In the foreground (left) a party of ministers is carousing. Members of the Opposition watch them with indignation. In the distance (left) behind them mounted men with hounds chase a stag. On the right the Temple of Fame is being demolished by the enemies of Britain. Many of the figures have numbers referring to notes engraved beneath the design. The central figure in the ministerial group is (4) Sandwich ("S--h") seated on the ground playing a violin, between two courtesans, each of whom holds a goblet of wine. He turns to one of them, saying, "D--mn the Navy, Give me t'ther Glee"; she holds a torn paper inscribed "How merrily we live". An open book, "Catchs Glees", in front of him, is supported by a wine-bottle. In the left corner of the print is (5) North (“N--h”) seated on a small sack inscribed “Budg[et]”, he is yawning, his arms stretched above his head. Three men stand behind him: a man in Elizabethan dress wearing a tall hat and ruff who is (9) “R--by [Rigby] in the Character of Bobadil”. He says (apparently of Sandwich) “I would he were in the Bottomless Pit.” ... For the time-serving Rigby's attack on Germain and Sandwich, and flattery of Pitt (14 Dec. 1781) see Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1910, ii. 390, and 'Parliamentary Hist.' xxii. 847. Behind him and whispering into his ear, stands 8, Lord Amherst (“A--rst”), very thin, saying, “Dick Rugby [sic] Stand Close”. Behind Amherst stands 7, Lord George Germain (“G--mn”) saying “Jeffry Barebones [i.e. Amherst], this is worse than Minden.” Next on the right stands the group of patriots: (6) Pitt (“W--P--t”) looking towards North, says “Shake off this Indolence”. (3), Fox (“F--x”), pointing towards the Temple of Fame (right) and frowning, says, “Wheres your Navy, wheres your Islands”. (2), Burke (“B--k”) is saying “Wont even Destruction move ye”. (1), The Duke of Richmond (“R--d”) says “Curs'd be those men who owe their Greatness to their Countrys Ruin”. In the foreground (right) Britannia, seated on the ground on her shield, weeps, a handkerchief held to her eyes. Behind her is (10) “The Temple of Fame, formerly the Wonder of the World, but now in Ruins”, a building with a fluted dome on which the winged figure of Fame without her trumpet is poised on one foot, the other leg being broken off. ... See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prospect of the year 1782
Description:
Title from caption etched above image. and A companion print to British Museum Satire 5988 also ascribed to a design by Townshend: Anticipatio, or, The contrast to the Royal hunt.
Publisher:
Published according to Act of Parliament by R. Owen, in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, and Clothing & dress
"A stout man, seated (right) with stag's horns growing from his forehead, turns away from a lawyer in wig and gown who approaches him from the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Value of a P...y-C........r's matrimonial honor and Value of a Privy-Councillor's matrimonial honor
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publ. as the act dir. by H. Humphrey New Bond St. No. 18
"Design in an oval. Fox with a very melancholy expression, standing with folded arms facing three quarter to left outside a closed and padlocked gate repeating Wolsey's soliloquy from Henry the Eighth. The gate fills an archway, its top being of iron spikes, the padlock is inscribed Fast. The stone arch over the gate is inscribed Treasury. On the stone wall of the Treasury building (left) are torn placards. One is a broadside, 'Last Dying Speech' headed by a print of a man hanging from a gibbet; another is headed "Gamester". Beneath the title is inscribed: "Farewell, a long Farewell to all my Greatness! this is the state of Man, to Day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow Blossoms & bears all his blushing Honours thick upon him: the Third Day comes a Frost a killing Froast [sic], & when he thinks good easy Man full surely his Greatness is a Ripening, nips his Root & then befalls as I do!"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 12th, 1782, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Volume 1, page 34. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Young woman holding music score and singing with her young brother on left, two other women playing lute and singing on right, dog asleep in the foreground, landscape seen through arch in the background, within roundel; after Henry Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse etched below title: No Clarions here the strains of battle sing, with notes of love our charming vallies ring; Peace to the brave! o'er us shall beauty reign, and ever-charming pleasures form our train. Vide Seven Fountains., Dedication etched below verses: To Her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire, this print after an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. is with the greatest respect dedicated, by Her Graces most obedient humble servant, W. Dickinson., and Mounted on page 34 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 10th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 1, page 26. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman sitting to left, singing from the book of music she holds in her hand, turned slightly away from the viewer and dressed in volumptuous skirts and a turban; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably engraved by John Raphael Smith; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.533., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Sir William Jones's poem 'The palace of fortune, an Indian tale'., Two lines of verse below title: Through the calm air, the melting numbers float, and wanton echo lengthens every note., Temporary local subject terms: Music., and Mounted on page 26 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 20, 1782, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
In a rural setting, a tailor with tape-measure hanging from pocket falls back from the recoil of his gun, his hat and wig falling off as well. He is observed by an amused country yokel with a spade
Alternative Title:
Tailor turned sportsman
Description:
Title from item. and Artist from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Outside a tavern called The Whirligig, Col. Tarleton brandishes his sword while making a boastful speech about his military exploits. Behind him stands the Prince of Wales, headless, but identifiable by the ostrich plumes which replace his features. Above the tavern door the figure of a prostitute serves as the sign of the house
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide: Every man in his humour, alter'd from Ben Johnson., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 20th, 1782, by Eh. D'Achery, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Tarleton, Lieutenant-General 1754-1833 (Banastre), and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Caricature of Thomas West, rector of Horsington Lincolnshire, shown walking toward the right in mortar board and clerical bands, his gown billowing out behind him
Alternative Title:
Thomas West D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 1st 1782 by J. Thane, printseller and medalist, Rupert Street, Hay Market, London
"Lord Denbigh (right) stands in profile to the left on a country road, his aquiline nose exaggerated. A procession of six foxhounds, the last of which has just left his mouth, runs down his body and along the road from right to left. A fox runs across a field on the right and Denbigh holds out his right arm as if directing the hounds towards it. The road is edged by trees; a sign-post behind Denbigh has two arms, one (left) points "To Coventry", the other (right) "To Lutterworth". On the right is a milestone, "XI miles to Coventry". The background is an undulating landscape of grass and trees with a rectangular country house in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh and Master of the Royal Foxhounds until he was turned out of office by the 1782 change in ministry. and Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April the 16, 1782 by J. Langham. No. 11 St. Bride's Passage, & sold by T. Cornell, Bruten Street
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Denbigh, Basil Feilding, Earl of, 1719-1800.
Subject (Topic):
Milestones, Dogs, Vomiting, Foxes, Fox hunting, and Clothing & dress
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title from item., Undated reissue by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., R.S. is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Date of publication conjectured from Holland's occupancy of 50 Oxford Street, known to be from 1782 to 1803.
