Title from item., The text of the song, in eight verses, is printed in letterpress below the plate., Three lines of text below the song: This song is dedicated to those prices of Puffs (i.e., Graham and Katerfelto) ... by their most humble servant Livy Puff Junr., Temporary local subject terms: Grotesqueries -- Allusion to James Graham, 1745-1794 -- Allusion to Gustavus Katerfelto, fl. 1782-3., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Published by J. Mills, April 9, and to be had at No. 51 Bond Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Elizabeth Conyngham, an illegitimate daughter of Henry, 1st Earl Conyngham, and Bamber Gascoyne, Lord of Admiralty and Commissioner for Trade
Alternative Title:
Miss Conyngham and Bon vivant
Description:
Title from item. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1783, p. 625.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress Sarah Maria Wilson and Viscount Hinchingbrooke, later 5th Earl of Sandwich
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Wilson and Generous gallant
Description:
Title from item. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1783 p. 9.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, 5th Earl of, 1744-1814. and Wilson, Sarah Maria, c.1752-1786?
Full face mask combined from faces of Charles Fox on the left and Lord North on the right. Fox's dark hair, squinted eye and self-assured smile are countered by North's powdered wig, puzzled frown and straight mouth. Inscribed above, "Fronti nulla fides."
Alternative Title:
Fronti nulla fides
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and "Although lettered 'H Bretherton', no such person is known, and it must be an error for James or possibly Charles."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Published 21st May 1783 by H. [sic] Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Maria Bayntun and Captain John Allen Cooper, nephew of her husband, Sir Andrew Bayntun Rolt
Alternative Title:
Lady Bayntun and Irresistible captain
Description:
Title from item., From the "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1783, p.233., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bayntun, Mary Alicia, 1754-1784. and Cooper, John Allen.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Elizabeth Hankey and Lt.-Col. Turner Straubenzee. Their elopment to Dorking occasioned a criminal conversation suit by John Hankey
Alternative Title:
Mrs. Hankey and Dorking hero
Description:
Title from item. and From the "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1783, p. 389 [i.e., 289].
At one end of a long table, a cleric with crossed eyes and mortar board drinks tea. He appears to be suspended in the air (the chair is not drawn) and leans with his elbow on the Morning Herald on the table. At the other end, a yawning academic in an unbuttoned coat under his robe, is doing up his stockings. His loose garter draws the attention of a playful cat while a dog watches him impatiently. Next to him on the table is an open volume of Euclid's Elements. The maid standing behind the table looks at the cleric on the left and pours hot water on the floor missing the teacup. Above the fireplace hang two muskets and three silhouette portraits of women. The bookshelves on the right display works of English authors and philosophers; on the left hangs a painting of a reposing nude and a satyr
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 21st, 1783 by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London
Charles Fox, dressed as an Oriental prince, rides on top of an elephant depicted with Lord North's anxious-looking face. On his side to the left is a banner with "king of kings" written in Greek and "The man of the people" in English but crossed out to make it illegible. The elephant is led by Burke dressed in the Oriental fashion and blowing a trumpet. From the trumpet is suspended a fringed map of Bengal
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Text following printmaker's signature: Plate 2d.
Publisher:
Published 5th Decr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Princes, Standards (Identifying artifacts), Elephants, Trumpets, and Clothing & dress
An incubus squatting on a sleeping woman, her head and arms falling over the side of the bed at right, with a wild horse behind curtains in the background and a small table with jug and pots beside the bed at left; after the painting by Fuseli (Schiff 757).
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Later state with scratched letters, including the title, a quotation from Ermasus Darwin's 'Botanical Garden' "on his Night-Mare, thro the evening fog, Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog, Seeks some love-wilder'd maid, by sleep opprest, Alights, and grinning, sits upon her breast", and 'Painted by H.Fusely. Engraved by T. Burke. London Publish'd Jany. 30th 1783 by J.R.Smith, No.83 Oxford Street'. From the impression in the British Museum.
"Garrick standing on the right, declaiming in front of a full-length statue of Shakespeare surrounded by characters from the plays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text inscribed within image: "Shakespeare"., Text inscribed within cartouche below image: "Can British gratitude delay ... We ne'er shall look upon his like again ... See Garrick's Ode to Shakespeare.", Dedication on either side of cartouche: "To Mrs. Montagu, this plate is most respectfully inscribed.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to sheet 711 x 559 mm.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1783 by R.E. Pine, Albemarle Street
"A young woman standing at an altar where incense is burning, holding a chalice in her left hand, gesturing and looking up to left, in a landscape with a temple on a hill to right, in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue., Publication information from impression in the British Museum with imprint. See British Museum online cat., registration number: 1868,0808.2810., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs Octr. 1st. 1783, by A. Torre, No. 44 Market Lane
