Two men fight a duel with rapiers in the courtyards of a building. Through a large doorway peers Sir Robert Walpole his finger to his lips, saying "Let them cut one another's throats".
Alternative Title:
Duel between Lord Hervey and the Honble. William Pultney
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Subjects identified in manuscript on British Museum catalogue impression., Lewis Walpole Library: The two duellists were formerly misidentified as Lord Chesterfield and Viscount Cobham., For publication date of print see British Museum Catalogue of prints and drawings, v. iii, p. 372., Variant state, without caption title above the image and without publisher. Cf. No. 1868 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ..., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters, and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ..., Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters, and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Mead, Richard, 1673-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Behold a group with courage, strength & skill, / Broughton's New Amphitheater to fill ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Treasury -- John Ellys.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, and Broughton, Jack, 1704-1789.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Behold a group with courage, strength & skill, / Broughton's New Amphitheater to fill ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Treasury -- John Ellys., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, Chetwynd, William Richard Chetwynd, Viscount, ?1683-1770, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757, and Broughton, Jack, 1704-1789.
On the street in front of a tavern under a sign with a picture of a crown, the Chief Justice leans on hitching post as he vomits the words "Sec. of State". The other men play at the game "Bob-Cherry", the cherries, hanging from the sign. Behind them in the distance is St. James's Palace
Description:
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., and Watermark: Britannia on the right side, countermark on the left.
Publisher:
Sold at the Print Shop in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Willes, John, Sir, 1685-1761, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
publish'd according to a late act, Febry. the 18, 1742.
Call Number:
742.02.18.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Robet Walpole's move to the House of Lords: A large room in which Walpole is pushed at swordpoint by the masked figure of Justice towards a group of lords who wait to receive him. He is led by a lion carrying a coronet in its teeth which says, "Follow me Sr. Blew String", and he holds his hand to his head, saying "I go in hopes to save this & trust to ye Hat". On the left, a group of four members of the Commons, wearing jockey caps and boots, surround Lord Pulteney. In the background are two shop stalls, "Deards from St. Dunstans" selling expensive trinkets, and "Dent's Snuff Shop"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From one house to another
Description:
Title engraved below image., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Triumphant V----y too well succeeds, when power, lion-like, to honour leads ..., 'Price 6 pence'--Lower right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the House of Commons -- Reference to the House of Lords -- Members of Parliament -- George II as British Lion -- Coronets: earl's coronet -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: tobacco shop, Dent's Snuff -- Toy shop, Deards from St. Dunstan's [Lane] -- Trades: tobacconists -- Toymen -- Containers: tobacco jars -- Justice's sword -- Justice's scale -- Personifications: figure of blindfolded Justice -- Court of Requests., Mounted to 29 x 37 cm., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
"A broadside satirising seven politicians; with an etching showing a garden with seven statues on plinths in a semi-circle, depicting from left to right Lord Bolingbroke, the Earl of Orford (Sir Robert Walpole), Earl Cholmondeley, the Earl of Bath (William Pulteney), the Earl of Stair, William Pitt (the Elder, Earl of Chatham), and Henry Pelham; with engraved title and inscriptions, and letterpress title and text in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Collection of modern statues and caracters [sic]
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image., Sheet trimmed within etching's plate mark on sides and top resulting in loss of caption title., and Mounted to 40 x 31 cm., mounted again to 42 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1703-1770, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of, 1673-1747, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
