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1. "How happy could I be with either," "where tother dear charmer away" [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1786]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Formerly mounted on leaf 9 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "How happy could I be with either," "where tother dear charmer away" [graphic]

2. "How happy could I be with either," "where tother dear charmer away" [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1786]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away
Description:: Title etched below image., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.1 x 18.5 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title, imprint, and statement of responsibility., Mounted to 23.4 x 20 cm., and Formerly mounted on leaf 8 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "How happy could I be with either," "where tother dear charmer away" [graphic]

3. "This is a sorry sight!" Macbeth, scene: a lodging in Bond Street. [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [ca. 1786?]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A haggard-looking man is seated in profile to the left in an armchair beside a small table on which are two candles (which light the room), a medicine phial, &c, and his breeches. He wears shirt, night-cap, ungartered stockings, and slippers. He regards his hands with an expression of intense melancholy. The room and its contents show that he is a fashionable rake struck down by disease. A fire burns in the grate; on the chimney-piece (left) is a clock surmounted by a figure of Time as a winged skeleton with a scythe. Above is a picture, the right part alone visible; it is a free rendering of pl. iii of Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' (BMSat 2188) showing the ballad-singer bawling the 'Black Joke'. The frame of another picture is inscribed 'Macies et nova febrium': Pandora kneels holding open a box inscribed 'Pandora' into which Mercury (cf. BMSat 7592) drops a black spot. Above this is a tailless bird in a cage. A sash-window with a festooned curtain is partly shuttered. On the wall (right) is a large hat, a sword-belt, scabbard, and broken sword, and a pair of pistols. Below is a close-stool; torn papers lie on the floor, with a torn book: 'Fashionable Cypriad'. In the foreground is a dog. The floor is carpeted. Beneath the table is engraved: '"Non vanae redeat Sanguis imagini, "Quant virgd semel horridd "Nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi."'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with partial loss of text., and Mounted on leaf 35a (i.e. verso of leaf 34) of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "This is a sorry sight!" Macbeth, scene: a lodging in Bond Street. [graphic]

4. A British minister worshipping the meridian sun [graphic]

Creator:: Carey, William Paulet, 1759-1839, printmaker
Published / Created:: July 5th 1786.
Call Number:: 786.07.05.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "George III is seated (left) on a rectangular altar bending forward, his posteriors bare and irradiated like a sun. He wears a crown; he bends forward as if to caress three fanged serpents emerging from the altar, inscribed, 'The King of Prerogative'. A pair of hands emerges from clouds: one has taken the sceptre from the King's hand, the other is about to remove his crown. Pitt (right) kneels behind the altar, holding out a scroll, the 'Irish Propositions' ... Behind him is a bundle of papers held together by a scroll inscribed 'Provision for the Boghouse 1785'. They are: 'Petition to the [Pa]rliament'; 'Manchester Remonstr[ance]'; 'from Glasgow'; 'Rights of the People'; 'Westminst[er] Petition'; 'Popula[r] Resentment'. Behind the bundle is a pyramid inscribed 'Sacrifices to Liberty The Gracchi', 'De Witt', 'Gaveston', 'Mortimer'; a hand pointing from the apex to Pitt is labelled, 'The next to fall'. In the distance is a ruined temple: 'Temple of Freed[om] a British ruin'. On the side of the altar on which the King is seated is a medallion surmounted with crossed axes inscribed 'Prerogative of the People'. It encloses a severed head in a bowl inscribed 'Charles I'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attribution made by George: Maria Closetool allusion to Maria Cosway., Allusion to the Irish proposition of 1785 with an allusion to Maria Cosway's painting: A Persian going to adore the sun., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:: Published by G. Humphrey No.48 Long Acre
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, and Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A British minister worshipping the meridian sun [graphic]

5. A barbers shop [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 1786]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a barber's shop. A very old and completely bald man reclines in an arm-chair (left), a cloth over his shoulders; a fat barber is about to place on his head a tie-wig. On the ground at his side lies a wig with a long pigtail queue which is being befouled by a dog. Behind, on a tall stand, is a barber's block fitted with a small wig. The barber's assistant, a lean man wearing spectacles and an apron, fits a small wig on the head of a stout man, who stands in profile to the right, his hand in his coat-pocket. On the right is a lattice window in three divisions; a man sits in a chair facing the window. Wigs are hung up in the window. On a high shelf (left) are round wig-boxes. Next the shelf is nailed up a print of Absalom hanging from a tree, while his horse gallops away. ... The ceiling is raftered."--British Museum online catalogue, description of original issue
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement and printmaker's signature added, of a plate originally published 13 December 1780 by T. Rowlandson and J. Jones. Cf. No. 5765 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Formerly mounted on verso of leaf 10 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Publish'd as the act directs by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A barbers shop [graphic]

