"The King and Queen, much caricatured, sit side by side in a latrine, above which is part of the royal arms, the lion looking down apprehensively and excreting. They look in horror towards Pitt, who rushes in, terrified, from a door (right), holding out a paper inscribed 'News from Sweden', and saying, "Another Monarch done over!" He is grotesquely thin. The King rises slightly, holding his stomach, and saying, "What ? Shot ? What ? what ? what ? Shot! shot! shot!" He wears a nightcap tied with a ribbon inscribed 'Honi Soit qui M . . . '. The Queen is a shrunken and huddled figure; both have grotesquely agitated expressions."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
News of shooting the King of Sweden
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of printing based on that of Bohn's suppressed plates., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Reissue, probably from Bohn, ii, suppressed plates. Cf. No. 8080 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: latrine -- Male costume: royal night cap -- Emblems: burlesqued royal arms -- Allusion to assassination of Gustavus III.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 11th 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
A scene in a park showing a number of elegantly dressed men and women walking and bowing and greeting each other. In the background are several buildings, one of which has scaffolding erected in front of it.
Alternative Title:
Gout a la mode en MDCCLI
Description:
Title from impression at the Library of Congress., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title above image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Identifications of the Duke of Cumberland and Chevalier Descazeau added in contemporary hand below image., Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, sold by E. Griffin next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Du Halley, Michel Descazeaux, 1710-1775
"Satire on the disputed Westminster election of 1751; view on St James's Street during a procession on the day the Hon. Alexander Murray was released from prison; on the left two men stand in wigs declaring "No Knee Worship" and "It's a Dirty Place"; at the head of the procession a man holds a sign stating "Murray and Liberty", carriages follow behind, in the background people watch the scene from their windows, St James's Palace on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of comment in center below image: Brutus had rather be a villager, than to repute himself a son of Rome ..., Sixteen lines of description in two columns on either side of the comment: The Honble. Alex. Murray Esqr. who by an order of [the] House of Commons had been committed a close prisoner to Newgate ..., Temporary local subject terms: London: London: St. James's Street -- Clubs: White's -- Newgate prison -- Parliament: members of Parliament -- Flags: Union Jack -- Flags: 'Murray & Liberty' -- Trades: butchers -- Male dress: striped election suits -- Mottoes: O tempora! O mores! -- Vehicles -- Elections: 1751 -- Westminster petition -- Lord George Carpenter. 1723-1762 -- George Vandeput, d. 1800 -- George Cooke, d. 1768 -- Richard Crowle, d. 1757 -- William Alexander, d. 1762 -- Robert Scott, d. 1760., and Watermark: indiscernible countermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Murray, Alexander, d 1777 and Saint James's Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Parades & processions, Political elections, Petitions, and Carriages & coaches
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[21 February 1751]
Call Number:
751.02.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Boitard on stylistic grounds; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.3913., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Two black geese of middle age, by some thought cunning, few thought sage ..., Caption in the lower left corner of plate: In the porch the emblems of disappointment, malice, envy ..., Caption in the lower right corner of plate: **A cuckow with an asse's head singing his own wise productions., "Price one shilling.", Temporary local subject terms: Portsmouth: Municipal Council as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The farmer and the snake' -- Burgesses as geese -- Literature: Aesop's Fables, 'The dog and the shadow' -- Literature: The geese in disgrace, a tale. Portsmouth : printed by W. Horton, for J. Wilkinson, 1751 -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniforms -- Gangs of sailors -- Taverns: 'The Hercules's Pillars', Portsmouth -- Shops: Agent for Prizes -- Navy: ships -- Ships: Centurion, at anchor in Portsmouth, 1751 -- Maps: map of Nova Scotia -- Map of Gibraltar -- Allusion to trade with Newfoundland -- Furniture: dining chairs -- Lancets -- Postillion blowing horn -- Gothamites -- Aldermen -- Birds: hen and chicks -- Storks -- Eagle grasping fulmen -- Cuckoo with ass's head -- Dining tables -- Trades: surgeon, as a goose -- Medicine: in bottles -- Wheelbarrows -- Emblems -- Trade with Lima, 1751 -- Personifications: Covetousness, Disappointment, Malice, Envy -- Medical procedures: bleeding., Mounted to 30 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Feb. 21, 1751, by Dan Job, stationer in King Street, Covent Garden
"Caesar right at prow as Roman galleys approach shore beneath hail of arrows and rocks; hand-to-hand conflict in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Débarquement de Jules César
Description:
Title from text below image., Probably a later state, with additional French title added and with year removed from end of imprint statement. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration number: 1952,0211.36., Date of publication inferred from that of probable earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate numbered in lower right corner: No. 1., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark., and Embossed stamp in lower left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd for J. & P. Knapton & R. Dodsley, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius.
