Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of text below image: Moderation, moderation, wonderfull moderation ..., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: the Tower -- Yeomen of the Guard -- British Lion -- Animals: dogs -- Allusion to Magna Charta -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Whips -- Laws: allusion to Habeas corpus -- Emblems: royal cipher., and Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
One headed corporation and Sequel to the Knights of Bath
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1s.", Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: See liberty's champions still loyal and true, Displaying the tricks of poor R-h and his crew ..., Temporary local subject terms: Corporation of Bath -- Aldermen of Bath -- Emblems: postman for the Master of the Cross-Posts -- Figure of Falstaff -- Devil -- Birds: raven -- Addresses: Ralph Allen's address in The gentleman's magazine, v.33, p.376-7 -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Expressions: 'adequate' -- Newspapers: allusion to The North Briton -- Clergy -- Grotesqueries -- Bible: quotation -- Tents -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright, 1725-1794 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d.1776 -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Master of the Cross-Posts of England -- Postmen., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, and Leake, James, -1764
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Copy of the print "Kaw Jack, have Canada or to the Tower", with a new title etched above image and the verses below image omitted. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Imps -- Pets: feeding stick for birds -- Literature: allusion to Ossian, by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to Temora by James MacPherson, 1736-1796 -- Allusion to the governorship of Canada., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and On page 296 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 11.3 x 15.4 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark in upper left corner only., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, with abbreviated title, of no. 4055 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Trials: the trial of John Wilkes, 1763 -- Personifications: Fame -- Reference to Chief Justice Pratt -- Reference to Serjeant Glynn -- Allusion to the Brazen Head -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Reference to excise -- British Lion., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Egremont, Charles Wyndham, Earl of, 1710-1763, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Caricatured portrait of John Wilkes holding the Cap of Liberty; reversed copy from Hogarth's print and reduced. Wilkes is shown from the head to knees; the table with the North Briton newspapers cropped out
Alternative Title:
John Wilkes Esquire
Description:
Title below image., "Price 6 pence.", and Contemporary copy of the Hogarth print, cropped and reversed.
Title etched above image., Publication date inferred from the date of Wilkes's trial., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to the North Briton, No. 45 -- Personifications: Liberty -- Emblems: scales of justice -- Reference to pensions.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Judges, and Liberty
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 78K(a) Box 225
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Wilkes is shown holding a "Staff of Maintenance" wtih the cap of Liberty on top, drawn at the time of Wilkes' second trip to Westminster Hall for slander. On the table beside him are two newspapers -- North Briton Number 45 and North Briton Number 15 -- which allude to Wilkes' attack on Hogarth and King George III
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., State with no price in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 346 x 229 mm.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, May [the] 16, 1763.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Wilkes is shown holding a "Staff of Maintenance" wtih the cap of Liberty on top, drawn at the time of Wilkes' second trip to Westminster Hall for slander. On the table beside him are two newspapers -- North Briton Number 45 and North Briton Number 15 -- which allude to Wilkes' attack on Hogarth and King George III
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and publisher from Paulson., State with no price in lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Formerly on page 196 in volume 2. Removed by LWL conservator in 2012 to solander box, vol. 2, and Sheet trimmed to: 35 x 23.1 cm.
