Page 243. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Possibly etched by William Wadd; statement of responsibility "W. Wadd fecit" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Perhaps a later version of the satirical coat of arms designed by Richard Edgcumbe, George Selwyn, George Williams, and Horace Walpole in 1756, which was engraved with the motto "Cog it amor nummi" at the bottom. Cf. No. 3350 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Tipped in at page 243 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Coats of arms, Barrels, and Drinking vessels
A mock coat of arms, perhaps for George IV, that possibly served as the tailpiece or other illustration to a verse-satire on the trial of Queen Caroline. The shield is vase-shaped and includes a mug of beer at center, tents and cannons on either side of the mug, a settee below the mug, three ships at top, scales of justice with "vice" outweighing "virtue" below the ships, and a ram at bottom. Surmounting the shield is a donkey with a owl on its back, the owl wearing a tall conical hat; the donkey stands upon a "log", a volume with "bill" on its spine, a chess board, playing cards, sheets of paper labeled "address", and a cross above which "liturgy petition" is written. Plants are seen on either side of shield; below the shield are banners in which the Latin phrases "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um" are written
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and publication information from potentially related prints that were published by Humphrey and are attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue. See nos. 13948-13972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Possibly a plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 12 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted with eight sheets of letterpress text, for letters R-Z, meant to face the corresponding plates in bound copies of Horrida bella.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Donkeys, Owls, Books, Playing cards, Board games, Scales, Drinking vessels, Beer, Tents, Cannons, Ships, Sheep, and Couches