From a doorway on the left, a man approaches a large, well-dressed woman who sits in a chair under two paintings. He is pointing to his red nose and holds a cane under his arm and his hat behind his back; a dog is at his heel
Description:
Title etched below image., Companion to a print entitled "Before"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willlm. Holland, 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Dogs, Interiors, Staffs (Sticks), and Clothing & dress
"Fox, as a beggar, holds out his bonnet rouge to the door of the 'Crown & Anchor' tavern to catch the shower of dishonoured paper which the talons of the Devil are scattering; smoke and flames issue from the doorway. Fox, unkempt and unshaven, his tattered coat and breeches scarcely covering his naked body, has an expression of desperate eagerness; he holds under his coat a dagger which drips blood. From his coat-pocket project a dice-box and cards, the Knave of Clubs uppermost (cf. BMSat 6488). Behind him are his needy followers: Sheridan (a pair of pistols in his coat-pocket), M. A. Taylor, and Horne Tooke immediately behind him, also clutching concealed daggers and holding out their bonnets rouges. Close behind these are Hall the apothecary, Priestley, and Lord Stanhope, whose attitudes show that they too are clasping daggers and proffering caps for alms. From Hall's pocket protrude a syringe and a medicine-bottle labelled 'W. Pitt.' Three other heads are indicated. The Devil's words issue from the door among flames: "Dear Sir | Seldom have I experienced more heart-felt pleasure | "than now in executing the wishes of my Committee; - I flatter | "myself you will not be displeased with the convincing proof of the | "esteem of so many & so honorable persons; who far from imagining they | "are about to confer any obligations upon you, will think themselves | "honoured & obliged by your acceptance of their endeavours to be | "grateful for your unremitted efforts to effectuate | the Grand Object they have so deeply at heart." Fox answers: "Dear Sir - You will easily believe, that it is not | "mere form of words when I say, that I am wholly at a loss how | "to express my feelings upon the Charity which you are now in so kind a | "manner showering upon me, - In my wretched situation, to receive such a proof | "of the esteem of the Committee, - to be reliev'd at once from Contempt & Beggary! | "for such as me, to receive a Boon which even the most disinterested would think their | "lives well spent in obtaining! is a rare instance of felicity, which has been reserved for me; - | "It is with perfect sincerity that I declare, that in no other manner in which a Charity | "could have been bestow'd upon me, would have been so highly gratifying to every feeling | "of my heart, - I accept, therefore, with the most sincere gratitude, the bounty of the Committee | "and consider it as an additional obligation upon me, to adhere strictly to whatever mea- | "-sures the Committee may find it convenient to pursue; & to persevere thro' thick and thin | "in That line of conduct, to which alone, I am conscious, that I am indebted for this, as | "well as for every other mark of their approbation. - " Sheridan says: "Make haste, Charley! - make haste! - make haste! - for I long to have my turn come on; - I have been a Greek Emigrant a hell of a while, & relief could never come more seasonable: - and here's our "little Chicken" wants to peck up a little corn; & our old friend Blood & Brentford, the orthodox Parson, swears he has a right to a Particle; heres Glysterpipe expects to be paid for purging Administration; & old Phlogistick the Hackney Schoolmaster, expects some new Birmingham halfpence - besides ten Thousand more, with empty pockets, & hungry bellies, lads fit for any enterprize! who only want engagement; - but cannot get a Crust, before you are served! make haste Charley! - make haste! make haste." Over the tavern door is inscribed 'Whig Club'. The papers pouring into Fox's cap are inscribed 'Forged Notes' (twice), 'Swindlers Notes', 'Jews Bonds', 'Bankrupts Notes', 'Country Bank' (twice), 'Gamblers Notes', 'Blue & Buff Bonds', 'Forfeited Mortgages'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Blue and buff charity and Patriarch of the Greek clergy applying for relief
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the French Revolution -- Emblems: tricolored cockades -- Male costume: bonnet rouge -- Taverns: Crown and Anchor -- Weapons: daggers -- Subscriptions: subscription for Fox, 1793 -- Architectural details: doorway -- Gambling: cards and dicebox -- Allusion to the Whig party -- Banknotes -- Devil.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 12th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, and Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793
