Design in an oval depicts John Molesworth holding a wand seated at a wooden table and wearing a conical hat and dressing gown. He points towards lottery wheels from which 2 small boys wearing paper crowns observe him. Molesworth is saying "Eo, Meo, and Areo, stick close my boys and let me have all the capital prizes in my calculation." Before him on the table are ink bottle and quill, several books, including one entitled Calculations and another Conjurations, together with The life of Duncan Campbel, deaf & dumb fortune-teller. Molesworth in 1774 authored Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations.
Description:
Dedication etched below title: This plate is humbly inscribed to all keeper's of lottery offices by their humble servt. A.B. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
A.B.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Molesworth, John--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Frauds--England., Hats. , Lotteries--England., and Magicians.
"An Irishman seated on a bull which is galloping across open country towards London, seen in the distance on the right., St. Paul's being visible. He wears a short jacket and ragged knee-breeches, his legs and feet are bare. His hair is dishevelled and he is urging on the bull with his hat, which is raised in his right hand. He sits facing the animal's tail, which he holds in his left hand. From his saddle-bag appear books: "St Pat . ." and "New System of Fortune Hunting"; a paper hangs out of it inscribed with a list of ladies with fortunes, beginning "Lady Mary Rotten Rump St James Square 30,000£". A sack inscribed "Potatoes" is tied to the bull in front of the saddle. A milestone shows that it is "IIII Miles from [London]".--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Paddy on horseback
Description:
Printmaker and place of publication from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes., Horses., and Irish--Caricatures and cartoons.
"Caricature portrait of a man standing in profile to the right. He holds his hat awkwardly in his right. hand, his left. is thrust into his waistcoat, his toes are much turned out. He wears a thin pigtail queue. From his pocket hangs some object resembling a syringe. Beneath the title is etched, "Beg your pardon my Dear Sir - had it from my Lud Fiddle faddle, nothing to do but cut 'em off pass the Susquhanna and proceed to Boston possess himself of Crown point then - Philadelphia, and South Carolina woud have fallen of course - & a communication opend with the Northern Army - as easyly as I'd open a Vein.""--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Prattle the political apothecary
Description:
CtY-BR, Initial letters of publisher's name form a monogram., Mongrammatic signature 'MD' within design might refer to Matthew Darly, who possibly died the previous year (1778). See DNB., Questionably attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Darly, M. (Mary), publisher., Darly, Matthias., Gillray, James, 1756-1815., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"A satire on the Scots; an imitation but not a copy of the satire with the same title, BMSat 2678, c. 1745, repeated in 1762, see BMSat 3988, which according to Angelo was by George Bickham. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board. He grasps in his left hand a rolled document inscribed "Act for [esta]blishing Popery". Behind him a stone wall is indicated on which is etched (left) a thistle growing out of a reversed crown, inscribed "Nemo me impune lacessit". On the right. and over Sawney's head is engraved: "'Tis a bra' bonny seat, o' my saul, Sawney cries, I never beheld sic before with me Eyes, Such a place in aw' Scotland I never could meet, For the High and the Low ease themselves in the Street.""--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Mrs. Holt, No. 111 Oxford Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures., Ethnic stereotypes., Privies. , and Urination.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker.
Published / Created:
1777 October 30
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible.
Description:
Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher., Rochester, John Wilmot,--Earl of,--1647-1680--Caricatures and cartoons., and Rochester, John Wilmot,--Earl of,--1647-1680--Death and burial.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy., Clothing & dress--England--18th century., Coats of arms. , Death., and Furniture--England--18th century.
"A press-gang at work in a London street, at the end of which appears the dome of St. Paul's. A sailor (c.) strides towards the spectator, a club in his right. hand, dragging along a lean tailor, who holds up his hands in dismay. An infuriated woman (l.) has seized the sailor by his hair and the right. ear while she pummels him with her knee. Another sailor behind has seized her wrist and raises a club to strike her. A third sailor (r.) holds the tailor by the left. arm. A naval officer (r.) walks beside the party with a drawn cutlass. Behind are other sailors. A woman (l.) wearing stays or jumps' raises a mop in both hands to smite a sailor; an infant clutches her petticoats. A group of spectators (l.) includes a woman carrying a baby. A dog barks at the fray."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., CtY-LW, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.