An impoverished-looking man, with a sword, out-at-elbows, and a hole in the bag of his wig, is walking away from the viewer looking backwards at him. He holds a 'Map of Peru' in his right hand and a book, his tricorne and an umbrella under his left ar...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 28, 1772, by Picot, St. Martins Lane
"Title page to catalogue of John Bowles, printer and printseller, at the Black Horse, Cornhill, London; text in rectangle at the centre, with naval scene showing two ships on the sea below; behind the text a map, a letter to Mr John Bowles, a landscap...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
John Bowles
Subject (Topic):
Warships, Maps, Landscapes (Representations), and Eyes
"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps....
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 61. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire showing three men all with caricatured faces stand in front of two men, one of whom is obese and points to them, sit at a table. Behind them pinned to the wall are a map and portrait. Two dogs, one large and black and the other small and whit...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.01.02.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire showing three men all with caricatured faces stand in front of two men, one of whom is obese and points to them, sit at a table. Behind them pinned to the wall are a map and portrait. Two dogs, one large and black and the other small and whit...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 2d Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 May 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.06+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on volunteers: an officer and another man sit at a table while a soldier presents two potential - but unprepossessing - recruits, the second man shabbily dressed; behind them a large dog menaces a smaller one; on the wall a map and a portrait ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
"Napoleon, pushing an officer before him through a pillared doorway, looks back to speak to a monk and a sansculotte, shackled together, who drag a car in which is an imperial crown. They hold a large scroll inscribed: 'Most religious Sovereign - the ...
Description:
Title printed in letterpress above image.
Publisher:
Published by L. Mayer, as the act directs and Bryer, printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, French, Monks, Flags, Ethnic stereotypes, Shackles, Crowns, Columns, Demons, and Maps
"A grotesque figure, resembling Punch, kneels in profile to the left, with a large thistle in the foreground (right). He bestrides a sack or bundle which rests on the ground, one end forming the 'Mull of Galloway', the other 'St Abbs Head'. The coast-...
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Scotland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Scots, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, Scottish, and Maps
"A grotesque figure, resembling Punch, kneels in profile to the left, with a large thistle in the foreground (right). He bestrides a sack or bundle which rests on the ground, one end forming the 'Mull of Galloway', the other 'St Abbs Head'. The coast-...
Alternative Title:
Droll caricature map of Scotland
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Scots, Ethnic stereotypes, National emblems, Scottish, and Maps
"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
In an elegantly furnished sitting room, a man sits at a table in a dressing gown and night cap, his tongue hanging out of his mouth and his gouty leg resting on a foot stool as his pulse is taken by a physician (right). The physician looks at a pocke...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 22d, 1784, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Pulse, Cats, Chimneypieces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, Health care, Maps, Physicians, Pictures, Rugs, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks)
"European sovereigns (wearing crowns) and others, watch a game of billiards between the Tsar, the principal figure, and the Sultan. Nicholas (left), a dandy in uniform, is about to make a stroke which will inevitably pocket the Turkish ball; in the po...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 30, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Name):
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855, Mahmud II, Sultan of the Turks, 1784-1839, Kapodistrias, Iōannēs Antōniou, 1776-1831, Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840, Francesco I, King of the Two Sicilies, 1777-1830, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Karl II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, 1804-1873, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Pius VIII, Pope, 1761-1830, and Miguel I, King of Portugal, 1802-1866
Subject (Topic):
Billiards, Heads of state, Dandies, Pipes (Smoking), and Maps
Heads of the members of the new ministry stand on wig blocks in a barber's shop. The barber washes his hands in a bowl attached to a double stand with the bewildered looking head of Lord North and the happily smiling one of Charles Fox on it. Behind t...
Alternative Title:
Heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom and Heads of a new wig administration on a broad bottom
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 21st April 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Wigs, and Maps
Heads of the members of the new ministry stand on wig blocks in a barber's shop. The barber washes his hands in a bowl attached to a double stand with the bewildered looking head of Lord North and the happily smiling one of Charles Fox on it. Behind t...
Alternative Title:
Heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom and Heads of a new wig administration on a broad bottom
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 21st April 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Wigs, and Maps
Heads of the members of the new ministry stand on wig blocks in a barber's shop. The barber washes his hands in a bowl attached to a double stand with the bewildered looking head of Lord North and the happily smiling one of Charles Fox on it. Behind t...
Alternative Title:
Heads of a new wig ad-----------n on a broadbottom and Heads of a new wig administration on a broad bottom
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 21st April 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and London
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, House, Samuel, -1785, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Barbers, Barbershops, Boxes, Wigs, and Maps
Plate [83] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Titlepage for Chapters XXIV, XXV and XXVI; Cabot kneeling to right beside a globe, pointing with dividers to a map on a scroll, held by another man beside him, while the king sits looking with interest on the left, his chin on his hand, three others ...
Alternative Title:
Sebastian Cabot explaining his discoveries to Henry the Seventh
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Cabot, Sebastian, approximately 1474-1557, and Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman ...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman ...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
"Four monarchs divide between them a map of the territories of the Dutch Republic, all saying, "Let us support the poor Dutch!" In the background (left) the 'Stadt House' falls in ruins, and on a small rock in the sea inscribed 'Texel' a fat Dutchman ...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Pubd. June 23d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, and Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 January 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.01.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief h...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 30th Jany. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 23, 1799.
