Satire on the excesses of certain Freemasons: a procession of masons emerge from a public house headed by elaborately dressed men described as the emperor of China, Confucius and two mandarins; an old woman sits on a ladder balanced on the back of a donkey and a mason, identified as such by his apron and gloves, stretches between the rungs of the ladder to kiss her bare backside; Don Quixote, in full armour and wearing a masonic apron and gloves, holds up his shield behind the donkey; in the foreground, to left, a man playing the bladder and string, in the centre, a dancing monkey with apron and gloves, and, to right, a butcher laughing at the scene while Sancho Panza gasps in surprise
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson. Paulson and British Museum catalogue date the print as 1742, but Sayer did not move to 53 Fleet Street until 1760. See British Museum online catalogue., Below the image, far left of the title, mock key identifying the leading figures, followed by twelve lines of verse beginning, "From Eastern climes, transplanted to our coasts ..."., Below the image, far right of the title, mock description: "Done from [the] original painted at Pekin by Matachauter, grav'd by Ho-ge and sold by [the] printsellers of London, Paris & Rome.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark to 246 x 351 mm with loss of imprint signature; mounted onto an engraved map (with color) of Ireland (285 x 395 mm).
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Satire on the excesses of certain Freemasons: a procession of masons emerge from a public house headed by elaborately dressed men described as the emperor of China, Confucius and two mandarins; an old woman sits on a ladder balanced on the back of a donkey and a mason, identified as such by his apron and gloves, stretches between the rungs of the ladder to kiss her bare backside; Don Quixote, in full armour and wearing a masonic apron and gloves, holds up his shield behind the donkey; in the foreground, to left, a man playing the bladder and string, in the centre, a dancing monkey with apron and gloves, and, to right, a butcher laughing at the scene while Sancho Panza gasps in surprise
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson. British Museum catalogue dates the print 1742., Below the image, far left of the title, mock key identifying the leading figures, followed by twelve lines of verse beginning, "From Eastern Climes, transplanted to our Coasts ..."., Below the image, far right of the title, mock description: "Done from [the] original painted at Pekin by Matachauter, grav'd by Ho-ge and sold by [the] printsellers of London, Paris & Rome.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms pencil note in Steevens hand above print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit, p. 424., and On page 98 in volume 1. Sheet 250 x 354 mm.
Satire on the excesses of certain Freemasons: a procession of masons emerge from a public house headed by elaborately dressed men described as the emperor of China, Confucius and two mandarins; an old woman sits on a ladder balanced on the back of a donkey and a mason, identified as such by his apron and gloves, stretches between the rungs of the ladder to kiss her bare backside; Don Quixote, in full armour and wearing a masonic apron and gloves, holds up his shield behind the donkey; in the foreground, to left, a man playing the bladder and string, in the centre, a dancing monkey with apron and gloves, and, to right, a butcher laughing at the scene while Sancho Panza gasps in surprise
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson. Paulson and British Museum catalogue date the print as 1742, but Sayer did not move to 53 Fleet Street until 1760. See British Museum online catalogue., Below the image, far left of the title, mock key identifying the leading figures, followed by twelve lines of verse beginning, "From Eastern climes, transplanted to our coasts ..."., Below the image, far right of the title, mock description: "Done from [the] original painted at Pekin by Matachauter, grav'd by Ho-ge and sold by [the] printsellers of London, Paris & Rome.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 98 in volume 1. Plate mark 247 x 350 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Satire on the excesses of certain Freemasons: a procession of masons emerge from a public house headed by elaborately dressed men described as the emperor of China, Confucius and two mandarins; an old woman sits on a ladder balanced on the back of a donkey and a mason, identified as such by his apron and gloves, stretches between the rungs of the ladder to kiss her bare backside; Don Quixote, in full armour and wearing a masonic apron and gloves, holds up his shield behind the donkey; in the foreground, to left, a man playing the bladder and string, in the centre, a dancing monkey with apron and gloves, and, to right, a butcher laughing at the scene while Sancho Panza gasps in surprise
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson. Paulson and British Museum catalogue date the print as 1742, but Sayer did not move to 53 Fleet Street until 1760. See British Museum online catalogue., Below the image, far left of the title, mock key identifying the leading figures, followed by twelve lines of verse beginning, "From Eastern climes, transplanted to our coasts ..."., Below the image, far right of the title, mock description: "Done from [the] original painted at Pekin by Matachauter, grav'd by Ho-ge and sold by [the] printsellers of London, Paris & Rome.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 98 in volume 1. Plate mark 248 x 353 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A monkey wearing clerical bands holds a rope which is attached to Henley's right hand; a small chest of pills, a medicine bottle and a pamphlet lettered "The Hyp Doctor" lie at his feet. In the foreground is a procession of men, lettered, "Ha!", "Ha!", "Te Hee", "He!" and "Silly Cur"; the latter wearing a laurel wreath is identified by Hawkins as Colley Cibber, and the others, two of whom wear ruffs, may be intended as actors or clowns; a puritan at their head, is urged by Henley's "Scout" towards the door of the Oratory, outside which stands a butcher acting as doorman; inside a man pays a clergyman at "The Treasury". On the extreme left, a man squats defecating on Henley's publications. Behind him a coach bears Folly, holding her bauble, towards an inn with the sign of the dunce's cap; a gallows labelled "Merit" stands beside it and an angel holding a ribbon labelled "Modesty" flies off
Description:
Title from text in image., Attributed in lower left, below image: W. Hogarth sc., Drawing attributed to Steevens by curator., Tracing of a 1731 print., Detailed description of the scene in a Steevens's hand, mounted to the right of this drawing., and On page 12 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
"An engraving, which is in some respects the sequel to "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, and "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, showing a party of workmen and tradesmen assembled in a room of the Merchant Seamen's Office, which was over the Royal Exchange. They are grouped about a large table, on which lies a long scroll or address. The president is a butcher, with a naked knife hi his hand; a tray at his feet contains a shoulder of mutton; doubling his fist, he cries: -- "I shall stick my Knife in Magna Charta, & cut up the Carcase of the Sill of Rights." A lean, hungry -looking man, sits grinning behind the butcher; next to the sitter stands a porter who declares: -- "D--mn his swivel Eyes I wish he may sink under his load." This refers to the marked squint of John Wilkes, who was at this time in prison and strongly opposed to the Court; see "John Wilkes Elected Knight of the Shire", British Museum Satires No. 4189, and "The Scotch Victory. (A.)", British Museum Satires No. 4196. A Dutchman, probably Mr. Muilmann, see "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, declares: -- " Ah ! de gross Scrip for Mynheer too"; this is in reply to a Jew who exclaims: -- " Oh for a large portion of Scrip.", i.e. probably subscription scrip to Government loans, which was very profitable to the lenders, and often alleged to be used as a bribe by the ministry; see "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, and "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289. A barber, with a shaving dish and napkin under one of his arms, and holding a wig in one hand, stands before the scroll, signing his name to it; he says: -- "I've got an order for a new Wig, only for signing my Name." A gaunt Scotch pedlar, with a bale at his back, and carrying a wand, declares: -- "Saumy mun sign too, gin it be to the Deel, for my gued laird's sake", i.e. for the sake of the Earl of Bute, the reputed patron of Scotchmen, see "We are all a comeing", British Museum Satires No. 3823. A baker, with a basket of bread on his shoulders, approaches the table and says: -- "Brother Merchants follow my example & you'll never want Bread." A meagre chimney-sweep, clad in sooty garments, advances to the table and remarks: -- "Who knows but I may be appointed to a Chimney at Court.""--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Principal merchants and traders assembled at the Merchant Seaman's Office ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), page 134., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Merchant Seamen's Office -- Food: loaves of bread -- Petitions: Address of the Merchant Trades of London, March 1769 -- Peter Muilman., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Countrymen -- Food: meat -- Male dress: smock.
"Illustration to the Oxford Magazine, 1768, vol.1 facing p.52, satirizing the dispute between the licentiates and fellows of the College of Physicians. Licentiates, mostly dressed in tartan and so identified as Scots, break through a door into a room in the College. At a table on the right, a group of fellows presided over by Death (a skeleton in official robes and wig) recoil, crying, ""These Northern Locusts want to Govern every where", "My fingers itch to be at them", "D[a]m their Scots Pills! they have ruin'd the Constituion of England" and "They pretend to cure the Kings Evil". The attackers are led by a licentiate in a zany's dress and jack-boots (a reference to Lord Bute) holding a shield and flail; he is followed by another man, who holds a large pair of shears; others flourish a pestle, a dagger and a club. In the foreground a Scot directs a clyster at one of the fellows hitting him in the mouth with a jet of liquid. A fellow has pushed a licentiate to the ground and is pouring the contents of a urinal into his throat. On the floor lies an enormous urinal, pillboxes and medicne bottle, and a soldier's haversack, labelled, "St Georges Composing Pills prepared by Dr Gillam." ( a reference to the magistrate who ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd gathered in St George's Fields in support of John Wilkes on 10 May 1768)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle between the fellows & licenciates and Battle between the fellows and licenciates
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: Sept. 23, 1767, based on the date of events satirized by this print., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), page 52., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the events of 23 September 1767 -- Fellows -- Licenciates -- Zanies -- Clyster pipe -- Reference to riot at St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Reference to Lord Bute -- Reference to Justice Samuel Gillam, fl. 1768.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Royal College of Physicians of London. and Royal College of Physicians of London,
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Interiors, Medical education, Medical equipment & supplies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Riots, Skeletons, and Tailors
Satire on Hogarth, being a rejoinder and parody of his print 'The Times plate 1': Showing a city scene
Alternative Title:
The times. Plate 2
Description:
Title etched below image. Plate number below verses., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in two columns below title: If we're too scrupulously just, what profits in a place of trust ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Map of Newfoundland and Minorca, with signboards: The Cock-Pit -- Bourbon House -- The Patriot Arms -- Old England Coffee House --- Street vendors -- Newspapers: Monitor -- Briton -- Marrowbones and cleavers -- Constables -- Beadles -- Emblems: dove of peace.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, City council members, City & town life, Coffeehouses, Crowds, Law enforcement officers, Newspapers, Pillories, Street vendors, and Weather vanes
