Full length caricature of Edmund Burke, facing left making a speech. In his upraised right hand is a paper alluding to his Bill for Economical Reform
Alternative Title:
For rhetoric he could not ope his mouth but out there flew a trope
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue; alternative title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 1 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Published 6th April 1782 by C. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Public speaking, and Clothing & dress
Title from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of vers below image: Fools ne'er had less grace in a year for wise men are grown foppish ... Shakespeare., Plate from: Monkey-ana or Men in miniature ... by Thomas Landseer., and The respective plate mark appears on the mount directly adjacent to the adhered sheet with image.
Publisher:
Published July 1828 by Moon, Boys, and Graves, 6 Pall Mall
On the top of a hill, Lord Shelburne (William Petty) stands leaning against a gallows, his hands crossed at the wrists and eyes downcast. In front of him are Charles Fox and Lord North, their left hands joined. North's right hand reposes reassuringly on Fox's left shoulder. Fox points to Shelburne behind him with his right thumb. All three have beards characterizing them as Jews. The text below the design reads, "And Herod and Pilate were made Friends together that same Day; for before they were Enemies one to another. Luke. Cap 23, Ver 12."
Alternative Title:
And Herod and Pilate were made friends together that same day
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 20th, 1783, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Gallows, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
Full-length depictions of a man in seventeenth-century dress, a feather in his hat, a sword at his side, holding a cane. The view of him from the back is drawn to the left of a wood-engraved image of Thomas Coryat's shoes, while the view of him from the front is drawn to the right. The Latin phrase "ad mortum est libi" is written in ink above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Attribution to J.H. Shorthouse based on his ownership of the book and the presence of his initials "J.H.S" beneath the drawn frontispiece in the same volume., Date of production from local card catalog record., For the wood engraving on the same page as this drawing, see no. 78 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1., and Drawn on page opposite signature l3 in volume 1 of J.H. Shorthouse's copy of the 1776 reprint of Coryat's crudities.
Full length portrait of Burgoyne as M.P. for Preston. He wears military dress and is turning toward the left, his hat in the left hand, his right extended and holding a paper
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XV" in upper left corner., 1 print : etching with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.3 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 4 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: General Burgoyne.
Full length portrait of Burgoyne as M.P. for Preston. He wears military dress and is turning toward the left, his hat in the left hand, his right extended and holding a paper
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Plate numbered "XV" in upper left corner., and Mounted on page 5 with three other prints.
Full length portrait of Burgoyne as M.P. for Preston. He wears military dress and is turning toward the left, his hat in the left hand, his right extended and holding a paper
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Plate numbered "XV" in upper left corner.
George III, seated on a low square stool placed atop a building inscribed "St Stephens Chapel. 1783," is holding in his left hand an empty scale and pointing to its perfect balance with his right one. Below the design is the text, "I'm above all! I yet Rule the Roast [sic]! As I please the Balance shall preponderate!" It appears to refer to the King's attempts to break the North-Fox coalition after Shelburne's resignation in February 1783
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. March 6th. 1783 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Scales, Chapels, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
A half-length portrait in profile of a clergyman wearing spectacles and a wig. He holds a stack of paper in his right hand, while his left hand is raised with his finger pointing upward
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sitter tentatively identified as Edward Bearcroft., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bearcroft, Edward, ?1737-1796
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Clergy, Eyeglasses, Lawyers, and Wigs
