"A trade token issued by the famed bookseller James Lackington (1746-1815), the same year he opened the Temple of the Muses, 'one of the wonders of London' (Oxford DNB); with reputedly a million books on display, it was at the time the biggest booksho...
Description:
Title from text on reverse side of item, which surrounds image of an angel blowing a trumpet.
Publisher:
Lackington, Allen and Co and Lutwyche
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Lackington, James, 1746-1815, and Lackington, Allen and Co.
"Design in an oval. Used as a frontispiece to second edition (1785) of 'The Westminster Election' and probably designed for it. Britannia seated on a throne (right) raised on three steps holds out a laurel wreath towards the Duchess of Devonshire who ...
Alternative Title:
Liberty and Fame introducing female patriotism to Britannia
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Fame, Lions, Thrones, Wreaths, Liberty cap, and Trumpets
"Design in an oval. Used as a frontispiece to second edition (1785) of 'The Westminster Election' and probably designed for it. Britannia seated on a throne (right) raised on three steps holds out a laurel wreath towards the Duchess of Devonshire who ...
Alternative Title:
Liberty and Fame introducing female patriotism to Britannia
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Fame, Lions, Thrones, Wreaths, Liberty cap, and Trumpets
"The interior of a hall intended for the French National Assembly. On the extreme left a large tub raised from the ground serves as tribune, its right half only being visible; from this leans a grotesquely caricatured and foppish Frenchman, blowing a ...
Alternative Title:
Monsieur Francois introduces Master Priestley to the National Assembly
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Priestley, William, -approximately 1835, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804., and François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas Louis, comte, 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
France, Phlogiston, Electrical apparatus, Trumpets, Torches, and Windows
"The interior of a hall intended for the French National Assembly. On the extreme left a large tub raised from the ground serves as tribune, its right half only being visible; from this leans a grotesquely caricatured and foppish Frenchman, blowing a ...
Alternative Title:
Monsieur Francois introduces Master Priestley to the National Assembly
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Priestley, William, -approximately 1835, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804., and François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas Louis, comte, 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
France, Phlogiston, Electrical apparatus, Trumpets, Torches, and Windows
"The interior of a hall intended for the French National Assembly. On the extreme left a large tub raised from the ground serves as tribune, its right half only being visible; from this leans a grotesquely caricatured and foppish Frenchman, blowing a ...
Alternative Title:
Monsieur Francois introduces Master Priestley to the National Assembly
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Priestley, William, -approximately 1835, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804., and François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas Louis, comte, 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
France, Phlogiston, Electrical apparatus, Trumpets, Torches, and Windows
"Fox, Sheridan, and Powys are engaged in opening a large rectangular tomb inscribed '[H]ere lie [t]he Remains [of] Mr F------s India Bill'. On the front of the tomb are two winged heads of cherubs and a scroll inscribed 'India Bill'. Fox (left), facin...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lilford, Thomas Powys, Baron, 1743-1800, Great Britain. Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India., India, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Skeletons, Trumpets, and Bells
"One of a set of four, and a companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7177. A party of unsoldierly Dutch ragamuffins practises firing at the figure of a Prussian soldier (right) chalked on a high stone wall. They stand on the brink of a ditch clo...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 18th, 1787 by T. Harmar, No. 164 (opposite Bond Street) Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands
Subject (Topic):
Foreign public opinion, Great Britain, Ethnic Stereotypes, Crowds, Weapons, Firearms, Frogs, Trumpets, Pipes (Smoking), and Military training
"A fantastic scene takes place in a cobbled street between two buildings: a large house (left) with the words 'London / Coffee / House' in huge letters above the ground, first, and second floors respectively; and (right) 'The London Tea House' on a fa...
Alternative Title:
Tea trade in hot water! and Pretty kettle of fish!!!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 14th, 1818, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
An enraged elephant with Lord North's face runs along Leadenhall Street chased by a group of opponents of the India Bill. They are led by the King who prods the elephant's hind leg with a spiked stick. The unseated Fox, falling head downwards, is abou...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs, 24 Decr. 1783 by D. Brown
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Elephants, Trumpets, and Chasing
