Lion's head; he holds in his front paws a placard with the motto: "Servantur magnis isti cervicibus ungues; non nisi delecta pascitur ille fera[m]." Text below image: "This head is now at the Shakspeare Tavern, Covent Garden, where it has been ever si...
Lion's head; he holds in his front paws a placard with the motto: "Servantur magnis isti cervicibus ungues; non nisi delecta pascitur ille fera[m]." Text below image: "This head is now at the Shakspeare Tavern, Covent Garden, where it has been ever si...
"Satirical ballad on the unwillingness of the British government to go to war with Spain with a woodcut illustration derived from British Museum Satires No. 2355 showing Robert Walpole holding the tail of the British Lion which holds a staff topped by...
Alternative Title:
Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason and Don Diego brought to reason
Description:
Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
R. Thompson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Subject (Topic):
Whips, Carts & wagons, Lions, Sailors, and Staffs (Sticks)
In the foreground, Charles Fox puts a chain around the British Lion's neck while Lord North ties a blindfold around the animal's head. Standing next to North is Burke who holds the ends of the chain attached to a large padlock. In the background, a fe...
Description:
Title, statement of responsibility and publication date supplied by cataloger based on entry in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Lions, Blindfolds, and Chains
"A cow representing the commerce of Great Britain stands passively on the sea-shore while an American with a feathered cap saws off her horns; one horn lies on the ground. A Dutchman milks the cow ... France, a foppishly-dressed Frenchman, and Spain, ...
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue no. 5472.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Great Britain., Great Britain, and America.
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799. and Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, Commerce, Colonies, National characteristics, French, National characteristics, Spanish, National characteristics, Dutch, Milking, Cows, Lions, and Sleeping
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a lion as viewed from the side, facing right; in an oval. Based on an the original intaglia image on sardonyx, possibly part of a ring, in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
