"Scene outside an inn with the sign of the 'Half-way House', at the base of which two horses with saddles and blinkers are feeding, their riders standing at left by an out-building; horse and trap outside the inn at right, a man with a whip seated in the trap, the horse approaching a trough; in the upstairs windows of the inn, a man smoking a long pipe, and a man embracing a woman with a large hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1937,0719.3., Plate originally published in 1784 according to the British Museum online catalogue., 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 Half-way house.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, Horses, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby on her back, two Jews, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, a man getting his pocket picked, dogs, and a group of boys with a figure formed of a chimney brush. In the distance, people walk on the field, a figure flying a kite behind, rows of houses in the background; an inn with a sign with a fox to the right and the Palladian facade of St. Luke's Hospital beyond
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably dates from 1765, the year in which Griffiths exhibited 'Enthusiam Displayed in the character of a Methodist preacher and his congregation in Moorfields' at the Free Society; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1600., and Matted to 51 x 61 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
Subject (Name):
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
A copy based on Hogarth's Satire on flase perspective: A view of a tower, staircase, bridge over a river
Alternative Title:
Satire on false perspective
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and artist statemetns inscribed in reverse on print., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 239., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit, page 333., and On page 168 in volume 2.
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
Three women, two standing and one sitting smoking a pipe, converse outside a shop, 'Fine Cordial Gin, two penny & best Virginia'.
Alternative Title:
Gin, two-penny and tobacco
Description:
Title etched below image., Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and From the Renier Collection; on verso ms. notes in black ink 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
Publisher:
Pub. July 25, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Street, Haymarkt
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Carts & wagons, Pipes (Smoking), Stores & shops, Street vendors, Women, and Tobacco
"Satire on Lord Bute, his patronage of Scots in London and his alleged relationship with Princess Augusta. Bute stands in the centre, holding his staff suggestively and encouraging Scots ('Hebronites') who are shown crossing the River Jordan in waggons and on foot, eating porridge and 'sowens' (a porridge-like food enjoyed in Scotland ); in the foreground a barefoot Scot carries a child in a pouch and leads another by the hand, another carries a broadsword and target, and 'Jubal' plays the bagpipes while an English waggon-driver complains that his horses had been killed by being overloaded. Three politicians, Pitt, Temple and Newcastle each claiming that they will retire from politics sit at a table on which lies a copy of the anti-Bute newspaper, the Monitor; the British lion sleeps and a fox (Henry Fox) whispers in its ear that it should sleep on. On the right, Princess Augusta and her ladies sit under a canopy surmounted by a French cock and turn toward Bute admiring his figure; Britannia weeps, crying "Degenerate Daughteres, I disown ye all"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Importation of the Hebronites
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below title: To suite the times and raise a laugh, the subject is an upright staff ..., Temporary local subject terms: Preferments: Lord Bute's preferment -- Orders: Garter ribbon and star -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Bible: River Jordan -- Bible: Hills of Hebron -- Bible: Land of Israel -- Literature: Ossian -- Scots -- Vehicles: waggons., Watermark: Fleur-de-lys., and Mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Inscription below image: When the fox destroys the poultry, destroy him., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Plate numbered '59' in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of No. 3638 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Calcraft, John, 1726-1772, and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805
A pretty, young woman rakes hay under a tree. Behind her three man use scythes in a hay field; in the distance a hitched wagon full of hay is pulled up a hill
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Numbered '181' in lower right corner of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Map, Chart and Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
"Satire with a coal-man singing while playing on a harp, sporting butterfly wings, admired by fellow coal-men."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., For a later state with secondary title "March of intellect among the black-diamond carriers" etched in upper margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,1001.17., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject headings: Dustmen -- Coalmen.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1828 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):
Butterflies, Carts & wagons, Coal, Harps, Singing, People associated with manual labor, and Working class
