"Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le Egalité'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of Egalité'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
"Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.6 x 25.9 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 28.9 cm., and Mounted on leaf 76 of volume 4 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Six men, seated and standing behind a table on which are decanters, punch-bowl, &c, drink a treasonous toast. This is given by Priestley (left) who stands in profile to the right, holding up an empty Communion dish and a brimming chalice, saying, "The------ [King's] Head, here!" Fox sits in the centre, raising his glass, his right hand on his heart; he looks up ecstatically, saying, "My Soul & Body, both, upon this Toast!!!" On his right. sits Sir Cecil Wray, saying, "O Heav'ns! why I would empty a Chelsea Pensioners small-beer barrel in such a cause!!" [see BMSat 7892]. On the extreme left Sheridan bends forward, avidly filling his glass from a decanter of Sherry; he says, "Damn my Eyes! but I'll pledge you that Toast tho Hell gapes for me." On Fox's left sits Horne Tooke, saying, "I have not drank so glorious a Toast since I was Parson of Brentford, & kept it up with Balf & McQuirk!" (He had tried to secure the execution of these two 'bludgeon men' for murder at the Middlesex Election of 1768; though convicted they were pardoned, see BMSats 4223-4226.) He grasps a decanter of 'Holland[s]' (perhaps indicating attachment to Fox, after previous hostility, cf. BMSat 7652). On the extreme right sits Dr. Lindsey, with (like Sheridan) a drink-blotched face; he drinks, saying, "Amen! Amen!" Before him are two decanters of 'Brandy'. Behind Horne Tooke and Lindsey stands a group of sanctimonious dissenters, with lank hair, much caricatured; three say respectively: "Hear our Prayers: & preserve us from Kings & Whores of Babylon!!!"; "Put enmity between us & the ungodly and bring down the Heads of all Tyrants & usurpers quickly good Lord - Hear us good Lord". and "O! grant the Wishes of thine inheritance". On the wall above Foxs head is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral; from the façade emerge the heads of three pigs feeding from a trough. This is 'A Pig's-Stye \ a View from Hackney' (an allusion to Priestley's congregation at the Gravel Pit chapel. Hackney, where he had succeeded Price)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.4 x 50.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The dash preceding "Revolution Society" in title has been clipped from sheet, with a replacement dash written in ink on the piece of laid paper used to mend the hole. Below this is written in a contemporary hand: These are the Friends of the Constitution., and Mounted on leaf 71 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23d, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808
Three men in a tavern with three pictures on the wall with images of pugilists, a portrait of Buckhorse and two images of fights. The one man has his head on the table, presumably passed out and asleep. The other man sits in a chair looking out at the viewer, a club in his hand and a dog at his feet. The third man stands behind him, his fists postitioned ready for a bout, although he holds a smoking pipe in his left hand. On the mantel are glasses and flasks of liquor
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Manuscript notion identifies the seated man as "Morland the artist" and the man standing behind him as "Rowlandson"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the reissue or alternate version of this design from 1812, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Tankards -- Pictures amplifying subjects: 3 prints of pugilists., 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, touches of color ; sheet 35.4 x 23.2 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, June 20, 1789, by Mrs. Lay on the Steine, Brighthelmstone
Subject (Name):
Morland, George, 1763-1804 and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Answer to the apologetical preface and Defence of the answer and arguments of the synod, met at Boston in the year 1662
Description:
BEIN Pequot Z96: Imperfect: side-notes bled. 19 cm. Autograph at head of title page: Edw. Rawson. Scant manuscript annotations in text. Manuscript note on page 102: Walker's book. Number 6 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine., BEIN College Pamphlets 13 2: 19 cm. Imperfect: Part 2, the 102 pages of the second count, 'Defence of the answer and arguments of the synod, met at Boston in the year 1662,') and [2] pages (a blank leaf) at end wanting. Title page mutilated with loss of the first letter of the word 'defence' in title., BEIN College Pamphlets 13 3: 19 cm. Imperfect: Part 1, the [2] and 46 pages of the first count and [2] pages (a blank leaf) at end wanting., By R. Mather and Jonathan Mitchel., The apologetical preface was written by Increase Mather, and the answer to it by Jonathan Mitchel., The words "The subject ... of churches." are bracketed together on title page., Part 1, "An answer to the apologetical preface" (caption title) is by Jonathan Mitchel and is a reply to the preface (by Increase Mather) of "Another essay for investigation of the truth" by John Davenport. Part 2, "A defence of the answer and arguments of the synod, met at Boston in the year 1662" (caption title) is by Richard Mather; it has separate pagination and register., Errata on page 46 (first count)., Errors in paging: (second count) page 39 misprinted as 25., Signatures: A-F⁴ ²A-N⁴ (²N4 blank)., and Head-pieces, initials; printed marginalia.
