"Portrait of the infant musical genius William Crotch; aged 3, half length, full face; holding music sheet; wearing feathered hat; oval on pedastal with musical ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text on pedestal within image., Two lines of biographical information beneath image: This celebrated child who discover'd extraordinary talents for music during the third year of his age, was born at Norwich July 5th, 1775., Dedication at bottom of plate: To Sir Harbord Harbord Bt. L.L.D. this plate is by permission most humbly inscribed by his faithful and obedient servant, Isabella Crotch., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament May 12th, 1779, by Mrs. Crotch, near St. James's Street, Piccadilly
"The interior of a pawnbroker's shop. Behind a counter (l.) an old man wearing a cap and spectacles is bargaining with a customer over a watch. On the wall above his head is inscribed "Money lent by Judas Gripe". The customer, a well-dressed man, leans on the counter. Next him is a young woman holding a garment which she intends to pawn. Behind her a man standing on tip-toe reaches over her head to offer the pawnbroker a wig. An elderly and ragged woman is counting the coins she has received. A man (r.) in profile to the right. has just taken the buckles off his shoes, his left. foot raised on a stool. Behind the figures and against the wall at r. angles to the counter is a large cupboard, the upper part fronted with panes of glass; behind this are many pawned articles including a number of watches, books, a violin, a sword, jugs, bowls, a barber's bowl, a hat. Inside the counter, which is hollow, are rolls of material."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and First state, without printmaker's initials and before alterations to title and imprint.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 9th April 1779 by Robert Wilkinson, at No. 58, in Cornhill
Three animals in coats and hats with feathers mounted on donkeys gather on a road with a house and walled garden in the distance. Text below the image: Welcome Brother, view us well, And which you most resentble tell. Seven we together make, Count us, and don't mistake. Our looks relationship betray, So you may either Grin or Bray
Description:
Title etched below image, centered between two columns of verse. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his print and map warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Churchyard, London
"Portraits of Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, at right, in profile to left, facing a lady, directed to right, in separate medallions, surmounted by ribbons; illustration to 'The Town and Country Magazine' (1779, p.233). 1779"--British Museum online catalogue
"Twelve views seen in a peep-show, the views being arranged in four rows; the outside of the box or booth is seen on the left, a boy looks through a round hole, the showman points, saying to him, "There you shall see". His words are given at length in the accompanying text"--British Museum online catalogue and "From the ‘Westminster Magazine’, vii. 282 (folding plate). [1] ‘The Distressed Financier.’ ... [2] ‘The Generals in America doing nothing, or worse than nothing.’ ... [3] ‘Proving that they have done every thing.’ ... [4] ‘Jemmy Twitcher Overseer of ye Poor of Greenwich.’ .... [5] ‘The Duke of Richmond turned Linen-Draper’ ... 6] ‘The Opposition Pudding-makers.’ ... [7] ‘Cha. Ja Tod abusing ye national Gamblers.’ ... [8] ‘The Jerseymen treating ye French with Gunpowder tea.’ ... [9] 'The Scotch Presbyterians pulling down the Papists Houses.' ... [10] 'The English Papists laughing at ye Protestants.' ... [11] 'A Picture of Irish Resolution.' ... [12] ‘Inside View of the Long Room at ye Custom House.’ ..."--British Museum curator's comments
Alternative Title:
Picture of parties and politics
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 1st. of July 1779 by Fielding & Walker ...
