"A man stands looking to the left, (gloved) right hand on his cane, left arm akimbo, legs apart. He wears wide-brimmed hat, double-breasted coat, knee-breeches, high-quartered buckled shoes, and elaborate neck-cloth with kilted jabot and sleeve-ruffle. He is Mr. Hall of the Swan Brewery."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Hall., Leaf 34 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.4 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"A man stands looking to the left, (gloved) right hand on his cane, left arm akimbo, legs apart. He wears wide-brimmed hat, double-breasted coat, knee-breeches, high-quartered buckled shoes, and elaborate neck-cloth with kilted jabot and sleeve-ruffle. He is Mr. Hall of the Swan Brewery."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Hall.
"A broadside satirising the Jacobite Alderman William Benn, who was involved in a drunken fight with another alderman at a London City feast because the former had proposed to the health of the Young Pretender; with an etching showing in the foreground Benn on the ground, holding in his right hand a bottle, his wig is pulled off by a dog, on the right another alderman, attacking Benn with a raised bottle, in the background a group of people looking on; with engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in three columns, and with two vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wars broke out in the city
Description:
Caption title., Broadside illustrated with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20.3 x 33.1 cm)., First line: Draw near, ye sober citizens., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: dog wearing a collar "Charls's [sic] Breed" and chains -- Drunken battle with wine bottles -- Bottles: wine bottles used as weapons -- Hospitals of Bethlem and Bridewell -- Gold chains -- City of London feast -- Ass's ears on William Benn -- Envelope -- Aldermen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. and Benn, William, 1702-1755
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Jacobites, Dogs, and Wigs
A dandified young man carrying muff and walking stick is met by a portly older bewigged gentleman (possibly his father or an innkeeper) before an inn. The young man is followed by 3 porters carrying baggage, including 2 sailors the last carrying 2 pistols. The inn's signboard depicting a tree with a face in it, is inscribed below with the name Bullock. In the courtyard behind a man is visible having emerged from a sedan chair
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., State with title almost removed from plate., Artist's initials and imprint from photocopy of later state., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Campione
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Sedan chairs, Travel, Dandies, Clothing & dress, and Taverns (Inns)
A portly bewigged gentleman with banknotes under his arm, appears to be hurriedly leaving his house, which has been sold. On the far left stands a man holding the keys, while a black servant in livery appears to be pleading for his freedom to a man holding a whip. On the right a porter in a pigtail queue is packing. On the floor are rolls of paper marked annuities, and a sheet inscribed "James Sellaway, Broker." The portraits of ancestors have on them slips with lot numbers
Alternative Title:
Salutary trip to the south of France
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs Novr. 2d. 1778 by Mr. Campione, Printseller Oxford
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Auctioneers, Blacks, Servants, Interiors, Clothing & dress, and Wigs
LWL 49 2387.2: Horace Walpole's copy with annotations and a pencil sketch on last fly-leaf., LWL 49 2387.2: 'Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews' (Allen Tracy Hazen), LWL 49 2387.2: G.D. Smith (N.Y.) to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Nov. 1927. Ex dono Annie Burr Jennings (Probably paid for the book), and Rebound in green morocco by Alfred Matthews; no bookplate and not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Many marginal notes by Horace Walpole, chiefly on the pictures of Blenheim and Ditchley. (See Horace Walpole to Montagu, 19 July 1760.) Very probably it was this volume that led Horace Walpole to record in his Description 'Accounts of Blenheim...'. With Horace Walpole's architectural sketch in pencil on last flyleaf; the words "loggias, arcades, stairs, terrasses" are written above image.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved title page., "The thirde edition, corrected and augmented by the author"., Cf. No. 126 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., Mounted and window mounted to 33 x 24 cm. Lower right portion of sheet torn off; loss at the center of bottom of plate with missing design filled in ink on mounting sheet., and Sitter in portrait below title identified on mounting sheet by J. Reed[?] as Robert Burton.
