"A broadside satirising Robert Walpole with an etching in two parts. In the left-hand scene Frederick, Prince of Wales, stands with the Duke of Argyll and other gentlemen, pointing to the left where George II embraces Britannia. In the foreground, the grotesque figure of Walpole, wearing a coronet, kneels holding in five hands, bags of French and Spanish gold and another lettered, "I am Lord Corruption". Behind him stands his daughter, Lady Mary, toying with a coronet. On the ground beside Walpole, the French cock perches on the back of the exhausted Imperial Eagle, but the British lion watching the conflict growls, "Now I'm rousing". In the background, the white horse of Hanover kicks a man off a high rock; the man cries, "I'm lost"; a ship lies at anchor off Cartagena observed from another high rock to right by Admiral Vernon whose impetus towards the city is restrained by General Wentworth; below these two men sits Admiral Haddock chained to a rock (a reference to the limitation of his resources in dealing with the combined Spanish and French Mediterranean fleets). In the right-hand scene Walpole raises his hands in horror at the appearance in a cloud of smoke of the ghost of Eustace Budgell who holds out a paper described in the verses to left as a "black Account ...Full twenty Winters of Misdeeds"; on the table at which Walpole is sitting is a large candlestick and letters addressed "A son Eminence" (Cardinal Fleury) and "à don [Sebastian] de la Quadra" and a book on "The Art of Bribery". Budgell's ghost raises his hand above his head to point at a scene of a beheading in the background above which flies Time while Justice sits on a column beside the scaffold and a crowd cheers below; over a doorway to right is a portrait of a Cardinal, presumably intended for Wolsey who is mentioned in the verses on the right. Engraved title and dedication to the Prince of Wales on a cloth above the scene supported by two putti; verses in two columns on either side condemning Walpole for his maladministration and celebrating the new prominence of the Prince of Wales and his followers; lines of music in two columns below the etching."--British Museum online catalogue and Also depicted the White Horse of the Hanover, British lion emblem, and
Description:
Title from caption above image., British Museum curator's note: "The Man in Blue" refers to "The Chinese Orphan", which was a anti-Walpole verse drama by William Hatchett, published in 1741., Engraved throughout, with illustration in top center and music below., For voice and harpsichord. Music on two staves with interlinear words. With caption above music: Set by Sigr. Plutone, 1st composer to the Infernal Shades., Thirty-four stanzas of song engraved on either side of image and music: One midnight, as the man in blue, sat pond'ring on his doom ..., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 4., Other notes identifying the figures in the print in unknown contemporary hand., and Imperfect: sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint, text, and music of the song; sheet 28 x 32 cm, mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Eliza Haywood at Fame in the Piazza, Covent Garden, and sold by the printsellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Cartagena (Colombia) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, Haddock, Nicholas, 1684-1757, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741, and Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801,
Subject (Topic):
English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742, History, Britannia (Symbolic character), Political corruption, Death (Personification), Bribery, Crowns, Decapitations, Ghosts, Justice, Putti, National emblems, British, French, Germany, and Spanish
Two young women walk in the park of a large house. One of them holds a letter in her right hand. In the background on the right a man is rolling the ground
Description:
Title from item., Publication date based on manuscript alteration on this impression., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: How bless'd the maid whose bosom ..., Temporary local subject terms: Lawnrollers -- Literature & quotations., Last digit in publication date erased and replaced in a contemporary hand with '5'., and Window mounted to 39 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to Rowlandson in local card catalog record., Traces of earlier imprint statement perhaps visible behind current imprint., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Portal & Bridges., and Annotation in contemporary hand left of image, mostly trimmed away.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 29, 1788, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
BEIN BrSides By6 1741: With manuscript key. Mutilation at foot of imprint., Engraving by Gravelot., 'Price three-pence'--Lower right corner of sheet., Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 19.2 x 30.8 cm.), Political satire directed against Lord Carteret, the Duke of Argyll and other opponents of Sir Robert Walpole., Tentatively attributed to George Bickham on verso by the curator., Note on verso in unidentified hand: For Mr. Robt. Boudoin., and 1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 19.1 x 30.8 cm., on sheet 32 x 34 cm., mounted.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Cooper
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745. and Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763.
