"Satire on the French king and his nobles melting valuables to make coin to pay war expenses in reaction to the disasters of the year 1759. Louis XV stands on the left holding a broken sceptre that he prepares to add to the crucible; Marshal Belle-Isle crouches on the right cutting up a candlestick; Madame de Pompadour works the bellows. Items of plate lie on the floor, including a vase lettered, "Germain fec" and a box lettered, "Messonier Inv"; on the wall hang portraits of W[illiam] P[itt], lettered "Terror of France", into which a sword is stuck, Newcastle and Fox, the latter two covered by a large cobweb."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Paris coiners 1759
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject headings: Reference to George Germain, Viscount Sackville, 1716-1785., and Mounted to 24 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Hearts is trump & has won the game and Hearts is trump and has won the game
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '90' in upper left corner., and Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761, and Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792
Title from item., Publication date from British catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Whilst Marshal C-t-s [i.e., Contades] & [the] gallant gay B-lio [i.e., Broglie], with their armies advanced in order so droll-o ..., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792, Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785, and Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770
Subject (Topic):
Minden, Battle of, Germany, 1759 and Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Title etched above image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Publication date possibly later than 1759. See British Book Trade Index online., Two columns of the fable in verse below image: An old revrend [sic] seer had three lads to his sons, stout fellows tis said and a match for three nuns ..., and Mounted to 30 x 44 cm.
A gentleman who wears fool's cap, carries a bauble in one hand and a bell (which he rings) in the other. He is accompanied by another gentleman who carries a halbred as they driving four geese and four turkeys before them on the road "To London" as the sign-post states. The former gentleman says, "This vastly pretty." His companion responds, " This is fine sport, only I am very cold."
Description:
Title engraved above image., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of a print of the same title published by Edwards & Darly 27 October 1756. See British Museum catalogue no. 3407., Two lines of text below image: Birds of a feather flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier., Related print identifies the two gentlemen as the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Rockingham: Now goose, now turkey, or, The present state of England. See British Museum catalogue no. 3409., and Plate from: England's remembrancer. London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title from captions in Latin and English below image., Text below Latin title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, 9 pedes et 6 digitos alta 7 pedes lata in aedibus regiis Kensingtonii conservata., Text below English title: From the painting of Guido Reni, 9 feet 6 inches high by 7 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Cupid, Graces, The, in art, Venus, Gods, and Mythology
Title from item., Plate numbered '89' in upper left corner., Plate from: A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1758 and 1759., and Temporary local subject terms: Battle of Minden.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a woman with a helmet and a spear, holding a shield with the arms of the herald painter John Holland, depicting a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Bookplate of John Holland; a woman with a helmet and a spear, holding a shield with the arms of the herald painter John Holland, depicting a lion surrounded by eight fleurs-de lis, three putti in the foreground, one putto holding a crown with a lion by the window at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, state, printmaker, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 3 in volume 1, top left. Sheet 120 x 106 mm.
