"Thomas Coke of Norfolk leads his bride through a pastoral landscape; he prances gaily along hat in hand, turning to look at her, and singing, Oh the Days when I was Young; in his left hand is a book: Coke upon Littleton [see British Museum Satires No. 14423]. She takes his left arm, holding back the gauze veil that floats from a bonnet trimmed with flowers and towering feathers. Her tight-waisted pelisse has a deep crimson border. She is gravely demure, but sings: Of all the Gay Lads that Dance on the Green, Old Tommys the Lad for Me. He looks younger than 67, she older than 18. Behind them (right) is a country church, before them a signpost pointing To the Breeding Park and To the Nursery. An old ram branded C approaches a sheep; a French greyhound prances towards a decrepit and shaggy dog."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Collector's stamp in red on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below., and Watermark: A. Stace 1801.
Publisher:
Pub. March 26th, 1822, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752-1842 and Keppel, Anna Amelia, Countess of Leicester, 1803-1844
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Walking, Dogs, Sheep, and Traffic signs & signals
A medley of engraved representations of several prints laid on top of others. The largest print, at the bottom of the pile, and so partially obscured, is identified by a banner at the top that reads "The three false bretherns" and are identified below as Daniel [Defoe], the Pope and the devil. Other prints laying on top include "A deformed head in the pillory", a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, two playing cards, "A Whig & Tory a wrestling", "On the calves head feast".
Alternative Title:
Whigs medley
Description:
Title from engraved image of a plate in lower right portion of image; engraver's monogram from image in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
"Satire on Lord Bute in the form of a reply to Henry Howard's bawdy ballad, "The Queen's Ass" (BM Satires 3870): the zebra kicks Howard, who has fallen to the ground, behind him a group of men comprising John Fielding, the three Cherokee chiefs who visited London in 1762, and another who may be identified as the man referred to in the verse below as "M-re [who] sally'd forth the fair Sex to relieve"; on the right, Bute, dressed in tartan and wearing a boot, riding a tamed British Lion; a Jewish stockbroker in the stocks; and George Whitfield looking into a mirror which reflects the image of an ass. In the background Charles Churchill, wielding a stick, chases off Bute's supporters, the journalists Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett, who raise their hands in surprise. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns by "Fartinando", to be sung to the tune of "The Ass in the Chaplet"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Answer to Harry Howard's ass
Description:
Caption title below etching., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (late mark 30.1 x 20 cm). Etching signed: J. Jones delin et sculpt., Harry H----d's = Henry Howard., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The lion bears some resemblance to those designed by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale for the Ladies Amusement (first published by Sayer in 1760), especially plate 108, and was perhaps copied from his work. Cf. British Museum online catalogue., Ten stanzas of verse below title: Permit me good people (a whimsical bard) and snarl not [the] critical class ..., and Mounted to 35 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Jews, Clergy, England, National emblems, British, Stocks (Punishment), and Zebras
"Peel stands directed to the left holding a dome-shaped wire cage containing rats; his left hand is on his hip. He wears a small battered hat, once a topper, a collar and stock, patched greatcoat with sheepskin collar and many pockets; loose boots to the calf. A document projects from his coat-tail pocket. Above his head: 'I turns my hand to any thing now I ketches Rats like winking.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate signed in bottom left-hand corner using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Cf. Heath, W. The man wot drives the sovereign, which shows Wellington as a coach driver, also publisher in 1829 by MacLean.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1829 by T. McFat, 26 Straw-market [i.e. T. McLean, 26 Haymarket]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830. and Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Animal traps, Newspapers, and Ratcatchers
"George IV sits jauntily astride a tall high-stepping giraffe, at the base of the neck, hands on hips. Lady Conyngham (left) sits sideways on the sloping back, close to the tail, her vast posterior projecting. She smiles over her shoulder. He wears a straw hat with wide curving brim. She is décolletée, with large gigot sleeves and feathers in her hair. Four Nubians (right) bow obsequiously."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New hobby
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on subject: A camel was present to the King at Windsor on 13 August 1827., and Attribution to William Heath and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
A scene in a room: Justice Henry Fielding stans in a circle drawn on the floor, the scales of 'Astrea' in his pocket, his hand supported on the sword of Justice. Also in the circle as if to protect them from witchcraft are the Lord Mayor Sir Crisp Gascoyne, his state collar round his neck, and "Dr." John Hill, the clyster-pipe of 'Galen' in his pocket; the latter points to the gypsy Mary Squires whose cause he advocated. Fielding points to Elizabeth Canning with an attendent(?) behind, whose story he eagerly defended. Two pictures hanging on the wall amplify the subject of the print: on the left, a view of the Mansion House, London, then recently erected; and on the right, a view of the Old College of Physicians, comprising a mortar, a dried and stuffed skin of a crocodile, a human skeleton, and a stuffed ostrich. Between the pictures hangs the regalia of the City of London. Centered on the ground is a bottle labelled 'Another bottle' alluding to the 'Bottle-Conjurer' (See British Museum satire 'The magician' no 3022).
