Mr. Harley, with a very large belly and a shirt with lace trim, standing full-length in profile to right wearing on his head a cuckold's horns from which hangs a sign "A room to lett unfurnish'd". From his mouth a bubble reading, "I am one of the heads of the city." In his left hand a book open to pages that read, "The city poll dedicated to the Cheese mongers, trunk makers, etc. From his right pocket a letter, "At the court of C.C., it was carried NEM-CON that he was realy & not politically ill."
Alternative Title:
Figure that appeared in a Mazarine gown
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: October 10, 1768, the date of the masquerade., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 148., and Mounted to 30 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Oxford Magazine
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City council members, Horns (Anatomy), Masquerades, and Obesity
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 3 (1769), p. 108., Temporary local subject terms: Dover -- Machines: flying machine -- Devil -- Animals: cow., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication based on the date of publication of a similar print: A representation of the surprizing performances of Mr. Samson., Plate from: The universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure. [London] : Printed for J. Payne, vol. for 1768?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Mr. Price, fl. 1768.
Representation of the surprising performances of Mr. Samson
Description:
Title from item., Publication date based on the date of publication of "A taylor riding to Brentford" on the same topic., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Mr. Samson or Sampson, fl. 1768., Mounted to 22 x 26 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Publisher:
Sold by T. Butcher at the White Horse, the corner of Horseshoe Passage, Newgate Street
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately November 1768]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A tracing of an etching that reproduces in a general way the design of "A scene of a pantamime entertainment lately exhibitied (British Museum satire no. 4220) with some additions and variations
Description:
Title etched below image., Knight of Malta identified as the Marquis Townshend., and On page 203 in volume 3.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: tailor -- Allusion to Brentford elections, March 1768 -- Election favors -- Election slogans: "Wilkes and liberty" -- Rules for Bad Horsemansip -- Emblems: cabbage for fabric pilfered by tailors -- Horse whips -- Animals: horses -- Donkeys -- Jockeys -- Placards -- Horsemanship: reference to Mr. Sampson, fl. 1768., and Mounted to 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
"View of a cascade, with figures on a fallen tree in the left foreground, the river beyond. 1761, probably a later re-publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vue de la Grande Cataracte de Cohoes, sur la Riviere des Mohawks : la hateur est l'environ 70 pieds, 1 sa riviere a pres l'un quart de mile de large
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Date range for publication based on listed street addresses for the publishers; John Bowles began operating from No. 13 Cornhill in 1768, and Henry Parker ceased operating from No. 82 Cornhill in 1781. See British Museum online catalogue., and One of 28 plates in the series: Scenographia Americana.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Chruch Yard, and Henry Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Mohawk River (N.Y.), New York (State), Mohawk River, and New York.
Title below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In upper right corner above image: Gent. Mag. Novr. 1768., Plate from: The gentleman's magazine, or, Monthly intelligencer / by Sylvanus Urban. London : Printed by Edw. Cave ..., v. 38 (1768), p. 450., Temporary local subject terms: Balls: masquerade -- Costume., and Window mounted to 17 x 22 cm.
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Alternative Title:
Hudibras's first adventure
Description:
Title engraved above image., After Hogarth., From a series of twelve prints issued by Robert Sayer., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Numbered '3' in upper left corner; "Part 1 Canto 1 l. 1." in upper right corner above image., Verse in three columns below image: "The Catalogue and Character of th' enemies best men of war Whom in a bold Harangue the Knight Defies and challenges to fight; H' encounters Talgol routs the bear, And takes the fidler prisoner; Conveys him to enchanted castle There shuts him fast in wooden bastile.", Copy of no. 506 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 84., and From a set of twelve prints, all with two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
Title in letterpress above image., Publication place and date from date of letter., Letter from John Wilkes below image in letterpress: To the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the County of Middlesex. Signed John Wilkes, King's-Bench Prison, Saturday, June 18, 1768., Letter signed and dated: John Wilkes, King's-Bench Prison, Saturday, June 18, 1768., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: lion -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: rod of Maintenance -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: snake., and Mounted to 37 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Glynn, John, 1722-1779
