Whole play of King Solomon the wise, State puppitt shew, and State puppet show
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Walk in my good masters & see the fine play, which the Devil & Sawney au [sic] shewing away ..., Below verse: Price 6d., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: theater -- Theatrical performances: puppet shows -- Literature: allusion to Elvira by David Mallet -- Reference to excise -- Devil -- Emblems: French monkey with bagpipes., and Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm., mounted again to 38 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Whole play of King Solomon the wise, State puppitt shew, and State puppet show
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Walk in my good masters & see the fine play, which the Devil & Sawney au [sic] shewing away ..., Below verse: Price 6d., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: theater -- Theatrical performances: puppet shows -- Literature: allusion to Elvira by David Mallet -- Reference to excise -- Devil -- Emblems: French monkey with bagpipes., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.3 x 26.5 cm., on sheet 18 x 27 cm., mounted to 35 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, without plate number, of No. 4037 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Dragons -- Demons -- Mythology: Minerva -- Emblems: boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Periodicals: reference to Briton -- Animals: fox -- British Lion -- Medical: syringes -- Amputees -- Taxes: reference to excise -- Personifications: France -- Personifications: Spain., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from original version. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of no. 4056 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Processions: procession of aldermen and City officials from Guildhall to St. James's Palace, May 12, 1763 -- Fleet Street -- Churches: St. Bridge's Church -- Trades: merchants -- Zanies -- Animals: grotesque horses -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: trade emblems -- Prisons: Newgate -- Sir Charles Asgill, d. 1788 -- Sir Thomas Rawlison, d. 1769 -- Robert Alsop, d.1785 -- Marshe Dickinson, d. 1765 -- Sir Henry Bankes, d. 1774 -- Sir Francis Gosling, d. 1768 -- Richard Blunt, d. 1763 -- Sir Thomas Challenor, d. 1766., Watermark., and Mounted to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799, Harrison, Thomas, Sir, 1699 or 1700-1765, and Hodges, James, Sir, d. 1774
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Cf. No. 4038 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Apparitions -- Nightmares -- Interiors: bedroom -- Chamber pots -- Crimes: reference to Ayliffe's forgery -- Reference to Henry Fox's alleged fraud of public money., Trimmed to image; text loss., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Ayliffe, John and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
An etching from a broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762), showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Title supplied from letterpress broadside. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Cf. No. 4009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
A gentleman and lady rush into a room in alarm at the sight of their son sprawled on the ground, having fallen from his rocking-horse
Alternative Title:
Little captain's fall
Description:
Title from item., Description based on imperfect copy; sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of all letterpress text., and Cf. No. 4047 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Title from the broadside edition with verses., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Another state. Cf. No. 4040 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: bed with canopy -- Tripod table -- Trades: quacks -- Medicines: 'Bardana' for gout, 'Waterdock', 'Balsam of honey' -- Diseases: scurvy -- Invalids -- Devil -- Literature: allusion to Macbeth by William Shakespeare., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Title from the print of which this plate is a copy. See Stephens., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Reduced copy, without title and verse, of No. 3817 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: London: Cheapside -- Vehicles: chariot -- Slang: "bruisers," i.e., prizefighters, and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Beckford, William, 1709-1770