Subject (Topic):
Campaigns & battles, Landing craft, Soldiers, and Roman
Satire on the state lottery; emblematic representation of a draw at Guildhall with two lottery wheels and allegorical figures
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and date from Paulson. "Price one shilling" has been erased., Sheet trimmed., Engraved on left side of title: "The explanation. 1. Upon the pedestal national credit leaning on a pillar supported by Justice. 2. Apollo shewing Britannia a picture representing the Earth receiving enriching showers drawn from her self (an emblem of State Lottery's). 3. Fortune drawing the blanks and prizes. 4. Wantonness drawing [the] numbrs. 5. Before the pedestal suspence turn'd to & fro by Hope & Fear.", and Engraved on right side of title: "6. On one hand, Good Luck being elevated is seized by Pleasure & Folly; Fame persuading him to raise sinking Virtue, Arts, &c. 7. On [the] other hand Misfortune opprest by Grief, Minerva supporting him, points to the sweets of Industry. 8. Sloth hiding his head in [the] curtain. 9. On [the] other side, Avarice hugging his mony [sic]. 10. Fraud tempting Despair wth. mony at a trap-door in the pedestal."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Allegories, Deadly sins, Justice, Lotteries, and Gambling
Satire on the state lottery; emblematic representation of a draw at Guildhall with two lottery wheels and allegorical figures
Description:
Title engraved below image., State and date from Paulson. "Price one shilling" has been erased., Sheet trimmed., Engraved on left side of title: "The explanation. 1. Upon the pedestal national credit leaning on a pillar supported by Justice. 2. Apollo shewing Britannia a picture representing the Earth receiving enriching showers drawn from her self (an emblem of State Lottery's). 3. Fortune drawing the blanks and prizes. 4. Wantonness drawing [the] numbrs. 5. Before the pedestal suspence turn'd to & fro by Hope & Fear.", Engraved on right side of title: "6. On one hand, Good Luck being elevated is seized by Pleasure & Folly; Fame persuading him to raise sinking Virtue, Arts, &c. 7. On [the] other hand Misfortune opprest by Grief, Minerva supporting him, points to the sweets of Industry. 8. Sloth hiding his head in [the] curtain. 9. On [the] other side, Avarice hugging his mony [sic]. 10. Fraud tempting Despair wth. mony at a trap-door in the pedestal.", and On page 10 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, No. 13, in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Allegories, Deadly sins, Justice, Lotteries, and Gambling
Title from item., Four lines of text below image: A view of decideing [sic] the wager between Mr. Codd and Hants of Maldon in the County of Essex ..., Earlier state issued by a different publisher. Cf. No. 3084 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject -- Obesity -- Wagers -- Edward Bright, d. 1750.
Publisher:
Printed for B. Dickinson on Ludgate Hill and publish'd according to act of Parliament
"Satire on the clergy; a farmer and his wife offering their tythe to a clergyman by the tithe barn at the gate of his rectory; the man holds a sucking pig, the woman holds out an infant, saying that if the clergyman wants the former he must also take the latter; the clergyman turns away looking back over his shoulder in distaste."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tithe pig and Dime
Description:
Title engraved below image., Caption at top of image: La dime., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., 'Price 6d.', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below., and Mounted to 34 x 23 cm.
