"A rebus letter headed by a representation of the head and shoulders of Bute taken from Ramsay's portrait (not caricatured) and the Devil with a fork for a foot who holds the letter described under British Museum Satires No. 4012 to which this is a reply. The present letter, transliterated in a broad Scots accent, states that although Bute has officially resigned he intends to remain in power behind the throne and to ensure that his Scottish friends will find good "posts and places" in order to "reduce the English into total subjection"; he refers to Princess Augusta as "a certain bonny Lassie"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title., State without imprint, from: The Scots scourge ... London : Printed for J. Pridden, [1763]. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Engraved letter in the form of rebus., The following words in the title are represented by a rebus: Lord Bute by his portrait, Beelzebub by an image of a devil., Temporary local subject terms: Excise: cider tax., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Title etched above image., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: I Perkin young and bold, my father me has sent here ..., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Weapons: espontoons -- Military uniforms -- Cardinal -- Playing cards: Nine of Diamonds (Curse of Scotland)., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Tweed River (Scotland and England),
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Neptune, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Bulls, Devil, and Clergy
"Sir Alan Gardner (left) in naval uniform, bends forward to cut off, with a sickle inscribed 'Loyalty', the head of Fox, which is planted in the ground like some monstrous vegetable, the hair terminating in leaves. One of these Gardner holds, saying, "My Life and Services are ever devoted to my King & Country". Fox says: "I was always a Staunch Friend to the Crops and Sans Culottes but this damn'd Crop is quite unexpected". Gardner stands on 'Constitutional Ground'. Behind him stands Britannia, towering above him, and holding a laurel wreath over his head; she says: "Go on, Britain approves and will protect you!" On her spear is the cap of Liberty. More 'venemous' democrats are being drawn towards flames by the Devil (right), a figure like that of BMSat 6283. He puts his trident-like rake in the neck of Horne Tooke, who has a reptilian body with a barbed tail and feline claws, saying, "Long look'd for come at last Welcome thou Staunch Friend and faithful Servant, enter thou onto the Hot-bed prepared for thee." Tooke, his head in profile to the right, says, "Now will no prospering Virtue gall my jaundiced Eye - nor people foster'd by a belov'd Sovereign and defended by the Wisdom of his Counsellors. - To Anarchy & Confusion I will blow my Horne, and wallow in every thing that's damnable". The Devil clutches in the talons of his right foot the head of Thelwall, who says, "This will not Tell well." His left foot tramples the neck of Hardy, who says, "I was Fool Hardy". In the background is a man-of-war, Queen, her flag inscribed 'June Ist'. Below the title: 'Weeds carefully eradicated, & Venemous Reptiles destroy'd \ by Royal Patent \ God save the King.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Alan Gardiner, Covent Garden
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Royal Navy: "Queen"., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 31 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Gardner, Alan Gardner, Baron, 1742-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, and Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1796, First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Trials (Treason), Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty cap, Devil, and Wreaths
"Satire on Samuel Touchet, a Manchester merchant and MP, who is said to importing French cloth to the detriment of the English textile trade. He is shown grasping the Golden Fleece, suspended from the ceiling, while £1200 worth of 'English Goods [are] Neglected' and £36000 per annum of 'French Goods [are] Promoted]; the Devil, dressed as a Frenchman, encourages Touchet and refers to 'Monsr. Belle Amy', i.e., the textile merchant William Bellamy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French wolf in sheep's clothing and Englands belle amis
Description:
Title etched above image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below image: Ev'n you your self to your own breast shall tell ..., Temporary local subject terms: Wool trade -- Satan -- Expression of speech: wolf in sheep's clothing -- Mythology: Golden Fleece., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 19., Watermark., and Mounted to 28 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Leghorn invt. and print London ; reprinted at the Acorn Fleet Market, Ludgate Hill
publish'd according to act of Parliament, December 10, 1746.
