Drawing of six figures identified in pencil by former owner
Description:
Titles supplied by cataloger., Formerly attributed to George Vertue. See Christie's sale catalog., Originally drawn by John Rous. Horace Walpole had the drawings traced and then engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763, but recorded in the Description of SH, 1774, among the rare books of prints and drawings in the library.
An etching from a broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762), showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Title supplied from letterpress broadside. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Cf. No. 4009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of vers below image: Fools ne'er had less grace in a year for wise men are grown foppish ... Shakespeare., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., and The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image.
Publisher:
Published July 1828 by Moon, Boys, and Graves, 6 Pall Mall
Depicts two bearded figures in classical attire (possibly Tragedy and Comedy), the former leaning on a tomb while the latter gestures laughingly at a cracked and broken globe on which the countries of France, Canada and Great Britain are identified. A satyr (the Devil), stands holding his scythe before the globe, whence from the broken area of Great Britain emerges a procession of persons mounted on hobby horses, including royalty, clergy, and a man carrying a ship model and bags of money. Time flies above, lifting the curtain on the scene, while a putto with a bubble-pipe flies towards the globe. Within the bubble is a representation of Fortune. On the ground a monkey accosts an owl, while to the right an open scroll proclaims "Life is a jest," a possible reference to John Gay's Epitaph
Alternative Title:
Life is a jest
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
On the top of a hill, Lord Shelburne (William Petty) stands leaning against a gallows, his hands crossed at the wrists and eyes downcast. In front of him are Charles Fox and Lord North, their left hands joined. North's right hand reposes reassuringly on Fox's left shoulder. Fox points to Shelburne behind him with his right thumb. All three have beards characterizing them as Jews. The text below the design reads, "And Herod and Pilate were made Friends together that same Day; for before they were Enemies one to another. Luke. Cap 23, Ver 12."
Alternative Title:
And Herod and Pilate were made friends together that same day
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1783, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Gallows, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Full-length depictions of a man in seventeenth-century dress, a feather in his hat, a sword at his side, holding a cane. The view of him from the back is drawn to the left of a wood-engraved image of Thomas Coryat's shoes, while the view of him from the front is drawn to the right. The Latin phrase "ad mortum est libi" is written in ink above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attribution to J.H. Shorthouse based on his ownership of the book and the presence of his initials "J.H.S" beneath the drawn frontispiece in the same volume., Date of production from local card catalog record., For the wood engraving on the same page as this drawing, see no. 78 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Drawn on page opposite signature l3 in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following the coffin, a crowd of onlookers behind, one man clinging to a pillar to see above the others
Description:
Title from original print as described in Paulson., Receipt text below image: You are desired to accompany [the] corps of [blank] from h[his/her] late dwelling in [blank] to [blank] on [blank] next at [blank] of the clock in the evening. Perform'd by Humphrey Drew, undertaker, in King-Street, Westminster., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., llustration for: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London, 1794., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Copy. Note at top of print: From S. Ireland's Hogarth illustrated,, and On page 46 in volume 1.
Publisher:
J. Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
"Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following the coffin, a crowd of onlookers behind, one man clinging to a pillar to see above the others"--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson., Receipt text below image: You are desired to accompany [the] corps of [blank] from h[his/her] late dwelling in [blank] to [blank] on [blank] next at [blank] of the clock in the evening. Perform'd by Humphrey Drew, undertaker, in King-Street, Westminster., This impression has been cut, with loss of receipt area., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Original. Note on mount below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. P. 419 / Sold at Mr. Gulston's auction for £5.7.6., and On page 46 in volume 1. Plate mounted on sheet: 15.3 x 20.5 cm.
Publisher:
Humphrey Drew
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
Full length portrait of Burgoyne as M.P. for Preston. He wears military dress and is turning toward the left, his hat in the left hand, his right extended and holding a paper
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XV" in upper left corner., 1 print : etching with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 4 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: General Burgoyne.
