"An obese and gouty parson (left) reclines in an arm-chair, inspecting through an eye-glass a sucking-pig which a buxom maidservant brings in on a dish. She shows it to the clerk, who sits beside the parson, with a paper: 'An Estimate of the Tythes of this Parish'. The latter sniffs at the pig's snout. Two dogs eagerly fawn on the maid. Through the doorway (right) a lean yokel sourly scratches his head, waiting for the verdict on his pig. The parson's swathed leg is supported on a stool; beside him are a bottle and glass, a crutch and chamber-pot. On the wall is a picture of a group of church spires, suggesting that he is a pluralist, though the room is bare and old-fashioned."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., For an earlier version of this design, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 786.00.00.06+., and Temporary local subject terms: Tighe pig -- Gout -- Wine bottles -- Wine glasses -- Pictures amplifying subject.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Clerks, Crutches, Dogs, Farmers -, Interiors, Religious dwellings, Servants, and Swine
"An elaborate composition, divided by the arc of a rainbow which supports a woman who stands at a large dark canvas daubing at a goblin-like bearded figure intended for Titian. She holds a palette and brushes, but her paints are mixed together in an earthenware pot like those used by house - or sign-painters (as in BMSat 7770); this stands on the rainbow at her feet; an ass with the wings of Pegasus kneels to drink greedily from it. His wings are covered with words: 'Review', 'Magazines', 'Advertis[er]', 'Squib', 'Herald', 'Times', 'True Briton', 'Puff' [repeated many times], 'World', 'Morning Chronicle', 'Evening Post', 'Star', 'Sham Abuse', 'Squibbs', 'Oracle', 'Courier'. Above the canvas, and at the apex of the design, is an eagle surrounded with flames, and the centre of rays which illuminate black clouds in the upper part of the print; in its claws is a scroll: 'Venetian. Manuscript'. The artist is poised on high-heeled shoes, her quilted petticoat is ragged, but from her waist hangs a vast train which drapes the rainbow and terminates in peacock's feathers. This is held up by three naked Graces. Along the rainbow is etched: 'redeunt Titianica regna, jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto'. Part of a reflected rainbow issues from the painting on the canvas, with a fainter version of the inscription '. . . va pro[gen]ies . . . demittitur alto', letters being concealed by the hair of the artist and by a flamboyant winged figure seated on the rainbow; he blows his trumpet, from which issue the words: 'You little Stars, hide your diminish'd Head[s].' These words terminate in thick clouds from which five stars fall like meteors, leaving trails inscribed: 'Rubens', 'Correggio', 'Michael Angelo', 'Raphael', 'Parmegiano'. Beneath the rainbow is a paved floor. In the foreground (left) the head and shoulders of (the ghost of) Sir Joshua Reynolds emerge, pushing up one of the stones; he is draped in a shroud, but wears spectacles; in his right hand is his ear-trumpet, his left is raised admonishingly ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Seven-wise-men consulting the new Venetian oracle
Description:
Title etched below image., Text above image: Ah! ha! Ah! ha! Messrs. Van-Butchell! Ireland! Charles! Lane & Lackington! What are you now? ah! ha! ah! ha! ha! ha! ha!!!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 72 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 2d, 1797, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"Thurlow, in his Chancellor's wig and gown, kicks with much vigour the back of a bishop whom he urges along a road in the direction of a signpost (right) pointing 'To Durham' (the only title of the print). The bishop wears a mitre, a gown, and extravagantly large lawn sleeves; his left hand is raised deprecatingly, his right is behind his back as if to ward off the Chancellor's kick. Thurlow's arms are raised above his head; in his right hand is his hat. In the background (left) is a cathedral; a devil flying over it indicates that it is Lincoln. Beneath the design is engraved a dialogue between the two brothers: 'Græcari Nescio - Apage Thomas, Græcari non est Græci Loqui, sed est Epulari, Saturari, Expleri, Satiari, Helluari - Epulas quadrifariam vel Centifariam dispertire - In Capite, fortunisque hominum Te longe longeque honestiorum dominari - Ohe! Græcus Sum - Salve Græcule frater fraterrime - '."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Graecari nescio
Description:
Title derived from signpost in the top right of image. See British Museum catalogue., Questionable attribution to J. Baldrey from the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Horace Walpole's copy of this print is in NYPL -- Clergy: Bishop -- Signposts -- Lincoln Cathedral -- Devils -- Kicks -- Mitres -- Lord Chancellor's wig and gown., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1, 1788 by I. Baldrey, No. 19 Holborn
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 and Thurlow, Thomas, 1737-1791
"Dedication sheet 'To the Queen' from the singer Harriet Abrams; three cherubs sitting facing right, singing, on clouds which curve up and support a lyre and laurel above them, below a crown in rays of light; for an unidentified publication."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image. and Print possibly designed as the frontispiece or title page for a musical work dedicated to Queen Charlotte. See Wright.
