"Scene on a road near St. Pancras church, which is visible in the background; two women and two men stand in road, one woman with her arms tied and a look of anguish on her face, the other woman raises her arm as one of the men points towards her; illustration to Johnson's 'History of ... Highwaymen"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., 'Page 120.'--Upper left corner of plate., The fictional character, Colonel Jack, is the hero of Defoe's The history and remarkable life of the truly honorable Col. Jacque ... (1722)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: countermark H.
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
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.
A man sits at a table in his library leaning his head on his hand as he contemplates the sheets of paper before him. An owl sits on the table with a ink well suspended from his mouth and a quill resting in the well. A demon behind the reader holds in his left hand a staff with a jester's head (personification of folly?) and in his right a very large feather. On the scholar's feet a strewn books with words on their spines: Borrow; Boyle; Newton; Radclife; Friend; Mead, etc. Temporary local subject terms: The pictures on the wall are portraits labelled 'Cromwell' and 'Mortimer' but depict Olver Cromwell and Mortimer, Earl of March
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse above image: Here folly, ignorance and pride combine, to prove him of the true Duncean line., Six lines of quotation below image: Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought a vast profound ..., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 8., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mortimer, Cromwell, -1752 and Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subject (Topic):
Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Owls, Quacks, and Demons
Title from item., Possibly by George Bickham the younger?, Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: The cheerful night worn out within, While wit was furnesh'd [sic] round by gin ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Mohocks: gang of aristocratic ruffians -- Signs: tavern sign -- Moon: man in the Moon -- Trades: coachmen -- Lighting: moonlight -- Male dress, ca. 1745 -- Female dress, ca. 1745 -- Emblems: double-bladed knife symbolizing a cuckold -- Food: meat -- Beverages: liquor -- Vehicles: coach -- Cabal -- Miss Connors, fl. 1741., and Watermarks: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Name):
Johnston, James, c. 1721-1797, Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, 1719-1779, and Harrington, Caroline, Countess of, 1722-1784
Sh-tten condition of the King of Pru---a and Shitten condition of the King of Prussia
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printseller's announcement after imprint: Where is sold 20 more., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: All mark'd with De Luces& cram'd with French gold, forth sally'd our hero, to seize, have and hold ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Defecation -- Medicine: smelling salts -- Money.
Publisher:
May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Charles Alexandre, duc de Lorraine, 1712-1780
A satire on a Highland soldier's attempts to use a lavatory in London. A Scot in Highland dress and wearing a feathered cap is seated in a latrine, his legs thrust down two holes in the board as he urinates onto the floor. Behind and to the right on the stone wall are posted various drawings and broadsides. His sword is to his right
Description:
Title from other copies of this image., Attribution to Hogarth spurious. See The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Steevens collection of Hogarth's plates, p. 231., Imprint and price mostly burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., "[Price] 3d."--Lower right corner., and Mounted to 23 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
To be had [...]
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Caricatures, Privies, and Urination
Picturesque appearance of a very, very grave statesman
Description:
Title etched below image., Text above image: The picturesque appearance of a very, very grave statesman., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., In lower right corner of plate: See Gazetteer., Temporary local subject terms: Cabals -- Mythology: Mercury -- Philosophers: Greek philosopher -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 -- Symbols: rose - 'sub rosa' -- Reference to operatic performances -- Female dress, ca. 1745 -- Military: reference to 15 new regiments -- Matrimony -- Cuckolds., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Policy for the Three-thumb Assurance Office of St. Anne's, Westminster
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Dated in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1770., Twelve lines of verse below image: A significant justice, a burgess and stump, their sap-sculls together had lay'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: St. Anne's Parish, Westminster -- St. Anne's Parish, Westminster: allusion to insurance and its disposition -- Thumbs: tyrannical thumbs of the City Companies -- Gallows -- City Companies: Barbers -- City Companies: Pewterers -- City Companies: Carpenters -- Emblems: thumbs as City Companies tyranny -- Allusion to assurance offices -- Poll-books -- Poll-clerks -- Allusion to voters' freedom -- Tools: barbers' implements -- Tools: pewterers' implements -- Tools: carpenters' implements -- Hallmarks: pewterer's 'touch'., and Watermark: Pro patria.
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.
