Heading to a printed broadside that begins: "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, whose worn-out limbs have borne him to your door ..." The King is shown as a haggard beggar, his clothes torn and a pack on his back. He holds out his inverted crown with his left hand, seeking donations; his right hand grasps the cane he is leaning on. The sign post behind him says "To Bradenburg [sic] House" and points to the right, the direction in which the King travels. Brandenburgh House is seen in the background on the right, the Queen looking sternly out the window at the disheveled King. A sign at the gate to the house says "Beware of steel traps and sping [sic] guns." In the left background is a smaller house labeled "The Cottage".
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Date inferred from the depiction of Queen Caroline at Brandenburgh House, where she lived in 1820-21., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., "Entered at Stationers' Hall. Price one shilling"--Below imprint and above printer's statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark: T. Edmonds 1819., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 64 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image.
Publisher:
Published by J. Dawson, Camden Town; and sold by every bookseller and newsman in the kingdom and Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
A song from Richard Brome’s comedy ’A joviall crew’., Verse - "There was a jovial beggar,"., The same woodcut (2 figures either side of a mother with children) is used in ESTC T36852 which has a Thomas Saint imprint. The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) suggests Thomas Saint was probably active 1761-1788., In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; columns 1 & 2 and columns 3 & 4 are separated by ornamental rules., Artist's signature in woodcut: Sculp. J.W., Previously identified by Wing as a London imprint with a conjectural date of 1700. Not in Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750., Mounted on leaf 7. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Volume 2, page 99. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The beggar kneeling to left, holding a stick, his hat on the ground in front of him, at right a dog jumping up at a woman; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "First state before letters of title filled in"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1888,0716.240., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: A blind beggar that had long lost his sight, he had a fair daughter of beauty most bright, and many a gallant brave suitor had she, for none was so comely as pretty Bessey ..., Illustration to the anonymous ballad 'The blind beggar of Bethnal Green'., and Mounted on page 99 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 20, 1790, by T. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Title above images., Date derived from publisher's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from street address., Vignettes titled: Bleeding, Cup-ping, Amputating, Sally-vating, Taking the Air, Exercise, Applying a Salve, In hot Water, Bathing, How to Releive the Chest, A Bliss-ter, Electrifying, Sweating, Taking a Cordial, A Leech, Lancing, Taking a Black Draught, How to Discharge a little Matter, Taking Pills., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prescription of drugs.
Publisher:
Publishd by O Hodgson 10 Cloth fair and Straker's Lithr
Subject (Topic):
Therapeutics, Robberies, Eating & drinking, Beggars, Singing, Courtship, and Fighting
"Plate to the 'Scourge', iv, before p. 349. An illustration to 'Elections in the Isle of Borneo', pp. 349-55, relating a dream in which the Prince chooses his Ministers and Household officers according to their proficiency in adultery. A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 11899. The Regent is enthroned under a canopy in the centre of a long platform backed by the pillars of Carlton House. Below is the cobbled street, with passers-by and spectators whose heads are just below the platform, so that the figures are arranged in two tiers. The Regent's throne is on a triple dais; he puts one arm round the waist of Lady Hertford who sits on his knee, holding at arms' length a brimming goblet. She puts her right arm round his neck, and also supports herself by placing a finger on the branching antlers of her husband, who stands in his chamberlain's robes, and holding his wand of office, beside the dais, at which he points with a complacent grin. He says: "My gracious Master is personelly acquainted with my merits, they live in his bosom, & he will reward me, according to my Deserts." Lady Hertford wears a spiky crown, and her vast spherical breasts are divided by a jewel in the form of the Prince's feathers with his motto 'Ich Dien.' The drapery over the throne is centred by the crowned skull of a stag, with wide antlers; in its nostrils is a ring from which a birch-rod hangs above the Prince's head. A grinning demon, standing on the antlers, straddles across the crown, holding up the drapery. On the left of the throne the Duke of York, in uniform with cavalry boots, his hand on his sword, stands swaggeringly. A woman clutches his arm and whispers in his ear; beside them is a basket containing three infants and inscribed 'Mother Careys Chickin' [see British Museum