Title from caption engraved below image, a quote from Alexander Pope's Essay on man, Epistle i.1.8-9., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Folly -- Fool's cap -- Musical instruments: guitar -- Wigs -- Wig-stands -- Crowns -- Gambling: playing cards -- Cornucopias -- Moon -- Masks -- Hats -- Clouds -- Vehicles: coach.
Inside of what appears to be a simple cottage, a woman and two men are gathered around a table. The woman, sitting at the table, holds an open music book. One of the man leans over her shoulder in order to read the music while he is playing the violin. The other man, sitting at the opposite side of the table with a tall glass in his left hand and a happy expression on his face, is singing. In front of the table on the floor stands a large decorated jug with a lid. A pipe and a tobacco box lie on the table
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Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred from publisher's activity dates., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Musical instruments -- Sheet music -- Containers: jug with a lid -- Glass: tall glass -- Furniture -- Architectural details: board floor., and Mounted to 20 x 15 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Gapper in New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Violins, Tables, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Satire on the Duke of Cumberland's poor spelling with references to his criminal conversation with Lady Grosvenor. He is shown at a table with a satyr holding a fool's cap over his head as a tutor stands beside the table where the Duke works. Also beside his chair is a monkey on his hind legs. On the wall hangs a birch rod
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Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), page 88., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford magazine
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790
Satire on the the criminal conversation between the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor with Cumberland wearing a fool's cap; a servant spills a glass of wine on the Duke. The scene takes place in a bedchamber with a curtain around the bed, with a table set with a meal including wine bottles, wine glasses, and roasted fowl. On the wall hangs a large mirror
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Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the periodical for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 75., Text above image: For the Oxford mag., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828
Title from item., Publication date based on first performance of the play at the Haymarket Theatre on June 22, 1770., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on cardboard, mounted again (with two other prints) to 26 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Candelabras, Costumes, Comedies, and Theatrical scenes
Title from item., Printmaker, artist, and publication date from British Museum catalogue, Subjects identified from the British Museum impression., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., and Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Novill, Sr. -- Mr. Novill, Jr. -- Mr. Wood -- Mr. Hellendaal -- Mr. Ranish -- Mr. West -- Mr. Wynn -- Amateur musicians of Cambridge -- Violin -- Oboe -- Double bass -- Cello -- Dulcimer or pantaleone -- Music-stand -- Singing.
Title from item., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: January 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : Printed for J. Miller ... , 1770- , v. 1 (1770), p. 79., and Temporary local subject terms: Councils: Privy Council -- Devil -- Personifications: Folly -- Petitions.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Cornwallis, Frederick, 1713-1783, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Temporary local subject terms: Weeping Britannia -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: English rose -- Lightning bolts., and Mounted to 28 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Barnet -- Military officers -- Male dress: jockey -- Servants.
Title from text below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 39 (1770), page 439., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: bed -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Fireplace: poker -- Fainting -- Money: bank notes -- Pictures amplifying subject: race horse 'Eclipse' -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'The Chast Susanna.'
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., One line of text below image: A man of honour and a gentleman. Harley., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 39 (1770), p. 522., and Temporary local subject terms: Offices: Recorder of London -- Buildings: Guildhall -- Quotation from speech by Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor of London -- Reference to Serjeant John Glynn -- Reference to John Wilkes.
Courtiers attempting to bridle the tongue of the late worthy Lord Mayor and Scene at St. James's
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Title from item., Publication date in Stephens: May 30, 1770., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 266., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: St. James's Palace, Reception Room -- Bridles -- Whips -- Female dress: watch -- Ellis Welbore, Baron Mendip, 1713-1792 -- James Townshend, 1737-1787., and Mounted to 38 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1722-1785, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 5 (1770), p. 35., Temporary local subject terms: Stock exchange -- Expressions: bull (at stock market) -- Bear (at stock market) -- Lame duck (at stock market) -- Stock brokers -- Jews -- Brass Crosby, 1725-1793., and Mounted to 30 x 45 cm.
"Satire on Quakers: a meeting house with a woman speaking and men and women assembled on benches and in galleries."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Below title: Preface to the reader. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.", Sixteen lines of text below image: A short examination &c. It is hoped that this little treatise will not be unfavourably received among the people called Quakers ..., Temporary local subject terms: Quakers -- Meeting-house of the Society of Friends., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Society of Friends, Interiors, and Friends' meeting houses
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers -- Law: legal fees -- Money: guineas -- Expressions of speech: 'for and against is equally alike' -- Literature: Tenures by Sir Thomas Littleton (1422-1481) -- Literature: The first part of the institutes of the laws of England by Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)., and Mounted on cardboard, mounted again (with two other prints) to 26 x 17 cm.
