A crown of large feathers is placed on the head of Francis Drake in a native village before a crowd of native inhabitants of New Albion
Alternative Title:
King of new Albion
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and Plate from: D. Henry's Historical account of all the voyages round the world performed by English navigators. London : Printed for F. Newbury, 1774, v.1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
New Jersey.
Subject (Name):
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596. and Hioh, King of New Albion.
"A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved. Behind the sick woman (right) is the wall of a building, probably a theatrical booth; along it runs a narrow gallery where Punch is strutting; he points to a placard on which is a representation of the bottle-imp emerging from his bottle, the great hoax of the century, see British Museum Satires Nos. 3022-7, 5245. Beneath the bottle is a placard, "Subscriptions taken in here for reducing the price of provisions". Other placards on the booth are inscribed, "Marybone Gardens Fete Champetre"; "Mr R-s Letters from [the] Dead", this is behind the dead woman; "Hearing Trumpets on a new Construction", behind the doctor with the ear-trumpet; "Cox's perpetual motion, or the Elephant & Nabob", an allusion to Cox's Museum, see British Museum Satires No. 5243, his jewelled clockwork toys had been destined for an Indian prince; they are described in what Walpole calls "immortal lines" in Mason's 'Epistle to Shelburne', see 'Mason's Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, pp. 29, 112, 122, see British Museum Satires No. 5243. At this placard an oafish countryman (right) is gaping while a boy picks his pocket. In the background is the sea; on the beach is a boat raised on stocks but already breaking up; this is inscribed "The New Adelphi". The building of the Adelphi had been an unprofitable speculation, partly owing to the financial crisis of 1773, and the Adam brothers obtained a private Act in that year to enable them to dispose of the new buildings by a lottery, which took place in 1774. Across the water on the further side of a bay is a town inscribed "A View of Plymouth". A rope extends from a church steeple on the extreme left, behind the spectators, to a distant spire in Plymouth, down this a man is gliding."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonders of Great Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The Whimsical repository. London : Printed for R. Snagg ..., v. 1, no. 1 (August 1794).
Publisher:
Engrav'd for the Whimsical Repository, Septr. 1st, 1774, publsh'd according to act of Parliament
"A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved. Behind the sick woman (right) is the wall of a building, probably a theatrical booth; along it runs a narrow gallery where Punch is strutting; he points to a placard on which is a representation of the bottle-imp emerging from his bottle, the great hoax of the century, see BMSat 3022-7, 5245. Beneath the bottle is a placard, "Subscriptions taken in here for reducing the price of provisions". Other placards on the booth are inscribed, "Marybone Gardens Fete Champetre"; "Mr R-s Letters from [the] Dead", this is behind the dead woman; "Hearing Trumpets on a new Construction", behind the doctor with the ear-trumpet; "Cox's perpetual motion, or the Elephant & Nabob", an allusion to Cox's Museum, see BMSat 5243, his jewelled clockwork toys had been destined for an Indian prince; they are described in what Walpole calls "immortal lines" in Mason's 'Epistle to Shelburne', see 'Mason's Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, pp. 29, 112, 122, see BMSat 5243. At this placard an oafish countryman (right) is gaping while a boy picks his pocket. In the background is the sea; on the beach is a boat raised on stocks but already breaking up; this is inscribed "The New Adelphi". The building of the Adelphi had been an unprofitable speculation, partly owing to the financial crisis of 1773, and the Adam brothers obtained a private Act in that year to enable them to dispose of the new buildings by a lottery, which took place in 1774. Across the water on the further side of a bay is a town inscribed "A View of Plymouth". A rope extends from a church steeple on the extreme left, behind the spectators, to a distant spire in Plymouth, down this a man is gliding."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonders of Great Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint above image, mostly burnished from plate. Publication date from earlier state. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5275., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 24 x 37 cm., and On a separate sheet, accompanying this print, is the "Explanation of Plate II. Modern Moonshine, or the Wonders of Great Britain," three clippings apparently cut from the magazine Whimsical Repository? The names 'Banks' and 'Solander' have been written in an early hand on the margin of the paper to fill in the names B**S and S*** in the text.
Publisher:
Engrav' [...] publish'd according to act of Parliament
Title from item., Publication place and date from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Westminster Magazine. London : Printed for W. Goldsmith, v. 2 (1774) , p. 168., and Temporary local subject terms: Bills: five intolerable acts -- Allusion to Boston tea party -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- America as a red Indian -- Water pumps.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794
"America, a partly-draped female figure, is being held down by Lord Mansfield (right) in judge's wig and robes, while North, holding her by the throat, pours the contents of a tea-pot down her mouth. America ejects the tea in a stream directed at North's face. From his pocket hangs a paper inscribed "Boston Port Bill". Sandwich (left) kneels, holding America down by an ankle, while he lifts the edge of her draperies and peers beneath them. Behind Mansfield (right) stands Bute in Scots cap and kilt, holding a drawn sword, its blade inscribed "Military Law", pistols are thrust through his belt. Behind America stands Britannia resting one hand on her shield; she averts her face and covers her eyes with her hand. Behind Sandwich (left) stand two men dressed in the French and Spanish fashions and representing France and Spain or the monarchs of France and Spain; the order of the Golden Fleece hangs from the neck of Spain. They stand close together, pointing towards America with expressions of interest and concern. In the foreground is a torn document inscribed "Boston petition". In the background is the sea; on the horizon and on a minute scale are the spires of a town surrounded by ships, above is engraved, "Boston cannonaded"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
America swallowing the bitter draught
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication place and date from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., and Plate from: London magazine. London : Printed for J. Baldwin, v. 43 (1774), p. 185.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Boston Port Bill, 1774, Boston Tea Party, 1773, Britannia (Symbolic character), Ethnic stereotypes, Teapots, and Medical procedures & techniques
"A street scene, in which a stage coach drawn by six horses and laden with passengers inside and out is being driven at full speed from r. to left. They drive past a posting-inn, with an open gateway over which, as a sign, is a head of Wilkes in an oval; beneath it are the words "John Wilkes Esqr. Neat Post Chaises". To the postilion on the near leader is attached a label inscribed "Galloping Liberty". The coach-door is inscribed "For the Corrupted Boroughs". Five passengers (ministerialist candidates) sit inside the coach, fashionably dressed. On the roof sit four men, two flourish clubs; one says: "May the Patriots ride uppermost". The large boot or basket attached to the back of the coach holds six passengers; it is inscribed: "We are honest though poor, or who would be golted [sic] thus for his Country!" The coachman turns round to the passengers saying: "I will not overset Ye, if Ye dont overset Yourselves". On the ground are papers inscribed: "Generall Warrants" (see BMSat 4065); "Boston Port Bill" (see BMSat 5226); "Quebec" (see BMSat 5228, &c); "Inclosures. Bystanders" (l. to right.) point and jeer at the coach: A ragged man (1.) sitting on the ground with two wooden legs, one of which is broken off, says: "Ah, rot such Members, my Members are better!" A ragged woman with two children says: "You have Starved me, and my Children". A seated man points at the papers on the ground saying: "What a litter they have left behind them". A man (r.) says to his companion: "There they go, & the D------l go with them"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dissolution of Parliament
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication place and date from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved. Publication date in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum is given as 1 November., Plate from: London Magazine. London : Printed for J. Baldwin, v. 43 (1774) , p. 464., and Temporary local subject terms: Dissolution of Parliament, September 30, 1774 -- Bills: Boston Port Act -- Québec Act -- Enclosures: private enclosure bills -- General Warrants -- Vehicles: coach with a basket -- Buildings: posting inn.
Title from item., Numbered '19' in upper left of plate., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1774., and Watermark : countermark IV.
"Four bishops wearing mitres dance together, each holding the hand of the one opposite him so that four hands cross in the middle. They dance round the 'Quebec Bill' which lies on the floor. Other bishops, not wearing mitres, are seated in a semicircle behind them, watching with approval. On the left are three figures who appear to be directing the dance: Lord Bute in highland dress plays the bagpipes, next him is Lord North pointing to the dancers, and on North's left is a minister wearing a ribbon. Above their heads flies the Devil pointing to North with his right hand, his left forefinger laid against his nose. The scene is a panelled room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Title engraved below image., Plate from: London magazine. London : Printed for J. Baldwin, v. 43 (1774), p. 312., and The explanatory text is an attack on the Quebec Act, passed 22 June 1774, from the No-Popery standpoint.
Publisher:
J. Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Québec (Province).
Title from item., Publication date, based on dates of the passage of the Boston Port Act and Quebec Bill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):
Boston Port Bill, 1774, Clergy, Crutches, Eyeglasses, Gout, Hammers, Hypodermic syringes, Ladders, and Money
