"Portrait; half-length almost in profile to left, head turned and glancing towards the viewer, wearing a plain high-collared coat, one button fastened at the chest, a frilled cravat and stock and a powdered queue wig."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable William Pitt
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a later state, with the plate substantially reworked, of a print originally issued with the publication line "Pubd. April 9th, 1789, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, & No. 8 Broad Street." Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0901.1337., "Price 4 sh.", and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 28th, 1789, by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, & No. 8 Broad Street
"Portrait of William Pitt three-quarter length seated, his head slightly turned to left, his right hand resting on documents on a table; curtain and pillar in the background; coat of arms below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 12 of 12.
"Pitt as the modern Egbert (king of the West Saxons, d. 839) is rowed by four kings, and tows behind him a small boat in which the Prince of Wales is seated, his wrists and ankles chained. Pitt, who steers, is seated high in the stern of the 'Treasury Barge', he wears a combined coronet and mitre, and says to his four oarsmen, 'Pull together Boys'. They are Thurlow (stroke), Buckingham, Dundas, and Richmond (bow). All wear crowns on their heads and badges like those of watermen on their sleeves. Thurlow, stripped to the waist, his badge a rose, says, "Damme! I've got precedence of the Young Lion"; he rows with the Chancellor's mace. Buckingham (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), an Irish harp on his coat-sleeve, rows with a shillelagh, saying, "I'll answer for the Shelalagh without Authority". Dundas, wearing a thistle badge, rows with a long spoon, saying, "He shall remember old Nemo impune". Richmond, wearing a fleur-de-lis badge (he was due d'Aubigny), rows with a cannon (emblem of the ordnance, cf. BMSat 6921, &c), saying, "We'll shew him Gallic Faith." They row on one side of the boat only. A large flag in the stern of Pitt's boat has his crest (reversed), a stork grasping an anchor, with the motto: 'Devil take the Right P.W. [Prince William]'. The Prince wears a coronet with three feathers; he says, "I feel not for myself but for my country". His boat flies a flag with Pitt's crest above a flag with the royal arms. In the background is the river bank with trees, a church (the House of Commons) flying a (blank) flag (right), and (left) the dome of St. Paul's."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
King of kings
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue and Grego., State with additions to the plate., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.8 x 38.0 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Charles Bronwn [sic], Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
"Rechab, a male nude, rushing into a room from the right and lunging forward as he falls to his knees before David, holding up the severed head of Saul's son Ishbosheth in his right hand and pointing upwards with the other."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication information based on that of the volumes in which the print was issued., Plate from: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ... . London: J. Murray [etc.], 1789-1798., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On verso is the bottom portion of a print by Bromley after Fuseli with the imprint: Published as the Act directs 20 Octr. 1791 by T. Holloway., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
