Title from item., Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of Drolls., Eight lines of verse in three columns below title: Sir, will you please to walk before? ... ., Plate numbered '155' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Domestic service: footmen -- Waiters -- Blacks -- Quizzing glasses -- Food: fowl -- Tarts.
Publisher:
Published 7th Aug. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Charles Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Charles Stewart, Duke of Richmond
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 63 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 9 x 6.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pubd. Nov. 1, 1796, by S. & E. Harding, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Richmond, Charles Stuart, Duke of, 1639-1672, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title below image., Temporary local subject terms: Cupids -- Vases: amphoras -- Allusion to the myth of Artemis -- Architecture: bridges., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 5, 1792, by I.F. Tomkins, No. 49 New Bond Street
"George III (left), seated in a chair, is being shown by the ghost of Chatham a procession of figures walking towards a pit (right) inscribed "Chaos". Chatham wears pseudo-classical draperies, a tie-wig crowned with a laurel wreath, and is surrounded by a glory of rays. He holds up a circular glass to the king, who looks through it with an expression of alarm. On the back of the king's chair is a crown surmounted by a weathercock which points to the South, probably to indicate that North's power is over, cf. BMSat 5659. Under his feet are torn county petitions, and an open book, "Lock on Government". The petitions are those of York, Westminster, Middlesex, Hampshire, Surrey. There is also the design of the façade of a building inscribed, "The Elevation of [a] Baby House". The leaders of the procession, who are on the brink of the pit, are the kings of France and Spain. A devil (right) with wings, horns, and a long barbed tail, points into the pit. Behind the two kings come North and Sandwich. North holds a rolled document inscribed "Taxes". Under his arm is a large money-bag with a gaping hole in it, by which is an open book or paper inscribed "New Way to pay old Debts, A Farce by Boreas" (Massinger's comedy had recently been revived at Drury Lane). On his right Sandwich walks with his arms folded, a paper under his arm is inscribed "Catches & Glees Mr Arne" (Arne (1710-78), the musical composer, is generally styled Dr; Sandwich was "the soul of the Catch Club", see BMSat 5342). From his pocket protrude papers, one inscribed "Greenwich Hospital", in allusion to the scandal caused by Captain Baillie's exposure of abuses there, see BMSat 5548. The other is inscribed "Love & Madness"; this is the title of a series of fictitious letters recently published purporting to be the correspondence of Hackman and Martha Ray, Sandwich's mistress, see BMSat 5540, &c, but really by Herbert Croft. See Walpole, 'Letters', xi. 139-40,13 Mar. 1780. Behind come Mansfield, in judge's wig and robes, and Bute in Highland dress, both with expressions of despair; they are being hurried along by a man with the face of a fiend who has seized Mansfield by the arm and Bute by the shoulders. Beside them walks a Dutchman, his hands in his breeches pockets, being propelled from behind by a devil, significant of the unpopularity of the Dutch Republic,"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into futurity
Description:
Title from item. and Trimmed within plate line.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs May 16, 1780, by W. Wells, No. 132 opposite Salisbury Court Fleet Street London
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788., and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Twelve small designs on one plate, many individually captioned, including No-bodies
Description:
Title from caption below center image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Captions below other images on plate: Margate jetty; In full cry; Brethren of the quill; Breaking cover; A shining character; Always at home., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) talk across a small circular table on which is a candle. Boswell leans on the table, with raised fingers, talking vivaciously. Johnson leans back as if asleep, his stick between his outstretched legs. Through an open door (left) is seen the back of Mrs. Boswell hurrying from the room. A bracket-clock points to 1.55. A dog looks up at Boswell yawning. The floor is boarded."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "We talked of murder -- and of the antient trial by duel -- We sat till near two in the morning having chatted a good while after my wife left us ..." Vide Journal p. 15., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Wall clock -- Dog., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-147.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"A head of Lansdowne, looking to the right with an inscrutable expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: French republicans -- Members of the Opposition., and Mounted on page 94 with one other print.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Chauvelin, Bernard-François, marquis de, 1766-1832.
"A head of Lansdowne, looking to the right with an inscrutable expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: French republicans -- Members of the Opposition., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 20.8 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 23.4 x 20.1 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 75 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Chauvelin, Bernard-François, marquis de, 1766-1832.
"A head of Lansdowne, looking to the right with an inscrutable expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: French republicans -- Members of the Opposition., Perhaps a later impression from a worn plate; end of imprint statement and plate number are lightly printed and barely visible., and Mounted to 37 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Chauvelin, Bernard-François, marquis de, 1766-1832.
"A head of Lansdowne, looking to the right with an inscrutable expression."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., One of eight satirical portraits in the series "Illustrious heads designed for a new history of republicanism ..."; see British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "7" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: French republicans -- Members of the Opposition., and Subject identified in contemporary hand in upper left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th May 1794 by H. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 and Chauvelin, Bernard-François, marquis de, 1766-1832.