6. A fruit shop lounge

Creator:: G., A., artist
Published / Created:: [22 May 1786]
Call Number:: 786.05.22.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Shop -- Fruit shop lounge -- Menu -- Newspaper -- Morning Herald -- Prices for food -- Military uniforms -- Officer in regimentals -- Mirrored image -- Parfait amour -- Eau de Cologne -- Ratafia., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Publish'd May 22d 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A fruit shop lounge

7. A ministerial fact, or, A squib of the first day [graphic]

Published / Created:: [2 August 1786]
Call Number:: 786.08.02.03
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Fox, dressed as a woman, scowling ferociously, holds up a knife in his right hand to strike the King (right), who calmly pushes him away. A beefeater (left) seizes Fox's right arm in both hands. In the background the garden front of St. James's Palace is suggested; on the right is the side of the King's coach, seen from behind. Beneath the title is etched: 'Four presumtive Reasons- Because no two Faces in the world are so much alike! - Because the Political Proteus was seen in a Miliners shop (where no doubt he bought the Cloak and bonnet) about a month ago! Because he was seen by a Grenadier of the Guards coming out of a Cutler's shop (where no doubt he bought the knife) yesterday morning! - But the strongest reason to suppose him ye Assassin is because he was an hundred miles from London at the time!!!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Squib of the first day
Description:: Title from item., Imprint has been written by a contemporary hand in ink over the erasure from the plate., Six lines of text below title: Four presumtive reasons -- Because no two faces in the world are so much alike ..., Temporary local subject terms: Beefeaters -- Assassins -- Royal carriage., and Part of a watermark in upper left corner.
Publisher:: Pub. August 2, 1786 by W. Holland No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828., and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):: Assassinations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A ministerial fact, or, A squib of the first day [graphic]

8. A nest for puppies, or, The fashionable bosom [graphic].

Published / Created:: [2 April 1786]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Gillray v. 7
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Bust portrait of a good-looking lady, directed to the left. In the gauze projection which covers her bust are four small dogs. Her hair is not extravagantly dressed, and is decorated with three ostrich feathers, which suggest that she may be intended for Mrs. Fitzherbert."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Fashionable bosom
Description:: Title etched below image., The 'f' in 'fo' and the 'N' in 'No.' in imprint statement are etched backwards., and Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:: Publishd. the 2d fo [sic] Aprl. 1786 by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre, London
Subject (Name):: Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A nest for puppies, or, The fashionable bosom [graphic].

9. A new way to pay the national-debt dedicated to Monsr. Necker / [graphic]

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 April 1786]
Call Number:: 786.04.21.02++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "George III and Queen Charlotte stand before the open gate of the Treasury, from which Pitt has just wheeled a barrow laden with money-bags. Pitt, the straps of the barrow round his shoulders, his coat-pocket bulging with guineas, obsequiously hands the king a money-bag. George III stands full-face, legs astride, a money-bag inscribed '£100000' under his right arm, another in his right hand and all his pockets overflowing with guineas. Queen Charlotte (left) stands on his right taking a pinch of snuff, and looking up at him with a smile of greedy and satisfied cunning; in her apron is a heap of guineas. Military officers wearing high cocked hats with feather trimmings (in a French fashion), and long pigtail queues, stand round the King and Queen, in a semicircle, in front of the spiked gates of the Treasury, playing musical instruments: fifes, bassoons, a horn, &c. The pockets of the two in the foreground (left and right) are crammed with guineas, those of the others, presumably equally full, are concealed. They represent the placemen and Ministerialists of the Treasury Bench. The most prominent (right) is probably Lord Sydney. In the foreground (left) an old sailor, armless and with two wooden legs, sits on the ground, his empty hat before him. On the right the Prince of Wales, in rags, hesitates to take a paper inscribed 'Accept £200000 from your Friend Orleans', which a slim and foppish Frenchman, in bag-wig and 'chapeau-bras', standing on the extreme right, offers him, taking his hand. He is very different from the heavily built Due d'Orléans (who succeeded his father in Nov. 1785) who had recently presented his portrait by Reynolds (now at Hampton Court) to the Prince of Wales. He had adopted the English manner of dress and made it fashionable in France ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Treasury building entrance -- Civil list -- National debt -- Miserliness -- Wooden legs -- Amputees -- Sailors -- Allusion to prodigal son.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 21, 1786, by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Subject (Name):: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, and Necker, Jacues, 1732-1804
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A new way to pay the national-debt dedicated to Monsr. Necker / [graphic]