"A satire on William Pitt on his accepting office in government showing him reacting in horror to the sight of the ghost of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough who appears in her shroud saying “Furies Wheres my 10000 £”, in one hand she holds a paper lettered “Taken a Place” and another lettered “Voted for ye C(our)t”. Her other hand points down to a portrait of Lord Chesterfield on the floor which has been torn from its frame on the wall and in this hand she holds a paper lettered “and you too 20000£”. Behind her is a statue of Queen Anne. Flashes of lightening come through the window at the back of the room aimed at Pitt as he sits at a table with two candles on it writing “an answer to T.H.” also on the table are “Letters to W(ilia)m. P(itt) Tr(easurer) of I(relan)d” and “Letter to W(ilia)m P(itt) by T. H-y Esq. On his forehead is written “HANOVER T(urnip)S”."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The ghost of a Duchess to William Pitt Esqr
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Thirteen lines of verse in three columns below image: Ungrateful P---. You have me bitt! ..., Temporary local subject terms: Statues: statue of Queen Anne on pedestal -- Ghosts: the Duchess of Marlborough -- Lightning bolts -- Female dress: Queen Anne's dress -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Furniture -- Furniture -- Furnishings: wall clock and bracket -- Letters -- Legacy., Watermark., and Mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd. for L. Raymond
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714, Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Perspective interieure de la Chapelle du College du Roi a Cambridge
Description:
Titles in English and French etched below image., Date based on time period (1746-1755) when Canaletto worked in England and produced the original painting., Text below English title: N.B. This building is esteem'd the most perfect and finest piece of Gothic architecture now remaining in Europe., Text below French title: Cet edifice est regardé comme le plus beau monument d'architecture gothique qui soit en Europe., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 24 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decemr [the] 15 [1746?]
Call Number:
746.12.15.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on women's fashion; A street scene in which a crowd of people watch amused as a lady struggles with her wide hoop which has become tangled on the side of a building, a chinmey sweep who has fallen at her feet and a jewellery seller in an underground shop both have a view up her skirts."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Text following title: nil ortum tale. Hor., Publication year erased from this impression and supplied in contemporary hand as 1746., 'Price 6d.', Twenty-two lines of verse in four columns, followed by four lines of explanation, below image: If fame say true in former days, the fardingale was no disgrace ... The explanation reads: Drawn from the fact occasion'd by a lady carelessly tossing her hoop too high in going to shun a littel [sic] chimney sweeper's boy who fell down just at her feet in an artful suprise at [the] enormous sight., Possibly intended as a companion print to: The beaux disaster. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 2880., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes: Strand, London -- Female dress: hoops -- Churches: New Church in the Strand -- Shop stalls., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Military uniforms, and Signs (Notices)
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decemr [the] 15 [...]
Call Number:
746.12.15.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The scene is The Strand at a busy time of the day when it is filled with ladies, gentlemen, workmen, and soldiers. In the center of the image, a lady's hoop has caught in a hook above a street level shop window. The angry shopkeeper remonstrates her as the other ladies and gentlemen titter, women lean out of windows, and everyone laughs at her plight. She stands with one leg supported on the shoulder of a chimney sweep who is lying on the pavement. Behind her, on the right is a large crowd of tradesmen, all amused by her mishap. Behind the crowd are several carriages, in front of a church identified as 'New church in the Strand,' (i.e., St. Mary's le Strand, rebuilt in 1723-4).
Description:
Title from item., Later state, with publication year and price burnished from plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Twenty-two lines of verse in four columns, followed by four lines of explanation, below image: If fame say true in former days, The fardingale was no disgrace ..., and Mounted to 26 x 34 cm.
