Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Congregations: country congregations -- Female dress, 1749 -- Male dress, 1749, and Watermark: Pro patria.
A man with his hands clasped in supplication, is seized on one side by a burly turnkey and on the other by a man wearing in a Kevenhuller hat and armed with a cudgel. A third man tries to hit the prisoner on the head with a long cudgel. A fourth man, standing near the turnkey, threatens a boy and a woman who both kneel facing the prisoner whie a little girl in front of the woman stretches her arms towards her. On the far left, a well dressed man points to the scene with his left hand, his right hand resting on his hip. To his right is an entrance to a building with a lamp in the shape of an acorn hanging above the door. On the opposite side is another building with old-fashioned casement windows with diamond panes, or possibly bars, on upper floors and modern square paned windows on the ground floor. Over the door, in lieu of a lantern, hangs a bunch of grapes. The two buildings are connected in the background by a wall with a gate with heavy grill through which two men are peeking into the courtyard. On the wall above the grill are the Royal Arms, flanked by the arms of London and Westminster
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: Welcome, welcome, brother debtor, As an old and hearty song ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Prisons: The Compter -- Turnkeys -- Hats: Kevenhuller -- Weapons: cudgel -- Arms: royal arms -- Arms: City of London -- Arms: City of Westminster -- Emblems: grapes hanging over the dooor -- Lighting: outdoor hanging lantern., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
An allegorical representation of the nationalistic riot occasioned by a troupe of French comedians in London. This satirical print refers to the controversy and protest surrounding a French theatrical company, nicknamed the 'French Strollers', who applied for and were granted a licence to perform at the Haymarket in the winter of 1749. Their arrival occasioned much discontent; as the Scots Magazine reported, they were 'bitterly pelted in the news-papers'. Asserting their right to perform, they persisted in a show on 14 November, but were met by an audience intent on sabotage. An eyewitness account of the incident appeared in the Monthly Review some years later (July 1761): 'People went early to the Theatre, as a crouded House was certain ... I soon perceived that we were visited by two Westminster Justices, Deveil and Manning. The Leaders, that had the conduct of the Opposition, were known to be there; one of whom called aloud for the song in praise of English roast beef, which was accordingly sung in the gallery, by a person prepared for that purpose; and the whole house besides joining in the chorus, saluted the close with three huzzas! This, Justice Deveil was pleased to say, was a riot'. Despite the Justice's assertions that the play was licensed by the King's command, the crowd had come prepared to produce disruption. They were equipped with instruments which they played discordantly as an accompaniment to their jeers, catcalls, and Francophobic songs: 'as an attempt at speaking was ridiculous, the Actors retired, and opened instead with a grand dance of twelve men and twelve women; but even that was prepared for, and they were directly saluted with a bushel or two of peas, which made their capering very unsafe'. Unable even to dance, and following another abortive attempt by the magistrates to assert the King's authority, the curtain fell for the final time. The eyewitness evidently relished the outcome, venturing 'that at no battle gained over the French, by the immortal Marlborough, the shoutings could be more joyous than on this occasion'. The print embodies similar sentiments; the French strollers attack British theatrical establishment--represented by an affronted Britannia--who stands between them and British theatre-goers. In the foreground stands a perplexed Othello, lamenting the loss of his occupation, and an injured man a man lies on the floor 'Almost kill'd for not understanding French'.
Alternative Title:
Modern cramers
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on date of the depicted event., 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, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Foreign public opinion, French, Theater, Actors, Actresses, Fighting, and Riots
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge with loss of upper part of title., Ninety four lines of verse in five columns, in letterpress, below image on the plate: An arch and sturdy bellman of the town, that us' to cry his matters up and down ..., Temporary local subject terms: LIterature: The bellman and the captain, by John Byrom, 1691-1763, The Chester Courant, July 25 1749 -- Jacobites -- Literature: Jacobitish tales -- Bells: hand bells -- Bellmen -- Trades: butcher -- Military uniforms: captain's uniform -- Signs: butcher's sign -- Male costume: butcher's outfit -- Bellman's outfit -- Harlequin -- Allusion to King George II., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title etched above image., Publisher indentified from address., Four columns of verse below image: When conjurers [the] quality can bubble, and get their gold w[i]th very little trouble ..., Temporary local subject terms: Haymarket Theatre: burning of stage properties -- Bottles: conjurer in a bottle -- Watch: Military uniforms: Grenadier, Foot Guard -- Sticks -- Placards: Foote gives tea., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
Sold in Mays Building, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Title from item., The 'u' in 'conduct' etched backwards., Publisher tentatively attributed to Bickham in an unverified card catalog record., Publication place and date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: O England, how revolving is thy state! How few thy blessings! How severe thy fate ..., Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) as St. Erasmus -- Martyrdom of St. Erasmus -- Dissections -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Baron Ilton., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
