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64. Broad-bottoms [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical frontispiece to a tract entitled "An Address of Thanks to the Broad-Bottoms, for the Good Things they have done, and the Evil Things they have not done, Since their Elevation . ." on the coalition government, called broad-bottomed because it included Tories as well as opposition Whigs, and its failure to keep promises made in opposition to reduce taxes. The bare bottoms of members of the government are shown from the rear piled on top of one another over a pointed arch facing the rising sun. In the centre of the group Sir John Hynde Cotton is recognisable from his profile and his size. The members are defecating on to a group of asses beneath. Each ass carries a load labelled with the name of a tax: salt, land, soap, malt, candles, wine and tea. The burden on one ass is lettered "Septan", i.e. "Septennial", referring to Opposition promises to reduce the years between elections from seven to three. Another ass carries "Lottery" and "Annuities", and another includes in its pack "Black Act" (which created the capital offence of blackening the face, as a disguise, when committing a crime).--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication information from the book for which this plate was printed., Frontispiece from: An address of thanks to the Broad-Bottoms ... . London : Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCXLV [1745]., Two lines of verse below image: Believing, we lifted [the] up among the mighty, yet our drivers have join'd, increasing our loads., "Jeffrey Broadbottom" was a pseudonym of William Guthrie, pamphleteer in the Pelham interest., and Not by Hogarth, as has been claimed. Cf. Felbrigg, p. 122, ref. to Nichols, 3rd edition, p. 449 "a palpable imposition" (to call it by Hogarth).
- Publisher:
- M. Cooper
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation, History, Defecation, Donkeys, and Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Broad-bottoms [graphic].
65. Columbine Harlequin. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an open landscape, an elegantly dressed Columbine is seated on a rock and taking a pinch of snuff from a large snuffbox. Her head is turned back slightly towards Harlequin who stands behind her gesturing dramatically
- Alternative Title:
- Harlequin
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Dated by costume., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. What would'st thou have fonr Harlequin? ... Harlequin. My charmer all I mean is love ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 17 cm, window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Commedia dell'arte
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Columbine Harlequin. [graphic]
66. Columbine [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.49
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an open landscape, Harlequin is sitting on a rock, holding a little boy across his lap and whipping his bare bottom with a birch rod. Columbine, coming up from behind them, tries to intervene
- Alternative Title:
- Harlequin
- Description:
- Title from item., Dated based on another print in this series: Columbine. Harlequin., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of most of the plate number in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Columbine. Will whipping ever mend a child? ... Harlequin. Pray hold yr. tongue how shoud you know ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Commedia dell'arte
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Columbine [graphic].
67. Courtship and marriage [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from captions below both images., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Reversible head image labeled "Courtship" in one direction and "Marriage" in the other. Title taken from title on each side of image., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: horn on crowned shield, with initials LVG below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Courtship and marriage [graphic].
68. Harlequin Columbine. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.44
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an open landscape, Harlequin is seated on a large rock, holding Columbine in his lap. They are posed in a kiss
- Alternative Title:
- Columbine
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date from companion print: Columbine ; Harlequin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Harlequin. Is not this earnest? -- Han't I swore ... Columbine. Ay! if 'twoud last I should be blest ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 18 x 16 cm; window mounted to 23 x 19 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Commedia dell'arte
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Harlequin Columbine. [graphic]
69. Mezzetin Columbine. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.45
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an open landscape, Mezzetin is sitting on the ground leaning against Columbine who supports herself, half sitting on a large rock. She is pouring wine from a bottle into his mouth. An empty bottle is in her other hand
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Mazzetin. When the mind's with cares possest ... Columbine. If wine can thus your sorrow warm ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 17 cm., window mounted to 20 x 20 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Commedia dell'arte
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mezzetin Columbine. [graphic]
70. Mezzetin Columbine. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.46
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an open landscape, Mezzetin and Columbine are sitting on a large rock. She turns away from her companion who, with a drunken expression, holds upside down an empty wine bottle in one hand and a goblet in another
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Mazzetin. My flask is empty, I've no coin ... Columbine. I said when you began to roam ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 17 x 16 cm., window mounted to 20 x 19 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Commedia dell'arte
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mezzetin Columbine. [graphic]
