"A stout man (right), seated at a round table, tells a story to a parson on his left, who grins broadly. Two women fix the raconteur with expressions of absorbed amusement, while an officer is more frankly amused at watching the lady on his right. All are elderly. On the table are a decanter of 'Port' and glasses. A patterned carpet completes the design. From a sketch by an amateur."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., Variant state, without publisher and date and with differently etched title, of No. 8753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Floor coverings, Military uniforms, British, and Storytelling
Title etched above image., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: I Perkin young and bold, my father me has sent here ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Weapons: espontoons -- Military uniforms -- Cardinal -- Playing cards: Nine of Diamonds (Curse of Scotland)., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Tweed River (Scotland and England),
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Neptune, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Bulls, Devil, and Clergy
Title from text below image., A copy or variant of a print published 6 February 1818 by S.W. Fores. Cf. No. 13106 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Jewelry -- Churches -- Monocles., and Watermark: T Stain.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Clergy, Preaching, Pulpits, and Rings
Title etched below image and two lines of verse., Publication date inferred from Overton's death date., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image and above title: Two men there are the inward & the out, whom Satan to insnare [sic] still hovereth about ..., Two lines of verse below title: Sing Whitfield and Webber, for ever and ever., Subject identified in a note in 18th-century hand at bottom of sheet as Rev. George Whitefield., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Wall-eyed.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1790?]
Call Number:
790.00.00.127+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A gaunt older man sits in an upholstered chair (left) and shown in profile looks upon his well-fed son (facing the viewer). A cat sits at the son's feet. The father says: "It is high time child, thee should't think of setting out in life. Thee art too lively for a farmer, what treade, shoudst like best?" The son replies: "Why father if you have no objection, I should like woundily to be bound prentice to a bishop, for is all pay and little work! Now that would just suit I to a tittle."
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Chairs, Clergy, Fathers, Occupations, and Sons
publish'd according to act of Parliament, December 10, 1746.
Call Number:
746.12.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Orator Henley preaching in his chapel in Newport Market which crowded with listeners, male and female intermingled, some standing, some seated in pews, and others in a gallery; in the foreground stands a drover with his dog. Henley to the left wearing a wig standing in a pulpit hung with a cloth bearing three fleurs-de-lis, with a devil hovering above him holding a noose and a Jesuit cap. At the foot of the steps to the gallery an additional figure has been added in graphite; this appears as "Jack Ketch", the public hangman, in the finished print. The whole composition is placed within a scrolled and foliated border including rosary beads hanging on either side."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Popish incendiary, Brazen faced orator, and Temple of Rebellion
Description:
Title etched within banner above image., Ten lines of verse, entitled "The Temple of Rebellion," etched below image: H----y [i.e, Henley] exalts his voice, his arms extends, and blasphemy & treason madly blends ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: church -- Preacher -- Rosaries -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on altar cloth -- Hats: cardinal's scarlet -- Tricornes hanging on pegs -- Male dress: surplice -- Trades: butchers -- Allusion to popery -- Expressions of speech: coup de grace -- Congregations -- Emblematic borders -- Allusion to Jacobites., Watermark: fleur-de-lis., and Window mounted to 27 x 31 cm.
Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"
Description:
Title from text above image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date from online British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., 'Price 6d.'--Below verse., Twenty lines of verse in two columns below image: When bold rebellion armd by Spain & France, does thro' the land with hasty strides advance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Bishop's mitre -- Reference to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Two lines of verse below title: Remote from towns he ran his godly race, nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place. Goldsmith., and Window mounted to 24 x 35 cm.