- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 1st, 1790.
- Call Number:
- 790.05.01.14
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A half length portrait of Fox, looking to the left, in his accustomed attitude when speaking: legs bent, hat in his right hand with his right arm raised as if to make a downward thrust. His hair is unkempt, his stockings ungartered, his shoes unlatched, and he holds the end of his shirt which escapes from under his waistcoat"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. i, p. 285., Temporary local subject terms: Speaking -- Reference to Demosthenes, 384-322 B.C., Collings's signature not present, probably cropped. Cf. George., and Mounted to 25 x 18 cm., mounted to 37 x 23 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Demosthenean attitude [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 6, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.06.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Modern patriot haranguing his constituents
- Description:
- Sheet trimmed to design and into imprint., Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Canvassing: Charles James Fox in Orkney boroughs -- Musical instruments: bagpipes -- Male costume: Scottish -- Scots -- Elections: Orkney boroughs, 1784 -- Birds -- Allusion to Jacobitism -- Boreas -- Wind., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet St.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A modern patriot harangueing his constituents [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 1st, 1791.
- Call Number:
- 791.03.01.01.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconce. He is giving a musical entertainment. In the text he is ridiculed as Petronius Broadgrin, noted for consummate effrontery, and he is recommended the works of Joe Miller as a repertory of jokes. Below the title: 'Wags have at ye.'"--British Museum online catalogue and A description of Dibdin's musical entertainments, Oddities and The Wags
- Alternative Title:
- Oddity wags have at ye
- Description:
- Title etched above image. Above title: Attic miscellany., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., For another state published under different title, see: Marmaduke Momus., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. ii, page 197., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
- Subject (Name):
- Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
- Subject (Topic):
- Musicians, Musical instruments, and Candelabras
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A musico-oratorical portrait an oddity wags have at ye / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 June 1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.06.24.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Beds -- Bed curtains -- Paintings amplifying the subject: portrait of Charlotte -- Tables -- Letters (Correspondence) -- Pistols -- Suicide attempts -- Chamber pots -- Literature: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Sorrows of Werter., and Watermark center left of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 24 June 1785 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Alas poor Werter! [graphic] Collings fec
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [18 June 1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.06.18.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Chancellors taught law and bishops divinity
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: Stanhope, House of Lords, June 9, 1789 -- Bills: defeated bill for relieving members of the Church of England, June 9, 1789 -- Furniture: chairs -- Coronets -- Fool's cap -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Parody of a schoolroom -- Clergy: bishops -- Lawyers: chancellors -- Wheelbarrows -- Spades -- Pick-axes., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
- Publisher:
- Published June 18, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 and Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chancellors taught law & bishops divinity [graphic].
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.01.01.01++
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below images on second and third sheets., Text below title: This plate, from an original drawing by Samuel Collings Esq., is dedicated with submission to the Right Honorable Philip Stanhope ..., Later state with altered imprint statement and added captions in lower margins; originally published by S.W. Fores on Nov. 16, 1790., Caption added to this later state in lower margin of first sheet: The graces, the graces., Caption added to this later state in lower margin of fourth sheet: Remember the graces., Thirteen designs on four plates, each individually captioned., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chesterfield's principles of politeness [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1785]
- Call Number:
- 785.02.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Warning piece to political boys
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker, place and date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Commutation Tax, 1785 -- Soap tax -- Tax on lights -- Tax on windows -- Signs: sign-posts -- Trades: washerwomen -- Vehicles: tumbrels -- Windows -- Pitt's speech -- Gallow ropes., and Partial watermark in upper right of plate: fleur-de-lis on shield with initials L V G.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxes, Traffic signs & signals, Gallows, Foxes, Horses, Farmers, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Country revenge, or, A warning piece to political boys [graphic].
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 1st, 1791.
- Call Number:
- Print00500
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Doctor Phlogiston, the priestley politician or the political priest! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [22 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.22.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Reynard at his wits end
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: Riding habits -- Election favors -- Canvassing -- Allusion to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, 1748-1811 -- Chains., and Watermark in center of sheet: Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 22, 1784, by W. Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Portland, Dorothy Cavendish, Duchess of, 1750-1794, Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784 and Political elections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fatal ambition, or, Reynard at his wits end [graphic].
- Creator:
- Collings, Samuel, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.03.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Duchess of Devonshire, with Fox's name inscribed on her hat, canvasses an obese butcher standing in front of his stall in the market. She holds his left hand in hers. He wipes his mouth while another butcher, standing behind the counter, encourages him to kiss the duchess. One of her female companions turns her head back to kiss an artisan standing behind her while she passes him a small purse
- Alternative Title:
- Devons----e canvas and Devonshire canvas
- Description:
- Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd April 3rd, 1784 by Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Political elections, Butchers, Markets, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Female influence, or, The Devons---e canvas [graphic].