Hieroglyphical epistle from a certain wooden peer at Paris to the Laird of the Posts at Whitehall
Description:
Title from item., An engraved letter in form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'wood' in 'wooden' by a group of trees, pier by an image of a pier, to by a toe, posts by two stone posts, 'all' in 'Whitehall' by an awl., and Temporary local subject terms: Coffee-houses: The Cocoa Tree Coffee House.
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 15, 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.15.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Lord Bute's mission to Paris to arrange peace with France, disputed by two patrons of the fictitious "Bedford Coffee-House"; with an etching showing the interior of a coffee-house, two gentlemen seated at a table, on the table various newspapers and a tray with a hot chocolate pot, one gentleman pouring liquid from the cup into the saucer; with engraved inscriptions, speech bubbles, and with letterpress title and verses in two columns, and with one vertical segment of type ornament"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress broadside song, illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 155 x 200 mm)., A song with nine stanzas in two columns separated with decorative border: Good people attend (if you can but spare time), to a grumblig poet, who grumbles in rhyme ..., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Tringham, engraver in Castle Alley, Royal Exchange, and at the print shop under St. Dunstan's Church ; and by all the print and pamphlet shops
publish'd according to act of Parliament [after 1763?]
Call Number:
762.09.15.01.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched above image., Cf. No. 3900 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Coffee houses: Bedford Coffee House -- Architectural details: Palladian windows -- Newspapers: The Briton, The Gazeteer, The Ledger, The Monitor -- Dishes: coffee service., Mounted to 32 x 45 cm., and Watermark.
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two images side by side., Four lines of verse below each image: Here see the several council met to give up what we all regret ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the capture of Havanna -- Witches., and Watermark:Fleur-de-lys.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808, Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Needs must when the de'el drive and Needs must when the devil drive
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., First published by J. Williams in Sept. 1762. Cf. No. 3898 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of the British Empire., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Hannell, printseller under the Royal Exchange
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Carriages & coaches
Satire on Hogarth's plate of 'The Times', attacking him as an apologist for Lord Bute, showing the gatehouse of St. James's Palace
Alternative Title:
Butifyer
Description:
Title etched above image., Attributed to Paul Sandby. See British Museum catalogue., "With what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged. Matt. Chap. 7.2"--Centered immediately below image., "Mr. Hogarth, In justice to [blank space] the engraver of this plate: declares to the publick, he took the hint of the B**utifyer, from a print of Mr. Pope White washing Lord Burlingtons Gate, at the same time bespatring the rest of the nobility.", "Price 1s"--Lower right edge., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Newcastle, Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, Duke of, 1720-1794., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
publish according to act of Parliament, Sepr. 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.23.02 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg, John Bull and his sister Peg, and Sawney Mackenzie's compliments to all the Southerns
Description:
Title from caption etched above image. Subtitle from caption below image., Following imprint: pr. 6d., Four stanzas of verse in two columns below title: Each fat lugged loon which dwell [sic] in this town, I beg ye'll give up your dominions ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Apes -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Trades: cobbler -- Animals: goose -- Scots.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy, without verse, of No. 3904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Scots., and Window mounted to 25 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers
Satire on Hogarth, shown as a devil fanning the fire at the mouth of hell
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two columns of verse below image, beginning with title: The fly machine for Scotland performd if God permit by Briton. Places taken at the sign of the Treasury. --heep coals of fire on his head and the Lord with reward thee ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mouth of Hell --Engraving tool -- Brooms -- Newspapers: The Auditor ; The Briton -- Slang: coal, i.e., money., and Window mounted to 39 x 28 cm., mounted again to 44 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Howard, H. (Henry)
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Bellows, Demons, Devil, Hell, and Slang
