A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified from the address in the imprint., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Giving a loose to all the joys of love, / The wanton pair new postures seek to prove ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: music room -- Reference to postures -- Reference to Damon, fl. 387 BC -- Music sheets -- Harpsichord -- Violin -- Female dress: slippers, ca. 1748 -- Gilt pier table -- Furnishings: gilt mirror -- Gilt wall bracket and shelf -- Furniture: couch with paw feet -- Dishes: china bowl -- Sex: copulation., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Title from item., Second state of British Museum catalogue no. 2856., "Price 6d"--Lower right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Trades: butcher -- M. Trompée -- Nicknames: Count Newport -- Nicknames: Cout Neuf Puerto -- Navy: sailors -- Beverages: taplash -- Scots -- Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Elections: Westminster elections, June 1747 -- Demons: demon with halter and axe -- Emblems: constable's staff -- Clerks -- Outdoord scenes: New Palace Yard -- Lascar -- Nicknames: Trott Plaid (Henry Fielding) -- Rebels -- Jacobites..
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Morgan, David Thomas, ca. 1695-1746, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, and Warren, Peter, Sir, 1703-1752
Letterpress broadside with a hand-colored etched and engraved header illustrating the use of a fire-engine at the site of the Cornhill fire, which occurred on 25 March 1748
Description:
Caption title from letterpress text. and Annotations on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Empiricism display'd, Quackery unmasked, and Empiricism displayed
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Publisher's announcement following imprint: & 100 more., Quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses below image: In nova fert animis mutatas dicere formas corpora. Dii [sic] cœptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis. Oivd, Met. Lib. 1., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Thus modern empiricks are taught the art, By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part ..., Temporary local subject terms: Lecture Halls -- Quackery -- Quacks: 'Baron Schwanberg' -- 'G. West' -- 'Dr. Rock' -- Edmund Neeler, 'Carpenter Hamersmith' -- Medicine: quack pills -- Quack powders -- Medical implements: reference to clyster pipe -- Birds: crows -- Owl -- Animals: dogs -- Ass -- Sheep -- Horse -- Skulls., and Watermark: countermark IV.
A satire of the Congress and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with references to Silesia and Gibraltar and the territorial concessions made by the British, specifically relinguishing Capr Breton to France. Here the European powers are represented as beasts: France is depicted as a crowing cock; England as lion; Holland as boar; Genoa as dog; Prussia as wolf; Spain as leopard; Germany as griffin; Austria as eagle; and the Duchy of Lorraine as dog
Description:
Title engraved above image., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 10., Watermark: Pro patria., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Politics and government, Animals in human situations, Roosters, Lions, Boars, Dogs, Wolves, Eagles, Leopards, and Griffins
A gentleman wtih an angry, disappointed look on his face sits at a table in a coffeehouse filling his pipe with tobacco. On the table is a sugar bowl, a drinking glass, and a sugar basin. Below the design is engraved in two lines: You grumbled at the war; Here is a P-----ce for you, and be d----d to you
Description:
Title engraved above image., Attributed to Hogarth., Publisher identified from address: George Bickham., Two lines of text below image: You grumbled at the war; here is a p-----ce for you and be d----d to you., Earlier state, with different year in title and without the initial "B" forming a monogram with the "H" in printmaker's name, and without a third line in the caption below image. Cf. No. 3921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: Strasburg lily (partially cut off at top) with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Topic):
Coffeehouses, Complaining, Drinking vessels, and Pipes (Smoking)
Title from item., Publisher's name from address in imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- Fences: stile -- British territorial concessions: concession of Cape Breton to France -- British territorial concessions: threat of concession of Gibraltar to Spain., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covt. Gardern
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773, and William IV, Prince of Orange, 1711-1751
publish'd according to act of Parliament 1 Nov. 1748.
Call Number:
748.11.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left James II, seated on a throne of "hereditary right" and holding manacles, turns left to shake the hand of a monk who tramples on an open volume labeled "Holy Bible". From under the throne dragons or serpents devour the "Magna Carta", "Toleration Act", "Common and Statute Law" and "Acts of Parliament" while slaves bow before the King and Furries with torches and whips dance before him. On an obelisk is inscribed: "The Foundation of the Roman Hierarchy; implicit faith; apostalical succession; infallibility; pardons and indulgences; decrees of council; massacres; private murders; perjury and the inquisition ..." At foot of the obelisk is the Pope preaching "Hereditary indefeasible right and my bull to sanctify thy claim" addressed to the Pretender ...
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image., Later state, with publisher's address erased and date altered to 1748. Originally published by J. Collyer in Ludgate Street, 1 November 1745., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., and Mounted to: 31 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James II, King of England, 1633-1701, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Animals, Clergy, Demons, Justice, Martyrs, Monks, Shackles, and Enslaved people
