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- Creator:
- Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 February 1751]
- Call Number:
- 751.02.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Attributed to Boitard on stylistic grounds; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3913., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ..., Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ..., Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions., "Price one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding., Mounted to 30 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 21, 1751, by Dan Job, stationer in King Street, Covent Garden
- Subject (Geographic):
- Portsmouth (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Boat & ship industry, Carpentry, Forts & fortifications, Light fixtures, Harbors, Horseback riding, Mortars & pestles, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Gothamites in council humbly inscribed to the geese in disgrace sometime call'd the honest men of P-h. [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before1762]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.88+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Tall, elegantly dressed elderly gentleman stands in center of a room looking with disgust over his left shoulder at large round tripod table on which lies a crying infant in a straw basket. He holds a raised cane in his right hand and a tricorne hat under his right arm. From his left side hangs a tasselled sword. The baby's basket has a ribbon inscribed 'To Simon Spindleshanks, Esq.' Behind his master, to the left, stands a grinning manservant who is showing delight in what he has brought about. In the background are beautifully panelled walls hung with two paintings which amplify the subject of the print. The one on the left depicts a violent storm; in the one on the right Delilah with Samson asleep at her knee, beckons soldiers to enter the room
- Alternative Title:
- Plague of a single state, Enraged batchelor, and Enraged bachelor
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: Batter'd, deseas'd, and past his youthfull pranks, lo here a bantling, laid to Spindleshanks ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Bachelors, Abandoned children, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The enrag'd batchelor, or, The plague of a single state [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1767]
- Call Number:
- 767.00.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on fashionable life described in a sub-title as "Address'd to the Professors of Driving, Dressing, Ogling, Writing, Playing, Gambling, Racing, Dancing, Duelling, Boxing, Swearing, Humming, Building, &c. &c. &c." with broad space flanked by large buildings leading down to the sea. On the left, "The Academy for the Noble Art of Boxing NB Mufflers provided for delicate Constitutions" through the windows of which a pugilist can be seen addressing a yong nobleman, and two men boxing. Beside this a theatre into which a large crowd enters via a staircase, encouraged by a zany standing on a balcony with three actresses, two actors wearing turbans and another dressed as a soldier; the sign above refers to notorious hoaxes of the earlier part of the century: "Britannia Humm'd Or the Tragedy of the Secret Expedition [presumably the Expedition on Rochefort, 1757], A Mock Tragedy to which is added a Farce call'd The Pregnant Rabit Woman [i.e., Mary Toft], Together with the Adventures of the Bottle Conjurer [see BM Satires 3022, 1868,0808.3875], and Polish Jew [Henry Simons]. As likewise the taking ye Standard at the Battle of Dittingen." The next house is built in a variety of styles; beyond, the sea the sun rises "for the Vigilant". In the foreground fashionable people are shown as described in a key below: 1. "British Nobility disguis'd", three women dressed in French style in an open carriage are bowed to by 2. a foppish young man "Return'd from the Polite Tour"; behind him 3. "Foreign Insolence [is] express'd by the French Valet de Chambre daring to Insult 4. English Bravery in Distress [an old sailor with a wooden leg], reduc'd to ask Alms in his Native Country, after having courageously lost his limbs in Defence of it on board a Privateer & unjustly kept out of his Prize-money"; next is 5. "The Optical Ogle, or polite Curiosity", a young gentleman peering at the women in the carriage through an eye-glass; 6. "An Author", a miserable gentleman with his hands tucked into the breast of his coat who is barked at by two dogs; by contrast, 7. "A Player" reclines comfortably in a sedan chair, a footman walking before him; 8. describes a scene at the door of the house on the right, "The Industrious Tradesman thrust off with Contempt, expecting a just Debt to be paid, to make room for a high Life Gambler [also in a sedan chair], politely usher'd in to receive his Debt of Honour"; behind this group is, 9. "A Feather of the Turf", a man mounted on a high gig drives two horses, and 10. "The Balance of Merit in this happy Climate for useless Exotics, [where] A French Dancing Master obtains 300£ pr. Ann. & a clear Benefit worth near 300£ more, while the Ingenious English Shipwright, tho' Assistant to the Honour Profit & Defence of his Country, by hard Labour barely obtains 40£ pr. Ann."; on the left, 11. a hearse drives into the scene with "The Corps[e] of a Blood, conveying to Interment, who boldly lost his Life in a Duel defending the Reputation of a Prostitute"; 12. is the house beside the sea, "Modern Architecture The Corinthian, Venetian, Gothic & Chinese huddled in one Front,"; 13. an old woman leaning out of an upper window calling to a woman and two men at the door represents "Modern Hospitality in the Character of Old Age, left to take care of Furniture, & answer Duns that the Family is in the Country"; 14. fishing boats at sea are reminders that "One British Buss [fishing boat] of more service to the Community than ten Italian Singers"."--British Museun online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below image: Explanation. 1 British Nobility disguis'd, 2 Return'd from the Polite Tour, 3 Foreign Insolence express'd by the French valet de chambre daring to insult 4 English Bravery in distress ..., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm., window mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
- Subject (Topic):
- Dettingen, Battle of, Karlstein, Unterfranken, Germany, 1743, Drolls, Accessories (Clothing & dress), Clothing & dress, Boxing, Carriages & coaches, Guilds, Hearses, Magicians, Military uniforms, British, Occupations, Pregnancy, Scales, and Sedan chairs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The present age 1767 address'd to the professors of driving, dressing, ogling, writing, playing, gambling, racing, dancing, duelling, boxing, swearing, humming, building, &c., &c., &c. / [graphic]
5.
- Creator:
- Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1751.
- Call Number:
- Print00688
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In lower margin center: According to Act of Parliament 1751., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Megalomania, Ego (Psychology)., Retorts, Scientific equipment, Thrones, Cattle, Sacrifices, Knives, Musicians, and Harps
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Megalomaniac] [graphic]
