"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
View of the beautiful garden of Edinburgh
Description:
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Print Shop; October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-188., Reduced copy, without plate number, of no. 4006 ("Scotch paradice") in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[E. Sumpter]
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
George II, wearing a Hanoverian scarf and his feet encircled by a scarf marked "Poor E-g-d", stands o n a field of battle along side a large Hanoverian officer, the Earl of Stair, and the Duke of D'Aremberg.
Description:
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Date from Stephens., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-20., Title engraved below image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Dettingen, Battle of, Karlstein, Unterfranken, Germany, 1743 and George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
"Sir Cecil Wray (left) is being drummed away from the hustings; Sam House, the central figure, beats a drum, looking at Wray. On the right, ignoring Wray, stands Fox addressing the populace, a cheering crowd behind him; he holds a flag on which is the figure of Britannia seated, holding the staff and cap of Liberty, and the words 'Champion of the People'. He says, "Friends & Fellow Citizens I cannot find words to express my feelings to you upon this Victory". Wray walks beside a procession which marches to Sam House's drum. It is headed by Chelsea pensioners with wooden legs, who scowl at him; one carries a crutch over his shoulder. They have two flags, inscribed respectively 'May all public Deserters feel public Resentment' (Wray had deserted the cause of Fox who nominated him for Westminster in 1782, see British Museum Satires No. 5998), and 'Chealsea Hospital'. They are followed by a detachment of maidservants, with a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; they carry over their shoulders a broom, a brush, a mop, a shovel. A crowd cheers frantically, hats are waved at the procession and at Fox. Behind Fox is part of the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the scene of his triumph at the hustings, see British Museum Satires No. 6590, &c."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Westminster deserter drummed out of the regiment
Description:
Hill, Peter Murray, Chelsea, London; February 1959., Mounted., Plate from: The history of the Westminster election., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Churches: St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Proposed tax on maidservants -- Chelsea Hospital pensioners -- Hustings -- Drumming for the hustings -- Slogans: 'Champion of the people' -- Brooms -- Veterans -- Crutches -- Cheering crowds., Title etched below image., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject (Geographic):
Westminster (London, England) -- Politics and government
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Caricatures and cartoons, Drums (Musical instruments), Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Great Britain. Parliament, Harvey, Francis, House, Samuel, d. 1785, Riviere & S, Servants, and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-15., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Close-stool -- Clyster-pipe., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Subject (Name):
Vanlot, fl. 1742
Subject (Topic):
Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, Charles VII, Holy Ro, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746
Shitten condition of the King of Prussia and Sh-tten condition of the King of Pru---a
Description:
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: All mark'd with De Luces& cram'd with French gold, forth sally'd our hero, to seize, have and hold ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-25., Printseller's announcement after imprint: Where is sold 20 more., Temporary local subject terms: Defecation -- Medicine: smelling salts -- Money., Title engraved above image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Subject (Topic):
Charles Alexandre, duc de Lorraine, 1712-1780, Defecation, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Military uniforms
A different, probably earlier, version of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Mounted to 29 x 39 cm., Plate numbered "23" in upper left corner., Printmaker John Williams later adopted the pseudonym Anthony Pasquin., Reissue, with added plate numbering. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 772.06.10.01.1+., Suckling; February 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-2-2-1., Temporary local subject terms: Bust of Cicero, Marcus Tullius, B.C. 106-43 -- Literature: Ovid, B.C. 43-A.D. 18 -- College room at Cambridge -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, June 10th, 1772, accor. to act
"A design divided into two portions by a vertical line and a slanting line which diverges to the right from the vertical line forming with it an obtuse angle. On the left of this division are the Speaker and three members of the House of Commons; on the right the Chancellor and three peers. Only a small part of the Speaker and his chair are visible on the extreme left. Fox stands facing him, his right hand extended, his left on his hip, a scroll inscribed 'Consuetudo et Lex Parliamenti' issues from his mouth. Burke stands with his back to Fox, scowling with folded arms; his scroll is inscribed 'Tropes Figures and a long Speech'. Sheridan stands in back view, facing Burke and bending forward, his scroll is 'Speech all Point'. The figures on the right have similar attitudes to those on the left, only the extreme left of the Chancellor and Woolsack being visible. Loughborough, in back view, wearing a judge's wig and gown, says "Lex Parliamenti"; Stormont says "Long Speech". Lord Derby, turning to the right in a mincing attitude, says, "Point de tout". Beneath the titles is etched: 'Each Patriots Speech another Speech affords The C . . . . ns have their Echo in the left . . . ds Thus Opposition proves the Assertion true That even Shadows have their Shadows too'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
de Grey., Four lines of text in two columns below title: Each patriots speech another speech affords / The C....ns have their echo in the L...ds ...", Inscribed in ink by an early hand below the design: "Fox, Burke Sheridan in the H: of Commons"., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publ'd 31st March 1788 by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792
Subject (Topic):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Thurlow, Edward Thur
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-1., Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare., Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"Price only one shilling with a suitable frame included.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet appears to be trimmed outside of plate mark but plate mark not traceable., Suckling ; May 1956., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Dented swords -- Orbs -- Dishes: teacups and saucers -- Dishes: plates -- Dishes: teapots -- Toys: teddy bears? -- India crackers -- Dishes: pots -- Ornaments: satyr's head.
Publisher:
Publishd according to act of Parliament, June 1st, 1789, by E. Harding
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Five stanzas of verse below title: Fortune's wheel is turning quickly round, and nothing in our court of certainty is found ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-7., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Fortune -- Interiors: Court of Request -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: bookseller -- Vehicles: fire-engine., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford