"The Prince of Wales stands outside the gate of Carlton House, turning away and covering his eyes to avoid seeing the scaffolding which is being pulled down by Pitt, Richmond, and Dundas, who strain at ropes. A long cloak hangs from his shoulders and he holds a coronet decorated with three feathers. Thurlow with a broom and Dundas with a whip chase away a terrified crowd of artisans (left) who have been employed at Carlton House. Beside the Prince stand his friends, who look towards a rising sun appearing over the roof of Carlton House; m the disk stands Liberty, beckoning to them. Fox holds out a roll inscribed 'Magna Chart[a]'; Burke stands with his hand on North's shoulder; Sheridan holds the 'Bill of Rights'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince in clover., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Pitt's attitude toward Prince's debts -- Artisans expelled -- Figure of Liberty -- Carlton House -- Magna Carta -- Bill of Rights., and Printed on bottom half of same sheet is companion print "The prince in clover", assigned the second call number: 787.06.02.02 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
"The Prince stands outside the gate of Carlton House as in BMSat 7167, but receives in a lordly manner two purses from two obsequiously bowing Treasury Secretaries (Rose and Steele). He is dressed as in BMSat 7167, but wears his coronet. Pitt, Sydney, and Dundas kneel in a grovelling manner behind the Prince, whose posteriors Pitt is about to kiss. Fox, North, Burke, and Sheridan stand behind, with gestures and expressions of pleased surprise. A tiny figure, the Duke of Richmond, is at work with a trowel on the replaced scaffolding (right), while Thurlow mounts a ladder carrying a hod. On the left a crowd of workmen wave their hats and tools in delight. In the foreground (left) sits a one-legged and one-armed sailor clasping a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince at grass., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Payment of Prince's debts -- Carlton House., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 12.7 x 18.9 cm., and Window mounted to 14 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Rose, George, 1744-1818
"The Prince stands outside the gate of Carlton House as in BMSat 7167, but receives in a lordly manner two purses from two obsequiously bowing Treasury Secretaries (Rose and Steele). He is dressed as in BMSat 7167, but wears his coronet. Pitt, Sydney, and Dundas kneel in a grovelling manner behind the Prince, whose posteriors Pitt is about to kiss. Fox, North, Burke, and Sheridan stand behind, with gestures and expressions of pleased surprise. A tiny figure, the Duke of Richmond, is at work with a trowel on the replaced scaffolding (right), while Thurlow mounts a ladder carrying a hod. On the left a crowd of workmen wave their hats and tools in delight. In the foreground (left) sits a one-legged and one-armed sailor clasping a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Etched on one plate with companion print: The prince at grass., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Payment of Prince's debts -- Carlton House., and Printed on top half of same sheet is companion print "The prince at grass", assigned the second call number: 787.06.02.01 Impression 1.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800, Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Rose, George, 1744-1818
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attributed to Kingsbury in British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Swine -- Prince of Wales's debts -- Bible: Prodigal son, Luke 11:32
Publisher:
Pub'd Jany. 18, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A strip design of a sequence of eighteen figures, all men. Their gestures and expressions denote pleasure, surprise, or horror (real or affected). Over the head of each person the words he speaks are engraved. The first (left) runs forward in profile to the right, 'chapeau bras', both arms extended, exclaiming "Tis true". The next, looking away gloomily, says, "Tis Pity". A man, with a pleased smile, says "As tender as possible". His neighbour says "Dont mention it", to a man who says "Poo, Poo". The next, clenching his fist, says angrily, "God Zounds hold - your Tongue", addressing a foppish man who capers delightedly, saying "Ha Ha". The next, with a shocked (but pleased) expression says "O La !" to a man who answers, "Dear me you dont say so?" A stout man yawns "Heigh ho". A lean one says "O Fye". The next couple, addressing each other, say "Indeed!" and "There now". The next, highly pleased, says "I thought so" to an angry man who exclaims "The Devil!" A lean austere man, raising a hand, says "No sure". A foppish man, 'chapeau bras', bowing with his hand on his heart, says, "Depend upon it". The last, horrified, exclaims "O Lord! O Lord!"."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image on second plate., Reissue, with different imprint statement, of a print originally published 29 December 1787 by W. Dickinson. Cf. No. 7230 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Imprint continues: ... where may be had all Mr. Bunbury's & Rowlandson's works., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text below title., and Sheets joined and mounted on secondary support, rolled.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Communication, Faces, Mental states, and Rumor