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Pr. 6d"--Lower right below verses., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: When one head has a cause in hand, A cause it cannot understand; Auxilliarys must be good, To make the matter understood: Three conj'rers sure must find ye out, Which, one, might ever hold in doubt., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and British.
Subject (Name):
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761, Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773, and Squires, Mary, -1762
Subject (Topic):
Romani, Fraud, Interiors, Criminals, Physicians, British, Government officials, and Magicians
Paine (head and shoulders only visible) dangles on a noose from a lamp-bracket, the post of which is inscribed 'Rights of This Man'. The head of Orléans with the horns of a devil looks down at Paine from behind the post, which he clutches with his talons. From the lamp dangles an escutcheon, on which are pairs of stays and a chevron, with the motto 'Common Sense'.
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., With eighteen lines of letterpress text attacking Paine, beginning: Setting forth as how Tom was born at Thetford ..., and Dated '1794' in a contemporary hand. Beneath the date is a later pencil inscription: ‘This is said to contain a strong likeness of Paine and is not a print to be bought.’
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.114+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"George IV, dressed as a sportsman, in a broad-brimmed hat, jacket with many pockets, and gaiters above the knee, walks in Windsor Park beside a deer with a woman's head and wearing a collar inscribed 'Chester'. He puts his arm round her neck, and says, staring at her amorously, '"I'll build you my Dear [altered to] deer a neat Cottage close by, | Where We can retreat unobserved, on the sly, | So be not afraid of the old Cunning Doe, | Whose stale selfish Tricks are become quite So-so.' They are under a tree; bushes screen them from the Cottage (left), just below Windsor Castle on its steep hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Head ranger and his fallow dear
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "dear" has been scored through and replaced with the word "deer" etched above., Questionable attribution to Thomas Howell Jones from the British Museum catalogue., and Month of publication is undetermined; the British Museum catalogue suggests June, while the British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1868,0808.9128) suggests ca. April.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Windsor Great Park (England),
Subject (Name):
Windsor Castle,, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Chester, Eliza, 1799-, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
"Princess Charlotte (three-quarter length) stands at a table looking into a large (chinoiserie) punch-bowl (right) in which Bonaparte frantically swims towards her, among agitated waves, his large hat floating in the water. The Princess, very mature for her seven years, wears a cap with a jewelled fillet inscribed 'Ich Di[en]' in which are three feathers. Round her neck on a rope of pearls hangs an oval miniature of the Prince of Wales. She holds her left fist over the bowl, saying, "There you impertinent boasting swaggering Pigmy, - take that, - You attempt to take my Grandpap's Crown indeed, and plunder all his Subjects, Fillet you know that the Spirit and Indignation of every Girl in the Kingdom is roused at your Insolence."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and "Vide Gulliver's Vouyage to England"--Text following title.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octobr. 21st, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Adaptations, parodies, etc, Bowls (Tableware), Girls, Pendants (Jewelry), Rulers, and Swimming