"Satire on the king and government concerning the employment of Hanoverian troops in England. A cart loaded with Hanoverian turnips is drawn from the right by three horses into the parade ground behind the Treasury.On the left, in front of the leading horse, stands John Perceval, his coat labelled "Deceivall" and holding a paper lettered, "Independant", saying, "In my popular station". Facing him, the bulky figure of William Pulteney, holding a driver's whip and a handful of turnips, says, "Honest Friend S[an]d[y]s rejoyce & sing here's H[anove]r T[urni]p will now come again Ho"; Robert Walpole stands on the other side of the horses saying, "Ha S[an]d[y]s you've a short reign". The man standing on the shafts of the cart calling out, "Stop Boy they shall buy th'all" is apparently identifiable as Samuel Sandys, now Chancellor of the Exchequer; Amalia von Wallmoden sits on the turnips saying, "Thank you Sr for ye Honr. you've done me & yor. Man Will", presumably a reference to Pulteney. Behind the horses stand two other men, evidently Treasury officials, one, holding Treasury tallies, says "Let me be S[and]y[s] I'm not squeamish", the other saying "Ill make a round sum"; the king leans over a balcony of the Treasury brandishing a broom and saying "Pay for ye whole S[an]d[y]s I'll sweep the T[reasu]ry clean". On a wall in the background are pasted "S[an]d[y]s Speeches, a halfpeny a Peice" concerning the Place Bill, the Motion to enquire into the conduct of Walpole and the Triennial Act 1743; a ballad seller sits on the ground beside them. The Hanoverian cavalry enters from the right, led by a commander carrying the standard with the white horse of Hanover, and followed by mounted bandsmen, including a kettle drummer and a trumpeter. One Hanoverian remarks, "For us 260" in reference to the number of members of parliament who voted to retain the troops. In the foreground an Englishman kneels on the ground grasping a bunch of turnips and saying, "By G[o]d these Turnips are dear"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hanover turnip man come again
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 5., Subjects identified by numbers placed below the print on mounting sheet and explained in the key in upper right. Summary of the description in the British Museum Catalogue follows below the key., Mounted to 32 x 46 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
"Satire on the ineffectual opposition at the time of the parliamentary motion to remove Robert Walpole from office suggesting that they are motivated by self-interest. Walpole stands in a landscape assailed by arrows labelled "Ambition", "Want of Place", "Disappointment", "Self Interest", "Sham Patriotism", "affected Zeal", "Resentment", "Malice", "Prejudice", "Revenge", "Disaffection", "Want of Pension", and "Pique"; none of the arrows hit their mark. On the left opposition politicians with their bows stand or run away. They are identified in the verses beneath: Carteret, Argyll, the Bishop of Lichfield fallen to the ground saying "The D[evi]l owed me a Spite", Sandys crying "all mismanaged", Doddington, Lyttelton, Pulteney saying, "Z[ound]s I've mist him"; in the foreground, the tory William Shippen kneels laying down his bow and saying "I'll e'en not meddle"; a group of tories rushing away to left cry, "Let us make hast out"; the devil flies above them in the form of a winged pig, crying "yah! yah! yah!". In the background three men labour in vain to push a millstone up a hill twoards where another waits to receive it. On the right a group of Walpole's supporters mock the opposition, noting particularly the collapse of the Bishop Smalbroke, "Split Devil is down". Fifteen explanatory stanzas below, each ending with the chorus, "Doodle, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched on plate above image., Fifteen stanzas of verse below image: Who be he dat stand alone-a ..., "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Price Six-Pence."--Following imprint., Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20.8 x 30.2 cm)., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Smalbroke, Richard, 1672-1749, and Shippen, William, 1673-1743
"Satire on Robert Walpole and his continuing influence on government after his fall from power. A large folding screen in the centre stands open showing events from Walpole's career: the South Sea Bubble, the treaties of Hanover and Seville, the "Bank contract" of 1720, Admiral Hosier's expedition to Cartagena, the Excise Scheme (depicted as BM Satires 1918), the War of Jenkins' Ear, the Convention of the Pardo, the English ships held in the port of San Sebastian in 1740 (see BM Satires 2418 and 2440), and a general reference to "Bribery, &c.". A mirror on the left reveal that Walpole is standing behind the screen pulling strings that operate members of parliament assembled in the chamber shown below. Above the screen is a separate scene showing the reconciliation between George II and Frederick, Prince of Wales, early in 1742. To the right stands the Duke of Argyll in Garter robes resting against a lectern and pointing to Wapole's misdeeds as portrayed on the screen; above Argyll's head hangs a picture of Diogenes holding his lamp and a portrait of the "honest man" he sought; beside Argyll is lettered, "Glorious and Brave to shake Corruption's Seat, But much more Glorious is thy brave Retreat". Two columns of letterpress verse below warn "William", i.e. Pulteney, that Walpole continues to influence governement."
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image., The title from the caption above the image on the plate: A new screen for an old one, or, The screen of screens., "Price 6p.", Imprint on plate below design., Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with an etching in upper part of the sheet (plate mark 17.3 x 17.2 cm.). The title from the caption above the image on the plate: A new screen for an old one, or, The screen of screens., Two lines of verse engraved vertically on the right of plate: Glorious and brave to shake corruption's seat, but much more glorious is thy brave retreat., Twenty six lines of verse in two columns below the plate, in letterpress: Dear William, did'st thou never go, to mimic farce, call'd Puppet-Shew? ... Lond. Evening Post, Mar. 11, 1741-2., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 35 x 42 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by T.B.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Five stanzas of verse below title: Fortune's wheel is turning quickly round, and nothing in our court of certainty is found ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Fortune -- Interiors: Court of Request -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: bookseller -- Vehicles: fire-engine.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Five stanzas of verse below title: Fortune's wheel is turning quickly round, and nothing in our court of certainty is found ..., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Fortune -- Interiors: Court of Request -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: bookseller -- Vehicles: fire-engine., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from item., "Price 1s"--Lower right corner., One line of text following title: NB. The beasts represent certain monarchs, and the birds certain kingdoms, the eagle in particular Germany with her nine electors., and Temporary local subject terms: Russian bear -- German eagle and 9 eaglets (electors) -- French fox and fox cub -- Hungarian peacock -- Prussian jay -- British lion -- Dutch goose -- Austrian bull -- Bavarian hound -- Morrocan tunis (camel) -- Swiss bat -- Venetian dolphin -- Walpolian owl -- Spanish griffin -- Swedish ostrich -- Swan of Lorain -- Roman cat -- Danish stork -- Persian rhinoceros -- Turkish elephant -- Norwegian frog -- Pretender's serpent -- Bills: excise, 1741 -- Torches -- German elections, 1741 -- Europe as beehive -- Hanoverian turnips -- Count Joseph Edward Gage, 1678?-1753?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, and Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749
Subject (Topic):
National emblems, British, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Prussian, Roman, Russian, Swiss, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Title from item., "Price 1s"--Lower right corner., One line of text following title: NB. The beasts represent certain monarchs, and the birds certain kingdoms, the eagle in particular Germany with her nine electors., Temporary local subject terms: Russian bear -- German eagle and 9 eaglets (electors) -- French fox and fox cub -- Hungarian peacock -- Prussian jay -- British lion -- Dutch goose -- Austrian bull -- Bavarian hound -- Morrocan tunis (camel) -- Swiss bat -- Venetian dolphin -- Walpolian owl -- Spanish griffin -- Swedish ostrich -- Swan of Lorain -- Roman cat -- Danish stork -- Persian rhinoceros -- Turkish elephant -- Norwegian frog -- Pretender's serpent -- Bills: excise, 1741 -- Torches -- German elections, 1741 -- Europe as beehive -- Hanoverian turnips -- Count Joseph Edward Gage, 1678?-1753?, and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, and Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749
Subject (Topic):
National emblems, British, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Prussian, Roman, Russian, Swiss, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
"Satire on Robert Walpole and attempts to remove him from office. Walpole, illuminated by rays, stands in a cart, at the tail of which walks Dr Conyers Middleton, drawn from right to left by six broken down horses and asses on the leader of which rides the postillion Lord Hervey, identified by his fan ("Lord Fanny") and the Seal around his neck; overhead flies a devil with a banner lettered, "The Death of M[iddleto]n in the Life of Cicero. Walpole raises his arms in surprise at a Trojan horse appearing to follow him. Argyll wearing a tartan sash and a purse of £1000 at his waist is seated onthe horse's back saying "77 Commissions baits for votes, in Parliament; a monkey swings from a tree behind him holding a ribbon lettered, "C. La. John". A trapdoor, against which rests a ladder, is open in the belly of the horse revealing the heads of two men within, a ribbon from the mouth of one is lettered, "for giveing a girl of 14", the phrase continuing around the opening, "to 4 score/in ye fleet". A head with an expression of alarm appears beneath the horse, obscured by shadow. Beside the horse stands an officer brandishing a stick and saying, "he wants, caning"; to his right, stands a group of three men and a women, one man, wearing clerical or legal bands holds up a bell, a clergyman grasps him by the hand saying, "I may sell gin again". At lower right stands the Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain, holding his wand of office and saying, "My wages runs deep" (see BM Satires 2491); a small black page holds his train. In the centre, a woman on all fours has pulled up her skirts to allow elegant man with a monkey's head to kiss her backside through a short ladder; she winks and holds up the first two fingers of her right hand; the monkey-man is identified as the surgeon, Esquire Carey of Pall Mall, by a ribobon lettered, "your Taa; Pall-mal", a clyster pipe, and a hat with a label inside reading, "Carey in ye Minor". Behind Carey, appears a small bald-headed man, his wig falling off, who holds up his hands saying, "Direectors of ye Assical Print & Procession, by ye Authors of Manners" (a reference to BM Satires 2494 and to Paul Whitehead's anti-Walpole satire "Manners" published in February 1739. On the left, is a group of those in opposition to Walpole, identified by the legend beneath in which they disparage Walpole, each voices an insult including a reference to his Secret Service, to the Black Joke (a suggestive ballad) and to a Lapland witch (reputed to have the power to conjure up winds and tempests): 1. Lord Chesterfield, defecating on to the satirical print entitled "Funeral of Faction" (BM Satires 2487); 2. Lord Cobham; 3. John Myddelton; 4. William Pulteney; 5. the Duchess of Marlborough; 6. Samuel Sandys holding his nose has he looks down at Chesterfield. In the background stands the recently established Foundling Hospital with a sign above its door reading, "This House is full" and a roundel with a woman laying down a child; a sailor sits on an inn sign (with two ships) lettered "he'll inslave us" and pointing towards Walpole; he holds a tankard in his other hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Motley team of state