Title from item., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image, preceded by instructions: Tune, London is a fine town: First is the King of Pru---a with his men of might ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: King John by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616., and Watermark: Pro Patria.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Blackmoos [sic] head, Exeter Change
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Peter III, Emperor of Russia, 1728-1762, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Francis II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1708-1765, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Elizabeth Farnese, consort of Philip V, King of Spain, 1692-1766, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from item., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image, preceded by instructions: Tune, London is a fine town: First is the King of Pru---a with his men of might ..., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: King John by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
Sold at [the] Blackmoos [sic] head, Exeter Change
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Peter III, Emperor of Russia, 1728-1762, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Francis II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1708-1765, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Elizabeth Farnese, consort of Philip V, King of Spain, 1692-1766, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
"Satire on the defeat of the Excise Bill. In the foreground, on the left, stands Justice trampling on Oppression, in her scales papers lettered, "Magna Charta", "City Petition" and "204" (the number of members of parliament who voted against the Bill) outweigh chains and wooden shoes; on the right, Trade, a merchant holding a ship standing on two barrels, one of wine and one of tobacco, is supported by Liberty holding a hat on a staff. In the background, Britons, including a sailor, dance around a maypole decorated with tobacco leaves and grapes and topped with a sign lettered "Perry & Barnard" referring to the members for the City of London. Above fly Plenty and Fame."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Glorious CCIIII and Glorious 204
Description:
Title from item., Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 Pence."--Lower right corner., Twenty lines of verse in three columns below image: 'Arise Britannia! joyfull now arise! ... And the Vine's fruit, they raise and dance around'., Below the verses is an explanation of the 'two hundred and twice two' as 'The number of the Senators who oppos'd the Excise Bill'., State without subtitle "Sacred to their Immortal Honour down to the latest Posterity". Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1921., and Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Excise tax, Tobacco taxation, Internal revenue, Allegories, and Justice
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next her father, a yokel in a smock-frock who is addressed by a fat bawd. The woman puts her hand on his shoulder, saying, "Its very lucky I met with you my honest Man if she behaves well she shall be promoted to the service of a Duke". He answers, "Very lucky indeed I'se Woundily Obliged to your Ladyship. My Dame always said as how Bet was cut out for Zarvice of your great Volkes." The wagoner is depositing in the road the corded box of Elisabeth Maybush; he looks up at Old Q, saying, "ah! I knew he'd dart out like an Old Spider at a Fly". A fashionably dressed young woman walks past the railings of 15 Piccadilly, the lower part of the house forming a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Women: country girls -- Procuresses -- Wagoners -- London: 15 Piccadilly -- Quizzing glasses -- Horse whips., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials C & S below.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next her father, a yokel in a smock-frock who is addressed by a fat bawd. The woman puts her hand on his shoulder, saying, "Its very lucky I met with you my honest Man if she behaves well she shall be promoted to the service of a Duke". He answers, "Very lucky indeed I'se Woundily Obliged to your Ladyship. My Dame always said as how Bet was cut out for Zarvice of your great Volkes." The wagoner is depositing in the road the corded box of Elisabeth Maybush; he looks up at Old Q, saying, "ah! I knew he'd dart out like an Old Spider at a Fly". A fashionably dressed young woman walks past the railings of 15 Piccadilly, the lower part of the house forming a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Women: country girls -- Procuresses -- Wagoners -- London: 15 Piccadilly -- Quizzing glasses -- Horse whips., Subject identified on mat below image., Watermark: Curtels & Sons., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 26.6 x 28.7 cm, on sheet 29 x 32 cm., and On laid paper, hand-colored, matted to 47 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
