Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of humorous prints in Europe. Admittance 1shillg., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: parsons -- Young women -- Food: roast pig -- Beverages: wine -- Tableware: salt & pepper shakers -- Furniture: sofas -- Arm chairs -- Glutony.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1794, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Streeet
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following the imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in Europe, also a correct model of the guillotine 6 feet high, admitt. 1 shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: daggers -- Gallows -- Poison -- Allusion to George IV -- Reference to sansculottes., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Title from caption below image., Numbered '273' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: apple venders -- Wheelbarrows -- Architectural details: garden walls -- Young men -- Bludgeons.
Publisher:
Publish'd 26th Sept. 1791 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whigs destroying wooden objects and a press representing the Press."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Three lines of text below title: The perfidious, perjured, peculating, persecuting, paltry, purse-proud, penicious ... pilfering, plundering Whigs, smashing the unstamp'd., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "100" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 100.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Vandalism, Hammers, Axes, and Printing presses
Lord Thurlow depicted as a schoolmaster is seated on the left. He wears an enormous wig, and holds in his left hand the book "A new guide to India" and in his right a birch rod. Facing him stands Pitt dressed as a young girl, with a key (to the Treasury) hanging from her belt. On the wall behind them hangs a portait of the King labelled "a great Whig", a bust of Fox labelled "a true Whig" on top of a bookcase containing Newbery's Works, and a map with the face of Shelburne titled "a false Whig." The "h" in the first word of the title is inserted above the "i".
Alternative Title:
Master Billy learning his task and Wiggism, or, Master Billy learning his task
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd for S.W. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB [B etched over N] folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Male fashion, 1795: cropped hair -- Allusion to the Bedford Level -- Allusion to the Duke of Bedford -- Allusion to freemasonry -- Glass: decanter with a label., and Watermark: countermark E & P.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of caption text below design., Plate numbered '339' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1803.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"In a palatial room, lit by elaborate cut-glass chandeliers, three games are in progress, one in the foreground, with an officer leaning over one of the women players. Another officer in full dress uniform with sword and plumed helmet admires himself in a pier-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1823.
Publisher:
Published by Pyall & Hunt, 18, Tavistock Strt. Covent Garden
"The interior of the House of Commons showing part of the Speaker's chair on the extreme left, and the adjacent Opposition bench on the right with a corner of the gallery. On the floor between the table and the front Opposition bench a large cask, resting on trestles, is exploding violently from the bung-hole. The inscription on the cask forms the only title to the print. In the explosion are the words: 'Reform', 'Peace', 'Liberty', 'Equality', 'no Slave Trade', 'Peace'. Part only of the Speaker's hat and wig are visible; his left hand is extended and the words 'Order Order' issue from his (invisible) mouth. Three occupants of the front Opposition bench cover their faces, two others flee from the explosion."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from text in image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Third of a set of seven prints "Outlines of the Opposition in 1795 ..."; see British Museum catalogue., For a variant state with plate number "3" etched in upper left corner, see no. 8638 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Opposition -- Interiors: House of Commons -- Motion for peace with France, 27 May 1795 -- Allusion to Samuel Whitbread, 1764-1815 -- Containers: Casks., and Mounted on page 85 with one other print.