A fashionably dressed young woman (left) stands before a very large bear (left) dressed in a military uniform, wig, and tricorne hat. She strokes his chin with her left hand as she gently clasps the tip end of the spear that the bear holds in his left hand
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. as the Act directs Jany. 10, 1782 by T. James, No. 14 Castle Strt. Oxford Market
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Clothing & dress, Couples, Military uniforms, British, and Wigs
Admiral de Grasse stands up to his waist in a large barrel, saying "I shall never more love the Englishmen's sugar and gunpowder." On the left stands an English naval officer with cutlass in hand, and on the right an English sailor. Refers to De Grasse's defeat by Rodney when the French attempted to raid Jamaica in 1782
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Rich, at the little Print Shop opposite Anderton's Coffee House, Fleet Street and Pubd. by J. Barrow
Subject (Name):
Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Admirals, French, Military officers, British, Sailors, and Military uniforms
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pension 3000£ pr Ann". Barré, who wears a coat with military facings and half-boots, holds out his cockaded hat in his right hand as if asking for alms. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Rome's Veteran fought her rebel Foes, And thrice her Empire saved, Yet thro' her Streets bow'd down with Woes, An humble pittance craved. Our Soldier fought a better Fight, Political Contention, And grateful Ministers requite, His service with a Pension.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 21.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pension 3000£ pr Ann". Barré, who wears a coat with military facings and half-boots, holds out his cockaded hat in his right hand as if asking for alms. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Rome's Veteran fought her rebel Foes, And thrice her Empire saved, Yet thro' her Streets bow'd down with Woes, An humble pittance craved. Our Soldier fought a better Fight, Political Contention, And grateful Ministers requite, His service with a Pension.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with drypoint on wove paper ; plate mark 33.8 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 36.5 x 26.3 cm, and Mounted on leaf 13 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
"Colonel Barré stands outside a gate in a high brick wall. Shelburne (right) stands, half within, half outside the gate, his left foot on the outside; he has a cynically complacent smile and is putting into Barré's left hand a paper inscribed "Pension 3000£ pr Ann". Barré, who wears a coat with military facings and half-boots, holds out his cockaded hat in his right hand as if asking for alms. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Rome's Veteran fought her rebel Foes, And thrice her Empire saved, Yet thro' her Streets bow'd down with Woes, An humble pittance craved. Our Soldier fought a better Fight, Political Contention, And grateful Ministers requite, His service with a Pension.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Ms. note in an unknown hand below plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 24th August 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Belisarius, approximately 505-565., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Beggars, Garden walls, Pensions, Military uniforms, and British
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1782.
Call Number:
Bunbury 782.01.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in an oval. An old military officer with a wooden leg describes his campaigns to two cronies. He is seated in a chair (right) in profile to the left wearing regimentals and sword, his wig has a long loosely twisted pigtail queue; his wooden leg (right) projects horizontally from his chair. He holds a map or plan taken from the wall, and is showing it to a stout man sitting on his right, who looks at it through spectacles. The third man standing behind, his left arm on the back of the soldier's chair, looks over their shoulders at the map. At their feet a small dog lies asleep. Through the open door (left) a man is seen dancing along while he plays a fiddle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fought all his battles over again and thrice he slew the slain
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Musical instruments, Musicians, Peg legs, and Wigs
A caricature of the scene in Act I of Hamlet, the aged ghost in armor on the left, confronting a dissipated looking Hamlet dressed in black who stands between two terrified soldiers who wear British military uniforms
Description:
Title from item., Twenty-eight underscores separate the two words in the title., and Probable a reissue of a 1779 print; traces remaining of a different title.
Publisher:
Publish'd 14 Augt. 1782, by W. Stewart, New Bond Street
A fat English military officer resembling George III marches behind a thin French officer also resembling Louis XVI pulling the latter's queue and kicking him in the rear. Possibly a reference to Rodney's 1782 naval victory over the French
Description:
Title from item., Possibly after Thomas Colley., Date conjectured from the print's possible allusion to Rodney's victory over DeGrasse, 12 April 1782., Sheet trimmed., and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, France., France, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Kicking, Military uniforms, British, and French
Title from item., Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Possibly reversed version of this print, no. 6107 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805. and Bisset, Maurice George, 1757-1821.
Admiral Rodney is shown on the shore with Britannia and Neptune, who hand him their staffs, while the British Lion claws at the flag of France on which Rodney stands. Standing out to sea in a toy boat made of playing cards, Admiral Pigot (represented as a pig) views the scene through his spyglass. Refers to Rodney's recall and replacement by Pigot
Alternative Title:
Admiral Pigot on a cruize
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from description in the British Museum catalogue of a variant state., Probably a variant [later?] state of the plate with the imprint statement "Pubd. June 4th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St James's Street, London." Cf. , No. 5996 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., On left above design: Political characters & caracatures of 1782. No. IV., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
E. D'Achery
Subject (Name):
Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, and Neptune (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Admirals, British, and Military uniforms