"He has lost his stirrups and leans back; his body and the taut reins bisect the dotted circle horizontally. Two other riders are in difficulties. St. Paul's on the left."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; series title etched above image., Date of publication from Grego., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Another version, reversed, of BMSat 8132. Paine (right) lies as before, but his legs and feet, which were hidden by straw and by cloud, project from under his coat, and the crisping of his toes indicates agitation caused by his dream. The three headless judges (left) with dependent scrolls are as before, with the addition of a cloud-shaped scroll ascending from the central wig, inscribed: 'Know Villain, when such paltry slaves presume To mix in Treason, if the Plot succeeds They're thrown neglected by - but if it fails Theyre sure to die like dogs! as you shall do.' In place of the prison wall is a glory of rays issuing from a sun in the centre of which are the scales of Justice. This is surmounted by shackles and by a scroll inscribed "The Scourge inexorable, and the tort'ring hour, awaits thee". Beneath are, as before, a gibbet (with the addition of a ladder) and a pillory. Between them are a scourge and birch-rod tied together. The inscriptions on the three scrolls are as before except that in 'Charges' 'Falshoods' takes the place of 'Lies', and to 'Punishments' is added 'Extinction from Society'. The inscriptions on Paine's book, &c, are as before except that the alternative title of 'Common Sense is or convincing Reasons for Britons turning Sans Culottes.' The fleurs-de-lis on the tattered curtain are larger and more conspicuous. Above the bed, in place of the crumbling wall, is an open casement window out of which flies a terrified demon with his tail between his legs; he holds a fiddle, but drops his bow and a sheet of music inscribed 'Ca-ira'. Through the window appear clouds and a full moon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reversed version, with some different and some additional elements in the image, of a print with the same title published in November 1792. Cf. No. 8132 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty -- allusion to Paine's Common Sense -- Guardian angels -- Vermin: rats -- Writing supplies -- Architectural details: casement windows -- Furniture: straw beds -- Pillories -- Gibbets -- Shackles -- Torture: scourge -- Wigs: judges' wigs -- Trials: pleas -- Charges -- Punishments -- Liberty cap as a nightcap -- Literature: allusion to Paine's Rights of Man -- Symbols: fleur de lis -- Symbols: striped pillow as pro-American sentiment -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Music: c̦a ira -- Demons., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 29.4 x 36.6 cm, on sheet 37 x 50 cm, mounted to 37 x 56 cm., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1811.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
"Another version, reversed, of BMSat 8132. Paine (right) lies as before, but his legs and feet, which were hidden by straw and by cloud, project from under his coat, and the crisping of his toes indicates agitation caused by his dream. The three headless judges (left) with dependent scrolls are as before, with the addition of a cloud-shaped scroll ascending from the central wig, inscribed: 'Know Villain, when such paltry slaves presume To mix in Treason, if the Plot succeeds They're thrown neglected by - but if it fails Theyre sure to die like dogs! as you shall do.' In place of the prison wall is a glory of rays issuing from a sun in the centre of which are the scales of Justice. This is surmounted by shackles and by a scroll inscribed "The Scourge inexorable, and the tort'ring hour, awaits thee". Beneath are, as before, a gibbet (with the addition of a ladder) and a pillory. Between them are a scourge and birch-rod tied together. The inscriptions on the three scrolls are as before except that in 'Charges' 'Falshoods' takes the place of 'Lies', and to 'Punishments' is added 'Extinction from Society'. The inscriptions on Paine's book, &c, are as before except that the alternative title of 'Common Sense is or convincing Reasons for Britons turning Sans Culottes.' The fleurs-de-lis on the tattered