"A scene in Carlton House. The Prince of Wales, seated in a chair, holds a stout, good-looking lady (Mrs. Sawbridge) across his knees and chastises her with upraised hand; she holds out her arms imploringly. Alderman Sawbridge (right) faces her in profile to the left, playing a fiddle and dancing; from his pocket hangs a piece of music inscribed 'The Reform', a new Motion. On the extreme left Lady Archer stands in profile to the right, holding a driving-whip, and pointing angrily at the injured lady. A little girl (Sawbridge) stands full-face, clasping her hands in horror at the treatment of her mother. Behind are a number of onlookers: a very fat lady in profile to the left is Miss Vanneck. Mrs. Fitzherbert watches, not displeased; Fox, his arm round her shoulder, gazes amorously at her. George Hanger stands in profile to the left. The other figures are less characterized but a profile head (right) resembles Lord Derby. On the wall (right) is part of a three quarter length portrait, the head cut off by the upper edge of the design, inscribed 'Sir G° Van-Ne[ck]'. Beside it is a stag's head on which hangs a man's hat, just above Sawbridge. After the title is etched 'A Hint for a new Reform'. 'Black Jack' is Sawbridge, who was swarthy, and a consistent advocate of Parliamentary Reform. In the background (right) are persons dancing."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Black Jacks delight
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue and by Wright.
Publisher:
Pub'd April 25, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795, Sawbridge, Anne Stephenson, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Neck, Gertrude van, -1798, Neck, John, 1732-1795, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dance, Musical instruments, Pleading (Begging), Spanking, and Politics and government
In a country setting with cows and a windmill in the background, a young milkmaid sits on a bench under an oak tree, receiving a ribbon from a young sailor seated beside her. Another young girl looks on from behind, while the milkmaid's country suitor stands behind sulkily scratching his head. A dog paws at the milkmaid's lap while another drinks from the milking pail
Alternative Title:
Jealous clown
Description:
Date surmised from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in lower left of plate 385., Publication date erased from print., and Torn and repaired.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles at his map & print warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Clothing & dress, Sailors, Hats, Couples, Windmills, Dairy farming, Cows, and Dogs
A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song., Title etched below image and above verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '300' in lower left of plate., Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Brooms & brushes, Children, Couples, Dwellings, Homecomings, Sailors, British, Ships, Swine, and Young adults
Title from caption below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: where folios of caricatures are lent for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Four images in four compartments, each with a caption title., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Drunkenness -- Glass: decanters -- Emotions, Sadness -- Madness -- Furnishings: patterned carpets., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany 1st, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Werter clutches his head in anguish as he stands before Charlotte on a sofa supporting her head on one hand as she reaches out imploringly towards Werter. The pictures on the wall amplify the subject
Alternative Title:
Last interview
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below publisher's line: At length with the firm determined voice of Virtue she cried Werter, and he was awed by it, tearing himself from her arms., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14 Marylebone Street Golden Square
From the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title describe her intention of joining the twine to her garter to form "a true loves knot."
Alternative Title:
Hobnelia
Description:
Title from item., Publication date following the phrase "Publish'd as the Act directs" has been burnished from plate., Numbered '506' in lower left of plate., Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., and Four lines in two columns on either side of the title: As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree ... from the favourite Pastoral of Gay's Shepherd's work.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Title etched below image. and Another version of a design, attributed to George Cruikshank, that was issued ca. 1817-1819 as part of a set of lithographs. Cf. No. 13098 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. II and No. III, of Caroline Petersham, Lady Harrington, and Lord Barrington
Alternative Title:
Hostile scribe
Description:
Titles etched below images., In upper right corner: Vol. III., Dated by George: 1 February 1771., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 3 (1771), p. 9., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on board together with four pages of text for which this plate is an illustration.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793,
