An interior view of the House of Peers, looking towards the King's seat, where he sits in state with officials holding swords and maces around him, peers sitting in benches lining the walls, which are decorated with crests and ships, others in a block in the centre, one standing in the centre foreground with his back to the viewer, holding a scroll in his right hand, and several standing conversing to either side. The throne is shown with a backdrop of a tapestry
Description:
Title etched below image., In upper right corner above image: Gent. Mag. Jany. 1769., and Plate from: The gentleman's magazine, or, Monthly intelligencer / by Sylvanus Urban. London : Edw. Cave, 1769, v. 39.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and Westminster Palace (London, England)
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left., "European Magazine Jan. 1782"--Upper right corner., and Plate from: The European magazine, 1782, v. 1, page 13.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 12, 1782, by I. Fielding, Pater Noster Row ; I. Sewell, Cornhill & I. Debrett, Piccadilly
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left., Above image: Engraved for the Lady's Magazine., Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: chandeliers., and Cutting from the Morning Post describing the ball pasted on verso.
"Trial scene; Court of Peers in Westminster Hall, galleries packed with spectators."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The lady's magazine, or, Entertaining companion for the fair sex ..., v. 19 (April 1788)., A key to the image, labeled A-Q, is etched on either side of title., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name from upper margin. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., "Ladys magazine"--Above image., Mounted to 27.1 x 17.9 cm., and Mounted after page 182 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1788, according to act of Parliament by G. Robinson & Co., Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Government officials, Judicial proceedings, and Spectators
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1 August 1772., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 9, p. 1., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bank-notes -- Bags of money -- Brooms -- Row-boats -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Allusion to Lord North budget speech, 1 May 1772 -- Financial crisis, 1772 -- Allusion to speculation.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Title below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In upper right corner above image: Gent. Mag. Novr. 1768., Plate from: The gentleman's magazine, or, Monthly intelligencer / by Sylvanus Urban. London : Printed by Edw. Cave ..., v. 38 (1768), p. 450., Temporary local subject terms: Balls: masquerade -- Costume., and Window mounted to 17 x 22 cm.
Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors ... v. 7 (1771), p. 177., Dated in the British Museum catalogue: January 1, 1772., and Temporary local subject terms: Politics -- Personifications: angel of peace -- Emblems: scepter of peace -- Personifications: Fury -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Literature: Reference to Samuel Johnson's The False Alarm, 1770 -- Literature: reference to Address to the King by Junius, 1770 -- Newspapers: Public Advertiser.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue in the original publication as Mrs. Frances Abington and Lord Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne
Alternative Title:
Sentimental lover
Description:
Title from item., Tête-à-tête probably from: The Oxford magazine, May 1792., Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and country magazine, February 1777, (v. ix, p. 9) with different titles and plate numbers. The plate representing "The sentimental lover" was substantially reworked., and Variant state of No. 5411 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Title etched below images., Plates originally issued in: "Histories of the tete-a-tete annexed" in the Town and country magazine, xviii, 401., The two illustrations are numbered "No. XXII" and "No. XXIII in upper left above each oval, respectively., and Mounted to 20.5 x 28 cm., with pages extracted from the Town and country magazine, xviii, 401-402.
Plate from the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii. 233: On the extreme right the Devil holds up a canvas, 'le Tableau Parlant', which terrifies twelve Irishmen grouped round an oblong table. In their alarm the heavy table has been overturned, some are on the ground, others (left) flee in terror. The Devil, who looks round the edge of his picture, wears a bonnet-rouge inscribed 'Anarchy'; labels hang from his horn: 'Blasph[emy]' and 'Parracide'. He says "Stew it well - It cannot be Overdone for you and me". In the picture, 'Irish Stew I A Favourite Disk for French Palates', two French soldiers superintend the boiling of a Revolutionary Pot, in which stand three naked Irishmen shrieking for mercy; one says: "Liberty of being Stewed"; the other, "Equality - all to be stewed en Masse". Above the table five harpies fly off with a tattered cloth inscribed 'Map of Ireland'. They are intended for the Directors, three having belts inscribed 'Tallien' (not a Director), 'Barras', and 'Le Paux'. On the table is a paper, 'United Irishmen'. The Irishmen make gestures of terror or despair. Most look at the picture, one looks upwards, saying: "Poor Erin How thourt torn to pieces by these five Harpies." A fugitive looks round to say "What your own A. O Connor too!" A lawyer (? Curran): "So much for Republicani[sm] and glorious Independence! No Money! No Lawyer." A monk: "By St Patrick a complete Catholic Emancipation." Three others say: "I now howl in Vain - We are all gone to Pot"; "Brother John [Bull] would not have treated us so -" ; "My Merits with the Republic should have saved me, but I find we must all stew together" [he is perhaps Grattan]; "A Radical Reform by Jasus". Beside the last speaker, a ragged peasant, lies a bundle of pikes, &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine. London, 1799, v. 2, page 233, Temporary local subject terms: United Irishmen -- Maps: map of Ireland torn by demons -- Reference to the French Revolution -- Allusion to the Directory -- Allusion to anarchy -- Pictures: le tableau parlant., and Mounted to 31 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1799, by T. Whittle, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
Subject (Name):
Barras, Paul, vicomte de, 1755-1829 and Tallien, Jean-Lambert, 1767-1820