"An emblematical and composite scene, with a realistic background intended for Lake Como, with the Villa d'Este (right), decorated with dancing figures as in British Museum satires no. 14171. In the foreground the Queen, between Bergami and Wood, falls from the tilting summit of a breaking pillar, supported on insecure props. She falls to the left, with Bergami, whose arm is round her waist. Wood, who holds her left hand, falls to the right, weighed down by a block inscribed 'Log' chained to his ankle. A small figure of Justice holding scales descends through the air towards them. The pillar resolves itself into separate blocks on each of which is a letter: 'M O B / I L I T Y'. A board resting on a ram's head forms the tiny platform from which the trio are falling. The pillar rests on a slab inscribed 'Adultery'. This is supported on the bewigged head of Brougham which is raised on three props: a massive broom, and two beams poised on a rectanglar cage in which sits a second and much smaller lawyer (Denman). The beams are respectively 'Sham Addresses' and 'Hired Processions' [see British Museum satires no. 14182]. These props are flanked by two ladders resting against the 'Adultery' slab, by which Bergami (see British Museum satires no. 14183) and Wood (see British Museum satires no. 13734) have reached the Queen. One (left) is inscribed 'Brass'; from it dangle emblems of Bergami: a postilion's boot, a whip, and a Maltese cross, see British Museum satires no. 13810. The other (right) is 'Wood'; from it dangle a bottle, a pestle and mortar, and a porter's knot. In the foreground (right) are thistles, emblem of 'Thistle-Wood', see British Museum satires no. 14146. On Lake Como sails (left) a one-masted vessel with a tent on its deck, the polacca, see British Museum satires no. 13818. Beyond its shores and on the extreme left are tiny buildings representing Jerusalem. A lake-side signpost, 'To Jerusalem', points in the same direction, and near it the Princess and Bergami ride side by side on asses (see British Museum satires no. 13918, &c.). On the right is a travelling-carriage, with two horses and a postilion; in it sit the same couple. On the door are the letters 'C·B'. In the lake behind it the pair are seen bathing, two nude figures standing waist-deep, holding hands. Near them is an empty rowing-boat inscribed 'Como'.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamesls St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"Satire on the duel between Horatio Walpole and William Richard Chetwynd showing the point where they are separated by a clerk. Walpole, on the right, accuses his opponent, "Would you not have hang'd my Brother at ye door of ye House", to which Chetwynd, falling back, his wig and hat slipping off, replies, "Yes by G[o]d & I had another Vote for You". On the left stands gowned gentleman in full-bottom wig, crying "Hold! Hold! I'll give you a dinner & make it up" (this man is identified by Stephens as Lord Hardwicke, but may well be intended for Speaker Onslow). On the right, two butchers encourage the duel, one saying, "Let 'um fight & be damnd" and the other, "No, No, he voted us Gin"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication advertised in London Daily Post, 14 March 1743. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Tow [i.e., two] worthy heroes of immortal fame, all in [the] passion to [the] combat came ..., Pipes's Ground, part of Westminster (London)., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768
"Satire on the duel between Horatio Walpole and William Richard Chetwynd showing the point where they are separated by a clerk. Walpole, on the right, accuses his opponent, "Would you not have hang'd my Brother at ye door of ye House", to which Chetwynd, falling back, his wig and hat slipping off, replies, "Yes by G[o]d & I had another Vote for You". On the left stands gowned gentleman in full-bottom wig, crying "Hold! Hold! I'll give you a dinner & make it up" (this man is identified by Stephens as Lord Hardwicke, but may well be intended for Speaker Onslow). On the right, two butchers encourage the duel, one saying, "Let 'um fight & be damnd" and the other, "No, No, he voted us Gin"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication advertised in London Daily Post, 14 March 1743. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Tow [i.e., two] worthy heroes of immortal fame, all in [the] passion to [the] combat came ..., Pipes's Ground, part of Westminster (London)., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Onslow, Arthur, 1691-1768
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
780.02.15.03++
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
15 Feby. 1780.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 19 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching in brown ink on laid paper, with brown and blue-gray wash ; sheet 41.9 x 57.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published by Js. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 and Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
