Mr. Harley, with a very large belly and a shirt with lace trim, standing full-length in profile to right wearing on his head a cuckold's horns from which hangs a sign "A room to lett unfurnish'd". From his mouth a bubble reading, "I am one of the heads of the city." In his left hand a book open to pages that read, "The city poll dedicated to the Cheese mongers, trunk makers, etc. From his right pocket a letter, "At the court of C.C., it was carried NEM-CON that he was realy & not politically ill."
Alternative Title:
Figure that appeared in a Mazarine gown
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: October 10, 1768, the date of the masquerade., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 148., and Mounted to 30 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford Magazine
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City council members, Horns (Anatomy), Masquerades, and Obesity
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 108., Temporary local subject terms: Dover -- Machines: flying machine -- Devil -- Animals: cow., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 188., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: lawyer's chamber -- Furniture: chair -- Lawyers -- Money -- Bribes -- Pictures amplifying subject: George, 1st Baron Jeffries, 1648-1689., and Mounted to 39 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Ryder, Dudley, Sir, 1691-1756, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Three lines of text below image: Mortimer / Is a great lord of late, and a new thing: a prince, an earl, and cousin to the King. Ben Johnson [sic]., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p. 274., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: allusion to The fall of Mortimer, by Ben Jonson, 1573?-1637., 1 print : ethcing ; plate mark 19.1 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 22 x 14 cm mounted to 31 x 37 cm., and With Bowditch's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, Isabella, Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England, 1292-1358, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330
Title engraved above image., Six lines of verse below image: The man in graver tragick known (though his best part long since was done) ..., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), frontispiece for January issue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Harlequin -- Devil -- Cap of liberty --Staff of maintenance -- Literature: quotation from Written in the beginning of Mazeray's History of France, by Matthew Prior, 1664-1721., and Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"Satire on the expected effect of a return of John Wilkes to parliament. Wilkes as Hercules leaps over the fallen figure of Discord to seize the arm of the Speaker, Sir John Cust, as members flee in all directions. In the front, to right, is Fletcher Norton, holding a bag of money while other coins fall from his pocket as he steps over the mace, lettered "A Mere Bauble" (quoting Oliver Cromwell). In the background, on a pedestal decorated with the mournful figure of Britannia, a bloated figure squats over "Magna Charta". It has three heads, a wolf, a snake and a sheep; one outstretched hand is in the form of a claw, the other holds a bag of money. Behind this figure, Lord Bute, emerges raising hands in shock at the sight of Wilkes/Hercules."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image., Two lines of text below image: The figure on the pedestal is the symbol of bribery, corruption & hypocrisy., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon [1767-1772], v. 2 (1768), page 193., and Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence -- Emblems: Speaker's mace -- Bags of money -- Personifications: Bribery, Corruption and Hypocrisy -- Weapons: mace.
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 253., Temporary local subject terms: Justices -- Symbols: ass's ears -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 1768 -- Weapons: muskets -- Writing implements -- Furniture: card table -- Chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: a fox as the figure of Justice -- Literature: reference to Midas by Kane O'Hara, ?1714-1782 -- Pets: cats -- Justice Samuel Gillam, fl. 1768., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in Stephens: October 10, 1768, i.e., the date of the masquerade ball given by the King of Denmark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 169., and Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Stealing -- Money: bags of money -- Medical: crutch -- Nooses -- Executioners: Jack Ketch -- Executions: reference to Tyburn -- Devil -- Masquerade: masks -- Frenchmen -- Pickpockets -- Reference to the theft of the Duke of Bedford's snuff-box at the King of Denmark masquerade.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 140., and Temporary local subject terms: Scots -- Riots: St. George's Fields, 10 May 1768 -- Military uniforms: Foot Guards -- Cauldrons -- Buildings: Pagoda at Kew -- Furniture: garden bench -- Emblems: cap of liberty.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792