"A 'hieroglyphic letter' or rebus in answer to the foregoing. America (l.), as a Red Indian woman, seated and leaning to the left.; she holds a flag with thirteen vertical stripes in her left hand, in her right. she holds out a fleur-de-lys. Beside her is an oval shield on which are thirteen stars."(America) (toe) her (Miss)taken (Moth)er. (Yew) s(eye)lly (old woman) t(hat) (yew) have sent a (lure) (toe) us is very (plane) (toe) draw our at(ten)-t(eye)on from our re(awl) (eye)ntrests (butt) we are determ(eye)n'd (toe) ab(eye)de by our own ways of th(eye)nk(eye)ng (Ewer) [your] 5 (child)ren (yew) have sent (toe) us sh(awl) (bee) treated as V(eye)s(eye)tors, & safely sent home aga(eye)n (yew) may [? carved bracket] t them & adm(eye)re them, (butt) (yew) must (knot) (X)pect I of (ewer) (puppet)s w(eye)ll (comb) [come] home (toe) (yew) as sweet as (yew) sent h(eye)m, twas cruel toe send so pretty a (man) so many 1000 miles & (toe) have the fat(eye)gue of re[t](urn)ing back after (spike?)(eye)ng h(eye)s (coat) & d(eye)rt(eye)ng [dirting] t[hose] red (heel) (shoes) (eye)f (yew) are w(eyes) follow (ewer) own ad(vice) (yew) gave (toe) me take home ewer (ships) sold(eye)(ears) [soldiers] guard (well) (ewer) own tr(eye)fl(eye)(ling ?) [a fish]. & leave me (toe) my self as (eye) am at age (toe) know my own (eye)ntrests. w(eye)thout (ewer) (fool)(eye)sh ad(vice) & know t(hat) (eye) sh(awl) (awl)ways regard (yew) & my Brothers as relat(eye)ons (butt) (knot) as fr(eye)nds. (Eye) (am) (ewer) (grate)fy (eye)njured Daughter Amer(eye)k.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
America to her mistaken mother
Description:
Title from first line of text., A letter in form of rebus. The following words within title are represented by a rebus: America by a figure of an American Indian ; to by a toe ; 'mis' in 'mistaken' by an image of a girl ; 'moth' in 'mother' by an image of a moth., Reissue of a print originally published on 11 May 1778 by M. Darly. Cf. No. 5475 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below., and '9' in publication year erased and changed in contemporary hand to '8'.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Correspondence, and Hieroglyphics
Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fifteen lines of verse in center of sheet in a vignette between two images comprising this print: The sacred Lion conquers every foe, and tears in pieces all devouring beasts ..., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Emblems: Unicorn and thistle for Scotland., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 9., Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906., Watermark: Strasburg bend., and Mounted to 49 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from original version. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of no. 4056 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Processions: procession of aldermen and City officials from Guildhall to St. James's Palace, May 12, 1763 -- Fleet Street -- Churches: St. Bridge's Church -- Trades: merchants -- Zanies -- Animals: grotesque horses -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: trade emblems -- Prisons: Newgate -- Sir Charles Asgill, d. 1788 -- Sir Thomas Rawlison, d. 1769 -- Robert Alsop, d.1785 -- Marshe Dickinson, d. 1765 -- Sir Henry Bankes, d. 1774 -- Sir Francis Gosling, d. 1768 -- Richard Blunt, d. 1763 -- Sir Thomas Challenor, d. 1766., Watermark., and Mounted to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799, Harrison, Thomas, Sir, 1699 or 1700-1765, and Hodges, James, Sir, d. 1774
"Old woman and a boy with candles; he leans over her shoulder from the left to light his candle; she holds a basket and shields the flame with her hand; after a copy by Schalken after Rubens (Rooses 862)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From an original painting in the possession of George Rogers Esqr
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative title from text engraved below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1901,0611.24., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (inv. 8503). This painting might be the one owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., and Formerly laid in at page 27 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Bowen, opposite the Hay Market, Piccadilly
Collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Title page from a volume, the title of which is printed in letterpress above image: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. Published by John Boydell. Volume the first ..., Watermark., and With sig. a1, including preface on recto and list of prints on verso.
To Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, this plate is humbly inscribed by Her Royal Highness's much obliged and most obedient humble servant, Robt. Strange
Description:
Title assigned by cataloger based on title of original painting., Three lines of Latin verse below image: Ausa & jacentem visere regiam vultu sereno fortis, & asperas tractare serpentes-- Hor., Dedication etched in lower margin: To Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales this plate is humbly inscribed by ... Robt. Strange., Text below dedication: From the original painting of Guido Rheni in [the] collection of Her Royal Highness the P.D. of Wales., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Sold by the author next door to Parliament Street Coffee-house, Westminster, London, according to Act of Parliamt
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
1st March 1782.
Call Number:
782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly doctor wearing a wig rides a wretched-looking horse. The rider looks fierce; pulling on the reins, he looks ready to use his whip to slash the sorry horse
Alternative Title:
Doctor Dawdle in a hurry
Description:
Title from later state., Title written in pencil beneath image., Early state, before title engraved below image. For the later state bearing title, see no. 6142 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7., Printed on a single sheet with: Symptoms of running away / Js. Bretherton f. Dated January 9, 1782., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Mounted on page 13 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., 1 print : etching and drypoint with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 8 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Duke of Grafton.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Full length portrait of Grafton standing in profile to left and wearing a sword
Description:
Title from variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Variant state, without plate number "9" in upper left corner and with added roulette work. Cf. No. 6060 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Imprint etched over but visible., and Printing date of ca. 1806 conjectured from another print (Earl Nugent) in series on similar paper and with dated watermark. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 782.05.14.01.3 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Published 14th May 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811