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.05.23.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Dr. Slop, short and fat, seated in an arm-chair (centre) holding in his left hand the book containing the form of excommunication, points with his right at Obadiah who is disappearing (left), one leg and his back alone being visible. A handkerchief h...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Servants, Maps, Chairs, and Brooms & brushes
Inside a coffee house, an ensign, his broken sword lying on the ground, is held against the wall by a man with a hot poker. Another ensign, attempting to stub the man with the poker in the back, is held back by another customer and a waiter. The scene...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Social life and customs, Interiors, Soldiers, Confrontations, Daggers & swords, Time clocks, Fireplaces, Maps, Chandeliers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
Inside a coffee house, an ensign, his broken sword lying on the ground, is held against the wall by a man with a hot poker. Another ensign, attempting to stub the man with the poker in the back, is held back by another customer and a waiter. The scene...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Social life and customs, Interiors, Soldiers, Confrontations, Daggers & swords, Time clocks, Fireplaces, Maps, Chandeliers, Clergy, and Clothing & dress
"Napoleon, trampling over the map of Europe from 'Germany' to the 'British Channel', drops his sabre and raises his left leg, leaving behind the front part of his left foot, planted on the coast and sea between 'Holland' and 'France'. The foot has bee...
Alternative Title:
Governor of Europe stoped in his career, Governor of Europe stopped in his career, Little B-n to much for great B-te, and Little Britain too much for great Bonaparte
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 16, 1803, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Maps, Daggers & swords, and Wounds & injuries
"Satire on the early stages of the Seven Years War with a map of the German states supported by the double-headed Imperial eagle; Louis XV seizes Alsace and Lorraine and Russian bears tear at Hungary and Moravia; on either side stand commentators uncl...
Alternative Title:
Emblematic representation of the duty incumbent on a patriot prince ... and Indulgent care of the Roman Eagle displayed
Description:
Title etched at top of image.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, July the 29, 1757 by T. Kitchin at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1708-1765
A figure of king shown full length standing on a ship. His body is made from ceremonial objects and other objects that reflect the majesty of Great Britain: a map of the British Isles, anchors from ships, sword and sceptors, tridents, coins, etc. He w...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Anchors, Crowns, Maps, Scepters, Rulers, and Ships
A bust portrait of a man wearing a turban covered in jewels, carrying a bulse. On the wall behind is a plan of the Battle of Hastings. In 1786 Warren Hastings forwarded a giant diamond from the Nizam of the Deccan as gift for George III, which was rep...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Nizām ʻAlī Khān, Nizam of Hyderabad, 1734-1803. and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.
A satire ridiculing the first Nootka Convention in which Spain conceded England's right to maintain outposts in Nootka Sound and engage in whaling outside a "ten-league line" off the Northwest coast of North America. In a small row boat on the Pacific...
Alternative Title:
Cheap way to catch whales
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 4, 1791, by H. Humphries, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Great Britain., Great Britain, Spain., and North Pacific Ocean.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Whaling, Fishing, Galleys (Ships), Maps, Ships, and Whales
"Catherine II places in its niche the bust of Fox which is being hauled into position by a rope over a pulley held by a Russian bear, who crouches (right) beside the steps on which the Empress stands. She is in back view, very stout, wearing ermine-tr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 15th March 1792 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792, Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Regulus, Marcus Atilius, -250 B.C.?, and Demosthenes.
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Vultures, Thrones, Sculpture, Pulleys, and Maps
"Catherine II places in its niche the bust of Fox which is being hauled into position by a rope over a pulley held by a Russian bear, who crouches (right) beside the steps on which the Empress stands. She is in back view, very stout, wearing ermine-tr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 15th March 1792 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792, Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Regulus, Marcus Atilius, -250 B.C.?, and Demosthenes.
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Vultures, Thrones, Sculpture, Pulleys, and Maps
"Catherine II places in its niche the bust of Fox which is being hauled into position by a rope over a pulley held by a Russian bear, who crouches (right) beside the steps on which the Empress stands. She is in back view, very stout, wearing ermine-tr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 15th March 1792 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792, Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Regulus, Marcus Atilius, -250 B.C.?, and Demosthenes.
Subject (Topic):
Bears, Vultures, Thrones, Sculpture, Pulleys, and Maps
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behin...
A politician sits center in a chair before a table with a single candlestick on top. He holds the candle itself in his hand as he closely examines a sheet of paper, oblivious to the fact that the candle is burning a hole in the brim of his hat. Behin...
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maubert de Gouvest, Jean Henri, 1721-1767, and Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Hangings (Executions), Hospitals, and Maps
A man with multiple carbuncles on his face holds a map in his hands. Through the center of the map runs 'Rhino Fluvius'. The land is divided into provinces or states with names based on types of wines. Behind on the wall is a shelf with wine bottle...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st 1801 by Mr. Howitt, No. 15 Queen St., Soho
Manuscript on parchment of an outline map of Europe, Africa, Asia, the surrounding seas and the islands including Iceland, Greenland, and "Vinland," which resembles the coastline of northern North America, with identifying legends. Known as the "Vinla...
Plate [131] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; a crown and sword lying on map of North America over a rock, a harp at left and dramatic mask upon volumes at right, including Shakespeare, a thistle and rose bush intertwined behind."--Bri...
Description:
Title from catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1806, by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Daggers & swords, Maps, Books, Roses, and Thistles