A full-length image of an artist whose body is composed of artists' tools: his legs are formed form those of an easel, his torso is covered (formed by?) a pallette, a box filled with paint brushes form his hat. The figure walks in a park, a milestone on the left reads: IV Miles from Hyde Parck
Description:
Title from item. and Subject identified on verso in an unknown hand as Hogarth.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Artists, and Artists' materials
Title from item., Attribution to George Bickham the younger from an unverified card catalog record., Publisher identified from address., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Unknown to other each design, in deep distress our looks we join ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Tower of London: Tower Green? -- Jacobites -- Executions -- Executioner's axe -- Yeoman wardens -- Nicknames: Gentleman Gaoler (Abraham Fowler) -- Abraham Fowler, fl. 1746-1751., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord, 1688-1746, Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl of, 1704-1746, and Cromarty, George Mackenzie, Earl of, approximately 1702-1766
publish'd September the 16th, 1746, according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
746.09.16.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A broadside, anti-Jacobite, anti-Catholic and anti-French. The illustration portrays a coat of arms, flanked by a priest and a Highlander; below the etching in letterpress are three columns beginning with the text: "The explanation." The lilies of the French Royal arms changed to upside down frogs and the legitimacy of the Stewart line questioned by the inclusion of the bed-pan child over the priest's shoulder. The text begins: "The three toads are the French Old Coat of Arms, their heads downward, in a sable fields; the coat revers'd denotes treason in perfection. The supporters are a Popish priest on one side in his habit, with a warming-pan on his shoulder, with the lid open and a young child in it. In his right hand is a bloody pen-knife in a posture ready privately to execute the cruelty their religion teaches them to exercise on Protestants ...
Alternative Title:
Traitors coat of arms
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., Three columns of letterpress text below image., A satire against James Charles Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, History, Coats of arms, Ethnic stereotypes, Frogs, and Priests
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation, and imprint create the first external page; opposite is the nine of diamonds creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page'. The image shows a battlefield (Culloden?) with a mountain in the background and part of a large building visible on the right. The commanding officer in the center (the Duke of Cumberland?) points with a baton towards the battle raging on the left while looking back from his horse at group of women in Scottish garb gathered in front of the building on the right, two of them holding swords in raised hands. In the foreground on the left, a defeated Scot hs fallen on the ground and under the hooves of the officer's horse. To his right, a woman sits on the ground holding a military drum. The verse begins as follows: Lady Anne makes her compliments on ye occasion, / Of our martial young hero's deliv'ring the nation ...
Alternative Title:
New c-t th--ksg----g
Description:
Title from item., Possibly engraved by George Bickham the elder (1684?-1758?)., Publisher identified from address., Two lines of quotation below title: Of old things like these were done at St. P----- [i.e., Paul's] now our praises resound at H-y [i.e., Hay] M-rk-t [i.e., Market] balls ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Balls: reference to Haymarket -- Battles -- Scots.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation, and imprint create the first external page; opposite is the nine of diamonds creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page'. The image shows a battlefield (Culloden?) with a mountain in the background and part of a large building visible on the right. The commanding officer in the center (the Duke of Cumberland?) points with a baton towards the battle raging on the left while looking back from his horse at group of women in Scottish garb gathered in front of the building on the right, two of them holding swords in raised hands. In the foreground on the left, a defeated Scot hs fallen on the ground and under the hooves of the officer's horse. To his right, a woman sits on the ground holding a military drum. The verse begins as follows: Lady Anne makes her compliments on ye occasion, / Of our martial young hero's deliv'ring the nation ...
Alternative Title:
New c-t th--ksg----g
Description:
Title from item., Possibly engraved by George Bickham the elder (1684?-1758?)., Publisher identified from address., Two lines of quotation below title: Of old things like these were done at St. P----- [i.e., Paul's] now our praises resound at H-y [i.e., Hay] M-rk-t [i.e., Market] balls ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Balls: reference to Haymarket -- Battles -- Scots.
A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation, and imprint create the first external page; opposite is the nine of diamonds creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite fourteen lines of verse on the third 'page'. The image shows a battlefield (Culloden?) with a mountain in the background and part of a large building visible on the right. The commanding officer in the center (the Duke of Cumberland?) points with a baton towards the battle raging on the left while looking back from his horse at group of women in Scottish garb gathered in front of the building on the right, two of them holding swords in raised hands. In the foreground on the left, a defeated Scot hs fallen on the ground and under the hooves of the officer's horse. To his right, a woman sits on the ground holding a military drum. The verse begins as follows: Lady Anne makes her compliments on ye occasion, / Of our martial young hero's deliv'ring the nation ...
Alternative Title:
New c-t th--ksg----g
Description:
Title from item., Possibly engraved by George Bickham the elder (1684?-1758?)., Publisher identified from address., Two lines of quotation below title: Of old things like these were done at St. P----- [i.e., Paul's] now our praises resound at H-y [i.e., Hay] M-rk-t [i.e., Market] balls ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Balls: reference to Haymarket -- Battles -- Scots.