Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., State without title and with original publication date partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 3880 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Throne Room -- Orders: Order of the Thistle -- Harlequins -- Scots., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Charles Churchill in the form of a huge bear (right, as in Hogarth's print The Bruiser) and wearing clerical neckbands, looks down, mouth agap, at a little dog (left) who snarls back. The dog personifies Hogarth as in his own print "Trump"; his paws rest on a artist's palette inscribed "Line of beauty". The bear's paw rests on a sheet inscribed "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth," the poem which Churchill published in response to Hogarth's sketch of Wilkes described as "John Wilkes, Esqr."
Alternative Title:
Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill
Description:
Title from later state, engraved for the engd. for the Hiberia magazine. and Alternative title from British Museum catalogue: Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill.
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue. and Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image: Thus our senators cheat the deluded people with a shew, of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of ... . Otway., Title-page vignette from: Senators, or a candid examination into the merits of the principal performers of St. Stephens Chapel / Thomas Delamayne. London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1772., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons speaker's chair -- Executioner's axe -- Acts of Parliament: Royal Marriage Act, 1772 -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Bill of Rights -- Literature: quotation from Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway (1652-1685)., Contemporary mss. note below plate on the first mounting paper: The Royal Marriage Act obtained the Kings consent April 1, 1772 -- in consequence of the Duke of Cumberland having married Mrs. Horton., and Mounted to 16 x 19 cm, and mounted again to 25 x 32 cm.
Title from from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., Two columns of verse below image: Great people, like small ones, will have their sport and [the] diffrence is triffling 'twixt city & court ..., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: See-saw -- Buildings: Windsor Castle -- Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute)., and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue, Temporary local subject terms: Toppling buildings -- Staff of Liberty -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Allusion to many politicians of the day -- Allusion to Gustavus III, King of Sweden., Watermark: fleur-de-lis with initials G R below., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs July 1, by J. Wjsen [sic] Walbrooke
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Columns, Liberty cap, Rats, Emblems, Shields, and Thrones
Plate 72. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A companion to Plate I, the firefighters have become gardeners and the water flows onto the trees in pots that surround the statue of George III, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
Alternative Title:
Times. Plate 2
Description:
Title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with publication line and inscription engraved., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath image: Proof taken by Mr. Boydell., and On page 194 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 29, 1790 by J & J Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens
Plate 72. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A companion to Plate I, the firefighters have become gardeners and the water flows onto the trees in pots that surround the statue of George III, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
Alternative Title:
Times. Plate 2
Description:
Title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with publication line and inscription engraved., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.5 x 31.9 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 37.1 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 72 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and Formerly identified as Paulson state 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 29, 1790 by J & J Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens
A companion to Plate I, the firefighters have become gardeners and the water flows onto the trees in pots that surround the statue of Henry VIII, royal steams of benevolence. Lord Bute is the head gardener
Alternative Title:
Pl. 2
Description:
Title etched below image., Date, publisher, and state as described by Paulson., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Plate II. Ms. note beneath image: Times, Plate 2; proof taken during the life-time of Hogarth., Ms. note in ink on square of paper mounted below in Steevens's hand: This second part of The times (for and impression of which the late Lord Exeter paid Mrs. Hogarth ten guineas, the money to be returned if she published the plate) is every way inferior to the first. Since the death of Mrs. Hogarth, it is become the property of the Boydells., and On page 193 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, and Gardens