"Portrait, bust three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing fur-trimmed robes and chain of office, embroidered waistcoat and chin-length wig; after plate and inscription reduced, without engraver's name and date."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable William Beckford Esqr
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist and printmaker from signature on earlier state., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.735., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement; imprint from British Museum online catalogue., and Window mounted to 15.4 x 25.4 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Portrait, three-quarter length directed to right, looking towards the viewer, left hand resting on a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', beside mace and sword on a table, holding 'Bill of Rights' in right hand, wearing fur-trimmed cloak and chain of office, a waistcoat with embroidered hem, and chin-length wig; before plate reduced."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable William Beckford Esqr
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "London" and "published as the act directs, A.D. 1770" precede "Printed for Carington Bowles ..." at bottom of plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.7 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 41.5 x 27.8 cm., and Imperfect; date in imprint statement has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
"Portrait, three-quarter length directed to right, looking towards the viewer, left hand resting on a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta', beside mace and sword on a table, holding 'Bill of Rights' in right hand, wearing fur-trimmed cloak and chain of office, a waistcoat with embroidered hem, and chin-length wig; before plate reduced."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Right Honorable William Beckford Esqr
Description:
Title etched below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., "London" and "published as the act directs, A.D. 1770" precede "Printed for Carington Bowles ..." at bottom of plate., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Matted to 54 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
"Satire on Lord Camden alleging that he had abandonned his liberal principles on becoming Lord Chancellor. Camden, on the left, in his Chancellor's robes is aghast at the appearance of the ghost of his former self when Lord Chief Justice. He holds out a book lettered, "Lex Temporis" and papers lie beside him referring to supposed corrupt practices, "Grants / Reversion / Irish Pensions / Patent of Peerage / Non obstante [licence from the Crown]", and a scroll falls in front of him lettered, "is but 40 days Slavery at outside", a reference to his support of an embargo on corn export for forty days; his mace and purse (lettered "Latent Power") lie on a bench draped with tartan together with a letter reading "... your A--s] & your mace in ye Kennel within a fortnight by G[od] / yours Tom Tilbury [Lord Northington, Camden's predecessor as Lord Chancellor]". Behind the Lord Chancellor is a chair with arms and legs made of boots, upholstered in tartan and with thistles around its back; an oval lportrait showing Lords Bute and Chatham is on the back with the motto "Arcades Ambo"(two of a kind); a boot and Pitt's crutch are tied together and resting ont he back of the chair; burning papers on the cair are lettered "Negabimus / Magna Farta" and "vendemus Justitiam". The ghost holds out a book lettered "Lex Terra"; a scroll falling in front of him reads "The liberty of an English Dw[e]l[ling] cannot be estimated" (a paraphrase of his statement against General Warrants in the John Wilkes case). William Beckford, Camden's former ally, is shown creeping under the bench saying "Hide me ye Sugar Casks", a reference to his wealth from sugar plantations in Jamaica. A row of portraits on the wall show from the left: Lord Northington, Judge Jeffreys, Beckford, Sec[re]t[ary Astley, Chatham, L[or]d S[-]d and William Scrogg[s]; in front of the portraits is a book shelf containing, "Filmer's Patriarcha / Argu[men]t for Ship Money / Judg[ment] ag[ain]s[t] Hamden / Froit Le Roy / Prerogatives Regli / Grotius English Law"."--British Museum online catalogue and Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of various officials
Alternative Title:
Apparition of a late patriot Chief Justice to a modern prerogative Cane
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate line with loss of last word in title. Title from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772
Title etched below image., Text above image: Engraved for the Oxford Mag., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 139., Temporary local subject terms: Buttons: button card -- Samuel Turner, d. 1777., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Title etched above image., Below image are two columns of text in letterpress with the heading: Instructions given to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knt., William Beckford, Esq., the Right Hon. Thomas Harley, Esq., and Barlow Trecothick, Esq., representatives of the City of London, by their constituents., Letterpress text concludes: ... (Signed) Charles Clavey, Chairman of the Common Hall. Guildhall, Feb. 10, 1769., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Male costume: alderman's robes -- Tailor's implements: scissors and goose -- Allusion to bribery., Watermark., and Mounted to 34 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770 and Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
Title etched above image., Below image are two columns of text in letterpress with the heading: Instructions given to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knt., William Beckford, Esq., the Right Hon. Thomas Harley, Esq., and Barlow Trecothick, Esq., representatives of the City of London, by their constituents., Letterpress text concludes: ... (Signed) Charles Clavey, Chairman of the Common Hall. Guildhall, Feb. 10, 1769., Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen -- Male costume: alderman's robes -- Tailor's implements: scissors and goose -- Allusion to bribery., and 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; plate mark 9.9 x 13.9 cm, on sheet 32.4 x 20.4 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770 and Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
"Satire on Wilkes's release from custody in April 1763 and the successful actions for damages by printers of the North Briton, No. 45. A scene in Guildhall with the legs of Gog and Magog visible at top left and the lower parts of two portraits at right: on the left, a prancing devil grasps the collar of Nathan Carrington, King's Messenger (his position identified by his greyhound badge) who complains that he had acted on "Orders from Above" in arresting the printers; two angry men reproach Carrington for having seized their papers, one demanding the return of "my Memoirs", the other, Arthur Beardmore, asking for his journal, the Monitor. In the foreground, two devils attack three other Messengers (Money, Watson and Blackmore) lying on the ground; a devil with type arrayed on his head belabours them with a printer's mallet. Behind this group are Sir Fletcher Norton, by then Attorney-General, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, covering their faces with their hands and lamenting their failure; they are sent on their way by a man who alludes to the General Warrant and damns them to make "good Fuel" in Hell. Wilkes takes the hand of Pratt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who had released him from the Tower; Wilkes's advocate John Glynn stands behind and all three are celebrating the triumph of Liberty and English justice; William Beckford (shown with a black face in allusion to his Caribbean wealth) rushes towards them enthusiastically. To the right, a group of printers delight in their good fortune in the substantial sums they have been awarded, one man holding out both hands full of coins."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Messengers in the suds
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below image: [The] sons of the type view this scene in Guildhall, the devils triumphant and messengers fall ..., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Arms: City of London -- Slang: 'coney catchers' -- Trials: John Wilkes's trial, 1763 -- Nathan Carrington, d. 1777 -- John Money, fl. 1763 -- Arthur Beardmore, d. 1765., and Mounted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Glynn, John, 1722-1779, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Guildhall (London, England),
Title etched above image., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: August 1762., Below image: To the courteous readers of the Monitor, Briton, North Briton, & other political Quixotes, this print is humbly inscrib'd., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Journals: The Patriot -- Signboards -- Emblems: Caduceus -- Buildings., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beardmore, Arthur, d. 1771., Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Sedition, Newspapers, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Fishing nets