Volume 2, page 65. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A strip design of a sequence of eighteen figures, all men. Their gestures and expressions denote pleasure, surprise, or horror (real or affected). Over the head of each person the words he speaks are engraved. The first (left) runs forward in profile to the right, 'chapeau bras', both arms extended, exclaiming "Tis true". The next, looking away gloomily, says, "Tis Pity". A man, with a pleased smile, says "As tender as possible". His neighbour says "Dont mention it", to a man who says "Poo, Poo". The next, clenching his fist, says angrily, "God Zounds hold - your Tongue", addressing a foppish man who capers delightedly, saying "Ha Ha". The next, with a shocked (but pleased) expression says "O La !" to a man who answers, "Dear me you dont say so?" A stout man yawns "Heigh ho". A lean one says "O Fye". The next couple, addressing each other, say "Indeed!" and "There now". The next, highly pleased, says "I thought so" to an angry man who exclaims "The Devil!" A lean austere man, raising a hand, says "No sure". A foppish man, 'chapeau bras', bowing with his hand on his heart, says, "Depend upon it". The last, horrified, exclaims "O Lord! O Lord!"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image on second plate., A single design on three plates., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., "From an original drawing by H. Bunbury Esqr. in the possession of John Hayne Esqr., Bath.", and Mounted on page 65 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Decr. 29th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Communication, Faces, Mental states, and Rumor
A clergyman baptizes a child who is submerged in a punch bowl, as his parents and another couple look on. Also on the table are two full glasses of punch
Description:
Title engraved on banner in the image., Twelve verses engraved in two columns below image, beginning: Come listen awhile, I will make you to smile, With a story that's certainly true ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Numbered in ms. top left: 16.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 16, 1787 by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description in the British Museum catalogue of a later state., Early state with variant title, with the central figure bearing the Duke of Brunswick's head instead of that of William of Orange, and with the sabre lacking an inscription. Cf. No. 7181 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in lower left corner, with partial loss of imprint; remainder of imprint mostly erased from sheet. Imprint from the impression at the Beinecke Library.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, 1735-1806, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790
"John Palmer (left), striding across a miniature circular tower surrounded by a moat, falls back under the attacks of two men on the other side of the moat. He wears pseudo-Elizabethan dress, with a cloak; his feathered hat falls off. On his arm, in place of a shield, is a document inscribed 'Licence . . . Wild-moat'; he drops from his right hand a paper inscribed 'Tower Privilege'. Cornwallis, saying, "I am down again". Miniature cannon are firing from the tower. Facing him, one foot on an upturned tub inscribed 'For the Use of Cov: Gar. Wardrobe', is a man wearing nightcap, dressing-gown, and slippers, with an apron, who is about to hurl a bar inscribed 'Castile Soap', saying, "I am a Gentleman, you Vagabond"; on his left arm, in place of a shield, is a paper inscribed 'An Act for regulating the Stage'. He is probably George Colman. Beside him, his left arm in a sling, a young man (? Colman the younger) discharges at Palmer a blast from a pistol inscribed 'Breach of Articles'. Three spectators stand close together on the right, saying, "Mr Palmer, we must oppose: we told you so at Christmas!" They are Sheridan and probably his partners, Linley and Dr. Ford. In the background (right) is a building inscribed 'Circus', in front of which a man stands on one toe on the back of a galloping horse, while a monkey stands on its head on the back of a pig; the pig's saddle is inscribed 'Jacko'; from its mouth issues 'ABC', representing Astley's, General Jacko, and the Learned Pig (see BMSat 6715, &c); a scroll issuing in a curve from Astley and Jacko is inscribed 'We shall all Play'. In the moat are frogs and the bodies of two tiny women, Tragedy and Comedy, one holding a cup and dagger, the other a mask."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Series title etched in upper right corner of plate. For another print in the series, see No. 7171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Pseudo-Elizabethan -- Male costume: night clothes -- Unlicensed theatres: Royalty Theatre -- Allusion to Covent Garden -- Learned pigs -- Castile soap -- Lighting: rushlights -- Slings -- Body of Tragedy -- Body of Comedy -- Moats -- Guns: Pistols -- Miniature cannons -- Stage properties: tub -- Horace Walpole refers to print -- Towers -- Circuses: Astley's Circus -- Performing monkies: General Jacko.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Palmer, John, 1742?-1798, Astley, Philip, 1742-1814., Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805., Colman, George, 1732-1794, Colman, George, 1762-1836, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Linley, Thomas, 1733-1795, and Ford, Edward, 1746-1809
