"Satire on postillions: a German postilion smoking a pipe, wearing a coat with a double-headed eagle on the sleeve and a horn hung from a cord at his side, holding a whip; he stands beside steps leading to the door of a building with a dog at his side."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., and Watermark, trimmed: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 1772 by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Postillions, German, Pipes (Smoking), Whips, and Dogs
"Satire on postillions: an English postilion in breeches and tight-fitting boots, holding a whip stands outside an inn with a sign of "The Old Kings head. T. Golightly from Hounslow" beside a milestone "XIV Miles to London"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., State from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark, trimmed: Fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 1772 by I. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
"Satire on the newly-rich owner of a suburban villa and garden at Islington: an ill-dressed man stands facing front, legs apart leaning on a stick and staring angrily as he complains about damage to his property; his hat lies on the ground beside him; behind on the left is a gazebo raised on a pillar around which winds a staircase, on the right is an obelisk surmounted by a huge sphere; a high wall beyond."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Nine lines of prose within rectangular border at top of design: Whereas my new pagoda has been clandestinely carried off & a new pair of dolphins ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Pseudonyms: Jeremiah Sago -- Cockney speech.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Title from caption below image., Questionable artist attribution to H.W. Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Naval.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 2, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
"An etching, representing an elderly man standing upright, turned in three-quarters view to our right, with his hands joined behind him. In the breast of his coat many books are "stuffed"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title supplied from the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from contemporary manuscript note: Publish'd Febry. 29, 1774., A date of 1769 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One line of quote below image: Cleanse thy stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff (Shakes. Mack.)., Two lines of description below quote: Taken from the life Jany 1769 & now by desire of several of his old customers dedicated to [the] pious & decent memory of Mr. Wm. Lynch., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, line 44 -- William Lynch, publisher, d. 1770? -- Booksellers., and Manuscript note in contemporary hand at bottom of plate: Publish'd Fbr. 29, 1774.