Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), page 230., Temporary local subject terms: Petition of the City of Westminster -- Furniture -- Mythology: satyr., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Title from item., "Engraved after an original picture, in the possession of Thos. Browne Esqr."--Below title., and Temporary local subject terms: Watch -- Navy: sailors -- Paviour -- Signs: Union Fire Insurance Company -- Birds: cocks.
Publisher:
Published by Heny. Parker, No. 82 Cornhill, and Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Chimney sweeps, Taverns (Inns), and Tobacco pipes
"Satire on the Coterie, a society of ladies and gentlemen, presumably the one about which Horace Walpole wrote to George Montague on 6 May 1770. People are gambling for high stakes ("Mortgage", "£50,000", a jewelled necklace), cheating at cards, flirting, drinking, kissing; a lady holds up a miniature of her husband while embracing anothe rman who makes the sign of the cuckold behind the portrait; a couple are heading up a staircase."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., One line of text below image: Well, this is certainly one of the most useful institutions! Lame lover., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 39 (1770), page 495., Temporary local subject terms: Gambling: card game -- Lighting: wall sconces -- Allusions to adultery -- Literature: The lame lover by Samuel Foote, 1720-1777., and Window mounted to 14 x 20 cm.
"A number of ladies (eleven in all) sit at a table at the head of which is their president or chairman. They are balloting for the admission of a member, according to the 'Authentic Rules of the Female Coterie' printed in the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1770, p. 414, by which ladies balloted for men and men for ladies. The president sits in a raised chair, a hammer in her right hand; she says: "Mr Driver the New Member shall be admitted & duly return'd by me the proper Officer if upon examination he comes up to the Standard". Remarks from other ladies (left to right) are: "I hold up my hand for Mr Driver, if it had not been for him, several Noble Families would have been extinct that have now a numerous Issue"; "The ability of every Candidate ought to be strictly Examined"; "The Gentleman to be elected into this Society shall not be Husband to any of us"; "No our plan is to supply the deficiency of Husbands"; "I move for the Admission of Mr Driver as a Member. He has a promising Leg, an happy Assurance, & to crown the whole he is an Irishman"; "Lady H------n [Harrington] has her Reasons for not suffering Mr Driver to return to Ireland, but she must not Engross him all to herself". The lady on the President's right is writing in a large book. On the table are writing materials, books, one being 'Essay on Man', a bottle marked "Eau de Vie", a tray with coffee-pot, cups, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The court and city magazine. London: Joseph Smith, v. 1 (1770)., Temporary local subject terms: The Female Coterie -- Dishes: coffee set -- Literature: Reference to Essay on man by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)., and Window mounted to 20 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clubs, Tables, Coffeepots, Coffee cups, Writing materials, and Books
"An engraving representing Lord Holland as an old fox, seated at a table and starting back in horror from a book which is presented to him by an angel who cries: -- "This is the black Catalogue of thy Misdeeds". The book is inscribed: -- " Sins which L d H nd has committed against God his K his Country & himself"; it comprises two columns of imperfect, unconnected, and reversed words and scribble, and one legible word "Ayliff". To this word the finger of the angel is directed. For this name of a steward to the Fox family, who was alleged to have been wrongfully hanged by means of Lord Holland, see "Ayliffe's Ghost", British Museum Satires No. 4038. At the front of the table is a book inscribed, besides illegible scribble, with: -- " Accompts to be Settled in the other World"; this is an allusion to the charges of vast peculation which were brought against Lord Holland, the so-called "notorious defaulter of unaccounted millions"; see "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289, and "Renard Stating his Accounts", British Museum Satires No. 4299. An imp sits at the table and acts as Lord Holland's secretary; a second imp crouches behind his chair and niches gold from a large bag."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), page 168., Temporary local subject terms: Records: catalog of misdeeds., and Mounted to 32 x 37 cm.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Newmarket -- Male dress: jockey -- Pictures amplifying subject: horse racing.
"View of the grand interior of the church; the main space largely empty except for a few elegantly dressed figures; Corinthian columns to left and right supporting domical vaulted ceiling; a gallery surrounding space"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on paper secondary support.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England),
Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four antiquarians puzzled by an inscription written in strange lettering and order on a stone, but which reads: "Beneath this stone reposeth ..."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Learned antiquarians puzzled
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Another, undated state of this print was published by Sayer and Bennett., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., Copy in reverse and with some embellishments of The puzzle. London : T. Bowles, 1756. See Library of Congress, call number PC 3 - 1756 - Puzzle (A size) [P&P]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Antiquarians -- Epitaphs -- Puzzles., and Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Four antiquarians puzzled by an inscription written in strange lettering and order on a stone, but which reads: "Beneath this stone reposeth ..."."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Learned antiquarians puzzled
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Another, undated state of this print was published by Sayer and Bennett., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., Copy in reverse and with some embellishments of The puzzle. London : T. Bowles, 1756. See Library of Congress, call number PC 3 - 1756 - Puzzle (A size) [P&P]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Antiquarians -- Epitaphs -- Puzzles., Second of two plates on leaf 48., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 17.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