Satires No. 11050]. He says: "I was turned out of the Office I now solicit because I was too fond of a married Woman [Mrs. Clarke, see British Museum Satires No. 11216, &c.] & could not live without commiting Adultery I claim therefore to be once more elevated to the Office of Commander in Cheif." Behind Lord Hertford (and a pendant to Mrs. Carey) stands an elderly posturing peer, wearing a star, his hands deprecatingly extended. He says: "As for business I never had a Headfor't but I have laid the Country under a Massy load of Obligations in other respects Adultery is my Motto so give me ******ship of the H-." Next (right) is a group of three: the Duke of Cumberland in outlandish Death's Head Hussar uniform holding a sabre with a notched blade and seemingly dripping blood, though not so coloured. He stands between two young women; one, holding his arm, brandishes a razor over her head, the other holds a paper called 'Nugent'. The Duke says: "Considering my Exploits you cannot do less than make me a Field Marshal." On the extreme right is the Duke of Clarence in admiral's uniform with trousers, pointing to a broken chamber-pot ('Jordan') decorated with a crown and containing seven children, two in uniform. Mrs. Jordan takes him affectionately by the arm. He points downwards, saying, "I have lived in Adultery with an actress 25 years & have a pretty Number of illegetimate Children. I hope you will make me an Admiral of the Fleets." On the extreme left McMahon, dwarfish and ugly, stoops over the edge of the platform, pouring coins from a bag marked 'P P' [reversed letters], for Privy Purse (or Pimp), into the apron of a hideous bawd who grins up at him. He says: "Let her be forty at least, plump & Sprightly." Next stands Lord Yarmouth, wearing a star, his hands in his pockets, scowling at a young woman who puts her hands on his shoulders; he says: "Confound my Wishers if Venus alias Fanny Anny [Fagniani] may not go to Juno----I'm Vice all over. Let me con tinue so." Next is a tall man wearing a long driving-coat with a star and a small rakish top-hat (? Lord Melbourne); one leg terminates in a cloven hoof. He stands between two disreputable women of the lowest St. Giles type, ragged and hideous, an arm across the shoulders of each; both offer him drink, one takes him by the chin. A third and younger woman sits on the ground at his feet, drinking from a bottle. He says: "As for me my Name is sufficient, I am known as the Paragon of Debauchery and I only claim to be the-s [Regent's] Confidential Friend." On the ground (left to right) are the bawd receiving money from McMahon, a ragged dustman with the curved shin-bones then known as 'cheese-cutters', a result of rickets; George Hanger, with his bludgeon under his arm (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8889, &c.), saying, "Hang her She's quite Drunk"; Augustus Barry, grotesquely thin and very rakish, with long coat, standing with widely splayed-out feet. These three stare up at the throne, Barry looking through an eye-glass. A ragged, sub-human creature picks Barry's pocket, taking a paper: 'A Sermon to be Preached at Cripple gate by Revd Honble A Newgate'. A blind beggar (? a sailor) walks with a stick, and a dog on a string, holding out his tattered hat. A Quaker-like figure stares up at the platform where the legs of the seated prostitute hang over its edge, as does a beggar boy with badly twisted legs. Next, a fashionably dressed man and woman shake hands, bending to stare into each other's face. He takes her left hand. His dress resembles that of the dandy of a few years later: shock of hair, exaggerated neck-cloth, hussar-pattern trousers, and long tail-coat. The centre figure in this lower row is John Bull looking up angrily over his shoulder at the prostitute, and pushing away to the right three young girls; he says to them: "Get away get away, if you go near the Platform you'll be ruined." His bull-dog looks pugnaciously up at the platform. A tall emaciated cavalry soldier speaks to a woman in a poke-bonnet, while a little ragged boy clasps the long horse-tail which hangs from his helmet. On the extreme right is Sheridan in (ragged) Harlequin's dress (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), moribund or drunk, supported between two top-booted bailiffs; one holds a writ and says "Poor fellow his Magic wand is broken." On the ground lies his wooden sword in two pieces, one inscribed 'M', the other 'P'; at his feet is a paper: 'Princely Promises'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election in the island of Borneo
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 4 (October 1812), page 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 318 (leaf numbered '143' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published November 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, 1745-1828, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Barry, Augustus, Honble., 1773-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), John Bull (Symbolic character), Dustmen, Thrones, Canopies, Columns, Adultery, Antlers, Cobblestone streets, Demons, Military uniforms, Baskets, Infants, Daggers & swords, Poor persons, Pickpockets, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Prostitutes, Soldiers, and British
