"Men and women eating in the open air, at a table, some sitting, others standing. In the background are the tents of a camp; in the middle distance (right) eight men and women holding hands are dancing in a ring. A man of grotesque appearance, one eye covered with a circular patch, sits full-face, plying a knife and fork. Behind him stands Wilkes, who is chucking a pretty maid-servant under the chin so that she spills the wine which she has just poured out. This attracts the amused attention of a man standing behind Wilkes, and of one sitting at the table. The other figures are indicated only by their heads, which are perhaps portraits: there are two women of attractive appearance, one, whose high-dressed hair is decorated with feathers, the other with a hat trimmed with a cockade and feathers; a grotesque-looking old man with unkempt hair who is drinking wine; an old man with a grenadier's cap. A man seated on the bench shows only a wig and a broad back. On the bench is also a sucking-pig which a dog is seizing. On the ground are bottles, a pile of plates, and a brimming punch-bowl. Two cocks (right) are fighting. Beneath the title is engraved "Oh what a charming Thing is eating"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Ttrimmed within plate line on top and bottom.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Military camps, Eating & drinking, Cockfighting, and Dance
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., and Temporary local subject terms: Publicans -- Squires -- Interiors: publican's parlor -- Smoking -- Dishes: tankards -- Pictures: Rowlandson's 4 Horse accomplishments prints on wall.
"An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells., and Mounted on page 75 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
"An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.4 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 29.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 55 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
"An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
In a crowded street gentlemen, a young butcher's boy delivering a slab of meat on a tray, and a dustman smoke pipes and cigars creating large billows of smoke as ladies in large hats, some barely visible in the clouds of smoke, hold handkerchiefs to their eyes and noses. A large bull dog drowls heavily as he watches the smoke pouring from the boy's cigar
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 245 x 381 mm.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 25 1827 by Thos. McLean Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dogs, Hats, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155., and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 28.6 x 21.2 cm.
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155.
Title from item. and Mounted; ms. note on mount: "Wilkes, Hogarth, Ch. Churchil." Additional ms. note: "Alludes to the quarrel between Wilkes & Hogarth. Wilkes replied to Hogarth's satirical portrait of Wilkes by the North Briton XVII which is very bitter in tone. There is little doubt that this quarrel shortened Hogarth's life."
Publisher:
Sold by E. Sumpter, in Fleet Street, publish'd according to act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764.