"The Prince stands in back view, his head turned to the left. His heels are together. His powdered hair or wig has a cockatoo-like crest, worn with a very small queue, round which his coat is thickly frosted with powder, cf. BMSat 8190. His neck, as indicated by his coat-collar, is grotesquely thick, his coat has the bulky sleeves associated with Jean de Bry, see BMSat 9425, with pointed coat-tails. Under his left arm is a cocked hat. The word 'Honi . . .' appears on his garter."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prince of Wales from behind
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state, with the shoes altered to look more modern. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 802.03.10.01., and Mounted on leaf 70 of volume 10 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 10th, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Proof state before title. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3321., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The tender mother., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting
Description:
Title and date of publication based on those of larger version of print., Reduced version of a print, also by Gillray, entitled: The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting. Cf. No. 8822 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 9 of 12.
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue. and Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London
"In the upper part of the design the Recording Angel (or Truth) draws or engraves on an oval shield which she rests on a pedestal. On it are depicted French soldiers bayoneting defenceless Turks (apparently adapted from BMSat 10062). In the background are the head of a Sphinx, and clouds. Against the pedestal on which Truth stands rests a picture, filling the lower part of the design. Napoleon kneels on a rock, extending imploring arms towards Nilus, a nude and muscular figure seated on rock from which water gushes. Nilus veils and averts his head. In the background are pyramids and palm-trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece, Britannicus to Buonaparte : an heroic epistle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger; varying form of title from British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to the second edition of Britannicus to Buonaparte, an heroic epistle, with notes / by Henry Tresham., 1 print : etching with aquatint, stipple & roulette on wove paper ; sheet 27.8 x 20.9 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1803, for the author by I. Hatchard, No. 199 Piccadilly, London
"A lady nurses a sleeping baby while another older girl approaches from the left; an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.10396., Proof state before title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges., Companion print to: The happy mother., Sheet annotated at top with the name "James Gillray," written in ink and in a contemporary hand., and Mounted on leaf 15 of volume 12 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
"A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius of that Good Man and Upright Senator \ Sir George Saville Bart \ Hovers with anxiety over The Tomb; not without Hopes, that his Countrymen \ may e're it be too late, see the Necessity of Peace, - the Improbability of \ the Present Ministers making it, - & the Benefit which would result, from a Temperate Reformation of those Abuses, "from which {to use his own memorable words) \ it was notorious, that all our Calamities Sprung."!!!' Below: 'Fuimus Troes, fuet [sic] Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum. Virgil Here lie the Remains of the \ - Requisition, - \ The last Hopes of the Independent Gentlemen of Yorkshire; \ in full Confidence \ that when Corruption shall have ceased to prey upon the \ Human Frame, that it will rise again to \ - Immortal Glory.- \ Reader, \ You will no longer doubt the just Cause or upright \ Intention of this Requisition, when you learn, that \ the Merchants of Leeds, its greatest Enemies, have \ Thought that an Elegant Monument should be dedicated \ to it's \ Memory. \ "Your Cause of Sorrow must not be measured by his \ "Worth, for then it hath no End." Shakespere Mackbeth \ "Quis Desiderio sit Pudor aut Modus \ "Tam chari Capitis." Horace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably commissioned by the Yorkshire Reform movement. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: sepulchral monument to George Savile, 8th Bt. -- Literature: Shakespeare's Macbeth, v.8.44 -- Literature: Virgil, Aeneid., 1 print : aquatint & etching on wove paper ; plate mark 26.1 x 19.3 cm, on sheet 32.6 x 24.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 26 of volume 7 of 12.
"A sculptured monument to Sir George Savile against a stone wall. A life-like half length figure of Savile looking to the right is set in an alcove with inscriptions above and below. Above: 'The Guardian Genius of that Good Man and Upright Senator \ Sir George Saville Bart \ Hovers with anxiety over The Tomb; not without Hopes, that his Countrymen \ may e're it be too late, see the Necessity of Peace, - the Improbability of \ the Present Ministers making it, - & the Benefit which would result, from a Temperate Reformation of those Abuses, "from which {to use his own memorable words) \ it was notorious, that all our Calamities Sprung."!!!' Below: 'Fuimus Troes, fuet [sic] Ilium et ingens Gloria Teucrorum. Virgil Here lie the Remains of the \ - Requisition, - \ The last Hopes of the Independent Gentlemen of Yorkshire; \ in full Confidence \ that when Corruption shall have ceased to prey upon the \ Human Frame, that it will rise again to \ - Immortal Glory.- \ Reader, \ You will no longer doubt the just Cause or upright \ Intention of this Requisition, when you learn, that \ the Merchants of Leeds, its greatest Enemies, have \ Thought that an Elegant Monument should be dedicated \ to it's \ Memory. \ "Your Cause of Sorrow must not be measured by his \ "Worth, for then it hath no End." Shakespere Mackbeth \ "Quis Desiderio sit Pudor aut Modus \ "Tam chari Capitis." Horace.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably commissioned by the Yorkshire Reform movement. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: sepulchral monument to George Savile, 8th Bt. -- Literature: Shakespeare's Macbeth, v.8.44 -- Literature: Virgil, Aeneid.
"A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, [Or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the print-seller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer.] a picture-dealer and restorer. A scene in Bond Street, shortly before the removal to St. James's Street. This print (reversed) appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, date, and publisher from finished state. and Cf. No. 8885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Actor William Parsons depicted half-length in profile to left taking a pinch of snuff, holding a hat under his left arm
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching & roulette on laid paper ; plate mark 6.9 x 6.4 cm, on sheet 11.5 x 9.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 4th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
