"Heading to (printed) verses ... Mail-coach passengers snatch a hasty meal in a room in the White Horse Cellar (Piccadilly) giving on to the street where the side of the coach is visible. The guard stands in the middle of the room, coach-horn in hand, imperiously addressing a lady who holds a caged parrot. A man on the left drinks from a bowl. A man with his hat tied on warms his back at the fire. The coachman waits outside the door. Over the fireplace is a framed picture of a mail-coach, and on the chimney-piece a model of a horse (the sign of the famous coaching inn)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress verse printed below image., Several lines of verse below image: Come, listen to my story, now seated in my glory ..., Plate numbered "512" in upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 15th Jan. 1821 by Richd. H. Laurie No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834. and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Eating & drinking, Mail wagons, and Coach drivers
A satire on the Duke's pressure on the King to accept Emancipation. Wellington stands in profile to the right, dressed as the driver of a mail-coach, holding his whip and (as way-bill) a paper resembling the 'Gazette', headed 'Bill' [i.e. for Catholic Relief]. His (gloved) left hand touches the broad brim of his hat. He wears a triple-caped greatcoat, tight at the waist, over tightly strapped white trousers, and is smart and erect
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate signed using an imitation of William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., A close copy, apparently by 'Sharpshooter' (i.e. John Phillips), of a print by William Heath. See British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on gray wove paper: 43.4 x 29.7 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by E. King, Chancery-Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936. and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Coach drivers, Newspapers, and Whips
A satire on the Duke's pressure on the King to accept Emancipation. "Wellington stands in profile to the right, dressed as the driver of a mail-coach, holding his whip and (as way-bill) a paper resembling the 'Gazette', headed 'Bill' [i.e. for Catholic Relief]. His (gloved) left hand touches the broad brim of his hat. He wears a triple-caped greatcoat, tight at the waist, over tightly strapped white trousers, and is smart and erect, in contrast with his rival, see British Museum satires no. 15736"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., For a close copy published by E. King, see no. 15731A in the British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1829.
Publisher:
Pub. April 1829 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830. and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Coach drivers, Newspapers, and Whips
Wellington stands full-length in profile to the left, dressed as the driver of a mail-coach, holding his whip in his left hand. His (gloved) right hand touches the broad brim of his hat. He wears a triple-caped greatcoat, tight at the waist, over tightly strapped white trousers, and is smart and erect. The speech-balloon above his head reads, "While I hold the Reins (your Honnor) I'll drive against all Opposition!!!"
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication based on other prints with the same title and of similar composition. Cf. Nos. 15731 and 15731A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to: 23.4 x 17.1 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, Artillery St., Bishopsgate, London
Phaeton and pair are stopped outside a town house, the box of the conveyance raised on an accordion-like mechanism to enable a lady to climb in from the second storey window. She is fashionably dressed with huge ostrich feathers in her enormous headdress, while the driver in laced coat and top boots extends a hand to help her. In the street below a man and woman with two children look on, as another couple look up in astonishment from the doorway of the house
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Balconies, Horses, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
"Social satire: a couple offer a coachman a job, adding that he will be expected to attend family prayers; he answers, scratching his head, that he hopes they will consider the extra trouble in his wages."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 13, 1802 by W. Holland, Cockspur Street (opposite Pall Mall) removed from Oxford Street
Verse begins: "Come gentlemen, and hear this ditty,"., Printed in four columns with the woodcut and title above the first two; the imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45., Mounted on leaf 19. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet Market
published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
Call Number:
782.11.09.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., A publication date of approximately 1760, later amended to 1783, was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3161., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon., Companion print to: The benevolent physician., and Plate numbered "487" in lower left.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Avarice, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Clothing & dress, Diseases, Families, Poverty, Quacks, Bacon, Children, Costume, Country life, and Sick
"The King sits impassively in his badly damaged state coach, which is being assailed by a mob; facing him sit two courtiers in abject terror. Pitt (right), dressed as the coachman, drives furiously, lashing the horses, the hind legs only of the wheelers being visible on the extreme right. These are trampling on Britannia who lies prostrate, her shield and broken spear beneath her. Four footmen in striped liveries stand behind, one holding the straps; the others hold each other's waists: Loughborough, the Lord Chancellor, wearing his wig, stands next the coach; behind him is Grenville, then Dundas, wearing a plaid and with a bottle projecting from his coat-pocket. Last is Pepper Arden wearing a judge's wig. All, like Pitt, wear jockey-caps. Lord Lansdowne (right), a sansculotte, composedly fires a blunderbuss point-blank through the coach window, aiming at the King. Fox and Sheridan, facing Lansdowne, run beside the coach, holding on to it. Both are tattered ruffians brandishing clubs, but wear breeches. The other three assailants cling to the spokes of the back wheel to stop the coach: (left to right) the Duke of Grafton, neatly dressed and wearing a cocked hat with tricolour cockade, Lord Stanhope, and little Lord Lauderdale, both wearing bonnets-rouges. Behind, a sea of heads indicates the mob; they carry a tricolour flag inscribed 'Peace and Bread' and a loaf draped with black and spiked on a pitchfork. A cat, stones, and eggs shower on the coach, the crown on the top of which is broken."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Mob -- Attack on George III's coach on October 29, 1795 -- Coaches: royal state coach -- Crowns: broken crown -- Guns: blunderbass -- Domestic service: footmen -- Hats: jockey caps -- Bonnets rouges., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804
Subject (Topic):
Assassination attempts, Britannia (Symbolic character), Carriages & coaches, Cats, Coach drivers, Crowds, Riots, Sansculottes, and Servants
"A scene in the small courtyard of a London inn, at which a stage-coach has just arrived. A stout lady is getting out of the coach, larger in scale than the other figures; the coachman is taking game, &c, from the box. A short stout 'cit' yawns and stretches. Another man looks sourly at his watch; packages lie on the ground, including a hamper directed to 'Alderman Guttle'. A smiling waiter (right) invites the company to enter the inn. Through the folding gates of the yard is seen a street with a distant church."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Artist from British Museum catalogue no. 6758., Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31., and Variant of no. 6758 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Clothing & dress
