Five guineas bounty. Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels and Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels
Description:
Title from item., Text continues: The advantages in this corps are expected to be very great, as they will have the exquisite pleasure of each others company, in the delightful Island of Elba, in the Botanybay of Tuscany., A handbill presumably issued shortly after Napoleon's abdication and exile to St. Helena in April 1814., With a woodcut illustration of a winged devil at head., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A front elevation of a theatre-box crammed with delighted children fills the design. In the front row are a lady and four little girls. In the middle sits the father, one small boy on his knee, an arm round another child. Eight more children fill the box. Behind them a lady chooses fruit from an old woman's basket. Two men stand behind. Over the front of the box hangs a playbill: During the Xmas Holidays--Pantomime of Harliquin--Clown by Mr G [Grimaldi]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange
"Satire on the election for County Durham, 14 April 1784: Sir Thomas Clavering and Sir John Upton, one headless, holding a caption labelled 'The Irish Faction for ever' and carrying the other, who has no feet, on his back, who says 'I serv'd you as long as I could stand' and carries captions lavelled 'Coal owners Bill' and 'A command in India'; both seated on an ass facing left, which brays 'Thus I go to Parliament and am not the first Ass that has farted for preferment, but this is dirty work and hard Labour' and which has a collar labelled 'I speak for my Master / Populus me sibilat at plaudo ipse domi' and strips at the saddle labelled 'Curse all Pitts / But a Coal-Pitt'; with the ass' droppings falling on a crest with the motto 'Diem Perdidi'; a mitre, crozier and sword and label 'At rest' on the ground in the centre, playing cards and papers labelled 'Turnpike Speech / Election Speech' to left; a milestone to right labelled 'From Durham / T: C / J: E / 14 April 1784'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Northern ass
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to W. Hutchinson from annotation on verso of British Museum impression. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1014.456., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark in the center of sheet.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Clavering, Thomas, Sir, 1719-1794, Eden, John, Sir, 1740-1812, and Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Donkeys, Defecation, Traffic signs & signals, Miters, Crosiers, Daggers & swords, and Playing cards
George IV, wearing a coat and top hat, punches a plainly dressed Caroline in the face on a dirt street in front of buildings; blood gushes from her nose as she falls backwards from the blow. Lady Conyngham, elegantly dressed, stands behind the King and converses with a soldier on the left edge of the design. Another man, dressed as royalty in a fur-lined cape, stands in a doorway on the right, angrily pointing and yelling at a woman; a sign posted next to the doorway advertises "The Life of King Henry VIII." A dog runs in the foreground on the right, its collar reading "John Bull."
Alternative Title:
A Royal example!, or, A Westminster blackguard illusing his wife, Westminster blackguard illusing his wife, and Westminster blackguard ill-using his wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed twice; "Marks fect." is etched within bottom center portion of image, and "Marks" is etched beneath lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark (mostly trimmed)., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 62 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "George IV," and "Caroline" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; a mostly illegible note, with the date "1820" at the end, is written in pencil in lower right.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Benbow, St. Clemends [sic] Church Yard, Starnd [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Family violence, Mistresses, Soldiers, Doors & doorways, and Dogs
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline with her accusers on the stage of St Stephens with a cast of witnesses from the trial, addressing John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to William Heath from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Walking sticks -- Hampton Court -- Male costume: 1820 -- Italians., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24.2 x 33.9 cm., Prited on laid paper with watermark; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 48 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Castlereigh [sic]," "Londonderry," and "Sidmouth" identified in pencil below image; date "23 [sic] July 1820" writted in ink in lower right.
Publisher:
Pub. July 22, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic], London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and St. Stephen's Chapel (Westminster, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Stages (Platforms), Horns (Communication devices), Ethnic stereotypes, Witnesses, Staffs (Sticks), and Signs (Notices)
"A grotesque dandy walks in a landscape in profile to the right, bending at the waist, sucking a cane, left arm hanging stiffly. His features and dress are inscribed with the names of food, e.g. his red carbuncled rose is 'Currant Jelly', his shallow broad-brimmed hat (an eccentricity) is 'Calves Head Jelly' and 'Pancake'; the cravat which covers neck, cheek, and chin is 'Puff Paste'; his loose short trousers are 'White Sugar Bags'; his handkerchief 'Blow Monge'; his long spurs 'Gilt Gingerbread'. See British Museum Satires No. 13029. A companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 13057 with the same signature."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Exquisite dandy. Prodigious!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from text above image: An exquisite dandy. Prodigious!!!, Production of the print was apparently a joint effort by Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank, according to the note "By my brother I.R.C. assisted a little by G.C" to the impression in the collection of W.T. Spencer (1931). See British Museum catalogue., Perhaps a different state from that described in the British Museum catalogue; the latter seems to lack any text in the upper margin. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.288., and Companion print to: A nice lady, or, An incomparable!!!!
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 12th, 1818, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Staffs (Sticks)
"View looking across Covent Garden piazza, the market in progress, St Paul's Church on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Covent Garden
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "London, Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck faceing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.3050., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1817., Leaf 42 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Covent Garden.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Covent Garden (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Church (Covent Garden, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Markets, Churches, Coaches & carriages, Carts & wagons, and Sedan chairs
"Perspective view of St James's Square, looking north, the spire of St James's Church visible in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de la Place de St. James's
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "London, Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck facing Fetter Lane, Fleet Street", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2201., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "9" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1817., Leaf 40 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Curious.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Square (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. James's Church (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Churches, Row houses, Coaches & carriages, and Sedan chairs
"View looking down Fleet Street towards Temple Bar, with St Dunstan in the West on the right; elegantly dressed figures among carriages and carts on the street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of Temple Bar and St. Dunstan's Church and Vüe de Temple Barr une des porte de la villa de Londrer, LEglise de St. Dunstan
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state; remnants of burnished imprint visible at bottom of plate., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "3" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1817., Leaf 44 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old St. Dunstan's Church. Temple Bar with the Traitor's Heads on it.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Fleet Street (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Temple Bar (London, England), and St. Dunstan's in the West (Church : London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Streets, Churches, Gates, Carriages & coaches, and Carts & wagons
"View of the gardens fronting Somerset House, with the River Thames on the left, Westminster Abbey and Bridge in the distance on the left, and Somerset House and gardens on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Jarden Royal de Somerset, du cote de la riviere
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state; remnants of burnished imprint visible at bottom of plate., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., Watermark: 1817., Leaf 43 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Somerset House.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Thames River (England),, Westminster Bridge (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Somerset House (London, England), and Westminster Abbey,
Subject (Topic):
Gardens, Rivers, Castles & palaces, Bridges, and Boats
