Portrait of James Gibbs; head in profile to the right, wearing wig; in medallion set in decorative frame, with oak leaves; headpiece to an unidentified publication
Alternative Title:
Jacobus Gibbs architectus
Description:
Title and date engraved around image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 143 in volume 2.
Short half-length portrait of the architect James Gibbs, looking to the right, in an oval, decorated frame
Alternative Title:
Jacobus Gibbs architectus A.M. & F.R.S. 1750
Description:
Title and date engraved below image., State from Paulson. Burin work on face could be work of Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 288., and On page 143 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 27.7 x 20 cm.
"A bear (right), wearing Cossack trousers and an imperial crown surmounted by a double-headed eagle, runs off to the right. He carries a piece of mountainous country inscribed Greece on which kneels a tiny Greek in profile to the left, exclaiming Save me from my Friends. The bear (the Tsar) tramples on the neck of a turkey, with the bearded, turbaned, and terrified head of the Sultan, which lies on its back. The bear looks fiercely over his shoulder towards an angry English sailor who sits in an open boat with a cannon mounted in the bows. The sailor wears a top-hat with a ribbon inscribed Navar[ino, see BM Satires No. 15507, &c]; he has dropped an oar to lean back, extending his clenched fist towards the bear, and shouting: Halloo--master-drop that, or d--me I'll run along side of you, in no time. Cannon-balls are piled in the stern; above them flies a Union flag topped by oak leaves. On the farther side of the water (left) stands Charles X, a capering French fop in the dress of the ancien régime, with a cane under his arm. He says: By gar he is take away all de Greece. The scene is watched from a distance by the Emperor of Austria, who draws his sword, saying, I should like a bit of that."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Imperial bears grease or a peep into futurity
Description:
Title from caption below image; the letters "a" and "s" in the word "grease" are crossed out and the letters "e" and "c" etched above to form the word "Greece.", Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 223.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836
Subject (Topic):
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, Bears, Crowns, Sailors, British, National emblems, Russian, and Turkeys
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to right, a manager with a scourge seizing an elderly man, and a man pulling a cart, which he says is full of dead infants to be sold to surgeons; to left, a manager turning away the starving poor who beg to be let in."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: Dedicated to those two ugly old women, Mothers Brougham and Martineau., Asterisk in title is explained by note below image, in lower right: * For workhouse, read slave house., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 57.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Children, Forced labor, British, Punishment & torture, Poor persons, Law and legislation, Poor laws, and Political satire, English
"John Bull, as a burly and ugly sailor, sits enthroned (right), listening to Melville's plea of innocence. Melville, in Highland dress, and wearing a feathered bonnet, stands in profile to the right. with clasped hands and flexed knees; he says: "Indeed Mr Bull - I knaw nae more aboot it - than Johnny Groat o'the Highlands." Trotter lurks behind him (left) furtively twitching his superior's kilt, and jerking his thumb to the left.; he says: "Take my advice - and let us Trot off while we are well, he looks confounded inquisitive." John scowls and glares pugnaciously, saying, "Why Look ye - de ye see - I dont come for to go for to say - exactly, that you sack'd the cole - all I say is the Shiners set sail - and as you had the care of the Hatches - it is, likely, you should know what Port they steer'd into! I say let's look at your log book Old one." He wears striped trousers and a knotted scarf; in his hat is a tobacco-pipe. His chair stands on a dais and is decorated with a crowned anchor and dolphins."--British Museum online catalogue and A satire on Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who was accused of appropriating funds for non-naval purposes during his tenure as Lord of the Admiralty. Dundas was the most prominent Scottish politician of his era and instrumental in the progress of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is controversial today through his delaying the abolition of slavery for several years
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull makeing a naval enqury and John Bull making a naval enquiry
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Publisher's advertisement in lower right: Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 1st, 1805, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811., and Trotter, Alexander, 1750-1830
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Sailors, British, Thrones, Ethnic stereotypes, and Pleading (Begging)
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist from British Museum catalogue., Cf. No. 10766, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description lacking imprint statement., and Temporary local subject terms: Grog -- Cutlass -- Swords -- Guns -- Pistol -- Reference to Holland -- Dutchmen -- Reference to Italy -- Reference to Denmark -- Reference to America -- Reference to Westphalia -- Tobacco box -- Pipe -- Turk.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt., 1807 by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Beauharnais, Eugène de, 1781-1824
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Insects, Sailors, British, and Weapons
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and On page 289 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 24.4 x 28.9 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm, mounted again to 34 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
Leaf 65. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"On the left: An old sailor with a long pigtail, and wearing an old-fashioned blue coat with gold lace, points with a pointer at a large decoration by Thornhill. He leans against an iron railing, standing on raised stone flags. A corner of the decoration is shown, swirling allegorical figures, nude and partly draped. On the right: The lower left corner of a large heavily framed picture with a man in Roman draperies, and a woman in longer draperies. Two sightseers and a small boy gaze at the wall, the man yawning cavernously. Three lines of text in lower right corner of design: "Here is Prince George of Denmark, and in & the Prospective a View of St Pauls London, Sr James Thornhill in the Wig &&&'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Rosedale, mariner
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 10787 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 71., and On leaf 65 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
George, Prince, consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1653-1708., Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734., and Rosedale, John (Mariner)