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 (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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 in lower right of plate: 127., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title devised by cataloger., Satire after Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to design with loss in upper and lower right corners., and Publication date conjectured from costume.
Volume 2, page 398.3. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of two seals, one above the other. The top seal shows Henry VIII on a throne holding the globus cruciger in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand; he is flanked by two armorial shields surmounted by crowns, and Latin text runs along the circular border of the seal. The bottom a seal of the Archbishop of York with Saint Peter holding a key and Saint Paul with a sword under the arches of a building and with Cardinal Thomas Wosley's coat of arms (in reverse) below identified by text in Latin encircling the border
Alternative Title:
Ego et rex meus
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title written in ink., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 398.3 in volume 2 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Seals (Insignia), Coats of arms, Kings, and Clergy
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. ii., and Numbered in lower right: 260.
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 in lower right of plate: 73., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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 in lower right of plate: 74., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson. imprint from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes