Volume 2, page 55. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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1
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still image
Abstract:
"A strip design of ten couples in different stages of the minuet, All dance in silence; the expressions of the male dancers denote anxiety, determination, or complacency. All are intended to be ugly, or awkward, or both, but the figures have charm, and even in some cases a certain grace. ... None of the men suggests a parson, most are lean and none corpulent by eighteenth-century standards."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image on second and third plates., Variant state, lacking the text "Bos, Fur, Sus, atque Sacerdos" above image on second plate. Cf. No. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., A single design on four plates., Text in Latin below title, etched on second and third plates: Longa Tysonum Minuit Quid Velit et possit rerum concordia discors. Horace., Mounted on page 55 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink beneath Latin text: Tyson was Master of the Ceremonies at Bath.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
A view of a church at Cam, including the churchyard with gravestones
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '24' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Richd. Bigland
Subject (Geographic):
Cam (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
"A fashionably dressed man and woman (half length) face each other in profile. The outline of the man's projecting shirt-frill resembles that of projecting gauze which covers the lady's bust, see British Mumeaum Satires Nos. 7021, 7099, &c. In the space between them two pouter-pigeons stand facing each other. On the man's coat are large buttons inscribed respectively 'A' 'B' 'C' 'D'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 24th, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Pigeons
Title is on an ornamental scroll with tassels. Words to accompany song are inscribed in three columns below main design. Birds and bleeding heart are above and between the inscription., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Song -- Flowers: Bleeding heart -- Birds.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 9, 1787 by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons
"A design in two compartments, each based on one of the familiar 'Cries of London': In 'Le--Gagne--Petit' (left) Fox is a knife-grinder busily sharpening a headsman's axe. Arranged along his barrow are four knives of various shapes inscribed respectively 'Enquiry', 'inversion', 'sarcasm' (with a notched blade), 'incrementum'. A horn attached to the barrow is inscribed 'Fluidity', a box 'Collective Ideas'. In the background (left) is the gateway of St. James's Palace with two sentries. Behind Fox (right) is the house at the SW. corner of 'St James's St'. He wears a cap and a waistcoat showing a ragged shirtsleeve. Beneath the design is engraved: 'To be Sirs Ingenious I'll tell you my Mind 'tis for What I can get Makes me Willing to Grind.' [2] 'Poisson-Salé'. Burke walks (left to right) along Pall Mall carrying bundles of stock-fish on a pole across his shoulder; he bends forward supporting himself with a stout stick. His only garment, except hat and short wig showing his own hair, is a coat worn back to front, his legs being bare. On a wall behind him (left) are two play-bills: 'Much-Ado about Nothing Principle Performer Mr B------e with The Fathless Irishman', and 'Impeachment of Warren Hastings a Farce, as performed by the Tools of Faction St Stephens Chaple'. Beneath the design is engraved: 'Salt Fish ho 'tis I Who late Amused you all by Crying Hastings.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Gagne petit and Poisson salé
Description:
Title from text between the two designs; subtitles from text above each design., Later reissue of no. 6994 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.6., Temporary local subject terms: Knife grinder -- Barrow -- Gateway of St. James Palace -- Travesty of Cries of London -- Pall Mall., and Mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Published by Boyne & Walker, Great Turnstile
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Fishmongers, Knives, Occupations, Puns (Visual works), and Signs (Notices)
787.07.01.03 Boxed separately; shelved in Object Room C:A
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The engraving has been mounted on wood and cut into 42 puzzle pieces. The frame is comprised of 10 pieces; the remaining 32 pieces each with a portrait of a king or queen of England, starting with William I and ending with George II, and one piece depicting Oliver Cromwell, contain extensive details about their lives and reigns. Below the title in the frame at the top are directions for the puzzle: "Directions. 1. Learn to put the heads in succession. 2. Get the dates of inner ovals & the houses of the respective kings. 3. Learn the names of the principal personages of each reign separately. 4. Get by heart the historical & chronological facts of the respective reigns with the dates of battles, treaties, &c." In the bottom portion of the framing pieces is a key to the contractions used in the text: "Contractions. K. king. Pr. prince. D. duke. E. earl. Abp. Archbishop. ... N.B. Capitals over the heads are the initials of the different houses. N. Norman. Pl. Plantagenet. L. Lancaster. Y. York. T. Tudor. S. Stuart. O. Orange. B. Brunswick. In the dates the year only of the current century is sometimes expressed as the rest is evident from the reign."
Description:
Title engraved in frame above the images. and With the original box with dove-tailed sliding lid and original label. Solution to the puzzle printed separately and mounted the side, inside the box. Also boxed and shelved separately.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st July 1787 by Carington Bowles, St. Paul Church Yard ; C. Dilly, Poultry & W. Darton, Birchin Lane, London
An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprint
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher.", Watermark: [...]anshaw., and Sheet annotated in ink with the name 'Thomas Harbidge' and the date 'Decr. 19. 1787' in the blank oval at foot. Written in manuscript in black ink at the center of the sheet are three passages, beginning with 'Education either makes or mars us, and governments as well as private families, are concerned in it’s [sic] consequences, abcde’, and concluding with 'Good books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age, they support us under solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves'.
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Volume 2, page 50. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two women walking along a field with sheaves of corn, the woman at front pointing to right and looking back at a little girl at left, a bundle of grain in her arms and a tired expression, behind at right a third gleaner kneels to fastens her load together, a cottage behind; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 50 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published March 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Volume 2, page 51. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three women in a field, one kneeling at left fastening corn into a bundle, another carrying hers on her head, the third behind, turned away with the grain under her arm, a boy sits playing a pipe at right, a building with tower behind; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 51 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published March 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Shown before the gate of a castle, Hamlet is supported by two men as the ghost of his father, dressed in armour the knees of which are etched with the masks of Comedy and Tragedy, appears before him
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines from Shakespeare Hamlet quoted below title: "Still I am called .. unhand me gentlemens [sic]. By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me"., Date based on publisher's address. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
