"Satire on Bute's alleged sale of public positions paralleled with Earl Talbot's introduction of economies into the royal household. An auction is taking place in a large kitchen where, in the centre, Talbot, Lord Steward of the Household, instructs the auctioneer's clerk at a table beneath the podium. On the left, three cooks, one a Frenchman planning to leave for Calais to work for "Monsr. Grandsire", are mocked by a Scot for not being able to make haggis; another cook brandishing a gridiron and two ladles stands in front of the fireplace in which stands only a cracked pot filled with thistles. On the right, a poor man plans to bid for "old rags or broken glass", and a stout middle-class woman plans to purchase a ladle to beat her husband, while Princess Augusta and Lord Bute converse intimately; the Princess points suggestively to a large pot resting with other utensils on the floor. In the background, a chaplain laments the lack both "of victuals and of grace"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catalogue of the kitchen furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction
Description:
Title etched above image., Questionable artist attribution to Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,1.48., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns below image: When Housekeeping fails which at present is true ..., "Price 6d"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on back.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Royal households, Accounting, Auctions, Cooks, and Kitchens
An accountant in spectacles shown half length sitting behind a desk as he studies the open on the table; another "Day Book" is propped up behind him on the right, beneath a stack of invoices on a spindle on a rail. On the wall behind a bird cage are posted two sheets: "Coals for distr[...] poor ..." and "Ship Argus ..." Also on the desk is an inkwell; the pen is poked behind his right ear
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Birdcages, Business people, and Offices
Master of Petrarch, active approximately 1515-approximately 1522, printmaker
Published / Created:
[after 1531]
Call Number:
Print01022
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Restrike date derived from original publication date., Place of publication supplied by curator., Originally published in M.T. Cicero, Officia, Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1531., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower left: Bloodletting., and In pencil lower right: H. Burgmair 1508. [Dubious attribution?]
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Phlebotomy, Accounting, Bowls (Tableware)., Coins, and Sick persons
