Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top resulting in partial loss of title., Following imprint: Price 6d., Four columns of verse below image: Behold corruption openly profest , the Venal Lawyer ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: anchor -- Paintings amplifying subject: portrait of Edward II -- Reference to William Allen, d. 1768 -- Mythology: alllusion to King Midas -- Personifications: Equity -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Emblems: sword of Justice -- Emblems: shield of integrity., Mounted to 33 x 47 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, and King's Bench Prison (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Embelms, Demons, National emblems, English, Scottish, Pulpits, and Thrones
Title from item., Publisher from an unverified card catalog record., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Covent Garden Theatre -- Interiors: Covent Garden Theatre -- Reference to theater patents --Personifications: Fame -- Comedy -- Tragedy -- Justice -- Fire buckets -- Defecation -- Thomas Harris, d. 1820 -- John Rutherford, fl. 1768 -- Mrs. Lessingham, fl. 1768 -- Mrs. Yates (Mary Ann Graham), 1728-1787., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet St.
Subject (Name):
Powell, William, 1735-1769, Colman, George, 1732-1794, Woodward, Henry, 1714-1777, Bellamy, George Anne, 1731?-1788, and Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in Stephens: July 1768., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 78., and Temporary local subject terms: Tolls: toll bar -- Tolls keeper -- Riots: St. George's Fields, May 10, 1767-- Toll tickets -- Maclaughlin, fl. 1768 -- Reference to Willilam Allen, d. 1768 -- Reference to Lord Bute.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804 and Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below image: The second part will be published as soon as possible of the anonymous lettr. writer & seven memrs [sic] running away with the books of the Society of Painters from a majority of seventeen ..., Temporary local subject terms: Societies: Free Society of Artists -- Incorporated Society of Artists -- Academies: founding of the Royal Academy of Arts -- Devil -- Furnishings: hooks -- Wine bottles and glasses -- Lighting: candles., Mounted to 34 x 45 cm., and Watermark.
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: -- yet be not sad, good brothers / For to speak the truth it very well becomes you. Shakespeare., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.66., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: truck -- Pcitures amplifying subject -- Ministries: Grafton Administration -- Male dress: waistcoats -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence -- Punishment: birch rod -- Edward Bright, 1721-1750., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, De Grey, William, Baron Walsingham, 1719-1781, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Willes, Edward, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. John Bowles began operating out of No. 13 Cornhill in 1768; see British Museum online catalogue., Copy in reverse of a print originally published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1860 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: While thus the revelling debauchee, Dandles his mistrees on his knee, Th'old bawd is reckoning up the score, Of all that has been spent and more ..., Plate numbered '1' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Tavern -- Trades: Tavern-keepers -- Tallies: Tavern-keeper's score board -- Magistrates -- Furniture: Bed with curtains -- Pets -- Containers: Jug -- Glass: Wine bottles.
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Prostitutes, Military uniforms, Judges, Watchmen, Canopy beds, Birdcages, Doves, Wine, and Bottles
Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title from item., Title, pintmaker, and imprint from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Proof before letters, without inscriptions on the flags or on the sash of the figure holding horse's reins, and without "Warwick Lane" plaque on the corner building., Earlier state of No. 4174 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: College of Physicians -- London: Warwick Lane -- Medical: doctors -- Farriers -- Tooth pullers (blacksmiths)., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.; Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet., and Title and imprint added in ink at bottom of plate below image and inscriptions on flags added in pencil; added by an unknown hand.
