"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In the centre lies a print depicting a debased Parnassus: in the foreground muses drink from a barrel, one vomiting; a woman wearing a hat hands a basket to a muse sitting in a dust-cart drawn by a Pegasus; a cornucopia lies upended on the ground: in the background, is a boxing match surrounded on two sides with a temporary stand from which flies the flag of St George and to the right of which a bull and a bear are preceded by Apollo playing a fiddle; beneath are four lines of verse describing the scene. Behind the Parnassus print another shows the ghost of Jeremy Collier rising from his grave holding the pamphlet in which he had condemned "The Immoratlities of the English Stage", four lines of verse beneath. This print is overlaid by a smaller oblong print with four verses and portraits of Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Lavinia Fenton (as Polly Peachum). On the left is a print in which Democritus and Heraclitus examine a globe together, eight lines of verse beneath. In the centre is an engraved address 'To Polly Peachum' quoted, according to the earlier state from The Daily Journal, April 19, 1728. At lower left is a print with a stage where a Apollo descends on a cloud to judge between rival singers (Faustina and Cuzzoni) to whom a group of gentlemen with asses' ears listen without judgement, two columns of verse beneath explain the scene. On the right, a scene by a river where a balance has been set up in which the Beggar's Opera outweighs Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Addison, Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Otway; the personification of trade collapses in the arms of George II, assisted by Queen Caroline; verses beneath claim that the popularity of the Beggar's Opera is indicative of the sorry state of the country. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'; a small child stands beside the table; two columns of verse beneath."-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text engraved above image., "Poet G-" refers to John Gay., Later state, lacking references to 'Daily Journal April 19th. 1728' below the verses "to the Tune of the Soldier and ye Sailor" and to 'Daily Journal April 10 1798' below those "To Polly Peacham". Cf. Compare no. 1806 in v. 2 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 45 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
