"A half length portrait of Christie standing in his auctioneer's rostrum, the upper part of which forms the base of the design. He leans insinuatingly to the left, his head in profile, spectacles on his forehead, his hammer delicately raised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: Will your ladyship do me the honor to say £50-000 - a mere trifle - a brilliant of the first water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely., Temporary local subject terms: Auctioneers' hammers., Leaf 10 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.8 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Mr. Christie" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"A half length portrait of Christie standing in his auctioneer's rostrum, the upper part of which forms the base of the design. He leans insinuatingly to the left, his head in profile, spectacles on his forehead, his hammer delicately raised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: Will your ladyship do me the honor to say £50-000 - a mere trifle - a brilliant of the first water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely., and Temporary local subject terms: Auctioneers' hammers.
Title from item., Attributed to George Bickham the Elder in an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Interiors: Vintner's Hall -- Lighting: chandelier -- Jacobites -- Smoking: clay pipe -- Spies -- Lists -- John Willilams, fl. 1747 -- Literature: Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680 -- Anniversary feasts: Independent Electors of Westminster., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Litchfield, John Henry Lee, EArl of, 1718-1772, Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762, Berkshire, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1706-1778, Bampfylde, Richard Warwick, baron, d. 1776, Heathcote, George, and Carew, Thomas, 1702-1766
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Zannies -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Newspapers: The Auditor -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Demons -- Trades: street pedlar -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medicine bottles -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniform -- Letters: "Wandsworth Epistle" -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to Lord Temple., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Plate numbered '47' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Zannies -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Newspapers: The Auditor -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Demons -- Trades: street pedlar -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medicine bottles -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniform -- Letters: "Wandsworth Epistle" -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to Lord Temple., and Mounted to 33 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Leaf 84. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing full face. His right hand rests on a tasselled cane. His left is thrust inside his waistcoat. He wears a laced hat, embroidered waistcoat, ruffled shirt, a solitaire, and a sword. He is knock-kneed. "--British Museum online catalogue and "Probably a portrait of Lord Harrington whose house was called the Stable Yard (St. James's); Lady Harrington was called the Stable Yard Messalina, see British Museum Satires No. 4903. See also British Museum Satires No. 5322."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stable yard macaroni and Stableyard macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "4 v." in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Sepr. 29, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 84. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing full face. His right hand rests on a tasselled cane. His left is thrust inside his waistcoat. He wears a laced hat, embroidered waistcoat, ruffled shirt, a solitaire, and a sword. He is knock-kneed. "--British Museum online catalogue and "Probably a portrait of Lord Harrington whose house was called the Stable Yard (St. James's); Lady Harrington was called the Stable Yard Messalina, see British Museum Satires No. 4903. See also British Museum Satires No. 5322."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stable yard macaroni and Stableyard macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "4 v." in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner., Second of three plates on leaf 84., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Sepr. 29, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Cornwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
Eighteen woodcut caricatures of people involved in the Queen Caroline Affair, arranged in three rows of six. Each figure has a satirical name printed in letterpress above, and all but one have quoted text beneath the name; six lines of verse are printed in letterpress beneath each figure
Alternative Title:
Members of the plot club
Description:
Title from letterpress text at top of sheet., Date from manuscript annotation at bottom of sheet., Four lines of quoted text beneath title: "'Tis the curse of kings, to be surrounded by a venal herd of flatterers, that soothe his darling vices, and rob their master of his subjects' love.", "Price sixpence"--Following imprint., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 26 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Names of thirteen of the depicted figures are added in ink, written beneath the individual caricatures; date "Nov. 1820" written in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Leach, John, 1760-1834, and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
