"Erskine stands in profile to the left; he bends forward, resting both hands on the table of the House of Commons, part of which is visible on the left. His half-closed eyes give him an almost imbecile expression ..."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Title devised by cataloger., Subject identified from: The courteous baronet, or, The Windsor advertiser. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9446., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Windsor Castle.
Satire on Sir Robert Fagge, M.P. for Steyning, Susses and a Baronet, showing him on a poor-conditioned, thin horse offering a coin to a country woman in exchange for eggs that she carries in a basket
Description:
Title from published state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., For possible Hogarth attribution see: Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself. London : J.B. Nichols and son, 1833, p. 312., Cf. No. 2023 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Annotated on verso in an unidentified hand: original state., and Title, "Sr. R. Fagg & the Gypsy," added in an unidentified hand below image.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson, print seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane
"Lewes, in profile to the right, sits astride a ram which is eating a bunch of grapes. Across the plate is etched: 'The Lordly Knight, The Coalition bite, Now takes the earliest hour To taste the grapes, - before they're sour.' Beneath the design is etched: 'Here I am, Riding upon a black ram, Like a Whore as I am: And for my Crincum, Crancum, Have lost my Bincum Bancum; So pray Mr P-tt, give me my place again.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen: London -- Black ram: custom of riding -- Allusion to Lord Delaval (as an artist) -- Political grapes.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark (plate mark 18.7 x 23.8 cm.) on top and sides., Imprint etched below image: London, Pubd. July 7, 1791 by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., Letterpress caption title "To Mr. Holland" printed below the plate., Song purported to have been written by the boys of Westminster school upon the death of Anna Davis., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: ... of whom may be had, lately published, ... [list of print titles]., Variant of no. 8002 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: beds -- Chairs -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furnishings: chamber pots -- Women: old maids -- Schoolboys -- Birds: cockrels -- Spectacles -- Books -- Female costume: stays., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Sixteen men are seated at an oval table in Windsor arm-chairs smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes, drinking from glasses and tankards, and engaging in conversation. The figures include Lord George Gordon, William Holland, William Lloyd, Thomas Townley Macan, James Ridgway, Henry Delahay, Charles Pigott, Daniel Holt, Daniel Isaac Eaton, William Williams, Doctor Watson, and Joseph Gerald. On the far right a female servant brings in fresh tobacco pipes and a bottle and the walls include various prints and pictures including landscapes, 'three witches addressing Macbeth', and satires
Description:
Title and date based on Newton's aquatint print after this image. and Later published aquatint described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8339.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, George, 1741-1779, Holland, William, active 1782-1817, Macan, T. T. (Thomas Townley), Ridgway, James, Symonds, H. D. (Henry Delahoy), Pigott, Charles, -1794, Holt, Daniel, and Eaton, Daniel Isaac, -1814
Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
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Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject headings: Military uniforms: Scottish uniforms -- Military camps.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hopetoun, James Hope Johnstone, Earl of, 1741-1816
Title assigned by cataloger., Place and date of publication conjectured from imprint of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Numbered "81" in lower right of plate., and Temporary local subject headings: Military uniforms: Scottish uniforms -- Military camps.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hopetoun, James Hope Johnstone, Earl of, 1741-1816
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Numbered '129' in lower right of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.