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
The profiles of an elderly and ugly pair, registering hostile anxiety, meet, their tongues touching, while between them is a punch-bowl. Just above their heads two doves bill on a branch.
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-4-174., Mounted to 37 x 30 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fores, S. W.
Subject (Topic):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley, Bowls (Tableware), Couples, Doves, Harvey, Francis, Kissing, Older people, and Riviere & Son
From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Mounted to 42 x 29 cm., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered '208' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: taverns -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Smoking: pipes -- Pets: dogs., Two columns of verse printed below title: At a tavern one night, Messrs. More, Strange, and Wright ..., Walter Schatzki ; Jan. 1964 ; Acquisitions no.: 964-1-1-66., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Published 12th February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiv, p. 13., Printseller's stamp on verso, trimmed: Sold by C. Murton, stationer [...]., and Title from caption below image.
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole with his ms. note quoting Pope, two stanzas, mounted below: "Thus, I dear Friend, to you my thoughts impart, ... And really are what others but profess," from Congreve's Epistle to Sr. K. Temple, followed by a stanza beginning "And you, brave Cobham, to the latest breath ... O save my country, Heav'n' shall be your last" from Pope., Numbered in lower right '22'., Plate no. 22 from: Faber, J. Kit-Cat Club : done from the original paintings of Sr. Godfrey Kneller. London: Tonson and Faber, [1732-1735]., Sheet trimmed to: 35.1 x 25.3 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
[J. Tonson & J. Faber]
Subject (Name):
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723
Subject (Topic):
Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749 and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 [[Ownership
"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Scotch paradise and View of the Buteifull garden of Edenburg
Description:
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-53., Mounted to 31 x 46 cm with Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mount., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The 'i' in Buteiful is an image of an 'eye', a rebus. "Eden" in Edenburg in all capitals., and Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Sold at Sumpters political prints warehouse, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
View of the beautiful garden of Edinburgh
Description:
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Print Shop; October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-188., Reduced copy, without plate number, of no. 4006 ("Scotch paradice") in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
[E. Sumpter]
Subject (Name):
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787
Subject (Topic):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pe, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779