Roberts, P. (Piercy), active 1785-1824, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1803?]
Call Number:
803.00.00.53+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Lord Mayor sits (right) in profile to the left in a chair of state facing a city officer in a long gown holding a wand who leads in a file of five amused 'cits', three men and two women. The officer says: "Here are a number of People brought before your Honor, by your Honor's Order, for not keeping the pavement clean before their Houses in Frosty Weather - according to the Act of Parliament for that purpose; but the worst of all is - here is a Worthy Alderman, lays information, that the pavement before your Honor's Door is as much neglected as any of the rest - and moreover says that he himself had a fall there in the late Frost, which shook him so much, that he has been unable to digest Turtle or Venison ever since - A material injury to one of the Body Corporate." The alderman, who heads the file, clasps an enormous paunch. The Mayor answers, proffering a coin: "Well, Well, if that is the case, take my five Shillings, and say no more about the Business." The Mayor wears spectacles and a chain of office; he has not the plebeian appearance of the alderman and his companions. (Charles Price was Lord Mayor 1802-3.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whimsical information
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Price, Charles, Sir, 1748-1818
Subject (Topic):
Mayors, Municipal officials, Queues, Chairs, Robes, Staffs (Sticks), Coins, and Eyeglasses
Title from item., Design for this print attributed to Yarbury. See British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Bush(?), fi. 1763 -- Morton(?), fl. 1763 -- Laurence, fl. 1763 -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright , 1725-1794 -- Allusion to Richard Nash, 1674-1761 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d. 1776 -- Chapman, d. 1781(?) -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Walter Wiltshire, fl. 1763 -- Spurrier, fl. 1763 -- Attwood, fl. 1763 -- Axford, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Dallamore, fl. 1763 -- Corporation of Bath -- Literature: allusion to Life of Richard Nash of Bath, Esquire, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 -- Literature: quotation from Henry IV, pt. 1, ii.4.153, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Addresses: Bath citizens' address, May 28, 1763 -- Addresses: quotation from Allen's address, The gentleman's magazine, v. 33, p. 376-7, August 1763 -- Bath: Prior Park -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Magna Charta., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Leake, James, -1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Mayors, Medical equipment & supplies, Municipal officials, Occupations, Physicians, and Town criers
"Stylised representation of the Lord Mayor's procession, framing a blank space in the centre of the sheet; two rows of figures at the top, 7 groups one above the other to either side, and the City Counsel on foot, the Aldermen and Lord Mayor on horseback forming the bottom of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., "No. 79"--Lower right corner., The 35 numbered sections of the procession zigzag doen the sheet beginning with the 1) Armourers, 2) Leathersellers, 3) Pioneers, 4) Granadiers [sic], [4] Artillery, 5-6) 2d Division, 7-8) 3d Division, 9-10) Salters, 11-12) Salters, 13-14) Slaters, 15-16) Coopers, 17-18) Coopers, 19-20) Band of Petitionsers, 21-22) Kings Trumpets &c., 23-24) Coopers, 25-26) Coopers, 27-28) City Musick, 29-30) Officers, 31-32) Officers, 33-34) City Counsel, Aldermen, Lord Mayor., and Blank space at center of print has been filled in with manuscript poetry given the heading 'Christmas' at top and signed and dated by "John Lewis, 1742" at bottom. The first of the three sections of verse is taken from the second and third cantos of Waller's Of divine love; the other quotations are from the Fourth Eclogue of John Ogilby's seventeenth-century translation of Virgil.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Novemr. the 4th, 1742, and sold by James Cole engraver in Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Willimott, Robert, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, City council members, Coopers, Mayors, Municipal officials, Musicians, Occupations, Parades & processions, Soldiers, and British