"Pitt steers a small boat, 'The Constitution', with a single sail, a Union pennant flying from the mast, through huge waves between a high rock (left) and a whirlpool whose circumference is an inverted crown which merges in the swirling water. He is in profile to the right, gazing fixedly at a castle on a promontory (right) among still waters, which flies a flag inscribed 'Haven of Public Happiness'. Britannia, a buxom young woman, sits in the boat, her hands raised in alarm, her head turned towards the rock, on the summit of which is a large bonnet-rouge with a tricolour cockade on a post within a ramshackle fence. Spray dashes against Scylla; beside the rock and in the foreground (left) three sharks with human heads closely pursue Pitt's boat: Sheridan, Fox, and Priestley (good profile portraits), their eyes fixed menacingly on the boat. They are: 'Sharks'; 'Dogs of Scylla'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vessel of the Constitution steered clear of the Rock of Democracy and the Whirlpool of Arbitrary Power
Description:
Title etched below image., Caption below image, under the heads of Priestley, Fox and Sheridan: Sharks, dogs of Scylla., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge., and Temporary local subject terms: Flags: union pennant -- Constitution as a boat -- Boats -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge -- Allusion to the French Revolution -- Crowns: royal crown inverted as a whirlpool -- Cap of Liberty -- Symbols: tricolor cockades -- Allusion to Scylla abd Charybdis (Greek mythology) -- Literature: George Canning, 1770-1827, The Pilot that Weathered the Storm -- Waves -- Fortresses.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 8th, 1793 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., and Mounted on page 77 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Title etched below image., Possibly engraved after the pen drawing, attributed to Stefano della Bella by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name above image., Frontispiece to: The Literary magazine and British review ... London : Printed for the proprietors, v. 11 (July 1793)., "Literary magazine"--Above image., Mounted on page 100 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 15.2 x 9.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, 1 Aug. 1793, by J. Good, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of text., Two of the men with King Louis are tentatively identified as Santerre and Sanson., Four lines of verse inscribed below title: When on the scaffold he did say, receive my soul O God I pray. Wringing his hands with upcast e[yes], and Oh, forgive my enemies., and Printed on brittle, acid paper.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 1st, 1793 by J. Evans, Long Lane
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793,, Santerre, Antoine-Joseph, 1752-1809., and Sanson, Charles Henri, 1738- .
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, History, Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), and Spectators
"An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high boots, a cocked hat, his queue is in a bag. Behind is the door of a shop, inscribed 'G. Riebau'. Part of the adjoining shop-window (left) is visible, inscribed '[A]uctioner. 439'. Against the panes are books, prints, and a notice: 'Old Books bought'. A placard hangs outside the window: 'Price 6 \ Imparti[al] Life of Paine.' (A pamphlet, 'Impartial Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Paine', was published in 1793.) Beneath the design:'Stop gentle Reader, and behold A Beau in Boots, who loves his Gold; A Walking bookseller, an Epicure, A Teacher, Doctor, & a Connoissieur. Alias Doctor V------ in his Wrigling attitude, hawking old Books as Moses does old Cloaths.''--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state
Alternative Title:
Dr. Verdion and Doctor Verdion
Description:
Title above image: Wonderful magazine., The bookseller is identified as Theodora Grahn (1744-1802) who used the pseudonym, “Baron de Verdion” in Germany and after moving to London around 1770 used the name Dr. John de Verdion and worked as a language teacher, translator, and seller of antiquarian books, coins, and medals. See British Museum online catalogue., From the Wonderful Magazine, v. 1, page 406., State without the bookshop's name above the door., Six lines of text below image: A remarkable walking bookseller, quack docter [sic], &c, &c. ..., and Earlier state, with misspelling in the text below image, of No. 8371 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Publisher:
Gratis to the purchasers of the Wonderful magazine, pubd. by C. Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Grahn, Theodora, 1744-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Bookstores, Quacks, Staffs (Sticks), Umbrellas, and Window displays
