"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.6 x 25.9 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 28.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 4 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.4 x 50.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The dash preceding "Revolution Society" in title has been clipped from sheet, with a replacement dash written in ink on the piece of laid paper used to mend the hole. Below this is written in a contemporary hand: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
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
"A whole length satirical portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, directed to the right; in his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal; his right hand is in his waistcoat pocket. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Norfolk dumpling
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Food: allusion to dumplings -- Hair fashion: cropped hair -- Obesity., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.3 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 27.0 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr. Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., State with date in 'Tottenham Court Nursery" sign changed from 1746 to 1745., Dedication etched below image: To His Maiesty the King of Prusia [sic], an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43 x 55.4 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 37 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Plate 37. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The March to Finchley"; scene at Tottenham Court (after the painting in the Foundling Museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend London from the Jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for Dr Rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "God Save our Noble King" and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland) and a Jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a young chimney sweep, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink. In the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of Giles Gardiner (Adam and Eve depicted), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to the right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of Charles II's head; beyond the sunlight shines on Hampstead village on the hill"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
March to Finchley
Description:
Title engraved below image., Dedication etched below image: "To His Majesty the King of Prussia, an encourager of the arts and sciences! This plate is most humbly dedicated.", 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 43.2 x 55.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted on leaf 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 37 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
"A London justice of peace seated behind a table in his office, his hands clasped. On his right and left are three men holding their hats and canes, who may be either justices or visitors. At the end of the table (left), sits the justice's clerk writing with his left hand. On the wall over the presiding justice's head is a placard, "Robbery, Murder ... Beware of Justice"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., The initials "H.W." suggest the design is after Henry Wigstead. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Annotated with price "6 d." in lower right corner, in ink in a contemporary hand., and Formerly mounted on leaf 3 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
"The Thames at the centre with boats on the water, figures on the quay to the right, a mansion by the quay and the city in the back, Richmond Hill in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of Richmond Hill from the Earl of Cholmondeley's and Vue de la Montagne de Richmond de la maison du Conte de Cholmondelly
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Views of villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, &c. situate on, or near the river Thames", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 88, no. 13., Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet and replaced with number "6" written in ink. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1872,1012.5399., Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 39 cm., and Leaf 10 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleetstreet
Subject (Geographic):
Richmond (London, England), Thames River (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, Earl of, 1703-1770
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Rivers, Dwellings, Piers & wharves, and Boats
Leaf 11. London and its environs about 1750. Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View down the canal in the park, looking towards Buckingham House, trees on either side, fashionably dressed figures in foreground in park, a few ducks on the water."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü̈e du canal et de la Maison de Buckingham dans le Parc de St. James
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2277., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet and replaced with number "10" written in ink. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Mounted to 24 x 38 cm., and Leaf 11 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Canals, Castles & palaces, Pedestrians, Trees, and Ducks
Leaf 11. London and its environs about 1750. Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"View down the canal in the park, looking towards Buckingham House, trees on either side, fashionably dressed figures in foreground in park, a few ducks on the water."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü̈e du canal et de la Maison de Buckingham dans le Parc de St. James
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2277., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet and replaced with number "10" written in ink. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; sheet 16.2 x 26.2 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 55 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Buckingham Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Canals, Castles & palaces, Pedestrians, Trees, and Ducks
