Title from item., Artist and printmaker from the original edition in the Attic miscellany, v. 1, p. 16 published under the title "Samsonic Lodge." Cf. British Museum catalogue., Probably from the Carlton House magazine., Restrike of the left side only of No. 7749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: Samsonic Society -- Emblems: beehive as the Samsonic Society's emblem -- Interiors: Pied Horse, Chiswell Street -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Samsonic chairs -- Wooden legs -- Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart., 1735-1807.
"Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly, bust-length, in an oval, in profile to the right, dressed in a chimere over his rochet with a powdered bob-wig on his head and bands about his neck with his Garter badge hanging at his chest."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Benjamin Hoadly, D.D.
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., After a wax model by Isaac Gosset that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Text above image: Engraved for the Universal magazine., Mounted on page 66 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 14.4 x 9.8 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge and text above image from top edge.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Originally published by W. Locke, 1 Feb. 1792, in The attic miscellany?, Plate from: The Carlton House magazine, v. iv, p.391, Jan., 1796?, and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: John Dryden's Fables Ancient and Modern -- Literature: David Garrick's Cymon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828 and McDonald, Samuel, 1762-1802
"Half length portraits of Dr. Willis and Sheridan in close proximity, repeated twice, the doctor being on the extreme left and right, the two Sheridans in the middle. One couple (left) is inscribed 'Sunday', the other (right) 'Saturday'. The doctor in both cases answers a question in a label which projects into the design from an unseen inquirer: 'Doctor, how is your Patient to Day'. On the left he answers with a contented expression: "Better thank God"; his neighbour angrily shouts "Damnation". On the right he has an expression of melancholy anxiety, the head of his cane held to his lip; he answers: "Rather worse - Sir - ". Sheridan, with a satisfied and cunning smile, says, "Ha - ha - rare news"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Possibly by Rowlandson. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Francis Willis, 1718-1807 -- Allusion to regency crisis -- Blue and buff.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 31, 1788 by S. Fores N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the periodical in which the plate appeared., Text above image: Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text above image. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 64., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: staff of liberty -- Weapons -- Masks: bull's head -- Britannia's shield., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty cap, Petitions, Daggers & swords, Axes, Shields, and Masks
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Text above image: Engrav'd for the Political Register., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 5 (1769), p. 55., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: 3rd Regiment Foot Guards -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 1768 -- Furnishings: carpet -- Chains -- Prelate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 and Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Clergy, Shackles, and Guards
"A drunken orgy in a room with mirrors on the wall. Britannia, dressed as a courtesan (right), leans back in a chair, dead drunk, in her right. hand is a wine-bottle. One foot rests on her shield. A man standing behind pours over her the contents of a wine-bottle, in his right. hand he holds out a wine-glass. In the centre is a staggering figure wearing the ribbon and order of the Bath. His pocket is being picked by a plainly dressed man, while another holds his shoulder. Two men aimlessly flourish drawn swords. Another aims a blow with a long pole at a mirror. A courtesan has broken a mirror with a wine-bottle which she is waving in the air. In the background a woman, seated on a man's knee, is picking his pocket. On the floor in the foreground are broken wine-glasses, and a broken punch-bowl inscribed "the Constitution". The explanatory text asks "Who are the greatest drunkards? - Those at the helm - Who set the most glaring examples of adultery, fornication, &c -.."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great ones in a bagnio
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 185., and Temporary local subject terms: Drunkenness -- Prostitutes -- Dishes -- Allusion to the Constitution.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Intoxication, Courtesans, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bowls (Tableware), and Pickpockets
"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.
Portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram, shown bust-length to right within oval frame, eyes to the right, his shoulder-length hair loose, wearing plain, open coat and white necktie; after Hogarth. Below frame, a "frontview of [the] Founding Hospital."
Description:
Title from text in image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature and imprint from bottom edge, and periodical's name and date from top edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1880,1113.4783., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : R. Baldwin, v. 18 (1749), opposite p. 239., "Engrav'd for [the] London magazine 1749"--Above image., and On page 107 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Baldwin Junr. at the Rose in Pater Noster Row