"View below the arcade, looking towards the Bank of England; two elegantly dressed women and a child buying goods from street trader, two men on the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802]., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement., and Window mounted to 48 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Published July 31st, 1797, by T. Malton
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Banks, Commercial facilities, and Arcades (Architectural components)
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom and top., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Young Cupid of all makes a prize ..., One from the series of eleven plates "Love in Caricature.", One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Vices: avarice -- Furniture: chairs -- Money: guineas -- Scales: balances.
Publisher:
Pubd Augst 1, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead ; Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
"Pitt (left) as a bank-clerk, very thin and much caricatured, a pen thrust through his wig, stands behind an L-shaped counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull. In his right hand is a scoop with which he sweeps up notes from the counter. John is the yokel of BMSat 8141, but no longer bewildered; he stands stolidly, holding out his left hand for the notes, his right hand in his coat pocket. Fox (right), who wears a high cocked hat with tricolour cockade, bag-wig, and laced suit, says to him: "Dont take his damn'd Paper, John! insist upon having Gold, to make your Peace with the French, when they come". Sheridan bends towards John, saying, "Dont take his Notes! nobody takes Notes now! - they'll not even take Mine!" John answers: "I wool take it! - a' may as well let my Measter Billy hold the Gold to keep away you Frenchmen, as save it, to gee it you, when ye come over, with your domn'd invasion." Behind (right) hands of other Foxites are raised in warning, and on the extreme right is the profile of Stanhope. Behind (left), men hasten towards Pitt with large sacks of notes on their heads. The first two, in judge's robes, are Loughborough with a sack of '20 Shilling Notes', and Kenyon with one of 'Five Pound Notes'. Behind is Grenville with a sack of '10 Shilling Notes'. Other sacks whose bearers are hidden are inscribed '5 Shilling No[tes], 2 Shillin No[tes]', and 'One Shilling'. Under Pitt's counter is a row of large sacks of gold, padlocked and inscribed '£'. On the end of the counter, facing the spectator, is posted a bill headed: 'Order of Council to the Bank of England'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Sacks of money -- Bank notes., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 1st, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, and Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Baron, 1732-1802
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: For this has he left the full pot ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Not in Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the caricaturist. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Courtship.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons -- Currency crisis, 1797 -- Bank crisis, 1797., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials E & P below.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 8, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, and Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to places and pensions -- Reference to supplies -- Reference to loans -- Red Book -- Reference to London Kalendar.
"A stout officer sits on a charger in profile to the left, his head turned from the spectator, his right arm outstretched, holding a cane, as if directing manoeuvres."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms (Guards) -- Sir Harry Burrard, 1755-1813, or John Reid, 1721-1807.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 15th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's statement following imprint: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: French military uniforms: Bonaparte & soldiers., Mounted to 37 x 47 cm., matted to 47 x 62 cm.; printmaker's and subjects' names printed on mat below image., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book xi, page 149 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 64 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
"View on Cockspur Street with the Phoenix Fire Engine Station on the right, a horse-drawn carriage travelling down centre of street and elegantly dressed pedestrians on pavements"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