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to George Bickham the younger in an unverified card catalog record., Twenty four lines of text in six columns below image: 1. C-t-d. He's a musician, to his prince he plays ..., State with imprint partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 2495 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Discord -- The White Horse of Hanover as a Trojan Horse -- Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Buildings: The Foundling Hospital -- Medical implements: clyster pipe., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
1741 by authority, printed for G. Bickham
Subject (Name):
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749, Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 1683-1757, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"Satire on Robert Walpole and attempts to remove him from office. Walpole, illuminated by rays, stands in a cart, at the tail of which walks Dr Conyers Middleton, drawn from right to left by six broken down horses and asses on the leader of which rides the postillion Lord Hervey, identified by his fan ("Lord Fanny") and the Seal around his neck; overhead flies a devil with a banner lettered, "The Death of M[iddleto]n in the Life of Cicero. Walpole raises his arms in surprise at a Trojan horse appearing to follow him. Argyll wearing a tartan sash and a purse of £1000 at his waist is seated onthe horse's back saying "77 Commissions baits for votes, in Parliament; a monkey swings from a tree behind him holding a ribbon lettered, "C. La. John". A trapdoor, against which rests a ladder, is open in the belly of the horse revealing the heads of two men within, a ribbon from the mouth of one is lettered, "for giveing a girl of 14", the phrase continuing around the opening, "to 4 score/in ye fleet". A head with an expression of alarm appears beneath the horse, obscured by shadow. Beside the horse stands an officer brandishing a stick and saying, "he wants, caning"; to his right, stands a group of three men and a women, one man, wearing clerical or legal bands holds up a bell, a clergyman grasps him by the hand saying, "I may sell gin again". At lower right stands the Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain, holding his wand of office and saying, "My wages runs deep" (see BM Satires 2491); a small black page holds his train. In the centre, a woman on all fours has pulled up her skirts to allow elegant man with a monkey's head to kiss her backside through a short ladder; she winks and holds up the first two fingers of her right hand; the monkey-man is identified as the surgeon, Esquire Carey of Pall Mall, by a ribobon lettered, "your Taa; Pall-mal", a clyster pipe, and a hat with a label inside reading, "Carey in ye Minor". Behind Carey, appears a small bald-headed man, his wig falling off, who holds up his hands saying, "Direectors of ye Assical Print & Procession, by ye Authors of Manners" (a reference to BM Satires 2494 and to Paul Whitehead's anti-Walpole satire "Manners" published in February 1739. On the left, is a group of those in opposition to Walpole, identified by the legend beneath in which they disparage Walpole, each voices an insult including a reference to his Secret Service, to the Black Joke (a suggestive ballad) and to a Lapland witch (reputed to have the power to conjure up winds and tempests): 1. Lord Chesterfield, defecating on to the satirical print entitled "Funeral of Faction" (BM Satires 2487); 2. Lord Cobham; 3. John Myddelton; 4. William Pulteney; 5. the Duchess of Marlborough; 6. Samuel Sandys holding his nose has he looks down at Chesterfield. In the background stands the recently established Foundling Hospital with a sign above its door reading, "This House is full" and a roundel with a woman laying down a child; a sailor sits on an inn sign (with two ships) lettered "he'll inslave us" and pointing towards Walpole; he holds a tankard in his other hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Motley team of state
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to George Bickham the younger in an unverified card catalog record., Twenty four lines of text in six columns below image: 1. C-t-d. He's a musician, to his prince he plays ..., State with imprint partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 2495 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Discord -- The White Horse of Hanover as a Trojan Horse -- Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Buildings: The Foundling Hospital -- Medical implements: clyster pipe., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
1741 by authority, printed for G. Bickham
Subject (Name):
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749, Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 1683-1757, Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, Marlborough, Charles Spencer, Duke of, 1706-1758, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Mr. Pulteney duels with Lord Hervey in a country road, an open field behind them and in the distance trees against a dark, cloudy sky. In the foreground on the right stands the figure of Sir Robert Walpole who points to the two duelers
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 1., Subjects identified below image in contemporary hand., and Window mounted to 20 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Ickworth, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
