"Pitt sits astride a huge pile of bundles strapped to the back of a bull (John Bull); he is about to enter a high archway inscribed 'Trea[sury]'. His pose and expression combine jauntiness with dignity. His head is in profile to the right, his right hand on his hip, he wears a large bag to his wig, and while pressing his hat under his left arm holds the (slack) reins of the bull; his long thin leg hangs considerably above the bull's back, owing to the height of the bundles. The sturdy bull, though with downcast head and closed eyes, is not weighed down with his burden. Dundas (right), in Highland dress, marches grinning in front of the bull, playing the bagpipes which are inscribed 'Union Pipes' and have a transparent bag filled with coins. The bull's burden consists of ten superimposed bundles, inscribed with figures relating to the Loyalty Loan. Some of these are '50 000!, 30 000!, East India Company 2 000 000!!!, Duke of Queensbury 100-000!, 100 000!, Pit[t] D. dass 10000 [partly obscured by Pitt's foot], 50000, Duke of Bridgewater 100 000!, Corporation of London 100 000!' Behind the bull and on the extreme left are crowded together four British Jacobins, much caricatured, wearing bonnets-rouges and looking up at Pitt with anger and dismay. Their heads rise vertically one behind the other; the foremost and lowest is Fox, clenching his fist, next Sheridan in profile; then Stanhope, the fourth a mere scrawl."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg bend with date 1798?, and Mounted to 42 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Public, Economic conditions, John Bull (Symbolic character), Debts, Public, Loyalty Loan, and Musical instruments
Plate [24] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of William I; half length to right; in royal robes and crown; bow and arrows across chest and long sword in hand; in frame decorated with further arrows and a bow, two swords at bottom, a large leaf with two berries in each corner, and an eagle at top; fictitious; illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of William the Conquerer
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [24] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery
Portrait, half-length in an oval on pedestal, wearing wig, lace cravat, and sash; coat of arms below
Alternative Title:
William III King of England
Description:
Title from text in image., Text above image at top left: "Place before this Reign.", Plate from: Lediard, T. The history of England. London : printed by and for, the sole proprietor, J. Mechell, 1736., and Sheet trimmed on right side.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1717–1719
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 52, folder 25
Image Count:
84
Description:
Charles Williams was a native of Caerleon, and had a successful career in Smyrna when he fled Wales after killing his cousin in a duel. He returned to London as a financier in the 1690s and befriended John Hanbury. When he died in 1720 he left his estate to Hanbury, who entailed it for his son Charles, who then took the name Hanbury-Williams. For further information, see The Hanburys of Monmouthshire by Richard Hanbury Tenison (1995), chapter 4. and A volume of letters bound in gold-tooled and stamped green vellum, with a printed CH-W number label (and evidence of a Phillipps label, now missing) on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 46; the Phillipps number is 10893.
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of flower'd, strip'd & plain silks, black velvets, norwich crapes, & all others mournings very cheap. NB The richest & newest fashioned half ell, irish stuffs., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 94 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
A shop card with the figure of the vendor at the right in the style of Callot. An example of Hogarth's early work
Alternative Title:
William Hardy, goldsmith and jeweller in Ratcliff Highway near Sun Tavern Fields and Hardy's shop card
Description:
Title etched in image., Text engraved below image mostly burnished out: "Etch'd by Saml. Ireland from an engraving in his possession by Hogarth, suppos'd to be unique. Gamble was the name of the person with whom he served his apprenticeship.", and On page 3 in volume 1.