Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Miss Harriet Powell (numbered 13) and Lord Seaforth (numbered 14), whom she married in or before 1779 and Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. VI and No. VII, of a Miss H-ter and Sir Cecil Bishopp, Bt.
Alternative Title:
Sir C- B-p and Sir Cecil Bishopp
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 121.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss S-r and Edmund Burke
Alternative Title:
Hibernian Demosthenes
Description:
Title from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 65., and In upper right corner of plate: Vol. VI.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
"A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved. Behind the sick woman (right) is the wall of a building, probably a theatrical booth; along it runs a narrow gallery where Punch is strutting; he points to a placard on which is a representation of the bottle-imp emerging from his bottle, the great hoax of the century, see British Museum Satires Nos. 3022-7, 5245. Beneath the bottle is a placard, "Subscriptions taken in here for reducing the price of provisions". Other placards on the booth are inscribed, "Marybone Gardens Fete Champetre"; "Mr R-s Letters from [the] Dead", this is behind the dead woman; "Hearing Trumpets on a new Construction", behind the doctor with the ear-trumpet; "Cox's perpetual motion, or the Elephant & Nabob", an allusion to Cox's Museum, see British Museum Satires No. 5243, his jewelled clockwork toys had been destined for an Indian prince; they are described in what Walpole calls "immortal lines" in Mason's 'Epistle to Shelburne', see 'Mason's Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, pp. 29, 112, 122, see British Museum Satires No. 5243. At this placard an oafish countryman (right) is gaping while a boy picks his pocket. In the background is the sea; on the beach is a boat raised on stocks but already breaking up; this is inscribed "The New Adelphi". The building of the Adelphi had been an unprofitable speculation, partly owing to the financial crisis of 1773, and the Adam brothers obtained a private Act in that year to enable them to dispose of the new buildings by a lottery, which took place in 1774. Across the water on the further side of a bay is a town inscribed "A View of Plymouth". A rope extends from a church steeple on the extreme left, behind the spectators, to a distant spire in Plymouth, down this a man is gliding."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonders of Great Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: The Whimsical repository. London : Printed for R. Snagg ..., v. 1, no. 1 (August 1794).
Publisher:
Engrav'd for the Whimsical Repository, Septr. 1st, 1774, publsh'd according to act of Parliament
"A scene on the sea-shore. A hoven cow, that is, a cow dangerously distended by eating green food, is being operated upon by a man who stands on a raised platform and pierces her flank with a pole; in his right hand is a curved pipe for the injection of smoke. Three country-people and a child gape in astonishment holding up their hands; a fat alderman in a furred gown does the same; from his pocket hangs a paper inscribed, "Nine Days he liv'd in Clover". On the right. three doctors or apothecaries are attending an emaciated and seemingly-dead woman (right), who lies on straw, dressed only in a shift: one puffs smoke from a tobacco-pipe up her nostrils, another applies a pair of bellows, the third listens through an ear-trumpet. It appears that while the cow suffers from a surfeit, the woman dies of starvation. On the ground lies the hat of one of the doctors, in which is a letter, "To Mr Blake Plymoth". Three spectators (left) watch the efforts of the doctors: one, an oriental, wearing a turban and draperies, holds out his hands in astonishment; he appears to represent the wisdom of the East (or the noble savage) confronted with the effects of English civilization. His two companions, fashionably dressed Englishmen, look on unmoved. Behind the sick woman (right) is the wall of a building, probably a theatrical booth; along it runs a narrow gallery where Punch is strutting; he points to a placard on which is a representation of the bottle-imp emerging from his bottle, the great hoax of the century, see BMSat 3022-7, 5245. Beneath the bottle is a placard, "Subscriptions taken in here for reducing the price of provisions". Other placards on the booth are inscribed, "Marybone Gardens Fete Champetre"; "Mr R-s Letters from [the] Dead", this is behind the dead woman; "Hearing Trumpets on a new Construction", behind the doctor with the ear-trumpet; "Cox's perpetual motion, or the Elephant & Nabob", an allusion to Cox's Museum, see BMSat 5243, his jewelled clockwork toys had been destined for an Indian prince; they are described in what Walpole calls "immortal lines" in Mason's 'Epistle to Shelburne', see 'Mason's Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, pp. 29, 112, 122, see BMSat 5243. At this placard an oafish countryman (right) is gaping while a boy picks his pocket. In the background is the sea; on the beach is a boat raised on stocks but already breaking up; this is inscribed "The New Adelphi". The building of the Adelphi had been an unprofitable speculation, partly owing to the financial crisis of 1773, and the Adam brothers obtained a private Act in that year to enable them to dispose of the new buildings by a lottery, which took place in 1774. Across the water on the further side of a bay is a town inscribed "A View of Plymouth". A rope extends from a church steeple on the extreme left, behind the spectators, to a distant spire in Plymouth, down this a man is gliding."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonders of Great Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imprint above image, mostly burnished from plate. Publication date from earlier state. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5275., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted to 24 x 37 cm., and On a separate sheet, accompanying this print, is the "Explanation of Plate II. Modern Moonshine, or the Wonders of Great Britain," three clippings apparently cut from the magazine Whimsical Repository? The names 'Banks' and 'Solander' have been written in an early hand on the margin of the paper to fill in the names B**S and S*** in the text.
Publisher:
Engrav' [...] publish'd according to act of Parliament
Title engraved at top of image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. See Notes & Queries 1860 and 1864., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., and Temporary local subject terms: Cox's Museum.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXV and No. XXVI, of Grace Darlymple Eliot or Elliott, and Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valencia (1744-1816).
Alternative Title:
Lord V-, Mrs. Eliot, and Lord Valentia
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 401.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXXIV and No. XXXV, of A Mrs. F-r and Henry, Viscount Conyngham, d. 1781
Alternative Title:
Lord C-m and Lord Conyngham
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 569.
Publisher:
Publishd. as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. X and No. XI, of a Mrs. G-s and Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby (1700-1777).
Alternative Title:
Sir Timothy Tallboy
Description:
Title from item. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 177.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XIX and No. XX, of Mrs. Horneck and Captain Scawen
Alternative Title:
Sumbissive duellist and Mrs. Horneck
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 345., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on one support together with four pages of text for which this print was an illustration.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. Johns Gate
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively, No. XXXI and No. XXXII, of Mrs. Martin, née Perrott, and General Edward Harvey
Alternative Title:
General H- and General Harvey
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed " in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 513.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. Johns Gate