"The Duke (left) and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed Best Wiltshire. The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer (see British Museum Satires No. 15596) and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. Two speeches float from his head: [1] "In love connubial, formed to live and last, This gift records a blissful twelvemonth past We claim, then boldly claim the flitch Dunmow First of the blest, who keep the marriag Vow". [2] I thought the flitch to small a present on this auspicious day so I have brought the Gammon with it Love. The Duchess answers: Thanks for your Bacon Duke well have you Saved it - and in return accept of this small Testimony of my affection. She wears Court dress, coronet, and feathers. The boatmen wear yellow and green liveries, and on the prow is a falcon's head; the back of the seat in the stern is decorated with a falcon perched on a melon resting on a heap of sovereigns. In the foreground are spectators: on the left the Dukes of Cumberland (wearing his hat) and Sussex stand together with Prince Leopold behind them; on the right is Sir Francis Burdett (son-in-law of Coutts), very thin, surprised, and displeased. In the background are other spectators, their heads concealed by the boat, and on the right a group of singers, some in Tyrolean costume, with (?) Braham and Miss Stephens; they sing: a boat a boat."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scene in the honeymoon and Conjugal felicity
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: character of Paul Pry, a man with an umbrella., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are dialy [sic] pub. the largest assortment of any house in town., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Braham, John, 1774-1856, and Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Spouses, Baskets, Bacon, Boats, Rowers, and Spectators
"Queen Caroline, stout and raddled, with black ringlets, stands full-face and four-square, bending forward as if bowing, with a fixed stare from black beady eyes. She wears the feathered hat (caricatured) of the 'trial', and a fur-bordered pelisse. Under her right arm is a rolled document, 'List of [Addres]ses'; in her left hand she awkwardly raises her skirts in order to bow. She stands on a grass plot in front of Brandenburgh House. Below the design: ... 'Lo! yonder she walketh in maiden sweetness, with innocence on her mind and modesty in her cheek. Her hand seeketh employment; her foot delighteth not in gadding abroad. She is cloathed with neatness; she is fed with temperance; humility and meekness are as a crown of glory circling her head. Her breast is the mansion of goodness; and therefere [sic] she suspecteth no evil in others. Decency is in all her words; in her answers are mildness and truth. Submission and obedience are the lessons of her life; and peace and happiness are her rewards. Before her steps walketh Prudence; and Virtue attendeth at her right hand. Her eye speaketh softness and love; but discretion with a sceptre sitteth on her brow. The tongue of the licentious is dumb in her presence; the awe of her virtue keepeth him silent. Happy Bartolomeo [Bergami]!!! he putteth his heart in her bosom, and receiveth Comfort. Thus the prudence of her management is an honor to her husband, and he must hear her praise with silent delight.!!!'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
Who is she that winneth the heart of man, that subdueth him to love ...
Description:
Attributed to Theodore Lane., Caption below the image: "Who is she that winneth the heart of man, that subdueth him to love, and reigneth in his breast?", With 24 lines of verse in two columns below the image; verse begins, "Lo! Yonder she walketh in maiden sweetness, with / innocence on her mind and modesty on her cheek.", and Watermark: J. Whatman 1821.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
Print shows an ugly and leering elderly man, identified as the London banker Thomas Coutts, embracing the actress Harriet Mellon (later Mrs. Coutts, and subsequently Duchess of St. Albans).
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge
Subject (Name):
Coutts, Thomas, 1735-1822 and St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837
Print shows Priestley walking right to left, diagonally away from the spectator; his face, turned in profile to the left, has a sinister smile. He holds out, as firebrands, two burning papers: 'Political Sermon' and 'Essay on Government'. From his pockets other papers project inscribed: 'Revolution Toasts, Essays on Matlin [sic] Spirit' and 'Gunpowder'. He tramples on books and papers, including an open book: 'Bible explained away.' Cf. British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Possibly executed by Samuel Collings, who is believed to have employed the pseudonym Annibal Scratch for some of his prints., Questionable attribution to John Nixon from unverified data in local catalog record., Text above image: Attic miscellany. Political portraiture no. 4., and Plate issued as an illustration in: Attic miscellany. London : Printed for Bentley and Co., v. 2, no. 22 (1791), page 369.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by W. Locke
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.