G. Bickham?
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Caption below image: No money, with fireworks. Money, with commerce., Temporary local subject terms: Wars: War of the Austrian Succession -- Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- London: St. James's Park -- Fairs: British Jubilee, 1749 -- Fireworks: exhibition of fireworks -- Ships -- Money -- Lighting: Sun -- Swords -- Walking staves -- Male dress: Dutch, 1749 -- Personifications: empty-pocketed England -- Personifications: full-pocketed Holland., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
Accordg. to act in May's Buildings [that is, Bickham, George]
A satire on the 9 June 1749 order from His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland to have the uniforms of three regiments of footguards shortened some three inches for the sake of convenience on marches. The group of guards are shown protesting (most with speech bubbles above their heads) in an open space with the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and Holbein's Gate, Westminster forming the perimeter
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication date from British Museum catalogue: [1 June 1794].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Great Britain. Army.
The King of France is seated on his throne in front of the tent surmounted by a large fleur-de-lis. His feet rest on the head of the British Lion whom he is pushing to the ground. Two guards with pikes stand on either side of him. He is pointing with his scepter to two kneeling men in peers' coronets who have hooks in their noses and are led on a string by another man, probably Lord Sandwich, British negotiator at Aix-la-Chapelle. The two peers are probably the Earl of Sussex and Baron Cathcart, offered as hostages at the time of signing the Treaty. They carry scrolls and a fishnet with three fishes in it, probably alluding to the fisheries of Cape Breton. The scrolls convey promises to wear French cambric, as well as surrender of newly discovered coal mines. A fortress with breached walls is visible in the background. On the right, sits Britannia weeping. Behind her, three men, probably English merchants, express their disappointment with the terms of the Treaty. A scroll in the upper right corner, above a ship on turbulent seas, lists the concessions made by English negotiators
Description:
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of text below image: [The] Gods! Is is possible are these the brave E--- [i.e., Englishmen] who so lately professed 'emselves in such strong terms to be my friends! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Pro patria.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate from: The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure ... London : Printed by and for M. Brown, v. 4 (1749), p. 82., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
Publisher:
Design'd & engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1749 for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-approximately 1750, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1749]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Below larger image of the churth, a portrait of John Palmer, bust to the left, wearing cravat and cap, in circle; arms below and motto 'Visibilia Temporaria'; after Hogarth
Description:
Title etched above image., Dedication etched below oval portrait of John Palmer 1749 / W. Hogarth pinx. ; B. Baron sculp.: "To John Palmer of the Inner Temple London, patron of this church this plate is inscribed by his obedient and humble servt. Will. Hen. Toms, Ao. 1749"., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (2nd ed.), p. 63., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Mr. Nichols's book., and Formerly on page 146 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse in Latin on left and English on right, separated with a decorative border: Effigiem servi si vis spectare probati, quisquis as hoec oculos pascat Image tuos ..., Copy, slightly reduced, with different background imagery and arms of William of Wykeham in upper left corner, of No. 3045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Arms: William of Wykeham -- Arms: ?Wichester College -- Mottoes: Manners makyth man -- Reference to William of Wykeham, 1324-1404 -- Animals: boar -- Shovels -- Pitchforks -- Brooms -- Scrapers -- Shields: saucepan lid as a shield -- Padlocks -- Emblems: boar, partly human., and Probably a late 18th century restrike.
Title from item., Publication information from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Violin -- Treaties: Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- Personifications: nobles and wheelbarrow vendors -- Hostage: British hostages to France -- Emblems: fool's head -- Hanover turnips., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Fredrik I, King of Sweden, 1676-1751, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Klemens August, of Bavaria, 1700-1761, Sussex, George Augustus Yelverton, Earl of, 1727-1758, and Cathcart, Charles Schaw Cathcart, Lord, 1721-1776
Subject (Topic):
Flags, Musical instruments, National emblems, Hanoverian, and Wheelbarrows
"Interior; a great hall with figures in Elizabethan dress, the women in balconies around the side, men standing below, a procession approaching from the right towards Henry VIII who sits enthroned at the far end, below a coffered ceiling with pendants"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from dedication etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Caption title., Illustration at top of sheet is a copy of a French soldier from Hogarth's Gate of Calais., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3050., and On page 145 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed by R. Shaw, Silver-Street, White-Friars, Fleet-Street
Capt. Ord's Independent Company of Volunteer Rangers
Description:
Title from first line of text., Illustration at top of sheet (plate mark 9.2 x 13.8 cm) is a copy of a French soldier from Hogarth's Gate of Calais., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3050., and On page 145 in volume 2.
