A winged female figure flying among clouds shines her "Mirror of Truth" on members of the old ministry (including Sandwich, Rigby, North, Mansfield, and Germain) who fall into a pit on the left occupied by demons, observed from above by Bute who rides on the back of a witch. To the right the members of the new ministry (Thurlow, Conway, Camden, Barré, Burke, the Duke of Richmond, Rockingham, and Fox) look on, as does Britannia seated in the lower right corner
Alternative Title:
Exhibition of the ministers for May 1782
Description:
Title from item., A reversed version of George 5982, without artists names., and Mounted to to 32 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Witches, and Clothing & dress
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark, possibly with loss of design., Publication date conjectured from costume., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Crowds, Pickpockets, City & town life, Window displays, Cages, and Clothing & dress
A red-faced woman stumbles backwards, her feathered hat falling from her head and her cloak at her feet, causing the contents of her ewer to spill to the ground; she holds a cup in her hand. On the counter behind her are tavern supplies -- wine bottles, glasses, pitchers, kegs, etc
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 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):
Clothing & dress, Capes (Clothing), Hats, and Taverns (Inns)
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1793?]
Call Number:
Quarto 27 19 793B Copy 2
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 305. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney; full-length, facing the viewer with his gaze directed downward and to the right; his boyish face topped with a black hat and framed by long, curly brown hair; wearing a tan coat with gold trim, red stockings, and a white cravat; a sword hangs from his left hip and a muff covers his hands
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Bound in opposite page 305 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].
A smiling corpulent gentleman with the star of the Garter on his left breast walks to the right holding a tasselled walking stick under his right arm
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date conjectured and subject identified from a similar print by James Bretherton., Reduced and reversed copy of a similar print by James Bretherton., and In mirror-image micro-writing in lower left of image: "My Lord."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809,
Full-length depictions of a man in seventeenth-century dress, a feather in his hat, a sword at his side, holding a cane. The view of him from the back is drawn to the left of a wood-engraved image of Thomas Coryat's shoes, while the view of him from the front is drawn to the right. The Latin phrase "ad mortum est libi" is written in ink above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attribution to J.H. Shorthouse based on his ownership of the book and the presence of his initials "J.H.S" beneath the drawn frontispiece in the same volume., Date of production from local card catalog record., For the wood engraving on the same page as this drawing, see no. 78 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Drawn on page opposite signature l3 in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.