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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
Title from item., Plate numbered '38' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: When ev'ry venal scribbling fool, presumes to censor those who rule ..., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Sedition -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- The Briton -- The North Briton -- Journals: The Patriot -- Signs: signboards -- Emblems: Caduceus -- Buildings: inn -- Fishing nets -- Allusion to Count Heinrich von Brühl, 1700-1763 -- Reference to the Earl of Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Arthur Beardmore, d. 1771 --Mottoes: veluti in speculo., and Mounted to 25 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date based on the beginning of Chatham's administration, July 30, 1766., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title., Three columns of verse below image: The monkey Scot no more shall boast, 'tis he at C-t who rules the roast ..., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle and white rose of Stuarts -- Royal crown -- Emblems: jack boot as Lord Bute -- Pictures amplifying subject -- British Lion -- Ministries: Pitt's ministry, 1766., and Mounted to 33 x 49 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Dogs, Fireplaces, Monkeys, National emblems, British, and Scotland
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., 'Price 6d.', Eight stanzas of verse in four columns below image: O! Shade of Durfey grant me vit-a / To sing these jockies of the City ..., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: parliamentary elections, 1754 -- Elections: contest for representation of the City of London -- Bills: Jews Naturalization Bill, 1753 -- Jews: pedlar -- Race: horse race -- Jockies -- Gin-seller -- Elections: candidates -- Horses -- Grand stands -- Slingsby Bether, 1695-1758, 'Buzzard' -- Sir Robert Ladbroke, 1713-1773 -- Sir William Clavert, ?1703-1761 -- Allusion to Mary Squires, d. 1761., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1754, and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
"Satire on the negotiations leading to the Peace of Paris in response to Hogarth's "The Times Part 1", but also with visual echoes of his much earlier print, "Southwark Fair". In the centre is a large theatrical booth advertising "The Full and Whole Play of Dido and Aeneas" with a show-cloth on which the lovers are depicted taking shelter in a cave; below is platform on which stand Bute and Princess Augusta accompanied by a zany, a drummer (Arthur Murphy) and a trumpeter (Tobias Smollett). Hogarth, portrayed as an ape, stands on a ladder painting a sign-board with a portrait of Pitt (echoing the sign painter in "Beer Street"); at the foot of the ladder another ape, representing the Duke of Bedford, ambassador to Paris, sits on a small table holding a sheet marked "Prelim Peace". Henry Fox looks out of a window at the top of the booth. On the left, Bute stands on stilts playing the bagpipes with a large bag of money hanging from his neck; he is supported by admiring Scotsmen and adored by a group of bishops. Behind him is an inn with the sign of the thistle advertising "Geud Scrubbing for Mon and Horse"; an ass peers throuh a window and an ass's skull hangs above. Beyond, Scotsmen rejoice as buildings burn, while three fireman sleep beside their engine; an owl representing the French ambassador, the Duke de Nivernois, flies overhead carrying on olive branch (in place of Hogarth's dove with the olive branch) . In the foreground a mastiff urinates on an impression of Hogarth's "The Times Part 1"; Charles Churchill gestures towards a bonfire on which is burning "The Wandsworth Epistle" and "The Briton" (Smollett's newspaper) while a sailor, watched by Britannia, brings a wheelbarrow laden with other journals (echoing the barrow containing "The North Briton" in Hogarth's print). Behind this group, William Beckford draws the attention of Pitt, Temple and Newcastle to the happy Scots; Cumberland, bald-headed, shakes his fist. The British lion grasps a dead French cock in his jaws and looks angrily at a Frenchman who hands coins to a Dutchman leaning on a bale marked "Neutrality" (a similar Dutchman in Hogarth's print sits on a bale smoking contentedly). Behind the lion, George Whitefield, arms outspread and a devil blowing with bellows into his ear, preaches from a three-legged stool to an old woman with a prayer-book and a man with the head of an ass. On the left, three further show-cloths hang on the wall of a house, referring to performances at "Punch Political Poppet Show with a Scotch Uproar": "Then", with the figure of Fame crowning a British commander; "Now", with a Scotsman at the prow of a boat foundering on the rocks of "New Lost Land"; "Alive from France & England" with a clown raising his fist and his foot at a Frenchman (echoing the sign, "Alive from America", in Hogarth's print); at the top of the house a Spaniard and a Frenchman, both grinning, look out of a window."--British Museum online catalogue
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Variant state without imprint and with different price, added in top right corner. See British Museum catalogue., In upper right corner: Price 1 sh., and Four columns of verse below image: See here my good masters a fine raree show, will please ev'ry one from the high to the low ...
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, and D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Clergy, Devil, Hangings (Executions), National emblems, French, Scottish, Newspapers, Puppet shows, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, and Wheelbarrows