"Satire on village life. A country fair in which three young women are running for the prize of a smock; the third in line has tripped over a dog and is being helped up by a man. In the foreground, left to right: a young couple embrace beneath two trees hung with drapery; a small girl fills a mug of beer from a cask on which leans the village constable, asleep, with an empty mug in his lap; a small girl beside him holds a book lettered, "Compleat Peace Off[ice]r."; a dog steals food from a plate discarded on the ground; an old man stands on tip-toe holding his eye-glass to read a notice lettered, "To be Run for by Men in Sacks, A Flitch of Bacon on Tuesday next" which is pinned to one of the trees; a sailor sits on a branch of the tree holding up the hem of the prize smock which hangs on a pole at either end of which is a three-cornered hat; another sailor lounges on the ground looking at the runing women, a large jug near his foot; a chimney boy grabs a gingerbread crown from a boy who is holding a donkey by a chain; a small girl holds a younger child who waves another gingerbread crown while a dog jumps up to reach it. Behind the area roped off for the race is a crowd of spectators and a farm cart which a woman climbs into with the help of two men and another woman already in the cart; a man with a cockade in his hat waves a small flag on a pole, perhaps indicating the start of the race; a larger flag with a cross flies behind; other villagers are gathered in and around a makeshift tent; a one-horse carriage driven by a woman and carrying a gentleman comes into the scene from the right; behind the carriage two men are fencing. Women watch from upper windows of a large house in the background; on its walls are two bird-bottles and a dove-cote which a cat is eyeing with interest from a window sill; beyond is a windmill."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Country fairs -- Buildings -- Prizes: Holland smock -- Tricorne hats -- Constables -- Barrels with spiggots -- Beer -- Food: gingerbread -- Vehicles -- Chaise -- Animals -- Trades -- Donkey-driver -- Dishes: tankards -- Dove-cot -- Placards: race notice -- Customs: allusion to the "Flitch of bacon" -- Quizzing glasses -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 in Cheapside, London
Title from item., Engraved rhymed letter in form of rebus., The words 'gentleman' and 'lady' within title are represented by portrait profiles of a young man and a young woman, respectively., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hieroglyphs -- Letters., Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript., and Watermark: 1814.
Publisher:
Printed 21st October 1770, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Earlier state, with artist's name and title intact, and without background lines and altered border, of No. 4773 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Antiquarians -- Mythology: allusion to Boadicea (Boudicca) -- Containers: antique chamber pots -- Books., and Mounted to 49 x 37 cm.
Title etched below image., Date of publication from that of the periodical in which the plate appeared., Text above image: Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text above image. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 64., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: staff of liberty -- Weapons -- Masks: bull's head -- Britannia's shield., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty cap, Petitions, Daggers & swords, Axes, Shields, and Masks
"Two groups of persons who are candidates for the place of hangman. Inscribed labels issue from the persons of four of them. Two men sit side by side on a settee, wearing curiously shaped crowns or coronets, one (left) shaped like a wall. The former holds a paper inscribed "To J------e G------m" showing that he is Justice Gillam, who ordered the soldiers to fire on the Wilkite mob outside the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768 (see British Museum Satires No. 4201). He says: "Everyone knows my abilities as a Man-killer". His companion says: "Let the Place be held by Commission and let the two Kennedies & my self, be Lords Commissioners of the Rope". Behind, and to the left of the settee three persons stand together: A rough-looking man, flourishing a stick says: "I wont accept of ye Office without a Peerage to Support its Dignity". Next him is a Judge in wig and robes. On the right., their backs to a window, stand three men; Sir Fletcher Norton in his Speaker's robes, and the horns which indicate that he is 'Sir Bullface Double Fee', see British Museum Satires No. 4238, 4462, and index, says: "B------n S------h has spoil'd ye Trade, if Murderers were to be hang'd ye Place might be worth acceptce". He stands between the two Kennedy brothers and is alluding to the reprieve (for transportation) of one of them, the other having been acquitted. "B------n S------h" may be intended for Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, a baron of the Exchequer. This reprieve was for the murder of a watchman in a drunken brawl, and was believed to be due to the influence of the young men's sister, Polly or Kitty Kennedy, see 1935,0522.2.2 and British Museum Satires No., 4463. It was made a political question by Parson Horne and others, see Walpole, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George IV', 1845, iv. 110-11; Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 185. 1770."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Probably an illustration in The Oxford magazine, v. 4, page 113., Temporary local subject terms: Law: judge -- Law: speaker -- Emblems: crown of the City of London -- Furnishings: settee -- Paddle -- Hangmen: Tom Turlis -- Kennedy Brothers' reprieve -- Matthew Kennedy -- Patrick Kennedy -- Justice Samuel Gillam, Magistrate of Surrey, 1715-1793? -- Nicknames: Sir Bullface Double-fee (i.e., Sir Fletcher Norton)., and Mounted to 13 x 18 cm.