"Mrs. Clarke stands just within the House of Commons triumphing over her opponents and victims. She strikes a member (Croker) with a rapier, while holding up in her left hand a letter headed My dear Mrs Clark. She tramples on a military officer who lies prone; a paper under his hand is inscribed Genl [Clav]ering. Her antagonists have dropped their swords, which lie broken on the floor. Her large muff lies beside her with a bundle of Love Letters. Croker tries to escape, exclaiming, By Jasus she'll give us 100 Cuts in 60 thrusts. Perceval rushes off, with a mutilated hand, saying, I am Struck dumb, and lost my thumb! I Percieve all. Another (the Attorney-General) exclaims: Oh! dear! Oh dear! she has cut off my Ear Ex officio. A little man whose nose has been cut off, exclaims: What dreadfull blows--Witness my Nose, my Honeys. In his pocket is a paper: Memorandum for Mr Hague [see British Museum Satires No. 11211]. A tall man (Yorke, see British Museum Satires No. 11535) shouts, raising his arms: Take her into custody--She will be to much for us--send her to York Jail. Shadowy figures watch the encounter. A corner of the gallery is seen, crowded with eager spectators. Two men watch from the lobby (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1809, by Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, Perceval, Spencer, 1762-1812, Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834, Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820, Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1759-1850., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Fighting, Daggers & swords, Military officers, British, Wounds & injuries, and Muffs
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a printer's ornament above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: I'ze a Yorkshireman just come to town ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, No. 14 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
"Trade card of Samuel Knights, printseller and frame maker, at 6 Change Alley, opposite Garraways Coffee House; view of the shop from the street, with many prints on the window and inside the shop, open door to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
City of London
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.46., Text at bottom: N.B. Frontage 11 feet - depth - 8 feet., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted before page 437 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
MED,HSL 18th cent: Bound with: The London-citizen exceedingly injured / Alexander Cruden: London: Printed for T. Cooper [etc.], 1739., MED,HSL 18th cent: Binder's title: Alexander the Corrector., and Yale Med copy: 44, 40, [4], 67, [1], 4 p. 21 cm. and includes an index.
A man in a top hat paints the words "Huntsm[...] [...]la ..." on wall that surrounds an estate
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Mounted with 5 other prints in the series on blue album paper., "Daily paper"--Upper right corner., "Pt. 4"--Upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A balloon about to rise from the ground encircled by three tiers of galleries or narrow platforms, protected by railings. Behind the railings sit the passengers. In the highest tier are three ladies notorious at that time for their amours ...: Grace Elliott or Eliot, née Dalrymple, known as 'Dally the tall', she holds a fan, turning her head in profile to the left, towards Perdita (Mary Robinson), who clasps her hands ecstatically; Lady Worsley sits on the right. In the centre gallery sit ex-ministers: North (left) and Fox (right) in the centre, North's arm on Fox's shoulder; Fox turns his head to North with an expression of satisfaction. Each rests his right hand on the railing in front of him, and these hands hold an inconspicuous thread which is attached to the nose of the Duke of Portland (left), who turns in profile to the right. On the right, a little apart, sits Burke dressed as a Jesuit (see British Museum Satires No. 6205) looking in profile to the right towards the Pope, who stands on the gallery, emerging from behind the curve of the balloon. He wears furred robes and his triple crown; as a pendant to him on the extreme left is the Devil looking towards the ministers with a pleased expression; over his arm he holds a net. In the lowest gallery sit celebrated quacks and other London characters. These are (left to right) "Vestina', the goddess of Health who advertised the virtues of the celestial bed (incorrectly said to have been Lady Hamilton), sits next her employer, Dr. Graham; they look at each other; she holds a sceptre wreathed with a garland. Jeffery Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat, stands, knock-kneed, with his sack over his shoulder in his accustomed attitude when calling 'old wigs'. Sam House sits resting a foaming tankard of porter on the railing in front of him, the tankard inscribed "House Ward[our] Stre[eet]". Katerfelto, turned in profile to the right, gazes up at the moon through his telescope; in his left hand is a paper, "Wonders, Wonders Most Wonderfull Wonders", the usual heading of his advertisements, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6162. His black cat sits on the railing facing him, saying, "are there Mice in the Moon Master". In the upper right corner of the design is the moon, a crescent-shaped profile inset in a circle, looking down at the balloon. The balloon is encircled longitudinally by eight ropes which meet in a knot beneath it and are there attached to four stouter ropes attached to the four corners of a platform which rests on the ground, from which the balloon appears about to ascend. On this platform is a tub inscribed "Vanity", bubbling over with soapsuds inscribed "Froth". Beside the platform (right) stands a Frenchman capering on one leg and flourishing a knife. He says, "Oh Begar dis be von fine Cargo." ... In the background are the roofs and spires of London, St. Paul's being prominent on the left, the Monument on the right. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Hanibal Scratch" might be a pseudonym of John Nixon; see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, page 842., Text beneath title: Setts out from Swan with two Necks Lad Lane every Monday morg., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Twenty lines of verse in four columns below image, etched above and on either side of title: Who choose a journey to the Moon, may take it in our Stage Balloon ...
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 23, 1783, by Wm. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799, Graham, James, 1745-1794, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Katterfelto, Gustavus, -1799, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Page 141. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In outdoor setting a lady with large hat and flowered dress walks towards the left of the print looking downward, while in the foreground an older stooped man of much larger proportions, wearing tricorne hat, coat and sword, looks on. Possibly the figures represent Mrs. Lessingham and Justice Addington
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with volume and plate numbers added. For an earlier state without this numbering, see Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1777 - Amorous counsellor (A size) [P&P]., Numbered "V. 2" in upper left and "93" in upper right., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching with roulette and drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 17.7 cm., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., Mounted on page 141 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]., and Note in ink below image, on mounting page: St. James Park, 1780.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1777, by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Addington, William, Sir, -1811. and Lessingham, Jane, 1739?-1783.
Frontispiece. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Arms and quarterings of Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the Garter
Description:
Title from note above image, in a contemporary hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted., With a numbered list of the families whose arms are represented, written on either side of image., and Mounted as the frontispiece in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737., and Walpole family.