Leaf 32. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A re-issue of British Museum Satires No. 2277 referring to the Gin Act of 1736; the only alteration being the reference to the Act of 1751."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Restrike, bearing the Bowles imprint statement of the 1751 reissue. For original issue of the plate, published by J. Clark in 1736, see no. 2277 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Remnants of original imprint statement, burnished from the plate prior to its reissue in 1751, are faintly visible in upper right margin., "Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below banner with title., Dedication above image: To those melancholly sufferers (by a late severe act) the distillers, this plate is most humbly inscrib'd by a lover of trade., Five columns of verse below image: Gins fun'ral mourn, lo! near the body, in ragged state moves rueful Loddy* ..., and On leaf 32 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Attribution to Dent in British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Kitchen utensils -- Saveall -- Door of the Treasury -- Pensions -- Debts of George IV -- Quebec Act -- Livery of London., and Mounted to 28 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd as the act directs, for the proprietor, by J. Carter, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808, and Watson, Brook, 1735-1807
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Kinnaird 47K(b) Box 100
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The apprentice Francis Goodchild leans out the window to pay the leader of a band of drummers; with the band are two butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers. His bride, his former master's daughter can be seen in the room behind him sipping tea. The sign with a lion rampant announces the elevation of Goodchild from apprentice to partner: West and Goodchild. A poor mother with a child on her back kneels on the step at the front door as a footman dumps the remains of the wedding breakfast into her outstreched aprom. On the left in the street a legless beggar in a tub holds out a ballad sheet with the title "Jesse or the Happy Pair"; a dog sits at his side. In the background the foot of the Monument contains an anti-Roman Catholic inscription: "In rememberance ... of Burning [the] Protestant City by the treachery of the Papist Faction In ... year ... [o]f our ... Lo[r]d 1666." The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice out of his time & married to his master's daughter and Industrious apprentice out of his time and married to his master's daughter
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 6"--Below frame., Sixth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap:XII. Ver: 4. The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband., and On laid paper. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 265 x 344 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Beggars, Butchers, Charity, Dogs, Drums (Musical instruments), Marriage, Monuments & memorials, Musical instruments, People with disabilities, Servants, Signs (Notices), Street musicians, and Rake's progress
publish'd according to act of Parliament Sepbr. 30 1747.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 747
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The apprentice Francis Goodchild leans out the window to pay the leader of a band of drummers; with the band are two butchers playing 'rough music' with bones and cleavers. His bride, his former master's daughter can be seen in the room behind him sipping tea. The sign with a lion rampant announces the elevation of Goodchild from apprentice to partner: West and Goodchild. A poor mother with a child on her back kneels on the step at the front door as a footman dumps the remains of the wedding breakfast into her outstreched aprom. On the left in the street a legless beggar in a tub holds out a ballad sheet with the title "Jesse or the Happy Pair"; a dog sits at his side. In the background the foot of the Monument contains an anti-Roman Catholic inscription: "In rememberance ... of Burning [the] Protestant City by the treachery of the Papist Faction In ... year ... [o]f our ... Lo[r]d 1666." The right of the frame is decorated with a scourge, manacles and a hangman's rope; on the left frame hang the mace of the City of London, the alderman's gold chain and a sword of state
Alternative Title:
Industrious apprentice out of his time & married to his master's daughter and Industrious apprentice out of his time and married to his master's daughter
Description:
Title engraved above image., State and publisher from Paulson., "Plate 6"--Below frame., Sixth plate in the series of twelve: Industry and idleness., Caption in decoration in lower edge of frame: Proverbs Chap:XII. Ver: 4. The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband., and Sewn into contemporary blue paper wrappers with the eleven other plates in the series, all on wove paper; inscribed "H. Man. 1798" on front wrapper. With a further brown paper dust wrapper and brown paper envelope, inscribed "Hogarth Industrious and Idle Apprentice. H.S. Man 1796, a gift from his father". For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Beggars, Butchers, Charity, Dogs, Drums (Musical instruments), Marriage, Monuments & memorials, Musical instruments, People with disabilities, Servants, Signs (Notices), Street musicians, and Rake's progress
