View of Winchester Tower, Windsor Castle, from the north west; the Norman Gate in the background on the left; trees below the tower in the foreground
Description:
Title engraved below image., Proof state of a plate issued in: Wyatville, J. Illustrations of Windsor Castle. London : Published for the son in law and executors of Sir Jeffry Wyatville by John Weale, Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn, London, MDCCCXLI [1841]., The Lewis Walpole Library: From the Topographical Prints collection., and With contemporary notes in pencil indicating changes to be made to the plate, including a softening of lines on parts of the tower and an overall reduction in plate size. A desired change to the clouds in the sky is indicated by the addition of white paint(?).
"Eight dissenting ministers, headed by Dr. Abraham-Rees, approach the King with an address whose inscription is the only title; it continues: 'in & about the Cities of London & Westmr We your Majesty s loyal and faithful...' Rees, a bulky 'Encyclopedia' in his coat-pocket, puts one foot on a step leading to a doorway within which are visible the legs of the seated King, and his right. hand, which rests on a wall-box from which issues a paper: 'Bramah Patent Water [C]losets'. Just outside the door, holding his long wand of office, Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain (actually Dartmouth, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10283A), stands stiffly looking over the heads of the Addressers, who are ushered in by a beef-eater on the extreme left. Rees is scarcely caricatured except for a grotesque stalk-like neck which issues absurdly from a wide coat-collar. Behind him is Theophilus Lindsey, holding his hat and a big umbrella. Most of the other six are probably portraits, but two may be generalized sectaries with lank hair. All have sour, apprehensive expressions. A quasi-Tudor window suggests St. James's Palace. A whole length portrait of Charles I is issuing from the frame, one hand held up in horror. Over the door of the inner closet are the Royal Arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life ...
Description:
Title etched on scroll in image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date from British Museum catalogue, which notes that this plate was not published., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life; And guard his court from these tormentors, fanatics, democrats, dissenters; Addressing knaves who sin and pray, and kiss like Judas to betray., 1 print : aquatint with etching on wove paper ; plate mark 34.6 x 40.5 cm, on sheet 38 x 41.2 cm., Contemporary pencil annotations in lower margin note that the plate was "unpublish'd" and that the subject matter deals with the "address on his Majesty's escape from assassination.", and Mounted on leaf 56 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Honor guards, Windows, and Umbrellas
"Eight dissenting ministers, headed by Dr. Abraham-Rees, approach the King with an address whose inscription is the only title; it continues: 'in & about the Cities of London & Westmr We your Majesty s loyal and faithful...' Rees, a bulky 'Encyclopedia' in his coat-pocket, puts one foot on a step leading to a doorway within which are visible the legs of the seated King, and his right. hand, which rests on a wall-box from which issues a paper: 'Bramah Patent Water [C]losets'. Just outside the door, holding his long wand of office, Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain (actually Dartmouth, cf. British Museum Satires No. 10283A), stands stiffly looking over the heads of the Addressers, who are ushered in by a beef-eater on the extreme left. Rees is scarcely caricatured except for a grotesque stalk-like neck which issues absurdly from a wide coat-collar. Behind him is Theophilus Lindsey, holding his hat and a big umbrella. Most of the other six are probably portraits, but two may be generalized sectaries with lank hair. All have sour, apprehensive expressions. A quasi-Tudor window suggests St. James's Palace. A whole length portrait of Charles I is issuing from the frame, one hand held up in horror. Over the door of the inner closet are the Royal Arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life ...
Description:
Title etched on scroll in image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Date from British Museum catalogue, which notes that this plate was not published., Six lines of verse in three columns below image: From secret treason civil strife, may God preserve our sovereign's life; And guard his court from these tormentors, fanatics, democrats, dissenters; Addressing knaves who sin and pray, and kiss like Judas to betray., and Mounted on page 109.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Politicians, Honor guards, Windows, and Umbrellas
Caption title., Lewis Walpole Library copy has final digit "1" in "1831" scored through in ink and a manuscript "2" added in its place., A flyer printed to elicit charity from customers for newspaper boys and men at Christmas and New Year., Text printed in two columns within Greek key pattern border. Thee twelve numbered stanzas of verse describe the life of a newsman in mock heroic terms. The lines begin by way of an apology: Kind sirs! I hope you will excuse this tribute of a newsman’s muse ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Heading to a printed broadside that begins: "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, whose worn-out limbs have borne him to your door ..." The King is shown as a haggard beggar, his clothes torn and a pack on his back. He holds out his inverted crown with his left hand, seeking donations; his right hand grasps the cane he is leaning on. The sign post behind him says "To Bradenburg [sic] House" and points to the right, the direction in which the King travels. Brandenburgh House is seen in the background on the right, the Queen looking sternly out the window at the disheveled King. A sign at the gate to the house says "Beware of steel traps and sping [sic] guns." In the left background is a smaller house labeled "The Cottage".
