"Satire on the election for County Durham, 14 April 1784: Sir Thomas Clavering and Sir John Upton, one headless, holding a caption labelled 'The Irish Faction for ever' and carrying the other, who has no feet, on his back, who says 'I serv'd you as long as I could stand' and carries captions lavelled 'Coal owners Bill' and 'A command in India'; both seated on an ass facing left, which brays 'Thus I go to Parliament and am not the first Ass that has farted for preferment, but this is dirty work and hard Labour' and which has a collar labelled 'I speak for my Master / Populus me sibilat at plaudo ipse domi' and strips at the saddle labelled 'Curse all Pitts / But a Coal-Pitt'; with the ass' droppings falling on a crest with the motto 'Diem Perdidi'; a mitre, crozier and sword and label 'At rest' on the ground in the centre, playing cards and papers labelled 'Turnpike Speech / Election Speech' to left; a milestone to right labelled 'From Durham / T: C / J: E / 14 April 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Northern ass
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to W. Hutchinson from annotation on verso of British Museum impression. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1014.456., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark in the center of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Clavering, Thomas, Sir, 1719-1794, Eden, John, Sir, 1740-1812, and Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Donkeys, Defecation, Traffic signs & signals, Miters, Crosiers, Daggers & swords, and Playing cards
Caption title., In two columns with two woodcuts beneath the title., A satire on the Milan Commission and the British government's attempt to compile evidence of Queen Caroline's misbehaviour and infidelity. Printed together with 'A New Song' on the same subject., First line of A new song: O such a dream I had last night, ... ., Partially in verse., First line: Half past 3, cried old Charly with his lanthorn, half-past 3 ..., "Price one penny.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
A group of gentlemen seated at an oval table, with glasses full of wine, laugh uproariously at a joke as they look down at the dog at the foot of the table
Description:
Title from text at bottom of image., Companion print to: No effect., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶., First leaf is blank., With final contents leaf., First edition 1619., Printed by William Stansby. See E.E. Willoughby. A printer of Shakespeare, 1934., Title page variant: author's name incorrectly spelled "Raphe"., Title-page inscribed: G. Dury, Esq. [17th century hand?], Imperfect: Preliminary blank leaf A₁ wanting., and Formerly laid in: William Roberts Gichard "Commemorative English and French heraldry keepsake". See Lewis Walpole Library 53 C67B B79x
"Title page to catalogue of John Bowles, printer and printseller, at the Black Horse, Cornhill, London; text in rectangle at the centre, with naval scene showing two ships on the sea below; behind the text a map, a letter to Mr John Bowles, a landscape and a study of eyes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., "This title page was used for Bowles's catalogues from at least 1731, when his shop was at Mercer's Hall, Cheapside; the address was altered when he moved to Cornhill."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.19., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; John Bowles started trading at the sign of the Black Horse, Cornhill, by 1733. See British Museum online catalogue., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Bowles
Subject (Topic):
Warships, Maps, Landscapes (Representations), and Eyes
"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., 1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 26.5 x 19.3 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 99 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Caroline" identified in pencil below image; date "19 July 1821" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, with monstrous ostrich feathers in her hair."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
A view of the front of the stable at Cato Street at right, with diagrammatic floor plan at left
Description:
Title from item., Another state of this print was issued as an illustration in: An authentic history of the Cato-Street conspiracy / George T. Wilkinson. London : Thomas Kelly, [1820]., "Price 2s.", Trimmed to platemark., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on a board with two other prints showing the stable and its floor plan.
Publisher:
Pub. by A. Wivell 105 Titchfield St. & sold at Griffith's 230 Oxford Street
