Litchfield races transpos'd and Litchfield races transposed
Description:
Caption title., Place of publication and suggested date from English short title catalogue and British Museum catalogue., An etching at top of sheet satirising the Jacobite enthusiasms of Staffordshire sportsmen, is followed below by a song in letterpress., Six stanzas of an anonymous song that is a patriotic British plea for unity, in two columns below the image: Ye subjects of true British race, Whether old Whig or Tory ... which does not clearly relate to the engraving in its contents., Temporary local subject terms: Union: Great Britain and Scotland -- Scotland : Rebellion, denial of redress for grievances -- Emblems: Britannia as symbol of the Union -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis as France, tied to Britain -- Races: Litchfield -- Ballads -- Cannons: touchole -- Tents -- Emblems: anchor for the Duke of Bedford., Watermark: Fleur-de-lis., and Sheet trimmed on the right, within plate mark of the etching, resulting in some loss of image and in loss of 'd' in 'transpos'd'.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Subject (Topic):
Jacobites, Caricatures and cartoons, Patriotism, Britannia (Symbolic character), National emblems, British, French, and Scottish
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Publisher's statement following imprint: where is 100 different sortiments., Two lines of verse below image: Sculls sculls to Lambeth! See how hard they pull'em! ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Lambeth Palace -- Rivers: Thames -- Trades: watermen -- Sculling boats -- Clergy., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757, Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761, Mawson, Matthias, 1683-1770, Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Title engraved within image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Frontispiece from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin ... , 1732- , v. 16 (1747), March issue, on one sheet with British Museum catalogue no. 2817., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The Beggar's opera by John Gay, 1685-1732., and Window mounted to 23 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788,, MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790,, and Cameron, Jenny.
Short half-length portrait of the architect James Gibbs, looking to the right, in an oval, decorated frame
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, state and date from later states and Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 288., and On page 143 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.8 x 19.2 cm.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 141 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
"View of the palace from Millbank; St Paul's in the distance to the left, boats and figures in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lambeth le Palais, de L'Archveque de Canterbury
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9., Plate numbered "10" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1804., and Leaf 29 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Thames River (England),
Subject (Name):
Lambeth Palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Official residences, Rivers, and Boats
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the peace conference at Breda, 1746 -- Games: leap-frog -- Cities: view of Breda -- Emblems: bag of the Secretary of State -- Karl August Friedrich, Fürst von Waldeck, 1704-1763 -- Karl Joseph, Fürst von Batthyány, 1697-1772 -- Mr. Gilles, plenipotentiary and pensionary of Holland.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of, 1720-1789
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 15th 1747 [i.e. not before 1794?]
Call Number:
Hogarth 794.00.00.187 Box 130
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a graveyard with tombstones and sarcophagi, a headless ghost in a monk's robes (crucifix and rosary hanging round his neck) carries his head in his left arm as he walks left toward a sarcophagus inscribed "This monument was erected by Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat &c. &c."; the lefy side is also inscribed "To the memory ofThomas Lord Fraser of Lovat."
Description:
Title etched below image., Re-issue after plate cut down, removing Molteno's publication address?, Lettered below the title, six lines of verse in three sections: Disguis'd thro' life, a layman at [the] block, My headless trunk resumes [the] monkish frock. Doom'd for my crimes in pilgrimage to roam. With weary steps I seek my native home, Where vanity inscribes my Father's tomb, But Justice now denies my carcase room., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed), p. 306., and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 147.
