"Rectangular bundles of documents, supported on human legs, march towards a writing-table (left) where two men await them eagerly, one being evidently Lord Stewart. These bundles recede in perspective from right to left. The two largest are inscribed: 'From Switzerland Via Colombier the Capital of Europe' and 'From Milan by the Brown road'. The others are: 'From Trieste'; 'From Carlsruhe'; 'Como'; 'Italy'; 'Devil'; 'Moloch'; 'Lucifer'. A bird flies towards the table with a paper inscribed 'Private'. Forked lightning darts towards the table, beside which trunks, boxes, and papers are piled, with a paper headed '... [Maj]ochys deposition'. Towards the table from the left advances (from an ornate Gothic building) a procession of lawyers, carrying books. P. 6: E, for the Embassy, kept on full pay, Collecting of slander and filth on the way ; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
E, for the embassy, kept on full pay, collecting of slander and filth on the way ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Londonderry, Charles William Vane, Marquis of, 1778-1854, and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Documents, Tables, Birds, Lightning, Luggage, Boxes, and Lawyers
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of a quotation from literature below design: Queen. 'Twixt you and me this ring shall be a private mark of faith. Act iv scene 1. [Earl of Essex]., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Earl of Essex, 1750 or 1751 -- Elizabeth I throne -- Theatrical scenes.
Publisher:
Published by Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse in two columns engraved below image: And shall the substitutes of power our genius thus bedeck ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Dress: French dress, ca. 1756., and Mounted to 21 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Early state, without plate number, of no. 4027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 8, 1763 -- Executions: hangings -- Gallows -- Effigies: Lord Bute's effigy -- Farmers -- Demons., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 13 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
"Ministers sit on a large sack (the Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735), surrounded by Grenadier Guards standing at attention with fixed bayonets. Most prominent is Eldon, holding a paper inscribed 'Precedent', with an arm round Castlereagh's shoulder. Sidmouth (left) holds his clyster-pipe. Canning (right) hides his face in his hand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13971). Harrowby sits next him. Wellington stands with drawn sabre, to give an order to the Guards. P. 7: F, for the fun that enlivened the city, And flashed in Pall-Mall [Carlton House] till Grub-St. was witty. ... Ministers are trying 'To hatch the Green Egg ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
F, for the fun that enlivened the city, and flashed in Pall-Mall till Grub-St. was witty ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Soldiers, Bayonets, Swords, and Medical equipment & supplies
An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler (looking left) mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the rightt, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the left a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia
Alternative Title:
Hudibras frontispiece and explanation
Description:
Title engraved below image., After Hogarth., Caption on either side of title: "The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butler's genious in a car lashing around Mount Parnassus in the persons of Hudibras & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance the reigning vices of his time.", Copy in reverse of no. 504 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Religion, Satyrs (Greek mythology), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Vice
"George IV, in uniform and covered with orders, holding bow, arrow, and shield, strikes an attitude of frightened defiance. Near him (left) are monsters, winged, reptilian, and (?) porcine; the largest having Castlereagh's profile, the others unrecognizable. P. 8: G, for the Gold that bedizened his breast, With trinkets and orders, a glittering jest-- ... Ah! why should an arrow be shot in the dark? And why should an innocent Q--n be the mark ? ...'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
G, for the gold that bedizened his breast, with trinkets and orders, a glittering jest ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 9 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Military decorations, Bows (Weapons), Arrows, Shields, and Monsters
"Satire on Lord Bute, his patronage of Scots in London and his alleged relationship with Princess Augusta. Bute, holding a large staff, and the Princess are enthroned declaring mutual love; beside the Princess a standard bearer holds 'The Trophy of Gisbal, Lord of Hebron', a petticoat in front of which hands a boot, the staff of which is surmounted by a Scotch bonnet with the Prince of Wales's feathers. They are encircled by ragged Scots inplaid who are described in the verses beneath naming them in mock-Biblical terms."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Plate numbered '33' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Literature: reference to Gisbal, an hyperborean tale ... -- Bible: reference to Bathsheba., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
The Duke of Cumberland shown full length, standing in full glory astride the world with his left foot on Britain and "Medterianian" and Africa identified below. He wears a laurel wreath around his head and carries a bâton; he is very fat. To the left of the "Medterianian" are three fleurs-de-lis referencing the peril of Gibraltar and the predominance of France in the area
Description:
Title etched in image., Plate numbered '55' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 23 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France.
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765