Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
762.10.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An etching, showing Earl Talbot, who was Lord Steward of the Household, standing behind a "Fire Screen", on the floor near which are two saucepans ... duel ... Bagshot Heath"-- British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pot-lid & inkhorn and Pot-lid and inkhorn
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date from book in which this plate appeared. Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., and Mounted to 33 x 31cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title etched above image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison : consisting of the most humorous satirical political prints, for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller in Fleet Street, and Mr. Harvest, printseller in Heming's-Row St. Martin's Lane, [1763]., Twelve lines of verse in two columns etched above image and below title: Monarchs, 'tis true, should clain [sic] the storms of war, nor urge the rage of victory too far ..., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Peace negotiations: peace with France, 1762 -- Allusion to Havana -- Treaty of Paris: British territorial concessions -- British Lion -- Mythology: allusion to Nike., and Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Britannia (Symbolic character), and Olive branches
Title from text above image., Publication date inferred from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Three columns of explanatory description below image: A. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, favourite of Edward III ..., Plate numbered '29' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute -- Monitor -- North Briton -- Furniture: couch -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Quotation from Thomson -- Literature: allusion to Richard III by Shakespeare -- Peter des Roches, d. 1238, Bishop of Winchester., and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243, Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265, and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Beds, Ghosts, Newspapers, and Draperies
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison : consisting of the most humorous satirical political prints, for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller in Fleet Street, and Mr. Harvest, printseller in Heming's-Row St. Martin's Lane, [1763]., and Mounted to 31 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which this plate was published., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: reference to the peace negotiations, Paris, 1762 -- British Lion -- Furniture: cradles -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: olive branch -- Escutcheons: Britain -- Escutcheons: France., and Mounted to 27 x 33 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, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Title from item., Reduced and reversed copy of a print by Marquis of Townshend, The Scotch hurdy gurdy, or, The musical boot, See Stephens., Two columns of verse below image: What is ambition but desire of greatness! And what is greatness but extent of power! ..., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute., and Mounted to 32 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which this plate was published., Plate numbered '48' in upper right corner., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison London : E. Sumpter, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to Gisbal, an hyperborean tale ... -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Monuments: plinth., and Mounted to 27 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
"Satire in the form of a transparency on the Earl of Bute and his dominance of the king in contrast to the Duke of Cumberland's loyalty, with a reference to William Hogarth. A large tartan military tent decorated with an irradiated jack-boot from which a thistle emerges; fleurs-de-lis on the border of the roof. On the left, stands Cumberland, "Emblem of England" vowing to stop "this Scotch & French scheme"; on the right, stands the Duke of Nivernois, "Emblem of the state of France", trembling in fear of Cumberland. When held to the light figures within the tent (printed on a backing sheet) are revealed: Princess Augusta and Bute express their mutual affection while George III stands beneath a petticoat implying female rule."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
True contrast
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Tents -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales., and Mounted to 30 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Plate from the second volume of: The British antidote to Caledonian poison London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: zebra -- British Lion -- Clergy -- American Indians: Cherokee chiefs visiting London -- Punishments: stocks -- Jews.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Howard, H. (Henry), and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
"Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fall of Mortimer and Coach overturned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two columns of verse below image: With raptures, Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney's turn'd over by driving too fast ..., Plate numbered '31' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's, [1763]., and Mounted to 29 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers