[London?] : publishd according to act of Parliament, [1770]
Call Number:
Drawer 770.00.00.22.1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Print shows a variety of scenes relating to the politics and government of England and how their actions at home and abroad may result in the loss of the American colonies; scene numbered 24 depicts Boston, Massachusetts, as a European city and shows the industriousness of the Americans
Description:
Title from item. and Three columns of "References" below title, explaining persons and objects numbered in the design: No. 1. Represents Ld B--e on [the] coast of France in [the] character of Doctor Franklin ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Massachusetts, Boston, and United States
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politics & government, Government officials, Scales, Manners & customs, Industrial productivity, and History
Title engraved below image., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin ...., 1732- , v. 39 (1770), p. 98., Illustration to the letter from Junius to the Duke of Grafton, February 14, 1770., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: reference to Philosophical inquiry in to the origin of our ideas of The sublime and beautiful by Edmund Burke -- Writing implemets: inkwell and quill -- Literature: reference to Letter to the King by Junius in The Public Advertiser, Dec. 1769.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797,, Francis, Philip, 1740-1818,, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss S-r and Edmund Burke
Alternative Title:
Hibernian Demosthenes
Description:
Title from text below images., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 6 (1774), page 65., and In upper right corner of plate: Vol. VI.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by A. Hamilton Junr., near St. John's Gate
Design occupying top third of plate shows Bute driving a cart labelled G.R. III, having just crossed the Rubicon, laden with National Debt, Pensioners, etc., drawn by ministerial donkeys including ones labelled North, Germaine, Sandwich, and Weymouth. The donkeys are assailed by opposition dogs Burke, Wilkes, Fox etc. In the upper left an overloaded boat depicts the "Commissioners setting off for America." Smaller insets beneath the main image refer to the balance of power and antiministerial demonstrations. Two columns of dialect verse beneath image, follow the title "A new gallant shew or the ministry's cabinet & minority's closet broke open" signed at bottom by Doodle Doodle Doo. A criticism of both governmental ministry and the opposition
Alternative Title:
View of the political state of the nation
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; cropped with loss of imprint and last 2 lines of verse., Date of publication from English political caricature., Publisher from impression in John Carter Brown Library., "Price 1 shilg.", and Mounted to 33 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 11, 1778 at Darly's, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, United States, and America.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Hancock, John, 1737-1793., and Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, History, Colonies, Donkeys, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Seesaws, and Coats of arms
A man standing next to a tree tries to defend himself from an attacking swarm of hornets whose nest he disturbed with his cane. A reference to the County Associations and petitions (1779-1780) and to Edmund Burke's plan of economical reform
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Place of publication from that of magazine., and Frontispiece to July, 1780, issue of the Universal magazine.
A mournful Fox and Burke stand arm in arm outside the gates of Paradise holding their handkerchiefs. Above the gate a stone arch is decorated with satyrs' heads and those of Barré, Shelburne, and Dunning. A reference to the resignation of Fox and Burke after Shelburne's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury in July 1782
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Nine lines from John Milton's Paradise lost etched in two columns below image, on either side of title: ... to the eastern side of Paradise so late their happy seat ..., DeGrey's note below plate mark., and Matted to 49 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Published 17th July 1782 by Charles Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, and Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Pensions, Stone walls, and Gates
Twenty-six members of the old and new ministries sit around a card table; North and Fox (the latter with a fox's head) appearing most prominently, together with Thurlow, Grey Cooper, the Duke of Richmond, John Dunning, Wilkes, Barré, and John Cavendish
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Extensively annotated on verso in an unknown hand with descriptions of persons potrayed in the image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 118 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cooper, Grey, Sir, ca. 1726-1801, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, Cavendish, John, Lord, 1732-1796, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of, 1746-1815, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politics and government, Card games, Gambling, and Clothing & dress
"The late ministers and the new Ministry spitting cannon-balls at each other, the former from a partly ruined castle ..." (--British Museum catalogue). Several of the ministers are recognizable, including, from the Opposition on the left, Burke, Conway, and Dunning, and in the castle the King, Archibishop Markham, Germain, and Cornwall
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1782 by J. Barrow, sold by E. Rich at the little Print Shop faceing Anderton's Coffee House, Fleet Street, and at Mr. Turners frame maker and print seller, No. 40, Snow hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Markham, William, 1719-1807., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., and Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Cannon balls, Bombardment, and Forts & fortifications
Depicts the new ministry attempting to push down an already headless statue of Britannia. Thurlow and Mansfield on right pull on ropes to keep the statue in place, while Fox (depicted as a fox), Wilkes, Dunning, Richmond, Burke and Keppel attack it. Britain's foreign enemies, America (shownas an Indian), France, Spain and Holland run away with the spoils
Alternative Title:
Britannia's assassination, or, The republicans amusement and Republicans amusement
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: quotation from The art of poetry on a new plan by Oliver Goldsmith, 1761, v. 2, p. 147., 1 print on wove paper : etching ; sheet 25 x 36 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 10th, 1782, by E. D'Archery, St. James Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Britannia (Symbolic character), Politics and government, Vandalism, and Sculpture