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Date inferred from the depiction of Queen Caroline at Brandenburgh House, where she lived in 1820-21., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "Entered at Stationers' Hall. Price one shilling"--Below imprint and above printer's statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching ; sheet 38 x 25 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; sheet trimmed resulting in loss of imprint statement and other text from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 39 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Published by J. Dawson, Camden Town; and sold by every bookseller and newsman in the kingdom and Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
A room with filled with men smoking and drinking and placing bets. On the wall in the background is a poster "Epson Races".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text preceding title: Plate 3., One of at least eight prints in an unidentified series., and Hand-drawn ink lines added along bottom of design.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Queen and the King exhuming the Whigs' corpses in the night and carrying them away."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Resurrection of the Whigs
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "84" in brown ink in lower left portion of design., and No. 84.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Graves, Dead persons, Lifting & carrying, and Lanterns
"Heading to a printed broadside. Four Ministers, summoned by the King, sit at a table bending over a crown broken into two pieces. Sidmouth (right), tilting forward his seat, which is a commode, holds his clyster-pipe; in his pocket is a bottle labelled 'Strong Mixture'. He says: "There seems to have been a flaw in it for some years it only required a slight tap to do all the mischief." Liverpool, next him, says: "Some Foreign Cement or a decoction of steel lozenges [see British Museum Satires No. 13513] properly applied may stick them together for the present, but I'm afraid it won't last long, the parts seem of opposite compositions." Castlereagh says, with a sinister smile: "By the Ghost of my Father I will hold it together by a Tringular [sic] Proceeding. & whip it all round" [see British Museum Satires No. 14135]. Wellington, dressed as a field-marshal, and wearing cavalry boots with huge spurs, sits in a chair decorated with military emblems; he says: "Steel filings and leaded paste is the only Composition to be depended on." At his feet are bayonets and cannon-balls, with (left) a cannon, and a huge ball inscribed 'Bolus'. Behind Sidmouth stands George IV (right) in consultation with Eldon; he weeps, holding his handkerchief to his eye, and says, pointing to his Ministers: "Cant Sid my Tool and L--r--pl, Some how contrive to mend it." Eldon, in Chancellor's wig and gown, holds the lower end of the mace against his chin with a puzzled scowl. He answers: "Dash my Wig if I know what to do! my head's in Chancery." Beside him are two 'Old Green Bags done with' [see British Museum Satires Nos. 13735, 13986]. At the King's feet is a paper: 'Straight Jacket'. By Sidmouth's chair are papers: 'A Blister for the Radicals if they Kick up a Row'; 'A Gagging Bandage', with a pot of 'Poison for the Q . . .' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13868]. Also the words 'Filth', 'Dirt'. On the extreme left, John Bull, a stout and formidable 'cit', is seated on a bale inscribed 'Knowledge is Power' [see British Museum Satires No. 14005]. One hand is on his hip, the other on a bludgeon of 'English Oak'. He says, frowning at the Ministers: "I think the following prescription would be the best Cement, a handful of reformation; a large portion of the abolition of Sinicures [sic], a ladle full of the reduction of Taxes, with a plentiful solution of the Oil of Just Claims, and attention to the wants of an industrious part of the Community, would more safely ensure a permanent union with the separate pieces than all the cement or steel lozengers [sic] in the world." The Queen looks in through a small window, Wood looking over her shoulder; they watch the proceedings, tense and indignant. Above the King's head is a shelf of 'Chinese Toys from Hot Creek': a little pagoda flanked by figures of (left) a fat lady and a thin man (the Conynghams) and (right) a squatting obese man (the King). The last two of seven verses (of a 'New Version'): "She claims a share "To all (I swear!) "That I possess;--but mind her "Good C--tl--gh, "Look sharp--d'y' see "There's Radicals behind her. "A stronger pill "'S required still "Than G--ff--d's famous lotion; "Your brains well shake, "The corners rake, To give the jade a motion."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Disasters of a green-bag chief!!!
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "Price one shilling"--Below imprint., 1 print : etching ; sheet 38 x 26 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; sheet trimmed resulting in loss of imprint statement and price statement from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Printed for O. Hodgson, 43, King Street, Snow Hill
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., and Conyngham, Henry, Marquess, 1766-1832.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Tables, Crowns, Medical equipment & supplies, Bayonets, Cannons, Cannon balls, Crying, Ceremonial maces, Bags, and Windows
"George IV (left), plainly dressed in frogged coat with fur collar, sits in an arm-chair regarding Wellington with surprise. The Duke, dressed as a carpenter, approaches him from the right, bending forward and raising his paper cap which is shaped like a coronet. He is in shirt-sleeves with a high-collared waistcoat, and an apron over his own strapped white trousers. In his left hand is a saw. He says: 'I begs pardon your honor, but I can't stand it no longer--There's my foreman Bob, and Chancery Jack, as we calls him, are fighting instead of minding their work--The vagabonds von't be easy 'till I bundles 'em out.' He watches the King with wary intentness. On the wall behind him is a small picture of 'Bob & Chancery Jack': Peel and Lyndhurst (in his Chancellor's robes) facing each other in a pugilistic encounter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 179.
Publisher:
Pub. by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863