"A scene of disorder; men sitting and standing round a circular table; they are smoking, gesticulating and drinking. A very fat man, seated on the farther side of the table, wearing a hat and smoking, his hands folded, says,"we want men of Activity". His neighbour, also smoking, adds "To destroy all their Looms". The next man (left), clenching his fists, says, "Blood & Guts, what are we all about - our Armys are grazing in Idleness, like a Flock of Sheep till they die of the Rot - I'd send them to Slaughter all the Cattle on the Enemy's Coast & make the Papist Scoundrells keep a long Lent of it". A man (right) holding up a foaming tankard, says "Old England will never be conquer'd while we can Brew such Drink as this". A barber, a comb stuck in his hair, an implement for curling hair protruding from his pocket, leans back in his chair, saying, "We're all in the Suds - I could shew them a way to lower their French Toupees". On his right stands the figure of 'Prattle' (Atkinson of Pall Mall), as in BMSat 5603 but in reverse. He is saying, "Beg your Pardon my Dr Sir, meant no Offence my Dr Mr Tallow - too much Love & Respect - your Perfectly in the Right - of the same Opinion of my Led & I - they'll never Invade us as you say & my Lud Chatter observed to me the other Night at Lady Carbuncles". He is addressing a stout man standing on the left of the table, who flourishes a stick in his right hand while with a blow from his fist he overturns a punch-bowl, having upset a tankard, a lemon, and a number of wineglasses which are falling to the ground. He says "Dont Talk to me of your Dukes & your Lords, I'm a True Born Englishman, & dont care for Nobody not I - they dare not invade us - Damme they dare not - you Glister Pipe, you pitiful Plaister Spreader You------". A dog barks at him. A thin and rather ragged-looking man on his right, his hands in his breeches pockets, says "Invade us - Damme, what can Soup Meager do against Beef & Plumb Pudding"; a pair of scissors projecting from his coat-pocket shows that he is a tailor; his stockings are ungartered and his shoes are unbuckled. On the extreme left an elderly man with a tie-wig and wearing a hat and pince-nez, sits in a chair reading a newspaper; he holds up a hand in dismay saying, "All's lost". Behind stands a waiter, his napkin under his arm, saying "Dr Prattle says right - I'll go over to the Opposition and never drink another Pot with my Lords Footman". Hats are hung up on the wall, and a bracket-clock shows that it is one o'clock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Apothecaries, tailors, &c. conquering France and Spain and Apothecaries, tailors, conquering France and Spain
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint. Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
"A satire on "hireling constables", that is, on constables who were paid as substitutes for parishioners who were bound to serve annually without pay. The interior of a watch-house, where the constable of the night sits in an armchair, wearing a hat and holding a long staff. Watchmen are bringing in persons arrested during the night, others sit or stand about; some are smoking. All the figures have the heads of apes. A watchman bringing in a young woman shows the constable his broken lantern. He is followed by a watchman bringing in a well-dressed young man. Other watchmen, with a woman wearing an apron, are seen through a large open doorway; behind them are buildings and the tower of Westminster Abbey. On the top of the door, which opens inwards, sits a large owl. A large fire blazes. The room is lit by a lantern hung from the roof and two large candles. Large flagons of drink are in evidence. Verses (eighteen lines) are engraved beneath the design, whose tenor is that the young woman is used by the constable as a decoy, the man is charged (falsely) with having assaulted the watch and broken the lantern. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Trimmed within plate line with loss of imprint.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed., and Subjects of the prints dentified as Earl of Loudon and Margaret Woffington. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr ...
Subject (Name):
Loudon, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782. and Woffington, Margaret, -1760.
"On the further side of a stream, inscribed "Rubicon - Flu -", a bull representing John Bull is being baited. On his back sits Lord North in profile to the left., very obese and asleep; at his back is a large square pack, inscribed "Taxes". The bull is held by a rope which is twisted round a post inscribed "The Last Stake", the end being held by a Scotsman in Highland dress intended for Bute, and by a man in judge's wig and robes, evidently Mansfield. Two other members of 'the Junto' are goading the bull on, one with a pole, the other with a club. The bull is being attacked by France with a sword, and Spain with a spear. France wears a coat, hat and bag-wig of French fashion, Spain wears a slashed doublet, ruff and cloak. In front of an inn-door (l.) behind them stands George III, watching the struggle complacently, his hands in his pockets. Above the door the signboard, on which is a crown, is falling off, and hangs from one hook only. From a window a woman's arm empties a chamber-pot on to the king's head. In the foreground, on the nearer side of the "Rubicon" a Dutchman (r.) stands facing the wall of a building, urinating on a paper inscribed "British Memorial".--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., The names of the artists indicate that the plight of the country is due to the designs of Bute (Stuart), carried on by Mansfield (Murray) and executed by the Junto., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 6, 1779, for J. Almon ...
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 April 1779]
Call Number:
Portraits C771 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Captain James Cook wearing a suit, seated, resting one arm on a manuscript laid on a table, his hat and a book are next to the manuscript; after a picture by Dance now at Greenwich."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published April 20th 1779 by J.K. Sherwin No. 234 Strand
