"John Bull (right), a fat citizen wearing spectacles, holds aside a curtain, revealing Napoleon and Joséphine enthroned, side by side. He stands in profile to the left, a large pistol under his left arm, his left hand in his coat-pocket. He says: "Boney - Boney, that wont do - You must not Play my King & Queen." Napoleon, wearing a huge bicorne, a drawn sabre in his right hand, frowns at John. Joséphine wears a crown, holds sceptre and orb and looks complacently to the left. Both sit with right foot planted regally on a stool, and left leg arrogantly thrust forward."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Johnny Bull on the lookout and Bonaparte detected drilling his rib at the play of King & Queen of England
Description:
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered "314" in lower left corner., and On verso in brown ink is the collector's stamp of Nick Knowles: A pair of crossed skis.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 12, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Draperies, Handguns, Thrones, Daggers & swords, Crowns, Scepters, and Stools
Johnson, Thomas, active approximately 1763-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1760 and 1780]
Call Number:
Portraits St896 no. 1++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1857); half-length to front, head turned in three-quarter profile to right, wearing a string of pearls in her hair, with a plait hanging over her left shoulder; a fur-trimmed cloak over her left arm"--British Museum online catalogue. Also with pearl choker at her neck and brooch and sleeves of her dress also decorated with pearls
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Boerner catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1867,0416.624., Lady Anne Campbell was born approximately 1715 and died in 1785. She was the wife of the 2nd Earl of Stafford., Not in Chaloner Smith., Mounted to 61 x 49 cm., and Collector's stamp in ink below printmaker's signature.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Strafford, Ann Campbell Wentworth, Lady, approximately 1715-1785,
Title from caption below image., Publication date from Minto Wilson's note a mat (removed)., Nine lines of text in two columns below image: Pie six par l'operation du belle esprit nayant pu obtenir de Joseph II ..., Two lines of caption above image: Un des artificers de monte Cavallo ayant laissé tomber ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
"Pitt (left) and St. Patrick (right) bestride bulls whose horns are locked in combat, their noses pressed together; the bulls are similar, but the Irish animal is sturdier, its head heavier, its tail erect. Pitt wears armour with a plumed helmet and a cloak. He holds a baton and says: "Never fear St Patrick all will be yet very well they are a little restive at first but they will take to it, kindly enough bye and bye - I'll warrant you." St. Patrick, wearing a tiara and holding a crozier, says: "Pon my Conscience I don't know what you call it but the duece of any thing like an Union do I see except their horns being fastened together". Pitt's cloak and St. Patrick's robe fly out, as if the two had been riding rapidly towards their impact."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Library ink stamp in inscription area: Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square M.E. [i.e. Mile End].
Publisher:
Publish'd Janry. 1801 by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?
"Mr. and Mrs. Bull are in their breakfast parlour; she sits beside a table on which is a tray with coffee-pot, &c, he stands booted and spurred, impatient to set off. Through an open doorway (right) a groom is seen holding a saddle-horse. Behind are the houses of a London street. Mrs. Bull reads with dismay the '[M]orning Post'; she cries: "Here Mr Bull here's the Speech of that fellow on the Corn Bill - You must stop and hear this - The Price of Corn is yet Far Below the Price which is universally allowed to be Necessary!!!! why we shall all be starved Mr Bull." He shouts, with outstretched arms: "D------n the Corn Bill! I have not time to think of any thing till the Election is over. - why Liberty and Independence is at stak [sic] - What is Starving to that Mrs Bull!" Both are very fat, and evidently prosperous."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Corn bill, or, John Bull and his hobby, Iohn Bull and his hobby, and John Bull and his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening"--Below image, lower right., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Counter watermark in center of sheet: A.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 20th, 1804, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Corn laws (Great Britain), Breakfast rooms, Coffeepots, Doors & doorways, Newspapers, and Obesity
"Achtundvierzigstes Buch der Rupprecht-Presse zu München... in einer Auflage von 150 numerierten Abzügen mit der Hand auf Zanders-Bütten gedruckt"--Colophon., Issued in case., and No. 89. Undeciphered stamp. Shelf mark: Abt. viiG, No. 8499. Author's autograph. From the library of Silvio Rizzi.
Publisher:
Rupprecht-Presse,
Subject (Name):
Rizzi, Silvio--Ownership and Ullmann, Regina,--b.1884--Autograph
A couple dance in the middle of the floor of a tavern
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Publisher's stamp in lower right corner of plate: RA., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dance, Dogs, Eating& drinking, and Taverns (Inns)
Portrait bust, in profile to left, in a medallion with a laurel frame inscribed "Comm. G.F. Handel MDCCLXXXIV"; attached underneath, another medallion with a text inside "Sub ausp. G. III"; a young female angel, standing in profile to right, holding the first medallion with ribbons; in an oval with a palm leaves border; after E.F. Burney
Description:
Title, date of imprint, and plate number from impression in British Museum online catalogue., Upper right corner: "Pl. 1"., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: With a large ownership [?] stamp in lower left corner, a sphinx with a shield., Imperfect impression: trimmed to 19 x 15 cm with loss of imprint and plate number., and On verso in pencil: A. Ab. 310.
Title devised by curator., Inscriptions: Scale drawn in below image., Artist's name, possibly in his hand, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Archtitect 1767., Inscription on verso, unidentified hand: H Walpole Esq., Two ownership stamps in red, one on recto and the other on the verso: Initials "A.C." in a rectangle., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
