"Lord North (left), with a sack over his shoulder inscribed "Budget", drags by a chain a large lion. The lion's right fore-paw, inscribed "America", has been cut off, and his leg is bleeding. With the lion walk America, France, and Spain. America, a Red Indian with a head-dress and kilt of feathers, holds out a tomahawk in his left hand; in his other hand is the staff supporting the cap of liberty; he says, "This Limb belongs to me in Spite of Fate". France holds out a sword in his left hand, his right is on the lion's head; he says, "Either by Policy or Force I must Obtain some limb or Other". Spain, standing by France, says "I am afraid I shall lose all my Dollers & get Nothing". Behind the lion (r.) three men advance with a flag inscribed "Associations", two of them with drawn swords; they point towards North; one says, "Let our Associations Stop that lump of Iniquity from Ruining our Country"; the next says, "One limb is lost Already by his Infernal tricks". The third says, "Give us an Account how you Spend our money". North is saying, "D------n these Associations they will put a Stop to my Proceedings at last." He is walking over documents inscribed "York; Middlesex; Petitions, and Protestant Petition" (the monster petition for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act to which Lord George Gordon was then collecting signatures). In the foreground a large thistle is growing, emblematic of the evil influence of Scotland; near it appears part of some striped material, perhaps the American flag, but with many more than thirteen stripes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Voice of the public for an enquiry into the public expenditure
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate line with partial loss of imprint., Publication day and year from British Museum catalogue., and Possibly engraved by T. Colley. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by E. Hedges No. 2, under the Royal Exchange, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign relations, and History
"A companion print to BMSat 5640. A large bull transfixed on a spit roasts before a fire (left) over which hangs a large covered pot. Beside the animal sits George III (left) wearing a ribbon, in his right. hand he holds the end of the spit, in the left a handkerchief, saying "Turning the Spit, has made me Sweat; by George". Sandwich holds a large spoon to baste it, saying, "Not quite so fat as he was formerly". Bute, in tartan, stands behind the bull, saying, "Twas a Noble Beast; Jemmy Twitcher". On the right is a dinner table, behind which sit figures representing France, America, and Spain. France is saying "A bit of the Brown for Louis". America, a Red Indian woman, with a feathered head-dress, her knife raised to her mouth, her left hand in her plate clutching a fork, is saying, "A Dish of Buttock for Congress". Spain, in cloak and feathered hat, says "Some of the Flank for Don Diego". On the ground in front of the table sits a Dutchman eating with a spoon out of a bowl; he says "I've got a Dish of Memorial Broth", an allusion to the succession of memorials presented by Sir Joseph Yorke to the States General on breaches of their treaties with England, see BMSat 5568, 5571, &c Lord North is bringing a dish from the fire to the table, saying "I'll serve you all my good Friends as fast as possible". Beneath the design is engraved: "Behold the poor Bull! once Britania's chief boast, Is kill'd by State Cooks, and laid down for a Roast! While his Master, who should all his Honours maintain, Turns the Spit tho' he should such an Office disdain. Monsieur licks his gills at a bit of the Brown, And the other two wish for to gobble him down, But may ill digestion attend on the treat, And the Cooks every one soon be roasted, & Eat.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political cooks serving their customers
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Feby. 12, 1780, by I. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character)., Foreign relations, Cauldrons, and Cooking utensils
"The interior of a poverty-stricken room. An old man (left) seated in a chair is rubbing one foot which rests on a low stool with the contents of a bottle held in his right hand. He wears a night-cap, his hat and wig hang on the back of his chair. A witch-like woman, wearing large spectacles, is seated by the fire, she holds on her lap the bare leg of a young man, and is about to apply to it the contents of a pot which she is stirring on the fire. He is yelling with pain. On the wall is a placard, "Dr Steers Opodeldoc for Chilblains." Poverty is indicated by the untidy bed, a broken casement window, and the character of the chimney-piece, on which is a lighted candle, a tea-pot, and a broken cup. Over it is a print of a man, three quarter length. Probably a quack chiropodist's establishment of a very humble kind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Quack doctor -- Medical: Chiropody -- Pin-point spectacles., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Kibe -- Chilblains.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Podiatry, Foot, Diseases, Interiors, Poverty, Teapots, Fireplaces, Eyeglasses, Beds, Cats, and Pain
"The mob active in the foreground throwing stones, beating sticks and setting fire to the surrounding buildings of the prison; men run to the left holding a flag with "No Popery"; a woman in ragged clothes in central foreground holding up large rocks, a child at her side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Leaf 54 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Prisons, Fires, Vandalism, Riots, Arson, Crowds, and Flags
"The mob active in the foreground throwing stones, beating sticks and setting fire to the surrounding buildings of the prison; men run to the left holding a flag with "No Popery"; a woman in ragged clothes in central foreground holding up large rocks, a child at her side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 19.8 x 37.3 cm., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Publish'd the 1st of Augst. 1780, by Fielding & Walker, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Gordon Riots, 1780, Prisons, Fires, Vandalism, Riots, Arson, Crowds, and Flags
Taylor turned jockey, or, Goose upon goose, Tailor turned jockey, or, Goose upon goose, and Goose upon goose
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text etched in upper right corner of design: A poor taylor riding against time for a bushell of cucumbers. NB. A dung!, and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' implements: Shears -- Reference to tailors' goose -- Emblems: Cabbages -- Cucumbers -- Slang: Dung -- Goose mounted by tailor -- Yard-stick used for a whip -- Spatterdashes -- Male costume: Hats, 1780 -- Macaroni, 1780 -- Game-cocks' spurs worn by tailor.
Two obese men walk along a slopping road sweating heavily in the sun. One of them holds his hat and wig in his left hand and wipes his bald head with a handkerchief, the other, with his waistcoat unbuttoned and his coat thrown over his shoulder, wipes his forehead. The verse following the title beginning "From London to Highgate ..." mocks Londoners' popular habit of going up to Highgate Hill on Sundays
Alternative Title:
Two three pounders in full speed to a shilling ordinary on Sunday
Description:
Title from item. and Possibly an early state of no. 8405 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Walking, Dirt roads, and Clothing & dress
Hôc juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. Virg
Description:
Title from later state., Engraved after a miniature by Zincke which was done after a painting by Peter Lely., Early state, before title added above image. For later state with title, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H175 no. 1., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: Cavr. Luti pinxit ; Picot sculpsit., Proof before letters; for a lettered state with the imprint "Published Mar. 25th, 1780, by Jno. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4., Engraved after a painting formerly in the collection of Robert Walpole at Houghton., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 101 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Boydell
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Houghton Hall (England)