Smoke the boot! A political, satirical and hieroglyphical Scotch dialogue
Description:
Title from item., Imprint, publication date and price from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint and price., "Price 6d.", An engraved letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: Bute by a boot, 'saw' in 'Sawney' by a hand saw, 'son' in 'McPharson' by sun, Jockey by a figure of a jockey, 'Cloud' in 'McCloud' by clouds., Temporary local subject terms: Sawney McPharson -- Jockey McCloud -- Jockies -- Battles: allusion to Cape Breton -- Battles: allusion to Preston Pans -- Battles: allusion to Quebec -- Battles: allusion to Falkirk -- Allusion to Jacobites -- Rebellions: allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745 -- Literature: Sawney and Jockey in The prophecy of famine by Charles Churchill -- Allusion to Charles Edward Stuart, 1720-1788 -- Allusion to George III -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 27 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Phillips at Vandyke's Head in Portugal Street near Lincolns Inn
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Haymarket -- Alcohol: reference to gin -- Devil -- Nicknames: Squintum (George Whitefield)., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Titles from images., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "5"., With: Angular carrics / MDarly invt. 1762. Numbered: '6'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Title from caption etched below image., Title, verse, and imprint in the form of a rebus., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The following words in the title are represented by a images: Lord Bute as a boot, city by a panorama of London with a view of St. Paul's dome, bridge by an image of a bridge, hole by a black circle with uneven edges., Two columns of verse below title: Ye lards & ye gents t[hat] far nor[ward] do d[well] attend [to] my c[all] & I'll serve you [all] [well] ..., Watermark: fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 36 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Sold in May's [buildings], Covent [Garden] [that is, George Bickham]
Title etched above image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Behold a scene of real nat'ral life, a wretched author with a scolding wife ..., See: The Wonderful Magazine, v. 1, page 338., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Poverty -- Printers' devils -- Furniture -- Maps: wall map.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before1762]
Call Number:
760.00.00.88+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tall, elegantly dressed elderly gentleman stands in center of a room looking with disgust over his left shoulder at large round tripod table on which lies a crying infant in a straw basket. He holds a raised cane in his right hand and a tricorne hat under his right arm. From his left side hangs a tasselled sword. The baby's basket has a ribbon inscribed 'To Simon Spindleshanks, Esq.' Behind his master, to the left, stands a grinning manservant who is showing delight in what he has brought about. In the background are beautifully panelled walls hung with two paintings which amplify the subject of the print. The one on the left depicts a violent storm; in the one on the right Delilah with Samson asleep at her knee, beckons soldiers to enter the room
Alternative Title:
Plague of a single state, Enraged batchelor, and Enraged bachelor
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from John Smith's address at Cheapside., Two columns of verse below image: Batter'd, deseas'd, and past his youthfull pranks, lo here a bantling, laid to Spindleshanks ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Two columns of verse on either side of title: What signifies the food a doit? So it allays the appetite ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Slang: 'a knowing one' -- Slang: 'coal' (money) -- Food: oysters -- Dishes: tankard -- Beverages: beer -- Wine -- Pickpocketing.
A copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of a young woman selling oranges and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another young woman selling oranges reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; on the lower edge, three musicians are protected from the audience by a row of spikes
Description:
Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Copy after no. 130 in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.).
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, and Theaters
A copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of a young woman selling oranges and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another young woman selling oranges reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; on the lower edge, three musicians are protected from the audience by a row of spikes
Description:
Title engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Copy after no. 130 in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and 1 print : mezzotint with etching on laid paper ; plate mark 154 x 155 mm, on sheet 218 x 144 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Food vendors, Laughter, Orchestras, Snuff, Theater audiences, and Theaters
Satire on the excesses of certain Freemasons: a procession of masons emerge from a public house headed by elaborately dressed men described as the emperor of China, Confucius and two mandarins; an old woman sits on a ladder balanced on the back of a donkey and a mason, identified as such by his apron and gloves, stretches between the rungs of the ladder to kiss her bare backside; Don Quixote, in full armour and wearing a masonic apron and gloves, holds up his shield behind the donkey; in the foreground, to left, a man playing the bladder and string, in the centre, a dancing monkey with apron and gloves, and, to right, a butcher laughing at the scene while Sancho Panza gasps in surprise
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson. Paulson and British Museum catalogue date the print as 1742, but Sayer did not move to 53 Fleet Street until 1760. See British Museum online catalogue., Below the image, far left of the title, mock key identifying the leading figures, followed by twelve lines of verse beginning, "From Eastern climes, transplanted to our coasts ..."., Below the image, far right of the title, mock description: "Done from [the] original painted at Pekin by Matachauter, grav'd by Ho-ge and sold by [the] printsellers of London, Paris & Rome.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 246 x 351 mm with loss of imprint signature; mounted onto an engraved map (with color) of Ireland (285 x 395 mm).
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street