curtain are larger and more conspicuous. Above the bed, in place of the crumbling wall, is an open casement window out of which flies a terrified demon with his tail between his legs; he holds a fiddle, but drops his bow and a sheet of music inscribed 'Ca-ira'. Through the window appear clouds and a full moon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reversed version, with some different and some additional elements in the image, of a print with the same title published in November 1792. Cf. No. 8132 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Poverty -- allusion to Paine's Common Sense -- Guardian angels -- Vermin: rats -- Writing supplies -- Architectural details: casement windows -- Furniture: straw beds -- Pillories -- Gibbets -- Shackles -- Torture: scourge -- Wigs: judges' wigs -- Trials: pleas -- Charges -- Punishments -- Liberty cap as a nightcap -- Literature: allusion to Paine's Rights of Man -- Symbols: fleur de lis -- Symbols: striped pillow as pro-American sentiment -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Music: c̦a ira -- Demons., and Mounted to 35 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
"The rider leans forward, leaving the vertical of 90 degrees behind his head. He rides (towards St. Paul's) over a dog, and chases two ducks. Behind is a horseman in difficulties."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image; series title etched above image. and Date of publication from Grego.
A series of ten images showing the rise and fall of the Fox-North Coalition. In the first image, Charles Fox, shown as a fox, speaks to the crowd in front of the Covent Garden Church. In the second one, Lord North, the 'country gentleman' leading sheep on strings, makes an agreement with Fox, who leads the 'Wes[tminste]r geese' on strings. The third image shows Fox speaking to a crowd in a rotunda, while in the fourth one he is stoking a fire around a pole topped with the liberty cap and the India charter suspended from it. In the fifth image, North and Fox, sharing one coat, stand on a plinth signed, "Power." The sixth image shows Fox ascending in an air balloon while the next one shows him falling head-down into a "pitt." In the eighth image, the two politicians are being rejected by the figure of Britannia, who refuses to look at them, instead pointing to the gallows in the background. This condemnation results in their execution, together with Burke, in the ninth image. In the tenth image, all three are shown as well-known mythological sinners in Hades; Burke submerged up to his neck as Tantalus, Fox stretched on a wheel as Iion, and North as Sisyphus pushing a large boulder
Alternative Title:
Two new sliders for the state magic lantern
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. 29th Decr. 1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Britannia (Symbolic character), Foxes, Public speaking, Balloons (Aircraft), Gallows, and Hell
"A game at whist at a round card-table. 'Betty' (left) holds out, with a triumphant grin, the ace of spades with which she is about to take the seventh consecutive trick. Her mistress, Miss Humphrey, sits on her left. The two men are said to be Tholdal, a German, who turns his head in astonishment towards Betty, and Betty's partner, Mortimer, [Or, according to Wright and Evans, Mr. Jeffrey (presumably the enemy of Mrs. Fitzherbert) and Watson (presumably the print-seller), but in 'Scientific Researches' (23 May 1802) the former is identified by Wright as Tholdal, and in 'Connoisseurs . . .' (16 Nov. 1807) 'Watson' is identified by him as Mortimer.] a picture-dealer and restorer. A scene in Bond Street, shortly before the removal to St. James's Street. This print (reversed) appears in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather', 1808."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of similar composition
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with design reworked and printmaker's signature altered. Cf. No. 8885 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Tabouret -- Card tables -- Games: whist -- Gambling: card playing -- Tholdal, fl. 1796 -- Mortimer, print-seller., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 11th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