Call Number:
746.12.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Orator Henley preaching in his chapel in Newport Market which crowded with listeners, male and female intermingled, some standing, some seated in pews, and others in a gallery; in the foreground stands a drover with his dog. Henley to the left wearing a wig standing in a pulpit hung with a cloth bearing three fleurs-de-lis, with a devil hovering above him holding a noose and a Jesuit cap. At the foot of the steps to the gallery an additional figure has been added in graphite; this appears as "Jack Ketch", the public hangman, in the finished print. The whole composition is placed within a scrolled and foliated border including rosary beads hanging on either side."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Popish incendiary, Brazen faced orator, and Temple of Rebellion
Description:
Title etched within banner above image., Ten lines of verse, entitled "The Temple of Rebellion," etched below image: H----y [i.e, Henley] exalts his voice, his arms extends, and blasphemy & treason madly blends ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: church -- Preacher -- Rosaries -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on altar cloth -- Hats: cardinal's scarlet -- Tricornes hanging on pegs -- Male dress: surplice -- Trades: butchers -- Allusion to popery -- Expressions of speech: coup de grace -- Congregations -- Emblematic borders -- Allusion to Jacobites., Watermark: fleur-de-lis., and Window mounted to 27 x 31 cm.
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Printseller's announcement following imprint: ... where may be had veriety [sic] of political prints. Likewise old prints bought and sold. And Jappaning prints., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Priest: To you, my lord, I thus confess, I've been a slave, without success ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Garden -- Clergy: Jesuits -- Popery -- Popes: Benedict XIV(?) -- Pictures amplifying subject: executions -- Satan -- Jacobites: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 -- Rosaries., Watermark: Strasburg bend., and Mounted.
"A tailor on his raised shop-board (right) kneels in terror at the apparition of an emaciated corpse-like man and a fat pig with its throat cut standing on its hind-legs. Beneath the shop-board the head and shoulders of the Devil emerge from the flames of Hell; he holds a trident and a bulky roll of cloth inscribed 'Cabbage' (cf. BMSat 8035, &c.), implying that the tailor's pilfering has not been restricted to scraps of material. (The place where tailors kept their 'cabbage' was termed Hell; see Grose, 'Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue'). The tailor wears a nightcap and apron; round his neck is a tape-measure; he says (excreting), "o Lord o Lord I am in a nasty Condition". A small demon (right) holds his nose. Beside the tailor are his goose, lying on a garment (which is burning from the heat of the iron); the heel of a loaf with a knife, onions and cucumbers lie next a paper inscribed 'sick and in prison and he [word erased, comforted] me'. reside an ink-pot are an open book: 'The Benevolent Society Benifet of \ Survivership', and a paper: 'Advice to overseers respecting the poor'. The corpse stands in back view holding out a minatory hand and turning his nead in profile to the right; he asks "who starved me to Death". The pig says "you have been the Cause of my death". A man on the extreme left looks through a door, saying, "Aye Aye this comes of your ingratitude for my saving your life". On the wall which forms a background are (left to right) two pictures, two broadside ballads, and a print: [1] The lower part of a picture of 'Howard' shows the legs of a man walking past a barred prison window, through which look two faces. (News was received on 26 Feb. of the death of John Howard, the prison reformer, 'Gent. Mag.', 1790, i. 276, but this Howard appears to be the corpse.) [2] 'A Song by Tom Stitch on the Windsor Corporation'. [3] 'A Song in Ridicule of my best Friend.' [4] A print of a gibbet from which hangs a noose inscribed 'The Desert.' [5] A large picture: 'Windsor Charity'; the tailor stands in a prison cell, pointing to an emaciated man lying on straw, turning to a woman who kneels at his feet, he says, clenching his fist, "let him Die & be d--d." The woman says, "for God sake don't Suffer my Poor father to Starve". The dying man says "I perish for want"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tailor befrited and Ghosts
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Dated in contemporary hand in lower right corner: 'Sept. 1790.', Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: armorial shield with fleur-de-lis above and monogram W below.
"Whitelocke stands passively, directed to the left., with flexed knees while two little drummer-boys complete his humiliation. One (l.) stands on tip-toe to cut off his epaulet, while the other stands on a drum behind him, breaking his sword over his head. Sword-belt, scabbard, gorget, epaulet, regimental buttons, and gold lace lie on the ground, as does a music-book open at 'The Rogue March', with a fife lying across it, to indicate that he has been drummed out of the army. On the left. the Devil, half length, emerges from the ground, surrounded by fire and smoke; he offers Whitelocke a cocked pistol, saying, "Now fellow if thou hast a spark of courage left take this." Whitelocke answers: "Have you taken the flint out." See BMSat 10974, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Print executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or George Cruikshank. See British Museum catalogue., Watermark: Strasburg Lily., and Mounted to 29 x 17 cm.
