- Published / Created:
- [3 March 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.03.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
- Subject (Name):
- Bruce, James, 1730-1794
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1791]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 55. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells., and Mounted on page 75 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Donkeys, Lions, Writing materials, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. A-s Secrety. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1791]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 55. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.4 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 29.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 55 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Donkeys, Lions, Writing materials, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. A-s Secrety. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.05.12.03 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 55. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Donkeys, Lions, Writing materials, and Books
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. A-s Secrety. [graphic]