"A large chamber-pot, cracked, stands (left) supported by the legs of Mrs. Jordan. The Duke of Clarence has thrust his head and shoulders within a fissure in the 'Jordan', singing a chanty, "Yeo! Yee! Yeo!" He is in back view and wears striped sailor's trousers; his naval coat with its star hangs on the wall (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Crack'd Jordan and Cracked Jordan
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.5 x 21.0 cm, on sheet 37 x 27.3 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816
A series in four rows in three segments (some with a second figure in distance) of images of soldiers demonstrating the military drills with rifle and bayonets, beginning with "Dress to the right. 1st poise firelock, 2nd cock firelock ... 11th ram down cartridge."
Description:
Title from text above image., Text for imprint missing from this impression supplied from unverified card catalog., Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in partial loss of imprint. Text supplied from another impression., and Previously laid in pocket of The soldier's companion. See Lewis Walpole Library: 63 797 So43.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by C. Cooke, No. 17 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Bayonets, Military training, Rifles, Soldiers, and British
"The interior of a bedroom, with Miss Gunning in bed (left), facing the spectator; a stout woman, her mother, holds her arm; both look round in alarm at a much-caricatured creature, Miss Minifie, who rushes towards them (right) from an open door, arms outstretched, gaping with staring eyeballs. Mrs. Gunning raises a leg in her surprise, breaking a bottle of 'Brandy' which with a glass had been concealed under her petticoats. Beneath the design is etched: 'What's the matter Auntee-Peg, what makes you put on such a long Face?"' In the upper and lower margins is the inscription: 'I was sitting by the Bedside of my smiling-injured-innocent-Lambkin, & holding one of the sweet tender hands of my amiable-gentle-dovelike-Cherub, when her Aunt came into the Room, with a face paler than Ashes, - "What is the matter, Auntee Peg" - says my dear-chaste-adorable-kind-benificent-enchanting-heart-feeling-benificent-paragon of Goodness \ She broke upon us the dishonorable-infamous-false-accusations, & the cruel most cruel messages that accompanied them, at that moment a Vow issued from my torn, my rent, my wounded, my agonizing, my suffering Heart, & my dear-divine-glorious-Arch angelic-Angel, said &c &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
What's the matter Auntee-Peg, what makes you put on such a long face?"
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedrooms -- Furniture: side tables -- Beds -- Glass: wine bottles -- Alcohol: brandy -- Allusion to the Gunning scandal -- Literature: burlesque of Mrs. Gunning's A Letter ... to the Duke of Argyll., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Publisher:
Pub. March 25th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),, and Minifie, Margaret
Volume 2, page 80. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A kneeling woman reads the palm of a girl standing at left in travelling clothes with a basket on her arm, two others watching, leaning on a fence behind, children and a dog sitting beside a fire at right, over which a large pan hangs; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourteen lines of verse below image, seven on either side of title: Last Friday's eve, when, as the sun was set, I, near yon stile, three sallow gipsies met ... Vide Gay's Pastorals., and Mounted on page 80 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fences, Children, Dogs, Campfires, and Pots & pans
Volume 2, page 77. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Me and my wife and daughter
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791., Text below title: O terque quaterque beati., For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Mounted on page 77 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1791]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 74. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three women walking side by side in a field, at left holding a lute and pointing towards the silhouette of a town at right, the figure at right holding a tambourine and the third in the centre wearing a wide brimmed hat and looking directly out at the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: Grace is in all their steps, in every gesture dignity & love., and Mounted on page 74 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., and Mounted on page 74.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