71. Scaramouch Harlequin. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1745?]
- Call Number:
- 745.00.00.48
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In an open landscape, Harlequin is playing with a child placed in a wheeled pen and dressed like himself. Scaramouche is standing on the side watching them
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns (four lines under each name): Scaramouch. So, Harlequin! you've breech'd yr. boy ... Harlequin. Out, devil, you my child will fright ..., One of a series of prints with the Commedia dell'arte characters., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scaramouch Harlequin. [graphic]
72. The European mourners, or, The Emperor's funeral, with Belleisle's progres to captivity [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 1745.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the effect of the death of the Emperor Charles VII on the imperial electors and other protagonists in the War of the Austrian Succession. The scene is divided into two parts: on the left the scene of Marshall de Belle-Isle's arrest beside a crenellated wall, and on the right the interior of a room draped with a curtain in which the corpse of Charles VII lies in a partially open coffin with "Car VII Imp 1745" written on its lid. On the left, Marshall de Belle-Isle on his horse says “I'll Tallard 'em”, his brother grasps the horse's tail in order to cut it off, saying "We'll dock the Han[ove]r Horse Brother". Beside him, Johann Hermann Myer, the arresting officer, says "I am a Bailiff of Consequence"; in the front an English cook remarks "Good English Beef" while behind the horse's head a French cook, holding a spoon to hismouth, says "Soup Maigre Pope's Eyes". Two men stand on top of the wall, one say “He'll serve ye Lyon so". In the interior on the right, Maria Theresa dances to the tune of "Thieue and Cordelier" and the deceased Emperor's son, Maximilian III Josef of Bavaria, "to Short for is Age", shown as a child (although he was actually 17 years old), approaches her, hat in hand, asking "Spare his remains". She replies "Then Vote for ye Grand Duke", referring to her hisband, Francis Stephen. The protagonists are grouped near the coffin: a man smoking a pipe and holding seven arrows in his hand represents the Netherlands and says "Seven to one we are easy"; Frederick the Great, Elector of Brandenburg, asking "Who'll be my Candidate”, beside him Cardinal Tencin whispering "Put up the weakest"; a soldier, the Elector Palatine, Charles VI Theodore, weeps into his handkerchief saying "Damm Bohemia I have lost my Interest"; George II of England, Elector of Hanover, holds a purse saying "I'll pay my Friend's Expenses"; the Archbishop Elector of Trier, Franz Georg von Schonborn-Buchheim, saying "Drive off ye French”, holds a paper lettered “The Day of Election is -"; the Archbishop Elector of Mainz, Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostern, reading a paper lettered "10000 masses", says "I am quite expos'd"; the Archbishop Elector of Cologne, Clemens Augustus of Bavaria, brandishes a scroll and says "My Brother was a Tool: But he's dead"; a Russian in furs (identified by Stephens as the Empress Elisabeth) says "A Kingdom for an Empire" to an elegant man probably intended for Louis XV; the latter, saying "Monsieur may put up ye poor Pallintine" points towards Charles VI Theodore, and holds the arm of the mournful Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, King of Poland (Stephens transposes the identities of these two men) who is saying "Poland a third time let the Saxon be Emperor"; Francis Stephen seated beside Frederick Augustus holds his hand to his mouth and says "I represent my Wife. . ." Above the coffin is a grotesque face with huge open mouth surmounted by a laurel wreath on top of which are three feathers and a bird, beside the head is a bundle of fasces. Three columns of verse beneath starting "For what have these Gentry these four years been fighting ..." suggest that the war has settled nothing."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Emperor's funeral, with Belleisle's progress to captivity
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Publisher's advertisment following imprint: ... where may be had 30 more different sorts., Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: For what have these gentry these four years been fighting? For what have their servants been treating and writing? ..., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
- Publisher:
- Bickham May's Buildings, Covent Garden ...
- Subject (Name):
- Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Francis II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1708-1765, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, 1727-1777, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761
- Subject (Topic):
- Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The European mourners, or, The Emperor's funeral, with Belleisle's progres to captivity [graphic].
