing or reloading; and 'Platoon Exercise' in ten steps, including the firing of muskets and subsequent reloading. Each dissected panel features two steps, with the three remaining panels containing the 'Position of an Officer' and '3 Ranks. Make Ready', the decorated title vignette, and ''3 Ranks. Present - Fire' alongside a detailed schematic of a musket, in both assembled and disassembled forms. Engraved after the work of English artist and printmaker Robert Dighton, this guide was issued at the beginning of the most acute stage of the first Napoleonic invasion scare and sold folded in a slipcase
Description:
Title and imprint statement from plate., With original marbled paper-covered slipcase with two printed labels: one bearing the same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard" and the other label with an advertisement "Just published" and a description of Bowles's New four-sheet maps., Printed label with same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on linen., and Case only. Plate shelved as: 795.01.02.01+
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military education, Military training, and British
A military-drill aid, dissected into twelve panels, providing a step-by-step pictorial guide to basic infantry exercises 'as practised by His Majesty's Army'. The whole consists of two separate evolutions: 'Manual Exercise' in eight steps, which involves the fixing and use of bayonets but with no firing or reloading; and 'Platoon Exercise' in ten steps, including the firing of muskets and subsequent reloading. Each dissected panel features two steps, with the three remaining panels containing the 'Position of an Officer' and '3 Ranks. Make Ready', the decorated title vignette, and ''3 Ranks. Present - Fire' alongside a detailed schematic of a musket, in both assembled and disassembled forms. Engraved after the work of English artist and printmaker Robert Dighton, this guide was issued at the beginning of the most acute stage of the first Napoleonic invasion scare and sold folded in a slipcase
Description:
Title and imprint statement from plate., With original marbled paper-covered slipcase with two printed labels: one bearing the same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard" and the other label with an advertisement "Just published" and a description of Bowles's New four-sheet maps., Printed label with same title and imprint statement "London: Printed for the proprietors, Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on linen., and Case shelved as: 63 N532 795.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Military education, Military training, and British
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Bradwell, W., active 1815-1825., and Covent Garden Theatre.