"A squarely built young man walks, with an unseeing stare, diagonally towards the spectator and to the left, on a pavement. He wears a round hat, high coat-collar over swathed neckcloth; his double-breasted 'Jean de Bry' coat, see BMSat 9425, is strained across a double-breasted waistcoat horizontally striped. He wears long breeches or pantaloons which drape his legs, and low pumps with cross gartering above his ankles. In his right hand he clutches a tasselled cane, held horizontally."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving with roulette on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.8 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 23.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 74 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 8th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Mrs. Schwellenberg, enormously fat and heavily laden, supported by small wings, floats or falls head foremost down a broad slanting ray, which extends from a sun with a crown in its centre in the upper right corner of the print and stretches across the sea to a castellated town flying a flag inscribed 'Hanover'. Half only of the crown and sun is visible. Her massive legs terminate in tiny feet. In her arms are two large money-bags, labelled 'Pr Ann.' and '£1000000'. Her bulging pocket hangs downwards, a rosary and cross hanging from it."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Angel gliding on a sunbeam into Paradise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "Down thither, prone in flight, lo Schwelly speeds, & with her brings the gems and spoils of Heav'n.", Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Sunbeams -- Bags of money -- Rosaries -- House of Hanover -- Crowns -- Allusion to George III -- Allusion to Queen Charlotte -- Literature: altered quotation from John Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 30.5 x 22.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 11th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
In a woodland setting Shelburne and Pitt sit smiling behind a cloth-covered table on which are coins and bags of money. A glum-looking Fox stands several feet distant with hands in pockets. A reference to Fox's exclusion from office while Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Shelburne ministry. The title is a quotation from Paradise Lost
Alternative Title:
Aside he turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign, eyed them askance
Description:
Title from text etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 22.5 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 25.4 x 33.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Dec. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Postcard depicting a girl bribing a boy posed as a judge and Legally themed postcard depicting a girl bribing a boy posed as a judge
Description:
Verso of postcard: National series number 100., "Made in Great Britain."--Verso of postcard. , Name of the photographer "BASSANO" on front lower right corner of postcard. , Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281655, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM Z Postcards v.1 no.7 tall, Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Bassano opened his first studio in London in 1850. He became the leading royal and high society portrait photographer in Victorian London.
The Devil stands at the center of a mountain top with outstretched wings, dressed in lawyers wig and bands, but with horns on his head and feet with claws. On the left Fox kneels, eagerly receiving from Satan a dice box and dice, an allusion to his notorious gambling habit, while on the right Burke receives a scourge and rosary, a reference to his supposed Catholicism. A satire on the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment
Alternative Title:
Old-orthodox restoring consolation to his fallen children
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and approximate date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possible remnants of burnished imprint in lower right, with the publisher name "E. D'Achery" faintly visible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.0 x 32.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 46 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Gambling, Catholicism, and Clothing & dress
"Lord Wycombe, scarcely caricatured, walks to the left, his head in profile, left hand on hip, right on a club-like walking-stick. His coat is curiously cut, his (striped) waistcoat longer and breeches shorter than the contemporary fashion. He wears a neck-cloth and shoes. His gait is slouching and his dress rather slovenly. Clouds form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One line of quoted text below title: "Whenever I wish to form a proper estimate of a mans mind, I observe his manners & dress." Lord Chesterfield., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: waistcoat -- Breeches -- Literature: quotation from Earl of Chesterfield's (1694-1773) Letters., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.2 x 25.8 cm, on sheet 45.6 x 29.1 cm., Watermark: Edmeads & Co. 1811., and Mounted on leaf 7 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 8th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, John Henry Petty, Marquess of, 1765-1809
"General Manners walks in profile to the left, with knees flexed, bending forward, his hands clasped behind his back, a cane under his arm. He wears a round hat, small pigtail, and plain, old-fashioned dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Walking staves -- Literature: quotation from Epitaph on John Gay by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.3 x 18.3 cm, on sheet 34.2 x 24.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 4th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Fox (left), with a fox's head and brush, directs the rays from the dark-lantern of a conspirator upon Shelburne (right), who is wrapped in a cloak, and carries a small sack inscribed "Treasury". Fox, who is out at elbows, his breeches unbuttoned at the knee, his stockings ungartered, his shoes dilapidated with his bare toes protruding, is saying, "Ah! what I've found you out, have I? Who arm'd the high Priests & the People? Who betray'd his Mas------" Shelburne, with a smile of complacent triumph, is saying, "Ha! Ha! - poor Gunpowder's vexed! - He, He, He! - Shan't have the Bag I tell you, Old Goosetooth!" (Cf. BMSat 5843, &c.) The background is shaded to suggest night, Shelburne's head and shoulders being brilliantly lit by the rays of the dark lantern."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Guy Vaux and Judas Iscariot
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Questionable publication information from British Museum catalogue, which supplies the publication line from a probable earlier state: Pubd. Augt. 14th, 1782, by E. D'Achery, St. James's Street., Text following title: Dialogues of the dead: page 1782., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching & engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.8 x 34.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 1 of 12.
Publisher:
E. D'Achery?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Lanterns, Foxes, and Clothing & dress
"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
Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by his adoption of annexation as his own cause in the election. Whig candidate Henry Clay, astride a white horse, argues against annexation as proposed by Tyler and supported by Polk. Former President Andrew Jackson (Democratic Party), stands by a tree with a noose, inviting Polk to turn over Tyler so Jackson can "annex" him by the noose to the tree
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printed area measures 43.5 x 32.0 cm.
Publisher:
H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
