"Burke (three quarter length) as a showman bends over his magic lantern in profile to the right. In the upper part of the design is a draped sheet on which are the objects thrown by the lantern. These are (left to right): [1] an oddly shaped elephant chained to a stake inscribed 'A Benares Flea'. [2] Three mountains piled one upon the other, inscribed respectively, 'Ossa', 'Pelion', 'Olympus'; the whole is 'A Begum Wart'. [3] Four large eyes dripping tears float half-submerged in the water they have produced, inscribed, 'Begums Tears'. [4] A whale spouting is 'An Ouzle'. From the right side of the magic lantern the end of a slide (or slider, cf. BMSat 6287) emerges; on it is an oriental seated cross-legged and smoking. Next the lantern (right) are the heads and shoulders of two spectators in back view who are applauding; one says "finely imagined"; the other, "poor Ladies they have cried their Eyes out". The 'profil perdu' of Lord Derby appears on the extreme right, saying, "very like an Ouzle [weasel]. "Polonius"" ['Hamlet', III. ii.]."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-79., Printmaker identified as Sayers in the British Museum catalogue., and Title from text in bottom part of image.
Publisher:
Publd. 6th May 1788 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1752-1834, Harvey, Francis, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Oudh (Princely State), Projectors, and Riviere & Son
"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, half-length, wearing a George on a ribbon, with ruff and slashed doublet; after a drawing by van Dyck in the Willett collection"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., Text below title: "What gave great Villiers to the Assassin's Knife? ... With Power too great to keep or to resign"; text below verses: "In the Collection of Ralph Willett Esqr.", and Title from caption below image.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Villiers,--Duke of,--1592-1628,--depicted. and Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, artist.
A weeping Lord North, with a bag labelled "The nations plunder" thrown over his shoulder, kneels in front of Charles Fox, begging him for protection as the devil, reining North in with a rope wound around his arms, pronounces him his favorite. Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, points out North's long record of breaking promises.
Alternative Title:
Lord North's supplication to Mr. Fox
Description:
Mounted to 27 x 42 cm., Publication date from George., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below title: Draws the clean vestments o'er the little limbs ..., Suckling; May 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-5-1-69., and Temporary local subject terms: Children -- Infants -- Motherhood.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1793, by A. Molteno, Printseller to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, No. 76 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria, 1765-1834 and Molteno, Anthony
"Anne Page standing on the steps of her father's house, one hand on her hip, gesturing with the other as she asks Slender and Shallow if they will step in, with Slender bowing his head coyly and Shallow watching them with his hat in his hands, view of a house among trees in the background to left"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Also lettered below image with "Shakspeare" and fourteen lines from scene: "Anne. Will't please your worship to come in, Sir? ... Slen. I had rather walk here, I thank you.", Numbered '10' in lower left., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 24, 1793 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
John and Josiah Boydell (Firm), Shakspeare Gallery, and Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
Engraved dedication leaves, with vignettes, signed by R. Ackermann, the publisher., Engraved title-pages., Plates dated 1808-1810., and Text by W.H. Pyne (v. 1-2) and W. Combe (v. 3) Plates by A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's respository of arts, T. Bensley, printer
Engraved dedication leaves, with vignettes, signed by R. Ackermann, the publisher., Engraved title-pages., Plates dated 1808-1810., and Text by W.H. Pyne (v. 1-2) and W. Combe (v. 3) Plates by A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's respository of arts, T. Bensley, printer
Engraved dedication leaves, with vignettes, signed by R. Ackermann, the publisher., Engraved title-pages., Plates dated 1808-1810., and Text by W.H. Pyne (v. 1-2) and W. Combe (v. 3) Plates by A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann's respository of arts, T. Bensley, printer