"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted on page 96.
"Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to citizen John Nicholls's parliamentary and unparliamentary letters, speeches and visions
Description:
Title etched at bottom of plate., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Looking glasses -- Male dress, 1797 -- Literature: Quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, IV.5., and Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book x, page 121 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 60 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.
"Pitt, a naked spectral creature, advances menacingly towards Fox, who is scarcely caricatured, and who holds his ground, right leg raised as if about to kick, snapping his fingers in Pitt's face. Pitt (left) is very thin and tall, with large head and glaring eyeballs. Fox holds out his three-cornered hat in his left hand as if speaking in the House of Commons; his waistcoat is unbuttoned, allowing his shirt to escape."--British
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being the from book xi, page 158 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 58 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.
"Two officers on high stools face each other at the counter of a fruit-shop and confectioner's. One (right), tall, lank, and elderly (identified as Captain Birch, see BMSat 9037), devours a jelly; empty jelly-glasses strew the counter beside him. The other, a mere child, his legs dangling, eats from a large cornet of 'Sugar-plumbs'. A buxom woman behind the counter brings a tray of jellies in glasses. In the doorway (right) a third officer, extremely fat and grotesquely knock-kneed, stands with his hands clasped behind him watching a coroneted coach driving past with two footmen in feathered hats standing behind. The officers wear large plumed cocked hats, spurred jack-boots, and sabres. Each pane of the large shop window (left) is decoratively filled with fruit, jars, jelly-glasses, &c. A pottle of strawberries and a partly peeled orange lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Guard Day at St. James's
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Shops: Kelsey's fruit shop -- Food: jellies -- Sugar plums -- Exotic fruits -- Capt. Birch, fl. 1797.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 9th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Ten ladies, arranged in two rows, with numbers referring to notes etched beneath the design, their proposed offices etched above their heads. ... '(1) First Lady of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.' The 'Duc - ss of Gor-n' (Pitt's friend), wearing a tartan drapery, sits at a writing-table. Facing her, with outstretched right arm, is '(2) President of the Council and Duc-ss of Ric-nd.' '(3) Lady High Chancellor is the Coun-ss of Buc-s-e', very short and fat, in wig and gown and holding the purse of the Great Seal. Facing her is '(4) Chamberlain', who is 'Margr-ne of Ans-h', wearing a coronet and feathers, and holding a long wand of office. '(5) Mistress of the Horse' holding a whip is 'Lady Arc-r.' '(6) First Lady of the Admiralty' is 'Mrs Jo-n', with her arms folded, in profile to the right, as if playing the part of Priscilla Hoyden in 'The Romp', see British Museum Satires No. 6875, but wearing a naval cocked hat, emblem of her liaison with the Duke of Clarence, see British Museum Satires No. 9009. Facing her is '(7) Secretary of War & Capn of the Guards, La-y Wa-ce' (sister of No. 1); she wears a military cocked hat and coat with epaulettes, her hands placed truculently on her hips. (Her friendship with Dumouriez is perhaps hinted at.) '(8) Mistress of the Buck Hounds', is 'March-ss of Sa-ry', thin and weatherbeaten, holding two hounds on a leash, '(9) Ranger of Hyde Park', is 'La-y La-e' (wife of Sir John Lade) wearing a riding-habit and holding a riding-switch. '(10) Post Mistress General and Inspector of Mis-sent Letters' is 'La-y Je-y'. She sits at a round table on which are many letters and appliances for opening and re-sealing them, including a spirit-lamp inscribed 'Hot water'. She holds a lighted candle and peers through spectacles at a sealed letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and With illegible monogram, perhaps a collector's mark, written in brown ink in lower margin.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St. ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Richmond, Mary, Duchess of, 1740-1796, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Craven, Elizabeth, 1750-1828, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, Lady Wallace, -1803, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Lade, Letitia, Lady, -1825, and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Title etched below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being the frontispiece in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 57 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.
"Captain Morris (left) sits in profile to the right, singing from a broadside which he holds out in his left hand: 'A new Song to the Tune of the Plenipoy'. In his right hand is a full glass. He wears a round hat and fashionable half-boots; his coat, breeches, and stockings are tattered. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'Captain Morris's Songs by Subscription' (cf. BMSat 9240). Fox and Sheridan sit on opposite sides of a small round table, on which is a decanter of 'Brandy'. Sheridan, left, with Bardolph's fiery face, cf. BMSat 7528, &c, holds his glass and looks delightedly at Morris, as does Fox (as Falstaff), who says: "Come sing me a Boosey-Song, [A misquotation from 'I Henry IV', III. iii, where Falstaff says, "Come, sing me a bawdy song; make me merry."] to make me merry". Part of the face of a fourth man appears on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Wine bottle and glasses -- Spirits: brandy -- Literature: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I -- Allusion to the secession of the Opposition.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 16th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Morris, Charles, 1745-1838
"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, after Reynolds; standing three-quarter length to left and leaning his right elbow on table with books, quill and print, his right hand to his cheek, eyes to front, wearing plain coat and waistcoat, lace collar and cuffs; in an oval, with Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with new imprint statement and with the plate reduced in size on all four edges, of a print issued with the imprint: Published as the Act directs Feby. 14th, 1797, by W. Clarke, No. 38 New Bond Street. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library: Portraits W218 no. 7., and "Strawberry Hill" in all capitals is etched above title and below image of the estate.