Publisher:
Printed by S. Green and M. Johnson for Hezekiah Vsher of Boston
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts and Massachusetts.
Subject (Name):
Davenport, John, 1597-1670., Davenport, John, 1597-1670, Mather, Increase, 1639-1723., and Boston Synod
Subject (Topic):
Congregational churches, Infant baptism, Congregationalism, and Covenants (Church polity)
"A whole length satirical portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, directed to the right; in his left hand is the baton of Earl Marshal; his right hand is in his waistcoat pocket. He wears top-boots, a slouched hat, and his hair is closely cropped. Earlier caricatures show the Duke wearing his own hair without powder, hanging on his neck."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Norfolk dumpling
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Food: allusion to dumplings -- Hair fashion: cropped hair -- Obesity., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 18.3 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 27.0 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 8 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A London justice of peace seated behind a table in his office, his hands clasped. On his right and left are three men holding their hats and canes, who may be either justices or visitors. At the end of the table (left), sits the justice's clerk writing with his left hand. On the wall over the presiding justice's head is a placard, "Robbery, Murder ... Beware of Justice"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., The initials "H.W." suggest the design is after Henry Wigstead. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Annotated with price "6 d." in lower right corner, in ink in a contemporary hand., and Formerly mounted on leaf 3 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
An amulet on long scroll of vellum or snake skin, rolled around a central axis into a silver hexagonal tube with a cap; niello etched in an arabesque pattern in gold, with three loops where a chain can go through, so that it can be worn as a necklace. The scroll is written in a long central column surrounded by eight different rectangular compartments in different colors. The central column contains Surat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97), followed by Surāt al-Fātiḥat (Qurʼan: Chapter 1), followed by the Creator's verse of Sūrat al-Ḥajj (Qurʼan: Chapter 22:65), followed by a long invocation asking God for help and guidance, followed by a Shiʻī invocation asking for the intecession of Imām ʻAlī, followed by a magic square. The amulet is meant to have magical powers to protect the owner. Name of copyist (and/or creator) and place and date of copying/and or production not mentioned, probably from the 18th or 19th century
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: Starts with Sūrat al-Qadr (Qurʼan: Chapter 97): "Innā anzalnāhu fī Laylat al-Qadr ...", Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., 39.5 x 6 cm., and The central part of the amulet is written in ruqʻah/naskh script and the compartments in thulth script, in black, blue, red and gold.
Satirical armorial ridiculing Lord Denbigh's claim to descend from the Habsburg family
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as 'Lord de Ferrars' in the British Museum catalogue., Publication date from contemporary manuscript note in lower left margin: Publish'd 27th May 1780., Four lines of text in Latin below title: Monstrum, horrendum informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Quale portentum neque militaris, aaunia in latis alit esculetis, nee jubae tellus generat, &c. &c., Dedication etched at bottom of plate: Humbly dedicated to Garter King at Arms and all other the officers of the College of Arms, London., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 30.3 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 33.2 x 25.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 8 of 12.
"The interior of the Royal Exchange, showing part of two sides of the arcaded quadrangle, and the statue from the waist downwards of Charles II (by Grinling Gibbons) on a high pedestal surrounded by an iron railing. It is crowded with men, talking in couples, or walking off in deep dejection. All are elderly and caricatured and their dress is old-fashioned; one has a Jewish profile."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 35.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date written in ink above design in contemporary hand: Decr. 1794., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Decer. 28th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
BEIN 2000 628: With: Catalogue des livres rares et précieux de M. ***. A Paris : Chez. G. de Bure ..., 1780; Ms. pricing and annotations throughout; imperfect: fore edge mutilated on several pages, obscuring ms. annotations. No. 2 of 2 titles bound together. and Publishers' names enclosed in bracket on t.p.
