A male figure composed of utensils used in the business of an apothecary holds in one "hand" a volume titled, 7. Frauds detected in drugs, and in the other a scroll inscribed: "We are all in the dumps, our bill is rejected and flung out." Under the apothecary's "belt," formed by the barrel's hoop, is secured a paper inscribed "Quincys Dispensary." The utensils making up the figure are numbered, and the key identifying them is engraved below the image of the figure. The whole is enclosed in an ornamental cartouche. Reference to an Apothecaries' petition
Description:
Title from item., Date based on reference in the image to a pamphlet published in 1748 and a failed bill of the same year. See Frauds detected, or, Considerations offered to the public : shewing the necessity of some more effectual provision against deceits, differences, and incertainties in drugs ..., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., Dedication below title: To the Right Honble the Lord Walpole these four plates are humbly inscribd [sic]., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words., Opening words: Fill ye bond wth [sic] flowing measure ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
"Satire on butchers showing a calf as a butcher holding an axe and a cleaver, with a meat tray as a breastplate, a candle in his hat, and a steel hanging from his apron. In the background, the enclosure of Smithfield market (with street lamps against the fences) in which a group of men with sticks and dogs chase a runaway ox; the entrance to St Bartholomew's hospital and the distant dome of St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Enclosed in a delicate frame a sheep's fleece hanging between verses below; these allude to the butcher's manly strength and his wife's consequent faithfulness."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
Description:
Title etched within image., Originaly published ca. 1740 by George Bickham. See no. 2470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Two columns of verse below image: Old Aesop who in morals did surpass, wrapt in a lion's skin, produc'd an ass ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Market, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Butchers, Equipment, and Street lights
Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
"Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preferment of the barber's block
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
"Satire on Cardinal Fleury and French dejction at the success of Admiral Vernon, coupled with condemnation of Robert Walpole for his initial opposition to the war. Fleury, finely dressed in cardinal's robes, rises from a chair and teeters on the edge of a cliff, looking in alarm at a medallion with a laureated head lettered, "Admiral Vernon"; under his arm is a scroll, lettered, "His iron will geet ye better of my Gold./G[o]d, he'll take all our Aquisitions in America." July 1740. Behind Fleury is a wall covered in graffiti: a gallows from which hangs a fat man (Walpole) lettered, "No matter yt he is long than ye Gallow's"; a man with the head of a bird who pushes a wheelbarrow; a windmill; a donkey laden with a pack; the heady of an angry Spaniard with a bird on his hat; another Spaniard, whole-length, leaning on a stick, a dog biting the tail of his cloak and two birds flying around his head; in the middle of the wall is a circular opening through which can be seen "Poor Hosier's Fleet"; a cock lettered, "Crown'd twice", stands on the wall. A pole rises from the wall, bearing a severed head, lettering identifies this as "Wall/Pole"; a ribbon hangs from the mouth lettered, "What Pity is it we can die but Once to serve our Country/Ad. Cato." Behind the wall on the right, is an imposing building flying the union flag; three crowns rest on clouds, and lightning flashes in the sky. The scene is set in a rococo frame with verses below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Preferment of the barber's block
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Bickham the Younger by British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below title: --Age thou art sham'd! Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! ..., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
According to act, July 1740. Sold at [the] Black-moor's Head opposite Surry Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757, and Hosier, Francis, 1673-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748, Naval operations, Cardinals, Gallows, and National emblems
publish'd according to act of Parliament Septr. 1740.
Call Number:
740.09.00.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Danger and folly of going to law
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design is composed of a large rectangular image at top center of sheet and another image below it, both flanked by three small images in form of vignettes on each side., Central upper panel is a reissue of a plate published ca. 1733: Law is a bottomless pit. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1990., Verse inscribed below image: Two neighbors sought revenge: to law they went, thro' passions blind, spurr'd on by discontent ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Courtrooms, Law & legal affairs, and Judicial proceedings
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for two voices on three staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Opening words: Here's to thee my boy, my darling, my joy ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v.2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Plate 29. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 29. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an alcove on the right in an untidy garret, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes on a sheet with the title "Riches a Poem". In the center of the image his wife is seated as she mends a pair of breeches; at her feet a cat and her kittens are curled up on the man's coat. Under the sleeve of the coat on the floor is an issue of "Grubstreet Journall." She looks to the door on the left where she is confronted by a milkmaid who holds a lengthy tally; the daisies in her bonnet suggest Michaelmas day when bills are due; she also is shown with a yoke across her back. Just inside the doorway a dog snatches the single pork chop from a plate on a chair; the cupboard above the door stands open to show empty shelves. Behind the poet, a baby lies in a bed crying. Above the poet's head is a print 'A View of the Gold Mines of Peru." Above the mantel is a "dare for larks" -- a circular mirror surrounded by eight smaller circular mirrors
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Originally published in 1736 as: The Distressed Poet., "Price 3 shillings"--Following statement of responsibility., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.6 x 40.7 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm., and Leaf 29 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
