Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue for: The history of the Westminster election, with folds in the plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Signs: Sign-posts -- Allusion to George III.
Publisher:
Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Donkeys, Horses, and Political elections
On Tuesday next a grand spectacle will be exhibited by the managers ...
Description:
Caption title., Dated in lower left: Oct. 26, 1812., A mock theater advertisement satirizing the controversial election in Weymouth when Prince Ernest Augustus was accused of influencing the election result in favour of the Tories., First lines: In the course of this farce, will be presented to the public, a splended [sic] procession in the order following: Britannia veiled, mourning her lost freedom ..., and With contemporary manuscript notes on the blank verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
G. Kay, printer, adjoining the Guildhall, St. Edmund-Street, Weymouth
The stout, middle aged figure of Tommy Onslow drives an elegant high perch phaeton drawn by four spirited horses, in a cloud of dust, along the Rotten Row in Hyde Park. He wears a coachman's caped coat and top hat with a large whip in his hand. Two grooms follow behind and a coach drives past in the opposite direction
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st, 1801, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Leaf 46. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "3" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a companion print: What's! this my boy Tom., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Leaf 46. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "3" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a companion print: What's! this my boy Tom., Second of two plates on leaf 46., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Caption title., At head of title: King's-Lynn, 8th of April, 1767., An electioneering handbill issued before the King's Lynn election of 1767., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Two smartly dressed youths facing each other sit on a bench under a tree. A small spaniel sits by the youth on the right, who has a more delicate appearance and resembles a face seen before in caricatures. A large dog (a poodle?) stands in front of the other youth on the left, barking
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 26 x 30 cm. ; on verso: bled through: Gloria mu[?]
Publisher:
Pub'd May 30th 1786 by G. T. Stubbs, Peters Court, St. Martins Lane
Title from caption below image., Numbered '273' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: apple venders -- Wheelbarrows -- Architectural details: garden walls -- Young men -- Bludgeons.
Publisher:
Publish'd 26th Sept. 1791 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Manuscript fragment (4 leaves), on parchment, of the volume known as the "Whitby Psalter."
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous geometric line fillers in red, blue and burnished gold. Numerous small initials in blue with red penwork or burnished gold with blue penwork at the openings of verses. Three leaves contain four large initials in burnished gold and colors, three further decorated with a bird figure.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Psalters, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
